Sentences with phrase «reduced by boundary»

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For U.S. workers, another benefit for a shorter work day is reduced stress, as many tend to work far beyond the work - life boundaries set by many other countries.

And for those of us who are married, it's important to continually prioritize our marriages by setting boundaries with our extended family that simultaneously encourage relationship and reduce conflict.

Introducing STV would reduce the regular upheaval caused by the boundaries being withdrawn.

He also launched a sustained attack on the Tories, claiming that the Government is «gerrymandering the electoral system» by pursuing boundary reforms and reducing the number of parliamentary seats.

The entire council was up for election, following boundary changes that reduced the number of wards by one, but altogether had added an additional two seats.

Preston is currently held for Labour by Mark Hendrick, who will be defending a slightly reduced majority of around 8,500 after boundary changes are taken into account.

Boundary changes took place for the 2002 election, leading to the whole council bring elected in that year and reducing the number of seats by two.

Boundary changes which reduced the number of seats by 1, meant both the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats needed 1 less seat to take control of the council.

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The whole council was up for election after boundary changes reduced the number of seats by one.

The whole council was up for election, with boundary changes since the last election in 2003 reducing the number of seats by nine.

The Fixed Term Parliament Act aside, planned constitutional reform has fallen well short of expectations since 2010 as House of Lords reform, «equalising» boundaries, reducing the number of MPs and the Alternative Vote have all fallen by the wayside.

The whole council was up for election with boundary changes since the last election in 2000 reducing the number of seats by 1.

The Conservatives and Liberal Democrats lost five seats each, with Labour gaining two after boundary changes reduced the total number of councillors overall by nine.

We would probably have to reduce the number of constituencies by at least a third, and it would be the Tories deciding what the ground rules would be for those new boundaries.

[10] In general, these LEA amounts may be reduced by state educational agencies to account for funds reserved for state administration, program improvement, and academic achievement awards; to adjust for recent shifts in LEA boundaries; and to provide grants to charter schools treated as separate LEAs under state law (such charter schools are not considered in the calculation of grants by USED).

The minor tweaks that occur at national level — setting the «C grade» boundary at one point higher to reduce a pass rate by 0.3 per cent rather than to see it rise by 2.5 per cent, for example — may be a minor tweak nationally, but in some of our academies and schools this causes a tsunami effect.

Samsung has managed to blur the boundaries between the phone and a tablet computer, by reducing the screen size in comparison to its competitors» offerings.

It sets boundaries, helps bond the dog and his owners, and even reduces anxiety by teaching the dog exactly what is expected of him.

The attempt to increase global living standards (and thereby reduce population growth) by exporting production facilities to regions with lower wage and environmental standards has backfired by increasing levels of water, air and soil pollution — increases that have been felt well beyond the boundaries of those regions.

Temperature tends to respond so that, depending on optical properties, LW emission will tend to reduce the vertical differential heating by cooling warmer parts more than cooler parts (for the surface and atmosphere); also (not significant within the atmosphere and ocean in general, but significant at the interface betwen the surface and the air, and also significant (in part due to the small heat fluxes involved, viscosity in the crust and somewhat in the mantle (where there are thick boundary layers with superadiabatic lapse rates) and thermal conductivity of the core) in parts of the Earth's interior) temperature changes will cause conduction / diffusion of heat that partly balances the differential heating.

For forecast models these errors can be overcome by continually inserting new vertical component of vorticity observational data every 6 hours, thus reducing the error that has spread upward from the erroneous boundary layer.

One Planet Living principle Masdar Target ZERO CARBON 100 per cent of energy supplied by renewable energy — Photovoltaics, concentrated solar power, wind, waste to energy and other technologies ZERO WASTE 99 per cent diversion of waste from landfill (includes waste reduction measures, re-use of waste wherever possible, recycling, composting, waste to energy) SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT Zero carbon emissions from transport within the city; implementation of measures to reduce the carbon cost of journeys to the city boundaries (through facilitating and encouraging the use of public transport, vehicle sharing, supporting low emissions vehicle initiatives) SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS Specifying high recycled materials content within building products; tracking and encouraging the reduction of embodied energy within material sand throughout the construction process; specifying the use of sustainable materials such as Forest Stewardship Council certified timber, bamboo and other products SUSTAINABLE FOOD Retail outlets to meet targets for supplying organic food and sustainable and or fair trade products SUSTAINABLE WATER Per capita water consumption to be at least 50 per cent less than the national average; all waste water to be re-used HABITATS AND WILDLIFE All valuable species to be conserved or relocated with positive mitigation targets CULTURE AND HERITAGE Architecture to integrate local values.

However, on windy days, I expect the UHI effect to be vitiated by mixing of air from outside the region of the city with the relatively warmed air; and I expect the windiness to reduce the stratification of the boundary layer («mix it up») and thus reduce the cooling effect of the NSTI.

The AVE increases the efficiency of a thermal power plant by reducing the temperature of the heat sink from +30 C at the bottom of the atmosphere to — 70C at the tropopause, which is the atmospheric boundary between the troposphere and the stratosphere.

Perlwitz et al. (2001) estimate that this feedback reduces the global dust load by roughly 15 %, as dust radiative forcing reduces the downward mixing of momentum within the planetary boundary layer, the surface wind speed, and thus dust emission (Miller et al., 2004a).

Present thinking is that internal wave energies and background mixing are reduced in ice - covered seas by, among other things, dissipation of internal wave energy in the surface boundary layer immediately below the ice.

The project transforms the aging Unit # 3 at Boundary Dam Power Station near Estevan, Saskatchewan into a reliable, long - term producer of 110 megawatts (MW) of base - load electricity and reduces greenhouse gas emissions by one million tonnes of CO2 each year.

Pulling the main speakers away from the corners (to the extent allowed by room traffic) will reduce boundary reflections and improve imaging.