Sentences with phrase «relative efficiency»

That is why I have suggested that building codes should set absolute consumption limits rather than relative efficiency standards.

And when a however cautiously decontented, potential fuel miser costs almost as much as its fully equipped, twelve - cylinder stablemate, there is a distinct danger that its somewhat relative efficiency claims won't mean much against the image bonus conferred by its top - spec sibling.

Indeed, the relative efficiency of their vote spread was the single largest contributor to the overall pro-Conservative bias.

Determining the relative efficiency of photosynthesis and photovoltaics is not a simple problem

This difference is irrelevant to the point we made about the relative efficiency of lateralized and unlateralized bird brains.

And while China is still not committed to absolute emissions reductions in global climate negotiations, experts say its «intensity - based» U.N. carbon reduction targets, which are based on improving the relative efficiency of industrial processes, could be as effective as Western - style absolute cuts in emissions.

The relative efficiency and ease of the iPSC process for producing patient - specific stem cells, compared to the SCNT process, is likely among the reasons that MIT professor Rudolf Jaenish, who supports cloning for research, nonetheless said that the 2013 success in cloning a human embryo «has no clinical relevance.»

Individual mRNA constructs should be evaluated for the dispensibility, and for the relative efficiency, of including (or not) of the modification of the aminoacyl stem of the RP import sequence, and of the MTS.

As mentioned in the previous installment, this is indeed a method by which the body can improve the relative efficiency of these muscle fibers, as a decrease in overall area with an increase in the capillary network means proportionately more blood flow to each muscle fiber.

There are today endless studies that compare the relative efficiency of charter schools to regular public schools.

Thus when cuts need to be made, in the name of «fairness» they are often imposed as flat percentage cuts to each department across the board, ignoring both the relative efficiency and the relative importance of various departments.

Previous work has covered topics such as the relative efficiency of public and private schools, and the effects of accountability systems and market competition on K - 12 schooling.

The new labels will better explain the relative efficiency of battery - powered and hybrid vehicles, and will also include the ratings of other cars in the same class, making it easier for new car shoppers to compare them.

Average annual growth rates over the last five years have mirrored the relative efficiency of feed use, with the global production of farmed fish growing by nearly 6 percent a year, poultry by 4 percent, and pork by 1.7 percent — fast outpacing beef, which barely increased at all.

Table TS.2 in IPCC AR 4 says 3.7 * 10 - 4 W / m2 ppb -1 for methane 1.4 * 10 - 5 W / m2 ppb - 1 for CO2 The baseline for CO2 calculation is 378 ppm The relative efficiency is then 26, not too far from 30

To find out, Geyer joined former BrenSchool researcher David Stoms and James Kallaos, of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, to model the relative efficiencies of the technologies at converting a given amount of sunlight to miles driven.

Not only is this the very worst case scenario, but this does not take into account the amount of cargo that is being carried by those ships and the relative efficiency.

And while China is still not committed to absolute emissions reductions in global climate negotiations, experts say its «intensity - based» U.N. carbon reduction targets, which are based on improving the relative efficiency of industrial processes, could be as effective as Western - style absolute cuts in emissions.

In Colliers» annual Law Firm Services Group benchmarking study, we look at the relative efficiencies and costs for the largest 20 firms within select primary and secondary markets in North America.

Cost - benefit analysis Yet another way to identify promising programs is to use cost - benefit analysis to evaluate the relative efficiency of alternative approaches in addressing a particular problem.