Sentences with phrase «which improves operation»

Valve brought up the touch - pad in place of the analog stick, which improves operation of navigating menus and navigation games.

Not exact matches

Walmart, which is planning to spend $ 2 billion to strengthen its e-commerce operations in the next two years, invested heavily in improving its shopping app ahead of the current holiday season.

Reviewed by local regulators for almost a year, that local marriage was only step one for the Brahma boys, who saw an industry ripe for consolidation and initiated a strategy to improve margins by buying up brewers, eliminating duplicative operations, cutting excess suppliers, and other steps that formed today's beer market, which is fragmented by brand but consolidated in terms of ownership.

Improving operations: Companies that value diversity have lower turnover and absenteeism, which reduces the costs spent on staffing.

Ruest said the railroad was adding workers, locomotives, along with new track and expanded rail yards, which he said would improve operations through the fourth quarter.

Investors bought into CEO Hubert Joly's «Renew Blue» turnaround plan, which involves improving the electronics retailer's e-commerce experience, setting up partnerships with Microsoft and Samsung to create «stores within stores,» and streamlining its overall operations so it can use its retail locations as a distribution network for online sales.

Peloton, which has build a multi-faced fitness company that offers everything from workout hardware to classes on how to improve health, could also help Apple accelerate its health - focused operations.

Klick — which is No. 189 on the PROFIT 500 Ranking of Canada's Fastest - Growing Companies — is constantly collecting information about its operations, employee activities and behaviour to figure out how it can improve.

Ells, 52, also will serve on the committee, which he said would seek an experienced leader who can improve «customer experience, operations, marketing, technology, food safety and training.»

At that time, we identified this undervalued asset as being a perfect situation to deploy our modus operandi, by which we seek to acquire undervalued assets, nurture, guide and improve their condition and operations, and to ultimately greatly enhance value for all shareholders.

Circle, which has received funding from both Goldman Sachs and Chinese tech conglomerate Baidu, also announced that it will hire 100 employees to expand into Asia and improve operations at Poloniex, which the company reportedly acquired for $ 400 million last month.

Once a company knows which outcomes are most important to improving operations, logistics team members can focus on adjusting the logistics operations to drive those results.

One strategy for improving logistics is to have company leadership work together with the logistics team to identify which outcomes of the logistics operations are most important.

While their method has improved over the years, forum software often goes neglected, and older versions, which utilized weaker hashing algorithms, are left in operation for years after they have been abandoned by developers.

If an individual acquires a character during its lifetime, that does not increase the probability that its offspring will exhibit the character; but if the development of some members of a population are affected by the environment in ways which improve their chance of leaving offspring, this will obviously increase their contribution to later generations, that is to say, their natural selective value; and the frequency of that character in later generations will be increased, not by any physiological or genetical change, but by the operation of selection.

Even for the sake of the efficiency of production to which both are committed we are learning that worker morale is important and that worker morale can often be improved by more responsible participation by workers in the larger operations of which they are a part.32 But more than this is needed.

In 2013, Arca Continental acquired a significant stake in Nogales bottling plant in northern Mexico, which was adjacent to its territories and helped improve its capabilities of distribution and operation in the area.

«Instead of reducing the quality of our products, which is how most of the market is coping with economic change, we look more to how we can improve our delivery and production costs and take inefficiencies out of our operations.»

Apart from reducing cost of operations, the project, which is being executed by a Belgian contractor, Jan De Nul (JDN), will also improve the revenue generation capacity of the GPHA and create employment in the Sekondi - Takoradi Metropolis.

The Citizens Budget Commission (CBC) today released the report «Union - Administered Benefit Funds: Getting More Out of a Billion Dollar Taxpayer Contribution,» which gives short - term and long - term recommendations for improving the inefficient operations of union - administered benefit funds.

I'm not going to report each time the Party Chairman announces a new attack website, but here's today's, timed for the start of Labour's Conference, which gives a sense of how much the Tory assault operation has improved.

These changes, which will be phased in, are the result of the recommendations made by the Assembly workgroup appointed last year and charged with the examination of existing processes and ongoing efforts to improve and strengthen the Assembly rules, operations and legislative processes.

Receiving the team in his office the Theatre Commander Operation Lafiya Dole, Major General Rogers Nicholas affirmed that the theatre is open to all registered NGOs and agencies, which he said have been working cooperatively with the Theatre Command to improve the welfare of conflict victims in the North East.

· Allowing counties an option to modify how they fund state mandated pension contributions · Providing counties more audit authority in the special education preschool program · Improving government efficiency and streamlining state and local legislative operations by removing the need for counties to pursue home rule legislative requests every two years with the state legislature in order to extend current local sales tax authority · Reducing administrative and reporting requirements for counties under Article 6 public health programs · Reforming the Workers Compensation system · Renewing Binding Arbitration, which is scheduled to sunset in June 2013, with a new definition of «ability to pay» for municipalities under fiscal distress, making it subject to the property tax cap (does not apply to NYC) where «ability to pay» will be defined as no more than 2 percent growth in the contract.

A Ministry of Justice spokesperson said: «We are working to improve the areas identified by the doctors, for example reception screening is currently being reviewed, and we are working to produce guidance which will improve the operation of court diversion schemes for mentally ill offenders.»

NYRA has to make periodic reports to the board, which has set out broad goals for improving their operations, financial stability and transparency.

According to Fitch the upgrade was based on the county's improved financial operations including four years of general fund surpluses which have restored available general fund reserves.

More than $ 15 million is recommended for the technology to make the Board a «paperless» operation, which will speed the settling of workers» compensation claims and improve the Board's responsiveness to business and injured workers.

The study will also help engineers improve the operation of refrigeration vortex tubes, which are often used in the cooling of cutting tools during machining, various electronic components, hot melts, gas samples and heat seals.

The new model uses a dielectric material rather than a metal for the nanoantennas, a change which greatly improves its efficiency and, combined with a new design approach, enables operation over a broad range of wavelengths.

And the efficiency with which a field generates electricity can be improved in the future by moving to higher temperature operation, he adds; the current design employs steam at 440 degrees Celsius and 63 kilograms per square centimeter of pressure at peak capacity.

This is a collage showing contains a transmission electron microscopy image of the improved quantum dot and its representation (left), the schematic of the device which nicely illustrates «current - focusing» idea (middle), and the device under operation (right).

Many of those patients had their operations at the 72 hospitals taking part in MSQC, which gathers and analyzes surgery - related data to help surgical teams find ways to improve and learn from others.

LED (light - emitting diode) lighting was also installed throughout the Mana Pools administrative headquarters and the operations centre which greatly improved night - time operations.

Pasture - based cattle operations also decrease soil erosion and improve soil fertility and water quality by maintaining grasslands which protect soils from water and wind erosion.

It removes dead skin cells, improves circulation, and detoxifies the body by stimulating the lymphatic system, which adds up to radiant skin, says Loretta Taylor, director of spa operations at Skana Spa at The Turning Stone Resort Casino in Verona, NY.

Action for Children's Television, which for the last 23 years has lobbied the government and broadcasters to improve the quality of children's programming, will cease operation by the end of the year, its founder said last week.

The Wicomico Board of Ed last revised its «Acceptable Use of Technology Policy» in 2008, and revisited it this year in recognition of the expanding ways in which technology could be leveraged to improve instruction, business operations, and communications.

This video vignette features the national School Administration Manager (SAM) Project, which helps principals understand how they use their time, gives them a staff person (the «SAM») to whom operations responsibilities are delegated and provides them with strategies for what to do with their newly found time to lead efforts to improve instruction in the school.

(e) The board shall establish the information needed in an application for the approval of a charter school; provided that the application shall include, but not be limited to, a description of: (i) the mission, purpose, innovation and specialized focus of the proposed charter school; (ii) the innovative methods to be used in the charter school and how they differ from the district or districts from which the charter school is expected to enroll students; (iii) the organization of the school by ages of students or grades to be taught, an estimate of the total enrollment of the school and the district or districts from which the school will enroll students; (iv) the method for admission to the charter school; (v) the educational program, instructional methodology and services to be offered to students, including research on how the proposed program may improve the academic performance of the subgroups listed in the recruitment and retention plan; (vi) the school's capacity to address the particular needs of limited English - proficient students, if applicable, to learn English and learn content matter, including the employment of staff that meets the criteria established by the department; (vii) how the school shall involve parents as partners in the education of their children; (viii) the school governance and bylaws; (ix) a proposed arrangement or contract with an organization that shall manage or operate the school, including any proposed or agreed upon payments to such organization; (x) the financial plan for the operation of the school; (xi) the provision of school facilities and pupil transportation; (xii) the number and qualifications of teachers and administrators to be employed; (xiii) procedures for evaluation and professional development for teachers and administrators; (xiv) a statement of equal educational opportunity which shall state that charter schools shall be open to all students, on a space available basis, and shall not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, creed, sex, gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, mental or physical disability, age, ancestry, athletic performance, special need, proficiency in the English language or academic achievement; (xv) a student recruitment and retention plan, including deliberate, specific strategies the school will use to ensure the provision of equal educational opportunity as stated in clause (xiv) and to attract, enroll and retain a student population that, when compared to students in similar grades in schools from which the charter school is expected to enroll students, contains a comparable academic and demographic profile; and (xvi) plans for disseminating successes and innovations of the charter school to other non-charter public schools.

The law also doesn't hold fully hold accountable important elements in improving the quality of teaching, curricula and school operations; this includes university schools of education, which continue to do a shoddy job of recruiting and training the teachers whose talents are the most - critical factor in improving (or bringing down) student achievement.

(3) to aid in the conduct of related activities which will expand or improve the services for or help improve public understanding of the problems of deaf - blind individuals; the Secretary, subject to the provisions of section 306, is authorized to enter into an agreement with any public or nonprofit agency or organization for payment by the United States of all or part of the costs of the establishment and operation, including construction and * equipment, of a center for vocational REHABILITATION of handicapped individuals who are both deaf and blind, which center shall be known as the National Center for Deaf - Blind Youths and Adults.

(1) in the case of any type of small business operated by individuals with the most severe handicaps the operation of which can be improved by management services and supervision provided by the State agency, the provision of such services and supervision, along or together with the acquisition by the State agency of vending facilities or other equipment and initial stocks and supplies; and

Airport development means --(1) Any work involved in constructing, improving, or repairing a public airport or portion thereof, including the removal, lowering, relocation, and marking and lighting of airport hazards, and including navigation aids used by aircraft landing at, or taking off from, a public airport, and including safety equipment required by rule or regulation for certification of the airport under section 612 of the Federal Aviation Act of 1958, and security equipment required of the sponsor by the Secretary by rule or regulation for the safety and security of persons and property on the airport, and including snow removal equipment, and including the purchase of noise suppressing equipment, the construction of physical barriers, and landscaping for the purpose of diminishing the effect of aircraft noise on any area adjacent to a public airport; (2) Any acquisition of land or of any interest therein, or of any easement through or other interest in airspace, including land for future airport development, which is necessary to permit any such work or to remove or mitigate or prevent or limit the establishment of, airport hazards; and (3) Any acquisition of land or of any interest therein necessary to insure that such land is used only for purposes which are compatible with the noise levels of the operation of a public airport.

The next - generation Prius is built on a new platform, which enables improved handling stability, quieter operation, and collision safety.

Other contributors to its efficiency include smart design packaging, which has reduced its weight and length compared to the six - speed unit, an improved oil pump operation and lower cooling requirements.

And the Prius PHEV's value proposition improves a lot if one's daily driving can keep the PHEV mostly or entirely in electric operation, which is perhaps one - quarter or one - third the price of gasoline.

Clutch operation was initially very heavy, remedied by an improved clutch arm helper spring which reduced pedal force.

Some power is cut in the Atkinson cycle, but the computer brain calls it into operation when full potency is not needed, so it's one more clever trick eking out mildly improved fuel economy short of hybridization which produces even better gains.

It may sound as a big sacrifice but obtaining home ownership will greatly improve your chances of getting approved for finance in the future as it will increase your credit score considerably, the property will become an asset which you will be able to use as collateral in future financial operations.