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Efficient

Efficiency, the extent to which time or effort is well used for the intended task or purpose


Automated guideway transit

The Getty Center in Los Angeles uses a unique vertically oriented AGT to bring visitors from a parking lot off Interstate 405 to the Center at the top of a hill in Brentwood; this system places the motor outside the vehicle at the top of the guideway to reduce the weight lifted up the hill and thus improve efficiency.

Bacterial Filtration Efficiency

Kimberly-Clark uses a test procedure was where samples were challenged with a biological aerosol of Staphylococcus aureus and the results employ a ratio of the bacterial challenge counts to sample effluent counts, to determine percent bacterial filtration efficiency (%BFE).

Bus transport in Singapore

Mr Ong Teng Cheong, the then Minister for Communications, remarked that "Each company will act as a natural impetus to enhance the performance and efficiency of the other in the spirit of healthy competition and in the process help bring about a better level of service."

Clarence Addison Dykstra

He also served as the Efficiency Director of the City's Department of Water and Power for Los Angeles before World War II.

CMTA

Central Maryland Transportation Alliance, a coalition of Baltimore area business, civic and nonprofit leaders intent on improving travel efficiency within Central Maryland.

Compiled language

Low-level programming languages are typically compiled, especially when efficiency is the primary concern, rather than cross-platform support.

Connectomics

Because these structures are extremely complex, methods within this field use a high-throughput application of neural imaging and histological techniques in order to increase the speed, efficiency, and resolution of maps of the multitude of neural connections in a nervous system.

Danto Engineering Development Center

"The Danto center also houses a high-performance computing lab to study energy efficiency, funded in part with a grant of large mainframe computers from Sun Microsystems”.

Digvijaya Singh

Aditi Phadnis, a political journalist and author, also notes that in 1985 the state had been producing a surplus of electricity through a process of technical and administrative efficiency that was the envy of other areas, and that then "The State Electricity Board began to be looked upon as a milch cow by successive politicians, Digvijay Singh included."

Electrostatic generator

The action and efficiency of influence machines were further investigated by F. Rossetti, A. Righi, and F. W. G. Kohlrausch.

Energy input labeling

Energy input labeling provides the advantage of knowing how much energy was used to produce a product, but it does not indicate how much energy a product uses to operate, such as the European Union energy label, and is not in itself a standard for energy efficiency such as Energy Saving Trust Recommended or Energy Star.

Erich Zürn

As flotilla engineer in the 29th U-boat Flotilla (1 June 1942 – 31 January 1944) in La Spezia and Toulon and later in the 5th U-boat Flotilla, Zürn introduced a number of improvements which helped the flotilla operate at peak efficiency.

Escuela Nacional de Cine

"Training the next generation in both the conceptual and practical, with the latest market tools and expert teachers, in order to give the film medium, the highest professional creativity and efficiency"

Forecast Earth

TWC aimed for LEED gold certification in constructing the building, and various technologies were integrated to both the new and existing structures to improve energy efficiency.

Fuel economy in aircraft

As over 80% of the fully laden take-off weight of a modern aircraft such as the Airbus A380 is craft and fuel, there remains considerable room for future improvements in fuel efficiency.

Geo Metro

Partially because of the renewed interest in the Metro, the July 2009 issue of Car and Driver included a base model 1998 Chevrolet Metro 3-door hatchback among vehicles tested for fuel efficiency alongside two hybrid models: the redesigned Honda Insight and Toyota Prius models.

Government Digital Service

It is overseen by the Public Expenditure Executive (Efficiency & Reform) which is co-chaired by Minister for the Cabinet Office, Francis Maude and the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Danny Alexander.

Graviton

For example, a detector with the mass of Jupiter and 100% efficiency, placed in close orbit around a neutron star, would only be expected to observe one graviton every 10 years, even under the most favorable conditions.

Heavy Equipment Transport System

The primary purpose and use of the HET system is for delivery of the M1 Abrams, recovery of non mission capable armored vehicles, and cost efficiency.

Hepa

HEPA, a high efficiency particulate arresting air filter

Hexagon

From bees' honeycombs to the Giant's Causeway, hexagonal patterns are prevalent in nature due to their efficiency.

IT Service Management Forum

The Office of Government Commerce (OGC) is part of the Efficiency and Reform Group of the Cabinet Office, a department of the Government of the United Kingdom.

Jackalyne Pfannenstiel

On April 20, 2004, Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed Pfannenstiel to a four-year term as a member of the California Energy Commission, a board with responsibility for power plant licensing, building and appliance efficiency standards, and energy policy development.

Jaycee Park

The Pirates were a special business rate to stay at the Shamrock Village, a former Navy training base that had been converted at a cost of $1.5 million into 150 efficiency apartments and 44 motel rooms.

Juniperus virginiana

Many grasses are C4 plants that concentrate CO2 levels in their bundle sheaths to increase the efficiency of RuBisCO, the enzyme responsible for photosynthesis, while Junipers are C3 plants that rely on (and may benefit from) the natural CO2 concentrations of the environment, although they are less efficient at fixing CO2 in general.

Lawrence M. Breed

Breed was the 1973 recipient (with Dick Lathwell and Roger Moore) of the Grace Murray Hopper Award from the Association for Computing Machinery "for their work in the design and implementation of APL\360, setting new standards in simplicity, efficiency, reliability and response time for interactive systems.

Mark Dodgson

With colleagues David Gann and Ammon Salter at Imperial College London, he identified the emerging role of ‘innovation technology’ – a basket of technologies used to increase the speed and efficiency of innovation.

Michael P. Kelly

This initiative included the establishment a state-of-the-art Customer Call Center, which now provides higher levels of efficiency in responding to the needs of residents, stakeholders and the public.

NatA Acetyltransferase

Yeast cells lacking Natp and Ard1p show a reduced sporulation efficiency, failure to enter OpenFlow

In April 2012, Google's Urs Hölzle described how the company's internal network had been completely re-designed over the previous two years to run under OpenFlow with substantial efficiency improvement.

Player efficiency rating

The Player efficiency rating (PER) is John Hollinger's all-in-one basketball rating, which attempts to boil down all of a player's contributions into one number.

Power MOSFET

Seeking to improve the manufacturing efficiency and reliability of super-junction MOSFETs, Renesas Electronics developed a super-junction structure with a deep-trench process technique.

Public transport in Sydney

Sydney was ranked as the fourth-worst public train system, beating only Los Angeles, São Paulo and Johannesburg for operation efficiency and coverage, while being proven to have the most expensive tickets of any major city public transport system.

Quicksort

Practical efficiency and smaller variance in performance were demonstrated against optimised quicksorts (of Sedgewick and Bentley-McIlroy).

Russia in the European energy sector

Claude Mandil, the former head of the International Energy Agency, has said that "We need more energy efficiency, more liquefied natural gas, more renewable energy, more nuclear energy".

Schoof

Schoof–Elkies–Atkin algorithm, extension of Schoof's algorithm by Noam Elkies and A. O. L. Atkin to improve its efficiency

Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal

Even exports from Portugal went mostly through expatriate merchants like the English port wine shippers and French businessmen like Jácome Ratton, whose memoirs are scathing about the efficiency of his Portuguese counterparts.

Smart city

To Gildo Seisdedos Domínguez, the smart city concept essentially means efficiency.

Specific fuel consumption

Thrust specific fuel consumption, fuel efficiency of an engine design with respect to thrust output

Steven Kropper

Investing in firms like Siemens or GE which offer a diversified portfolio of fossil generation technology, energy efficiency and wind power implies a hedge strategy that mostly goes 'short on the Earth', but has some long position in renewables and conservation.

Steven Molony

He is starring as identical twin brothers in the upcoming film Efficiency, which he also wrote the screenplay for, and is also attached to Pinching Penny director Dan Glaser's follow-up feature, Stall.

Syntegra

In mid-2006 prototype motors rated 110 kW, with claimed 96% efficiency, were fitted to an ex-Munich U-Bahn vehicle for testing at the Wegberg-Wildenrath test circuit.

United States Postal Service Office of Inspector General

As one of the federal Offices of the Inspector General, the purpose of the OIG is to prevent, detect, and report fraud, waste, and program abuse, and promote efficiency in the operations of the USPS.

Varanasi–Lucknow line

Subsequently, with technology transfer from GM EMD, it produces advanced diesel locomtives with high efficiency and low maintenance costs.

Velibre GmbH

The number 42 is not a random number based on productive efficiency, but rather it is a reference to the novel by Douglas Adams called The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Vioearth Holdings

Vioearth Holdings is a computer energy tracking and efficiency management company based in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Virginia College

ECA also owns Virginia College Online, which offers distance education academic programs via the Internet; Golf Academy of America; Culinard, the Culinary Institute of Virginia College, offering degrees in the culinary arts; and Ecotech Institute, offering degrees in fields of renewable energy, sustainable design, and energy efficiency.

Windows Media Video

It improves compression efficiency for interlaced content and is made transport-independent, making it able to be encapsulated in an MPEG transport stream or RTP packet format.

Zack Nipper

He is a great-grandson of efficiency experts Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Sr. and Lillian Moller Gilbreth, whose life story was told in the book and film "Cheaper By The Dozen".


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