Dr. Dornhaus is breaking new ground in her studies of whether the efficiency of ant society, based on a division of labor among ant specialists, is important to their success.
"I am pleasantly surprised by the efficiency of civil society in supporting my cause and the transparency of the president's information services," Mr. Khodorkovsky said in a statement.
"During a period of severe and unprecedented economic turmoil and the near collapse of the British banking system, West Brom has carefully managed and refocused its business, driving through a programme of cost reduction to improve dramatically the efficiency of the society, and has increased its core tier one capital base substantially," said Sharpe.
What can we learn from natural ecosystems that can help us to improve upon the materials and energy efficiency of our societies and thus help us to make real progress in the direction of sustainable societies?
The design of municipal water tariffs requires balancing multiple criteria such as financial self-sufficiency for the service provider, equity among customers, and economic efficiency for society.
As more data is produced and stored, techniques including advanced data analytics and machine learning are extracting sense and using that to improve the efficiency of systems across societies.
It is really useful, it creates a lot of efficiency within society.
("At the present time," the Spectator noted in 1902, "there is a universal outcry for efficiency in all the departments of society, in all aspects of life").
Such models could seriously and systematically misrepresent the benefits of energy efficiency measures to some sectors of society.
It lays out a doable blueprint for the United States to cut oil use in half in 20 years through expansion of mass transit, use of electric cars and bio fuels, and energy efficiency improvements in every sector of society.
