This is the idea of the circular economy – an attempt to move away from our current 'take and dispose' approach to exploiting natural resources, which feeds an inefficient, linear model of resource consumption.
Though it was very rare for a government worker to be dismissed, this did not stop politicians from continuing to hire supporters — feeding a bloated, inefficient and expensive public sector that was accountable to no one.
Below this threshold, Asian river catfish may become increasingly skittish and vigilant, which leads to increasing general activity and inefficient feeding behavior.
It is worth noting that our study, consistent with prior studies, showed that downregulation of sperm genes by RNAi feeding approach is inefficient to produce defective phenotypes [ 28, 47].
Collectively, these results show that –RFIfat and +RFIfat cattle have distinctive diurnal patterns of feeding behavior, with inefficient cattle having 14% to 22% more daily feeding events than efficient cattle (Nkrumah et al., 2007; Kelly et al., 2010a), thus expending 2%to5%5% more energy in feeding activities (Herd et al., 2004; Basarab et al., 2011).
Health care is a notoriously inefficient industry — in 2008, there were five people performing administrative support for every one doctor — and a lot of the jobs that have been created in recent years probably involve feeding that inefficiency.
Feeding is a pretty inefficient way to deal with intelligent creatures – it transforms a recently de-homed, feral animal into a semi-dependent creature that wanders the street stealing food that it believes is its own.
Summarizing economist Friedrich Hayek's book, "The Road to Serfdom," he described a situation in which a "strongman" offers citizens fed up with inefficient government more safety in exchange for more freedom.
This inefficient method of feeding could account for the coral's diminutive size – which in turn probably explains how it can colonize ceiling spaces where other, larger cave creatures cannot fit.
Feeding grain to chickens, pigs and cows is even more inefficient, with 70percentt of grain grown in the United States going to animals raised for food.
