The aim was to reap huge efficiency gains by replacing nearly all of America's ageing tactical aircraft (the air force's F-16s and A-10s; the navy's A/F-18s and the marines' AV8B jump jets) with three variants of one basic design.
But if there are no such things, what is gained by replacing Platonic Forms with Stoic concepts, by replacing one fiction with another?
Now Ceder and his student Byoungwoo Kang have made significant gains by replacing the carbon coating with an even more conductive glassy material made from lithium phosphate.
In this case, we left the original item parameters unchanged, because they are already in use, and there is little to be gained by replacing those parameters.
"When I have the CEO of a large oil company and drilling company saying they would follow the same sequence of events, that tells me there isn't anything to gain by [by replacing BP with them]," Allen said.
Do Trimastix pyriformis and other amitochondriates gain any advantages by replacing the canonical eukaryotic versions of the glycolytic enzymes or is it just a random process [ 53]?
That is, national (i.e., cross-industry/intersectoral) bargaining has tended to give way to sectoral bargaining while local or enterprise bargaining has gained in prominence either by replacing sectoral bargaining or by acting as an additional layer of bargaining.
Since path loss fluctuations' dynamics are very small compared to fading's, we propose to approximate (3) by replacing each gain Gpl,n(r n ) by its average value, which leads to G n ≈ E r n G p l, n r n G f, n (1) = E r 0, θ G p l, n f n r 0, θ G f, n, (2) (3) (4).
The Ross procedure has gained increasing acceptance due to excellent hemodynamic results by replacing the diseased aortic valve with the viable autologous pulmonary valve.
To gain understanding of the opposing reflections, tests were conducted by replacing the conical nozzles with orifice plates and perforated plates.
