Innovations in cargo handling, the termination of the sugar industry, and the improvement of facilities at Christiansted in the 1960s and '70s led to the town's economic decline.
The improvement of facilities at recycling centres and bring banks have been instrumental in the gains achieved in recycling rates.
The Korean government has provided funding for the improvement of facilities and the educational environments of full-day kindergartens since 2004 for the purpose of expanding the operation of full-day kindergartens and offering better educational environments for children.
The improvement of facilities in ICUs has led to a shift towards deep sedation, total paralysis and ventilator support in patients with severe tetanus.
The chronic shortage of skilled leadership in the healthcare sectors of low- and middle-income countries greatly hinders the improvement of facilities and systems and the ability to provide needed services [ 2, 4- 6].
More recently, he was the Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum's fourth director where he completed a massive capital improvement of the facility.
The need to improve the seismic performance of oil and gas pipelines and adjacent facilities suggested the improvement of gas facilities design and monitoring in other bigger and heavily populated cities such as Tehran, Tabriz, and Mashad (IIEES 1990).
This chapter provides an overview of the human factors issues that need to be addressed and an effective approach to achieving an optimal design for the design of new plants and facilities, as well as the improvement of existing facilities.
This improvement of latrine facilities is likely linked to an improvement in hand washing facilities for troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, and may explain the lower percentage of self-reported respiratory infections in our study compared to that found by Sanders, et al. [4].
In 1908 the Dock Board was authorized to issue negotiable bonds for the improvement of port facilities.
The steady increase in tourism has bolstered the construction industries and stimulated the improvement of transport facilities.
