"If you're in the position to replace an old appliance, there have been huge improvements in functionality that can make your life easier," Granger said.
The right question to ask is whether customers will be willing to pay higher prices for further improvements in functionality, reliability or convenience.
Once the successor to the current Firecrest is in place, those improvements will begin: the FCO is hoping to deliver both a cut in the department's carbon footprint and improvements in functionality, including better mobile access, through the reprocurement.
The renovation of 37 general-assignment classrooms in 10 buildings — Barker, Barrows, Evans, Hildebrand, Latimer, Leconte, Tan and Wurster halls and Donner Lab and Genetics and Plant Biology — targeted improvements in functionality, aesthetics and comfort.
Significant improvements in functionality can also be accomplished by upgrading the ground architecture.
GO tools, such as OBO-Edit, an ontology-editing tool, and AmiGO, the GOC ontology browser, have seen major improvements in functionality, speed and ease of use.
Additionally, for products which require controlled fluid motion by varying the viscosity, a structure based on magneto-rheological nanofluids might be an improvement in functionality and cost.
It can be operated via in-car entertainment and communication systems or by pushing a button on the steering wheel to activate Siri, a significant improvement in functionality over gadgets that connected iOS devices to a car's USB port.
It appeared to be useful because it demonstrated the improvement in functionality postoperatively, without significative differences between the two techniques.
Patients receiving RLAT averaged approximately a 0.4-point greater decrease on the CGI-S, indicating improvements in illness severity, and approximately a 5-point greater improvement in functionality compared with patients not receiving RLAT.
Although it is hoped that improvement in pain will be followed by improvement in functionality, this may not be the case as many of these patients may have other comorbidities.
