An incrementally deployable protocol should have three properties: initial benefits for early adopters, incremental benefits for subsequent adopters, and effectiveness under partial deployment.
Meanwhile Empty is an ardent revisionist who cites the numerous incremental benefits brought about by political action.
He added that there are incremental benefits to working out with vibration technology, but by a small margin.
A. No. 1, if you look at the 18 airline mergers that were completed in the 1980's, you find that only one had positive incremental benefits.
"What we're really talking about is getting incremental benefits at the intersection of water and energy that are often overlooked," Park said.
"All else equal, each successive action in the same direction tends to lower the incremental benefits and to raise the incremental costs of additional actions," he said.
But incremental benefits on this scale can no longer be achieved through measures that pay back in less than 10 years.
Until we discover the cause, most likely we will end up using cocktails of drugs targeting various pathways with small incremental benefits, much like we do for cancer.
This is due in part to the availability of drugs that when used individually have modest effects, but when used sequentially produce incremental benefits.
The government often does not appreciate the value of the incremental benefits of a new drug over existing treatments, but a series of modest gains can produce a major improvement -- a much safer, more effective medicine.
Government is becoming a more competitive business, not just in terms of lower spending but also in what it offers for the money.Above all, the incremental benefits of ever bigger government, even assuming it was somehow affordable, become ever smaller.
