Only 3 of Japan's 54 reactors are operating; the rest have been kept idle by local governments worried about safety.
It also meant that untold numbers of connections to final destinations were missed, dozens of gates at other airports were kept idle waiting on those late planes, dozens of other flights at those airports were delayed as a result and so on around the country, like a bad echo.
The 293.5m (963ft) long liner is being kept idle but in a seaworthy condition in the inner harbour in Port Rashid.
Binary variables indicate whether a block should be activated, i.e. one of the available setup families should be assigned to it, or the block should be kept idle.
This situation may arise, for example, if the bank does not use any external funding for financing this adjustment, but relies on its own cash reserves, which are assumed to be kept idle and neither yield interest nor require interest payouts.
To do so would require the investment of many billions of dollars to develop wells that must then be kept largely idle.
They say that idle hands are the devil's workshop, so the best thing that you can do to keep your mind clear is keep your hands occupied.
In the proposed scheme, all idle APs are put into sleep compared with [4], where some idle APs are kept awake to ensure coverage.
When there is surplus processing capacity in a period, idle machines can be removed from the cells and transferred to the machine depot, where the idle machines are kept.
For this study, the HGRE was operating at idle and αH2 was kept at 0% and 3%, respectively.
As mentioned in Section I, idle resource can be kept in hibernate state but switching to and from this state can be wastage of precious resources and time.
