Efforts to reduce energy consumption often focus too narrowly on improving existing practices, the authors found, rather than on rethinking old habits from the ground up.
Under casemix funding the inherent efficiency incentives may lead hospitals to seek to achieve improved efficiency, narrowly defined, by reducing quality of care.
But he narrowly failed to improve on a miserable record against the seven-times Wimbledon champion Sampras, who has now won nine of their 10 encounters after this 7-6 (7-6), 4-6, 7-6 (7-3), 3-6, 6-4 victory.
The most cogent critique of many global health programs has been that their implementation involves the delivery of services in vertical silos that by themselves may improve narrowly defined outcomes, but that as a whole enable a fractured system of health care, and perpetuate both inefficiencies and inequities in health care delivery.
Because the number of protein structures with unknown function is mushrooming, however, we asked here whether such comparisons could be improved by focusing narrowly on the key functional features of protein structures, as defined by the Evolutionary Trace (ET).
In this study, Cannon et al. demonstrated IS and RSMA were linked to 2 separate loci, each exhibiting respective HLOD scores of 3.42 and 3.93, suggesting that more narrowly-defined phenotypes improve linkage signals.
Home Depot shares finished 3.1% higher, after the home improvement chain managed to narrowly top analyst estimates, while Target gained 7.6% as improved gross margins helped it overcome a 6.2% drop in same-store sales.
Steven Gerrard drilled a couple of low shots narrowly wide early in the second half, but Liverpool improved as soon as Brendan Rodgers sent on Coutinho and Rickie Lambert for the last half hour.
Consistency in grading tests can also be improved by writing longer tests with more narrowly focused questions, but this would tend to limit the types of questions that could appear on an exam (Meadows and Billington, 2005).
The "Hip-Hop" show could have been much improved had it not pandered so clearly and narrowly to those who are already fans of the music.
