More of the bad transition is to be seen in the way ecological deterioration, such as reductions in soil quality and water availability, undermines production, most obviously in the case of food.
During the first, from 1997 to 2006, the leaderboard was populated mainly with energy and chemical firms that were largely (though not exclusively) recognized for their superior environmental health and safety standards and commitments, such as reductions in pollution and waste.
Britain's submarine-launched nuclear weapon, on the other hand, seems immune to obsolescence – as well as to financial, social and political hazards such as reductions in public spending, deindustrialisation, and the growing possibility of the break-up of the kingdom it was designed to protect.
One of these assumptions is the generous use of ancillary benefits, or "co-benefits", such as reductions in fine particles as a result of a rule targeting mercury.Mr Obama's advisers note that co-benefits have long been included in regulatory cost-benefit analysis.
Lowe points to Marshall's use of phrases such as "reductions in headcount," "renew our business," and "business units".
Wall Street was happy that Citigroup topped analysts' profit views, but the report's true significance comes from other factors, such as reductions in credit losses and expenses.
For several decades, the pharmaceutical industry has suffered due to major issues such as reductions of the number of FDA approved drugs and biologics.
This chapter demonstrates the application of these instructions in the construction of efficient parallel algorithm primitives such as reductions, scans, and segmented scans of binary or Boolean data.
If the users are employees of your company, it's generally easy to convert usability metrics such as reductions in task times into dollar savings.
Compared to plant oil, lipid from oleaginous yeast is advantageous in terms of elements of economical production, such as reductions in the lifecycle, the amount of land required, and the effects of climate.
Moreover, different metabolic modifications are induced, such as reductions in unsaturated fatty acid contents and increases in the permeability of cell membranes, which collectively reduce plant performance (Bracale and Coraggio 2003; Tong et al. 2005; Miura and Furumoto 2013).
