Growing sales of sport utilities have reduced the fuel economy of the average vehicle in the United States to its lowest point in two decades.
By installing motion sensors, better insulation and other measures, much of it subsidized by the local utility, the team has reduced its $2 million utility bill by 10 percent since 2008.
Other points are that a surrogate measure has reduced utility when it is not in the causal pathway of the disease process, when the therapy selectively affects physiology of the surrogate, or when the surrogate measure does not fully capture the net effect of therapy on the clinical outcome (Fleming and DeMets, 1996; Bucher et al., 1999).
That has reduced the aircraft's utility in providing intelligence on moving or changing targets.
Since 1999, Frito-Lay companywide has reduced its water use by 38percentt, natural gas by 27percentt and electricity by 21percentt, cutting $55 million a year in utility costs.
The company, a utility owner, had reduced the forecast by 10percentto to $3.24 to $3.38 a share, on July 18.
By Tuesday, utilities companies had reduced the number of customers without power to below 1 million for the first time since Hurricane Sandy tore through the East Coast.
Within an elderly cohort in whom comorbidity is likely to be high, the CCI will have reduced utility if it lacks the ability to distinguish between a score of 2, representing mild to moderate comorbidity, and a score of 8, representing severe comorbidity.
The confounding factor of occlusal staining may have reduced the diagnostic utility of CAM.
These multi-drug resistant organisms have reduced the clinical utility of many commonly-used antibiotics, and pan-resistant strains now threaten to render some infectious agents nearly untreatable.
