Collocations withimprovement
These are words often used in combination withimprovement.
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business improvement district
The nature of the activities of the business improvement district and the levy must be set out before the vote.
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civic improvement
The popular clamour was for housing at all costs, and not civic improvement.
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comprehensive improvement
Subsidy is payable where insulation forms part of a comprehensive improvement scheme or is provided to meet the special needs of elderly or disabled tenants.
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considerable improvement
Although considerable improvement in prognosis has been achieved with current chemotherapeutic regimens, many patients die of this disease.
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constant improvement
Models by definition are simply representations and are liable to change and constant improvement.
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continual improvement
Good critiques are essential to the continual improvement of everything humans do.
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continued improvement
Continued improvement in per formance with age on both tasks occurs at fine spatial scales, especially in animals older than 25 weeks.
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continuing improvement
We will seek to encourage this continuing improvement in electoral registration.
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corresponding improvement
We tested the hypothesis that patients who reported a greater reduction in anxiety and depression could also be characterized with corresponding improvement in objective physiological performance.
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cosmetic improvement
The three other wards have had some recent cosmetic improvements made to them, but they are still well below par.
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definite improvement
This parameterization seems to complicate matters without definite improvement, though.
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drainage improvement
Schemes for land drainage improvement can be approved in present circumstances only where public health and safety are involved.
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dramatic improvement
This rose dramatically, to 3963 schools in 1900 and to 6032 in 1901, showing the dramatic improvement brought about by the in-service initiative.
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drastic improvement
First, there is a tremendous need for a drastic improvement in the investment of social and industrial capital in the region.
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functional improvement
The evidence of frequent functional improvement over time in some residents in long-term care means that the need for aids must be constantly reassessed.
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genetic improvement
Priority needs to be given to genetic improvement.
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gradual improvement
However, the overall picture shows gradual improvement over time.
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greatest improvement
Not surprisingly, we observed the greatest improvement in self-efficacy among intervention group patients between baseline and the 3-month follow-up interview.
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huge improvement
The adoption of organic methods in these settings is a huge improvement.
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immediate improvement
All patients had immediate improvement demonstrated by decreased peripheral edema and/or decreased venous engorgement.
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improvement of patient
Improvement of patient outcome is, however, the ultimate aim.
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improvement project
For this article, we analyzed data collected as part of a nursing-home-based quality improvement project.
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improvement technique
Furthermore, we are also able to improve deforestation even further by augmenting the syntactic analysis with additional improvement techniques.
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incremental improvement
Such a closed formula makes it possible to predict the incremental improvement in accuracy as the lexicon and training set are varied in size.
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infrastructural improvement
Moroever, this would provide a framework within which scarce investment resources could be directed with more discerning priorities to infrastructural improvement.
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lasting improvement
Most patients in our group had at least a short-term improvement in mental status as well as significant and lasting improvement in analgesia.
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long-term improvement
Such assistance will help much-needed, long-term improvement of healthcare provision in underdeveloped countries.
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major improvement
Nevertheless, the key finding of remarkably rapid major improvement remains important and unique.
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marginal improvement
The cardinal measure of the index rather than an ordinal (or dummy variable) allows us to better quantify the impact of marginal improvement of institutional factors on the deforestation process.
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marked improvement
Six months later, echocardiography showed a marked improvement.
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measurable improvement
Subsoiling resulted in measurable improvement in cone index, bulk density, infiltration rate, and average water content.
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minor improvement
This gives a very minor improvement to the range, but it may also indicate that there is considerable room for further improvement.
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modest improvement
We can see a modest improvement here by just avoiding some overhead.
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much-needed improvement
They have effected a much-needed improvement to the butchers' shops to which they are attached.
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notable improvement
A notable improvement is the research of the upper arm, which extends from + 240° to 130°.
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noticeable improvement
The fact is that there has been no noticeable improvement whatsoever.
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ongoing improvement
This safety culture results, in turn, in an ongoing improvement of the level of safety in existing and planned plants.
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permanent improvement
There is growth because each subsequent innovation leads to a permanent improvement in the production technology.
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planned improvement
In particular the planned improvement in free cinema and live entertainment is taking effect.
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potential improvement
A consequence of the method used here is that any potential improvement of the bounds in any of the results requires no further combinatorial work.
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proposed improvement
On another level, we very much welcome the proposed improvement in the visitors’ service.
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prospect of improvement
There is no prospect of improvement in the remaining months of this year.
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qualitative improvement
Furthermore, it is unclear just how much qualitative improvement there has been in the lives of those recipients who have moved into work.
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rapid improvement
Forecasting of meteorological phenomena has seen rapid improvement in the past decades.
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recent improvement
A recent improvement on this approach of site-directed mutagenesis driven by iterative guesswork is the (actually more ancient) approach of random mutagenesis coupled with genetic selection.
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remarkable improvement
However, this remarkable improvement has not resulted in a corresponding increase in long-term graft survival.
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road improvement
Our perennial problem is the allocation of the money we have for road improvement to wherever it will do the most good.
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sign of improvement
The punctuality figures show no sign of improvement and those on reliability remain below the desired level.
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significant improvement
By diversifying across world markets, there is significant improvement in the efficient frontier of risk versus expected return.
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slight improvement
More improvement was seen during the first year of follow-up, followed by slight improvement during the second year.
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steady improvement
Next year, it will be up by another £5 million, and my noble friend looks forward to a steady improvement—but he emphasises the word "steady".
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structural improvement
The corporation has separate accounts for infrastructure development, management structural improvement, general facilities, management support and stabilization, and agricultural disasters.
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substantial improvement
An assessment of clinical practice guidelines shows that two-thirds of treated women reported a substantial improvement in their condition.
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sustainable improvement
A national programme aimed to produce and distribute disease-free planting material is required for the sustainable improvement of the cocoyam production.
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sustained improvement
At least three exercise sessions per week are felt necessary for sustained improvement, two of which should be supervised.
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symptomatic improvement
Postoperatively, hypoxemia was markedly improved, and was associated with a reduction of the level of pulmonary hypertension, contributing to marked symptomatic improvement.
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tangible improvement
Despite these complications, the prospect of certain, direct, and tangible improvement in patient care at a reasonable cost cannot with good conscience be ignored or delayed.
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technical improvement
It must be emphasized that this refers to the sources of technical improvement, which is not necessarily interesting for the market.
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technological improvement
E-health is not only a technological improvement, but a reengineering of healthcare processes requiring consideration of sociotechnical aspects of their design and development.
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tremendous improvement
The local residents have witnessed a tremendous improvement in their environment.
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vast improvement
This is a vast improvement over previous versions, in which the only option for time-dependent triggering was the use of delays, which makes a heavy demand on processor time.
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