productivity

Wage rates depend on levels of productivity.

The third-quarter results reflect continued improvements in productivity.

This is not an assessment of your productivity.

This increase of food supply was due perhaps half to the increase of cultivated area, particularly by migration and settlement in the central and western provinces, and half to greater productivity - the farmers’ success in raising more crops per unit of land.

Productivity in agriculture was also improved by capital investments, first of all in irrigation.

Indeed, they have been called the marine version of the tropical rain forest, rivaling their terrestrial counterparts in both richness of species and biological productivity.

Although the vast majority of marine fishes are carnivores, in near-surface regions of high productivity the concentrations of larger phytoplankton (the plant component of plankton) are sufficient to support huge populations of filter-feeding sardines and anchovies.

Now, these estuaries are important because of their high level of biological productivity.

According to ecologist J. W. Kenworthy, anaerobic processes of the microorganisms in the sediment are an important mechanism for regenerating and recycling nutrients and carbon, ensuring the high rates of productivity—that is, the amount of organic material produced-that are measured in those beds.

In contrast to other productivity in the ocean, which is confined to various species of algae and bacteria dependent on nutrient concentrations in the water column, seagrasses are rooted plants that absorb nutrients from the sediment or substrate.

When the lighting was dimmed, productivity went up again.

The researchers realized that their own presence had affected the workers' productivity.

Productivity seems to be involved instead, though perhaps its influence is indirect.

Farmers responded by specializing in cash crops, borrowing to purchase more land, and investing in equipment to increase productivity.

The clock provided the punctuation marks for group activity, while enabling individuals to order their own work (and that of others) so as to enhance productivity.

Indeed, the very notion of productivity is a by-product of the clock: once on can relate performance to uniform time units, work is never the same.

It has been estimated that Monte Testaccio contains the remains of some 53 million amphorae, in which around 6,000million liters of oil were imported into the city from overseas, imports into imperial Rome were supported by the full might of the state and were therefore quite exceptional----but the size of the operations at Monte Testaccio, and the productivity and complexity that lay behind them, nonetheless cannot fail to impress.

A contemporary of Shakespeare (1564- observed that the productivity of Italian shipping had declined, compared with that of the British, because of conservatism and loss of expertise.

The fact that some societies domesticated animals and plants, discovered the use of metal tools, became literate, and developed a state should not make us forget that others developed pastoralism or horticulture (vegetable gardening) but remained illiterate and at low levels of productivity; a few entered the modern period as hunting and gathering societies.

Among the key factors behind this growth were increased agricultural productivity and an expansion of trade.