Balay has been head of debt optimisation and distribution since 2012 after three years as head of debt optimisation and distribution.
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Cost Optimisation Contributes to Gradual Margin Improvement Silknet is going to remain focused on cost optimisation leading to gradual profitability improvement.
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This includes managing guests, price optimisation, marketing, cleaning, and laundry.
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His team is Mr Wilke's optimisation squad for fulfilment centres.
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NEX Optimisation revenue rose 13 percent in the three months ended Dec.
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To choose this option is to accept that optimisation is a paradox.
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Evolution, Mr Stanley notes, can yield serendipitous results that goal-driven optimisation cannot.
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"We want to focus on the optimisation of our existing fleet," Mansury said.
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It's now known in the world of Search-Engine Optimisation (SEO) as back-links.
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Their ability to solve optimisation problems could help financial firms improve their trading algorithms.
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Mr Frischmann: Seamless and friction-free are great optimisation criteria for machines, not for humans.
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That's a decision that Optimoroute, a Croatian route-optimisation company, forces its customers to make.
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Over 4807123-212001 we expect some downward pressure on gross margins, mitigated by cost optimisation.
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"Additionally, funding cost optimisation is also limited given the modest availability of spare liquidity," she added.
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Local reinsurers' premiums experienced strong growth in 27234, following a 2014 decree on reinsurance capacity optimisation.
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Cretot will report to Jamie Mabilat, global head of debt optimisation and distribution, and to Domanico.
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DoorDash, like most gig economy companies, follows the second theory of service charges: the optimisation approach.
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The company has completed the restructuring of its European operations, including capacity expansion and processing optimisation.
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It said the possible sale of The Body Shop was part of a related "brand portfolio optimisation".
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To boot, Flexciton's senior optimisation scientist, Dr. Giorgos Kopanos, has even published a book on the subject.
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Some became ninjas in "SEO" long before most print journalists knew it stood for "search engine optimisation".
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Citigroup and JP Morgan will be listing consultants, while McKinsey will help with "technical and financial optimisation".
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What's required is a one-stop solution for ad revenue optimisation that is simple to integrate and manage.
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Details about the liability "optimisation" are expected when the bank issues its year-end results on April 483.
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Socially beneficial businesses have to solve two very difficult optimisation problems simultaneously — turning a profit and having impact.
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Connolly's previous role at NEX saw him focus on the interoperability of all systems within the NEX Optimisation group.
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Imperial's cost optimisation programme delivered another GBP85m savings in FY443, achieving GBP179m out of a target of GBP300m p.a.
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In the past three years it has expanded into other applications for AI, such as online shopping and website optimisation.
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The companies aim to achieve cost savings through consolidation of headquarters, optimisation of overlapping branches and integration of IT systems.
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One third of that is going into the renewal of back-end systems, process optimisation and new products and services.
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This was driven by MHP's export product mix optimisation as well as geographic diversification and slight increase in international poultry prices.
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SCF's capitalisation is managed by its parent on a "need-cost optimisation" basis and SCF has limited flexibility to retain earnings.
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Rghioui worked for PetroIneos for more than seven years, most recently as head of supply optimisation, before joining Glencore in August.
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Jamie Mabilat has replaced Balay as head of debt optimisation and distribution, having previously been global head of the infrastructure division.
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With views dwindling, publications like mine often turned to the gospel of search engine optimisation, also known as SEO, for guidance.
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ASML said the perpetrators took "large files" on memory sticks from its Silicon Valley software subsidiary that develops software for machine optimisation.
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A small team at Google used artificial intelligence and a technique called "Bayesian Optimisation" trying to design the perfect chocolate chip cookie.
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It added that the next step would be testing and optimisation of unit 1 in order to generate full power of 800MW.
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This is due to stable net interest margins, better cost-efficiency (including cost optimisation across the group) and stable loan impairment charges (LICs).
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Roll up for such clickbait as: "Artificial intelligence process re-engineering case study", and "Improving deep neural networks: Hyperparameter tuning, Regularisation and Optimisation".
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OPTIMISED Sistrix, a company specialising in search engine optimisation, says Google for Jobs became the leader in German jobs searches immediately after its launch.
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"There has been lots of optimisation work concerning platinum in fuel cells," Achim Moritz, product manager for mobile fuel cells at Bosch, told Reuters.
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Profit Margin Uplift Henkel has also maintained robust profit margin performance in all its divisions through cost-saving measures, efficiency gains and portfolio optimisation.
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Network optimisation efforts as well as potential network sharing agreements with other mobile operators should help the company to keep its investments under control.
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The kind of intense optimisation which Lambda espouses cannot, she worries, replace conventional learning, which strives to create not just capable workers but rounded individuals.
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"The Delivery Cube technology platform seamlessly connects any business to a remote fleet of drivers, using advanced optimisation algorithms to select the most appropriate driver".
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If you look at what Hexadite does, there is a connect between it and what Cloudyn is doing on the cloud management and optimisation front.
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"There are different views on the calculation, more or less conservative, depending on estimates for future technological progress and optimisation," Andra said in a statement.
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Potential Tower Sale T2R may sell tower infrastructure as a part of its network optimisation strategy, which reduce leverage slightly compared to our rating case.
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We believe PB will play an integral role in realising DB's revised business objectives, including a repositioning in German retail banking, operational synergies and cost optimisation.
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If you aren't familiar with pricing optimisation software, it helps companies accurately define the price of goods across a vast and constantly changing spectrum of variables.
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The liquidity improvement in FY16 was also supported by management's more disciplined cash flow policy, including no dividend payment, working capital optimisation measures and rationalised capex.
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"We are continuously looking for new ways to optimise our trading portfolios and balance sheet," said Joseph Macdonald, head of collateral optimisation trading at Deutsche Bank.
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The bank reiterated that it expects around CHF3 billion in gross client outflows from tax regularisation and the optimisation of its external asset manager client base.
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M&A, Returns to Shareholders A shareholder-friendly policy, which has driven EUR3.5bn share buybacks and capital repayments between 2012 and 2015, mirrors management's liquidity optimisation strategy.
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LONDON — Citymapper said its "pop-up" bus route in London is an important step before selling its trip planning and optimisation software to cities around the world.
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Founded in 2011, Munich-based Pricefx provides a modular SaaS solution for price optimisation management (PO&M) and configure-price-quote (CPQ) for enterprises of any size.
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We also expect limited growth prospects in western Europe, due to keen competition and portfolio optimisation (exiting from unprofitable sales contracts as seen in Finland and Poland recently).
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Revenue related to Yandex's Taxi segment jumped 116% and accounted for 21% of total revenues, driven by an increase in rides and optimisation of incentives, the company said.
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Prysmian said it expects the combined group to generate pretax cost benefits of about 150 million euros within five years, mainly from procurement, overhead costs and plant optimisation.
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Volume in sucralose was higher due to an optimisation programme at its facility in Alabama with adjusted operating profit slightly ahead of the comparative period, Tate & Lyle said.
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Collateral management has already been through something of a revolution with off-the-shelf documentation and range of optimisation platforms promising greater automation, dispute management and more efficient processing.
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Founded in 2011, Munich-based Price f(x) provides a modular SaaS solution for price optimisation management (PO&M) and configure-price-quote (CPQ) for enterprises of any size.
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The amount is likely to decrease in FY17 due to working-capital optimisation measures, the planned disposal of several brands, and the full-year impact of past store closures.
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"There have been transactions above $5 this week, but European (gas) hubs are very volatile, and that is reflected by traders into optimisation," a Singapore-based LNG trader said.
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We project a recovery of its operating margin to more than 6% in 2017 and towards 7% by 2019 thanks to a sales recovery, further efficiency and optimisation programmes.
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We believe that PB is likely to play an integral role in realising DB's revised business objectives including a repositioning in German retail banking, operational synergies and cost optimisation.
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Fitch will continue to monitor the sustainability of the company's capitalisation to support ongoing business growth in view of regulatory changes to encourage greater optimisation of domestic reinsurance capacity.
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"Portfolio selling enables higher margins through trading and optimisation, facilitates marketing to take new project final investment decisions, and allows sellers to provide greater supply flexibility to customers," Kavonic said.
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"In 2018, we will deliver a controlled increase in volume, continue to build upon our high level of customer service, drive profitability, and complete our balance sheet optimisation," he said.
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Aside from slowly growing EBITDA and the absence of dividend payments, Fitch assumes the sustainability of BUT's working-capital past optimisation, which should lead to consistent inflows over FY18-FY21.
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"We expect (Deutsche Post) to profit further from the ongoing ecommerce boom, price increases and internal optimisation," said Christian Obst, an analyst at Baader bank, who rates the stock a "buy".
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"Earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) increased by 17.5 percent quarter-on-quarter driven by strong increase in revenue growth and cost optimisation drive across the group," it said.
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He will be replaced by Stuart Connolly, who joined NEX last November as head of client product development for NEX Optimisation - the pre and post-trade unit of the former ICAP.
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It also said that due to the up-front cash payment from Apple it will provide a "comprehensive update of its capital structure optimisation program" in conjunction with its Q3 results.
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McAfee Total Protection defends your devices against viruses and online threats, keeps your PC working like new with optimisation tools, and makes the digital world a safer place for your kids.
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These include AI for industrial process optimisation, so-called Industry 4.0, IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things), cyberphysical security, electronics and photonics, power generation and storage, as well as medical and quantum technologies.
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Thus, AdinCube's SDK uses predictive optimisation algorithms and multi -level machine learning to accurately predict the future – analysing every available demand source, buying metric, creative format and ad network in real-time.
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For Holly Cardew, the founder of Pixc, an on-demand digital image optimisation service, being a woman running her own startup hasn't been as much of an issue as her youthful looks.
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"While our corporate strategy currently remains unchanged, we remain focused on delivering our important growth projects and are proactively identifying opportunities for cost optimisation across the ADNOC group," the ADNOC letter said.
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Danske has taken over Equinor's third-party gas trading, downstream gas storage positions and power trading activities including certificates trading as well as balancing and optimisation of Equinor's growing portfolio of renewable assets.
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LONDON, Aug 22 (Reuters) - Global miner and trader Glencore has hired former PetroIneos executive Mehdi Rghioui as a refining optimisation manager, according to his LinkedIn account and a source familiar with the matter.
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Putting a new chip on a circuit board, as Graphcore does, that is added into an existing system limits specialisation and optimisation because of constraints in power, cooling and communication, says Mr Feldman.
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Top succeeds Marco Roddenhof who has taken a new role as Rabobank's head of portfolio management, responsible for the co-ordination and optimisation of balance sheet activities reporting into the chief financial officer.
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Q20.2 results due The software company holds a capital markets day to update investors and analysts on the implementation of an optimisation scheme aimed at making operations smoother and further boosting profit margins.
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NEX, which matches buyers and sellers of bonds, swaps and currencies, reported a 5 percent rise in third-quarter revenue helped by stronger performance in its optimisation business, which helps customers cut costs.
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Ryazan reported an operating margin of 99083% in 2015 (2014: 6.5%), while its deficit before debt variation narrowed to 2.1% of total revenue from 6% over the same period, underpinned by spending optimisation.
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Employees have been allegedly handing over confidential information like search optimisation data to independent sellers, mostly via middlemen, to give them a leg up in the $1 trillion dollar company's marketplace, reads the report.
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NEX cited benefits from an increase in trading in NEX Optimisation, its post-trade and information services operation, and NEX Markets, its electronic trading platform for fixed income markets and electronic FX trading business.
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France is seeking 1.6 billion euros ($1.76 billion) in back taxes from U.S. Internet giant Google, criticised for its use of aggressive tax optimisation techniques, a source at the finance ministry said on Wednesday.
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Jens Weinmann, of ESMT Berlin, a business school, names dozens of tech-like firms that are "nibbling" away at bits of utilities' traditional business models through innovations in grid optimisation and smart-home management systems.
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The company reported revenue at NEX Optimisation up 21 percent rise, beating analysts' expectations, but said that operating margins were being squeezed by investment in new products, acquisitions and a change in the product mix.
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Fitch expects TuguRe to improve its capital position to keep up with its business expansion and ensure sufficient capital buffers against adverse shocks, in view of regulatory changes encouraging greater optimisation of domestic reinsurance capacity.
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"As long as electric cars only have a small market share, the optimisation of diesel engines is one of the most effective tools to achieve climate goals for reducing carbon dioxide in traffic," he said.
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"We are working on projects aimed at optimisation of our business ... that will help us to save about 400 million manats in 2016 and the next two years," SOCAR Vice-President Suleiman Gasymov told Reuters.
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France is seeking 1.6 billion euros ($1.79 billion) in back taxes from the U.S. Internet giant Google, criticised for its use of aggressive tax optimisation techniques, another source at the finance ministry had said in February.
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"Tank capacity in Singapore presents greater opportunities for LNG optimisation and trading in the Asia-Pacific Basin," said Frederic Barnaud, Pavilion Energy's group chief executive, adding that it complements the company's trading in the Atlantic Basin.
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Fitch expects Nasional Re to improve its capital position to keep up with its business expansion and ensure sufficient capital buffers against adverse shocks, in view of regulatory changes encouraging greater optimisation of domestic reinsurance capacity.
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The machine learning algorithms uses a combination of reinforcement learning and bayesian optimisation to assist the brewer in deciding how to change the recipe of the beer, with the algorithms learning from experience and customer feedback.
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The French bank's CIB unit said it had also appointed Jean-Francois Balay as head of risks and permanent control, and named new heads of debt optimisation, internal audit and a senior role in its UK business.
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"We overcome this by giving our sales and operations teams access to a bespoke CRM as well as proprietary planning and route optimisation tools, allowing us to provide an outstanding customer experience in a highly efficient way".
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This compares well with 'B' non-food retail peers and is driven by the improvement of the group's business model, principally in terms of profitability and management of working capital needs resulting from management's successful optimisation measures.
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The test is not meant to represent real-life scenarios, where a difference of mere seconds won't really matter, but the results nonetheless speak to the OnePlus 5's impressive performance optimisation we saw in our review.
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The ratings also factor in strong capital buffers to support ongoing business growth and benefits from regulatory support of local reinsurance capacity optimisation, good financial performance, and high business concentration risk in the catastrophe-prone Indonesian market.
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"Our decision to cease production at Talegaon is based on GM's global strategy and optimisation of our manufacturing footprint around the world," Blissett said, adding that the company will provide support to employees affected by the decision.
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The potential closures are the result of a "store optimisation project that highlighted a number of underperforming stores", Massmart, which swung to its first half-year trading loss in two decades last year, said in a statement.
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NEX's investment in its optimisation operation was in response to that trend and Spencer told reporters that he does not expect Trump's intention to repeal some parts of U.S. financial reform law to dampen demand for its products.
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D-Wave makes what is known as a quantum annealer, a special-purpose quantum computer (as opposed to a universal one) that works best on "optimisation" problems, such as finding the shortest possible route for a travelling salesman.
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"The agreement includes Sanofi Pasteur's production of clinical material in compliance with current good manufacturing practices to support phase II testing, optimisation of the upstream process to improve production yields, and characterisation of the vaccine product," Sanofi said.
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"Stuart has strong knowledge of TriOptima having been a customer for many years while he was at Goldman Sachs and has a proven track record of relationship management skills and strategic thinking," said Jenny Knott, CEO of NEX Optimisation.
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Fitch believes that following the acquisition of the 18 Yvrai franchise stores in September 2016, BUT's ability to obtain further gains in profitability will be limited as the bulk of the group's cost structure optimisation comes to an end.
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Bysh says that serving this part of the fulfillment market is made possible via a combination of bespoke technology and algorithms, leading to "massive process optimisation" and reducing client management costs through SaaS sign-ups, on-boarding and support.
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In the medium term, the company guided that optimisation of some low-performing service and network roll-out contracts would shave off up to SEK10 billion of revenues in 0003, equal to 5% of last-12-months revenue to 1Q17.
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For about £10 to £30 per month, Squarespace plans offer access to hosting, around the clock customer support, website metrics, mobile optimisation, SSL security, unlimited storage and bandwidth, an intuitive drag-and-drop page builder, and dozens of original, modern templates.
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Active Property Management Fitch views the efforts to increase freehold assets as positive as they improve the group's medium-term strategic options around store development and footprint optimisation, and reduce Tesco's retail operations' exposure to index-linked and fixed-upwards rents.
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"We remain optimistic on the prospects in our key markets, particularly in consideration of the stable macroeconomic environment, competitive intensity, upcoming regulatory changes and the potential for cost optimisation," MTS's newly-appointed Chief Executive Officer Alexei Kornya said in a statement.
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"We put in place several initiatives to counteract the impact of this outbreak on revenues and profitability, including management of opening hours, store labour optimisation and general & administrative (expense) control," Autogrill CEO Gianmario Tondato Da Ruos said in a statement.
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The 320,3003-barrel Mariner Blend crude was sold at a discount to dated Brent, Simon James, vice president for crude trading and refinery optimisation at Equinor, said on the sidelines of Asia's largest annual oil gathering APPEC late on Wednesday.
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"Today is a critical step towards our vision to be a leading global LNG player, leveraging our LNG portfolio with deep access to strategic gas markets in Singapore, Spain, and the UK, combined with sophisticated optimisation and risk management skills," he added.
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The profitability of Indonesia's reinsurance industry has been strong over the previous few years, recording a five-year average return on equity of 23%, due to local capacity optimisation, as reflected in a lower combined ratio of 83% in 2016 (13: 91%).
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These include forecasting models that help Gousto have less than 1 per cent food waste compared to the supermarkets 20 per cent, warehouse optimisation in terms of the way ingredients are picked off the shelf, and the ability to design better menus.
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"In a very broad sense, I would say search engine optimisation is making sure Google is able to understand what a website is about," says Chase Granberry, CEO of AuthorityLabs, a software company that helps publishers track the words people are searching for.
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Due to its strong cost optimisation programme and mildly improving LFL sales trend, Fitch expects Ahold's standalone EBIT margin to remain unchanged in 2016, albeit still at a high 3.8% relative to the sector, before slightly increasing to 3.9% by 2018-2019.
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Key measures comprise the restructuring of the loss-making banners (notably more than 230 store closures mainly at La Halle Apparel), competitive repositioning on products and prices, store network optimisation and e-commerce development, as well as the streamlining of its cost structure.
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"A more dynamic and liquid LNG market, and the need for greater flexibility by traditional LNG buyers, is providing opportunities for shipping optimisation and trading, and enabling new entrants such as LNG traders," said Saul Kavonic, head of energy research for Australia at Credit Suisse.
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"Our (gold output) forecast for 490 remains at between 64,000 ounces and 72,000 ounces whilst we continue our production optimisation programme, providing a very solid platform for us to build on in 2018 and beyond," Anglo Asian CEO Reza Vaziri said in a statement.
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To back this up, Flexciton has recruited a number of experts in the field of industrial optimisation and AI. The current Flexciton team has published over 140 peer-reviewed academic papers, which focus on the practical application of this technology in eight different industrial use cases.
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In 2017, Berik Beisengaliyev, managing director for assets optimisation at Samruk-Kazyna told Reuters flagship carrier Air Astana and Kazatomprom were slated to list first, followed by Samruk Energy and KMG in a second wave, then Kazpost and railway operator Kazakhstan Temir Zholy in a third wave.
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Still in progress are issues like character optimisation, improving the server tick rate (when players are in close proximity, this rate slows down and can cause delays when picking up items, for example), improved anti-hack and anti-cheat solutions (hello, Sanhok), and faster and smarter matchmaking.
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The company decided to design (but not manufacture) its own chip — which follows the current Holographic Processing Unit — because it realised off-the-shelf components are just not powerful enough (or can't offer enough optimisation) for the kind of tasks a device like HoloLens is built for.
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Because what happened (happens) - this commodity, if it's stable then people can plan, and if they can plan then they will consume either less to optimisation or they will they will decide to charge or pass that charge to the customers, and then it becomes distributed.
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For example, the focus up to now has been on-demand forecasting, Kärkkäinen said, and how that effects prices and supply, but it would like to expand its coverage also to labor optimisation alongside that; in other words, how best to staff a business according to forecasts and demands.
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The Luxembourg-based company said it would halve dividends year-on-year and announced the next phase of strategic transformation, which could include potential separation of its networks business within the company and EBITDA optimisation of 40-50 million euros ($44.16 million-$55.21 million) annually from 2021 onwards.
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In a paper last year Veale dubbed the advisory body's work a "missed opportunity" — writing that the group "largely ignore infrastructure and power, which should be one of, if not the most, central concern around the regulation and governance of data, optimisation and 'artificial intelligence' in Europe going forwards".
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"The board has therefore concluded, and recommends, that it is in the best interests of shareholders to conduct a managed wind-down of the portfolio over a period of time, allowing optimisation of returns, the return of cash to shareholders, and ultimately the winding up of the company," Electra said.
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If you truly screw up, you can unlock a hidden ability to go back in time and restart the game, but the fact that sometimes the best way to continue your progress is to destroy your progress should illustrate how twisted optimisation—both within Universal Paperclips and without—can be.
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Strategy Drives Slower Leverage Increase: One of the key elements of Tauron's strategy update in September 2016 is the support of the financial profile through capex reduction by 13% to about PLN18 billion in the period from 2016 to 2020 (including the cancellation of the PLN1.5 billion gas-fired power plant project in Lagisza), cost reductions and asset optimisation.
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Aside from EBITDA margin being consistently at or above 6.5%, Fitch assumes the sustainability of BUT's working capital needs past optimisation (turned negative in FY16, and could be further enhanced by the purchasing arrangements with XXXLutz) on one hand as well as limited new store openings leading to annual average capex at 2% of sales on the other hand.
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The funding, Silexica's CEO Maximilian Odendahl (who co-founded the team with Johannes Emigholz and Weihua Sheng) told TechCrunch, will be used not just to increase its optimisation features — allowing for an increasing variety of services and functionalities to be monitored and diagnosed — but also to add a cloud component to how it monitors and processes information on a vehicle.
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Funding of up to £25,000 per company will be made available to innovators with solutions that could be deployed at scale in the next few weeks, and could include: • Providing remote social care – for example by locating and matching qualified carers to those in need and managing and delivering care in care homes • Optimisation of the care and volunteer sector – for example by developing tools to recruit, train and coordinate local volunteers into clinical and non-clinical workers.
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JAKARTA, Sept 13 (Reuters) - * Indonesia's energy ministry has approved a new recommendation for a unit of Freeport McMoran Inc to raise copper concentrate exports to 700,000 tonnes until March 2020, an official told reporters on Friday * The new recommendation is much higher than the initial approval for shipments of 198,282 tonnes of copper concentrates, said Yunus Saefulhak, the ministry's director of minerals * Freeport's Grasberg mine is expected to produce 1.2 million tonnes of copper concentrates this year, he said * Saefulhak said Freeport could export more "due to optimisation of its open pit mine" (Reporting by Wilda Asmarini; Writing by Gayatri Suroyo; Editing by Himani Sarkar)
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KEY ASSUMPTIONS Fitch's key assumptions within our rating case for the issuer include: - progressive stabilisation of like-for-like sales by FY19, growth below 1% thereafter; - negative net proceeds from asset disposals in FY17, including the upcoming disposal of Kookai by financial year end, net proceeds limited to EUR7503 million from the sale of Chevignon and Merkal in FY18, no other brand disposals; - progressive EBITDA margin recovery towards 6.2% in FY19, driven by the disposal or closure of non-performing assets and to a lesser extent by like-for-like sales growth and business model optimisation; - broadly neutral annual changes in working-capital needs; - close to EUR150 million non-recurring cash flow in FY17-FY18 related to discontinued activities and restructuring costs, falling to EUR15 million per annum thereafter; - EUR55 million financing cash outflow in FY17 resulting from financial restructuring and increase in cash collateral.
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