The Inspector concurs with the above points of view, but observes that the method used to compare procurement staff productivity and cost addresses more specifically the important issue of the overhead structure and cost, which is essentially the staffing and cost of the procurement function within the United Nations system in 2002.

Cost structure of the unified budget breakdown

Message Translation Overhead and Performance Message protocols and messages themselves often contain extra information (i.e., packet, structure, definition and language information).

Requests the Secretary General to review the administrative support structure for the quick impact projects with a view to minimizing overhead costs for their implementation

1 The amount required to bring the working capital reserve up to 8.3 per cent of the total annual programmes cost plus overhead.

Cost structure of the unified budget, excluding contributions from the United Nations regular budget

marshaling) and message interpretation (which might be a reference to a string, array or data structure), which require less overhead than creating a complicated message such as a SOAP message.

Staffing requirements funded from overhead charges

Any change in the value of the dollar therefore affects their cost structure and profitability.

Chilled slabs cost less per unit of surface area, and are more integrated with structure.

With its high fixed cost structure, UNOPS has found it difficult to operate smaller, transaction intensive services on the basis of full cost recovery.

Staff costs, support costs and operating and other overhead expenses comprised 11.6 per cent, 3.8 per cent and 3.9 per cent, respectively, of the total cost of the project.

Indeed, the wage increases of recent years have not changed the basic cost structure of Chinese companies.

A little later I called my mother, only to hear her crying on the phone. The planes are overhead she cried the planes are overhead .

(b) Within market tolerance, increase managerial flexibility and alignment of structure with demand by converting fixed costs into project based variable costs where feasible, while containing the overall cost structure.

Among other things, the evaluation recommended various measures regarding the Executive Committee structure and number of meetings continuing efforts for efficient operation monitoring funds, delays, and overhead costs and financial management and the management of contributions.

DisplayPort 1.2 has more bandwidth at 21.6 Gbit s (17.28 Gbit s with overhead removed) as opposed to HDMI 2.0's 18 Gbit s (14.4 Gbit s with overhead removed), and DisplayPort 1.3 raises that to 32.4 Gbit s (25.92 Gbit s with overhead removed).

Military choppers keep buzzing overhead in both Jerusalem and Ramallah.

To keep the cost of storage acceptable, the geophysical exploration may be limited, resulting in larger uncertainty about the aquifer structure.

The Committee recommends that, given the cost of building and removing a temporary structure, full information be presented to the General Assembly on the relative costs and merits of constructing a permanent structure instead.

When residents hear the buzz of planes overhead, most dash for cover.

It is a modern equivalent of the slide projector or overhead projector.

The average rate of overhead reached more than 11 per cent in 2004

Further assuming a relatively generous 20 administration overhead, the total cost of the scheme would be approximately 600 million equivalent to a fifth of the reported aid flow to these countries in 2004 and to 3.5 4 of their combined GDP.

I tried to calm her down planes overhead mean the target is further away.

Table 10. Proposed resource requirements funded from overhead charges (thousands of United States dollars)

So here's an example. This is an overhead phototherapy device that's designed for American hospitals.

The cost of the field office structure accounts for 9.5 per cent of estimated programme expenditure, a decrease from the 13 per cent reported in 2004 2005.

The cost of the field office structure accounts for 21.4 per cent of estimated programme expenditure, a decrease from the 24.3 per cent reported in 2004 2005.

The sun is overhead, maximum heating, maximum evaporation, maximum clouds, maximum rainfall, maximum opportunities for reproduction.

The cost structure of the unified budget (in terms of relative shares of management and administration, programme support and programmes) has remained stable over the past five years.

The cost of the field office structure accounts for 13.7 per cent of the estimated programme expenditure, a decrease from the 16.6 per cent reported in 2004 2005.

Soldiers were packed into trenches and tanks were driven overhead until all signs of fear were gone.

This pushrod engine includes variable valve timing, a first in a mass produced non overhead cam engine.

Above the second seat were acrylic glass skylights in which passengers could view the outside from overhead.

DPKO should take measures to reduce this overhead time by streamlining the induction and check out procedures.

(b) Systematically charging the 13 per cent of programme support costs (overhead) to programmes grants whenever possible.

The railway from the south to Oulu was electrified in 1983, using overhead electric wires at 25 kV.

In network tomography, the emphasis is to achieve as accurate a picture of the network with minimal overhead.

This means the Moon can go overhead at latitudes up to 28 from the equator, instead of only 18 .

Likewise, in order to minimize overhead costs, part of the office space was sublet to another United Nations office.

Of that amount, about 1.26 million was to support attendance at convention meetings, and 13 ( 615,00) represented administrative overhead.

In line with the new approach of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, the contracts for the aircraft were based on a cost structure calculated on actual hours rather than block hours.

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