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Bottleneck

In project management and other fields, a situation in which output is limited by the lowest capacity system in the project. For example, the output of book publishing is limited by how quickly writers write, regardless of how quickly books can be edited and printed. Bottlenecks have a wide variety of applications in business, technology and elsewhere.

bottleneck

a hold-up in some part of a PRODUCTION LINE which disrupts the smooth flow of work. See PRODUCTION-LINE BALANCING, OPTIMISED PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY.

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A third structural answer would be ameliorating disability bottlenecks to expand the availability of accommodations in the workplace.

Bottlenecks: A New Theory of Equal Opportunity

If this year's large increase in downstream-blamed bottlenecks is indeed a leading indicator in bioprocessing efficiency, this suggests a trend that downstream problems will be further increasing for developers too.

Biopharm executives point to better CMO performance: better process control and increased adoption of single-use systems played a part in improving downstream manufacturing

Race and sex are among the most powerful bottlenecks in the opportunity structure of our society, in the sense that they have broad, pervasive effects, both direct and indirect, on everyone's opportunities.

The anti-bottleneck principle in employment discrimination law

Citation: Ivana Barbaric et al.; "Time-Lapse Analysis of Human Embryonic Stem Cells Reveals Multiple Bottlenecks Restricting Colony Formation and Their Relief upon Culture Adaptation"; Stem Cell Reports, 2014; DOI: 10.1016/j.stemcr.2014.05.006

Time-lapse study reveals bottlenecks in stem cell expansion

In this section, we discuss the results of our experiments in different ways to highlight the accuracy of our SVD-based method for detecting shared bottlenecks.

On the accurate identification of network paths having a common bottleneck

In the context of the smallest bottleneck path problem, we define the bottleneck weight of a path p to be the maximum of the weights of the constituent edges, e [member of] p.

Graph theory algorithms for mobile ad hoc networks

Identify Bottlenecks in Student Learning and Operational Effectiveness

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Impact of Capacity Drop on Commuting Systems under Uncertainty

"Hundreds of vehicles coming from multiple lanes converge on the single-lane exit at the Al Ain road interchange, turning it into a bottleneck. This leads to delays stretching up to 30 minutes sometimes.

Motorists call for multi-lane exit to Al Ain road to ease tailbacks

Now Fujitsu Laboratories has developed a technology that, with a low load, captures communications packets passing through virtual infrastructure, as well as a technology which uses this information to identify communication bottlenecks and automatically recommend configurations to improve communications speed and to reduce packet loss and other measures to raise virtual network quality.

Fujitsu Develops Analysis Technology to Improve Communication Performance of Virtual Networks