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To adapt a building or structure to current conditions, tastes, or usage, usually by remodeling.
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In this respect, Mol suggests that the state will have to focus more on steering via economic mechanisms and change its management strategy by introducing collective self-obligations for economic sector via discursive interest mediation, the second option refers to a "transfer of responsibilities, incentives and tasks from the state to the market that accelerates the ecological transformation process" (Mol, 1995; Huber, 1982) believes that at the core of ecological modernisation theory is the reciprocal process of the "ecologising of economy" and the "economising of ecology".
Now in Royal Mail's favour there are some modernisations that are positive in regards to the new personal equipment and the introduction of new mechanical aids, which in my opinion should have been sorted out a decade ago.
The work for the unnamed bank will involve the modernisation of the bank's Mortgage Loan application from a Unisys ClearPath system to an IBM mainframe, with the database being transferred to a DB2 relational database.
The drying line modernisation includes a new shoe press, a new steam box, a new pulper and a new broke conveyor.
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