"We need to go beyond the mere proclamation of rights which are not respected in practice, to implementing concrete and systematic initiatives capable of improving the overall living situation, and planning new urban developments of good quality for housing future generations," he said.
More recently, and following the observation that most novel entities are found by phenotypic profiling techniques [ 4], systematic initiatives to find new indications for old drugs have flourished.
The current literature base rightly emphasizes the success of national, systematic initiatives, including the NIHR, Clinical Research Network, to improve recruitment [ 36, 37].
Programmes to clinically identify and characterize carriers of mutations in the presenilin or APP genes, and also systematic initiatives that aim to assess and evaluate biomarkers during these presymptomatic stages are under way.
A systematic review of initiatives to reduce DUP [ 18] found that only large public awareness campaigns had in some instances been successful in reducing DUP, and that education campaigns targeting GPs had been unsuccessful [ 17, 19].
Just recently, the GATE Germany consortium with the German Academic Exchange Service has started its initiative for a systematic and professional approach to marketing Germany as a location for research and higher education.
In a systematic review of faculty development initiatives designed to improve teaching effectiveness in medical education, the use of experiential learning, feedback, effective relationships with peers, and diverse educational methods were found to be most important in the success of these programs.
A first and crucial step forward would be to gather information on all of these projects and initiatives in a systematic and structured way.
None of the initiatives provide a systematic and strategic direction for the development of leadership and management roles for middle managers.
From another perspective, they show the potential of gender mainstreaming - that is, the results that might be achieved if gender can be lifted from the level of individual initiatives to a systematic approach.
To the best of our knowledge this is the first initiative to provide a systematic methodology for the semantic integration of gene expression analysis tools and data sources using software connectors.
