For all its failings, some of which were highlighted by the recent Francis report into deaths at Mid Staffordshire hospital, the NHS has always had the care of patients as its core activity.
The festival will have as its core activity (see panel) workshops on different themes, such as science and government, science for social development/inclusion, science centres, and science education.
While many funders recognised that its functionality linking, reporting, citation data, text mining is of value to researchers, others felt that it was straying from its core activity as a repository for content.
As passenger transport constitutes its core activity, Vietnam Airlines plays a crucial role in the economic development of the country.
The course titled The United States, China, & Global Security, led by former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry and PKU professor Fan Shiming, was organized under the auspices of the U.S.-Asia Security Initiative whose research focuses on security challenges in Asia with teaching as one of its core activities.
Since 2008, NPHL integrated the surveillance of AMR as one of its core activities to ensure the sustainability of the programme.
As the industry restructures its core activities and assets, the threat of obsolescence may fade, marking the industry's transition back to a progressive or creative trajectory.
Oilfield services company Schlumberger posted a 22% rise in fourth-quarter profits, as record oil prices supported its core activities, but the stock was down around 5% in premarket trading, with investors concerned that the report showed weakness in North American profit margins.
Effectively, the foundation has said that it will curtail its fund-raising and slim down to concentrate on its core activities, such as health care, education, and empowering women.
Maintenance is the most common product-oriented Product Service System (PSS) offering, as well as a core activity of the manufacturing system lifecycle, since it accounts for as much as 60 to 70% of its total costs.
As their core activity declined with time, quasars assumed forms and functions closer to those of more familiar and nearby galaxies.
