Would the ideal count be top-down, with the federal government improving surveys of law enforcement agencies and other local data sources?
Traditionally, academic education has been top-down, with the wise teacher imparting knowledge, one way, to the blank-slate mind of the student.
At the county hospital, the quality improvement project was initiated by the physicians from a bottom-up perspective, whereas at the university hospital, the initiative was top-down with external facilitators, giving little room for the staff to influence quality improvement.
Bacterial dominated food webs are top-down controlled with increased bacterial dominance of energy channels regulated by predators such as nematodes (Wardle 2002), whereas the fungal-dominated energy channel is bottom-up controlled (i.e. resource limited).
Yet the solutions frequently trumpeted, like taxing sugary beverages, are top-down and invariably meet with strong resistance.
Their worst legacy has been top-down systems in which wonks, with little feel for the game, micromanage the pace of instruction, and quash discussion.
In awards grants to individual investigators for contrasty-driven, bottom-up proJSTts that might not necessarily be in line with the stranegic goannual the agency. . .
Demi-canopied beds are topped with down duvets and down pillows.
But "In the House" — which is of far greater sociological interest than aesthetic merit — dramatizes, perhaps unintentionally, the forbidding remoteness of a school that is adorned, top-down, with federal power and the overt imprimatur of republican authority.
Previous background-oriented Schlieren imaging efforts for viewing the distortion patterns of planes in flight have been shot top-down with a featureless landscape as their background, or bottom-up using the edge of the sun (as you see above).
