The greater the changes attempted, the greater their unintended and unexpected repercussions, forcing upon the holistic engineer the expedient of piecemeal improvisation - the "notorious phenomenon of unplanned planning".
Faced with large structural changes attempted by the Conservatives under John Major, Labour went into the 1997 election proclaiming the importance of standards not structures.
The road to reform was not easy, as conservatives, supported by foreign powers, opposed most of the changes, attempting to defend liberum veto and other elements perpetuating the inefficient governance, most notably through the Cardinal Laws of 1768.
This was explicitly the model behind the changes attempted by the UK Department of Health in the 1970s [ 7].
Since signals recorded by electrical impedance tomography also contain cardiac-related impedance changes, attempts are made to evaluate them in view of perfusion.
To the Editor: Ward Wilson contends that "the real value of nuclear bombs is as status symbols, not as practical weapons"; this may be true, but surely these weapons are the best deterrent against any forcible regime change attempt by outsiders.
Many approaches to sound change attempt to derive common patterns of sound change from universal pressures, such as physiological and psychoacoustic constraints on speech.
These theories of change attempt to explain the relationships between beliefs, practice, and student outcomes in a linear fashion, with changes to one aspect of instruction driving subsequent changes to the other in a defined temporal order.
Table 2 summarises the perceptions of physical health risk associated with the three lifestyle factors of interest, namely smoking, exercise and diet, as well as the desire to change, attempts to change and success in changing these behaviours.
