THE banks may seem like co-villains in such a situation, but in fact they, too, are victims of circumstance handicapped by a soundly conceived system which is out of harmony with the actualities of the present situation.
The major culprits include corruption in the rice supply chain, poorly conceived irrigation systems, terrible or even nonexistent roads, insecure property rights, ill-considered land reforms, and price controls on rice.
Like many others of his time he conceived of systems as self-regulating or equilibrium-seeking, composed of elements that operate to maintain the integration or adaptation of the system.
As Rosenau describes the contribution of such a network, 'Here governance is conceived as systems of rule, as the purposive activities of any collectivity that sustain mechanisms designed to insure its safety, prosperity, coherence, stability and continuance' [[ 38]: 171].
In the early 1950's, after having trouble studying distant stars and galaxies because their light blurred as it passed through Earth's atmosphere, Dr. Babcock conceived a system that could compensate for the distortion, a technique known as adaptive optics.
As I've said many times, this is the last generation of phones that can use Windows' antiquated and poorly conceived operating system.
Targioni conceived a system of classification by merging zoological and paleontological collections, presenting fossils as documents that have traveled "innumerable centuries," bringing us evidences of former life forms.
All of these efforts were conceived as system-wide overhauls.
Imagine a currency that serves a humane, intelligently conceived economic system, one that has at its core an awareness that all life is sacred.
At the beginning of the 1980s the RS was conceived as system of learning through supervised and programmed professional practice for the specialist-in-training to acquire progressively the knowledge, skills, techniques and responsibilities needed to become an independent specialist.
To provide an appropriate infrastructure for researchers working in the field of sexual reproduction we initially conceived a system based on controlled annotation vocabulary and a peer-review like approach (13).
