This approach to participation is centred on three factors: 1) public participation at a range of levels; 2) focus on consumers and communities, rather than providers and funder interests; and 3) an open system encompassing information, public accountability, and transparent and conspicuous decision-making [ 1].
Even though TTT is small and thus β becomes close to 1, Equations 11 and 12 make conspicuous handover decisions considering not only the current quality of the channel but also the previous condition of the channel and the rate of signal change.
From the presidential election -- destined to be among the most conspicuous and contentious decisions in American history -- to workplace arbitration to tobacco advertising to the ownership of the land under an Idaho lake, the justices were deeply, irrevocably divided.
The conspicuous exception was a decision in September 2009 to impose tariffs on tires imported from China, and even that decision was to some extent forced by complex legal deadlines in the United States.
His conspicuous absences and erratic decision making during the Chechen crisis led to speculation about the degree to which Yeltsin was in control of the country.
Surely Miliband must realize that Western values, thought processes and decision making are conspicuous by their absence in this corner of the woods.
The court's unanimous decision sends a conspicuous message to other sports leagues — except Major League Baseball — that when it comes to selling merchandise, charging for parking and paying players, they have to play by the rules.
The absence of these things is conspicuous, and sometimes frustrating, but the decision to omit them was nonetheless the right one.
As his team prepares for the 12 June kick, Nicolelis gives Science a hint of the technology under the hood, and defends his decision to arrange such a conspicuous debut for a tool still in the early stages of development.
Amaldoss and Jain (2005) introduce conspicuous consumption to the study of pricing decisions when facing deterministic price-dependent demands, and observe that snobs may create an upwards sloping demand curve only when there also exist followers.
This phenomenon -- the exclusion of Sephardim from decision-making levels -- became particularly conspicuous in the process of building a civic bureaucracy after independence.
