But he said the current set-up - where civil servants work on behalf of different governments - worked well and continuity brought great benefits, citing the example of senior Treasury official Michael Ellam who has worked for Ken Clarke, Gordon Brown and George Osborne.
The incorporation of the flop-over technique results in some continuity errors: for example, the terminals of the Heart Lung Kidney machines onboard Phoenix are seen to be connected first to Ross and Kane's left wrists, then their right.
For the example, the calculated test statistic including the continuity correct is 0.75, giving a P value greater than 0.25.
Although most patients without an ongoing chronic problem said they currently prioritised rapid access over personal continuity, all but two said that there had been circumstances in the past when they had prioritised personal continuity (for example, for antenatal care, or follow-up of a now resolved problem), and could see circumstances where they would do so again (table 4).
Strategic guidelines can bring continuity, for example when an R&D project proliferates into several parallel trajectories (e.g. Datashare case: Noorman et al., 2017), or when the R&D team changes.
Regeneration allows the creation of new tissue when an injury or lack of continuity occurs, for example, in case of fracture [ 174– 174].
Following Kannan's result, a lot of papers were devoted to obtaining fixed point or common fixed point theorems for various classes of contractive type conditions that do not require the continuity of the mappings; see, for example, [24] and [31].
Team and cross-boundary continuity can for example be improved by better communication between care providers (e.g. better registration in the electronic medical record and faster communication by mail between general practitioner and specialist).
Groundwater level monitoring networks are the examples of discontinuous sampling on variables presenting spatial continuity and highly skewed frequency distributions.
Inappropriate nurse interventions, miscommunication between nursing team members, and continuity gaps are examples of dysfunctions that create holes in the nursing system's front line of defense.
