At Southern Cross, deteriorating standards of care were seeping into local media reports.
In addition, experts say the situation in women's jails is now worse than a decade ago, when a landmark report was commissioned amid widespread concerns about deteriorating standards.
Outside the pleasure dome, in zones off-limits to foreign visitors, most of the socialist fairyland still suffers from frequent power shortages, chronic food insecurity and deteriorating standards of healthcare and education – realities that are safely obscured inside Pyongyang's candy-coloured mirage.
Competition to lend to car buyers has become so fierce that the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, a regulator, has warned of deteriorating standards, with loans routinely exceeding 100% of the car's value.In this section Assets or liabilities?
Dr Mary Bousted, general secretary of ATL, said: "Regrettably teachers and support staff are suffering the backlash from deteriorating standards of behaviour.
Just as financial practices during the housing bubble caused deteriorating standards in mortgages, cap and trade could create "subprime" carbon offsets -- offsets that do not represent actual emission reductions and carbon derivatives based on future carbon reductions with high risk of not being fulfilled.
Statistical process control (SPC) methods, utilizing the increasingly available routinely collected electronic patient records, could be used in creating surveillance systems that could lead to rapid detection of periods of deteriorating standards.
At interim analysis, the trial was stopped on the recommendation of the institutional ethics committee, to allow protocol revision so patients deteriorating on standard medical therapy could have the opportunity to cross over to MARS treatment [ 5].
When kidney function deteriorates, standard dosing may lead to accumulation of a drug and therefore antibiotic doses are often adapted to the kidney function.
