Based upon existing data and prevailing assumptions, we hypothesised that residents would be dependent, suffer multiple morbidity and use NHS resources frequently.
A dual strategy of incrementally improving existing systems under the prevailing 'rules of the game', while simultaneously developing radical system innovations that fundamentally transform those rules and prevailing patterns of production and consumption, captures such attempts.
Peter Kariuki, a father of four, said despite losing his relatives in the Kiambaa church fire, he is encouraged with the prevailing peace existing among the various communities that used not to see eye to eye.
Worldwide, the incidence of oral tongue cancer is on the rise, adding to the existing burden due to prevailing low survival and high recurrence rates.
A deep insight into the understanding of the disease pathogenesis helps to develop a successful treatment regimen and realizes the existing flaws in the prevailing paradigms.
The first stage of the exercise will be conducted at the beginning of the study and is aimed at charting existing practice and the prevailing concepts underpinning that practice.
Ultimately, that includes attachment to doctrines, but discarding them too soon means that pre-existing beliefs and prevailing opinion go unchallenged.
Taken together our findings contrast with prevailing beliefs and existing summaries of evidence and guidelines based on trials done in populations at higher risk of cardiac events.
But let's not conflate political and social entrepreneurship: one works in an existing system; the other rejects the prevailing system to create something new and more effective.
Meer says: "Politically, Scottish national identity is being configured according to existing conceptions of church state-relations, prevailing norms of 'civic' participation and inclusion, and implicit notions of 'legitimate' and 'illegitimate' minority claims-making, amongst other things.
However, the prevailing purchase prices of existing UK government issues mean that the real yields are now below 1%.
