The recent MPEG Reconfigurable Media Coding (RMC) standard aims at defining media processing specifications (e.g. video codecs) in a form that abstracts from the implementation platform, but at the same time is an appropriate starting point for implementation on specific targets.
The war delayed initial attempts at implementation but the subsequent slow acceptance of the approach meant that large-scale field trials did not begin until the 1960s.
Achieving TGC requires good protocols and reasonable targets, but effective implementation at the institutional level (reflected by consistent improvement in glycemic control) may be more important than having the best protocol in safely achieving the desired target range.
As the lead agency for polio communication in India, UNICEF was mandated to coordinate Pulse Polio activities and liaise with the government but had limited field implementation capacity at the start.
Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz has called legalization "a rational next step after the full implementation of medical marijuana". But at the forum, he stopped short of supporting it.
The intention is to look not only at the mechanisms by which the CLAHRCs moved from policy idea to programme implementation, but to analyse how the participants at each level framed their understanding of the policy and programme, and to determine the degree of congruence within and amongst the levels in their understandings of the programme.
Because people had limited knowledge of the family planning law, during this period, there was a strict policy but a relaxed implementation at the local level.
At a 'theoretical' level, the GPs in our study accepted the guideline recommendations, but the 'practical' implementation at the level of the individual patient was variable.
ULFM assumes that transient network and process faults do not occur, but at the implementation level, it is possible to deal with these types of faults.
"Typically you see the home office think up some great program but doesn't think through implementation at the store level," he says.
