In early childhood curricula, for example, "the early education tradition generally results in a more centralising and academic approach to curriculum content and methodology, while pedagogical frameworks in the social pedagogy tradition remain more local, child-centred and holistic".
Since 2008, Gusmao has been both the key stabiliser of East Timorese politics and a centralising force in political decision-making.
In fact you could argue that the loss of two "normal" campaign days to TV debates between the leaders – in three successive weeks – is a centralising development, one which enhances the presidential character of elections at the expense of the wider party and contest in 650 seats.
In New Zealand, first-past-the-post in a highly centralised political system concentrated overwhelming power in remarkably few hands.
But quashing new ways of doing things may simply result in stymying innovation, rather than promoting greater variety in a heavily centralised heath system.
The number of provinces was reduced, and their autonomy curtailed, resulting in a highly centralised state.
In a highly centralised PICU system where highly equipped PICU teams travel over great distances, often by air, a significant number of critically ill children may receive early and prolonged care from a PICU team in a referring hospital.
This is in contrast to, but complements, a centralised surveillance strategy.
In a country as centralised as Russia is these days, the capital sets the tone for the rest of the country.
A virtual cluster of FINEs within an integrated personal communications network is dynamically configured in a distributed or centralised manner according to user profile requirements, network size and performance to provide artful messaging, telephony and I3E services (Intelligent Inter-, Intra- and Extranet) in a changing environment.
