Previous work in Scotland has also reported that national top-down priorities also swamped local issues [ 19].
Top-down priorities encourage school leaders who believe in OFSTED's illusions, when they should be responding to the realities faced by those teaching on the frontline.
On the other hand, conventional AHP uses pairwise comparisons of criteria in a top-down process and weights choice matrices by the result of a single identical priority matrix (Duru et al., 2012).
The proposed algorithm splits raw genome sequences into blocks, subdivides the blocks in a top-down fashion, and finally adds noise to counts to preserve privacy.
It consists of a top-down analysis organised as a clearly defined sequence of tasks grouped in levels.
A grassroots and participatory focus, rather than a top-down approach, has since then gained recognition as a fundamental principle in attempts to ensure stakeholders involvement and fair priority setting in health care.
Mr Cameron, having promised no more top-down re-organisations of the NHS (his top personal priority), launched a top-down re-organisation of the NHS.
Before, setting priorities was a top-down process.
Using a top-down approach involving network and even national leadership may have shielded our project from the consequences of Telecare's shift in priorities.
In "top-down" approaches, sequence information is obtained from mass spectrometric fragmentation of high-mass multiply charged ions [ 4].
In China, there is a hierarchical administrative health network, the top-down sequence is province level, prefectural level, county level, township level, village level [ 9].
