In response, some pilots called in sick in greater numbers and reported more mechanical problems with planes, leading to wide flight delays and cancellations.
In some pilot projects, there have been unforeseen problems.
Examples include the creation of skin grafts, corneas, bone, cartilage, and, in some pilot studies, bladders.
These endeavours have brought microalgal biofuel production closer to economic viability as has been shown in some pilot plants.
The report describes how government benefits were distributed online in some pilot projects in health and food distribution and corruption by government workers came down sharply.
NHS 111 was launched in some pilot areas last year before being rolled out in most parts of England on 1 April.
In the last several weeks, @Road has demonstrated its technology to airport authorities in San Jose, Calif., to the Department of Transportation and to Congress, and it hopes to be involved in some pilot projects.
The gravel contact oxidation reactor (GCOR) filled with crushed stone globular aggregates as carriers, has been demonstrated capable of reducing the excess sludge effectively in some pilot and small-scale engineering studies.
"Most of the things that are likely to help solve the long-term care problem are being tried in some pilot project somewhere, but we're really still at the very beginning". So said Dr. Burton Reifler of Winston-Salem, N.C., the operator of a pilot project, in the four-part New York Times series on long-term care that concludes today.
We've heard some interesting details about the way that the program will work, and indeed, is working right now in some pilot Apple Stores.
