Initial steps taken by Coke and Pepsi into nutraceuticals, as the new foods and beverages are called, could not have been more different.
The Government must also promote alternative forms of finance and we were pleased to see initial steps taken to kick-start the UK's private placement market.
This brief commentary outlines the workshop and describes initial steps taken to establish and strengthen health research systems at this remote hospital.
The initial steps taken to diagnose and treat the patient in primary care may be essential for effective treatment, and may contribute to fewer patients being referred to surgery as well as lower costs to society.
Patients and the public continue to be regarded as a key stakeholder group, and the initial steps taken in the 1990s, such as the introduction of patient representatives onto commissioning panels and the later creation of INVOLVE, have been built on, although to date it is difficult to assess the impact of progress on some of these issues [ 45].
The delegation concluded the visit with a meeting with the Chief Minister of Shan state, who briefed the delegates on the initial steps taken by the country towards greater decentralization and a people-centred approach to development, which would hopefully give greater voice to various ethnic groups in nation-building.
Initial steps have been taken in this direction, although many activists still consider that truly horizontal collaboration is an ideal model, far from the present arrangement where many of the real-life inequalities persist [ 10, 19].
Initial steps have been taken to address the problem.
The initial steps have been taken to use two donors for the MABC transfer of different Saltol alleles into popular varieties to test the efficacy of these alleles to provide seedling stage tolerance: FL478 at IRRI and FL378 at Dhaka University and BRRI.
