Local energy initiatives used the availability of smaller-scale technology in combination with smart grid management technology, to develop new ways of organising the electricity supply to the benefit of the community.
A key to success of such initiatives is the availability of state-of-the-art quality curricula.
M.F., P.A. and E.C. acknowledge the CINECA award under the ISCRA initiative, for the availability of high-performance computing resources and support (Iscra C projects DISCALIN and COGRAINS, PRACE project MULTINANO).
Government initiatives to increase the availability of validated analytical methods and botanical reference material have led to the publication of numerous validation studies in scientific journals.
Her leadership led to the creation of the Office of Child Care Services of the City of Chicago and to important City and State initiatives to upgrade the availability of quality childcare--accomplishments recognized by official proclamation of the Chicago City Council in 2003.
The design of freight infrastructure and urban logistics initiatives relies on the availability of data and data-driven models that can estimate their potential impacts and guide decision-making.
Initiatives to improve the availability of quality public providers, so as to make health care by formally qualified providers more "local", need to be further strengthened as well.
We support initiatives to improve the availability of such a test worldwide, which ideally could be used to screen all suspect B. pseudomallei originating from clinical specimens.
A recent commentary detailing a "road map" for closing the research-practice gap suggests that initiatives to increase the availability of empirically supported treatments may be considered under two broad headings, those that remain essentially therapist led and those that are programme led [ 45].
For example, if the President's Malaria Initiative substantially increased the availability of artemisinin-based combination therapy for the treatment of malaria only in intervention districts, perhaps due to a perception by donors of better pharmaceutical supply chains in these districts, then results may be biased.
