This paper details a new manufacturing philosophy and software architecture for Evolvable Assembly Systems, based on the principles of decentralization, context-awareness and intelligent resources, that is implemented using intelligent agent technology and a data distribution service.
The BPHS was based on principles of decentralization and primary health care, and focused on a limited set of entitlements including two chronic diseases: mental health (encompassing depression, epilepsy, substance abuse, and gender-based violence) and HIV/AIDS (estimated nationwide prevalence of 1.5% in 2007).
The geographical analysis of the determinants of dental trauma enables promotion, control and rehabilitation actions to be planned as closely as possible to the affected areas, in accordance with the principles of healthcare decentralization adopted in Curitiba, in keeping with the directives of the Brazilian National Health System [ 22].
The recent labour market reforms limited the ultra-activity principle, increased decentralization of collective agreements at the firm level, decreased firing costs, and reduced workers' bargaining power by giving firms economic reasons to reduce wages.
A lot of the work focuses on current and future challenges for the water sector, the need to apply sustainable solutions and the need for water utilities to implement SUWM principles through decentralization of the urban water system (UWS).
The case illuminates several important principles of organization design principles that reflect both the allure and implications of decentralization or autonomy and the limitations that prompt the frequent need to abandon or retrench from them.
Allison's philosophy of decentralization, he says, is an application of Rand's objectivist principles championing individualism but with accountability.
This unusual convergence is more apparent than real, though, since conservative models of decentralization focus on weakening the State while participatory, community-based alternatives are based on democratic principles of local participation as well as efficiency and effectiveness [ 72].
In 1988, the Constitution introduced the principle of universal access to health care, and that of the municipalisation of health services, thus initiating a complex process of decentralization [ 2].
For that reason, he said, he prefers a weaker form of decentralization.
