Scotland has done especially well out of the Barnett formula, which calculates grants for the devolved authorities by scaling down spending changes in England according to population and levels of devolution.
But as we shift the perspective from which we view it from the bottom up to the top down, scale changes, and we must now treat the platform as the want-to-be big player that it now is.
His laboratory works on scaling down materials — a process that changes the material's properties.
To reduce costs, Feger proposed eliminating the top floor of what was to be a four-story facility, redesigning a steel-truss ceiling and making other changes to scale down the center, which is intended to centralize rental car, taxi, bus and train connections under one roof.
Here too are child-size chairs and desks by De Stijl artists, including a delightful diminutive wheelbarrow by Gerrit Rietveld; it is remarkable how little needed to change in scaling down the basic language of simple rectilinear forms and primary colors.
Research on nanostructures is motivated by the observation that material properties can abruptly change when scaling down the material size to nanoscale from its bulk counterpart mainly due to the enhanced surface-to-volume ratio of nanomaterials [1].
However, the clinical meaning of this result should be scaled down if we consider that the changes of the initial therapy were not due to the inadequacy of the empiric approach recommended by the guidelines for such COPD patients with severe CAP [ 19] but to the de-escalation strategy and occurrence of drug resistance.
But, as international engagement in Bosnia was scaled down, the hotel's fortunes began to change.
This sensor is designed to be sensitive to very small changes in angle with detected range is scaled down to about 0.5°.
Michael Spector, the firm's founder, says that Touro owes an additional $238,000 for changes it had asked for, specifically its request to scale down the design.
Scaling down our ideas of what we "must have" won't result in onerous changes to the way we live.
