In addition, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Text Revision [ 14] states that a PD should not be based "…solely on behaviors that are consequences of Substance Intoxication or Withdrawal or that are associated with activities in the service of sustaining a dependency (e.g., antisocial behavior)" (DSM-IV-TR page 688 689).
US service providers said overall business activity declined slightly in February, ending a 27-month period of sustained growth.
The central tenet of our report is that the existing analogue model of public service broadcasting, sustained by a combination of institutions, funding and regulation, will, indeed, not survive the transition to digital and may well erode rapidly before then.
Consequently, Willingness to pay has been applied mainly for situations where local communities pay for external services to sustain provision of ecosystem services.
Managers were actively seeking cost-efficient ways of sustaining services, despite smaller budgets.
As the British empire faded away after the second world war and territories such as the British Virgin Islands drifted into the constitutional limbo of semi-independence, they were encouraged to develop financial services as a way of sustaining precarious economies.
While such an approach is familiar to crowdfunding veterans, it has the same drawbacks as other services, namely, the lack of sustaining funds for a research project.
Affordability was a barrier for participants and limited access to such first-level care services demonstrates the fragility of sustaining and potential for regression on Millennium Development Goal 4, particularly during periods of economic and political instability.
The Brazilian Family Health Programme has institutionalised community health committees, as part of municipal health services to sustain local participation [ 58], ensuring that community participation does not become an alternative to, but an integral part of the state's responsibility for health care delivery to the population.
The city, however, has been unable to keep up with such fast-paced urbanisation, and seems incapable of providing jobs and services to sustain all its newcomers.
