We think of terrorists as trying to build cells and organizations, but Bin Laden created an anti-organization — an open-source set of networks with some top-down control but much decentralization and a willingness to embrace all recruits, regardless of race, sect or nationality.
The growth of gay rights has to spring from some top-down enforcement mechanism … Roberts believes this, I suspect, because, like many conservatives, he quite understandably feels like somewhere the rules were changed over homosexuality's place in society: how we talk about it, react to it, address it.
"We fear this could turn into some top-down monolithic program" that leaves little room for independent voices.
ICAP International (ICEUX): Like other funds at this firm, the three-man management team starts with some top-down analysis to select favorable regions and industries for this 4.5-year-old fund, then selects the most promising firms.
But the fact that these efforts are coming from disparate, frustrated grassroots groups and not some top-down government grant or well-meaning, fair weather rich outsiders, lends some hope that things could change in corners of India's entrepreneurial world.
Although some top-down nanopatterning techniques such as lithography can be used for the preparation of SERS substrates with high reproducibility and homogeneity, these techniques are limited by low throughput, high cost, few processable materials, and the difficulty to fabricate the well-controlled nanostructures with efficient and abundant hot spots [1, 3].
This is not some top-down thing that someone else is going to take care of.
I expect less tear gas, more police bodies on the ground, and likely some top-down orders urging officer restraint.
It is conceivable that some 'base' activation for every sound source has to be maintained within the map to allow some top-down mechanism to switch the attention to another sound source.
Some top-down approaches have been developed to create artificial matrixes based on scaffolds with channels for nutrient delivery to enable culture at high density of cells [20], [21]; the present work focuses on a miniaturization strategy to allow culture at high densities of cells and integration with standard imaging and high-throughput tools.
