Limited access to specialists, system fragmentation, and underdeveloped group practice and shared-care models were impediments.
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A significant proportion of SBRT treatment has been successfully delivered using conventional gantry-based linear accelerators with appropriate image guidance and motion management techniques, although a number of specialist systems are also available.
Piechnick — who co-founded Wandelbots with Georg Püschel, Maria Piechnick, Sebastian Werner, Jan Falkenberg and Giang Nguyen on the back of research they did at university — said that typical programming of industrial robots to perform a task could have in the past taken three months, the employment of specialist systems integrators, and of course an extra cost on top of the machines themselves.
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Moreover, specialist systems in single fields with well-defined and structured usage patterns do better than those with a broad application area.
Galley et al. [ 16] suggest that pollinator specificity might play a role in promoting in situ speciation, suggesting that taxa with generalist pollination syndromes are unlikely to speciate as readily as those with specialist systems upon entering a new region.
There are alternative data sources such as national audits, disease registers, specialty datasets and national specialist systems, all of which have been developed to provide high-quality clinical data to improve quality of care.
However, the hypothesis that angiosperm diversification was the result of specialist pollination syndromes remains controversial (see, ), since generalized insect pollination and wind pollinated systems outnumber specialist systems., While there has been a large focus on the evolutionary role of pollinators, most insects that visit flowers probably do not carry out pollination.
"The specialist system gets better prices," Mr. Thain said yesterday.
