Calculate the starting point of the descent.
This problem stands at the starting point of a research programme now known as the thermodynamic limit, championed, among others, by Lanford, Mazur, Ruelle, and van der Linden (see van Lith (2001) for a survey).
In view of regional differences in the starting point of screening programmes around Spain, extracting conclusions based on incidence would be problematic in this particular period.
Admittedly, our results only chart the reduction in units and clinicians involved in primary surgical repair, but given that the surgery is the starting point of a lifelong treatment programme, it is very likely to reflect the geography of the entire service.
This is in line with the cyclic nature of realist evaluation, where emerging programme theories become the starting point of a new cycle of realist evaluation.
However, the optimum interval and starting point of surveillance for patients with left-sided colitis should wait for cost-effectiveness studies of the surveillance programme.
Implementation research usefully takes as its starting point the articulation of programme theory.
Lessons Learned During the period of the Programme, the UNICEF programming process took as a starting point the assessment of the situation of children and women, which was to be updated regularly during the programme implementation period.
The proposed grid includes 43 items that provide explicit data about, for example, whether exercises are generic or individualised, the type of exercise equipment used, the exercise starting position and the programme starting point, the degree of load or resistance, rules for exercise progression, motivation and adherence strategies, and exercise duration, repetitions, sets and sequence.
The starting point is the purpose of the programme (key element in the framework).
