The Laboratory Response Network is a tiered system of laboratories with capacities defined in an A (lowest tier) through D (highest) pyramid structure (3, 4).
While the workbench can perform various data processing functions and analytics including generation of plots and figures, it is important to note that all PKB related analytics are gated in the middle tier through logic to ensure that minimally required data sets are available for each patient or sets of patients for meaningful analysis (e.g., appropriate data density to make predictions, etc).
Health decentralization literature (Collins 1996) similarly considers how, within bureaucratic environments, higher tiers of government influence the decision-making space (governance) of lower tiers through delegating power and responsibility.
After so many months in which his primary human contact had been an occasional phone call or brief conversations with an inmate down the tier, shouted through steel doors at the top of their lungs, he found himself unable to carry on a face-to-face conversation.
"You can still come in as an entrepreneur through tier 1 or an investor, or if you're an exceptional talent through tier 1, but tier 2's the main visa route for non-EU workers to come into the country.
The next qualifier is not until September, and until then the United States coaching staff will guide a second-tier team through the Concacaf Gold Cup, the regional championship tournament, while many of the top players take a summer break.
At the time, it seemed to me that having gained access to upper-tier schools through the new and generous scholarship programs of the 1960's was no longer enough: a new hurdle was being placed before us to maximize the odds that the same people would retain control of the same positions.
There in groups of 100 they were conducted on a tour of the crematorium with the blackened frames of bodies still in the ovens and two piles of emaciated dead in the yard outside, through huts where living skeletons too ill or weak to rise lay packed in three-tier bunks, through the research block where doctors tried new serums on human beings with fatal consequences in 90 per cent of cases.
But McNulty sent the third-tier side through by firing in low from 15 yards.
In his view, because Firefox OS was designed from the ground up for low-end devices (though Mozilla has also set its sights on mid-tier devices through other partnerships with OEMs), it's smarter about its memory footprint, for example.
The most senior members of staff were never subject to the same appraisals the lower tiers of staff went through, so it was suggested that some form of upward appraisal be brought in to highlight, in a constructive way, the fact that problems did not lie solely with the staff who had so far taken the flack.
