The inability of a metropolitan-wide entity to raise money and determine policy and investment strategies for the entire 'functional' area, inevitably leads to dysfunctional transport, infrastructure, housing and environmental policies which can't be solved within the confines of restricted political boundaries.
A story in yesterday's Financial Times about Carter's support for Channel 4 to be put into a "wider entity" was seen as support for a merger.
In India about a third of companies belong to wider entities.
For instance, the chair who saw a current "city-wide" IRB (which reviews only certain, but not all protocols) as "too strict" nonetheless perceived potential advantages in wider use of such municipal-wide entities - though not this particular one.
In a more systematic institutional design this information might be fed to a government source (top layer of Figure 1) or other system-wide responsible entity to initiate and focus health care improvement research of the kind proposed below.
Hence the foremost requirement for realising holistic smart city related information services by and for wide-spectrum entities (citizens, governments, private enterprises) is to agree and utilise common, standard and inter-operable data formats.
We argue that genuine language understanding in machines will similarly require an imagistic modeling capacity enabling fast construction of instances of prototypical physical situations and events, whose participants are drawn from a wide variety of entity types, including animate agents.
ChEBI acts as a reference for chemical entities across multiple domains and includes in its repertoire a wide range of entities from the subatomic scale to complex polymers.
The ontologies in (a) span a wide spectrum of entities.
Cutaneous cysts represent a large proportion of the specimens submitted for histopathological examination and comprise a wide spectrum of entities.
But as Griffiths and Gray (1997) point out, this idea applies to a wide range of entities involved in development, not just DNA.
