The building was designed from the top down.

Traditional reductionist views of science, with their focus on bottom up mechanisms, do not suffice in the quest to understand top down and circular causality and a world of nested processes.

(b) Catalysing action on the ground and stimulating a bottom up approach

The European project, as idealistic as it was, was always a top down endeavor.

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So what we're trying to do is, we're trying to push these technologies towards creating bottom up construction approaches for architecture, which contrast the current, Victorian, top down methods which impose structure upon matter.

The implementation of the methodology according to level must be made from the bottom to the top, that is, from the local to the national.

Usually it can be checked by holding the cotton paper up to the light and looking just below the watermark for a number.

Not in an envelope of a human arm, with 21 degrees of freedom, from your shoulder to your fingertips.

The remaining 12 seats are filled from nationwide party lists on a top down basis and based on the proportion of the total vote each party received.

He looked me up and down, sized me up, and then said, Since you are going for so long, I would suggest you keep two strips.

A new bottom up approach, whose contours are only just emerging, is predicated on the basic principle that the less emissions, the better.

A bottom up approach allows for more experimentation and a better feeling for what is needed at the bottom.

In China s top down political system, a unified leadership is seen as fully capable of forcing the bureaucracy to comply with its wishes.

Should the Paris summit fail (and it likely will), the resulting collapse in confidence in the top down approach could lead to one of two outcomes.

Collective learning Adoption The direct democracy component of collaborative e democracy shifts the responsibility of policymaking from government teams (top down) to the collective of citizens (bottom up).

They are the most capable gliders of all gliding mammals, using flaps of extra skin between their legs to glide from higher to lower locations.

The user, typically a child, climbs to the top of the slide via a ladder or stairs and sits down on the top of the slide and slides down the slide.

The first victim of such a crisis will be the top down approach to climate policy pursued by the EU and many prominent scientists.

Crown rump length (CRL) is the measurement of the length of human embryos and fetuses from the top of the head (crown) to the bottom of the buttocks (rump).

At the bottom of our list were the least cost effective investments the world could make, with the best places to spend money at the top.

As the marketization process continues, soon it won t be just the soldiers who see through the regime s propaganda. The time for bottom up change in the North may not be far off.

In fact, these top down decisions, while admittedly complex and certainly consequential, may be the least of Europe s challenges.

Elsley said We started at the top of the Hollywood tree and worked our way down, and it wasn't until we got to the bottom that we actually found writers we liked.

A new and complex methodology of assessment and illustration for drought and desertification should be worked out, based on more accurate local databases and national scale of evaluation, using a bottom up approach.

I'm working with architect Neil Spiller at the Bartlett School of Architecture, and we're collaborating with international scientists in order to generate these new materials from a bottom up approach.

My crew grabbed me, and then we walked as quickly as we could down over the rubble down to our camp.

You move that up and down with a little bit of energy but now you're only shifting the air down to the hot end and up to the cold end, down to the hot end and up to the cold end.

For example, recent work with field experiments and randomized controlled trials (RCTs), which has caught on like wildfire among development economists, lies strictly in the tradition of bottom up development.

Such bottom up efforts to globalize national governments have the greatest potential to affect environmental policies, particularly those aimed at mitigating climate change the most intractable global problem of all.

This color scheme disguises halibut from above (blending with the ocean floor) and from below (blending into the light from the sky) and is known as countershading.

In fact, the basic concept that is sometimes called Web 2.0 rests on the idea of user based content bubbling up from below rather than descending from the top of a traditional information hierarchy.

Clear goals and targets could help to catalyse a bottom up approach, strengthening commitments and ensuring that sustainable forest management makes a full contribution to the broader development agenda.

In some countries, payment for environmental services, for example to owners of upstream forests or downstream wetlands, has led to improved management of water resources at relatively low cost.

Development specialists in the bottom up tradition, for their part, can deservedly claim success in demonstrating the effectiveness of education, public health, or microcredit projects in specific contexts.

This causes heavy macromolecules to migrate towards the bottom of the tube faster than lighter material.

Many species of rays and skates outside the family have electric organs located in the tail however, the electric ray possesses two large electric organs on each side of its head, where current passes from the lower to the upper surface of the body.

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And as I looked down on the ground, I noticed there was some ants running around.

The European project, as idealistic as it was, was always a top down endeavor. But it is another matter altogether to encourage technocrats to run countries, seemingly circumventing democratic processes, and foist upon them policies that lead to widespread public misery.

I like this one from the Belgian field office, where we met in a roundabout, precisely because the roundabout iconified the headless social movement that informs much social transformation, as opposed to the top down control of red light traffic intersections.