UCL's system takes its inspiration from the distributed and decentralised patterns often found in nature.
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"This is a huge increase in the level of ambition for decentralised energy, " he said.
It is bigger and richer but more decentralised, with weaker police forces and courts.
Experts agree that al-Qaeda is now a decentralised federation, but disagree about its future.
The Northern Ireland Public Service Alliance (NIPSA) union had campaigned for the jobs to be decentralised.
This decentralised structure may be a source of weakness as banks merge and become more pan-European.
This is because the world's richest democracy still has technical problems with its decentralised election systems.
It would be an apt birthplace for another, new Russia: more decentralised and, with luck, less self-serving.
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Social networks are particularly useful for self-organised nationalist communities that are decentralised and lack a clear structure.
America's decentralised system and multiple checks and balances have long ensured that no single faction can monopolise power.
This flawed framework needs to be replaced with one which reflects the reality of a diverse, decentralised country.
To counter this, Chinese activists are returning to older, decentralised, internet services such as e-mail and chat rooms.
He speaks fuzzily of the need for a strong but decentralised state to marry economic liberalism to social justice.
The 1988 constitution, though rightly maligned for introducing expensive entitlements, decentralised social provision.
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Under the current president, Megawati Sukarnoputri, power has been decentralised to 416 municipalities.
Hiring for Canada's public sector has been decentralised, allowing those who are closest to the job to make the selection.
It has done this with an unusually decentralised management: Xstrata employs only 50-odd people at its main offices in Switzerland and London.
She favours the decentralised Swiss model, which preserves individual choice and competition.
To get clean energy to them requires a decentralised approach using local resources such as wind power, solar energy or small hydroelectric projects.
And a country with highly co-ordinated wage bargaining would have seen a fourfold bigger rise in unemployment than one with highly decentralised bargaining.
Silicon Valley companies also relied too heavily on one product, semiconductors, but its companies were more decentralised and more likely to spawn other companies.
In its place will be decentralised arrangements based on partnership, quality and efficiency to put doctors and nurses in the lead in shaping local services.
Instead, it suggests the exact opposite: a truly decentralised approach, shifting the role of monitoring banks to the market by setting Europe-wide full disclosure rules.
The scheme is supposed to be decentralised giving lots of local authorities and other government agencies the right to issue what will seem like costless cash.
It was getting to the decentralised, and if you like, chaotic, anarchic social system for the web which I think people found difficult to grasp.
There is also a broader problem: American education is so decentralised.
His government survives thanks to the support of the Northern League, which wants a far more decentralised Italy and some of whose voters favour a new country, Padania.
"The potential for decentralised, biomass-fuelled heat and power networks is huge, and their use will contribute significantly to many of the government's energy policy goals, " Mr Ahmed added.
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Under Germany's highly decentralised federal system, the police (other than the federal border guard), the judiciary and the education service are all the responsibility of the individual states.
This could be the biggest benefit of decentralised energy production.
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