Next, we laid out a plan to help the team navigate the five phases.

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While the rank order of the priorities are not in lock step with the five phases, they are fairly close.

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The key structure of this model has five phases: Discovery, Experimentation, Evangelization, Formalization and Realization.

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The program, known as the HarmoKnee Preventive Training Program, comprises five phases, which I will summarize briefly.

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The NHS report consisted of two phases including a review of five years of statistics on perinatal mortality in Cumbria.

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"We're in the early phases of what I'm hoping in the next five to 10 years will be more appreciated and more considered a real subspecialty, " says Evans.

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The WHO's "Phases of Pandemic Alert, " which has been in existence for five years, characterizes phase 5 as a human-to-human spread of the virus into at least two countries in one WHO region, signaling that a pandemic is imminent.

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