A broken landscape

A Broken Metallic Tracheostomy Tube

“If it Isn’t Broken, Don’t Fix it:” Extremal Search on a Technology Landscape

We use an NK technology landscape to create a toy world with which to “test” the performance of a common managerial search rule – identify what is broken, try to fix it and leave the rest well enough alone, a search rule we term “extremal search.” Our results indicate that such a search rule, when applied rigidly, performs badly on combinatorially complex technology search spaces characterized ...

Broken heart: Broken mind.

The increased frequency of sudden cardiac death after earthquakes and bombings has long proposed that emotional distress plays a role in acute coronary syndromes and arrhythmias. Since the 1960s, several controlled, prospective, epidemiological studies have reported emotional distress as a major risk factor for the onset and worsening of coronary heart disease (CHD) [1]. The Interheart study, a...

a broken metallic tracheostomy tube

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Broken hand or broken nose: a case report.