A sum greater than its parts

A sum greater than its parts.

The pursuit of the perfect biomarker in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) has been fraught with peril. The dream, of course, is of a single, accessible and inexpensive laboratory test that can more accurately diagnose COPD, define its severity, or fluctuate in accordance with disease progression and remission. In its ideal form, it would allow for earlier diagnosis of disease or earl...

A whole greater than the sum of its parts.

By marrying the strategic functions of the planning, marketing and information services departments at the senior administrative level, leaders at Children's Hospital in Columbus are able to build a more accurate and useful picture of their market, and they can better coordinate their approaches to it.

Is the Whole Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts?

Œe part-whole relationship routinely €nds itself in many disciplines, ranging from collaborative teams, crowdsourcing, autonomous systems to networked systems. From the algorithmic perspective, the existing work has primarily focused on predicting the outcomes of the whole and parts, by either separate models or linear joint models, which assume the outcome of the parts has a linear and indepen...

Dyadic Interaction: Greater than the Sum of its Parts?

The study of dyadic interaction plays a major role in infancy research. To advance conceptually-informed measurement of dyadic interaction and integration across studies, we examined factor structure of individual parents' and infants' measures and dyadic measures from face-to-face interactions in two samples of 6-mo-old infants and their parents: mothers from a demographically heterogeneous sa...

Can A Whole Be Greater Than The Sum Of Its Parts? A Critical Appraisal Of “Emergence”