Choosing Success

Choosing the right technology : a framework for success

This race is particularly visible in the automotive field. Companies around the globe are vying to build a new, less polluting automobile engine that does not run on gasoline. In the US, for instance, General Motors (GM) spent over US$1 billion on developing an electric car that runs on a hydrogen fuel cell. It originally chose hydrogen fuel as the basis for the engine. Yet mass production of a...

Choosing Collaboration Partners. How Scientific Success in Physics Depends on Network Positions

Physics is one of the most successful endeavors in science. Being a prototypic “big science” it also reflects the growing tendency for scientific collaborations. Utilizing 250,000 papers from ArXiv.org – a pre-publishing platform prevalent in Physics – we construct large co-authorship networks to investigate how individual network positions influence scientific success. In this context, success...

Choosing Abortion

Choosing Wisely

Purpose of review: The purpose of this review is to contribute to the Choosing Wisely Canada campaign and develop a list of 5 items for nephrology health care professionals and patients to re-evaluate based on evidence that they are overused or misused. Sources of information: A working group was formed from the Canadian Society of Nephrology (CSN) Clinical Practice Guidelines Committee. This w...

Choosing Actions

Actions that are chosen have properties that distinguish them from actions that are not. Of the nearly infinite possible actions that can achieve any given task, many of the unchosen actions are irrelevant, incorrect, or inappropriate. Others are relevant, correct, or appropriate but are disfavored for other reasons. Our research focuses on the question of what distinguishes actions that are ch...