Early warning signs

Schizophrenia: early warning signs

Max Birchwood is Director of the Early Intervention Service (Harry Watton House, 97 Church Lane, Aston, Birmingham B6 5UG) and Director of Research and Development of Northern Birmingham Mental Health NHS Trust. He is also a Research Professor at the School of Psychology, University of Birmingham. Elizabeth Spencer is a senior clinical medical officer working in Northern Birmingham Mental Healt...

Early Warning Signs in Social-Ecological Networks

A number of social-ecological systems exhibit complex behaviour associated with nonlinearities, bifurcations, and interaction with stochastic drivers. These systems are often prone to abrupt and unexpected instabilities and state shifts that emerge as a discontinuous response to gradual changes in environmental drivers. Predicting such behaviours is crucial to the prevention of or preparation f...

Title : Early warning signs in social - ecological networks 1

Title : Early warning signs in social - ecological networks

17 A number of social-ecological systems exhibit complex behaviour associated with nonlinearities, 18 bifurcations, and interaction with stochastic drivers. These systems are often prone to abrupt 19 and unexpected instabilities and state shifts that emerge as a discontinuous response to gradual 20 changes in environmental drivers. Predicting such behaviours is crucial to the prevention of or 2...

Early Warning Signs of it Project Failure: The Dominant Dozen

HE MASTERY OF RISK DISTINGUISHES modern times from the past: By understanding and measuring risks and their consequences, modern humans no longer perceive the future as a whim of the gods and thereby have been empowered to transform their world (Bernstein, 1996). Strangely, IT project management, despite the fact that it deals with “modern” technologies, is embarrassingly immature in the master...