Frankwood E. Williams (1883–1936)

Williams, T

This paper describes a study of a large design and manufacture engineering project, undertaken as part of a Delay and Disruption litigation. Design changes and delays in design approval would have caused delay to the project; in order to fulfil a tight time-constraint, management had to increase parallel development in the network logic, reducing delay but setting up feed-back loops that marked...

Mariam Williams

Williams syndrome.

Williams syndrome

Williams syndrome...people with intact language, intact face processing and very low IQ, right? Wrong! That’s the propagated myth because, if it were true, it would be such an elegant example of innate modularity at the genetic, brain and cognitive levels. But numerous labs across the world have shown that although vocabulary levels can be surprisingly high in Williams syndrome children, they a...

Williams-Beuren syndrome.

Copyright © 2010 Massachusetts Medical Society. Williams–Beuren syndrome (also known as Williams’ syndrome; Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man [OMIM] number, 194050), a multi­ system disorder, is caused by deletion of the Williams–Beuren syndrome chromosome region, spanning 1.5 million to 1.8 million base pairs and containing 26 to 28 genes. Exactly how gene loss leads to the characteristic ph...