Leo Breiman's “Two Cultures”

Lessons from LEO: Part Two.

MORE THAN 32,000 nurses and around 8,000 allied health professionals (AHPs) have experienced the Leading Empowered Organisations (LEO) programme during the three-year lifetime of the NHS national nursing leadership programme. An article in last month’s Nursing Management (Faugier and Woolnough 2003) outlined the main findings from its evaluation. This month’s highlights similarities and differe...

The Two Cultures

My colleagues could have conferred no greater honour on me than to ask me to deliver this year's Campbell Memorial Oration. Little did I think when, as a first-year hospital student, I was allocated to Robert Campbell as surgical dresser, that I should be standing here tonight as Campbell orator. My only wish is that I could have been more worthy to follow in the footsteps of those distinguishe...

Two cultures, two levels of AIDS risk.

On the basis of a field survey the authors discuss strategy for reducing the relatively high incidence of HIV infection and AIDS among China's self-employed.

Big LEO and Now Through LEO

The advent of low earth orbit (LEO) commercial communication satellites provides an opportunity to dramatically reduce Telemetry, Tracking and Control (TT&C) costs of launch vehicles, Unpiloted Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), Research Balloons and spacecraft by reducing or eliminating ground infrastructure. Personnel from the Goddard Space Flight Center’s Wallops Flight Facility (GSFC\WFF) have success...

Two-dimensional Subgroups1 Deane Montgomery and Leo Zippin