Narcissistic Force Meets Systemic Resistance: The Energy Clash Model

Clash of the titans: Medicaid meets private health insurance.

Agile Meets CMMI: Culture Clash or Common Cause?

This paper is based on a workshop held at the University of Southern California Center for Software Engineering in March, 2002. The components of the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) Systems Engineering/ Software Engineering/Integrated Product and Process Model1 are evaluated for their support of agile methods. We also present a set of dualistic concepts differentiating the approach...

Avoiding the Software Model-Clash Spiderweb

Computer A nalysts frequently describe troubled projects with the tar pit metaphor used so effectively in Fred Brooks’s The Mythical Man-Month (2nd ed., AddisonWesley, Reading, Mass., 1995). We have found a similarly effective metaphor: Think of a troubled software project as an insect caught in a spiderweb of sticky constraints, trying desperately to break free before the spider arrives to feed.

Narcissistic grandiosity and narcissistic vulnerability in psychotherapy.

This article briefly summarizes the empirical and clinical literature underlying a contemporary clinical model of pathological narcissism. Unlike the DSM Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD), this clinical model identifies and differentiates between two phenotypic themes of dysfunction-narcissistic grandiosity and narcissistic vulnerability-that can be expressed both overtly and covertly in ...

Clash between energy landscape theory and foldon-dependent protein folding.

green vine of the parasitic dodder plant (Cuscuta) latching onto a host plant. Christian Hettenhausen et al. found that Cuscuta bridges between host plants facilitate the transfer of herbivoryinduced signals from attacked to unattacked host plants. The authors report that the jasmonic acid biosynthesis pathway is required to generate such interplant signaling, which elevates defensive metabolit...