Negative capability

Negative Capability and the Art of Medicine.

On December 21, 1817, John Keats wrote to his brothers George and Tom about a literary discussion he had recently had with the critic Charles Dilke, after which “several things dove-tailed in my mind.”1 Keats continued, “At once it struck me what quality went to form a ManofAchievement, especially inLiterature, andwhich Shakespeare possessed so enormously—I mean Negative Capability, that is, wh...

Capability Null Capability

PDGFRβ and FGFR2 mediate endothelial cell differentiation capability of triple negative breast carcinoma cells.

Triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) is a very aggressive subgroup of breast carcinoma, still lacking specific markers for an effective targeted therapy and with a poorer prognosis compared to other breast cancer subtypes. In this study we investigated the possibility that TNBC cells contribute to the establishment of tumor vascular network by the process known as vasculogenic mimicry, through ...

Capability Engineering

Increasingly, defence organizations around the world have begun to focus their military planning and acquisition efforts on defence “capabilities” (frequently characterized by “system-of-systems” configurations). This conceptual shift has moved from focusing on the acquisition of a specific tool or piece of equipment, to focusing on building and sustaining an overall capability – inclusive of p...

Capability Maturity

IntroductIon The dependence of any organization on knowledge management is clearly understood. Actually, we should distinguish between knowledge management (KM) and knowledge engineering (KE): KM is to define and support organizational structure, allocate personnel to tasks, and monitor knowledge engineering activities; KE is concerned with technical matters, such as tools for knowledge acquisi...