No meteorite is an island

No man is an island.

No doctor is an island

No doctor is an island " expand the knowledge base of PH and the complexities of diagnosis and management of this group of patients " ; and lobbying power, " to create a force that will have levels of influence on many facets of PH management in Australia and New Zealand. " [3] (See the PHSANZ abstracts published in this issue of Pulmonary Circulation). they were joined by still more people in ...

No man is an island…

As much of my work is collaborative, I am very aware of the virtues and difficulties of collaboration in the modern scientific world. Most collaborations are short term; perhaps one scientist has an assay, the other a reagent, and an obvious quick gain will result from joining forces. But greater (though often less concrete) benefits come from longer term collaborations. Your collaborator may b...

Software Process Evolution: No Process Is an Island

In attempting to coordinate software process research, development, and standardization within DoD, a number of slowdowns were encountered due to confusion about the classes of process being addressed (e.g., trying to mandate corporate-wide process improvements via a contractual instrument whose scope of enforcement covered only a single project). The following taxonomy of software process clas...

No Blog is an Island - Analyzing Connections Across Information Networks

There are multiple information and social networks among individuals, from telephone to email, web, blog, instant message (IM) and chat networks. Prior work has studied each of these individual networks quite extensively, including telephone networks [7], postal network [20], web communities [17], and so on. Still, what is of great interest is how these networks collide and interact with each o...