Reflections on why riots don’t happen

Why Catastrophic Organizational Failures Happen

Why Bad Things Happen to Good Projects

Christina Hanger had little reason to be pessimistic in May 2004, when she was moving one of Hewlett-Packard Co.'s biggest North American divisions onto a centralized ERP system from SAP AG. As the leader of an IT consolidation project rooted in HP's acquisition of Compaq Computer Corp. two years earlier, Hanger, HP's senior vice president of Americas operations and IT, had an unbroken record o...

Left ventricular hypertrophy: why does it happen?

Patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) have much higher rates of cardiovascular disease than the healthy population. Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH), in particular, is common in this patient group. The impact of a decline in haemoglobin concentration on left ventricular mass index has been well documented. Partial correction of anaemia with recombinant human erythropoietin (epoetin) tr...

Why things happen: teleological explanation in parent-child conversations.

Research indicates that young children, unlike adults, have a generalized tendency to view not only artifacts but also living and nonliving natural phenomena as existing for a purpose. To further understand this tendency's origin, the authors explored parents' propensity to invoke teleological explanation during explanatory conversations with their children. Over 2 weeks, Mexican-descent mother...

Regeneration in the metazoans: why does it happen?

Why does regeneration occur? And why, when it manifests itself, does it do so in some but not all metazoan species? Hence, what are the permissive or inhibitory factors operating behind this phenomenon? When it comes to regeneration, many questions, such as these, remain unanswered. In fact, the problem of animal regeneration has withstood the probing of scientific inquiry for over 250 years an...