Seeing the Forest through the Trees: Sociocultural Factors of Dense Urban Spaces

Seeing the Forest Through the Trees

The purpose of this column is to stimulate discussion among nurses regarding the importance of nursing theory-guided practice. The use of metaphor may shed light on defining nursing by its own terms. The time has come for nursing to recognize its worth as an autonomous discipline and own its contributions.

DensiTree 2: Seeing Trees Through the Forest

Motivation: Phylogenetic analysis like Bayesian MCMC or bootstrapping result in a collection of trees. Trees are discrete objects and it is generally difficult to get a mental grip on a distributions over trees. Visualisation tools like DensiTree can give good intuition on tree distributions. It works by drawing all trees in the set transparently thus highlighting areas where the tree in the se...

Seeing the forest and the trees.

Seeing the forest and the trees

Moffett (2012) misrepresents the position of Gordon, Heller, and others on supercolonies. We recognize the existence of Argentine ant supercolonies, populations of colonies all descended from common ancestors. A substantial body of work shows the common origins of certain Argentine ant populations of colonies, or supercolonies (e.g., Vogel et al. 2010). We consider that a colony, unlike a super...

Seeing the Forest for the Trees

Although tens, or even hundreds, of molecular or pharmacological interventions have been shown to affect the course of heart failure in animal models, few have translated to clinical therapies. This likely stems from the fact that biological robustness and flexibility are conferred by the evolution of redundant or adaptive signaling and gene expression pathways, which lead to not one, but multi...