Synergetic Learning Model: The Sum is Greater

The Knowledge Translation Complexity Network (KTCN) Model: The Whole Is Greater Than the Sum of the Parts - A Response to Recent Commentaries

Is the Whole Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts?

Œe part-whole relationship routinely €nds itself in many disciplines, ranging from collaborative teams, crowdsourcing, autonomous systems to networked systems. From the algorithmic perspective, the existing work has primarily focused on predicting the outcomes of the whole and parts, by either separate models or linear joint models, which assume the outcome of the parts has a linear and indepen...

Counting the costs of multiple stressors: is the whole greater than the sum of the parts?

Describing a recent drought-related forest dieback event in southwestern Australia in 2011 (Matusick 2012), a colleague remarked upon the distinctive sounds of wood boring beetles feeding on weakened eucalypt trees during one of the most severe droughts on record (K. Ruthrof, personal communication). For this insect population, normally scarce and benign, drought stress had most likely triggere...

The new Dundee medical curriculum: a whole that is greater than the sum of the parts.

The medical undergraduate curriculum at the University of Dundee has evolved in response to changing needs. The new curriculum, introduced in 1995, combines idealism and pragmatism. Underpinning it is the concept that the curriculum is an educational programme where the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. The concepts contributing to this are: the spiral nature of the curriculum, with i...

Is the whole greater than the sum of the parts? Self-rated health and transdisciplinarity

Self-rated health (SRH)—a person’s subjective evaluation of his general health—is a more valid and powerful predictor of morbidity and mortality than any other combination of objective and self-reported measures. However, current theoretical frameworks fail to explain this association. Here, we sought to investigate SRH in relation to health outcomes from a transdisciplinary perspective. Using ...