The whole is greater than the sum

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...

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

A whole greater than the sum of its parts.

By marrying the strategic functions of the planning, marketing and information services departments at the senior administrative level, leaders at Children's Hospital in Columbus are able to build a more accurate and useful picture of their market, and they can better coordinate their approaches to it.

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 whole is greater than its parts.

Many psychosocial factors have been identified as potential risk factors for ischaemic heart disease, and strong evidence has been put forward for several personality factors such as Type A behavioural pattern, hostility, depression, or social factors such as low socioeconomic status and lack of social support. (Table 1 ) Psychosocial stressors per se increase cardiac vulnerability by altering ...