Why do wars 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 Do Accidents Happen? A Critical Review on the Evolution of the Construction Accident Causation Models

High accident rate in construction is a universal problem which needs to be tackled by all parties concerned (Poon et al. 2008). Although in the last decade there was a downward trend in construction accidents in many places such as Hong Kong due to implementation of numerous safety schemes, improvement in construction accident records is still necessary (Figs. 2.1, 2.2). A previous research st...

Physics of nail conditions: why do ingrown nails always happen in the big toes?

Although surgical treatment of nail conditions can be traced back centuries to the writings of Paul Aegineta (625-690 AC), little is known about the physical laws governing nail growth. Such a poor understanding together with the increasing number of nail salons in the high street should raise legitimate concerns regarding the different procedures applied to nails. An understanding of the physi...