We are focusing on a case of innovative organization in which a particular “partnership-based” organizational form is developed in such a way that it enables the participating actors to deal effectively with a changing environment, maintaining enough flexibility to adapt to changing conditions and, at the same time, pooling resources in order to attempt to influence the direction of change in t...

As a proportion of all deaths in India, cardiovascular disease (CVD) will be the largest cause of disability and death, by the year 2020. At the present stage of India's health transition, an estimated 53% of deaths and 44% of disability-adjusted life-years lost are contributed to chronic diseases. India also has the largest number of people with diabetes in the world, with an estimated 19.3 mi...

Presentation of Case DR. Fox: A 44-year-old housewife entered the hospital on December 18. The present illness began eight months previously. Shortly after an attack of influenza and otitis media she began to notice burning and tingling in the fingers of the left hand. These sensations gradually spread up the left arm, across the shoulders and to the right upper arm. By September the pares-thes...

CASE STUDIES ARE RARE in our journals and for good reason: without a sample, it is hard to assess the representativeness or uniqueness of an individual. The case studies that do get published are therefore so obviously exceptional that we cannot help but be interested in where nature or nurture has taken one of our species. The individual is usually an athlete, and the science amounts to identi...

Rosemarie Sadsad, Geoff McDonnell, Joe Viana, Shivam M. Desai, Paul Harper and Sally Brailsford Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Director UNSW, Bronte, Australia School of Management, University of Southampton, UK Department of Management, University of Southampton, UK School of Mathematics, University of Cardiff, UK Southampton Management School, University...

Case-control studies investigate associations between exposures to risk factors and a condition of interest. Subjects with the condition (cases) are compared to subjects known not to have the condition (controls) with respect to the presence of risk factors in the past. This design is particularly useful when the condition of interest is relatively uncommon. Case-control studies are useful for ...

Most empirical evaluations of machine learning algorithms are case studies { evaluations of multiple algorithms on multiple databases. Authors of case studies implicitly or explicitly hypothesize that the pattern of their results, which often suggests that one algorithm performs signiicantly better than others, is not limited to the small number of databases investigated, but instead holds for ...