The Broader Picture

To answer these questions, authors must look beyond the specific details of their own work and focus instead on the broader goals of the research project. Attaining this broader outlook can be challenging, especially for students who spend most of their time focused on only a small part of a larger project. Over time, however, your grasp of the broader picture will improve as you continue to read the literature, attend seminars and conferences, and read and write research proposals in your area of research. 

Helicopter view- someone able to see the broader picture, within which the project needs to fit. 

Finally let us consider the broader picture Why should we think that lowering the standards of research will benefit developing countries The infamous 10/90 gap shows an opposite trend the existence of a deep imbalance in global research funding. Less than 10 per cent of the US 50-60 billion spent on health research per year is devoted to diseases that account for 90 per cent of the global disease burden. (The report reveals serious imbalances in global funding - see the editorial from the Lancet 2000 Vol. 355 1706.)... 

In order to understand toxicological chemistry, it is necessary to have some understanding of the environmental context in which toxicological chemical phenomena occur. This in turn requires an understanding of the broader picture of environmental science and environmental chemistry, which are addressed in this chapter. Also needed is an understanding of how environmental chemicals interact with organisms and their ecosystems, as addressed by the topic of ecotoxicology, covered in Chapter 5. 

In this book, which is concerned predominantly with rotational transitions and their fine and hyperfine structure, we will have only a peripheral interest in the details of vibrational structure. Similarly we will not usually be concerned directly with electronic transitions, except in double resonance studies. Nevertheless it is important to see the broader picture, in order to understand better the detailed structure. 

In order to understand the mathematical importance of the chemostat, one must look at the broader picture of the subject of nonlinear differential equations. Linear differential equations have been studied for more than two hundred years their solutions have a rich structure that has been well worked out and exploited in physics, chemistry, and biology. Avast and challenging new world opens up when one turns to nonlinear differential equations. There is an almost incomprehensible variety of non-linearities to be studied, and there is little common structure among them. Models of the physical and biological world provide classes of nonlinearities that are worthy of study. Some of the classic and most studied nonlinear differential equations are those associated with the simple pendulum. Other famous equations include those associated with the names of... 

Looking at the broader picture, part of today s discovery process is the incorporation of isoen-... 

Patient-centric medicine is essentially personalized medicine, but with the accent only slightly taken off the pharmacogenomics and placed on the broader picture that essentially corresponds to holistic medicine to be discussed later. These distinctions are subtle and fragile, and it is perhaps clearer and truer to say that patient-centric medicine is a corporate strategy in the IT industry. But this is good it reflects the deep recognition by the IT industry of the kinds of principles discussed in this book. 

The most important point to get across in any type of interview setting is the broader picture of who you are. Your potential employer wants to know what you have to offer beyond what you have included in your resume. Each person who interviews you wants to know how you think, how you react, and how you use your judgment so that he or she can make a well-informed decision about whether or not you will be a valuable addition to the company. 

In this short introduction, we introduce the field of nanoscience in a very general sense and provide background that may be useful to readers not familiar with this area. More in-depth discussions of each topic are provided in the individual chapters, but we have found that an initial superficial introduction to the most common phenomena and instmmentation, followed by the problems provided at the end of the chapter, helps students to understand the broader picture and begin to explore the literature. 

The U.S. Geological Survey uses gap analysis to identify the distribution of plant and animal species over a laige area. This landscape ecology approach uses CIS maps of vegetation and habitat types to look at the broader picture and find problem areas. 

A high level of safety is the result of the complex interaction of engineered safety and operational safety. Experience has shown that focusing on any single aspect of performance is ineffective, and can be misleading. What is more valid is the broader picture presented by a set of indicators designed to monitor key aspects of safety performance. 

The second point is in relation to the broader picture. Local authorities that produce design guides that depart from national standards, particularly where there are possible safety imphcations arising from the departure, need to examine the reason for that departure carefully. If there appears to be a legal breach, this is even more pertinent. It would make sense in a situation like this to make the local guideline the subject of an independent road safety assessment prior to publication. 

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