Although some bosses deride the use of social media in the workplace as "social notworking," more farsighted companies are embracing "enterprise social networks," essentially corporate versions of Facebook, to encourage collaboration, discover hidden talents and knowledge among their employees, and reduce the use of e-mail.
But during a reanalysis of these trials, the Cochrane Collaboration discovered that the raw data underlying several of the published studies had not been released.
This international collaboration discovered 10 new powdery mildew resistant V. vinifera accessions that will prove invaluable to grape breeding programs focused on high quality fruit and strong resistance to powdery mildew.
It wasn't a 'dial in' performance of familiar pieces by the musicians, but a real collaboration -- discovering new things together, forging a special bond".
Mr. Maskin, who once worked as a children's educator, took the role of art director, overseeing much of the collaboration and discovering a knack for whipping out animal sketches at a breakneck pace.
Many academics and successful business people worry they will lose their authority, independence, and recognition if they work with others collaboratively... until they actually experience successful collaboration and discover the benefits it can bring.
Amgen bought 21percentt of Tularik last year as the companies started a collaboration to discover cancer drugs.
The next step will be to deploy such man-machine collaboration to discover the structures of proteins whose shape is unknown.
In this paper, we describe the Knowledge Encapsulation Framework (KEF) [7], a platform for managing information, marshaling evidence, empowering collaboration, and automatically discovering relevant data.
This approach is opening the door to new forms of collaboration aimed at discovering the function of the genes and identifying under-utilized alleles and allele combinations that can be used to drive improvements in crop performance (Ersoz et al. 2009; Flint-Garcia et al. 2005; Richards et al. 2009; Zhu et al. 2008).
American and Iraqi security forces have regularly reported discovering collaborations between former Baathists and Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, a Sunni extremist group, though the two groups are radically different in their orientations and goals.
