As she observes, obsessional interests and repetitive behaviours would allow someone to practice, albeit inadvertently, whichever skill they were obsessed by. Malcolm Gladwell, in a book called "Outliers" which collated research done on outstanding people, suggested that anyone could become an expert in anything by practising for 10,000 hours.
Recently the ACI 446 committees collated research results and produced a draft ASTM test standard (ACI 446 2009) for the fracture toughness i.e. the fracture energy of concrete.
The James Lind Alliance approach has been used mainly in high-income countries; it adopts a staged approach including identifying key stakeholders, using the research literature and professional and user experience to identify and collate research 'uncertainties' which are then ranked by stakeholders, and consensus is agreed within a final workshop.
Phase two of DEaS involved collating the research articles into 20 specific health topics (presented in Table 1; see Supplementary Material File 2 for a full reference list of journal articles reviewed).
The psychologist author collates research and anecdotes about the personality traits of optimism (sunny) and pessimism (rainy).
By collating and researching a large number of historical documented observations of goldfish breeding in ancient China, Chen was able to propose that goldfish had originated from crucian and that their domestication began in the Southern Song Dynasty.
Walton's most important research publication was a 63-page landmark paper in the journal Brain in 1954, On the Classification, Natural History and Treatment of the Myopathies, which collated the research work to that date.
The IPCC collates scientific research that looks at human drivers of climate change (the release of greenhouse gases from fossil fuel burning being a main one) in the context of natural fluctuations.
In his book, Emerging Adulthood: The Winding Road from the Late Teens Through the Twenties, Jensen Arnett collates his research and goes through what he calls the "Big 3" signs that you are an adult.
Market Rasen in Lincolnshire was the worst performer in terms of shops, with a 3.2 percentage point rise in empty stores between March 2012 and the same month this year, according to information collated by research firm The Local Data Company for the BBC Radio 4 programme You & Yours.
