The introduction of treatment centres frees up capacity in other parts of the NHS and can help individual hospital trusts focus on specific areas and develop specialisations.
Open collaboration typically takes place on technologically mediated platforms (b) because networked communication tools allow the participation of massive numbers of users, an efficient allocation of tasks, and highly developed specialisation.
Starting anew from their own endogenous potential, rural areas are called on to develop "smart specialisation" based both on their territorial capital and local actors' capability to act together to put in place successful strategies.
With its matinee-fanfare action series Uncharted the studio established itself as an industry leader in performance capture, devoting resources to and developing a specialisation in integrating thrilling, touching, natural performances into gameplay.
Writers, artists and musicians were found to have a smaller corpus callosum, which may augment their creativity by allowing each side of their brain to develop its own specialisation.
After university, all graduates undertake a residency to acquire specialisation.
Neural responses are generally thought to become increasingly fractionated and differentiated with increasing age, as cortical specialisation develops (Johnson, 2010).
This model of athlete development and performance proposes the transition of practice experiences from diversification to greater specialisation as athletes develop [9].
Alternatively, it is possible that hospitals that "choose" to specialise in orthopaedics develop improved outcomes as a consequence of their specialisation.
Put less obnoxiously by Rohan Maitzen, a professor at Dalhousie University whose stimulating blog got me started on this topic, "every area of specialised inquiry develops and requires specialised language (or jargon) that can seem opaque or abstruse from outside that specialisation.
Several authors have suggested that nested patterns of asymmetrical specialisation may be more likely to develop in mutualistic interactions because natural selection specifically favours the convergence and complementarity of traits in interacting species [3], [8].
