These nontraditional resources must not be overlooked--indeed, they must be expanded--if we are to meet the nation's hunger for interdisciplinary scientists and to enhance the diversity of the scientific workforce.
From defining the question, to surveying traditional and nontraditional resources for information, synthesis of findings, and risk communication, the case provides a model to approach similar questions.
"It's obvious the Big Three holding companies are moving to a huge revenue and profit base from nontraditional advertising resources," Mr. Weber said.
Lawyers today should be asking themselves nontraditional questions: how to apply resources more effectively, to shorten cycle time and lower the cost of their work product and other deliverables, while raising the level of service.
These reformers have largely consisted of private actors, including leaders of education nonprofits, charter school founders and other nontraditional school leaders whose essential resources for reform come from the private wealth of major foundations, an approach that Berkeley education professor Janelle Scott has termed "venture philanthropy".
The roundtables, set up for me by the good folks at Premier Inc., which is holding its annual "Breakthroughs" conference here in Nashville this week, revealed that these leaders fear less what the government may do in response to whatever decision the Court makes, and more what nontraditional competitors may do to their resource and capital-heavy healthcare delivery systems.
It has been estimated that global health expenditure for prevention and treatment of diabetes will rise to more than $302.5 billion by 2025 from $232 billion in 2007. 2 Since people with diabetes use a disproportionately greater share of health care resources, exploration of traditional and nontraditional ways to help manage the disease appears to be urgently warranted.
"Nontraditional security concerns, such as existing terrorism threats, energy, resources, finance, information and natural disasters, are on the rise.
The commune condones some nontraditional arrangements, like wife-swapping and the pooling of material resources.
One of the promises of online technologies is that they can increase access to nontraditional and underserved students by bringing a host of educational resources and experiences to those who may have limited access to on-campus-only higher education.
If you're talking about nontraditional compounding," he said, referring to large-scale enterprises like N.E.C.C., "fewer states may have the resources to do that".
