A fragmented, uncoordinated response by and among different agencies can prove dangerous and even deadly.
"This past summer the uncoordinated response to outbreaks of West Nile virus reminded us again how inadequate our public health system is".
The federal government has been widely criticized for its slow, uncoordinated response to the hurricane, which left 1,053 people dead in Louisiana, most of them in New Orleans.
Some European nations have started to lay the first bricks in that wall, raising the fear not just of an uncoordinated response but of the dismantling of free movement, one of the pillars of the EU.
While a well-coordinated response is triggered in response to nutrient stress, antibiotics trigger an uncoordinated response in which transcriptionally and phenotypically important genes are neither linked spatially nor in their magnitude.
The authors of the report by Oxford and Graphika, while reliant on data provided by technology companies, also highlighted the companies' "belated and uncoordinated response" to the disinformation campaign and, once it was discovered, their failure to share more with investigators.
The fault-mitigative behaviors, analogous to autonomous biological systems, are characterized as (1) reflex actions highly autonomous, localized, and uncoordinated response emanating from a single fault manager at any level of hierarchy, and (2) healing actions highly coordinated behavior implemented with a sequence of interactions between multiple fault managers.
Of course, this interpretation only raises the question of whether the uncoordinated response brings any benefit to the bacteria.
Despite 33% more genes induced at 12 h in Jemalong compared with JE154, the number of identified GOs was very low, indicating an uncoordinated response in the sensitive plant.
49 These findings suggest that an aging brain is capable of upregulating gene expression, but the response is often blunted and temporally uncoordinated in response to cerebral ischemia.
