The historian offers an astounding amount of detailed reports and facts but with no unifying concept.
His philosophy enshrined number as the unifying concept necessary for understanding everything from planetary motion to musical harmony.
She argues that while the gene served 20th-century science well, recent discoveries about the complexity of gene action undermine its position as the unifying concept in biology.
As a result, translational medicine, in enhancing the efficiency of biomedical discovery and application, rather than attempting to modify existing processes within disciplines, has come to serve as a unifying concept in the increasingly complex, specialized, and fragmented field of biomedical research.
Today, the markets have a name for the new animal: it is, said analysts at Deutsche Bank in a report published this summer, a "customer hub", offering all sorts of services to people in their homes and on the road.Behind Centrica's disparate activities lies a (fairly) unifying concept: to reduce the hassles of life, and especially the irritations of running a home and a car.
This, the paper says, "is a reminder of what a unifying concept Britain is".
We sought a unifying concept that may predict course and direct therapies in these complex patients.
The podocyte depletion hypothesis has emerged as a unifying concept in glomerular pathology.
A novel, unifying concept of disturbance rejector is proposed to compliment the traditional notion of controller.
In science, repositories seem to work best where there is a central unifying concept found in every entry.
