Six impossible things before breakfast

Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast: Examining Diabetes Self-Care

" I dare say you haven't much practice, " said the Queen. " When I was younger, I always did it for half an hour per day. Why sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. " —Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass J udging from the quote above, Lewis Carroll's White Queen from Through the Looking Glass is clearly a very smart lady who knows something about diabete...

cml biology for the clinician in 2011: six impossible things to believe before breakfast on the way to cure.

Chronic myeloid leukemia (cml) is a model disease in oncology: it is the first human cancer linked to a distinct chromosomal abnormality, ultimately causing constitutive overactivity of a known oncogenic tyrosine kinase that represents a drug target. The introduction of the tyrosine kinase inhibitor imatinib into clinical practice has far exceeded expectations and resurrected hope that the fund...

The Biopsychosocial Model: Exploring Six Impossible Things

In our view, the biopsychosocial model is a vision and an approach to practice rather than an empirically verifiable theory, a coherent philosophy, or a clinical method. In some cases, when that vision is confused with ideologic dogmatism, it can invite abandonment of the vision entirely or in selected situations. The authors suggest that habits of mind may be the missing link between a biopsyc...

Six (Im)possible Things before Breakfast: Building-Blocks and Design-Principles for Wise Computing

Despite many advances in automating system and software engineering, the knowledge, skills and experience of human engineers and domain experts are, and will continue to be, critical factors in the success of complex system development projects. In a new research direction we term towards wise computing we aim to make some of these abilities available to all project-team members, at any time, b...

"Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." Lewis Carroll, In "Through the looking-glass, and what Alice found there".