Well Enough Alone

Dominance alone is not enough.

Muscle alone is not enough.

Irritability, the property of response to the forces in the environment , is present in even the more primitive living cells. If a weak electric shock or touch is applied to an amoeba, it will immediately respond with a movement exemplified by a flow of its protoplasm. It will also respond to temperature, oxygen, pH, and various other environmental stimuli. Yet this primitive single-cell organi...

When Work Alone is Not Enough

The author is John Bascom Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The very helpful comments of Isabel Sawhill and David Ellwood are gratefully acknowledged, as is the discussion of an early draft of the paper by the members of the Brookings Roundtable on Children. A version of this article will be published in 2003 in a volume edited by Isabel Sawhill a...

Urinary Biomarkers: Alone Are They Enough?

The field of “novel” biomarkers for AKI is now well over 10 years old. During this era, tremendous amounts of time, effort, and money have been invested to develop clinically useful biomarkers for determination of risk, diagnosis, and prognosis. The search for clinical surrogate end points has centered on the biochemical analysis of body fluids and has not enlisted the use of imaging or molecul...

Query Logs Alone are not Enough

The practice of guiding a search engine based on query logs observed from the engine's user population provides large volumes of data but potentially also sacrifices the privacy of the user. In this paper, we ask the following question: Is it possible, given rich instrumented data from a panel and usability study data, to observe complete information without routinely analyzing query logs? What...