Publications by authors named "W D Barley"

The future of work will be measured. The increasing and widespread adoption of analytics, the use of digital inputs and outputs to inform organizational decision making, makes the communication of data central to organizing. This article applies and extends signaling theory to provide a framework for the study of analytics as communication.

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Bioinspired design (BID) is an interdisciplinary research field that can lead to innovations to solve technical problems. There have been many attempts to develop a framework to de-silo engineering and biology and implement processes to enable BID. In January of 2022, we organized a symposium at the 2022 Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology Annual Meeting to bring together educators and practitioners of BID.

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Bioinspired design (BID) is an inherently interdisciplinary practice that connects fundamental biological knowledge with the capabilities of engineering solutions. This paper discusses common social challenges inherent to interdisciplinary research, and specific to collaborating across the disciplines of biology and engineering when practicing BID. We also surface best practices that members of the community have identified to help address these challenges.

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Inpatients diagnosed as having borderline personality disorder (BPD) by DSM-III criteria who were admitted to 11 Central Neuropsychiatric Hospital Association (CNPHA) hospitals in 1982 and 1983 are described in terms of 28 clinical-history and demographic characteristics. This study statistically compared 181 BPD inpatients to 1,121 non-BPD inpatients admitted to the same hospitals during the same period as part of the broader CNPHA prospective outcome study. These BPD inpatients were also compared to other BPD samples described in the literature.

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