Merlin pioneered treatment methods, combining traditional systems with new home-based treatment, to combat the rise in the disease.

Or a financial services company digesting an acquisition can use the technology as glue to bridge data networks instead of having to combine incompatible systems.

In 1976, he led a team of researchers who brought about what had long been a matter of speculation: the ability to combine widely different genetic systems.

There is also a secondary focus on combining artificial systems with biological systems.

Combining the volunteer and school-based systems they hope to have 1,000 to 100,000 systems in California.

The companies said that they would save $150 million a year by combining back-office and information systems, but did not "anticipate significant work force reductions."

"We expect savings from combining facilities and systems."

HealthRight projects combine direct service, systems strengthening, and advocacy to ensure broad and long-lasting impact.

It combines systems thinking with the view that mind is made up of relatively discrete subpersonalities each with its own viewpoint and qualities.

And dealing with AIDS in prison is like combining alien systems.