Corroding consensus-building: how self-centered public diplomacy is damaging diplomacy and what can be done about it

Bullying in Schools: What Is It and What Can Be Done About It?

Molly Chamberlin ([email protected]) is an IEPC Research Associate for Indiana K-12 Education Policy. According to a recent study, nearly 30% of American youth reported involvement in bullying, with 13% reporting being the aggressor, 11% the victim, and 6% both bullies and victims. Although it is often dismissed as a part of growing up, bullying can have serious and long-lasting consequences...

The Objectization Problem - What It Is And What Can be Done About It

The packaging of both data and procedures into autonomous units is one of the key insights exploited in object-oriented programming. By projecting the system state space into independent object spaces and by limiting the effects of one object’s actions on another through an object’s methods, implementation changes in one object will not be visible to other objects. This clean delineation into o...

What is osteopenia, and what should be done about it?

What Is Resilience and How Can It Be Nurtured? A Systematic Review of Empirical Literature on Organizational Resilience

Background Recent health system shocks such as the Ebola outbreak of 2014–2016 and the global financial crisis of 2008 have generated global health interest in the concept of resilience. The concept is however not new, and has been applied to other sectors for a longer period of time. We conducted a review of empirical literature from both the health and other sectors to synthesize evidence on ...

Why Drosophila is not Drosophila any more, why it will be worse and what can be done about it?

Formally, Drosophila melanogaster Meigen, 1830 is still Drosophila; however, it just waits for the first formal revision of the genus. On the basis of a 23 : 4 vote, the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature rejected the proposal (Kim van der Linde et al., 2007) to make an exception to the rules and to switch the type of the genus Drosophila from D. funebris to D. melanogaster in ...