Global IDEA

Philosophy Unbound : the Idea of Global Philosophy

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The idea of a convention for global health.

In the contemporary arena for global health there is evidence of constantly increasing pressures with regard to funding, management and organisation. The problem resides in an increasing number of actors and a consequent fragmentation of the global health effort. Greater demands are imposed on cooperation between private bodies, civil society, intergovernmental organisations and nation-states, ...

Idea Generation and the Quality of the Best Idea

I a wide variety of settings, organizations generate a number of possible solutions to a problem—ideas—and then select a few for further development. We examine the effectiveness of two group structures for such tasks—the team structure, in which the group works together in time and space, and the hybrid structure, in which individuals first work independently and then work together. We define ...

Module: Idea Evaluation ________________________________ 1 Idea Evaluation Methods and Techniques

Danhua Wang Factors Affecting the Comprehension of Global and Local Main Idea

This study investigated factors that would affect a reader’s understanding of the main idea at the global level and explicit and implicit main ideas at the local level. Fifty-seven first-year university students taking a college reading course took a comprehension test on an expository text. Statistical analyses revealed that text structure had a moderate effect on the reader’s understanding of...