World Kidney Day 2008: think globally, speak locally.

Preconception care: a clinical case of "think globally, act locally".

Think globally, act locally

In a large cyber-physical system, even if individual system elements interact with one another only locally, effects of local decisions quickly spread across the system and combine to yield global consequences. In order to reason about such a system without impractical amounts of communication and computation, we must summarize the system’s global state, and base individual decisions at least p...

Built-In Learner Participation Potential of Locally- and Globally-Designed ELT Materials

This study aims at empirically measuring a universal criterion for materials evaluation, i.e., learning opportunities, in a locally- and a globally-designed materials. Adopting the conceptual framework of sociocultural theory and its conceptualization of learning as participation (Donato, 2000), the researchers utilized the methodological power of conversation analysis to examine how opportunit...

Pulmonary dendritic cells: thinking globally, acting locally

The phrase "think globally, act locally" was coined in the early 1970s and directed individuals to clean up their local environment with the ultimate goal of improving the health of the entire planet. Several recent studies indicate that similar considerations apply to the immune system, in which small numbers of leukocytes, such as pulmonary dendritic cells, can modify the local immune environ...

World Kidney Day 2008: a message to the kidney community of Iran.