Think globally, breathe locally.

How children with asthma breathe: have we been overlooking a problem?

A sthma is one of the most common chronic diseases globally, with an estimated 300 million sufferers [1] and is diagnosed in up to 10% of paediatric populations in many developed countries. Despite many advances in the treatment of asthma, there remain a percentage of patients, including children, who do not respond, or respond poorly to current treatment. These are the patients for whom clinic...

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...

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

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...

مشارکت اجتماعی آنلاین و توسعه اجتماعات محلی در ایران

This paper reviews the citizen media and studies the fourth generation of communication development theories emphasizes on participatory communication. In this kind of theories the cibizen’s parbicipation and their activeness is the center of case instead of the public Accessibility of media. Therefore providing an opportunity for dialogue through media and providing dialogue Democracy in ...