The conception that systems thinking is relevant for managers is widespread. This fact stands in contrast to the fact that few organizations have adopted systems thinking. Ralph D. Stacey and his collaborators approach this gap by questioning the relevance of systems thinking altogether. They present the theory of complex responsive processes as an alternative to systems thinking. We analyse th...

respectfully disagree with several key assertions made by Dünser and colleagues [1] in this issue of Critical Care and consider their approach to resuscitation to be potentially harmful. Septic shock is not primarily a volume-depleted state, and attempts to treat vasoplegic shock with fl uids alone will compound the macro-and micro-circulatory abnormalities of sepsis. A vasopressor with both α1...

Evaluating Communication for Development presents a comprehensive framework for critically thinking about and understanding development, social change, and the evaluation of communication for development (C4D). This framework combines the latest thinking from a number of fields in new ways. The authors critique dominant measurement-oriented and upward accountability approaches to development an...

The present study aimed to investigate the interaction among grade dropping and reflective thinking abilities of the participants and to also check if action research enhances learners’ reflective thinking. A cyclic action research was run for 8 sessions. Kember et al.’s (2010) reflective thinking questionnaire and three in-term quizzes were administered. Students also made questions based on t...

The development of programming as well as some studies in artiicial intelligence have produced their own conceptualizations used in the representation of tasks being solved and methods applied. This paper is an attempt at logic-like representation of a programming system, based on the open data model and object-oriented programming, earlier developed and extensively used by the author for vario...

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Recent research on creative thinking has implicated conceptual expansion as potential cognitive underpinnings. These theories were examined within the context of a laboratory study using two divergent thinking prompts. Participants generated alternative/creative uses for a brick and for a glass bottle (separately) for two minutes and responses were time-stamped using a Matlab GUI. Semantic dist...

Alternative billing codes (ABC codes) have been developed to identify alternative medicine, nursing, and other integrative health care services, including unlicensed practices such as Yoga. Using the lens of ABC codes to examine what it would take to become recognized in this system highlights many of the issues Yoga therapy will have to address to be viewed as a professional practice offering ...

It is becoming increasingly accepted that creative performance, especially divergent thinking, may depend on reduced activity within the default mode network (DMN), related to mind-wandering and autobiographic selfreferential processing. However, the relationship between trait (resting-state) DMN activity and divergent thinking is controversial. Here, we test the relationship between resting-st...