systems thinking is not a new concept to health system strengthening; however, one question remains unanswered: how policy-makers, system designers and consultants with a system thinking philosophy should act (have acted) as potential change agents in actually gaining opportunities to introduce systems thinking? development of comprehensive multi-year plans (cmyps) for immunization system is on...

To see objects not just through the lens of human agency but lives nonhuman beings that both shape and are shaped by relationships processes embodied in material forms is to invi...

the main purpose of this research is to evaluate and compare the educational ideas of piajet and lipman, with emphasis on philosophy of education programs for children. in the late 1960s in usa, matthew lipman, the professor of montclair university, designed and presented a program as philosophy for children that based on the best time to shape thinking skills is in child and with through refle...

A defense of the causal efficacy of dispositions" (2004). Faculty Publications-Department of Philosophy. Paper 32. Disposition terms, such as 'cowardice,' 'fragility' and 'reactivity,' often appear in explanations. Sometimes we explain why a man ran away by saying that he was cowardly, or we explain why something broke by saying it was fragile. Scientific explanations of certain phenomena featu...

Automatic Tour Into the Picture (ATIP) is an extension of the Tour Into the Picture method [HAA97] that allows an approximative but visually convincing 3D walk-through inside a single image by rendering a box textured using the input image data. The original algorithm requires a long and tedious user interaction to determine the box dimensions and the perspective parameters, and imposes several...

Critical thinking is a key element of complex problem-solving and professional behavior. An ideal critical thinking measurement instrument would be able to accurately predict which dental students are predisposed to and capable of thinking critically and applying such thinking skills to clinical situations. The aims of this study were to describe critical thinking disposition and skills in dent...

in today's business environment, complex changes and non-linear and discontinuous changes impossible to predict the future and has forced organizations, to comply with changed. in these volatile times, strategic thinking can be the way to survive. strategic thinking is a specific activity that aims to discover creative and innovative strategies that can be played by that rule changes and a...