"I'm interested in fragility and vulnerable states because a lot of openness can be expressed.
In Professor Dell's view the brain, in speech mode, electrically activates linked words, sounds and meanings that occasionally overlap and produce not only errors like "every crook and nanny" but also conceptual reversals such as saying "open the door" when you mean "close the door," a problem created because the idea of "openness" has registered on the brain and intruded on speech.
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said the era of gagging NHS workers must end, because a culture of openness was key to improving standards.
In addition, because of lack of openness on cultural practices, some factors might not be identified during maternal death review.
India's auditor-general recently concluded that some offsets have produced no value for the country.Judging performance is hard because of a lack of openness.
The Gulf states are particularly eager to project an image of themselves as islands of openness because they hope, to varying degrees, to become film production centers.
"A university environment is very different from a corporation or a government agency, because of the kind of openness and free flow of information you're trying to promote," said David J. Shaw, the chief information security officer at Purdue University.
The economies of the Asian Tigers were undermined because of a lack of openness and honesty in the civil societies that generated the wealth, the very themes Patten had bashed away at while he was Governor of Britain's last, serious colony.
The country that had an early drop in AIDS prevalence, Uganda, probably achieved this because its particular culture of openness brought the disease into the public eye, and the country treated it like World War III.
They are coddled, some say, others say they don't understand the value of free speech, while still others predict the demise of American higher education as a whole because of a lack of openness to new ideas.
