"Our goal was to facilitate more effective discussions and thinking about the use of biomarkers in epidemiological studies," Rothman says.
There are big opportunities there to improve our work, to speed it up and to have more effective discussions outside of the meetings.
Providing clear answers to communities living along the river on whether the generated electricity will be used for domestic consumption (for example, bringing electricity to rural areas) or mainly for export to neighbouring countries would be a first step toward a more effective, transparent discussion.
In studies using focus groups to explore health issues, five to eight participants have been identified as ideal [ 54, 55], and fewer participants identified as more effective for discussion of sensitive subjects [ 56].
Governments, industry and civil society groups around the world are having very important discussions on critical infrastructure cyber security, and the resulting policies will be more effective if the discussion is open and various groups can work together to improve cyber security-related risk management globally.
Prince Zeid Ra'ad Zeid Al-Hussein of Jordan and Ambassador Christian Wenaweser of Lichtenstein, both who have played defining roles during the negotiations of the Rome Statute and progressive evolution of the International Criminal Court (ICC), sought to constructively contribute to the UN debate; but Jeremic completely ignored their proposals for a more balanced and effective discussion.
This could further explain why writing was more effective than peer discussion in this study.
It has been shown that peer instruction is more effective than classwide discussion in promoting conceptual understanding in large classes (Nichol and Boyle, 2003).
A project at Harvard has developed a Serious Illness Communication Guide and training course to trigger and train physicians to have more effective and timely discussions.
Their web-based platform helps create a "flipped classroom" that encourages greater interaction between faculty and students, and more effective reading, thinking, and discussion through engagement with digital course materials, annotation tools, and discussion platforms.
