We introduce bootlegging, a structured brainstorming technique particularly suited to multidisciplinary settings. Participants first generate ideas in 2 rough groups, one having to do with users and usage situations and the other pertaining to a specific technology or domain. Results are then randomly combined to form unexpected juxtapositions. These combinations are used as the basis for sever...

Exact mathematical programming techniques such as branch-andbound or dynamic programming and stochastic local search techniques have traditionally been seen as being two general but distinct approaches for the effective solution of combinatorial optimization problems, each having particular advantages and disadvantages. In several research efforts true hybrid algorithms, which exploit ideas fro...

Most researchers, practitioners and theorists describe group problem solving as having a divergent phase production and a convergent phase selection. Recent research has shown that groups using multiple communication channels produce more ideas, and more unique ideas than groups using a single communication channel. The research study described here attempts to extend this theme and more closel...

Although globalization has created ample opportunities and spaces to share experiences and information, the diffusion of ideas, especially in global health, is primarily influenced by the unequal distribution of economic, political and scientific powers around the world. These ideas in global health are generally rooted in High-Income Countries (HICs), and then reach Low- and Middle-Income Coun...

lend to communicate with Denis Browne, one of London's leading orthopaedic surgeons, who had some new ideas on the treatment of clubfoot. After having obtained rather indifferent and unsatisfactory results with all of the older, out-of-date though standard methods of treating clubfoot,we were only too glad to get these newer ideas, which incidentally are especially suitable for India where so m...