We consider the term aidea from a philosophical point of view. In particular we are interested in the concept s origins, its relevance to human thinking and in particular in its pedagogical value for computer science lessons in schools as well as universities. Since the concept of fundamental ideas in computer science has been seized, extended, and reviewed by other authors and applied to lesso...

this article explores the primitive ideas supporting the equality between men and women in arab society after the movement. the scientific advances in the west during the nineteenth century as well as their impact on the arab world combined with the social conditions of arab countries and their backwardness contributed to the increasing social demands of women. the impact of this new wave was p...

Open innovation has become a fruitful approach to increasing the potential of innovation in organisations. Similar to traditional innovation, an open innovation approach can be characterised in three phases; namely idea generation, idea assessment and idea implementation/diffusion. While the academic community has begun to provide initial guidance for improving the various stages of the open in...

Based on a recent model of paradigm shifts by Bornholdt et al., we studied mean-field opinion dynamics in an infinite population where an infinite number of ideas compete simultaneously with their values publicly known. We found that a highly innovative society is not characterized by heavy concentration in highly valued ideas: Rather, ideas are more broadly distributed in a more innovative soc...

Open innovation has become a fruitful approach to increasing the potential of innovation in organisations. Similar to traditional innovation, an open innovation approach can be characterised in three phases; namely idea generation, idea assessment and idea implementation/diffusion. While the academic community has begun to provide initial guidance for improving the various stages of the open in...

Few social science theories have a history of conceptual and empirical study as long as does the diffusion of innovations. The robustness of this theory derives from the many disciplines and fields of study in which diffusion has been studied, from the international richness of these studies, and from the variety of new ideas, practices, programs, and technologies that have been the objects of ...

We consider nonconservative diffusion processes xt on the unit interval, so with absorbing barriers. Using Doob-transformation techniques involving superharmonic functions, we modify the original process to form a new diffusion process x̃t presenting an additional killing rate part d > 0. We limit ourselves to situations for which x̃t is itself nonconservative with upper bounded killing rate. For...