Generating new, creative, and innovative ideas in the early stages of design process is crucial for developing better original products. Human designers may become too attached to specific ideas, preventing them from generating new concepts achieving ideal designs. To come up with a designer needs have creative mind, as well knowledge, experience, talent. Verbal, written, visual sources inspira...

Inspiration is a motivational state that compels individuals to bring ideas into fruition. Creators have long argued that inspiration is important to the creative process, but until recently, scientists have not investigated this claim. In this article, we review challenges to the study of creative inspiration, as well as solutions to these challenges afforded by theoretical and empirical work ...

UNLABELLED We sought to replicate and extend Carroll and Hesse's (1987) study of the acquisition of tacts by including participants with and without developmental disabilities. As in Carroll and Hesse, the present results showed that mand-tact training, rather than tact-only training, led to more rapid acquisition of tacts. Tacting on follow-up tests did not differ. In addition, our results sho...

We evaluated the emergence of untaught second-language skills following directly taught listener and intraverbal responses. Three preschool children were taught first-language (English) listener responses (e.g., "Point to the horse") and second-language (Welsh) intraverbal responses (e.g., "What is horse in Welsh?" [ceffyl]). After intervention, increases in untaught second-language tacts (e.g....

This qualitative research study examined the ways those who identify themselves as theistic scientists and scholars experience inspiration, as defined as divine guidance or influence, in their scientific scholarship and discovery. It also explored participants' beliefs about how scientists and scholars can seek and prepare to receive inspiration in their work. Open-ended surveys of 450 particip...

Deep inspiration temporarily reduces induced airways obstruction in healthy subjects. This bronchodilatory effect of deep inspiration is impaired in asthma. Passive machine-assisted lung inflation may augment bronchodilation compared with an active deep inspiration in patients with asthma by either opening closed airways or by reducing fluid flux across the airway wall during deep inspiration, ...

hen you think of the Walt Disney World® Resort, you think of rides, shows, food, and fun. You probably don’t think of professional development. And you certainly don’t think of healthcare training. But in the heart of Walt Disney World Resort, has been created an experience for healthcare professionals that is unlike any other. More than 3,000 healthcare professionals have travelled to Disney I...

I have always been curious about natural phenomena, but I cannot say that I was always passionate about nanoscience. As a teenager, I was very interested in astronomy and this is mainly why I decided to study physics for my degree. After enrolling at the University of Catania, Italy, I was also enrolled at the Scuola Superiore di Catania (SSC), an institute within the University of Catania that...