The relationship between mood and creativity has been widely studied in psychology, however, no conclusion is reached in terms of which mood triggers high creativity, positive or negative. This paper provides new insights to this on-going argument by examining the relationship between lyrics creativity and music mood. We use three computational measures to gauge lyrics creativity: Type-toToken ...

143. The Frequency of Antibiotic Treatment of Positive Urine Cultures in Hospitalized Patients that are not UTIs: A Three Hospital Survey Loren Miller, MD, MPH; Katherine Kahn, MD; Samantha J. Eells, MPH; Seong Choi, MD; Maya Riva, PharmD; Marianne Go-Wheeler, MD; Tanzib Hossain, MD; Jonathan Grein, MD; Division of Adult Infectious Diseases, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute At Harbor-U...

Please cite this article in press as: Jackson, L. A., puters in Human Behavior (2011), doi:10.1016/j. This research examined relationships between children’s information technology (IT) use and their creativity. Four types of information technology were considered: computer use, Internet use, videogame playing and cell phone use. A multidimensional measure of creativity was developed based on T...

This work examines the influence of the different working environments during the execution of a creativity process. The selection factor used for the decision is each user’s learning style. For the examination of how this is perceived by the users and to test how this influences the creativity process within a Creativity Support Tool a prototype has been developed. The paper describes the prot...

The ability to associate concepts is an important factor of creativity. We investigate the power of simple word co-occurrence analysis in tasks requiring verbal creativity. We first consider the Remote Associates Test, a psychometric measure of creativity. It turns out to be very easy for computers with access to statistics from a large corpus. Next, we address generation of poetry, an act with...

With an increasing degree of complexity in the retail business, future business success for retail professionals will likely require creative problem-solving abilities. Therefore, there is a need for retail merchandising programs to emphasize creative problem solving because creativity can be learned. In this study, we share how an undergraduate-level creative problem-solving class is designed ...

Creativity is the ability to produce work that is both novel and appropriate. The study, funded by Indian government, analyzed the effect of one-year chess training on the creativity of children. A pretest and posttest with control group design was used, with 31 children in experimental and 32 in control group. The experimental group underwent weekly chess training. Wallach-Kogan Creativity Tes...

This paper presents un early attempt at developing a framework for studying organizational creativity in the IS domain. A managerial model of organizational creativity is proposed, tying together organizational inputs, creative processes, creative outputs and organizational outcomes based on research in organizational creativity, organizational innovation and strategic management. The model is ...

is bounded by 1. Over the last five decades numerous BRDF models were introduced. Beckmann [BS63] and Torrance and Sparrow [TS67] presented physically based microfacet BRDF models that use the Gaussian distribution to define the microfacets’ surface normals. The model by Torrance and Sparrow was used in computer graphics by Cook and Torrance [CT81] and later improved by He et al. [HTSG91]. Howe...

Purpose – The purspose of this study is to examine the interplay between job resources (job control and support for creativity from coworkers and supervisors), age and creativity at work. Job control and support for creativity are assumed to benefit idea creativity and to moderate the relationship between age and idea creativity. Design/methodology/approach – A sample of 117 nurses completed qu...