ions, a characteristic that encouraged the women studied to take on responsibility for household management. Alternatively, perhaps the organization of the domestic economy encouraged the women in the study to develop expertise in ‘ahead-of-time’ appliances as a result of their responsibility for household management. The data on oven timers and VCRs may offer the best suggestion of the underly...

How does the nervous system coordinate the control of different behaviors? For example, different rhythmic behaviors that normally function independently may need to work together under certain circumstances. One example of this phenomenon is the way that our respiratory rate goes up when we start running. Vertebrate breathing frequency increases immediately with locomotor activity, so it’s not...

For me swarms and most of all swarms of fishes are a fascinating phenomenon. I am a designer and my area of research is design theory and most of all strategic design. The task of strategic design is to implement design as the corporate strategy. During the last years the awareness for design has increased. More and more companies have realized that they can benefit a lot from design. At the sa...

Abstract Current supportive bio-inspired design methods focus on handcrafting the inspiration engineers use to speed up design. However promising, such are not scalable as time investment is shifted an up-front investment. Furthermore, most proposed require engineer adopt a new process. The current study presents FISh, search method based standard engineering By leveraging machine translation b...

The purpose of the current study was to identify if any significant relationships between inspiration, temperament, and positive affect existed. The dependent variable was inspiration, which was measured by the Inspiration Scale (IS). Temperament was measured by the Keirsey Temperament Sorter II and positive affect by the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS). One hundred forty-five stu...