Playfulness can be observed in all areas of human activity. It is an attitude of making activities more enjoyable. Designing for playfulness involves creating objects that elicit a playful approach and provide enjoyable experiences. In this paper we introduce the design and evaluation of the PLEX Cards and its two related idea generation techniques. The cards were created to communicate the 22 ...

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 ...

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...

one of the different symbols of a contemporary poet is the historical characters which enjoys the hiroes of the history and has harmony with thoughts, issues and troubles. the present article studies the most imporatnt and most significant che guevara’s symbols such as: resistance symbol, jihad and resistance, awareness and knowledge, hope and wish.  other poets have applied che guevara’s chara...

Abstract In the Internet era, oil painting creation requires constant observation and learning before it can be inspired, inspiration for is like a godsend. This paper constructs fast Fourier transform convolutional model based on neural network to study connection between university students’ in context of “Internet+”. The was evaluated algorithmically, dataset paintings built investigate infl...