BACKGROUND Individuals at risk for, and diagnosed with, bipolar disorder (BD) appear to have heightened levels of creativity. Although inspiration is creativity, the ways in which individuals appraise and respond emotionally to inspiration in BD remain unexplored. METHOD The present study reports on a new measure of inspiration (External and Internal Sources of Inspiration Scale--EISI). The r...

A longstanding tradition in the humanities holds that a writer's inspiration is infectious, but this thesis has not been tested. We hypothesized that (a) inspiration is infectious, such that inspired writers are more inspiring to the average reader; (b) contagion is mediated by the insightfulness of the text; and (c) contagion is moderated by readers' openness to experience, such that open read...

prolonged, this treatment leads to a considerable error in the DL value. In order to eliminate this error a correction factor of the inspiration time was newly introduced to obtain the effective inspiration time. The correction factor was a function of the ratio of the residual capacity to the total alveolar gas volume and the ratio of DL to the flow rate of inspiration. A nomogram was made for...

For a decade swarm Intelligence deals with the design of intelligent multi-agent systems by taking inspiration from the collective behaviors of social insects and other animal societies. They are characterized by a decentralized way of working that mimics the behavior of the swarm. Swarm Intelligence is a successful paradigm for the algorithm with complex problems. The aim of this review paper ...

Both the promise and the challenge of distributed systems often derive from emergent behavior, functionality that is not defined explicitly in the individual components of the system but results from their interactions. Effective use of these systems depends on techniques for monitoring and controlling such system-level behavior. A fruitful source of inspiration for such techniques is statistic...

One of the draws of combinatorics is its ability to take inspiration from, motivate, and even push forward diverse areas of mathematics and computer science. In particular, much current research focuses on the use of analytic techniques to address questions of computability and complexity in enumerative combinatorics. The universality of many analytic statements often allows for very general en...