scholarly journals Design creativity research: recent developments and future challenges

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 194-195 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriela Goldschmidt
Keyword(s):  
Design Creativity ◽  
Creativity Research ◽  
Future Challenges ◽  
Recent Developments

scholarly journals Immunotherapy for prostate cancer: recent developments and future challenges

2014 ◽  
Vol 33 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 641-655 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael T. Schweizer ◽  
Charles G. Drake
Keyword(s):  
Prostate Cancer ◽  
Future Challenges ◽  
Recent Developments

Can Induced Gratitude Improve Creative Performance on Repurposing Tasks?

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Natalie M. Sisson ◽  
Emily Impett ◽  
L.H. Shu
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Design ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Small Body ◽  
Design Creativity ◽  
Creativity Research ◽  
Full Study ◽  
Societal Problems ◽  
First Time

Abstract Urgent societal problems, including climate change, require innovation and can benefit from interdisciplinary solutions. A small body of research has demonstrated the potential of positive emotions (e.g., gratitude, awe) to promote creativity and prosocial behavior, which may help address these problems. This study integrates, for the first time, psychology research on a positive and prosocial emotion (i.e., gratitude) with engineering-design creativity research. In a pre-registered study design, engineering students and working engineers (pilot N = 49; full study N = 329) completed gratitude, positive-emotion control, or neutral-control inductions. Design creativity was assessed through rater scores of responses to an Alternate Uses Task (AUT) and a Wind-Turbine-Blade Repurposing Task (WRT). No significant differences among AUT scores emerged across conditions in either sample. While only the pilot-study manipulation of gratitude was successful, WRT results warrant further studies on the effect of gratitude on engineering-design creativity. The reported work may also inform other strategies to incorporate prosocial emotion to help engineers arrive at more original and effective concepts to tackle environmental sustainability, and in the future, other problems facing society.

Recent developments in dislocation pattern dynamics: Current opinions and perspectives

2018 ◽  
Vol 03 (03n04) ◽  
pp. 1840002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dandan Lyu ◽  
Shaofan Li
Keyword(s):  
Crystal Plasticity ◽  
Materials Science ◽  
Pattern Dynamics ◽  
Future Challenges ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Computational Aspects ◽  
Stochastic Events ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Micro Structures ◽  
Dislocation Patterns

The development of crystal plasticity theory based on dislocation patterns dynamics has been an outstanding problem in materials science and condensed matter of physics. Dislocation is the origin of crystal plasticity, and it is both the individual dislocation behavior as well as the aggregated dislocations behaviors that govern the plastic flow. The interactions among dislocations are complex statistical and stochastic events, in which the spontaneous emergence of organized dislocation patterns formations is the most critical and intriguing events. Dislocation patterns consist of quasi-periodic dislocation-rich and dislocation poor regions, e.g. cells, veins, labyrinths, ladders structures, etc. during cyclic loadings. Dislocation patterns have prominent and decisive effects on work hardening and plastic strain localization, and thus these dislocation micro-structures are responsible to material properties at macroscale. This paper reviews the recent developments of experimental observation, physical modeling, and computer modeling on dislocation microstructure. In particular, we focus on examining the mechanism towards plastic deformation. The progress and limitations of different experiments and modeling approaches are discussed and compared. Finally, we share our perspectives on current issues and future challenges in both experimental, analytical modeling, and computational aspects of dislocation pattern dynamics.

Can Gratitude Promote More Creative Engineering Design?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalie M. Sisson ◽  
Emily A. Impett ◽  
L. H. Shu
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Design ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Small Body ◽  
Design Creativity ◽  
Creativity Research ◽  
Full Study ◽  
Societal Problems ◽  
First Time

Abstract Urgent societal problems, including climate change, require innovation, and can benefit from interdisciplinary solutions. A small body of research has demonstrated the potential of positive emotions (e.g., gratitude, awe) to promote creativity and prosocial behavior, which may help address these problems. This study integrates, for the first time, psychology research on a positive and prosocial emotion (i.e., gratitude) with engineering-design creativity research. In a pre-registered study design, engineering students and working engineers (pilot N = 49; full study N = 329) completed gratitude, positive-emotion control, or neutral-control inductions. Design creativity was assessed through rater scores of responses to an Alternate Uses Task (AUT) and a Wind-Turbine-Blade Repurposing Task (WRT). No significant differences among AUT scores emerged across conditions in either sample. While only the pilot-study manipulation of gratitude was successful, WRT results warrant further studies on the effect of gratitude on engineering-design creativity. The reported work may also inform other strategies to incorporate prosocial emotion to help engineers arrive at more original and effective concepts to tackle environmental sustainability, and in the future, other problems facing society.

Earth Long-Wave Infrared Emission, New Ways to Harvest Energy

2015 ◽  
pp. 1-25
Author(s):  
Luciano Mescia ◽  
Pietro Bia ◽  
Onofrio Losito
Keyword(s):  
Low Cost ◽  
Dielectric Substrate ◽  
Infrared Emission ◽  
Long Wave ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Future Challenges ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Potential Applications ◽  
Long Wave Infrared ◽  
Thz Antennas

This chapter summarizes the physical properties of THz antennas, provides a summary of some of the most important recent developments in the field of energy harvesting of Earth long-wave infrared radiation, discusses the potential applications and identifies the future challenges and opportunities. In particular, a THz antenna is designed in order to transform the thermal energy, provided by the Sun and re-emitted from the Earth, in electricity. The proposed antenna is a square spiral of gold printed on a low cost dielectric substrate. Simulations have been conducted in order to investigate the behavior of the antenna illuminated by a circularly polarized plane wave with an amplitude chosen according to the Stefan-Boltzmann radiation law. Moreover, these THz antennas could be coupled with other components to obtain direct rectification of T radiation. As a consequence, these structures further optimized could be a promising alternative to the conventional photovoltaic solar cells.

Towards the Internet of Underwater Things: Recent Developments and Future Challenges

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruhul Khalil ◽  
Mohammad Babar ◽  
Tariqullah Jan ◽  
Nasir Saeed
Keyword(s):  
The Internet ◽  
Future Challenges ◽  
Recent Developments

scholarly journals THE ELECTROMAGNETIC FORM FACTOR OF THE PION: RESULTS FROM THE LATTICE

2013 ◽  
Vol 22 (12) ◽  
pp. 1330030 ◽  
Author(s):  
BASTIAN B. BRANDT
Keyword(s):  
Form Factor ◽  
Quantum Chromodynamics ◽  
Quality Criteria ◽  
Vector Form ◽  
Physical Point ◽  
Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics ◽  
Lattice Quantum ◽  
Future Challenges ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Systematic Effects

This review contains an overview over recent results for the electromagnetic iso-vector form factor of the pion obtained in lattice quantum chromodynamics (QCD) with dynamical fermions. Particular attention is given to the extrapolation to the physical point and an easy assessment of the control over the main systematic effects by imposing quality criteria and an associated sign code, similar to the ones used by the FLAG working group. Also included is a brief discussion of recent developments and future challenges concerning the accurate extraction of the form factor in the lattice framework.

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