Asking stimulating questions

We have already learned about morphological analysis and about combining subsolutions, or subconcepts, as its major mechanism for generating design concepts. In this case, the creation of various combinations is random and is conducted in a purely mechanistic way without any human involvement. 

Brainstorming may use the same operation, but in this case humans—the participants—produce combinations. We have yet another appropriate magic phrase related to this operation What if we combine ideas X and Y Both ideas may come from the same person or from two different participants. 

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This text provides a guided way of asking important questions, pointing out salient features of rational drug therapy and stimulating deeper thinking through a variety of exercises. 

He guides and assists his students in their laboratory experiments, field trips and projects. He is also responsible for the safety of the students and the condition of the laboratory and its equipment. He decides in what way each aspect of his subject can best be taught. Some of the ideas and problems can be most effectively presented by demonstration, others through student investigation, field trips, or by films or lectures. He also masters the finer art of asking the questions that will stimulate his students to think for themselves and to search for answers. 

Asking appropriate questions can also stimulate conceptual adaptation. For example, we are working on the development of a new type of a vacuum cleaner. One of the participants has brought to our brainstorming session a recently developed Roomba 880 vacuum cleaner, which is a robotic device and is considered to be one of the most advanced vacuum cleaners on the market. Several US patents protect its design, but we still may adapt some of its ideas without violating US patent laws. Here we have examples of questions ... 

The emergence of the state of detachment may be stimulated through asking appropriate questions, for example,... 

One of the leader s most important roles is to generate creative discussions and to stimulate what is sometimes referred to as helicoptic thinking, i.e., the ability to rise up above a problem and to see the forest as well as the trees. One way of doing this is by asking stupid questions, knowing that these questions will, at times, make him or her look a little foolish. Nevertheless, some of these stupid questions may generate a useful discussion, which in turn will encourage other people to think more broadly. 

You might even consider planting a person in the audience who agrees to ask a question, of his or her preference, if no one else does. This may be the catalyst needed to stimulate participation by many members of the audience. When listening to and responding to questions, stay put or move toward the asker. Do not back up—it is likely to be interpreted as a lack of confidence—as weakness. Instead, focus on and engage the questioner. 

It is possible that this book has asked more questions than it has answered. One of the goals in writing such a book is to stimulate the interest of young scientists for this type of study, which includes fundamental steps to understanding teleonomic performances of living organisms. 

This stimulated interest in the mechanism of chain elongation and when the main details of the -oxidation pathway (the means by which fatty acids are broken down two carbon atoms at a time, section 3.3.1) were worked out in the early 1950s it was natural for many biochemists to ask the question can )8-oxidation be reversed in certain circumstances to synthesize fatty acids instead of breaking them down ... 

The what-if analysis stimulates a PrHA team to ask What-if Through questions, the team generates a table of possible accidents, their consequences, safety margins, and mitigation. The accidents are not ranked or evaluated. 

In conclusion, it is hoped that this volume will be a stimulating and valuable resource for readers who are interested to see just how wide is the range of applications to which coordination chemistry can be put. If nothing else it will help to provide an answer to the eternally irritating question which academics get asked at parties when they reveal what they do for a living But what s it /or ... 

Hazard and Operability Analysis (Hazop) (Kletz, 1992) is one of the most used safety analysis methods in the process industry. It is one of the simplest approaches to hazard identification. Hazop involves a vessel to vessel and a pipe to pipe review of a plant. For each vessel and pipe the possible disturbances and their potential consequences are identified. Hazop is based on guide words such as no, more, less, reverse, other than, which should be asked for every pipe and vessel (Table 1). The intention of the quide words is to stimulate the imagination, and the method relies very much on the expertise of the persons performing the analysis. The idea behind the questions is that any disturbance in a chemical plant can be described in terms of physical state variables. Hazop can be used in different stages of process design but in restricted mode. A complete Hazop study requires final process plannings with flow sheets and PID s. 

Green Michael Menaker, I want to ask you a question related to an issue Paolo Sassone-Corsi raised. Your interpretation is that introduction of these various tissues into culture does not affect the phase. Why not All the data seem to show that medium changes or similar types of stimulation should set phase. 

Essential questions are questions that students should be asking. They may not have definite answers but are designed to be thought provoking and interest stimulating. Essential questions appear in every chapter of this new edition. They can be used to introduce chapter topics or for in-depth research projects. The questions can lead to entire class investigations or individual student projects. Examples of essential questions are ... 

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A number of the questions asked relate to natural and/or pharmaceutical products. This should help stimulate and maintain the interest of future pharmacists, pharmacologists and physicians to study these problems, and not just that of future chemists and molecular biologists. 

It has been found that the What-If style of process hazard analysis is a convenient method to use for a "simple" facility. For simple facilities, the detailed HAZOP approach has been found to be tedious and just as productive as a What-If method. The What-If approach stimulates generation of new ideas and discussion to cover issues associated with the items under review, as well as addressing generic issues. The specific HAZOP review is not necessary when the process is simple and well understood by the reviewing team. The team can readily review the major items of concern by asking What-If questions such as what happens when a pump fails, without relying on itemized and detailed variations of a process condition by the HAZOP method, such as high level, low pressure, etc. 

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