Creative adaptability

Applying GLP principles to field studies and analytical chemistry operations will require identifying those operations that are unique to the type of study and discipline. In this regard, the importance of creatively adapting principles developed from in-house monitoring situations to field study operations has been discussed. The differences between QC and QA have been defined. Inspection... 

Providing minimum specifications or simple rules can draw out a team s creative adaptability (Zimmerman, Lindberg, and Plsek, 1998). Giving direction and boundaries, rather than imposing detailed policies, procedures, and elaborate rules, frees teams to develop innovative solutions and question the status quo. Giving direction and simple boundaries is preferable to proclaiming the traditional... 

The current production parameters associated with weaving 0/90° yams on cmiven-tional weaving technology limits the production of the N3DWS within the 2D fabric plane. To allow the 2D-to-3D planar truss configuration to be applied to various end applications with consideration to fibre properties, in yam form, will allow creative adaptations of the generic procedure to produce a nodal product with a variety of... 

The use of different methods to conduct root cause analysis has been widely accepted over a period of years. There have been many creative adaptations and permutations using the root cause analysis approach, but the foundation for it has stood the test of time. Certain methods are used for different circumstances (see Table 8.6 and Figure 8.3). 

What-if is a creative, brainstorming examination of a process or operation conducted by knowledgeable individuals asking questions. It is not as structured as, for example, RA/OP or FMEA. It requires the analysts to adapt the basic concept to the specific application. 

The evolutionary history of symbiotic nitrogen fixers is therefore a tale of coevolution, which occurred in the shadow of their hosts, chasing their growing roots, and striving for adaptation. It is an example of how bacterial genetics has managed to keep pace with the creative power of eukaryotic sexual recombination. Mobile replicons, insertion elements, and symbiotic islands prone to move have helped rhizobia to succeed in their pursuit. The race, naturally, is not over and, looking at it from a distance, what we have. seen, compared to what we have yet to see, is probably just a cloud of dust. 

It is intriguing that Mo is an important element in biology despite its scarcity at the Earth s surface—indeed, no element of similar scarcity is so biochemically ubiquitous. The reason for this paradoxical combination is unknown. Possible explanations include the unique chemical character of this element, evolutionary adaptation to the abrmdance of Mo in oxygenated oceans relative to other transition metals, a legacy of prebiotic chemical evolution in Mo-rich environments (e.g., in association with sulfide minerals), or some combination of these factors. Regardless, this paradox has inspired creative hypotheses about the importance of Mo in evolution (Crick and Orgel 1973 Anbar and Knoll 2002). 

A complex adaptive system has the ability to be creative and thus offer novel solutions to otherwise intractable problems. To preserve this creativity, according to the loM report, a complex adaptive system should have a few explicit goals and be guided by a few simple rules. 

When tense, the muscles receive strong excitatory activation from the brain and, in turn, project excitatory activation back to it. When the tension is performance anxiety—as it so often is—the positive feedback loop that perpetuates the excitatory activation of the brain and muscles include the amygdala at the expense of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, which is not free to work its executive functions in an adaptive way. Hence memory may be blocked, decisiveness deferred, and creativity crippled. 

Viewing the relationship between culture and psychopathology within an evolutionary framework, Hammer and Zubin (1966) also suggest some possible culturally adaptive functions of schizophrenia. They point out that the characteristics of the mentally ill occur in most people, and symptoms such as anxiety, guilt, shame, and depression are often harnessed to socially useful purposes. Similarly, Bowers and Freedman (1966) and Ludwig (1966) emphasize the healing function of schizophrenic states and consider them a major avenue of new knowledge and creative experience. 

The key assumption of this theory is that there is a continuum of cognitive style, ranging from high adaption to high innovation, on which people can be placed dependent on the characteristic mode in which they solve problems (create or make decisions). The Kirton Adaption-Innovation Inventory (KAI) is the psychometric measurement devised to locate respondents on this continuum. It is concerned with the different ways in which people think, and particularly the way they show their creativity, solve problems and make decisions. Three sub traits, which are measured to give a total score, are explained as follows [C-51] ... 

As already stated, the spectrum of reaction types, which have been successfully adapted to the solid-phase format, has expanded noticeably over the last few years. The examples listed above illustrate the fact that a remarkable toolbox is now available to the organic chemist, whose challenge is to creatively combine reactions to powerful modular approaches with broad validity for whole sets of building blocks. Achievements in this area will pave the way toward molecular diversity for lead discovery, as well as efficient analoging of target structures. 

Although perfumers will sometimes try to produce as exact a duplication of a perfume as possible, and much can be learned by doing so, the most common application of the GC/MS-plus-perfumer analyses has been for the rapid development of approximate matches. The formulations of these matches are then used for the creative development of modifications, adaptations for different media, and so on, or even as the inspiration for genuinely original creations. 

Creative assignments such as trickle-down exercises or developing fragrances for line extensions involve the adaptation of a fragrance for-... 

Additional adjustments may be necessary in the case of product bases that pose masking problems. Adaptation assignments rarely represent challenges of creativity, but they may place considerable demands upon the perfumer s skill. 

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