458 research outputs found
Creativity Is Influenced by Domain, Creative Self-Efficacy, Mindset, Self-Efficacy, and Self-Esteem
No full textIn this chapter, we examined the relationship between self-perceived creativity, creative performance, and other measures of the self. Past work has shown that global creative self-efficacy was more strongly related to personality or past creative accomplishments than current performance on creative tasks [Pretz, J. E., & McCollum, V. A. (2014). Self-perceptions of creativity do not always reflect actual creative performance. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 8, 227-236]. Here we report two follow-up studies further exploring the relationship between self-perceptions and performance. Study 1 showed that the validity of self-perceptions of creativity varies by domain. In Study 2, we explored how creative self-perceptions are associated with related constructs including general self-efficacy, self-esteem, and creative mindset. We concluded that self-perceptions of creativity are more accurate for the students interested in arts, humanities, and social sciences. Furthermore, we concluded that creative self-efficacy is more strongly associated with actual creative performance than with general self-efficacy. Self-esteem was found to be associated with higher levels of fluency but not originality on a divergent thinking task
Integrating LIBS and NIR for detection of heavy metals in perlite ores
No full textPerlite products are used as a filter aid in the food industry. For such applications, the purity of the material is one of the most significant parameters of control. Early detection of heavy metals is therefore of great industrial interest. In this study, a sensor-based approach for chemical and mineralogical characterization enabled the identification of patterns in the distribution of heavy metals in the perlite ore. Integration of Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) and Near Infrared Spectroscopy (NIR) was used to determine the presence of heavy metals in perlite ores. The results have direct implications for the development of methods and techniques for material characterization, as well as for the mining of perlite ores.Resource Engineerin
Complex problem solving and intelligence: Empirical relation and causal direction
No full textAt least two theoretical positions strongly suggest that intelligence and problem solving are related. First, the ability to solve problems features prominent in almost every definition of human “intelligence;” thus, problem-solving capacity is viewed as one component of intelligence. Second, intelligence is often assumed to be a predictor of problem-solving ability. Our main goal in this chapter is to review to what extent the ability to solve complex, rather than simple laboratory, problems is indeed tied, empirically, to intelligence, and, which causal direction holds between the two concepts. The chapter is divided into three main sections. In the first section, we provide a definition of “complex problem solving.” In the second and third sections, we review much of the existing empirical work that relates complex problem-solving competence to intelligence. We distinguish two forms of complex problem solving. In the second section, we focus on explicit problem solving, that is, on problem solving that is controlled by a problem solver’s intentions. In the third section our focus is on implicit, that is, on automatic or non-conscious complex problem solving. Our main conclusions are that, first, there exists little, if any, empirical evidence that supports a relation between explicit complex problem-solving and global intelligence. Second, there is also no empirical evidence indicating that global intelligence and implicit complex problem solving might be related. Third, however, there exists a considerable amount of empirical data suggesting that specific components of intelligence, such as processing capacity, might be related to specific components of explicit complex problem solving. Together, the available evidence suggests that the global concepts of intelligence and problem solving are not related, but that specific subcomponents of intelligence and explicit problem solving might share variance. The existing empirical evidence does not speak, however, to the issue of whether subcomponents of intelligence predict subcomponents of problem solving or whether the opposite causal relation holds
Future plans at COMPASS
No full textAfter successfully running since several years with polarized muon and hadron beams to study the spin structure of the nucleon and spectroscopy of hadrons, the COMPASS (Common Muon and Proton Apparatus for Structure and Spectroscopy) experiment enters a second phase with a new extended physics program to obtain deeper insight in the partonic structure of matter. These future plans include a measurement of deep virtual Compton scattering in order to determine generalized parton distributions and the study of the polarized DrellYan process giving access to transverse momentum dependent (TMD) parton distributions. Recent results and these future plans will be presented in this document
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No full textMONUMENTUM HONORIS. ODER EHREN-GEDÄCHTNÜSS DES HOCHWOLGEBOHRNEN HERRN/ HERRN HANS VON THIENEN/ DERO ZU SCHLESSWIG-HOLSTEIN REGIERENDEN HOCH-FÜRSTL. DURCHL. WEYLAND HOCHBETRAUTEN LANDRAHTS/ AUCH AMBTMANNS ZU TUNDERN/ AUFF BORGHORST UND WAHLSTORFF ERB-HERREN/ ALSS DESSEN HOCHSELIGER LEICHNAMB/ DEN 26 MAJI DESS ABGEWICHENEN 1691STEN JAHRS ... ZU SEINEN HOCH-ADELICHEN BEGRÄBNISS UND RUHKÄMMERLEIN/ ZU PRETZ IN HOLLSTEIN/ ABGEFÜHRET UND BEGLEITET WORDEN/ BEY DER CHRISTLICHEN GEMEINE ZU TUNDERN/ AM FOLGENDEN TAGE ... IN EINER BESONDERN PREDIGT/ UND LEICH-SERMON AUFFGERICHTET
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Improved method to extract nucleon helicity distributions using event weighting
No full textAn improved analysis method to extract quark helicity distributions in leading order (LO) QCD from semi-inclusive double spin asymmetries in deep inelastic scattering is presented. The method relies on the fact that fragmentation functions, describing the fragmentation of a quark into a hadron, have a strong dependence on the energy fraction z of the observed hadron. Hadrons with large z contain more information about the struck quark. This can be used in a weighting procedure to improve the figure of merit (= inverse of variance). In numerical examples it is shown that one could gain 15–39% depending on the quark flavor and cut on z. Mathematically the problem can be described as finding an optimal solution in terms of the figure of merit for parameters Θ determined from a system of linear equations B(x) Θ =Y(x), where the measured input vector Y(x) is given as event distributions depending on a random variable x, the coefficients of the matrix B(x) depend as well on x, whereas the parameter vector Θ to be determined does not
Electric Dipole Moment Measurements at Storage Rings
No full textElectric Dipole Moments (EDMs) of subatomic particles, are considered as one of the most powerful tools to study CP-violation beyond the Standard Model. Such CP-violating mechanisms are searched for to explain the dominance of matter over anti-matter in our universe. This paper discusses EDM searches of charged hadrons in storage rings.The document focuses on activities at the existing storage ring COSY at Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany and the design of a 100 m circumference prototype ring able to demonstrate key technologies and components. These include simultaneous clockwise and counter-clockwise beam operation with electrostatic bending elements and, by adding a magnetic field, the frozen spin technique
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