When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Cell (music) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_(music)

    The 1957 Encyclopédie Larousse [1] defines a cell in music as a "small rhythmic and melodic design that can be isolated, or can make up one part of a thematic context". The cell may be distinguished from the figure or motif: the 1958 Encyclopédie Fasquelle [1] defines a cell as "the smallest indivisible unit", unlike the motif, which may be divisible into more than one cell.

  3. Memetics - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memetics

    Memetics is a theory of the evolution of culture based on Darwinian principles with the meme as the unit of culture. The term "meme" was coined by biologist Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, [1] to illustrate the principle that he later called "Universal Darwinism".

  4. Cell theory - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_theory

    The central and rightmost cell are in interphase, so the entire nuclei are labeled. The cell on the left is going through mitosis and its DNA has condensed. In biology , cell theory is a scientific theory first formulated in the mid-nineteenth century, that living organisms are made up of cells , that they are the basic structural ...

  5. Creativity - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creativity

    Academics and authors Teresa Amabile and Michael Pratt defined creativity as the production of novel and useful ideas and innovation as the implementation of creative ideas, [8] while the OECD and Eurostat stated that "innovation is more than a new idea or an invention; an innovation requires implementation, either by being put into active use ...

  6. Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluid_Concepts_and...

    Now Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies presents that model, along with the computer programs Hofstadter and his associates have designed to test it. These programs work in stripped-down yet surprisingly rich microdomains. On April 3, 1995, Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies became the first book ordered online by an Amazon.com customer. [3]

  7. Cell Painting - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_Painting

    The Cell Painting assay [1] is a high-content, high-throughput imaging technique used to capture a wide array of cellular phenotypes in response to diverse perturbations. [2] These phenotypes, often termed "morphological profiles", can be used to understand various biological phenomena, including cellular responses to genetic changes, drug ...

  8. Creativity techniques - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creativity_techniques

    Creativity techniques are methods that encourage creative actions, whether in the arts or sciences. They focus on a variety of aspects of creativity, including techniques for idea generation and divergent thinking, methods of re-framing problems, changes in the affective environment and so on.

  9. Metaphor - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphor

    A political cartoon by illustrator S.D. Ehrhart in an 1894 Puck magazine shows a farm-woman labeled "Democratic Party" sheltering from a tornado of political change.. A metaphor is a figure of speech that, for rhetorical effect, directly refers to one thing by mentioning another. [1]