scholarly journals Enhancing Challenge Framing in Defence Organisations: Towards Reflexive Methods

2020 ◽  
Vol 148 (Special Issue 2.) ◽  
pp. 33-49
Author(s):  
Philippe Beaulieu-Brossard ◽  
Philippe Dufort
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
North American ◽  
Design Theory ◽  
Problem Solution ◽  
The North ◽  
Solution Pair ◽  
Mind Set ◽  
Philosophy Of Knowledge ◽  
Insight Into

This article contributes to problem solving, design, and planning in defence organisations by arguing that a ‘problem’ or a ‘challenge’ is never objective, natural or ready-made. Challenges are contingent to the conditions under which individuals perceive and formulate them. As a result, this article understands ‘challenges’ and ‘approaches’ to address them as co-dependent on one another. This article recommends that officers should attempt to generate the most interesting and, we hope, innovative problem-solution pair or challenge-approach pair in order to integrate this insight into practice when problem solving, designing, or planning. Leaders and their teams can learn to inhabit this mind-set by finding inspiration in three modes observed through practice: initial challenge framing, challenge curation and co-evolution. For each of these modes, the article proposes reflexive methods and tools for enhancing introspection in challenge framing and formulation namely the Five Whys, question-storming, and loyal opposition. The article supports these recommendations and methods through insights gleaned from philosophy of knowledge, design theory, and on design experiences with the North American Aerospace Defence Command (NORAD) in 2019.

scholarly journals Insight into the bacterial gut microbiome of the North American moose (Alces alces)

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzanne L Ishaq ◽  
André-Denis G Wright
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
Gut Microbiome ◽  
Alces Alces ◽  
The North ◽  
Insight Into

scholarly journals Colorado Lightning Climatology

2019 ◽  
pp. 45-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Hodanish ◽  
Brandon Vogt ◽  
Paul Wolyn
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
North American Monsoon ◽  
San Juan ◽  
Lightning Flash ◽  
San Juan Mountains ◽  
The North ◽  
Regional Circulation ◽  
Density Values ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Cg Lightning

Average cloud-to-ground (CG) lightning flash density values for Colorado are analyzed for the 21-yr period 1996–2016. An annual mean map and monthly mean maps of flash density provide insight into the thunderstorm/lightning climatology over the complex physical landscapes of Colorado. Findings include that 1) the Denver convergence/vorticity zone regional circulation influences the CG lightning distribution across the northeastern Colorado region; 2) moisture associated with the North American monsoon increases CG lightning over the entire state, focusing along the southern exposures of the San Juan Mountains; and 3) the highest concentrations of CG lightning occur where moisture, lift, and instability are maximized.

Viewers' Responses to Errors in Simulated Teletext Transmissions

1985 ◽  
Vol 27 (6) ◽  
pp. 653-663 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul J. Hearty ◽  
William C. Treurniet
Keyword(s):  
Image Quality ◽  
North America ◽  
North American ◽  
Encoding Scheme ◽  
Presentation Level ◽  
The North ◽  
Error Probabilities ◽  
Insight Into

In North America, the method of encoding information for videotex services has been standardized. The encoding scheme, the North American Presentation Level Protocol Syntax (NAPLPS), facilitates the transmission of graphics and text by representing display information in a highly compressed form. Two experiments examined viewers' responses to bit errors during simulated transmissions of NAPLPS codes. In the first experiment, graphic materials were transmitted; in the second, the materials were texts. In both experiments, a new measure of viewer satisfaction (requests for retransmission) and viewer evaluations of both image quality and usefulness indicated that bit-error probabilities in an operational teletext service should not exceed 1 x 10-4. The results of both experiments validated the new retransmission-request measure and provided some insight into the practice of teletext assessment.

scholarly journals The North American bullfrog draft genome provides insight into hormonal regulation of long noncoding RNA

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Austin Hammond ◽  
René L. Warren ◽  
Benjamin P. Vandervalk ◽  
Erdi Kucuk ◽  
Hamza Khan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
Long Noncoding Rna ◽  
Hormonal Regulation ◽  
Noncoding Rna ◽  
Draft Genome ◽  
American Bullfrog ◽  
The North ◽  
Insight Into

1588: The Bicalutamide Early Prostate Cancer Program: Findings of the North American Trial at 7.7 Years' Median Follow-Up

2006 ◽  
Vol 175 (4S) ◽  
pp. 511-512
Author(s):  
David G. McLeod ◽  
Ira Klimberg ◽  
Donald Gleason ◽  
Gerald Chodak ◽  
Thomas Morris ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Prostate Cancer ◽  
North American ◽  
Early Prostate Cancer ◽  
The North ◽  
Cancer Program

In Search of Somatic Precursors of Spontaneous Insight

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 97-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wangbing Shen ◽  
Yuan Yuan ◽  
Chaoying Tang ◽  
Chunhua Shi ◽  
Chang Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Direct Evidence ◽  
Electrodermal Activity ◽  
Cardiovascular Responses ◽  
Solution Time ◽  
Problem Solution ◽  
Insight Problem ◽  
Creative Insight ◽  
Insight Problem Solving ◽  
Analytic Problem

Abstract. A considerable number of behavioral and neuroscientific studies on insight problem solving have revealed behavioral and neural correlates of the dynamic insight process; however, somatic correlates, particularly somatic precursors of creative insight, remain undetermined. To characterize the somatic precursor of spontaneous insight, 22 healthy volunteers were recruited to solve the compound remote associate (CRA) task in which a problem can be solved by either an insight or an analytic strategy. The participants’ peripheral nervous activities, particularly electrodermal and cardiovascular responses, were continuously monitored and separately measured. The results revealed a greater skin conductance magnitude for insight trials than for non-insight trials in the 4-s time span prior to problem solutions and two marginally significant correlations between pre-solution heart rate variability (HRV) and the solution time of insight trials. Our findings provide the first direct evidence that spontaneous insight in problem solving is a somatically peculiar process that is distinct from the stepwise process of analytic problem solving and can be represented by a special somatic precursor, which is a stronger pre-solution electrodermal activity and a correlation between problem solution time and certain HRV indicators such as the root mean square successive difference (RMSSD).

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