Plant Hormones: Biosynthesis and Mechanisms of Action is based on research funded by the Chinese government’s National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). This book brings a fresh understanding of hormone biology, particularly molecular mechanisms driving plant hormone actions. With growing understanding of hormone biology comes new outlooks on how mankind values and utilizes the built-in potential of plants for improvement of crops in an environmentally friendly and sustainable manner. This book is a comprehensive description of all major plant hormones: how they are synthesized and catabolized; how they are perceived by plant cells; how they trigger signal transduction; how they regulate gene expression; how they regulate plant growth, development and defense responses; and how we measure plant hormones. This is an exciting time for researchers interested in plant hormones. Plants rely on a diverse set of small molecule hormones to regulate every aspect of their biological processes including development, growth, and adaptation. Since the discovery of the first plant hormone auxin, hormones have always been the frontiers of plant biology. Although the physiological functions of most plant hormones have been studied for decades, the last 15 to 20 years have seen a dramatic progress in our understanding of the molecular mechanisms of hormone actions. The publication of the whole genome sequences of the model systems of Arabidopsis and rice, together with the advent of multidisciplinary approaches has opened the door to successful experimentation on plant hormone actions.
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<li>Offers a comprehensive description of all major plant hormones including the recently discovered strigolactones and several peptide hormones</li>
<li>Contains a chapter describing how plant hormones regulate stem cells</li>
<li>Offers a fresh understanding of hormone biology, particularly molecular mechanisms driving plant hormone actions</li>
<li>Discusses the built-in potential of plants for improvement of crops in an environmentally friendly and sustainable manner</li>
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Hormone Metabolism and Signaling in Plants

Science & Math

Smith, Steven M.

Li, Jiayang

Li, Chuanyou

Biological Sciences

Academic Press

Creative Cognition combines original experiments with existing work in cognitive psychology to provide the first explicit account of the cognitive processes and structures that contribute to creative thinking and discovery. In separate chapters, the authors take up visualization, concept formation, categorization, memory retrieval, and problem solving. They describe novel experimental methods for studying creative cognitive processes under controlled laboratory conditions, along with techniques that can be used to generate many different types of inventions and concepts. Unlike traditional approaches, Creative Cognition considers creativity as a product of numerous cognitive processes, each of which helps to set the stage for insight and discovery. It identifies many of these processes as well as general principles of creative cognition that can be applied across a variety of different domains, with examples in artificial intelligence, engineering design, product development, architecture, education, and the visual arts. Following a summary of previous approaches to creativity, the authors present a theoretical model of the creative process. They review research involving an innovative imagery recombination technique, developed by Finke, that clearly demonstrates that creative inventions can be induced in the laboratory. They then describe experiments in category learning that support the provocative claim that the factors constraining category formation similarly constrain imagination and illustrate the role of various memory processes and other strategies in creative problem solving. Ronald A. Finke, Thomas B. Ward, and Steven M. Smith are all Associate Professors of Psychology at Texas A &amp; M University.

Creative Cognition: Theory, Research, and Applications

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Finke, Ronald A.

Ward, Thomas B.

Mental Health

Bradford Books

The Creative Cognition Approach

Mental processes are the essence of creative endeavor. The Creative Cognition Approach extends this particular view of creativity, first proposed and developed by the editors in their earlier book Creative Cognition, to the programs and theoretical views of some of the most prominent researchers in the areas of problem solving, concept formation, and thinking. Chapters cover a wide range of approaches and processes that play a role in creative cognition, from those that have their roots in associationism (the notion that creative ideas are produced incrementally), to the Gestalt point of view (particularly insight), to current computational approaches. Each chapter deals with central issues in cognition and creativity, and many consider new ways in which creativity can be studied under controlled conditions. The Creative Cognition Approach begins with a new look at an ancient subject, dreams. It then takes up intuition and insight from a contemporary cognitive perspective, and the importance of using prior knowledge in the incremental view of creative problem solving, which is contrasted with the importance of various forms of fixation and sudden insight. Studies are presented that provide new methods for distinguishing insight problem solving from analytic problem solving, and a general description of recall, problem solving, and creative thinking is provided along with relevant experimental evidence. Numerous laboratory studies of creative idea generation are described that reveal the conceptual structures that give rise to imaginative thinking. Visual representations are considered in the context of memory distortions, and in the use of diagrams in scientific discovery. Models that help clarify the relation between comprehension and creativity are discussed, and a novel integration of ideas (primary and secondary process thinking, conditioning, genetic algorithms, chaos theory, the thermodynamics of crystallography) are brought together in a connectionist framework. A multivariate investment approach is used to study creative performance, and criteria for assessing and enhancing creative realism are detailed. A Bradford Book

Self-Help

Creativity

Creative Cognition combines original experiments with existing work in cognitive psychology to provide the first explicit account of the cognitive processes and structures that contribute to creative thinking and discovery.

Finke, Ronald A. A

Psychology & Counseling

Blending leading scientific research with real life experiences, Creativity and the Mind helps readers unlock their creative potential and embrace alternate ways of thinking about everyday problems.

Creativity And The Mind: Discovering The Genius Within

Reference

Basic Books

It has been said we spend all our lives recovering from childhood. Moment by accessible moment, the reader is challenged to reconcile their own growing pains. These poems shine a light on disenfranchised and desperate parents, the ghost of nonage, and layers of one family's coming apart. Mostly, there is no judgement. If it's possible to stop the sins of the father, Smith has done so by becoming a parent with understanding and remembrance. He works to make it right. In Strongman Contest we read what human beings rarely have the audacity to say, let alone leave a trail of poems that ache with truth. Stellasue Lee, author of Queen of Jacks Steven M. Smith's Strongman Contest is a book of fathers and sons, of mothers and wives, of Limburger and onion on paper plates, of violence and redemption. Prepare yourself for an electrifying journey as the speaker navigates his father's rage, risky teenage games, lakes of beer and thunderclouds of cigarette smoke, and his own marriage and parenthood making a home amidst "sugar maples and kneeling weeds." Stand by him as he flinches beside his father who's just shotgunned the family photo album to bits, as he waits with his rake "to gather up the leaves, / the dead pictures, [his] father's empty shell." Recognize the boy in the man as his imagination continues to transform the details of his life into clarity, into magic, as he resists turning into his father, as he bequeaths tenderness upon his own son, as he transmutes life's "barking / Doberman into a white dove." Christopher Citro, author of If We Had a Lemon We'd Throw It and Call That the Sun Family tensions and the enduring poignancy of those relationships are evoked in Strongman Contest. A boy's complicated love for his father is central; that love is tinged with confusion, competition, and even fear. Steven M. Smith's imagery stands out when the boy goes bowling with his dad, catches him with other women, finds him drunk yet again, or is belted by him. The odds might seem stacked against these fallible humans, but what ultimately resonates is empathy and resilience as one generation burdens and enlightens the next. Donna Steiner, author of Lost and Found in Ocean County, New Jersey and Elements

Strongman Contest

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Kelsay Books

Room 918: Saving Love One Orgasm At A Time

Erotica

Independently published

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