fragmented thinking

(noun)

Thinking about problems as isolated events instead of considering problems as resulting from a system as a whole.

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Examples of fragmented thinking in the following topics:

  • The Systems Viewpoint

    • In business, management also involves systems thinking.
    • In this type of fragmented thinking, problems are addressed without considering the context, environment, or the impact of similar problems.
    • Fragmented thinking often results in solutions that cannot be applied to multiple situations and are unlikely to remain relevant over time.
    • Only a systems-thinking approach can lead to this realization because systems thinking provides insight into how problems that manifest in a specific location can spring from distant, seemingly unrelated locations.
    • Only a systems-thinking approach can lead to this realization because systems thinking provides insight into how problems that manifest in a specific location can spring from distant, seemingly unrelated locations.
  • Types of Sexual and Asexual Reproduction

    • Fragmentation is the breaking of the body into two parts with subsequent regeneration.
    • Many sea stars reproduce asexually by fragmentation.
    • Fragmentation also occurs in annelid worms, turbellarians, and poriferans.
    • As humans, we are used to thinking of animals as having two separate sexes, male and female, determined at conception.
    • Sea stars can reproduce through fragmentation.
  • Characteristics of Mass Spectra

    • Also, the structure of most fragment ions is seldom known with certainty.
    • A less common fragmentation, in which an even-electron neutral fragment is lost, produces an odd-electron radical cation fragment ion.
    • Fragment ions themselves may fragment further.
    • As a rule, odd-electron ions may fragment either to odd or even-electron ions, but even-electron ions fragment only to other even-electron ions.
    • Spectrum diagrams are followed by the fragmentations leading to the chief fragment ions.
  • Grob Fragmentation

    • An interesting and generally useful skeletal transformation, involving specific carbon-carbon bond cleavage with accompanying conversion of certain sigma-bonds to pi-bonds, is known as the Grob fragmentation.
    • Here a simple nucleophilic fragmentation at M is converted to an ethylagous analog by the insertion of a two carbon (ethyl) segment between the reacting moieties.
    • A Grob fragmentation takes place in the top example, because the orbitals of the bonding and non-bonding electron pairs participating in the reaction are aligned properly.
    • Other examples of Grob fragmentations will be shown above in the second diagram.
    • The third diagram above displays a Grob-like fragmentation, favored by the relief of ring strain in the four-membered ring.
  • Fragmentation Patterns

    • The fragmentation of molecular ions into an assortment of fragment ions is a mixed blessing.
    • Alcohols, ethers and highly branched alkanes generally show the greatest tendency toward fragmentation.
    • All of the significant fragment ions in this spectrum are even-electron ions.
    • By localizing the reactive moiety, certain fragmentation processes will be favored.
    • Odd-electron fragment ions are often formed by characteristic rearrangements in which stable neutral fragments are lost.
  • DNA Sequencing Techniques

    • They can only be sequenced in tiny fragments and the tiny fragments have to put in the correct order to generate the uninterrupted genome sequence.
    • As a result, each copy of the same chromosome is fragmented at different locations and the fragments from the same part of the chromosome will overlap each other.
    • Each fragment is sequenced and sophisticated computer algorithms compare all the different fragments to find which overlaps with which.
    • From the order of fragments formed, the DNA sequence can be read.
    • When the complete collection of fragments has been sequenced, comparing the sequences of all the fragments will reveal which fragments have ends that overlap with other fragments.
  • Alzheimer's Disease

    • When AD is suspected, the diagnosis is usually confirmed with tests that evaluate behavior and thinking abilities, often followed by a brain scan if available.
    • N-APP, a fragment of APP from the peptide's N-terminus, is adjacent to beta-amyloid and is cleaved from APP by one of the same enzymes.
    • Enzymes act on the APP (Amyloid precursor protein) and cut it into fragments of protein, one of which is called beta-amyloid and its crucial in the formation of senile plaques in AD
  • Age

    • Of which generation do you think they are a member?
    • Boomers tended to think of themselves as a special generation, very different from those that had come before them.
    • Generation Z, also known as "Digital Natives," is a term that reflects the pluralistic and fragmented society of those with birth dates between 1997 and 2012.
    • Experts predict Gen AO will exhibit a thirst for instant gratification and quick fixes, a loss of patience, and a lack of deep-thinking ability.
  • Cooperation and Communication Gone Awry

    • In fact, I think I'll have a little party."
    • Unfortunately, we didn't invite our parents onto our team by telling them what we were thinking of doing.
    • Each of us was thinking of even more locations to publicize our event.
    • You think because you understand "one" you must understand "two," because one and one makes two.
    • Squashed popcorn littered the floor and carpet, along with stray fragments of pepperoni and olive.
  • Strategies Used in Sequencing Projects

    • Then, with the help of a computer, the fragments are analyzed to see where their sequences overlap.
    • By matching overlapping sequences at the end of each fragment, the entire DNA sequence can be reformed.
    • A third fragment shows only the lake, but it reveals that there is a cabin on the shore of the lake.
    • Originally, shotgun sequencing only analyzed one end of each fragment for overlaps.
    • In pairwise-end sequencing, both ends of each fragment are analyzed for overlap.
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