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2 articles for “Serendipity”
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Serendipitous Medicines-Discoveries by Chance
Abstract: Discovery is nothing but the art of finding something. In the medical history, number of discoveries happened by chance. These happy accidental discoveries are well known as serendipity, a word coined by Horace Walpore. Serendipity is a pleasant surprise of finding a particularly useful information while not looking for it. There is interesting well known serendipitous drug discoveries in medical science such as penicillin, cephalosporin, aspirin, nitrous oxide, and sildenafil …
Published in International Journal of Composite and Constituent Materials · Vol. 7, Issue 2, 2021 · pp. 12–16 Read article
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Parametricism: Serendipity in Architecture
Abstract: “Everything we design is designing us back...” Architect’s design buildings. Planning and implementing change in the world around us is what we do. The archetypal design medium is pencil, eraser and paper. The pencil adds, and eraser subtracts. However, with the advent of modern technology and advances in digital lengths in the architecture industry, new dimensions of architecture are being explored by the contemporary designers. Parametricism as an epochal phenomenon …
Published in International Journal of Urban Design · Vol. 1, Issue 2, 2018 · pp. 13–18 Read article