Disruption, disruptive, or disrupted may refer to:
Business
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Creative disruption
Creative disruption (disruption concept in a creative context) was introduced in 1992 by TBWA's chairman Jean-Marie Dru. It refers to a radical change in a marketplace brought about by the overturning of existing conventions.
Origins
The word ...
, disruption concept in a creative context, introduced in 1992 by TBWA's chairman Jean-Marie Dru
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Disruptive innovation, Clayton Christensen's theory of industry disruption by new technology or products
Psychology and sociology
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Disruptive behavior disorders
DSM-IV codes are the classification found in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th Edition, Text Revision, also known as ''DSM-IV-TR'', a manual published by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) that includes almost a ...
, a class of mental health disorders
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Disruptive physician
A disruptive physician is a physician whose obnoxious behaviour upsets patients or other staff. The American Medical Association defines this in their code of medical ethics as "personal conduct, whether verbal or physical, that negatively affects ...
, a physician whose obnoxious behaviour upsets patients or other staff
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Social disruption Social disruption is a term used in sociology to describe the alteration, dysfunction or breakdown of social life, often in a community setting. Social disruption implies a radical transformation, in which the old certainties of modern society are ...
, a radical alteration, transformation, dysfunction or breakdown of social life
Other uses
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Cell disruption
Cell disruption is a method or process for releasing biological molecules from inside a cell.
Methods
The production of biologically interesting molecules using cloning and culturing methods allows the study and manufacture of relevant molecule ...
is a method or process in cell biology for releasing biological molecules from inside a cell
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Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start Up Bubble'', a 2016 book by Daniel Lyons
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Disruption (adoption)
Disruption is ending an adoption. While technically an adoption is disrupted only when it is abandoned by the adopting parent or parents before it is legally completed (an adoption that is reversed after that point is instead referred to in the la ...
is also the term for the cancellation of an adoption of a child before it is legally completed
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Disruption (of schema)
A schema () is a template in computer science used in the field of genetic algorithms that identifies a subset of strings with similarities at certain string positions. Schemata are a special case of cylinder sets, forming a basis for a product to ...
, in the field of computer genetic algorithms
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Disruption of 1843
The Disruption of 1843, also known as the Great Disruption, was a schism in 1843 in which 450 evangelical ministers broke away from the Church of Scotland to form the Free Church of Scotland.
The main conflict was over whether the Church of S ...
, the divergence of the Free Church of Scotland from the Church of Scotland
*Disruption, a method of disabling an explosive device by using
projected water disruptors
Bomb disposal is an explosives engineering profession using the process by which hazardous explosive devices are rendered safe. ''Bomb disposal'' is an all-encompassing term to describe the separate, but interrelated functions in the milita ...
*''The Disruption'', a 1996 EP by
Cursive
See also
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Disruptor (disambiguation)
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