Actual Research Research Articles

예비 영유아교사의 모의수업 불안에 관한 연구

Objectives This study examines how the general characteristics major satisfaction, and positive psychological capital of pre-service early childhood teacher are related to simulated instruction anxiety, and confirms their rela-tive influence on simulated instruction anxiety. Methods The subjects of this study are 190 university student enrolled in departments related to childcare and early childhood education. Descriptive statistical analysis and correlation analysis were performed using SPSS program, and the relatiove influence of variables affecting simulated instruction anxiety was conformed through hierarchical multiple regression analysis. Results First, all sub-factors of the general characteristics, major satisfaction, and positive psychological capital of pre-service teachers’ showed a negative correlation with simulated instruction anxiety. Second, as a result of examining the relative influence on pre-service teacher’s simulated instruction anxiety, it was found that the in-fluence was in the order of self-efficacy, number of simulated instruction participation, and satisfaction with major subjects. Conclusions This study is significant in that it identified variables that affect pre-service teachers’ simulated in-struction anxiety in an academic reality where there is little actual research on simulated instruction anxiety. This study can be used as basic data for developing early childhood teacher training curriculum and programs.

Teachers’ Transformational Leadership on Academic Culture of College Students: Towards Enhancing Leadership Skill

This study aims to explore the impact of teacher transformational leadership on academic culture and career planning of university students, with the ultimate goal of improving students' leadership skills. The students participating in the survey are coming from sophomore level only from the five universities in Jiangxi Province of China. From the total size of 4,436 sophomore students in the five universities, Qualtrics identified 354 to be the total sample size of the actual research participants. based on the research problems and parameters of the study, there are some findings. Teacher transformational leadership profoundly influences students' career planning, facilitating clarity and direction, resource management, resilience in overcoming challenges, development of academic skills and integrity, fostering interdisciplinary abilities and self-discipline, offering guidance and mentorship, promoting academic exchange, and facilitating adaptation to diverse academic environments.Based on the conclusions, the following are recommended: .Institutions should prioritize the implementation of culturally responsive practices. Building on the effectiveness of transformational leadership dimensions highlighted in the research, institutions should invest in leadership development programs for educators. Institutions should ensure that leadership development initiatives are accessible and inclusive to individuals from diverse demographic backgrounds.

Study on the Actual and Contingent Integration of Traditional Culture into Higher Vocational Education

By analyzing the historical and contemporary implications of Chinese excellent traditional culture, we analyze the actual and contingent research on the integration of traditional culture into higher vocational education from three aspects: cognitive concept, curriculum and teaching mode. In terms of cognitive concept, there exists instrumental rationalism that emphasizes pragmatism over spiritual connotation; in terms of curriculum, there exists the problem of shallow content and insufficient credit hours; in terms of teaching mode, there exists the deficiency of formalism and lack of teachers. Based on this, from the contingent level, it is proposed to adhere to the people-oriented, top-level design of curriculum ideology and politics; to integrate the combination of excellent traditional culture and professional connotation into the curriculum system; to strengthen the construction of teachers, and to innovate the teaching pedagogy in terms of the teaching purpose, content, implementation, methodology, and evaluation, and other measures. Ultimately, the aim is to achieve a balanced and appropriate development of humanistic and professional aspects of vocational education.

Designing for student autonomy combining theory and clinical practice – a qualitative study with a faculty perspective

BackgroundAlthough extensive research exists about students’ clinical learning, there is a lack of translation and integration of this knowledge into clinical educational practice. As a result, improvements may not be implemented and thus contribute to students’ learning. The present study aimed to explore the nature of clinical faculty members’ learning related to how they apply research about student autonomy.MethodsA course, “Designing learning for students’ development of autonomy in clinical practice” was conducted for faculty responsible for students’ clinical education. Within the frame of the course the participants designed a project and planned how they would implement it in their clinical context. Fourteen clinical faculty members participated in the study. The participants’ interpretation of the educational intervention, which combines complex theory with the equally complex clinical practice, was explored by studying how the participants’ approaches and understanding of the facilitation of autonomy were manifested in their projects. The projects in the form of reports and oral presentations were analyzed using qualitative content analysis together with an abductive approach.FindingsOne identified domain was “Characteristics of the design and content of the projects”. This domain was signified by two themes with different foci: Preparing the soil for facilitating student autonomy; and Cultivating opportunities for students to actively strive for autonomy. A second identified domain, “Embracing the meaning of facilitating autonomy” was connected to participants understanding of theories underlying how to support the development of autonomy. This domain contained two themes: Connection between activities and autonomy is self-evident and Certain factors can explain and facilitate development of autonomy.ConclusionEducation directed to strategic clinical faculty members to develop evidence-based approaches to student learning can be productive. To succeed there is a need to emphasize faculty members individual understanding of actual research as well as learning theories in general. Faculty trying to reinforce changes are dependent on their own mandate, the structure in the clinic, and recognition of their work in the clinical context. To achieve a potential continuity and sustainability of implemented changes the implementation processes must be anchored throughout the actual organization.

A shot in the dark: the impact of online visibility on the search for an effective sleep app.

Dictated by consumer ratings and concealed algorithms, high levels of online visibility are granted to certain sleep apps on mainstream modes of app selection. Yet, it remains unclear to what extent these highly visible apps are evidence-based. The objectives of this review were to identify and describe the apps with the greatest online visibility when searching for a sleep app and to assess the claimed and actual research associated with them. A keyword search was conducted in Google Play and Google search. Titles of the most visible apps were retrieved. App descriptions were examined to identify research claims made about app effectiveness on sleep and other health-related outcomes. A follow-up search on PubMed and Google Scholar was conducted to verify claims. The keyword search identified 53 highly visible apps. Examination of app store descriptions found that no reference to research was made for the majority of apps (n = 45, 84.9%). Published research studies were available for just 3 apps, with most studies evaluating app impact on non sleep-related outcomes. There was some evidence to attesting to the effectiveness of 2 apps in improving sleep. This review demonstrates how, when carrying out a typical search for a sleep app, information about the evidence base for the majority of highly visible apps is not available. Results highlight the need for the improvement of mainstream modes of app selection in terms of better consumer-app specificity and increased transparency regarding the access to information about the evidence base for apps. Power N, Boivin DB, Perreault M. A shot in the dark: the impact of online visibility on the search for an effective sleep app. J Clin Sleep Med. 2024;20(8):1379-1386.

How willing are residents to accept sustainable energy from food waste generated by anaerobic digestion projects?

The increasing demand for local anaerobic waste-to-energy projects triggered by citizens' environmental consciousness has forced communities, practitioners, and academicians worldwide to prioritize this subject. This research extends the theory of planned behavior (TPB) model with egoistic value. This study assessed residents' willingness to accept energy from food waste via anaerobic digestion (AD) projects. This study compares the new research framework with the original TPB framework. Using 408 questionnaires from Chinese residents in Jiangsu Province, hypothetical statements were assessed using a covariance-based structural equation model (CB-SEM). Egoistic values influenced all TPB constructs. The study found that TPB constructs mediated the association between egoistic value and residents' willingness to accept energy from food waste through AD projects. The findings suggest that the actual research framework can better explain outcomes than the original TPB model. This shows that the actual framework is more effective in understanding residents’ willingness to accept energy from food waste through AD projects. Policymakers and investors should communicate the health benefits of energy from food waste via anaerobic digestion schemes to citizens. Also, the policymakers or experts should focus on egoistic values or the health benefits of the citizens before they hurry to uptake the projects.

A study on poverty among rural women in China

This article mainly studies the issue of poverty among rural women in China. Through actual research and visits to two poverty-stricken counties in Northeast China - Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, two key poverty-stricken counties in Northwest China - Gansu Province, two key poverty-stricken counties in Southwest China - Guizhou Province, and two severely impoverished counties in East China - Anhui Province, combined with existing excellent research literature, the main characteristics of rural impoverished women in China were finally summarized: the vulnerability, concealment, intergenerational transmission, and persistence of women's poverty The symbiosis of poverty and the derivative nature of poverty ideology. On this basis, this article summarizes the main causes of poverty among impoverished rural women in China: due to illness, education, lack of labor force, constraints of traditional concepts, and geographical factors; At the same time, it clarifies the role of rural women's poverty alleviation in the process of family poverty alleviation in China. Finally, this article outlines the significance of poverty alleviation for impoverished rural women in China from a sustainable perspective: alleviating family conflicts, reducing female crime rates, improving the quality of life for elderly women, effectively limiting intergenerational transmission of poverty, and improving national poverty alleviation effectiveness.

Who ought to look towards the horizon? A qualitative study on the collective social responsibility of scientific research

There is a growing concern for the proper role of science within democratic societies, which has led to the development of new science policies for the implementation of social responsibility in research. Although the very expression ‘social responsibility of science’ may be interpreted in different ways, many of these emerging policy frameworks define it, at least in part, as a form of anticipative reflection about the potential impacts of research in society. What remains a rather under-discussed issue is the definition of the bearer of the social responsibility of science. In other words, it is not clear who is supposed to engage in such an anticipative reflection, whether individual researchers or research groups. In the past few years, philosophers of science have begun to use qualitative research methods to fill the gaps between normative models of the organisation of ideal scientific communities and the reality of actual scientific practices. In this article, I follow this approach to discuss the issue of the collective dimension of the social responsibility of science. I rely on a qualitative study conducted on an interdisciplinary research group and I describe how group dynamics position individuals and distribute duties and roles, including social responsibility. Qualitative descriptions of the distribution of duties within actual research groups should inform the formulation of general prescriptive theories on the collective responsibility of science.

Domestic travel intention post COVID-19 pandemic – what matters the most to millennials?

The COVID-19 pandemic associated with health fear has severely affected Malaysia’s tourism industry. The domestic tourism segment is expected to have a speedier recovery than international tourism due to travel restrictions. Accordingly, the principles of Protection Motivation Theory (PMT) and the government's role were utilised in investigating the Millennial’s domestic travel intention in this study. This study is a preliminary investigation in nature. It involves responses from the first 60 participants of the fieldwork being carried out for the actual research. The gathered data were analysed using the structural equation modelling (SEM) technique with SmartPLS software. The findings showed that Millennial’s Perceived Self Efficacy and (through) Government Intervention have a significant relationship with their domestic travel intention post-pandemic. Practical implications were then provided to the stakeholders in reviving Malaysia’s tourism industry.

Optimal subsidy policy for new energy vehicles based on the influence of multiple factors and consumers' green preference

AbstractPolicies concerning subsidies for new energy vehicles and consumers' environmental preferences significantly impact the sales of such vehicles. To investigate the correlation between sales and subsidies or consumers' environmental preferences and to devise optimal subsidy strategies, two Stackelberg game models are constructed based on both monopoly and duopoly markets, with solutions derived for Nash equilibrium points. In order to refine the strategy for subsidy adjustments, two dynamic adjustment models considering bounded rationality are established. Additionally, the process of adjusting subsidies towards Nash equilibrium points is analyzed. Simulations, utilizing actual research data, are performed to assess China's current adjustment strategies. The findings reveal a substitution relationship between consumers' environmental preferences and subsidies. Furthermore, optimal subsidy levels and bounded rational subsidy adjustment strategies are identified. Governments should thoroughly consider consumers' environmental preferences when refining subsidy policies, as it is a crucial factor influencing the development of the new energy vehicle industry.

PHYSICAL THEORY: EMPIRICAL COMPONENT, GENERAL THEORY AND MODEL

Actual scientific research and issues analysis. If a theory is not related to reality and does not contain any statements about laws, it cannot make predictions. In other words, the combinations of data obtained with the help of scientific theories should be neither arbitrary nor magical. With this restriction, a scientific theory can, of course, be viewed for purely practical purposes as a data factory. A physical theory must have some actual data as input and be able to produce a set of possible data as output in such a way that both input and output are consistent with the assumptions of the theory - laws, relationships, etc. The research objective. Consider the empirical component of physical theory, the representation of general physical theory and its model. The statement of basic materials. The article discusses some modern problems of the methodology of the fundamentals of physics, in particular the interdependence of theory and data.

Geoinformation modeling of radioactive contamination of territories on the example of mines of the “ShidGSK” mining and processing plant

The aim of the study was to model the territorial distribution and statistical assessment of migration through the trophic chain of naturally occurring radionuclides released into the environment as a result of uranium ore mining. Statistical, geoinformation and experimental research methods were used in the study. Interpolation of the results of volumetric activity of natural radionuclides in environmental components and development of spatial models of their territorial distribution were performed using the ArcGIS software; statistical processing of modelling results and development of mathematical models of migration of natural radionuclides between environmental components were performed using ArcGIS Geostatistical Analyst software. The paper substantiates the choice of the method of geostatistical modelling of the territorial distribution of volumetric activity of natural radionuclides 234U, 238U, 210Po, 210Pb, 226Ra in soils and plants, which allows modelling the values of probabilistic indicators of radioecological contamination in the absence of a sufficient array of initial actual research results. Based on the analysis of the data obtained, the methodology of mathematical modelling of migration of natural radionuclides between soil and plant parts was further developed, which will facilitate consideration of the specifics of migration of natural radionuclides through the trophic chain and help in determining the level of radioecological hazard to the environment. The developed territorial models allow one to obtain stochastic data for their further analytical processing and visualizing radioecological hazard zones. Based on the developed models, zones of increased radioecological hazard within the existing sources of radioactive contamination were identified.

Comprehensive evaluation of intrinsic safety of railway facilities and equipment based on improved cloud model-fuzzy Petri net

In order to achieve the goal of transforming China into a modernized railway powerhouse, a comprehensive evaluation model of intrinsic safety is constructed in this paper by focussing on the intrinsic safety of railway facilities and equipment. Firstly, the index system for evaluating the intrinsic safety of railway facilities and equipment is divided. Secondly, the fuzzy Petri net (FPN) model for intrinsic safety evaluation is constructed according to the fuzzy generative rules, and the similarity calculation method of the cloud model based on shape and distance is applied to derive the initial state value of the FPN model and carry out the calculation of fuzzy reasoning of the intrinsic safety. Finally, the comprehensive evaluation of intrinsic safety is carried out using the example of railroad facilities and equipment at one China Railway Group bureau’s station section. The results indicate that the intrinsic safety level of the station section falls into Class IV intrinsic safety, exhibiting a few vulnerabilities. However, the risk level is low, aligning with the findings of the actual research. Moreover, the evaluation results based on the FPN, the cloud model’s similarity calculation method and the suggested method are compared and analysed with the findings of the actual research. The comparative results demonstrate the accuracy and scientificity of the proposed method, providing a reference for enhancing the intrinsic safety of railway facilities and equipment.

Verification of the Applicability of Obstacle Recognition Distance as a Measure of Effectiveness of Road Lighting on Rainy and Foggy Roads

Adverse weather conditions at night are very fatal to drivers, causing serious traffic accidents. Road lighting is a facility that can alleviate these dangerous situations. Nevertheless, road lighting has only rarely been studied during adverse weather. The reason is that the current road lighting performance evaluation method is presented based on normal weather. The current road lighting performance evaluation method uses a luminance meter to measure the road surface, which is not suitable due to scattering during adverse weather such as rain and fog. Therefore, this study proposes obstacle recognition distance as a measure of effectiveness to evaluate the performance of road lighting during adverse weather. There is a lack of actual research on whether obstacle recognition distance can be used as a measure of effectiveness for road lighting during adverse weather. Therefore, in this study, 30 subjects were used to measure the subjects’ obstacle recognition distance according to changes in weather conditions, road lighting grade, and road lighting color temperature. As a result, it was analyzed that there was a clear trend of change in obstacle recognition distance depending on the change in each condition. It was found that, under the same road lighting performance conditions, there was a difference of up to 72.86% by weather condition; under the same weather conditions, there was a difference of up to 22.75% by road lighting grade; and by color temperature, there was a difference of up to 21.87%. In addition, a statistical significance test was performed to support the existence of a difference, and the results were synthesized to suggest that obstacle recognition distance can be used as a performance measure of effectiveness of road lighting in adverse weather.

Analysis of the current situation and identification of problems in the evaluation of intellectual potential

This paper discusses the theoretical and methodological foundations of the study of the intellectual potential of the population. In the presented research, intellectual potential is the subject of multidisciplinary studies, particularly philosophy, sociology, economics, technology, psychology and pedagogy. To this end, this paper analyzes intellectual potential as a multidisciplinary research field, and examines the main theories, concepts and approaches in this field. Relevant scientific literature on the evaluation of intellectual potential is studied, actual research fields are determined, and their current status is analyzed. The indicators for the evaluation of research activity and efficiency of science in research institutions and organizations are determined. This work explores the international experience in evaluating the activities of scientific organizations, and analyzes the purpose, organization and results of the evaluation in some countries. In the end, it examines the state-of-the-art of scientific potential in the scientific organizations and institutions of Azerbaijan, and presents the important results of the conducted fundamental and applied research and some indicators used in the evaluation of the activity of research organizations.

Ethics as a minor form of politics and theory in activist research

To do minor activist research is to create and make use of critical neologistic vocabularies hopefully balancing the ascetic impoverishment of direction and syntax in majority vocabularies when conceptualized as universals. To do minor activist research is therefore to unsettle received discourses, narratives, and material social practices of power to develop means of resistance in new and different registers. To do minor activist research is to train the imagination for a collaboratively accomplished re/presentation of data through creating points of encounters, thus engendering an affirmative perspectivist’s ethos. Re/presenting data as a space in which one’s own thinking is challenged, hence providing a perspective of the storying practices across participants and across different disciplinary, ideological, or personal boundaries within the researcher’s and the researched specific positioning. This requires getting everyone to participate in the “analysis” of data, and then getting everyone “inside” the text: situating data-inquiries in immanence. It therefore demands a liberation from old scripts, and challenges how everyone is transformed into text, with perspectivism being simultaneously means and objective for avoiding the reproduction of both old scripts and ethics. Our goal is to enhance (self)reflexivity regarding knowledge production and research methodologies, to influence actual research practices through fostering a more inclusive, open, and collaborative approach to research that transcends traditional boundaries and embraces the fluid and hybrid nature of knowledge production. Ultimately, turning the concept of ethics through minoring into a thinking hub and pedagogy for change. The first and theoretical section is on how to ethically represent data in a new-empiricist and post qualitative environment. We call it data-philosophy. Our ontological approach brings its own concepts, which reflect the perspectives from which we argue. In the three next sections, we follow up by looking more closely into these ideas in re/presenting empirical qualitative research to invite hybrid and fluid configurations. Here, activist research refers to bringing actors into our thinking about the data, to accentuate the collaborative, open to thinking differently through staying close to the data. We then bring it all together in a section on the rebirth of language, to open for what we refer to as a storying personifying, thereby storying data together as a process of becoming, of mutuality and affect as a source of agency. We argue that this creates a theory of science and ethics in data analysis, and in re/presenting data, which are closely entangled.

Action Research and Transformation: Lessons from Three Decades of Practice

In this paper I look back over three decades of doing participatory action research and extract some lessons that bear upon the pressing issues of our time—namely, how to act in the face of unsustainable socio-economic growth trajectories and cascading environmental degradation. I start with my circuitous journey into action research and to the importance of human subjectivity to transformation processes. I then trace the thinking that shaped a postmodern feminist social research agenda. Next follows an account of developing a research design for poststructuralist participatory action research (PPAR) that foregrounds understanding ‘ways of living’ in place. Drawing on actual action research projects, the lessons that emerge concern the importance of 1) inventory and bearing witness to difference; 2) new techniques of resubjectivation that encourage transformation; and 3) shifting the action focus from human subjects to socio-technical assemblages in which humans, material infrastructures, habits and experimentation are interwoven. Throughout my three decades of involvement with action research I have learnt about the limits to the durability of subjectivity change and the need to work on support from wider ecosystems of governance, infrastructure, health and social expectation.

Birleşik Krallık'ta tedarik zinciri kesintilerine tanıklık eden stratejik satın almadaki en iyi uygulamalara ilişkin bir araştırma

This study aims to identify best practices in strategic procurement to alleviate the impact of supply chain disruptions around the world. The UK and similar countries rely significantly on global procurement, and the disruptions caused by events like the COVID-19 outbreak and Brexit have severe impacts. The study is conducted in two phases, including a literature review and actual research with an apt methodology. The primary findings of this research are the identification of best practices and looking at the procurement function as a strategic function integrated with supply chain management to make supply chain resilient organizations. This study contributes to the expanding literature concentrating on evaluating the best practices for a sourcing organization to become supply chain resilient during significant supply chain disruptions.

‘The power to SAY what I want to and it gets written down’: Situating children's and adults' voices and silence in participatory research

AbstractThis paper, co‐authored between three adults and five children aged 8–11, adopts a ‘collaborative writing as inquiry’ approach to examine and discuss the authors' experiences of a participatory research project through the lens of critical dialectical pluralism. In the original project, children formed two ‘young advisory panels’, one online, comprising children from all over England, and one in a primary school in a suburban area in North England, informing and collaborating on the creation of 45 educational activities supporting critical digital literacy. Rather than focusing on the original research itself, the paper focuses on making a methodological contribution, through detailed and collaborative reflections on notions such as agency, power and control. Over a period of four 60 to 90 min‐long meetings once the actual research was completed, adult and child authors considered their respective roles in the project, as well as detailing their understanding of the project as a whole. In co‐framing our perceptions of participatory research, we problematise adult anxieties and highlight the importance of exploring ‘silence as voice’, arguing for an extension to participatory research projects, going beyond the research itself and creating a ‘third space’ which is un/familiar to all participants, openly inviting engagement with discomfort and normalising uncertainty.

Innovative Application of Digital Audiovisual Language Based on Natural Language Processing Technology in Graffiti Art Education

Abstract In this paper, natural language processing technology is used to establish coupled Hidden Markov Models for speech formalization and features of the two channels. The adaptive weight selection method is used to recognize speech under different signal-to-noise ratios in the recognition stage. The audio-visual recognition system is applied to actual graffiti art education research, and the feasibility and development direction of audio-visual graffiti in the classroom are studied through questionnaires. It can be found that most teachers and students believe that the concept of audiovisual graffiti painting is helpful or more helpful in the cultivation and development of students’ subconscious mind. Most teachers and students believed audiovisual doodling was beneficial or advantageous for developing students’ subconscious. In the acceptance test and learning effect analysis of the audiovisual graffiti course, the mean values of the four dimensions of perceived usefulness (41.87), perceived ease of use (18.11), willingness to use (31.45), and perceived experience of the process (28.31) are basically around the maximum value, which indicates that the audiovisual technology is well accepted and that the mean value of the experimental group’s performance score (83.68) is significantly higher than that of the control group. Control group. The audiovisual course has been found to enable learners to concentrate on the learning situation faster and master the teaching essential contents more thoroughly.