Basic Intention Research Articles

J.-P. SARTRE’S HUMANISM IN THE CONTEXT OF MODERN ANTHROPOLOGICAL SITUATION

Purpose. The article is aimed to show the specificity and heuristic value of the humanism of the French existentialist J.-P. Sartre, represented both in his early works, where the isolationist position prevailed, and considering his evolution to various types of collective responsibility and attempts to build a universal morality on the basis of ontological integral humanity. Theoretical basis. Taking into account the relevance of the topic of person’s searching for authentic existence in the modern world, the author analyzes the concept of Sartre’s humanism, which remains poorly researched in the Ukrainian philosophical space, since most of his works of the later period remained untranslated and unknown to the Ukrainian community. That is, there is a need to consider the phenomenon of a human and his/her basic characteristics, which ultimately determine what type of humanism deserves further support and development. The author places the existentialist dimension of a human being, which is one of the most important determinants of human behavior and the ways of human self-determination of his/her existence, in the context of the general development of the humanistic tradition of modern anthropology. Originality. The article substantiates the thesis that Sartre’s position concerning humanism is conditioned by the specificity of his understanding of the authentic human existence as a constant self-transcendence, the person’s realization of the project that makes a person the creator of the values. Therefore, Sartre’s humanism can only be understood in the context of this self-construction and responsibility of a person for his/her choice. The author proved that although this concept was subsequently changed, the basic intention of the Sartre’s approach remains the same. Thus, having combined the existentialism and Marxist understanding of the historical process, Sartre nevertheless emphasizes that the primal intentionality of human existence (project or transcendence) is decisive in all subsequent actions and doings, despite the fact that real practice may demonstrate deviations and even regression concerning humanity. Having defined the universality of the human situation in the world as the presence of certain a priori restrictions, the philosopher comes to the recognition of intersubjectivity, which allows him to reach a new type of morality, which defines "integral humanity" or "full-fledged human" as its goal. Conclusions. The interpretation of humanism by early Sartre relied on the idea of a person as such, who is in constant transcendence (going beyond), constantly constructing him/herself; he/she is oriented towards the future (but it is a pure future, unplanned and undefined). In this case, a person is the creator of the values and their legislator in this world. At the same time, the late Sartre emphasized that since a person exists in a society where he/she is usually in a state of alienation, the question under which conditions and by what means is it possible to reproduce and realize a truly humanistic dimension is inevitable. Sartre’s position is based on the fact that there is a primal need for self-realization, to be human.

Ensino Médio Politécnico: análises acerca de uma possibilidade contra-hegemônica de política educacional

Esse trabalho discute o Ensino Médio Politécnico (EMP) implantado na Rede Estadual de Ensino do Rio Grande do Sul (REE-RS), no período 2011-2014. Analisamos os pressupostos básicos, a intencionalidade e os principais resultados dessa política educacional. O materialismo histórico dialético é a base teórico-metodológica tomada como referência. Trata-se de uma pesquisa qualitativa tendo como fontes os documentos da Secretaria de Estado da Educação do Rio Grande do Sul e do Ministério da Educação. O material empírico foi cotejado com pesquisas realizadas em teses e dissertações selecionadas e que focaram a política em estudo. As análises revelam o conteúdo contra-hegemônico da política e demonstram processos e resultados que impactaram nos indicadores educacionais no período, bem como os primeiros retrocessos verificados nesse âmbito com a sua interrupção. Pode-se perceber que os sujeitos envolvidos viveram tensões e conflitos, protagonizaram avanços e recuos, mas os indicadores educacionais tiveram melhoras tendenciais com a implantação do EMP, reduzindo a exclusão pelo abandono e repetência. De igual forma, os resultados evidenciam a piora nos indicadores com a desmobilização desta política a partir de 2015. O artigo pode auxiliar pesquisas futuras que objetivem analisar mudanças no campo da formulação, implementação e avaliação de políticas educacionais.

ANDREI KOLESNIKOV’S IRONIC JOURNALISTIC DISCOURSE: BASIC AUTHORIAL INTENTIONS AND THEIR IMPLEMENTATION IN THE PRINTED MEDIA TEXT

This article is devoted to the study of the ironic journalistic discourse used by Andrei Kolesnikov, a special correspondent for the newspaper «Kommersant». The research material includes printed journalist media texts created in the genre of an ironic report, A. Kolesnikov is one of the founders of this genre. The article considers irony as an obligatory element of many discourses, including journalism, as a way of journalist’s worldview. The key concept of the undertaken research is the concept of authorial intention proposed by N.I. Klushina. It is noted that three leading intentions of the main types of media discourse interact in a special way – information (information discourse), persuasion (journalistic discourse), entertainment (entertainment discourse) in the ironic journalistic discourse. The article emphasizes that the ideological dominants of these discourses in the ironic journalistic discourse interact forming symbiosis of information, worldview ideologies and entertaining, paradoxical facts. The article identifies and analyzes frequency language means and techniques for creating comic and ironic effects in the modern journalistic media text in general and in the texts by A. Kolesnikov in particular. The author proposes a methodology for studying the representation of intentional categories of interpretation, evaluativeness and tonality in media texts, draws conclusions about the influence and interaction of the basic intentions of media discourse and an ironic journalist’s authorial intentions as an established trend in modern journalistic discursive practices.

Airport passengers' adoption behaviour towards self-check-in Kiosk Services: the roles of perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness and need for human interaction

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the factors influencing passenger adoption and behaviour of self-service technology (SST) in airports. This study adopted the Theory Acceptance Model (TAM) and extended the model by including the need for human interaction (NI) construct in the study framework. Design/methodology/approachThe research framework is based on the theoretical concepts of SST usage from the inter-disciplinary field. Four hundred two questionnaires were collected from passengers who used the self-check-in kiosks in Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA and KLIA2). The collected data were analysed using the structural equation modelling (SEM) technique. FindingsDifferent factors determine passengers' willingness and adoption of SSTs. Perceived ease of use and perceived usefulness significantly affect passenger adoption and behaviour of SSTs in airports. However, the passenger was much comfortable with the SST as the moderating effect of need for human interaction shows a negative result. Practical implicationsThe findings contribute to an understanding of how and why passengers use SSTs, which is critical from a customer relationship management (CRM) perspective. Better strategies can be developed to manage and coordinate SSTs delivery in the airport by understanding the passengers’ experience from the self-check-in kiosks. Originality/valueThis paper goes beyond the basic SSTs usage and intentions study by highlighting the nonimportance of human interaction in SSTs usage specifically by airport passengers.

High temperature influence on concrete produced by spherical shaped EAF slag fine aggregate – Physical and mechanical properties

Spherical shaped EAF slag fine aggregate is a promising alternative of natural sand in concrete as it imparts improved mechanical, durability and thermal properties. These features indicate the possibility of obtaining concrete of improved fire resistance by using spherical shaped EAF slag fine aggregate which have not yet been studied. The basic intent of this study is to investigate the high temperature response of concrete produced by spherical shaped EAF oxidizing slag fine aggregates. In this study, seven different types of concrete were produced by replacing natural sand with spherical and angular shaped EAF slag fine aggregates at a volume ratio of 0.0, 0.3, 0.5 and 1.0 for the water to cement ratio (W/C), slump and air content of 0.4, 5 cm and 5% respectively. The specimens were heated in the electric furnace at four different temperature state ranging from 200 °C to 1000 °C after a curing age of 28 days. All the specimens (both heated and sound) were tested for physical properties such as mass loss, length change and mechanical properties such as compressive strength, elastic modulus, flexural strength and tensile fracture energy. Results indicate that spherical shaped EAF slag concrete being exposed to high temperature undergoes lower mass loss with the increase in slag replacement ratio and the values are lower than angular shaped EAF slag concrete of same slag ratio. In addition, up to a heating temperature of 500 °C, spherical shaped EAF slag concrete exhibits superior residual elastic modulus and similar to slightly decreasing residual compressive and flexural strength in comparison to normal concrete.

Applying the Personal and Social Responsibility Model-Based Program: Differences According to Gender between Basic Psychological Needs, Motivation, Life Satisfaction and Intention to be Physically Active.

The objective of the study was to evaluate the impact of a program based on the Teaching Personal and Social Responsibility (TPSR) on the variables of responsibility, basic psychology needs, motivation, satisfaction with life and the intention to be physically active, as well as the differences of gender. The participants were 85 students (experimental group n = 35, 17 girls and control group n = 50, 28 girls). The students of the experimental group received the TPSR for 8 months within the physical education subject. The findings indicated an improvement in the experimental group in terms of personal responsibility and in the case of female students, in basic psychological needs and intrinsic motivation. In conclusion, the TPSR program can be integrated into the physical education curriculum in order to improve the personal responsibility of students and fulfill their motivation and satisfaction of basic psychological needs.

A new spectral integral equation method for solving two-dimensional unsteady advection-diffusion equations via Chebyshev polynomials

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to develop an efficient and reliable spectral integral equation method for solving two-dimensional unsteady advection-diffusion equations.Design/methodology/approachIn this study, the considered two-dimensional unsteady advection-diffusion equations are transformed into the equivalent partial integro-differential equations via integrating from the considered unsteady advection-diffusion equation. After this stage, by using Chebyshev polynomials of the first kind and the operational matrix of integration, the integral equation would be transformed into the system of linear algebraic equations. Robustness and efficiency of the proposed method were illustrated by six numerical simulations experimentally. The numerical results confirm that the method is efficient, highly accurate, fast and stable for solving two-dimensional unsteady advection-diffusion equations.FindingsThe proposed method can solve the equations with discontinuity near the boundaries, the advection-dominated equations and the equations in irregular domains. One of the numerical test problems designed specially to evaluate the performance of the proposed method for discontinuity near boundaries.Originality/valueThis study extends the intention of one dimensional Chebyshev approximate approaches (Yuksel and Sezer, 2013; Yuksel et al., 2015) for two-dimensional unsteady advection-diffusion problems and the basic intention of our suggested method is quite different from the approaches for hyperbolic problems (Bulbul and Sezer, 2011).

Adam Smith e a virtude da justiça

O objetivo central desse artigo é refletir sobre o papel e o significado do critério de justiça no pensamento de Adam Smith, considerando especialmente a obra The Theory of Moral Sentiments e, parcialmente, as obras Lectures on Jurisprudence e An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. O propósito básico é tentar esboçar uma teoria da justiça que pode ser encontrada nas obras de Smith, particularmente no seu texto de 1759, a saber, The Theory of Moral Sentiments. Para tal, inicio esclarecendo alguns conceitos centrais de sua teoria moral sentimentalista, a saber, empatia (sympathy), espectador imparcial (impartial espectator) e mão invisível (invisible hand). Posteriormente, investigo o papel das virtudes nesta teoria normativa anti-utilitarista e a distinção entre virtudes positivas e negativas. De posse disso, o próximo passo será analisar a concepção de justiça retributiva defendida por Smith, que parece defender uma teoria híbrida da punição por englobar aspectos retributivista, preventivista, expressivista e reabilitacionista. Por fim, reflito sobre o significado da justiça como virtude negativa e sua ligação com os direitos.

Considerations on the Criminalization of the Offense of Leaving the Scene of an Accident

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the offense of leaving the scene of a road accident focusing on the fulfillment of the typical conditions of the objective side and the subjective side of the offence. In the judicial practice, the main issue faced by the judicial authorities in cases involving offenses of leaving the scene of an accident is related to establishing, the perpetrator’s form of guilt at the time of the act, either intent or basic intent or whether has acted guiltily or without guilt. The delimitation of the forms of guilt is very important as the perpetrator's liability can only be traced if it is established, beyond reasonable doubt that he acted intentionally - directly or indirectly - at the time he left the scene of a road accident.

Medical Students' Experiences of Moral Distress in End-of-Life Care.

Background: Moral distress is a frequent phenomenon in end-of-life care. It occurs when one knows the morally correct response to an ethically challenging situation, but cannot act because of internal or external constraints. Medical students-having a perceived low level in the hospital hierarchy-may be particularly vulnerable to moral distress. Objective: To assess the frequency and intensity of medical students' moral distress occurring in end-of-life care. Design: We developed a questionnaire describing 10 potentially morally distressing scenarios in end-of-life care. Setting: The questionnaire was distributed to all fourth-year students of a German medical school. Measurements: We asked students (1) if they had ever witnessed the described scenarios and (2) to rate the extent (numeric rating scale 0-4) of moral distress for each situation. Results: Of 340 students, 217 (64%) completed the survey. On average, students had experienced 2.51 morally distressing situations (standard deviation = ±2.23). The majority of students (N = 163, 75%) had experienced at least one morally distressing situation. Providing futile care with the basic intention to make money was the item with the highest levels of experienced distress (2.88 ± 1.05), witnessed by 54 (25%) participants. Twenty-five students (12%) reported that they had thought about dropping out of medical school or choosing a nonclinical specialty because of moral distress. Conclusions: Medical students experience moral distress regularly and most frequently in scenarios of futile care. This may be an underestimated factor for medical school attrition. Interventions should identify the sources of moral distress and empower students to address their moral concerns.

Advertising Effectiveness on Consumer Purchase Decision at Different Income and Education Levels

Advertising is a form of business communication about product related information. Basic intention of advertising is to induce prospective buyers to purchase the product. The present study attempts to analyse how Television and Print media advertisements create differential influence on the purchase intention of a sample of 400 respondents having demographic characteristics classified into Education and Income levels in Indore, the commercial capital city of Madhya Pradesh. Responses were collected through a self designed questionnaire on five point likert scale for assessing the impact of Television and print media advertisements on the respondents with different demographic profiles. Analysis of data was done with the help of Anova for four groups and Post hoc Analysis of Tukey HSD to calculate differential influence of two types of advertisements on two demographic groups. The findings of the study state that Television and Print media advertisements have significant impact on buying decisions of all groups while mean difference of the impacts between classified groups in this study are also noticed. Results are useful for the marketer in choosing mode of advertisement for the targeted group.

Art in the time of (neoliberal) capitalism: Adorno vs. Mikelsen

The article opens the question of the perception of the relationship between art and capitalism in the contemporary era. This complex problem is treated from two angles of observation, which seem to be in a contrasting relationship. The first interpretative emphasis is placed on Adorne?s aesthetic theory of the mediation of art and society, while the other is summed up in Mikelsen?s theory of the effects of non-philosophical contemporary art which, in fact, conquers the position of power in the context of neoliberal capitalism with its empiricism. The article examines both these approaches, given their basic intentions, ranges and possible outcomes.

КРЕОЛІЗОВАНІ ТЕКСТИ (КОМІКСИ) ЯК ЗАСІБ АКТИВІЗАЦІЇ НАЦІОНАЛЬНОЇ ТА ГРОМАДЯНСЬКОЇ САМОІДЕНТИФІКАЦІЇ МОЛОДІ

The article is devoted to the problem of activation of national and civic identity. The authors determined the indicators of national and civic identity for qualitative content analysis of verbal and non-verbal components of multimodal texts (comics). The authors considered the peculiarities of usage of comics in training practice for: actualization of national and civic self-identification barriers of youth in different subsystems of social interaction; increasing the youth’s resistance to propaganda’s influence; fixation of positive change during the training. The authors established, that comics creation as a method has high diagnostic and developmental potential for activation of youth’s national and civic self-identification processes. It was shown, that usage of comics: 1) facilitates the interaction between verbal and non-verbal components of the comics and also has ample opportunities of its usage as a projective technique; 2) provides the procedure’s relevance for the target audience, since creative tasks, that involve comics creation are familiar to youth; 3) matches the basic ways of communication practices change (articulation, reconfiguration, borrowing); 4) enables the realization of clarification, prognostic modeling and construction (reconstruction) of the identification discourse. The authors revealed three basic intentions, that arised among the training participants during the comics’ remake: increase of the comics’ characters activity in defending their own national and civic identity, increase of characters’ assertiveness level (the ability to defend their own standpoint without the violation of anther individual’s moral rights) and willing to search for ways to constructively solve conflict situations. The existence of those intentions can be considered as evidence of participants’ positive change and general effectiveness of the training.

Ka čitanju sna i snovidnogu delima Stevana Pešića - književnost kao snovoslaganje

The paper points out some forms of poetic transposition of the experience, logic and the language of dreams in Pešić's travelogues, poetry, stories, poetic prose, dramatic plays and texts for puppet theatre. Choosing the works in which dreams appears in different ways and in different functions (as a personal experience; literary motif; text in the text; part of the other textual structure or complete work; potential way to create the author's thinking about literature; literary technique that is raised irrationally, fantastically and surreally to the position of dominant creative process), the Oneiric principle is actualized as one of the most important factors of Pešić's poetics. The basic intention of this paper is to confirm the assumption that the researchers of the Oneiric in the Serbian literature have many reasons to keep looking at his literary opus.

Comparison of observed ionospheric vertical TEC over the sea in Indian region with IRI-2016 model

The vertical ionospheric TEC values obtained from GAGAN grid based ionospheric delay correction values over the sea in the Indian equatorial region have been compared with the corresponding values derived from the International Reference Ionosphere model, IRI-2016. The objective of this work is to study the deviation of the vertical TEC derived from the IRI model from ground truths over the sea for different conditions. This will serve the basic intention of assessing the candidature of the IRI model as an alternative ionospheric correction model in navigation receivers in terms of accuracy. We have chosen different solar activity periods, seasons, geomagnetic conditions, locations etc. for our comparison and analysis. The TEC values by the IRI-2016 were compared with the actual measured values for the given conditions and errors were obtained. The measured vertical TEC values at the ionospheric grid points were derived from the GAGAN broadcast ionospheric delay data and used as reference. The IRI model with standard internal functions was used in estimating the TEC at the same ionospheric grid points. The errors in the model derived values are statistically analysed. Broadly, the results show that, for the Indian sector over the sea, the IRI model performs better on quiet days in off equatorial regions, particularly in the northern region. The overall performance degrades for other conditions with the model generally underestimating the true TEC values and most severely in the equatorial region. The performance is worst in this region for the disturbed days of the equinoctial period. The comparison study is also done with the TEC data measured directly by dual frequency GPS receivers. The results were found to be in general agreement with those obtained by comparing the model with GAGAN broadcast data as reference. This study will be useful in considering the IRI-2016 model for real time estimates of TEC as an alternative to the current parametric model in a satellite navigation receiver in absence of other options.

Geographical Indications Act in India and veracity: a producer perspective

<section class="abstract"> Unlike other IPRs, GI protection is intended for a group of persons who are residing in a locality using the name (title). It is the reputation of the product based on its quality that is attained due to geographical factors and prolonged use that makes a GI different from a trade mark. GI protection has not been prominent in India. In December 1999 the Indian Parliament passed the Geographical Indications of Goods (Registration and Protection) Act, 1999 (GI Act). According to this law, any association of persons, producers, organizations, or authorities established by or under the law can apply for the registration of a GI. The applicant must represent the interests of the producers and give the details of the GI, including its special features, quality, reputation or other characteristics and its relation to the geographical area. Up until 2016 there were 248 products registered as GIs in India. It is the consumer perceived value of the GI that makes GI products unique in the market. The benefits of GI registration can be enjoyed by the producers only if the GI is properly marketed. In this empirical study, the researcher has identified the producer based on the activity he is doing in the GI business. The specific condition for treating a respondent to this study as a ‘producer’ is his/her direct involvement in the production. The process of identifying the actual producer is a very important aspect, since the law creates a wide scope in the definition of producer to cover persons other than persons involved in direct production. The basic intention of this article is to examine whether the GI protection benefited the actual producer and whether the producer has actually realized that GI protection is helping them in marketing. The article also attempts to cover the knowledge of the GI producer towards the Indian GI protection system. Most of the existing research has examined only the conceptual ideas around GI protection and their implications. But the present study looks at the subject on an empirical level. </section>

Potential of three variant machine-learning models for forecasting district level medium-term and long-term energy demand in smart grid environment

Medium-term and long-term energy prediction is essential for the planning and operations of the smart grid eco-system. The prediction of next year and next month energy demand of grid station, independent power producers, commercial, domestic and industrial consumers are allowed administrators to optimize and plan their resources. To address the forecasting problems, the basic intention of this study is to propose an accurate and precise medium and long-term district level energy prediction models employing the machine learning based models which are: 1) artificial neural network with nonlinear autoregressive exogenous multivariable inputs model; 2) multivariate linear regression model; and 3) adaptive boosting model. Based on environmental and aggregated energy consumption data as the model's input and output, the load prediction interval is further classified into three main parts, 1-month ahead forecasting, seasonally ahead forecasting and 1-year ahead forecasting. Feature extraction, data transformation and outlier detection are performed through different data tests. The prediction results intimate that the intended models cannot only increase the forecasting accuracy contrasted with previous forecasting models but also produce adequate forecasting intervals in the smart grid environment. Additionally, these techniques describe an essential step-forward, consolidating the spatiotemporal use of energy inconstancies and variations of district level and strong forecasting capabilities of energy usage requirement in future perceptive.

The influence of air-jet and vortex yarn on functionality of woven fabric

The basic intention of the research is to analyse the influence of air-jet and vortex yarn structure on woven fabric functionality. With the research, the air-jet and vortex yarn from the mixture of 65 % PES / 35 % CO fibres and fineness 20 tex were analysed. For comparison, the conventional ring-spun yarn was chosen from the mixture of 65 % PES/35 % CO fibres and fineness 20 tex. The woven fabric in the twill weave T1/3Z was produced from the air-jet, vortex and ring-spun yarn in the weft direction with two different weft densities (20 and 30 yarns per cm). In the first part of the study, the structure, physical and mechanical properties of the air-jet, vortex and ring-spun yarn were analysed, while in the second part of the research, the influence of used yarn in the weft direction on the functionality of woven fabric was studied. The research was focused mainly on physical, mechanical properties as well as permeability properties of woven fabric with air-jet and vortex yarn in the weft direction in comparison with woven fabric with conventional ring-spun yarn in the weft direction, with equal chemical composition and fineness of yarn. The research results was shown which yarn structure in the weft direction of woven fabric (air-jet or vortex) the most closely approximates the characteristics of the ring-spun yarn, which has because of ring-traveller-spindle mechanism ideal and the most even structure, mainly because of the insertion of the true twist.

Empregabilidade versus formação integral: ensino médio integrado no estado do Ceará

O artigo analisa, à luz da teoria marxista, se a formação integral contida na proposta de Ensino Médio Integrado do Estado do Ceará está realmente contemplada. A relevância do tema se confirma pelo esforço investigativo em desvendar a essência das intenções de base das políticas públicas para a educação profissionalizante, superando a escassez de produção bibliográfica acerca do tema. Como recurso metodológico, a pesquisa entrevistou 79 estudantes da Escola Estadual de Educação Profissional Maria Cavalcante Costa, sede da implantação de tal projeto no Estado. Com esse debate, a pesquisa pretende contribuir para o alargamento da compreensão crítica de tal projeto na formação dos estudantes e no desenvolvimento econômico-social do Estado do Ceará. A investigação comprovou que as políticas destinadas à formação dos trabalhadores seguem a lógica empresarial e articulam-se ao capital em crise profunda, constituindo verdadeiro empecilho para a formação integral defendida pelos clássicos do marxismo.

Актуализация семантических ролей в протестной коммуникации (на материале немецкоязычных онлайн-петиций)

This paper examines the linguistic representation of situations of online protest petitions. The specificity of the implementation of semantic roles in the semantic predicate of action expressed by potentially performative verbs, which names the corresponding intention, is considered. Attention is paid to the characteristic of online petitions as a genre of protest communication, performativity as a property of language expressions, determination of the categorical status of the semantic predicate and semantic case, participation of the significative interpretation in alternative perception and linguistic representation of situations. The relevance of the work is determined by the need to study the discursive specifics, pragmatic parameters of new online genres of protest communication, the possibility and prospects of studying universal conceptual categories on the example of the case system and their role in the formation of language categories, the importance of understanding the degree of influence of ontological factors on the formation of language consciousness. The results of the study of the set of semantic-syntactic relations and paradigm of means of expression of semantic roles in the framework of the three communicative-semantic groups of statements, implementing the basic text-forming intentions such as consent / support, disagreement / disapproval, requirement / request, are presented. Features of the implementation of performativity in the named genre of electronic democracy, determined by discourse, are identified. The means of grammaticalization of pragmatic parameters of performativity in the analyzed material are described.