Facets Of Concept Research Articles

SELF-IDENTIFICATION FACTORS OF VISITORS TO THE MEMORIAL LANDSCAPE OF THE ARKAIM ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE

The article uses the case of Arkaim archaeological site in Chelyabinsk Region to unravel the mechanisms of building a connective structure that determine the strategies for self-identification of various groups of actors in this memorial landscape. The term “connective structure” is used in the meaning assigned to it by Jan Assmann, creator of the concept of communicative and cultural memory that is central to this study. Contributors to the article also rely on the theory of historical and collective memory proposed by Maurice Halbwachs. The connective structure of Arkaim is explored as a multidimensional phenomenon whose conceptual facets are represented by the natural landscape and its history, the history of Arkaim settlement dating back to the Bronze Age, the historical facts, legends and tales, as well as the history of discovery and promotion of this archaeological monument. Extensive interviews with actors are used to single out the four key factors of self-identification: territorial, professional, cultural, and personal. The article describes how each of these factors manifests itself in relation to the features of the memorial landscape.

The ECOSOPHY concept in discourses of language education: a cross-cultural perspective

This paper focuses on studying the peculiarities of the linguocognitive actualization of the concept of ecosophy in language education discourses with an emphasis on its cross-cultural ontology in the English language teaching and learning environments of Argentina, Côte d'Ivoire, the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Peru, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Ukraine. On the premise of analysing the multidisciplinary essence of ecosophy as deep ecology philosophy, within the methodological framework of cognitive linguistics, ecolinguistics and linguoculturology, the authors substantiate the status of ecosophy as a universal fundamental conceptual constituent of linguodidactic discourses of the twenty-first century, oriented at biospheric egalitarianism to realize the Sustainable Development Goals formulated by the United Nations as the blueprint to secure a better future. As a result of the conducted psycholinguistic experiment centered around elicitation techniques, such quantitatively dominant culturally universal components of the concept of ecosophy as harmony, resilience, and sustainability, together with the conceptual facets content and level, as the basis of better language education cross-culturally have been revealed. Our further conceptual and linguistic analysis has enabled our construing a multi-dimensional matrix as a representation of the concept researched. The data obtained have proved that the conceptual dimension content comprises the conceptual commonalities social life, economics, politics, peace/war/safety, environment, culture, whereas the dimension level embraces the concepts individual/identity, community, state. The matrix serves as a tool for explicating major conceptual highlights of ecosophy in language instruction discourses across eleven countries, thus perspectively contributing to the development of more efficient, culturally relevant linguodidactic methods and media.

A Transposition of the Minkov-Hofstede Model of Culture to the Individual Level of Analysis: Evidence from Mongolia

After Hofstede proposed individualism-collectivism (IDV-COLL) as a dimension of national culture, numerous studies have used that name to refer to individual-level psychological constructs, based on theories and empirical operationalizations that are not necessarily compatible with the Hofstede tradition. This has created confusion. In this study, we investigate whether the two revised Minkov-Hofstede dimensions of national culture - IDV-COLL and “flexibility-monumentalism” (FLX-MON) - have individual-level counterparts and if they are isomorphic (have the same structure at both levels of analysis). We find that the three main conceptual facets of national COLL (conformism, ascendancy, and exclusionism) and the three of MON (self-esteem, self-stability, and generosity) materialize as six independent individual-level dimensions in a nationally representative sample from Mongolia ( n = 1500). This structure emerged in a confirmatory factor analysis, multidimensional scaling, and hierarchical cluster analyses. This is the first series of analyses of the structure of the individual-level ingredients of national IDV-COLL and FLX-MON,

A METAMORPHIC ANALYSIS OF FEMALE FORMS IN INDIAN PAINTINGS: MODERN & CONTEMPORARY PERIOD

A piece of art, if analyzed comprehensively, is built with the amalgamation of its formal and conceptual facets. These formal and conceptual aspects are intertwined so intimately that one cannot exist without the other. Since time immemorial, 'Women' is one of the most acclaimed concepts in Indian art. Female body has been represented and identified through various forms and concepts with the shift in time and space. The present research paper is an analytical study of those transformations through which female forms in Indian paintings have undergone. It also focuses on how a finite concept 'Women' has been indigenously explored in creative forms by numerous artists, which encompasses a wide range of visualizations of women, from Abanindranath's fragile depictions to voluptuous nudes of Souza with enlarged genitals, from tranquility in images of Ara to blank-faced images of Hussain. The adopted methodology for this paper is descriptive and observational with an aim of exploring the different approaches in the depiction of the female body and its formal evolution with time. The paper primarily considers the female impression by Abanindranath Tagore, Amrita Shergill, F N Souza, K H Ara, M F Husain and Gogi Saroj Pal and few other artists. The research favorably concludes that there has been a great role of artistic trends, personal psychic tendencies of artists as well as concurrent socio-political situations that prompted artists to characterize women in varied forms.

Anthropomorphism in human–robot interactions: a multidimensional conceptualization

Abstract With robots increasingly assuming social roles (e.g., assistants, companions), anthropomorphism (i.e., the cognition that an entity possesses human characteristics) plays a prominent role in human–robot interactions (HRI). However, current conceptualizations of anthropomorphism in HRI have not adequately distinguished between precursors, consequences, and dimensions of anthropomorphism. Building and elaborating on previous research, we conceptualize anthropomorphism as a form of human cognition, which centers upon the attribution of human mental capacities to a robot. Accordingly, perceptions related to a robot’s shape and movement are potential precursors of anthropomorphism, while attributions of personality and moral value to a robot are potential consequences of anthropomorphism. Arguing that multidimensional conceptualizations best reflect the conceptual facets of anthropomorphism, we propose, based on Wellman’s (1990) Theory-of-Mind (ToM) framework, that anthropomorphism in HRI consists of attributing thinking, feeling, perceiving, desiring, and choosing to a robot. We conclude by discussing applications of our conceptualization in HRI research.

IMAGE SCHEMA OF DEATH IN DONNE’S POETRY: A COGNITIVE PERSPECTIVE SYNONYMOUS WITH MONOTHEISTIC NOTION OF RESURRECTION

The aim of this paper is to analyze Donne’s conceits which are delineated as metaphors by Law (2011, p. 3) in the light of conceptual metaphor theory proposed by Lakoff and Johnson (1980) to gauge what aspects of cognitive linguistics are applicable to Donne’s metaphors. For this purpose, the choice of all-pervasive concept in his poetry has been discussed as an image schema of death. Its various conceptual facets have been explored to find the variety of conceptual metaphors used by Donne to establish the single construal of death. The most conclusive point; however, was to find out if this image schema of death is far from conventional and be liable to fit into Monotheist notion of resurrection elucidated by Abdullah and Lutfi (2019, p. 86). Keywords: Cognitive linguistics, conceptual metaphor theory, image schemas, conceptual blending, Monotheistic notion of death and resurrection.

Sustainable Tourism: Conceptual Clarity and Contextualization in Nepal

Considering the paucity of empirical research, the purpose of the paper is to communicate the conceptual facets and empirical frameworks of sustainable tourism that can be contextualized in the context of Nepal. This paper is an analytical review, building on previous view. Empirical evidences, Systematic open discourse among stakeholders, Pragmatism Philosophy, Sustainable Mindset, Destination exploration and branding, Industry-Community-Government interrelationship, learning from best practices are prerequisites of initiating and implementing sustainable tourism practices in Nepal. Sustainability tourism is result of continuous efforts. The academic and business model depends upon context and mindset. This study attempts to offer some empirical models that can be contextualized in Nepalese context. In Nepalese context, revival and exploration of new destinations is needed before sustainability dimension. The research paper has suggested some of the research issues and models in which future research on Nepalese perspective could be conducted. Moreover, study has disseminated contextual remedies for initiating and implementing sustainable tourism scenario in Nepal.

Метафорична репрезентація жіночих образів у сучасному американському телесеріалі «Відчайдушні домогосподарки»

The analysis of women’s images from the perspective of cognitive poetics aims to explain the cognitive processes underlying their perception, processing, and interpretation by the reader. Offering a new approach to the investigation of the image, cognitive poetics allows viewing a woman’s image as a linguo-cognitive construct comprising the conceptual and verbal facets. The conceptual facet is revealed through its notional/non-metaphorical (concept WOMAN) and figurative/metaphorical (conceptual metaphors) components while the verbal facet is associated with the corresponding lexical means of expressing the concept in the TV-series excerpts.

Sistemas para la organización del conocimiento: definición y evolución histórica

En este ensayo se analizan los Sistemas para la Organización del Conocimiento (SOC) con el objetivo de establecer su definición y la forma en que evolucionó históricamente. Se propone que los SOC son fundamentales en la bibliotecología, en tanto que estandarizan los procesos ordenadores y posibilitan el efectivo rescate de la información. Se determina que: (1) en la parte conceptual confluyen diversos conceptos de SOC, (2) su evolución histórica está asociada a visiones interdisciplinarias (epistemología, ciencias cognitivas, bibliotecología, ciencias computacionales), (3) históricamente, han pasado por diversas etapas, asociadas a los paradigmas organizadores imperantes y, (4) actualmente, están en un proceso de ajuste a contextos digitales asociados a la Web 2.0, la Web Semántica y el Linked Data. Finalmente, puede concluirse que el estudio teórico de los SOC es importante, ya que contribuye a una mejor planeación de las aplicaciones prácticas que éstos pueden tener en la organización de recursos de información.

School Academic Language Demands for Understanding Functional Relationships: A Design Research Project on the Role of Language in Reading and Learning

Acquiring conceptual understanding of functions is far from being trivial for most students, especially language learners. The article reports on a design research project with students in Grades 8-11 (n = 94) that fostered academic language learners’ development of conceptual understanding in the interplay of different semiotic representations. Theoretical and qualitative analyses of students’ learning pathways and obstacles allowed the specification of school academic language demands based on concept demands for dealing with functional relationships. The strong interplay between concept and language demands can be described by the correspondence of conceptual compaction of conceptual facets and the language-related condensation of their verbalizations.

Amplitude of Low-Frequency Fluctuations During Resting State Differentially Predicts Authentic and Hubristic Pride.

Pride is an important, self-conscious emotion composed of two distinct conceptual facets: arrogant, egotistic "hubristic pride," and pro-social, achievement-oriented "authentic pride." However, little is known about the neural basis of the two facets of pride. Here, we investigated the association between spontaneous brain activity and these two facets of pride in resting state. We measured 276 participants on authentic and hubristic pride. The fractional amplitude of low-frequency fluctuations (fALFF) was used to identify pride-related regions. The results revealed individual differences in authentic pride were associated with the fALFF in the bilateral superior temporal gyrus (STG), which has been implicated in social processing. In contrast, individual differences in hubristic pride were associated with the fALFF in the left orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) and posterior cingulate cortex (PCC), which have been implicated in self-referential and reward processing. Together, our results provide initial evidence for the distinct neural substrates for authentic and hubristic pride.

Pre-service physics teachers’ content knowledge of electric and magnetic field concepts: Conceptual facets and their balance

The concepts of electricity and magnetism in physics are complex and demanding to learn because their meaning builds through several different phenomenological areas. Each of these phenomenological areas adds a certain facet of the meaning of the concept. All standard physics textbooks discuss at least 1) force, 2) energy and work, and 3) electric charge and current, which are different phenomenological facets of field and which also are implicitly covered in instruction. It is of interest to ask, how these three facets are actually reflected in university students’ declarative (expressed and communicated) knowledge of electric and magnetic field concepts. Here this problem is addressed by using recently introduced concept networks as a research tool. Using these concept networks, pre-service physics teachers have represented their views how electric and magnetic field concepts are linked to other concepts and conceptual elements in electricity and magnetism. The results suggest that more extensive is the students’ basis of content knowledge the more balanced are the facets, while students with less extensive basis of content knowledge tend to favour forcebased understanding of the electric and magnetic fields. The implications of the findings on teaching and instruction are discussed.

The Portrait of industrial Artefacts: The trigger of a new apreciation

This paper intends to acknowledge the essential role that photography has played in the generation of a new appreciation within the architectural discipline, triggered precisely by the portrait of some artefacts which, paradoxically, had been during decades completely overlooked by it: the industrial storage structures. The aim of this text is threefold:
 First, to retrace how the first unintentional portraits of industrial artefacts taken during the early years of the 20th century unleashed an aes- thetic fascination and transformed them into a fundamental source of inspiration for the new forms of architecture.
 Second, to examine how the later work of subsequent photographers of second half of the 20th century unveiled diverse conceptual facets of these industrial structures, and exposed their architectural nature.
 Finally, to evidence how this evolutionary process towards a conceptual interest contributed to challenge the parameters of what, till that moment, defined what was assumed as a valid source of interest and inspiration to the architectural discipline.

Theorizing and Analyzing Citizenship in Multicultural Societies

I argue that sociologists have directed insufficient attention to the study of citizenship. When citizenship is studied, sociologists tend to concentrate on just one facet: rights. I elaborate four conceptual facets of citizenship. I link two—citizenship as rights and belonging—to theoretical elaborations of multiculturalism. Considering multiculturalism as a state discourse and set of policies, rather than a political or normative theory, I outline linkages between multiculturalism and two additional facets of citizenship: legal status and participation. Over the last 15 years, the idea of multiculturalism has come under withering criticism, especially in Europe, in part because it is claimed that multiculturalism undermines common citizenship. Yet countries with more multicultural policies and a stronger discourse of pluralism and recognition are places where immigrants are more likely to become citizens, more trusting of political institutions, and more attached to the national identity. There is also little evidence that multicultural policies fuel majority backlash, and some modest evidence that such policies enlarge conceptions of inclusive membership. By studying claims-making and the equality of immigrant-origin groups, we see that the participatory aspect of citizenship needs to take center stage in future work in political sociology, social theory, social movements, immigration, and race/ethnicity.

“The Pulp of Color”: Toward a Notion of Expenditure in Ferreira Gullar's Neo-concrete Writings

Most scholarship on Neo-concretism tends either to ignore Ferreira Gullar's early poetry or simply reiterate the poet's own account of his book A Luta Corporal (1954) as concerned solely with the implosion of language. However, Gullar's book also engages with a sustained existential meditation on temporality and finitude through images of material expenditure, with pears and apples recurring throughout its pages as self-consuming entities that dramatize the inexorability of time. Fruit would later become a metaphor for the effect of color in the Neoconcrete production of painter Aluisio Carvão, with Gullar suggesting that the “resistance of the object” is overcome in his works by the way our vision is made to linger on “the pulp of color.” Can it be that expenditure returns within Neoconcrete theory in the guise of fruit? If so, then the movement's generally undisputed association with a redemptive phenomenology will have to be reviewed in order to accommodate a far more anxiety-ridden conceptual facet.

The Moral Meanings of Miscarriage

The Moral Meanings of Miscarriage

What Is Library Use? Facets of Concept and a Typology of Its Application in the Literature of Library and Information Science

The “use” of library resources and services is frequently presented in library and information science (LIS) literature as a primitive concept: an idea that need not be defined when it is being measured as an operational variable in empirical research. This project considered representations of library use through the Evolutionary Concept Analysis (ECA) method, developed by nursing scholar Beth L. Rodgers to explore the significance of concepts within specific disciplinary, chronological, and theoretical contexts. Analysis of a 200-item sample of the LIS journal literature revealed that “use” is not a monolithic concept but, in fact, has multiple facets of meaning that are deployed in diverse contexts across the LIS publication spectrum. In addition to reviewing key discussions of library use in the LIS literature, this article presents a typology of its conceptual facets.

History of Methodology in the Professional Valuation of Capital

This 50-page survey of methodological history in the area of Professional Valuation aims to deliver a historic analysis of the methodological material and context which lay behind the foundation of the Professional Valuation - first institutionalized in the United States by the Appraisal Institute during the period of The Great Depression.We come to the conclusion that during this period the Professional Valuation methodology (back then mostly focused on the appraisal of real estate) can be broadly characterized as possessing a non-positivist slant. This means that, in the perception of the first methodologists of the Profession, appraisal values were not supposed to be in the likeness of prevailing market prices other than by accident, viz. they have been conceived as broad anticyclical metrics of sustainable values in the framework of long-term 'normal prices' from the Marshallian price analysis. Conditions of the Great Depression were favorable to the dissemination of this non-positivist view of professional appraisal functions, according to which the Profession tended to regard itself as an explicit public interest profession consciously combating the destruction of values amidst the extreme seizure of the capital markets.After the World War II and the settling of capital market activities into the growth mode accompanied by the generally increasing public affluence, there had occurred a gradual shift toward a more positivist view of the appraisal functions. The profession began to trust market prices and the new winds among valuers caused them to believe that their functions should include nothing more than reflecting prevailing market prices and certifying them as 'values' in their reports. By 1960th the valuers had become mere passive scorekeepers/reflectors of the market and abandoned all the aspiration of them ever possessing some pricing influence to serve public interest. The conscious annunciation of this new significantly desiccated ideology occurred during a so-called ‘positivist revolution in valuation methodology’ pioneered by such writers as Wendt, Ratcliff, Kinnard etc. Their views were paralleled and reinforced by dogmas of the so-called new classical economics that included the proponents of efficient markets theories. Since their time, the mechanistic, purely positivist functions of the valuation profession have been taken for granted and still dominate its worldview. Beyond them the profession ventures not. Our analysis, by building on the ‘liquidity pricing scientific research program’ pioneered in the modern day by such researchers as Plantin, Sapra, Shin, Carletti et al, attempts to bring to light what we contend are substantive merits of the non-positivist valuation doctrine of the Depression Era methodologists (such as Babcock, Schmutz & MacKomrick, Hyder etc.). The revival of such a doctrine will help to impregnate with new vision and scope currently ongoing disputes about public benefits of the fair value accounting etc. As for professional valuers themselves, by reading this paper they will benefit from understanding the historic and general economic context of the development of the three-approaches-to-value doctrine, and also gain an insight into interpreting the Market value basis convention and how it evolved overtime. The hidden conceptual facets of the Elwood approach to valuation, not discussed elsewhere, are also highlighted in this paper, as are some distinctions of emphasis between the American and British schools of valuation thought. Most importantly, in doing research this paper treats valuation profession as an institution which has important macroeconomic role to play in guiding the pricing processes on the capital markets. Because of this, there is a clear-cut case to regulate the methodology of this profession on the national level and having regard to explicit macroeconomic and public interest, not merely to private interests of the entirety of consumers of valuation services or the valuation industry itself. In all this, some strands of the non-positivist valuation methodology highlighted in this paper emerge that can serve as arrows in the quiver of regulators to encourage the empowerment of Professional Valuation with its newly-found macroeconomic & public interest authority and related duties. Therefore, this survey is not intended as another survey of mere technical tools of valuation or their development, but as a broad survey of evolving socio-economic vision and forces underlying the methodology that created those techniques and tools.

Toward automatic facet analysis and need negotiation

This work explores the hypothesis that interactions between a trained human search intermediary and an information seeker can inform the design of interactive IR systems. We discuss results from a controlled Wizard-of-Oz case study, set in the context of the TREC 2005 HARD track evaluation, in which a trained intermediary executed an integrated search and interaction strategy based on conceptual facet analysis and informed by need negotiation techniques common in reference interviews. Having a human “in the loop” yielded large improvements over fully automated systems as measured by standard ranked-retrieval metrics, demonstrating the value of mediated search. We present a detailed analysis of the intermediary's actions to gain a deeper understanding of what worked and why. One contribution is a taxonomy of clarification types informed both by empirical results and existing theories in library and information science. We discuss how these findings can guide the development of future systems. Overall, this work illustrates how studying human information-seeking processes can lead to better information retrieval applications.

Investigating ontology development for engineering design support

Ontologies are now in widespread use as a means of formalizing domain knowledge in a way that makes it accessible, shareable and reusable. Nevertheless, to many, the nature and use of ontologies are unfamiliar. This paper takes a practical approach – through the use of example – to clarifying what ontologies are and how they might be useful in an important and representative phase of the engineering design process, that of design requirement development and capture. The paper consists of two parts. In the first part ontologies and their use are discussed, and a methodology for developing ontologies is explored. In the second part, three very different types of ontology are developed in accordance with the methodology. Each of the ontologies captures a different conceptual facet of the engineering design domain, described at a quite different level of abstraction than the others. The process of developing ontologies is illustrated in a practical way and the application of these ontologies for supporting the capture of the engineering design requirement is described as a means of demonstrating the general potential of ontologies.