Conscious Search Research Articles

INTEGRATION OF HISTORICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIETY INTO THE INFORMATION CULTURE OF THE ENGINEER OF MODERN SOCIETY

The article examines the issue of changing the very paradigm and model of the information society. There was a need to ensure a balance between the dynamic changes occurring in nature and society, the entire environment, the increased amount of information, and the rapidly developing information and communication and information technologies. Information comes to the fore. The most important indicator of the information society is that each of its members has equal rights and opportunities to freely produce and timely receive any information that interests him, except for cases limited by law. The foundation of this process is the information culture of society. The concept of “information culture” was formed in the second half of the twentieth century in connection with close attention to the mechanisms and processes associated with information exchange. From the point of view of cultural studies, information culture characterizes culture in terms of information which has been accumulated, processed and transmitted within its framework. Information culture is an integral part of a broader concept, such as – «personal culture». Personal culture is defined as a system of personal qualities (mind, character, imagination, memory) recognized by the individual as values established and valued in society. This is in a broad sense. And in a narrow sense, it is the ability and need of a specialist to use available information opportunities for a systematic and conscious search for new knowledge, its interpretation and dissemination. This means that information culture should be seen as one of the aspects of cultural activity in general and therefore it is inextricably linked with the «second nature» (social nature) of a person and acts as a product of their mental abilities. Depending on the subject who acts as a carrier of information culture, the latter can be considered at three levels: information culture of the individual; information culture of individual community groups (a certain society, nation, age or professional group, etc.); information culture of society as a whole. Nowadays, the state's innovation policy and the introduction of new technologies require increasingly complex solutions aimed at the development and transformation of the techno environment and the whole world. It is possible that in the era of globalism and technicism, the approach seems legitimate. In our time of electronic technology and enormous opportunities, there is a temptation to feel like the Creator. When a person, guided by their knowledge and skills, the achievements of civilization, science and technology, allows themselves to decide their fate and create something new, even for themselves such living creature, then the question naturally arises about the mechanism for containing and regulating such inventions and research, which could lead to the death of humanity (the discovery of the neutron bomb, for instance). Therefore, the role of information culture, which manifests itself in human information ignorance, is great. By information behaviour we understand a course of action, a set of efforts made by a person to obtain, assimilate and use and create new knowledge, its transfer and dissemination in society. The information behaviour of specialists becomes the basis for social differentiation. Historically the causes of social inequality were associated with the origin and availability of civil rights, property and income, position in the social structure of society, but at present the level of information culture, manifested by information behaviour, becomes a factor of hierarchy. Sustainable greening culture is a transition to an ecologically oriented culture, which enables a person to preserve their environment and survive physically and spiritually. The anthropological dimension of culture comes to the fore. Culture should ensure the integrity of a person, their health and happiness in conditions when many factors of scientific, technical and social development destroy this integrity, negatively affect the health of a person, and prevent the achievement of their happiness.

Theoretical Approaches Towards Studying Motivation for Surrogate Motherhood

Population increase in Russia is one of the key strategies that determine state demographic policy. Modern advancements in medical science make it possible to use various technologies that allow men and women who are unable to conceive for medical reasons to find joy in parenthood. The article discusses theories that reveal the essence and content of people’s need to reproduce and live on in future generations by means of using such technology as surrogate motherhood. The research analysis is rooted in the methodology for studying specific social phenomena based on the general theory of human activity determination developed within sociology and psychology: the role of external and internal necessity, needs in shaping the motivation for resorting to surrogate motherhood (A. Zdravomyslov, A. Merenkov). The article points out the importance of the human instinct to continue oneself in subsequent generations. The influence of needs when it comes to forming the motivation for certain human behavior is analyzed based on theoretical provisions (G. Arefiev, A. Bandura, A. Maslow, A. Leontiev) that reveal the process of conscious search for ways to satisfy different needs whenever it is possible. The emergence of medical technology allowing for the birth of a child with the help of a woman whose body, upon receiving someone else’s genetic material, is able to perform this function, forms different motives for the customer and whomever is performing such a task. P. Bourdieu’s theory of social capital helps to identify a set of economic, social, and cultural conditions that determine the content of external and internal factors that contribute to a system of interaction between these social actors. Specific motives for people having their own children are analyzed by W. Miller, D. Friedman, J. Greenberg. The research into women’s motivation for surrogate motherhood is based on works by P. Berger, T. Luckman, M. Fouquet, who studied the modern trend of using a person’s body to fulfill various needs. At the same time, the surrogate mother may develop different forms of identifying herself with the born child. The analysis of these contradictions is carried out based on conceptions of identity by M. Heidegger, E. Erickson, E. Giddens, J. Toshchenko. It is concluded that the use of different theoretical approaches to identifying the social and cultural factors which impact motivation for surrogate motherhood results in highquality empirical research that reveals the specifics of using this assisted reproductive technology in Russia.

The perception of plastic surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic—an analysis of online search patterns on a medical information platform

In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic impacted global life and transitioned economies and societal perceptions of life as we knew it. Professional and social life mostly ground to a nadir during the first lockdown in Europe in March. As a consequence, measures aimed at preventing the spread of the virus were established in medical facilities also and elective plastic surgery procedures were temporarily suspended in our clinic and others. A majority of the population, including those potentially contemplating plastic surgery procedures, spent most of their time at home with ample time available to research information about surgical procedures and other topics online. This investigation analyzes the relevance of plastic surgery during the pandemic on the basis of online search behavior patterns. Online traffic data from the online platform http://www.mooci.org were extracted using Google Analytics over a period of 6 months. The parameters analyzed were: pageviews, session duration, and bounce rate. Additionally, differentiation by areas of interest has been obtained. The data were compared and analyzed before and after the beginning of the first hard lockdown in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland. There were no significant differences in regard to pageviews and session duration when comparing time points before and after the beginning of the hard lockdown. The bounce rate exhibited a significant decrease after the beginning of the lockdown, implying a more conscious search for information and greater absorption and retention. There was no difference that could conclusively be attributed to the pandemic in terms of specific areas of interest researched. Society’s demand for information about plastic-surgical procedures continues to be steadily prevalent—despite, or even in particular, during a global pandemic. Providing reliable and readily available information about plastic surgery procedures is an important component of a functioning doctor–patient relationship and informed consent. This information may reflect society’s increased interest in plastic surgery during the pandemic, or be simply reflective of more spare time at hand to allow for such research. Further studies should investigate the relevance of elective procedures over the entire course of the pandemic.

Multi-objective train speed profile determination for automatic train operation with conscious search: A new optimization algorithm, a comprehensive study

Train speed profile is one of the most fundamental optimization issues in rail transportation. The speed profile has several indices, such as travel time and energy consumption. These indices mostly have opposite natures, which leads to a non-linear, complex multi-objective optimization problem. This paper introduces a new heuristic algorithm called Conscious Search (CS) to determine the optimal speed profile. For this purpose, after modeling the train dynamics, we initially analyze the validated heuristic optimization algorithms, including Genetic Algorithm (GA), Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), Artificial Bee Colony (ABC), Bees Algorithm (BA), and Teaching–learning Based Optimization (TLBO) statistically using sensitivity analysis. Then, using new criteria called the Impact Factor, we show that a trade-off prevails in the global and local search for algorithms. In general, the stronger the algorithm in one domain, the weaker in the other. Subsequently, no algorithm is superior to another. In this regard, CS is proposed as a hybrid algorithm that performs the optimization in two separate global and local phases to address this problem and achieve the ideal optimization. CS steps are designed to dominate other algorithms in both local and global phases. In the evaluation, we obtained the train speed profile using the proposed method and the proven latest versions of the mentioned algorithms. Based on the simulation results, CS outperforms the considered algorithms by a palpable margin, and its solutions dominate others. These results indicate on effectiveness and excellence of the proposed method.

Open learning education resource in Nigeria: A review

The core goal of education has always been to transfer knowledge in order to achieve desirable change in the learner. However, gaining access to meaningful education resource has over time become a challenge learners and teachers in the educational system. Such change has led to a conscious search for appropriate learning resources. The emergence of open learning education resources promises to silence the problem of lack of access to education resource materials by making available free educational resources that are essential for teaching learning and research purposes. This position paper therefore looks at the state and situation of open learning education resource in Nigeria. The paper also looks into the use of open education resource in Nigeria and how they are accessed by reviewing relevant literature. Recommendations were also made after relevant literature was reviewed.

DIDACTICS THEORY AND LEARNING PRACTICES IN THE CONTEXT OF POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE CHOICE OF CONSCIOUSNESS

The article is devoted to the mechanism of positive and negative choice of consciousness, which received its justification in the theory of V.M. Allakhverdov. Consciousness appears as a constructive reaction of the psyche to the uncertainty of a state in which it is impossible to use one or another automatism to successfully regulate behavior. The human psyche immediately after its birth receives a huge amount of information and carefully records it. At the basic (not conscious) level, the entire personal "archive" of individual experience is stored in the maximum completeness. At the surface (conscious) level, the stream of consciousness flows continuously and provides the reception of higher, rational decisions. But at the level of awareness, the basic consciousness without restriction allows for those images and strategies that are necessary for solving urgent and not fully understood problems. As long as variants of unconscious ideas remain in the unconscious, they do not change or modify and form a stable basis for conscious search. The use of such theoretical attitudes helps to re-evaluate many established pedagogical views. The teacher has important didactic functions. When a student learns a new scientific term, he can automatically connect it inaccurately with the existing intellectual experience and only in a dialogue with the teacher he goes from erroneous statements to true ones. The teacher helps one to overcome a variety of negative choices and get closer to a successful positive choice. The teacher also acts as a motivator for creativity, helping the student in solving non-standard tasks to activate internal resources to remove a barrier in the unconscious. Insight removes the block from the previously selected option that was negatively selected. The main function of the teacher as a caregiver is to help the student in achieving a positive personal self-determination, which firmly preserves both the search activity and the critical self-esteem.

PECULIARITIES OF THE ADOLESCENTS’ VALUE-SENSE SPHERE

Abstract. The article summarizes theoretical generalization of psychological peculiarities of the future teachers’ value-sense sphere through the analysis of its structure, interrelation of components, professional orientation as well as ways and means of its development in the educational process. It is established that the value-semantic sphere of the future teacher is studied in the framework of various scientific approaches, the main of which are: activity, personal, acmeological, axiological, subjective and semantic. The value-sense sphere plays a system-forming role in the personality of the future teacher and is the center of the spiritual-semantic regulation of his professional activity and behavior. The personal aspect of professionalization of a person with an emphasis on his activity in carrying out this process is most fully embodied in the concept of «professional self-determination», by which we mean a long and dynamic process, which includes the development of a person in professional activity, the formation of his individual characteristics and personality traits, the choice of life ways, as well as the creative development and enrichment of a person’s professional activity. It is argued that the personal and professional self-determination of a person who attaches to certain professional values, comprehends their content, correlates it with their own inner world, takes place in the process of professionalization. The result of such inner work will be an independent and conscious search for the meaning of work and all life in general, since only a meaningful attitude to the profession, acceptance of its importance, transforms the relevant activity into a means of personal growth. The article stresses that it is necessary to develop the value-sense sphere of a personality while studying at university as a basic component of the formation of a future professional, since the most urgent task of modern pedagogical education is to transform it into a means not only to obtain a profession, but also to gain the sense of life. In further studies it is advisable to empirically study the psycho logical features of the value-sense sphere of future educators.

The Spirituality of Contemporary Danes – between Paganism and Secularisation

The topic of the article is the issue of the place of religion in contemporary Danish society. Not only Scandinavia, but all of Europe is subject to secularisation processes. As a result of this process, the role of the Christian religion remains limited or eliminated. However this crisis of religion, does not affect the deeprooted desire for transcendence and individual search for it. In the case of Denmark, it appears in a return to neo-paganism – a reconstructionist religion that attempts to return to the religion of the “nature” of ancient and early medieval Germans. An example of this religion is the Ásatrú movement, dynamically developing in Denmark. On the other hand, the need for transcendence is realised by the phenomenon of spirituality, which is the need for self-transcending. Both of these directions are an expression of freedom, finding meaning, but also a conscious search for identity in a dynamically changing Europe.

BMNABC: Binary Multi-Neighborhood Artificial Bee Colony for High-Dimensional Discrete Optimization Problems

Many meta-heuristic algorithms have been proposed to solve continuous optimization problems. Hence, researchers have applied various techniques to change these algorithms for discrete search spaces. Artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm is one of the well-known algorithms for real search spaces. ABC has a good ability in exploration but it is weak in exploitation. Several binary versions of ABC have been proposed so far. Since the methods are based on the standard ABC, they have the disadvantage of ABC. In this article, a new binary ABC called binary multi-neighborhood ABC (BMNABC) has been introduced to enhance the exploration and exploitation abilities in the phases of ABC. BMNABC applies the near and far neighborhood information with a new probability function in the first and second phases. A more conscious search than the standard ABC is done in the third phase for those solutions which have been not improved in the previous phases. The performance of algorithm has been evaluated by low- and high-dimensional functions and the 0-1 multidimensional knapsack problems. The proposed method has been compared with state-of-the-art algorithms. The results showed that BMNABC had a better performance in terms of solution accuracy and convergence speed.

Current state and prospects of professional self-determination of students of general educational institutions of Mariupol: on the materials of sociological research

Youth is the future of our country. Therefore, it is important to create conditions for increasing the competitiveness of young professionals in the labor market. To do this, it is necessary to change the model of professional orientation of pupils in accordance with their abilities and needs of the labor market, to make it systemic and effective; as well as to coordinate the market of educational services and the labor market of a specific region, to create a developed motivational system in institutions of higher and secondary education focused on continuous education and self-improvement of a person throughout life, formation of social and professional subjectivity in student and student youth, active attitude to to himself, to his life and to the future profession. An important problem is the formation of professional self-determination in the young person himself, adequate, on the one hand, to the conditions of the regional market of educational services and the labor market, on the other - the abilities, needs and interests of the student himself. It is the active life position and the reality of requests for a future profession for students that will increase their competitiveness in the labor market. In connection with this, requirements for subjects that provide professional orientation among students of general education schools are changing, in relation to the goals, objectives and methods of this work.Professional self-determination is considered as a process of conscious and active search of a person by his place in the world of professions, developing his personal attitude to certain professions, and the choice of possible future professional activities.Professional self-determination for students is related to the orientation in the world of professions, an understanding of their own physical, mental and social capabilities, the formation of adequate, realistic professional intentions that fit the existing abilities, knowledge, skills, etc. This is the formation of his future professional image by analyzing his personality, available resources, general life self-determination of the individual, etc. It should be noted that the process of professional self-determination is rather complex and its effectiveness determines a set of objective and subjective factors.The ability to personal and professional self-determination arises and is formed when studying in higher education institutions. Professional self-determination begins with the design of the first idea of your future profession and the formation of the first professional intentions.Understanding the importance of the problem of professional self-determination of students, the Mariupol City Employment Center, together with the Department of Sociology and Social Work of the Priazovsky State Technical University, in February-March 2018 conducted a joint sociological study among students of secondary schools. Only 54% of students know which professions are most suitable for them in accordance with abilities, inclinations, types of temperament, thinking. But most students will choose a future profession that can provide them with high wages in the future. Many graduates are attracted by the prospect of opening their own businesses and going abroad.Thus, it is necessary to change the system of interaction of universities and secondary schools in the direction of effective professional orientation and involving students in the world of professions through socially useful activities. The task of subjects of professional orientation should be the formation of the necessary competences and socially significant qualities for pupils’ youth in order to increase their socio-professional subjectivity and acquaintance with the world of the profession through a system of trainings, mentoring, professional excursions and volunteering. It is then that real professional self-determination of students in the world of the profession, in accordance with their available resources and conditions of the modern labor market, will become possible.

Seismic resistance of traditional timber-frame hımış structures in Turkey: a brief overview

Hımış structures have hardly ever found as extensive a role as other traditional timber housing, such as those originating from Japan or Central Europe, within the wide discourse on the seismic performance of timber-frame architecture that has gained significant momentum in the last few decades owing to advancing testing technologies. While the hımış construction technique was perhaps not born as a result of a conscious search for a seismically resistant building form, it was soon widely appreciated for its structural features advantageous under seismic loading - especially from the sixteenth century when it has become a well-established construction technique in part of the Balkans and in today’s Turkey. Despite widely available anecdotal information based on post-disaster studies regarding its performance under earthquakes, robust quantitative data on the seismic behaviour of these structures were practically non-existent until quite recently, and are still somewhat limited. However, we are now able to confirm that hımış constructions do have intrinsic qualities that are very beneficial under seismic action. This paper aims to make a brief review of the current state of our knowledge on structural performance of hımış buildings under earthquake loading, with specific emphasis on infill/cladding techniques, connection details and energy dissipation characteristics.

Resource discovery algorithm based on hierarchical model and Conscious search in Grid computing system

The distributed system of Grid subscribes the non-homogenous sources at a vast level in a dynamic manner. The resource discovery manner is very influential on the efficiency and of quality the system functionality. The “Bitmap” model is based on the hierarchical and conscious search model that allows for less traffic and low number of messages in relation to other methods in this respect. This proposed method is based on the hierarchical and conscious search model that enhances the Bitmap method with the objective to reduce traffic, reduce the load of resource management processing, reduce the number of emerged messages due to resource discovery and increase the resource according speed. The proposed method and the Bitmap method are simulated through Arena tool. This proposed model is abbreviated as RNTL.

Cognitive Style and Creative Quality: Influence on Academic Achievement of University Students in Indonesia

Reasoning is a process to solve the problem. This process needs cognitive functions in thinking, learning, and making decision. Cognitive style is a term to explain human natural preferences in gathering and processing information. Humans appears to reason using two cognitive processing styles; the first system is called as intuitive thinking style that is spontaneous, effortless, and without conscious search, whereas the second system is called as reflective or analytical thinking that works in a deliberate, analytical, procedural, and controllable process. In human context, sometimes people encounter difficult problem or unknown situation that have to be coped by ideas that are both novel and adaptive to the task constraints. People who solve the problem successfully are called creative. Creativity is the base to enhance competitiveness among students that might result in good academic performance. The present study examined cognitive style and creative quality in affecting academic achievement of university students in Indonesia. The result showed that students who used analytical thinking tended to have higher academic success, especially in life science majors. Moreover, it was found that students would need to materialize their creative potential to reach greater academic achievement in demanding classes; for instance, the final year of undergraduate program.

New Images in Old Frames: Ibn Harma (d. ca. 176/792) between Classical Poetry and Abbasid Modernity

Classical Arabic sources generally refer to Ibrahim b. Harma (d. ca. 176/792) as one of the “last poets” whose poetry is quoted as lexical and linguistic evidence of sound and “unaffected” language, in other words “pure” Arabic. However, while we argue that the poet’s “pure” Arabic is the main reason for his place of excellence in classical Arabic poetry, we suggest that the poet was well aware of the power of poetic imagery imposed by the new modernity experienced in the Abbasid era. Ibn Harma skillfully developed the new tool as a means of self-expression in a conscious search for poetic immortality. In this article, we aim to explore the poetic imagery of Ibn Harma through textual analysis of a selection of his poetry.

"Educação para uma vida melhor": trajetórias sociais de docentes negros

A histórica engenharia de exploração e subjugação do trabalho negro no Brasil configurou um circuito de desigualdades sociais reincidente. Esse quadro se mostra claro nos limites estruturais impostos às possibilidades de ascensão social de afrodescendentes ainda hoje verificadas. Este trabalho pretende refletir sobre trajetórias de docentes negros de universidades públicas brasileiras, procurando perceber como a educação aparece instrumentalizada nestes discursos, tensionada entre a busca consciente de superação da condição histórica, os limites socioestruturais da desigualdade formal e simbólica, e a representação de si na composição do mérito. A análise desenvolve-se, mobilizando produções sociológicas acerca da relação entre educação, raça e ascensão social, a partir da análise das estratégias e dos caminhos encontrados pelos sujeitos para enfrentar condições institucionalizadas de preconceito

Human Nature, Marxism and Psychoanalysis: Freudian Metapsychology and Symptomatic Readings

This essay provides an alternative understanding of Karl Marx’s concept of man by using the psychoanalytic interpretation of Sigmund Freud. The symptomatic reading of the text discloses what is ignored, omitted, unexplained, intended and over-projected or repeated. Marx’s conception of man comprehends the phenomenon of alienation, and throws light on the relationship between human rationality and instinctual substratum. Freud maintains that repression is carried throughout life and human beings are hardly compatible with any kind of system. Marx conceived that the subjectivity is structured out of the dialectical relations of production in which it experiences alienation and it has no spontaneity to externalize in the exploitative mode of production. Marx held that the nature of subjectivity needs an objective situation, that is, a communist society in order to transcend the dichotomy of subjectivity and objectivity. The dialectical method common to both Marx and Freud in terms of contradiction and social relations provides a conscious search for hidden meanings. Freudian psychoanalysis conceives certain limits to social and political change and often emphasizes on finding mediation.

Antiquity after antiquity: a (post) modern reading of antiquity in Bulgarian poetry

Only after the democratic transition in Bulgaria in the late 1980s was the concept of the classical tradition, conceived as an ancient legacy, mobilized in a more or less conscious search for a cultural identity that could be traced back to common European roots. The present study traces the peculiar and inventive reception of antiquity in the poetry of post-communist Bulgaria. I focus on two poetry collections by the Bulgarian poet Kiril Merjanski (born in 1959), which, by reinventing ancient epitaphs, articulate political concerns and cultural aspirations that were current in Bulgaria at the end of the twentieth century. Merjanski’s poetry reflects a specific attitude towards the near and more remote Bulgarian historical past while at the same time aiming at rediscovering mislaid traditions. What is more, problems related to historical memory are interwoven with a sense of the worthlessness of life in the new cultural and political milieu, as well as with a sense of freedom and shattered hopes for a new and better beginning. Both poetry collections represent the shift and the contrast between an apparently fixed and stable society and the instability of society in the present, and deal with global phenomena such as exile, migration, and wandering, which are characteristic of the modern geopolitical spectrum on the millennial borderline.

Dreaming Gender: Restoration and Transformation

Is gender made of and through the body or of and through attachments, relations, and cultures? Is the binary option a defensive reaction on the part of a conscious search to order the chaotic over-inclusiveness of the unconscious, or do implicit models condition our gender positions? Can the links among individual psyche, family context, and historical-social context produce a “normative unconscious”? This reflection on “gender binarism,” nostalgia, transformation, and the search for an idiomatic resolution, in which gender is truly a personal construction, takes place in a tripled context: the fundamentalism and the antirelativism of Pope Ratzinger; the male gender role confusion of a 22-year-old analysand; and the “nonlinear” experience of being in the Web's virtual dimension.

Interpreting Compositional Process in Wolfgang Rihm’s Chiffre Cycle

In Rihm's output the Chiffre works occupy a pivotal position. Despite some prefiguring in certain earlier works, such as the last movement of the fourth quartet, these are works which, as he has said, embody a conscious search for a musical language, a means of expression ('Die Stucke … sind Versuche, eine Musiksprache zu finden').1 The purpose of this article is to try to define key elements of the compositional process which Rihm developed through the Chiffre works.

Infección de vías urinarias por especies de Candida

To determine the frequency and characteristics of urinary tract infection (UTI) by Candida in diabetic patients (with and without symptoms) and to compare them with non-diabetic patients (with and without symptoms). Longitudinal, descriptive, and observational study. Study conducted at the "Dr Ignacio Chavez" Clinic of family medicine, ISSSTE: Mexico. There were 2 kinds of patients; 1 with diabetes mellitus diagnosis (DM) with and without clinical picture of probable urinary tract infection (UTI), and 1 without DM and with and without clinical picture of probable UTI. A urine culture and a confidential questionnaire were administered to find the presence of urinary symptoms and likely risk factors associated with the infection. To associate these risks, the chi2 statistical method was used, with significance at 95% and Fisher's Exact Test for small frequencies, using the EpiInfo V.6.0 program. Two hundred thirty seven patients between 28 and 82 years old were included. The prevalence of urinary infection by Candida was 5.1%, but only 33% of these had C albicans. There was no association between candidiasis and factors like age, sex, or presence of DM, but it was related to previous treatments, previous UTI and the evolution time of DM. The conscious search by both doctor and laboratory for Candida micro-organisms as factors causing UTI is important. This is especially so in those patients with factors of risk that may condition Candida's presence.