Construction Of Consciousness Research Articles

Time, Cost, and Environmental Impact Analysis on Construction Operation Optimization Using Genetic Algorithms

Environmentally conscious construction has become a subject of research during the last decades. Even though construction literature involves plenty of studies that emphasize the importance of environmental impact during the construction phase, most of the previous studies failed to combine environmental analysis with other project performance criteria in construction. To achieve environmentally conscious construction and successfully manage a complex construction environment, multiple project objectives and their relationships need to be considered. In this study, the authors propose a framework on the basis of the concept of control accounts to determine optimal construction operations when project time, cost, and environment impact (TCEI) are considered as project objectives during project planning. The framework also supports decision-making by using sensitivity analysis. Life cycle assessment is applied to the evaluation of environmental impact in terms of global warming potential (GWP). The nondominated sorting genetic algorithm II, or NSGA-II, is selected for implementation in MATLAB to determine optimal construction operations. A case study is used to illustrate the application of the framework. It is shown by the case study that the application of the genetic algorithm to search problems, such as the case study, is promising in terms of determining optimal solutions, but computation speed can be an issue, if it involves a large set of data. In addition, data collection and processing is a major challenge, especially the processing of environmental impact data. Tools are needed to facilitate data collection and processing. Currently, the proposed framework includes a critical path method, on the basis of fixed logical relationships among activities, to determine the duration of a project. The effect of resource and other constraints on such logical relationships, and potentially the duration of a project, is not addressed in this study.

Using Cluster Analysis to Segment Students Based on Self-Reported Emotionally Intelligent Leadership Behaviors

Using emotionally intelligent leadership (EIL) as the model, the authors identify behaviors that three levels of leaders engage in based on a self-report inventory (Emotionally Intelligent Leadership for Students-Inventory). Three clusters of students are identified: those that are “Less-involved, Less Others-oriented,” “Self-Improvers,” and “Involved Leaders for Others.” EIL behaviors that most differentiate the highest self-ranking group of involved leaders are the extent to which cluster members work to resolve conflicts in a group situation, work to build a sense of team, and consider the needs of others. The underlying constructs of consciousness of context, self, and others are investigated and discussed. Discriminant analysis is used to validate the cluster solution. Cluster analysis is found to be useful tool for helping leadership educators categorize students and by doing so, program architects have an opportunity to design and develop interventions tailored to better meet the needs of individual students.

Objectified Body Consciousness and Mental Health in Female Adolescents: Cross-Cultural Evidence From Georgian and Swiss National Samples

The current study tested both descriptive and explanatory similarities and differences in a latent objectified body consciousness (OBC) construct and its relationship to three mental health indicators among Georgian and Swiss adolescents. Few studies have been conducted on adolescents; similarly, most work has been completed on U.S. college-age women. School-based questionnaire data were collected from a total of 18,239 adolescents in Georgia (n = 9,499) and Switzerland (n = 8,740), following the same protocol. Participants rated three measures of OBC (body shame, body surveillance, and appearance control beliefs) and three mental health indicators (depressive symptoms, somatic complaints, and suicidal ideation). Final study samples included 2,657 (mean age = 16.4 years) and 3,803 female youth (mean age = 17.8 years), respectively. Data analyses included mean level comparisons, confirmatory factor analysis, path analysis, and multigroup invariance tests. Findings provide support for a latent OBC construct across cultures, with partial evidence of cultural differences (one of two manifest indicators). By contrast, multigroup invariance tests provide consistent evidence of no differences in the relationships between the OBC latent construct and three mental health indicators between Georgian and Swiss samples. Despite mean level differences, findings support a latent OBC construct in both cultures, perhaps slightly more so among Swiss youth. The links between OBC and mental health indicators were also invariant across the two cultures, providing greater support for a global or universal (vs. "cultured") framework of adolescent development related to the constructs and relationships studied.

Assessment of Affect Integration: Validation of the Affect Consciousness Construct

Affect integration, or the capacity to utilize the motivational and signal properties of affect for personal adjustment, is assumed to be an important aspect of psychological health and functioning. Affect integration has been operationalized through the affect consciousness (AC) construct as degrees of awareness, tolerance, nonverbal expression, and conceptual expression of nine discrete affects. A semistructured Affect Consciousness Interview (ACI) and separate Affect Consciousness Scales (ACSs) have been developed to specifically assess these aspects of affect integration. This study explored the construct validity of AC in a Norwegian clinical sample including estimates of reliability and assessment of structure by factor analyses. External validity issues were addressed by examining the relationships between scores on the ACSs and self-rated symptom- and interpersonal problem measures as well as independent, observer-based ratings of personality disorder criteria and the Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF) scale from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (4th ed. [DSM–IV]; American Psychiatric Association, 1994).

Modeling consciousness as an adaptive phenomenon

We start at the level of a bacterium where an observer feature associated with foraging measurements motivates introduction of a notion of awareness (a proto-consciousness) as a primitive, a dualist construct. The relative simplicity of Darwinian concepts at the level of a bacterial colony then leads to development of an analytic theory of perceptual consciousness that includes colonial notions of qualia. Results of simulations that verify the colonial principles developed are given. We extend this approach, first to a neuron and then to a neuronal assembly, each extension accompanied by a derived consciousness construct. For each construct (dualist or derived), a mathematical model in the form of a measurable quantity called a token is developed. The pairs, token and construct, permit the design of experiments that would validate the theory. Applications of the theory are developed, each based upon the analytic model (the tokens) and each explaining a familiar aspect of human consciousness in mathematical terminology.

Religion and Adolescent Immigrants in Italy: A Case of Identifying with or Turning away from their Communities?

This article deals with a specific element of immigrant identity in host societies: the religious element, which is increasingly important in the definition of integration paths. I examine how the religiousness of two youth immigrant groups in Italy (Filipinos and Moroccans) is related to multiple collective identities (origin, new country, European, and cosmopolitan), attachment to one or both cultures (original or new), and acculturation as a process realized through a variety of domains in personal and social life. Firstly, I seek to ascertain some of the major subjective factors motivating church/mosque attendance and involvement. Secondly, by means of participant observation, in-depth interviews, and analysis of the rhetoric within the religious communities, I explore and describe (by comparing and contrasting) the various ways in which ethnic religiousness contributes to the construction and support of ethnic identity and consciousness among the two groups.

From Celestial Empire to Nation State: Sport and the Origins of Chinese Nationalism (1840–1927)

The history of the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic clearly showed the close relationship between sport, nationalism and politics, and reflected the changes in Chinese society and Chinese people's view of their identity as well as their way of thinking. Sport had a great importance, not only for the construction of Chinese nationalism and national consciousness, but also for the eventual transformation of China from a celestial empire into a modern nation state. It played an important part in Chinese nationalists' strategy of restoring the power of the nation.

Intuição Intelectual e Fundamentação do Conhecimento no Ensaio de uma nova Exposição da Doutrina-da-Ciência

This paper analyses Fichte's concept of intellectual intuition paying special attention to Fichte's proposal of transforming the point of view in constructing knowledge. Therefore the focus will be not directed, as in traditional interpretations, to the the problem of the structure of subjectivity as objective foundation of reality, but to the process of construction of consciousness. I will argue that this idea of genesis of (self)consciousness represents the originality of Fichte's philosophy.

Didactic conditions for formation of skills of conscious construction of image in beginning artists

In the article the didactic terms of farming are examined conscious the prosess of construction of image the students of KHGF on the initial stage of study of picture.

DIGITALIZING HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS

ABSTRACTWhat is a “historical” video game, let alone a successful one? It is difficult to answer this question because all our definitions of history have been constructed in a linear‐narrative cultural context that is currently being challenged and in large part displaced by digital media, especially video games. I therefore consider this question from the point of view of historical semantics and in relation to the impact of digital technology on all aspects of the historiographical operation, from the establishment of digital archives, to the production of e‐texts, to the digital remediation of visual modes of historical representation. Seen from this dual perspective, video games appear to participate in a process of spatialization and virtualization of historical semantics. In the first place, video games have begun to detach the notion of history from its double reference to the past and to the real—“what essentially happened”—that it had acquired at the end of the eighteenth century. Second, they also challenge the semiotic production of “historic events” that has characterized the construction of modern historical consciousness. Historical video games, in other words, replace representation with simulation and presence with virtuality, thereby marginalizing the oscillation of the modern historical imagination between historical facts and historic events, transcendence and immanence, representation and presence. Although digital reworkings of historical semantics have not produced any grammatical transformation of the signifier, history—nor does this essay propose one—I do argue that the impact of video games on our contemporary historic(al) culture is of paradigmatic proportions similar to those described by Reinhart Koselleck for the dawn of the modern age. Focusing on one of the most successful contemporary video games, Sid Meier's Civilization, I show how the remediation of cinematic genres by video games is pushing the processes of de‐temporalization and de‐referentialization of history toward the formation of a new notion of the historical that may be conceptualized as the inversion of the classic Aristotelian paradigm: history has replaced poetry and philosophy as the realm of the possible.

Choosing one’s own informal institutions: on Hayek’s critique of Keynes’s immoralism

In the main, Hayek favored rules that apply equally to all and located such rules in tradition, beyond conscious construction. This led Hayek to attack Keynes’s immoralism, i.e., the position that one should be free to choose how to lead one’s life irrespective of the informal institutions in place. However, it is argued here that immoralism may be compatible with Hayek’s enterprise since Hayek misinterpreted Keynes, who did not advocate the dissolving of all informal rules for everybody. By avoiding this misinterpretation, immoralism can be seen as institutional experimentation at the margin, which Hayek himself favored.

CONSTRUCTING A DIASPORIC IDENTITY: TRACING THE ORIGINS OF THE GNAWA SPIRITUAL GROUP IN MOROCCO

ABSTRACTThis article reconstructs the forgotten past of the Gnawa who, over many generations, productively negotiated their forced presence in Morocco to create acceptance and group solidarity. The diaspora of black West Africans in Morocco, the majority of whom were forcefully transported across the Sahara and sold in different parts of Morocco, shares some important traits with the African trans-Atlantic diaspora, but differs at the same time. There are two crucial differences: the internal African diaspora in Morocco has primarily a musical significance and it lacks the desire to return to the original homeland. This diaspora is constructed positively around the right to belong to the culture of Islam, unlike the construction of the African American diasporic double consciousness. Black consciousness in Morocco exists in analogy to the Berber consciousness or the Arab notion of collective identity; it does not constitute a contradiction with itself. Black Moroccans perceive themselves first and foremost to be Muslim Moroccans and only perceive themselves secondarily as participants in a different tradition.

Facade Diversity

Diversity and multiculturalism are widely embraced principles, championed by many social movements and promoted through the programs and policies of states, businesses, schools and other organizations throughout the world. Purportedly celebrating and protecting group differences, these principles translate concretely into differences that operate as facades masking the underlying individualization of world society. Fundamental to this process is a dualistic globalization of the individual — both cultural and organizational — that impels the conscious construction of personal identities as both authentic and unique. Individuals therefore activate collective identity elements as sources of personal difference and distinctiveness. The nature of these collective identities is undergoing rapid change, however. The very forces impelling the championing of difference — rising individualism, egalitarianism, identity construction and uniqueness — diminish the degree of difference carried by collective identities, transforming corporate collectivities (once rooted firmly in geographic, ethnic, linguistic or ancestral ties) into categorical groups that provide identity not as a transcendent group property but as a volitional characteristic of categories of individuals. Corporate identities may not disappear, but as they are transformed into categorical identities they become facades behind which the depth of differences among the world's cultures and subcultures is diminishing rapidly.

From counterfactual history to counternarrative history

Counterfactual narratives are a refreshing development in the writing of history.They put contingency back into history, and serve as a necessary antidote to traditional deterministic tendencies. They accomplish the reintroduction of experimental elements into academic approaches to history. This experimental spirit animates the present article, which focuses on counter-narrative as an alternative strategy for writing history. If, as the counterfactualists claim, the past in itself is nonlinear and chaotic, but is constructed as linear and ordered only by the historian’s narratives, then we must study this construction at least as closely as ‘the facts’. Instead of asking, ‘What if something different had happened?’ I will ask, ‘What if other stories had been told?’ I discuss the implications of the counter-narrative method, arguing that it provides us with new insights into why some narratives attain hegemonic status, and how this can help us to understand the construction and function of historical consciousness.

Scan Division Algorithm for Shift and Capture Power Reduction for At-Speed Test Using Skewed-Load Test Application Strategy

This paper discusses an automated method to divide scan chains into multiple scan segments that are suitable for power-constrained at-speed testing using the skewed-load test application strategy. By dividing a circuit into multiple partitions, which can be tested independently, both power during shift and power during capture can be controlled. Despite activating one partition at a time, we show how through conscious construction of scan segments, high transition fault coverage can be achieved, while reducing test time of the circuit and employing third party test generation tools.

An Early Holocaust Novel: White’s Riders in the Chariot, a Critique

Patrick White’s novel Riders in the Chariot (1961) can be regarded as a contribution to Holocaust literature, broadly defined. The novel features as one of its main characters Mordecai Himmelfarb, a Holocaust survivor, who makes his way from Germany, via Palestine, to Australia. In a comparison with Joyce’s Ulysses, with its anti-essentialising construction of the complex consciousness of Bloom, Riders in the Chariot is revealed to be essentialising in its notions of Jewishness. It assimilates Jewish identity to a romantic discourse of attachment to land, highly problematic in a continent where the Indigenous people have been largely dispossessed of that land. The essay also discusses the novel’s interest in Kabbalah. Overall, the essay convicts the novel of aesthetic crudity, which has troubling implications for how it perceives its characters, including Jewish characters.

Suffering in Silence— Or in English

Suffering in Silence—or in English Ian Almond (bio) Ramu Nagappan. Speaking Havoc: Social Suffering and South Asian Narratives. Seattle: U of Washington P, 2005. vii + 246 pp. Amin Malak. Muslim Narratives and the Discourse of English. Al bany: State U of New York P, 2005. ix + 180 pp. Ramu Nagappan's informative book poses what seems, at first, to be a fairly standard question: how do South Asian writers confront, represent, and ultimately work out the question of social suffering? What follows is an illuminating series of approaches to three texts—Amitav Ghosh's The Shadow Lines, Rohinton Mistry's A Fine Balance, Salman Rushdie's Shame—as well as the short stories of S. H. Manto and the films of the Tamil director Maniratnam. A pressing concern to show how the mechanisms of texts such as The Shadow Lines and A Fine Balance close down avenues of hope and agency, either by ending in "benign self-absorption" or a "downward spiral . . . [of] overheated pessimism," also tries to show how fictional reenactments of social trauma, even in such moments of political resignation and impotency, paraodoxically supply not only relief, but a new series of choices for the reader (61, 198). The metaphor of "decompensation" that Nagappan uses to examine this Janus-like function of the text really deserves to be foregrounded in the title, and not buried away in the middle of a paragraph on page 149: [End Page 578] The physiological term "decompensation" can refer to the failure of the heart muscle to maintain adequate blood circulation; in the case of fiction, the term denotes a phenomenon marked by the failure of language to circulate, to signify meaning in the face of catastrophe. The result is that Speaking Havoc is a book interested, more than anything else, in the failure of language; how texts (and films) fail to represent trauma, how they fail mimetically to do justice to injustice, to resolve the causes of the social suffering they observe, and the positive effects such textual/cinematic failure has for its audience. This Rortyian emphasis on the constructive function of irony as an awareness of such failure (Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity is cited several times) inevitably explains why writers such as Rushdie and Ghosh do so well in the book—and why a more conventional text of social realism such as A Fine Balance is seen as depending on nothing more complicated than a "Dickensian mode of exaggeration" (62). Nevertheless, what follows are some very pertinent readings of all five figures. Ghosh's book is presented to us as a text that "charges [us] with representing the world" and therefore discovers a new kind of post-metaphysical responsibility—the role, says Nagappan, of Richard Rorty's liberal ironist, a "paradoxical, self-critical stance" (44, 54). In the very act of decompensation, The Shadow Lines compensates with the narrating of this failure. The Shadow Lines's absence of closure, in other words, its recourse to solipsism and "benign self-absorption," is itself a way of dealing with the impossibility of its task. Unsurprisingly, this level of redemptive decompensation (if you will forgive the oxymoron) at its most sophisticated is not extended to A Fine Balance, "a novel which tries to provide aesthetic compensation for trauma" (64). There is an impatience in Nagappan's treatment of Mistry that at times seems unfair—even though the critic correctly observes a recurring anxiety of impotence and emasculation in the novel, and even if it is difficult not to agree with the "narrative of unremitting tragedy" that always runs the risk of transforming into melodrama. If Ghosh's dismantling/reassembling of metaphysical consolation is explicit, A Fine Balance reiterates this gesture, one can't help feeling, on a more basic, unreflective level—no Joycean examination of mimesis, then, just a good Dickensian yarn. The work of S. H. Manto is read, perhaps a touch predictably, as "explod[ing] the key terms 'territory' and 'nation' that underlay . . . the construction of national consciousness," (88) although Nagappan provides an interesting semibiographical interpretation of Manto's outsider status in South Asian literature (transforming the Forties' writer, it has to be said, into a kind of Liberal-Ironist-Before...

The National State and Identity Politics: State Institutionalisation and “Markers” of National Identity

Nationality has been a key identity in international relations for much of the modern period, and the marriage of “nation” and “state” produced a powerful polity – the national state – that dominated global politics. This article investigates the forces that “pushed” and “pulled” nations and states together and explores the factors associated with violent identity politics. It argues that while recent decades have witnessed increasing instances of divorce between “nation” and “state” and a simultaneous proliferation of identity conflicts, the likelihood that identity conflicts will be expressed violently depends both on the character of the state (the timing of state institutionalisation relative to the construction of national consciousness, the democratic or non-democratic nature of the state, and the national or non-national basis for the legitimation of state authority) and on the principal “marker” used to construct national identity (blood, language, culture, religion, or citizenship).

Turning Malays into Thai-Men: Nationalism, Ethnicity and Economic Inequality in Thailand

In the mid-nineteenth century, as part of Thailand's modernization programme, Thai elites embarked on the conscious construction of a Thai national identity, which included the promulgation of three central elements: chāt [nation], sādsnā [religion] and Phra Mahāgasat [monarchy]. Essentially, these elements came to mean Central Thai ethnicity and the Buddhist religion. This paper seeks to assess the effects of Thai nationalism on ethnic relations in Thailand with an evaluation of the ethnic composition of income inequality. It specifically tests a structuralist model of social exclusion using a variety of quantitative empirical tests that rely on survey and census data in order to uncover the dynamics of Thai nationalism's effect on ethnic economic inequality. The paper ends with suggestions for a new approach to Thai nationalism.

Max Kuo / Beijing Profit Recentering Project

July 01 2019 Max Kuo / Beijing Profit Recentering Project Hijoo Son Hijoo Son Hijoo Son is a PhD candidate in Korean modern history and culture at UCLA. Her research interests include histories of migration and diaspora, and the construction of ethnic consciousness. Her dissertation examines comparative social processes in the cultural production of Korean diaspora artists in the Pacific Rim, including China, Japan, and the U.S. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Hijoo Son Hijoo Son is a PhD candidate in Korean modern history and culture at UCLA. Her research interests include histories of migration and diaspora, and the construction of ethnic consciousness. Her dissertation examines comparative social processes in the cultural production of Korean diaspora artists in the Pacific Rim, including China, Japan, and the U.S. Online Issn: 2572-7338 Print Issn: 1091-711X © 2007 Hijoo Son2007Hijoo Son Thresholds (2007) (34): 38–45. https://doi.org/10.1162/thld_a_00226 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Search Site Citation Hijoo Son; Max Kuo / Beijing Profit Recentering Project. Thresholds 2007; (34): 38–45. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/thld_a_00226 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAll JournalsThresholds Search Advanced Search This content is only available as a PDF. © 2007 Hijoo Son2007Hijoo Son Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.