Constructive Approach Research Articles

Analysis on the Influence and Approaches of Children's Self-Identity Construction

Children's self-identity plays a very important role in children's character formation, the establishment of three views and life development. Therefore, it is crucial to focus on the factors that form children's self-identity. This paper analyzes the important role of self-identity in children's development and reveals the key factors affecting the construction of self-identity. This paper argues that factors such as social and cultural environment, parental concepts, cultural background, and social development will affect the formation of children's self-identity. Therefore, this paper suggests that in order to pay attention to the formation of children's self-identity, it is necessary to work together from multiple subjects and aspects. First of all, in a multicultural society, it is necessary to understand different cultures with an open and inclusive attitude, so that children can be exposed to more perspectives and enrich their cognition. Second, parents should give children support and correct guidance. Schools and other educational departments should strengthen the education and guidance of children.

Enhancing Student Learning Experiences Through Integrated Constructivist Pedagogical Models

This study investigates the use of constructive pedagogy models to effectively engage students and enhance their learning experiences in college courses. Meaningful Online Learning attributes was used to redesign a face-to-face course in Sultan Qaboos University in Oman. The contemporary landscape of higher education is marked by a dynamic shift towards optimizing pedagogical approaches to meet diverse learning needs and preferences and to effectively engage students and enhance their learning experiences. Within this context, this research delves into the exploration of constructive pedagogy models as a means to actively engage students and elevate their learning experiences in the realm of college courses. A mixed-method approach was employed to conduct an exploratory case study, which involved the use of various instruments and sources such as a pre-course survey, a focus group discussion, and an analysis of the course based on the Meaningful Online Learning framework. This study lies in providing guidelines for faculty to redesign their courses using constructive approaches, particularly emphasizing the MOL attributes and to improve the quality of their courses. The results unveiled a positive correlation between the incorporation of Meaningful Online Learning attributes into the course redesign and the improvement of students' learning experiences. Furthermore, students exhibited the acquisition of novel skills and knowledge through the adaptation of assignments and learning activities associated with the course. Educators in higher education have to enhance their courses based on the MOL principles to effectively engage students in learning process and to design active and constructive courses that contribute to enhance students’ learning success. The researcher recommends applying this approach and the obtained design principles to other courses for refinement purposes. Additionally, they suggest conducting a comparative study between a class with traditional pedagogy and a class with constructivist pedagogy. Implication of the finding of this study showed that it is important to design engaging learning experiences to gain students the required skill to compete globally and contribute effectively to their communities. That is, students are playing crucial roles in society’s development especially in sustainable development. Further investigation is needed to refine and enhance the obtained principles and to share best practices of designing meaningful learning using innovative pedagogy models.

Lateral Displacement Behavior of IBS Precast Concrete Elements Reinforced with Dual System

Throughout history, the construction industry has been a significant contributor to construction waste, presenting an ongoing challenge in efficiently managing this waste to mitigate environmental pollution. The Industrialized Building System (IBS) stands out as a construction approach that utilizes prefabricated components made from various waste materials, implemented with machinery and formwork, leading to minimal waste production. The potential failure of IBS blockwork columns under lateral loads is a significant concern, and the deformation of these columns is crucial in assessing overall structural performance against lateral forces. This study focuses on examining the deformation and flexibility of components in IBS blockwork columns when subjected to lateral loads. Using Finite Element Modeling (FEM), a 1:5 scale prototype model of the dual-reinforced system IBS Block Work Column is analyzed. The IBS Block Work Column, comprising four prefabricated components assembled in the form of a crucifix plan to enhance lateral stability, is subjected to FEM analysis and experimental investigations. The study aims to explore the impact of four different shapes of reinforcement on deformation resistance. The findings suggest that employing a dual-reinforced system in the IBS Block Work Column enhances its resistance to lateral loads compared to a column with conventional reinforcement. Moreover, the assembled IBS Block Work Column exhibits greater stiffness than a single prefabricated component when subjected to lateral loads. Doi: 10.28991/CEJ-2024-010-01-020 Full Text: PDF

Analysis of two overlapping fragmentation approaches in density matrix construction: GMBE-DM vs. ADMA.

In this study, we conduct a comparative analysis of two density matrix construction methods: the generalized many-body expansion for building density matrices (GMBE-DM) based on the set-theoretical principle of inclusion/exclusion and the adjustable density matrix assembler (ADMA) based on the Mulliken-Mezey ansatz. We apply these methods to various noncovalent clusters, including water clusters, ion-water clusters, and ion-pair clusters, using both small 6-31G(d) and large def2-TZVPPD basis sets. Our findings reveal that the GMBE-DM method, particularly when combined with the purification scheme and truncation at the one-body level [GMBE(1)-DM-P], exhibits superior performance across all test systems and basis sets. In contrast, all ADMA set of methods show reasonable results only with small and compact basis sets. For example, GMBE(1)-DM-P outperforms the best ADMA method by at least 4 and 16 times with small and large basis sets, respectively, in the case of (H2O)N=6-55. This highlights the significance of the basis set choice for ADMA, which is even more critical than the fragmentation scheme, such as the size of subsystems, while GMBE-DM consistently produces accurate results irrespective of the chosen basis set. Consequently, the efficient and robust GMBE(1)-DM-P approach is recommended as a fragmentation method for generating accurate absolute and relative energies across different binding patterns and basis sets for noncovalent clusters.

Устойчивость и безопасность зеленых финансов с позиции многоагентных игр

Green finance increases the innovation potential of green transformation, helps to address climate change, the environmental crisis and energy security. It is important for green finance to achieve sustainable and balanced development, which will increase the security of both finance itself and many processes in the real economy that depend on it. The purpose of this study was to develop approaches to the ontological design of green finance and multi-agent modeling of the behavior of green finance actors, considering their sustainable and safe interaction. To achieve this goal it was necessary to clarify the conceptual apparatus of green finance and related areas; to characterize the "work" of the multi-agent model in the analysis of the behavior of the main green finance actors and to trace the prospects for their impact on the stability and security of the financial market; and finally, based on ontology construction and agent-based approach to nonlinear interactions in the green financial process, to determine the mechanism of building chains of the main market participants. The methodological basis of the study consists of general scientific research methods (analysis, synthesis, induction, deduction, logic), as well as evolutionary dynamics and agent-based approach to the analysis of financial markets. A comparative analysis of the works of various authors and the interpretation of theoretical provisions in related areas of knowledge about finance, as well as the analysis of their sustainable and safe development were carried out. As a result of the study, the authors identified the main approaches to the design of financial ontology and multi-agent modeling of financial interactions in the direction of determining their sustainable and safe development. The proposed model establishes that the criterion of the effectiveness of the applied strategy is the satisfaction with the state of financial impact on the economy, environment, and social sphere. Maintaining this state, along with saving the amount of resources used, is done through optimization. The chosen approach corresponds to the concept of sustainable development and safe functioning of the systems under consideration.

Is online learning effective for practice-based tourism courses? A constructive learning approach

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to 1) measure the effectiveness of online learning in practise-based tourism courses, 2) identify the factors that influence the effectiveness of online learning and 3) propose strategies to encourage tourism students to adopt constructive learning in online learning environments. Methodology/Design/Approach – A qualitative methodology was used to analyse data from students participating in an online course entitled “Field Study in Tourism”. Students were surveyed after completing the teaching semester and asked to give their opinions and comments on the effectiveness of online learning. A total of 32 students gave their opinions on the effectiveness of online learning. The authors used applications for online communication during online learning, such as Google Classroom, Zoom and WhatsApp. Findings – The results show that students have very different assessments of the effectiveness of online learning, with most students stating that online learning is less effective for practiseorientated tourism courses. For most students, learning is very efficient when it is applied directly in practise after learning the theory. They should be able to analyse what is happening in the field through direct observation. The students mentioned various factors (e.g. internet access, economic aspects, family support and the environment) that influence the success of online learning. Originality of the research – The findings are in line with constructivist theory, which assumes that a combination of factors relating to learners, environmental factors and teachers are responsible for achieving the goals of constructivist learning. The paper extends our knowledge of constructivist (online) learning by discussing both TLE (teacher, learner, environment) and institution-based models that need to be developed in order to effectively apply and utilise the educational benefits of constructivist learning theory and make online learning appropriate for practise-based tourism courses

On the construction of families of optimal recovery methods for linear operators

The paper proposes an approach for construction of families of optimal methods for the recovery of linear operators from inaccurately given information. The proposed method of construction is then applied to recover derivatives from inaccurately specified other derivatives in the multidimensional case and to recover solutions of the heat equation from inaccurately specified temperature distributions at some time instants.

A Practical Contrastive Learning Framework for Single-Image Super-Resolution.

Contrastive learning has achieved remarkable success on various high-level tasks, but there are fewer contrastive learning-based methods proposed for low-level tasks. It is challenging to adopt vanilla contrastive learning technologies proposed for high-level visual tasks to low-level image restoration problems straightly. Because the acquired high-level global visual representations are insufficient for low-level tasks requiring rich texture and context information. In this article, we investigate the contrastive learning-based single-image super-resolution (SISR) from two perspectives: positive and negative sample construction and feature embedding. The existing methods take naive sample construction approaches (e.g., considering the low-quality input as a negative sample and the ground truth as a positive sample) and adopt a prior model (e.g., pretrained very deep convolutional networks proposed by visual geometry group (VGG) model) to obtain the feature embedding. To this end, we propose a practical contrastive learning framework for SISR (PCL-SR). We involve the generation of many informative positive and hard negative samples in frequency space. Instead of utilizing an additional pretrained network, we design a simple but effective embedding network inherited from the discriminator network, which is more task-friendly. Compared with the existing benchmark methods, we retrain them by our proposed PCL-SR framework and achieve superior performance. Extensive experiments have been conducted to show the effectiveness and technical contributions of our proposed PCL-SR thorough ablation studies. The code and resulting models will be released via https://github.com/Aitical/PCL-SISR.

Analysis of Russia's policy in the Middle East in 2000-2023 in the works of foreign researchers.

The article is devoted to the scientific consideration of foreign researchers' views on the issues and prospects of military-political, trade-economic and socio-cultural relations of the Russian Federation with the countries of the Middle East during the presidency of V.V. Putin and D.A. Medvedev from 2000 to 2023. The paper aims to identify the main points of view of foreign researchers on the issues and prospects of military-political, trade, economic, social and cultural relations of the Russian Federation with the Middle East countries during the presidency of V.V. Putin and D.A. Medvedev in 2000-2023. The purpose of the work is to highlight the main points of view on Russia's Middle East policy and identify the key areas of interest among foreign researchers. The object of the study is to examine the geopolitical significance of the region and the ways in which this significance is reflected in the studies of foreign scholars. The subject is the views of foreign researchers on Russia's policy in the Middle East. The article analyzes the differences and similarities in the interpretations of the effectiveness and consequences of Russia's actions in the region. The study is based on the principles of objectivity, systematicity and consistency. The main conclusions of the paper are that foreign researchers have different attitudes towards Russia's policy in the Middle East. Some see this policy as a constructive approach to developing relations with all countries in the region, while others point to Russia's desire to strengthen its influence and interests in certain countries and, at the same time, Russia's attempt to upset the already fragile balance of power in the region, which is considered one of the most tense and unstable in the world.

Case Study on Advanced Hoisting, Positioning, and Control Techniques for Non-Standard Pier Construction in the Quanli-Dongfeng Viaduct Project

This study, reliant on practical projects, conducts an in-depth analysis of key technologies amid the construction of prefabricated viaducts. The primary focus is on the integrated hoisting, positioning, and control techniques for the bridge abutments and pier columns, culminating in a proposal of an innovative integrated and prefabricated construction approach. This approach optimizes the construction process and methods by factoring in the structural characteristics of different types of pier columns and addressing construction challenges. Simultaneously, it underscores the significance of material selection, prefabricated component design, and innovative construction techniques. The study also explores on-site management and quality control strategies to ensure the efficiency and safety of the construction process. The research indicates that this approach significantly improves construction efficiency, reduces safety risks, and solidly guarantees structural quality. These findings offer crucial theoretical and practical guidance for advancing the industrialization, modularization, and innovative development of construction techniques in bridge construction. They contribute to the continual optimization of technical innovation and engineering practices in the field of bridge construction.

Development of Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) for Rapid Damage Runway Repair (RADARR) Time Planning at Military Airbases

The military airbase plays a crucial role in national defense, particularly in air defense. One of the most critical facilities at a military airbase for supporting air operations is the runway that serves as the area where fighter aircraft take off and land; hence. If such an event occurs, the Air Force’s capability, specifically the ability of fighter aircraft to take off and land, would be compromised, disrupting air operations. Therefore, the rapid damage runway repair (RADARR) method, aligned with the rigid pavement construction approach, is essential. The foundation of the construction implementation involves creating a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) as a reference for RADARR operation planning. This study aims to develop a WBS as the basis for RADARR operation time planning. The research method employed is a mixed-method approach with descriptive analysis. The variables under investigation include work packages, construction methods, work activities, and the duration of operations. This study comprises expert judgment, pilot surveys, respondent surveys, and focus group discussion (FGD) followed by the development of RADARR WBS, measure the operational time of RADARR through respondent surveys. These findings serve as a valuable reference for executing RADARR construction work within the military context.

A case for cognitive mapping constructive approach to teaching civics in higher education programs design

Abstract In the context of the information age, Civics education in colleges and universities faces new challenges. Cognitive mapping, an emerging technology, and its application in the design of Civics teaching in college courses is expected to enhance the teaching effect and quality. The purpose of this paper is to explore the use of cognitive mapping in the teaching of Civics in colleges and universities. The study uses the methods of data collection, preprocessing, knowledge extraction, fusion, and map construction to create a cognitive mapping-based model for teaching Civics in colleges and universities. The results show that the model can significantly improve the teaching effectiveness. In the named entity recognition experiments, the precision, recall, and F1 value of the BiLSTM-CRF-GNN model reached 93.47%, 93.58%, and 93.88%, respectively. In addition, the analysis of the hotspots of Civics research shows that the most frequent keywords include “Civics curriculum”, “Civics education” and “teaching practice”. This study not only advances the application of cognitive mapping theoretically, but also provides practical guidance for teaching Civics in colleges and universities, which is of great significance for improving the quality and efficiency of Civics teaching.

생태시민성 개념 정립을 위한 브라질 전환마을운동과 생태교육학의 공유 가치 분석

The accelerating ecological crisis affecting all human beings around the world has made existing social problems such as inequality, marginalization and violence more visible, and there is now a shared understanding that ecological and social crises are fundamentally one problem that requires a unified effort. This study aims to establish the foundation to systematize the characteristics of ecocitizenship of the 21st century by examining the Transition Town Movement in Brazil as an example of ecological transition and analyzing the values shared by ecopedagogy, which seeks a new educational paradigm, and the Transition Town Movement. The fundamental purpose of this study is to explore what philosophical and practical orientations ecocitizenship have and how it differs from existing approaches to addressing inequality. To this end, this article analyzed the Transition Network website, the global umbrella organization for the Transition Town movement, the Transition Brazil website, and further related literature. It then focused on identifying the goals and main characteristics of ecopedagogy, focusing on the Pedagogia da Terra of Moacir Gadotti, a pioneer of ecological pedagogy in Brazil. The results of the study revealed a set of shared values at the intersection of the Transition Town Movement and ecopedagogy. Meanwhile, while the Transition Movement in the U.K. was centered in middle-class neighborhoods, in Brazil it started in the favelas of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. And it was found that Transition Town Movement and ecopedagogy do not specifically target the poor, but presuppose their active participation as the same as other citizens, and consequently practice a more constructive approach to inequality.

Precast and Prestressed Concrete for the Future Construction of Sudurpaschim

Concrete is the second most consumed material in the earth after water. While concrete has been used for more than 2000 years, widespread use of precast elements has emerged as the latest concrete technology for quality of construction. Precast concrete follows modular construction approach which is sometimes classified as one of the top ten construction innovations. The widespread application of precast concrete was augmented by the invention of prestressed concrete as a revolutionary technology in concrete. This study provides an overview of the use of precast and prestressed concrete technology in Nepal. It highlights the benefits of concrete for national economy by utilizing domestic resources and in realizing sustainable development through durable construction. Recent applications of precast and prestressed concrete in Nepal are highlighted, with examples from various structures including building, river training, and slope stability, hydropower and tunnel projects. The challenging aspects of precast and prestressed construction are also illustrated with examples. Research and development of precast and prestressed concrete products in Nepal are highlighted by presenting the initiatives from experimental studies and academic research. Even though Nepal is in the early stage of application of precast and prestressed concrete technology, the initial applications indicate huge potential and great benefits of application of such products for the faster, cost-effective and durable construction in various parts of Nepal.

Sneglehusene Housing: Case study based on Bioclimatic Strategies

Bioclimatic architecture is a sustainable construction approach that seeks to integrate local climatic conditions in the design of buildings, where one of the main objectives is to maximize thermal comfort and reduce energy consumption through the efficient use of natural resources, such as sunlight, natural ventilation and rainwater collection. To achieve this, materials and construction techniques adapted to the local climate are used, as well as the incorporation of renewable energy systems. This article is the result of research carried out in the Contemporary Bioclimatic Project discipline of the Postgraduate Program in Architecture, Urbanism and Landscaping at the Federal University of Santa Maria, and its purpose is to analyze the bioclimatic strategies applied in the Sneglehusene Housing, located in the city of Aarhus in Denmark. The methodology used for the analysis was based on studies of its implementation, adaptation to the local climate, principles and passive strategies for environmental comfort, landscaping strategies and materiality. Denmark is a world reference on this subject and seeks to encourage a healthier lifestyle in its cities, with the Sneglehusene Housing being an example of a building designed for common well-being and focusing on bioclimatic architecture..

Fault Knowledge Graph Construction and Platform Development for Aircraft PHM.

To tackle the problems of over-reliance on traditional experience, poor troubleshooting robustness, and slow response by maintenance personnel to changes in faults in the current aircraft health management field, this paper proposes the use of a knowledge graph. The knowledge graph represents troubleshooting in a new way. The aim of the knowledge graph is to improve the correlation between fault data by representing experience. The data source for this study consists of the flight control system manual and typical fault cases of a specific aircraft type. A knowledge graph construction approach is proposed to construct a fault knowledge graph for aircraft health management. Firstly, the data are classified using the ERNIE model-based method. Then, a joint entity relationship extraction model based on ERNIE-BiLSTM-CRF-TreeBiLSTM is introduced to improve entity relationship extraction accuracy and reduce the semantic complexity of the text from a linguistic perspective. Additionally, a knowledge graph platform for aircraft health management is developed. The platform includes modules for text classification, knowledge extraction, knowledge auditing, a Q&A system, and graph visualization. These modules improve the management of aircraft health data and provide a foundation for rapid knowledge graph construction and knowledge graph-based fault diagnosis.

Construções marcadoras discursivas formadas por olhar, no português, e guardare, no italiano: uma análise constrastivo-funcional

"Discourse markers formed by olhar in Portuguese and guardare in Italian: a contrastive-functional analysis. Discourse markers (DM) make up a hybrid category and little distinct from the others. As elements outside grammar, these constituents are difficult to delimit and, therefore, difficult to analyze. Based on this consideration, adopting a functionalist theoretical framework combined with the constructional approach to grammar, in the terms of Traugott and Trousdale (2013), Hilpert (2014) and Traugott (2021, 2022), among others, we proceeded to an analysis of a qualitative and contrastive nature of MD formed by the verbs of visual perception (Scheibman 2000) olhar, in Portuguese, and guardare, in Italian, in the detection of their correspondences and distinctions. We assume such MDs as specific pairs of form and meaning in contemporary uses of Portuguese and Italian, as procedural constructions, such as [olha só] and [guarda un po'], respectively. We found that these MDs act in calling attention, in monitoring interaction via manipulation of the virtually idealized attentional space, due to communicative purposes, as defended by Sambrana (2021, 2023), for Portuguese, and Oliveira and Lazzarotto (2022), for Italian. We found that they contribute to this functionality of the MDs researched cognitive processes of general domain, according to Bybee (2010), such as chunking and analogization, and also social cognition, according to Diessel (2017). Keywords: discourse markers; contrastive analysis; contexts of use; contemporary Portuguese; contemporary Italian."

Environmental Sustainability: Harmonizing Construction Mining Industry Practices with the Implementation of Green Consumption and Sustainable Building Materials in Bangalore, India

This research delves into the imperative of sustainable building materials, spurred by the ecological fallout from traditionally mined construction methods that inflicted harm on our shared ecosystem. As the 21st century dawned, a heightened consciousness necessitated a paradigm shift toward innovative and sustainable construction approaches, particularly in the dynamic urban landscape of Bangalore, a tier I city. The crux lies in harnessing smart, renewable, and bio-based materials, endowed with the dual prowess of carbon reduction and absorption across their lifecycle. However, the journey towards ecofriendly construction encounters barriers, ranging from limited material understanding to standardization dilemmas, the entanglement of multiple decision-makers, fiscal demands, perceived risks, and the pervasive influence of societal dynamics. Within this maze, we examine the role of green consumption goals as an instrumental variable to overcome these obstacles. Employing a carefully constructed questionnaire, data originates from 289 respondents within the construction sector in Bangalore and judgement sampling technique is used. The data are analysed using chi-square, ANOVA, correlation analysis, multiple regression. The finds showed that 38% agreed that their building material purchase decisions were influenced by social groups, while only 15% believed their decisions were unaffected by social group influence. As per Duncan Multiple Range Tests (DMRT), age plays a role in shaping individuals' perspectives and preferences related to sustainable construction practices. In summation, this exploration vigorously advocates for the expeditious adoption of sustainable construction practices, spotlighting the salience of green consumerism as an indispensable agent of change. The narrative converges on the imperative for a recalibration towards intelligent, sustainable practices a trajectory indispensable for forging an environmentally fortified future.

Harnessing mesenchymal aggregation for engineered organ‐level regeneration: Recent progress and perspective

AbstractStem cells, especially mesenchymal progenitors or mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), possess an intrinsic property to form compact spheroid‐like assemblies, a phenomenon known as cell aggregation. In recent years, a growing body of researches have uncovered that this is a cross‐species conserved developmental event essential for initiating organogenesis in a variety of organs. Moreover, the self‐assembly property also contributes to the regenerative capacities of MSC aggregates in vivo with broad range of applications in tissue engineering. In this review, the principles of self‐assembled mesenchymal aggregation and its involvement in physiological organogenesis, as well as the construction approaches of engineering MSC aggregates and its application for organ regeneration are discussed. The authors aim to provide a speculative overview of the current understanding and the recent findings of cell aggregation, from both the developmental and the engineering perspectives, and thus offer insights into the understanding of stem cell biology and the establishment of novel organ regeneration strategies.

Metrics on Internal Medicine from the journal Gaceta Médica Estudiantil

Introduction: Scientific research is a fundamental pillar in the advancement of Medicine, in such a way that from medical training it is necessary to acquire certain capacities through the implementation of research chairs and different favorable mechanisms towards the collective construction of knowledge. Bibliometrics statistically and quantitatively analyzes publications within a specific research field.Objective: to characterize the articles on Internal Medicine topics published in the Gaceta Médica Estudiantil magazine in the period from 2020 to January 2023.Methods: a bibliometric, observational, cross-sectional study was carried out. The universe was made up of 21 published scientific articles. The sampling technique was not used. The variables analyzed were: year of publication, type and topic of the article, career in medical sciences, origin of the author, number of authors, readings, downloads, and bibliographic references. Descriptive statistics, degree of collaboration and the Price index were applied.Results: the year 2022 presented the highest number of articles published 11 (52.4%) and the highest collaboration rate. Original articles prevailed 11 (52.4%). Articles with 4 authors stood out. The female sex predominated among the authors (35, 51.5%). The Guantanamo University of Medical Sciences stood out with the largest number of authors (22 authors, 32.4%). 974 references were used, 715 of them under 5 years of age.Conclusions: the importance of the bibliometric study lies in identifying the strengths and weaknesses of the Gaceta Médica Estudiantil journal, always with a constructive approach to increase its visibility and meet quality standards.