Context Of Construction Research Articles

Research on the Design of WeChat Applet of Persimmon Dye Culture from The Perspective of Scenario Construction

With the rapid development of information technology, the dissemination and preservation of traditional culture face new opportunities and challenges. This study aims to explore design strategies for a WeChat Mini Program focused on persimmon dyeing culture, to promote the inheritance and development of this intangible cultural heritage. Through user needs analysis, a user experience design framework based on contextual theory was constructed, and a Mini Program was developed that integrates cultural display, education, community interaction, and immersive experiences. The results highlight the importance of contextual construction in enhancing cultural experiences and user engagement, providing a reference for the digital transformation of other traditional cultures. The study explores the characteristics and direction of contextual construction in the design of the persimmon dyeing Mini Program, introduces key points in the program's development, and analyzes its current state and future development trends, offering support for the growth of persimmon dyeing traditional culture.

Depoliticized and decontextualized equality promotion in the gender equality planning of Finnish comprehensive schools

ABSTRACT This study critically examines gender equality planning (GEP), which has been obligatory in all Finnish comprehensive schools since 2015. GEP has been welcomed as a promising method of systemizing perspectives on gender in Finnish basic education. A regionally representative, discretional sample of gender equality plans (N = 140) was analysed using a critical discourse approach to examine how these plans discursively bent, stretched, fixed or shrank the meaning of gender equality along with the consequences of these approaches for equality promotion. The analysis shows that the GE plans constantly bent and stretched equality to separate it from gender and fixed it to free-floating gender equality measures, which left gendered power relations undisturbed. Consequently, equality promotion was represented as depoliticized. However, through the shrinking, the contextual construction of gendered power relations was recognized, and GEP exhibited the potential to politicize gender equality. In this paper, we argue that GEP has potential in gender equality promotion if the planning processes recognize contextual construction of gendered power relations and if equality promotion is not reduced to technical measures. Otherwise, the tool might actually impede equality rather than promoting it.

Towards unraveling insider/outsider binary: A migrant researcher received as a welcome guest insider among South African research participants

Dominant theoretical debates on researcher positionalities are framed in terms of mutually exclusive insider/outsider binary where insider researchers are assumed to share social identities such as nationality or ethnicity with research participants, while outsider researchers are viewed as those who do not share such social identities with participants. Drawing on my fieldwork as a migrant researcher with Coloured South Africans, this paper contributes to debates on insider/outsider positionalities in migration research and qualitative studies more generally. Despite my foreign origin and not sharing nationality, language, ethnicity, culture, racial identity and lived experiences with participants, I was received and embraced by Coloured South Africans as a welcome guest insider. By proposing an analytical concept which I term welcome guest insider, I argue that contrary to dichotomous conceptualizations of insider/outsider positionalities, my positionality was situationally and contextually constructed. This paper proposes that the insider/outsider binary is simplistic and too rigid to capture contextual constructions of insider/outsider positionalities emerging within the fieldwork context. Researchers in the field of qualitative studies and particularly migration studies can adopt and apply the analytical concept of welcome guest insider to conceptually frame perceived researcher positionalities who are warmly received and embraced by their research participants even though they do not share social identities such as nationality, race, ethnicity or lived experiences.

Research on Role Orientation and Situation Construction of Contextualized Music Performance in the Background of Artificial Intelligence

Abstract In this paper, the Skip-gram model is used to process the main melody information of contextualized music, combining feature extraction and Schenkel analysis to extract the main melody note sets and vectors. By applying the short-time Fourier transform (STFT) to the audio signal, the spectral center of mass and irregularities can be calculated to represent the emotional features of the music. To obtain music features based on wavelet coefficients, the music signal is decomposed, and each scale’s signal features are counted individually. Finally, by taking the musical elements as independent variables and the perceived results of pleasure and activation in the contextual model as dependent variables, we compared the variability of the dynamic associations between emotional perceptions and the musical elements among different contextualized music pieces. The results showed that the overall differences in emotional cognition across musical performances ranged between ±0.5, with the mean short-term energy amplitude of relatively cheerful music ranging between ±0.2, which was smaller than that of angry (±0.3) and sad (±0.5) music. In this study, musical works were accurately characterized, and their expressive and infectious power was effectively enhanced through contextual construction.

By what measure? A signpost theory of the truth of doctrine

Abstract This article proposes a novel theory of the truth of doctrine. A signpost theory of the truth of doctrine is informed by practice-based philosophy of science. I argue that a theory of the truth of doctrine needs to explain the construction, use, and judgement of doctrine. So, I raise questions about the truth of doctrine in reference to the relation between a theory of the truth of doctrine and the role of doctrine in the religious practice of believers. I argue that a signpost theory of the truth of doctrine learns from an empirical understanding of measurement and modelling in scientific practice. The examples of entropy and time provide insights into the construction, use, and judgement of measurements and modelling in scientific practice. An empirical understanding of measurement in scientific practice provides resources for linking representations with reality without ignoring the contextual construction, use, and judgement of representations. I conclude with a brief articulation of how a signpost theory of the truth of doctrine learns from an empirical understanding of measurements and models in scientific practice by highlighting the similarities and differences between the construction, use, and judgement of doctrine and of scientific representations.

Understanding and Interpretation: Contextual Construction of Archaeological Relics Exhibitions

Understanding and Interpretation: Contextual Construction of Archaeological Relics Exhibitions

Social Representations of Gender: A Contextual Construction in Schools

Social representations of gender (SR), namely, beliefs, values, attitudes, and symbolic content about gender affect people’s behavior and relations to others in social life. Gender representations help explain gender violence among the adolescent population. A qualitative study was conducted to explore the gender SR of teachers and students from two cities in Colombia: Bogotá and Ibagué. Multimethod data collection was performed using a word-association task with 37 teachers and a collaborative cartoon construction task with 284 students from both cities. Thematic analysis and triangulation were performed on this data. Knowledge and informational sources were explored in-depth among students and teachers. The analysis of gender representations revealed rather traditional views: binary representations of gender roles, gender relations, physical characteristics, and behavioral expectations for men and women. The study also found differences between the two educational contexts, scarce references to sexual diversity, and a nuance of tragedy in female gender roles and relations.

论花间词情境构建的整一性

As the first collection of ancient Chinese literati lyrics, The 〈HUA JIAN JI〉 has left an important mark on the development of ancient Chinese literature, with lyricists such as Wen Tingyun, Ouyang Jiong and Wei Zhuang, who were used to combining a variety of artistic techniques to arrange and combine a variety of life-like imagery, and then constructing a context. It is also necessary to explore the ways in which the contextual construction of HUA JIAN CI was intentionally constructed by their creators. This paper will use an internal approach to literary studies to do so. On the basis of an understanding of the original words, the way in which contextual integrity is revealed is examined in terms of the three stages of contextual construction: initial, sublimation and completion, and the three corresponding dimensions of reality, spirit and discourse; the way in which contextual integrity is constructed is analysed in terms of the object of reference of the text, the choice of imagery of the text, and the style of diction of the text, with a view to demonstrating that integrity is the inevitable result of the dominance of its aesthetic pursuit. Of course, while this paper examines the construction of contextual unity in HUA JIAN CI, it can also be used as a guide to answer more academic questions related to HUA JIAN CI.

A Relevance-theoretic Approach to Multimodal Discourse Analysis: A Case Study of Emoji Advertising

With the development of the internet and mass media, emojis are not only frequently used in daily internet-based communication but have become important marketing tools. Based on the relevance theory, this paper will take emojis in advertising as the research object. From the perspective of implicit/explicit information, contextual construction, and implicated conclusion, it aims to explore how this multimodal resource in advertisement helps the audience to get the advertiser’s communicative intentions and obtain optimal relevance. This study concludes that emojis serve as a tool of ostensive communication, conveying the message with the presumption of relevance; emojis help consumers construct new cognitive context; and they are complementary with other modalities, which increase the ostension of information and save cognitive effort, and promote the audience find the optimal relevance path.

A localized adaptive comfort model for free-running low-income housing in Mumbai, India

The nexus of thermal comfort, affordability, and resilient buildings is receiving great attention in the rapidly urbanizing world. Understanding the thermal comfort needs, and preferences of the low-income population are crucial in developing an equitable approach to fight climate change and meet sustainable development goals. However, thermal comfort is a contextual construct that requires a localized rather than a universal one-size-fits-all approach. This study proposes a novel AdaptiveComfort forLow-Income Housing (ACL) model for the free-running low-income housing of Mumbai, India through a longitudinal field study method. 6266 observations from low-income housing located within the warm humid region were gathered to examine the thermal comfort conditions of the vulnerable population. Lower thermal sensitivity and a wider comfort temperature band of 25.1 °C to 31.9 °C for occupants were observed as compared to their affluent counterparts. The existing national and international comfort standards proved to be ineffective in predicting comfort conditions for Indian low-income occupants. The localized ACL model developed here is a first-of-its-kind attempt in the Indian context toward improving thermal comfort and built environment sustainability in low-income housing.

Restaurant patrons’ intentions toward QR code menus in the U.S. during COVID-19: acceptance of technology adoption model (ATAM)

ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to explain restaurant patrons’ behavioral intentions toward QR code menu utilization in restaurant servicescapes (restaurant-scapes) under pandemic constraints. The study consists of 844 participants from the U.S.and employs multivariate analyses. With only five direct determinants without interaction terms, our proposed model performed better in explaining the error variance (62%) in behavioral intentions over and beyond the extant models of technology acceptance – the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology model (UTAUT henceforth) and UTAUT2, both of which explain only 35% and 44% respectively. Our findings indicate the importance of an overlooked construct (Trialability) in a consumer context, particularly in servicescapes, and a contextual construct (hygiene) in explaining the intention to accept technology under the conditions originated by environmental factors (COVID-19). Technology acceptance models are middle-level theories attempting to explain behavioral intentions toward technology adoption, not general theories aiming to explain broad human behavior. This means that the extension of these theoretical models is necessary for particular contexts. Thus, contextual factors originating from environmental conditions (e.g. COVID-19) have a critical role in explaining behavioral intentions toward particular technology adoption. In a consumer context, acceptance of technology adoption is assumed as voluntary/quasi-voluntary. Therefore, practitioners should ensure that the purpose of technology adoption is obvious to customers. Additionally, first-time users, particularly, may need to receive assistance with operating the technology in restaurant-scapes.

Literary-stylistics of engagement in Femi Osofisan’s The Engagement

ABSTRACT Existing linguistic and non-linguistic studies on Femi Osofisan’s The Engagement (TE) and his other plays have articulated the revolutionary dialectics that characterise his works. Besides the fact that TE has not been sufficiently explored, scholarly information on Osofisan’s construction of marriage proposal remains under-reported. Taking insights from aspects of literary stylistics (LS), this study examines the construction of marriage proposal in TE with a view to describing the implications of such construction for Yoruba culture. Engaging aspects of LS, ten purposively selected excerpts, relating to contextual construction of engagement are subjected to literary stylistic analysis. The study reveals that Osofisan adopts satire, humour and songs to trivialise marriage proposal as a relevant aspect of Yoruba cultural belief. Rather than describing the contextual description of marriage proposal within the Yoruba cultural perspective, Osofisan satirises marriage institution by creating conflict to orchestrate to characters’ follies, lampoon inherent complexities in human relations and depict the collapse of good parenting, especially in marriage. A literary stylistic reading of TE reveals the robust attachment of Osofisan to the Yoruba cultural values, and describes the smooth interaction between his art and social commitment.

The evolution of employee engagement: Towards a social and contextual construct for balancing individual performance and wellbeing dynamically

AbstractResearch demonstrates that high Employee Engagement (EE) sustains job satisfaction and performance among staff. This literature review analyses the evolution of EE, highlighting the theoretical frameworks used to explain the concept, the measurement scales adopted by researchers and the principal antecedents and outcomes relating to EE that have been progressively considered along the way. Three main findings emerge from the analysis. First, we highlight the social and relational nature of EE, providing a more sociological interpretation of this phenomenon. Second, we underscore the fact that EE is dynamic, and when combined with modern digital technologies, it can be studied through innovative approaches. Third, we discuss how EE could be a fundamental ingredient in shifting towards a human centred approach through which balancing individuals’ wellbeing and performance. We discuss the implications of these findings, highlighting the necessity to rethink EE in relation to the new normal ushered in by Covid‐19, and the increasing role of hybrid working.

Betwixt and between: A narrative inquiry into Chinese university leaders’ intercultural competence in leadership

This narrative inquiry explores three Chinese university leaders’ intercultural competence as a key dimension of their leadership that overseas leadership development programmes enabled them to develop. The leaders visited three different countries – namely, the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada – storied their experiences in the programmes and connected their reflections to leadership in the Chinese higher education system. Our narrative analyses show that the overseas leadership development programmes were mediators in the construction of leadership, for which there were two focal themes: (1) leadership as a personal and contextual construction process and (2) intercultural competence as a key dimension of university leaders’ leadership. Betwixt and between different higher education systems in different cultural contexts, the reconceptualisation of leadership with intercultural competence is unfurled in the liminal space, which goes beyond the functionalist paradigm of leadership and is also of international interest and value in the global communication of higher education.

Female workers' career success in the handicraft industry: a study of Uttarakhand, India

PurposeThis work is an extension of research on worker participation in achieving career success by including a prominent contextual construct, that is social capital. The present research aims to study how competency development influences the intrinsic career success of females in the handicraft industry, by considering the role of perceived employability as a mediator and social capital as a moderator. By doing so, this paper aims to fill the vacuum in the career literature that suggests that career success is not gender neutral.Design/methodology/approachData was collected from handicraft workers by adopting the survey method. CFA and SPSS macro named PROCESS were used to analyse data.FindingsCompetency development influences the subjective career success of female workers, and perceived employability mediated the relationship between them. Moreover, social capital independently moderates the relationship between the participation of workers in competency development and perceived employability.Research limitations/implicationsThe study is conducted in the Indian context alone, and therefore future studies must be conducted globally to deepen the scholarly dialogue on female workers' career success. Also, the current study measures career success, from a subjective perspective, thus future studies can measure female workers' objective career success.Practical implicationsThe current paper identifies the need to study the factors contributing to female workers' career success in small industries.Social implicationsConventional industries and their workers' career success must be given equal importance by researchers, practitioners and policymakers.Originality/valueThe paper fills the gap in career research by exploring female workers' career success through empirical evidence.

Understanding context in computer-mediated communication

Abstract With unprecedented transformations taking place in the landscape of what to say and how we mean, interactions in the digital age take on various new forms of doing and being. To make sense of “what it is that is going on” requires an understanding of the context wherein the computer-mediated communications take place. Focusing on a burgeoning online video commenting discourse in mainland China called Danmaku (a media feature that projects viewer comments onto the video, like a ‘bullet curtain’), the present study applies the schematic construct of context of situation and its paradigmatic representation developed in Systemic Functional Linguistics to a functionally-driven discussion of Danmaku context. Drawing on a corpus of comments from 18 well-received videos on Bilibili.com (a major Danmaku site in mainland China), the study provides a fine-grained analysis that highlights emergent technological and semiotic variables in the Danmaku Mode, such as anonymity, invisibility, dynamicity, and pseudo-synchronicity. It then discusses how these variables mediate the properties of Field and Tenor and further impinge upon the experiential and interpersonal meanings made in Danmaku communication. The analysis also highlights the carnivalesque nature of Danmaku which makes it an increasingly popular social media platform in mainland China.

Design of Occupational Therapy Interventions for Middle-Aged and Elderly Family Caregivers.

This study aimed to develop an interactive app for occupational therapy interventions for middle-aged and elderly family caregivers by integrating life review and narrative therapy. The results indicated that the interventions improved the mood of individuals, but the improvement in the quality of life was less significant due to the multiple facets of life. The interface design of the interactive app had good operating characteristics and was above average in terms of learnability and usability. Overall, the intervention program positively improved participants’ psychological aspect, which was in line with the purpose of the life review. Thus, a focus group put forward specific suggestions on the contextual construction of life review, the intelligent development of guiding questions, scenario simulation, and the introduction of creative collaboration functions, which could be used as a reference for subsequent content adjustment and interface design.

Body-Part Morphemes in Matis (Panoan)

Grammatical and pragmatic aspects of body-part constructions represent relevant theme for typological and functional researches in the Amerindian languages. Despite the researches on body-part morphemes in the Matis language since the beginning of the 21st century, studies have been restricted to brief inventories and to the description of isolated clauses. In the present article, I describe the extended body-part inventory and the typological aspects of the Matis body-part morphemes. In doing so, it is proposed the systemic functional analysis of its lexicogrammatical features and pragmatic properties in contextual constructions of narratives collected in fieldwork. The findings of this analysis shows that, in clause chaining constructions, the functional relation of body-part morphemes and its possessor is established on referential progression by means of the participant agreement in the switch-reference system. Moreover, prefixed verbs can be preceded by the correspondent body-part nouns to convey focus expression, and polysyllabic nouns can also indicate topic function when structured at the beginning of the clause. The systemic functional analysis of the body-part morphemes through textual data seek to collaborate on the knowledge of the interaction between lexicogrammatical and pragmatic systems in the Matis language.

Fetishizing the Foot: Mobility and Meaning in Indian Ocean Sandals

Fetishizing the Foot: Mobility and Meaning in Indian Ocean Sandals

Derechos humanos, desarrollo local y educación en contextos de exclusión social

Education is an essential element to generate processes of struggle for human dignity in the territories, if it is understood as a cultural and liberation process, as explained by authors such as Paulo Freire and Herrera Flores. In areas of social exclusion, education presents different approaches and aspects, whereas the educational system is configured in a hegemonic way, within a neoliberal context based on homogeneous and universal educational models. However, as Freire points out, education as a practice of freedom is a dynamic and contextual construction that must start from the heterogeneity of the territories in order to generate processes that prevent social and human exclusion. In this sense, development and education could be defined as human rights, as emancipatory cultural processes towards human dignity.