Deep Thinking Research Articles

Exploring the Use of Tweets and Word Clouds as Strategies in Educational Research

This paper presents personal insights and discussions on the exploration of specific strategies which relate to data collection and analysis used to support the focus group discussion data collection and preliminary analysis of a doctoral research entitled Undergraduate students’ experiences of learning with digital multimodal texts. The main objective of the doctoral research was to understand the different ways undergraduate students experienced learning with digital multimodal texts (DMTs) within the context of a history module included in their first-year programme of studies both as readers (consumers) and authors (producers). Data were collected through semi-structured interviews, written reflection accounts, a focus group discussion and consideration given to the DMT (a video) produced by the participants. The focus group discussion event included a hands-on task whereby participants were requested to write their views in response to a given prompt question in the form of tweets. Also, the written tweets were visualised as word clouds for the purpose of initial analysis. The findings reported in this paper, which are based on observation notes and investigation of the word clouds, suggest that the tweet-related, hands-on task acted as a good ice breaker, making the participants feel at ease and more relaxed about sharing their views amongst each other while eliciting discussions and fostering deeper thinking. Also, the word clouds were revealed to be an effective data visualisation tool allowing emerging and salient themes to stand out from the participants’ written tweets and reflections.

Research on Countermeasures for Private Colleges and Universities to Promote the Development of Local Folk Culture under the New Momentum Strategy

Excellent folk culture is a valuable asset of traditional culture and an important resource for traditional cultural education and quality education for students. It is especially valuable for deepening the ideological and political education of students in private colleges and universities. The development of folk culture education by local private colleges and universities has the significance of improving the overall quality of students, promoting the construction of campus culture, and promoting the construction of local culture. It should follow the complementarity of local culture and Chinese culture, the connection of professionalism and national spirit, art education and patriotic education. The principle of integration, the distinction between cultural essence and cultural dross. Private colleges and universities should cultivate students' folk culture literacy, bring folk culture into campuses and classrooms, so that students can truly feel the value of folk culture, understand the history of folk culture, and better inherit folk culture. Doing a good job in ideological and political education in private colleges and universities in the new era requires a comprehensive understanding, deep thinking, and full play of the positive value of excellent folk culture, and the actual effects of ideological and political education in private colleges and universities. Culture is not only a spiritual force, but also productivity. "Culture +" can increase mutual promotion. For Fushun City in Liaoning Province, it is necessary to combine the local characteristic culture and give the culture new vitality.

Developing Intermediate School Students’ Creative Thinking in (EFI) English for Iraq

Creativity is defined as the screen that shows the hidden ideas of the human mind. It is the product of deep thinking about a specific problem or thing, which has different faces, the most important of which is writing. Writing is a skill of producing creative texts without grammatical mistakes using an attractive style with poetic or rhetorical language, i.e. it translates students’ imaginations and thoughts on papers. Iraqi Ministry of Education is one of the educational institutions that is interests in developing students’ creativity using many techniques. Therefore, the ministry makes many changes to its educational programs, such as the English curriculum. The new curriculum is called English for Iraq (EFI). The current paper depends on qualitative methods of research to seek how the technique of EFI of the intermediate schools develops students’ creative thinking by using writing skills as a creative means that produces three books: scrapbook, school magazine and collection of short stories. The researcher focuses on the three books of the intermediate stage, which are 1st, 2nd, and 3rd intermediate.

BSAVA Congress 2022

Abstract After all the deep thinking, you’ll be in need of some downtime. Whether you like to step on to a yoga mat or a dance floor, there’s something for you at BSAVA Congress 2022.

Jelajah Pemikiran Josef Prijotomo terhadap Arsitektur Nusantara (Tahun 1999-2020): Kajian Sejarah Pemikiran

Title: Exploration on Josef Prijotomo Thinking towards Nusantara Architecture (1999-2020): A History of Thought Studies The Indonesian historical journey in which showing the traces of architectural discourse is still on its way. One of the strong discourses in forming the foundation of thinking is Nusantara Architecture. Nusantara Architecture, as suggested by Prijotomo, is an architecture in which its perspective, concepts, and theories are developed based on Mother Nature. Prijotomo has been working in the formation of this Thinking and it evolves in time. It is important to understand this journey as well as to understand Nusantara Architecture The study of the exploration of Prijotomo’s thinking about Nusantara Architecture (1999-2020) aims to identify the shift of Prijotomo’s way of thinking from Traditional Architecture to Nusantara Architecture, as well as identifying the impacts or implications of Prijotomo’s thinking in the recent era. The study uses a historical research method using documents and oral sources. The document sources used are the original ones including books and articles written by Prijotomo within 1999-2020, while the oral sources are the direct conversation with Prijotomo. Through the exploration, it can be concluded that using Nusantara Architecture thinking, Prijotomo has attempted to make the base thought of Mother Nature equal to Western Architecture (European and American). This study serves as a starter to place Nusantara Architecture as architectural knowledge that is ‘liyan (the other)’ in relation to Western Architecture (European and American). The thoughts in seeking the base foundations for architects of (in) Indonesia are still ongoing. However, the offer and even the basis initiated and proposed in a series of Prijotomo’s deep thinking struggle are crucial and relevant. Emendation and purification by Prijotomo should be used and sustained by the various Architecture stakeholders in Indonesia.

Transcription and Post-translational Regulation of Autophagy in Insects.

Autophagy attracts great attention, and numerous progresses have been obtained in the last two decades. Autophagy is implicated in mammalian neurodegenerative diseases, tumorigenesis, as well as development in insects. The regulatory mechanism of autophagy is well documented in yeast and mammals, whereas it is not fully illustrated in insects. Drosophila melanogaster and Bombyx mori are the two well-studied insects for autophagy, and several insect-mammalian evolutionarily conserved or insect-specific mechanisms in regulating autophagy are reported. In this review, we summarize the most recent studies of autophagy regulated at both transcriptional and post-translational levels by insect hormone in cooperation with other signals, such as nutrient, which will provide a reference and deep thinking for studies on autophagy in insects.

How Students' Big Five personality traits manifest in perceived social loafing behavior.

Social loafing (SL) has a detrimental impact on cooperative learning. SL dysfunctionalities are causing more faculty to avoid assigning group projects as part of their course work. This qualitative case study examines how students' personalities are expressed in social loafers' behavior during university-level group assignments at a Texas university. The case study added further depth and breadth to current literature on SL in cooperative learning by exploring the perpetrator's personality expressions. Ten faculty members were interviewed, 32 students were surveyed, and 10 loafers were identified and self-assessed. A qualitative case study was used to provide in-depth investigation of Big Five personality in SL behavior. The faculty interviews and students' surveys revealed that Openness to Experience and Conscientiousness were not expressed in SL behavior for university-level group assignments assessed by four IPIP facets. Openness to Experience (values, ideas, actions, and fantasy) was not expressed. Faculty and students indicated that loafers were not curious, barely prepared, with very short attention spans after which they get lost. Social loafers showed no originality, no active imagination, and no deep thinking. Conscientiousness (achievement striving, dutifulness, competence, and order) was not expressed. For Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism, some facets were expressed, and others were withheld. The results of this study provide faculty with a multifaceted understanding of students' personality traits to better guide their group interaction and cooperative learning.

Beyond Western Shores: A Dialogue

Integrating musical and sonic forms and materials from world music into music theory classes steeped in Western musical concepts raises challenging questions and pedagogical conundrums: How might instructors engender interest in students with no training or background in non-Western musical materials? Could non-Western music (NWM) stimulate deeper thinking and understanding about the broader contexts of music production, such as its culture, religion, politics, and history, as well as indigenous musical terms and concepts? To what extent should critical contextual consideration be given prior to the study of non-Western sounds, musics, or performances? How might students and instructors alike engage NWM without extending the troubling histories of colonialism, western hegemony, and privileged, white perspectives? To address these and other questions from multiple viewpoints, this article takes the form of a dialogue between two students and two music professors, the latter representing the disciplines of music theory and ethnomusicology. As these four interlocutors explore the questions above, they also consider and revise a "Pin Drop" assignment, in which music theory students explore the musical culture found at various locations selected around the globe. Rather than offer any final conclusions, the dialogue itself demonstrates how the productive tensions that arise when studying and teaching NWM in Western music classrooms, when examined from multiple disciplinary angles, can be mutually beneficial and enriching, making possible new musical insights, methodological syntheses, and pedagogical priorities.

Epistemological and educational issues in teaching practice-oriented scientific research: roles for philosophers of science

The complex societal challenges of the twenty-first Century require scientific researchers and academically educated professionals capable of conducting scientific research in complex problem contexts. Our central claim is that educational approaches inspired by a traditional empiricist epistemology insufficiently foster the required deep conceptual understanding and higher-order thinking skills necessary for epistemic tasks in scientific research. Conversely, we argue that constructivist epistemologies (developed in the philosophy of science in practice) provide better guidance to educational approaches to promote research skills. We also argue that teachers adopting a constructivist learning theory do not necessarily embrace a constructivist epistemology. On the contrary, in educational practice, novel educational approaches that adopt constructivist learning theories (e.g., project-based learning, PjBL) often maintain traditional empiricist epistemologies. Philosophers of science can help develop educational designs focused on learning to conduct scientific research, combining constructivist learning theory with constructivist epistemology. We illustrate this by an example from a bachelor’s program in Biomedical Engineering, where we introduce conceptual models and modeling as an alternative to the traditional focus on hypothesis testing in conducting scientific research. This educational approach includes the so-called B&K method for (re-)constructing scientific models to scaffold teaching and learning conceptual modeling.

Reflection on an Innovative International Partnership during the COVID-19 Pandemic

This reflective essay discusses how Southwest University (China) created an innovative international partnership initiative with universities in Australia, New Zealand, and the U.S. during the global pandemic. It articulates the context of the initiative, agreement establishment, program implementation, and lessons learned. This reflection aims to provoke deep thinking of how transformative international cooperation could help impact higher education internationalization.

Reflecting on tourism and COVID-19 research

ABSTRACT Reflection is a form of deep thinking that is evident in everyday lives – private and professional – and this article offers insights for key parties about reflecting on research outcomes to ensure enhanced tourism impacts post-pandemic. Using a hermeneutic perspective on reflection, the authors reflect on research outcomes since the pandemic began. Three types of reflection are deployed: anticipatory, active and recollective. While the ultimate effects of the pandemic remain uncertain, a scholarly rush to collect new data has been observed. Earlier research predictions seem unlikely to materialise. Taken collectively, the reflections suggest that researchers should slow down and allow for collection of more research data over extended time periods to generate stronger theoretical contributions. Scholars may apply anticipatory, active and recollective reflection to applicable research contexts. Documentation of the reflective process alerts practitioners to economic and social trends which may impact on global tourism post-pandemic.

Construction of the EFL Mobile Learning Model in the Hybrid Distributed Terminal

With the integration of technology in higher education, mobile learning plays an important role in EFL classes. In order to optimize the efficiency of EFL learning, a mobile learning model in the hybrid distributed terminal is constructed. The online platform supporting both synchronous and asynchronous learning with three types of interaction helps build a blended learning model and creates a closed loop for ubiquitous online and offline learning with multiple evaluation, which also builds a community of inquiry-based learning to facilitate collaborative study and deep thinking. Aiming to improve the resource scheduling performance of learning information sharing mode, based on the traditional sharing mode hardware, the mobile learning software for the hybrid distributed terminal is thus optimized. Learning resources are mined and fused to realize the scheduling of learning information resources, and user interface management function is designed to construct the EFL mobile learning mode with the hybrid distributed terminal.

The effects of using an online collaboration tool on college students’ learning of academic writing skills

Expository writing skills, integrating perspectives and evidential supporting sources, are critical for students to succeed in college. However, many students at the onset of postsecondary education lack adequate reading and writing skills to complete integrated language tasks, including paraphrasing and synthesizing information critically and coherently from multiple sources to elicit deep thinking and make sophisticated arguments. This article reports on a 10-week intervention using a cloud-based technology application to support students’ collaboration in reading-to-write learning tasks. The intervention focused on systematically helping students develop distinct expository writing skills progressively with embedded reading strategies. Sixty-nine first-year students enrolled in an English course at a large Canadian community college participated in the study. The scores of pre- and post-writing tests and standardized reading tests measuring three reading attributes were analyzed to examine the control and treatment groups’ performance. A statistically significant result was found in the writing scores of the treatment subgroup with lower language proficiency levels, indicating that the instructional framework with the technology-supported collaborative setting had a positive effect. This study provides evidence that college students with underdeveloped language skills can benefit from a well-structured, online intervention supporting a collaborative learning environment for academic writing.

Formation of students’ deep thinking (at English lessons)

Formation of students’ deep thinking (at English lessons)

Границы философии в интерпретации ренессансного скептицизма (Пьер Шаррон)

The question of the subject and limits of philosophy received various solutions throughout its history, but invariably it was at the center of worldview conflicts of turning epochs. Skeptical constructions have always been of particular im­portance in this series. One of the most fruitful pages in the development of skepticism is associated with the late Renaissance. In this regard, the figure of Pierre Charron is extremely noteworthy. In his oeuvre, it would be wrong to see only a scholastic repetition of Montaigne’s ideas. Of course, the influence of the native of Perigord on Charron’s thinking is undoubtedly. But the signi­ficance of Charron’s legacy goes far beyond simply repeating other people’s theoretical attitudes. He approached the construction of his skeptical system through a deep thinking. The starting point on this path is a treatise on the ba­sics of religion. Charron opposes Duplessis-Mornay’s concept, which justified the need to fight Catholicism under the slogan of freeing the Church from tyranny. Reflections on the problem of a correct understanding of the essence of religious clashes that resulted in a series of civil wars are a prerequisite for his main work – the treatise On Wisdom. By distinguishing between types of wisdom, he separates religion from philosophy and morality. He accuses mod­ern theologians and metaphysicians of wandering on dead ends. According to Charron, skeptical philosophy was called upon to replace their erroneous con­structions, refusing to try to reveal the essence of things and concentrating on civilian life. This kind of philosophy is based on self-knowledge and its true core is morality. Not intending to break with religion, Charron to a large extent stimulated the reflections of subsequent freethinkers. The article focuses on three dimensions of Charron’s skepticism.

The use of recommended interviewing practices by novice engineering designers to elicit information during requirements development

Abstract Effective stakeholder interviewing is a critical component of a design process. However, interviewing is a complex skill that is difficult for novice designers to learn and incorporate into their design practices. Few studies have investigated how novice designers apply recommended practices for interviewing stakeholders during the development of product requirements. In this research, we studied how novice designers elicited information to inform the development of product requirements during stakeholder interviews. Results included the establishment of a coding methodology developed from a systematic literature review of recommended interviewing practices that was used to reliably evaluate the use of recommended practices in novice designers’ interviews. A correlation existed between the use of recommended practices and the extent to which information gathered from interviews was incorporated into the requirements. Additionally, specific recommended practices, such as encouraging deep thinking and being flexible and opportunistic, differentiated performance among novice designers. The coding methodology could be adapted to guide the development of stakeholder interview protocols and assessment of design interview skills.

Analysis of China’s New Energy Industry Development from the Perspective of Low-Carbon Economy

At present, the world is experiencing a serious climate change problem, and the consumption of high-carbon energy sources such as coal and oil undoubtedly brings great harm to the environment. In this context, some European and American countries have promoted a low-carbon revolution with high energy, high efficiency and low carbon emissions, focusing on developing low-carbon technologies. This paper mainly discusses the new energy industry from the perspective of low-carbon economy in China, and believes that China should also make a deep thinking on low-carbon economy and makes improvements of the industrial energy of some enterprises. This paper hopes to offer some references for the development of small and medium enterprises.

The Role of Complementary Medicine and Appropriate Treatment Methods in Improving the Symptoms of PMS

A woman may be able to relieve her premenstrual and diagnose it, meaning that when the symptoms are not severe, methods or general measures to relieve premenstrual syndrome that include education and awareness, change in diet, vitamin diet and exercise and deep thinking, effectively help her to overcome her syndrome. In fact, even if the woman's symptoms are severe - whether they are difficult to see or weaken the patient - she should treat herself with methods. Recognition of the disease by the patient, spouse, and family members is very important because PMS is a very important cause of couples arguing. A woman who suspects that she has premenstrual should see a doctor who treats the syndrome. If a woman does not have a menstrual calendar before consulting, her doctor will ask her to record the menstrual calendar for a period of two or three months. The doctor will also take tests. It is at this point that the doctor should inform the woman how she can use the natural way to reduce her symptoms. If natural methods do not reduce the severity of symptoms after a few periods of menstruation, and blood tests show a severe hormonal imbalance, medication should be used. However, the medical method for relieving the syndrome should also be applied in conjunction with a natural diet.

A New Age of AI: Features and Futures

By reviewing the 70 years of AI, this article summarizes and discusses the paradigm transformations from the age of AI before the year 2000 to the new age of AI from the year 2000 onward. It reviews the AI thinking and features of various AI generations and paradigms during these two ages of AI and their transformations. The paper further summarizes several AI Formulas from the AI vision, system, goal, task, and process perspectives. Several important areas are highlighted in developing AI Futures: shrinking the gaps between human, natural and social AI, and developing human-like/level AI, meta AI, reflective AI, metasynthetic AI, data-driven AI, beyond ‘IID AI,’ actionable AI, and sustainable AI. In the new age of AI, we encourage your deep thinking of AI futures.

Deep and shallow thinking in the long run

Humans differ in their strategic reasoning abilities and in beliefs about others' strategic reasoning abilities. Studying such cognitive hierarchies has produced new insights regarding equilibrium analysis in economics. This paper investigates the effect of cognitive hierarchies on long run behavior. Despite short run behavior being highly sensitive to variation in strategic reasoning abilities, this variation is not replicated in the long run. In particular, when generalized risk dominant strategy profiles exist, they emerge in the long run independently of the strategic reasoning abilities of players. These abilities may be arbitrarily low or high, heterogeneous across players, and evolving over time.