Desire For Innovation Research Articles

Enabling the vision of a perpetual innovative product – predicting function fulfillment of new product generations in a circular factory

Abstract The need for sustainability is driving the transition from linear to circular production. Customers, driven by the desire for innovation, prefer new products with the latest cutting-edge functions and design. The problem is that used products from older product generations are hence less attractive, leading to a limited market for remanufactured products and generating less revenue than their new counterparts. Therefore, this research addresses the problem of reprocessing and technologically updating used products into the newest product generation. To address this problem of reprocessing and technological updating with a Circular Factory, the product’s function fulfillment must be predicted in different situations in a Circular Factory. Three key challenges in which the function fulfillment must be predicted are identified as: Analysis and Diagnostics of Used Products and Subsystems, Prediction for Pairing and Reprocess of the Embodiment and Design for Circular Factory. A model-based approach is presented to address these three key challenges by predicting product function fulfillment to enable cross-generational use of subsystems and components. Five different types of models are proposed: A Functional Model, a Reliability Model and a Reference Architecture Model at the high level of general product modeling, as well as a Digital Twin of an object instance and a Tolerance Scheme at the level of individual instances. A theoretical case study shows the possible application in a Circular Factory using the example of an angle grinder. However, it’s essential to acknowledge that substantial work is needed for the enhancement or development of these models before practical application. Successful application of these models allows the Circular Factory not only to maintain but also to increase the value of reprocessed products to enable offering on the primary market and contribute to the vision of realizing a perpetual innovative product.

‘Stick to the status quo’? A conjoint experiment with German adolescents on democratic designs

AbstractWhile representing the next generation of democratic citizens, research on process preferences of adolescents is in its infancy. To analyse what institutional designs adolescents favour, we conducted a conjoint experiment with a unique, representative sample of 1,970 German pupils between the age of 14–17. We find that adolescents in general are ‘status quo’– democrats, preferring a parliament (representing the central institution of the existing representative system) to alternative institutions, namely citizen forums and an assertive leader. However, support for the status quo comes with several qualifications, namely expert input, slow and considerate political processes and a final referendum. Furthermore, we find differences between subgroups, whereby dissatisfied adolescents are more open to citizen forums and an assertive leader than satisfied adolescents. By contrast, more sophisticated adolescents have stronger preferences for the parliament as the main institution. Overall, our results suggest that a major overhaul of the democratic infrastructure does not seem to be a priority for the next generation of citizens, although there is some desire for innovation, namely the ‘blending’ of representative institutions with more citizen participation.

Conceptualizing ‘Chinese surrealism’ through translation: a case study of the China independent fine arts association’s cultural identity and its translation of surrealism in 1930s

ABSTRACT This paper examines the questions of cultural identity in the surrealist related translation practices led by the China Independent Fine Arts Association (CIFAA) around 1935. It was the first time in the history of modern Chinese art that a group of artists translated ‘surrealism’ together and that an art association independently translated a modern Western art genre into China. Accordingly, the CIFAA’s work evidences that translation has played a vital role in the modernization of Chinese art. In this translation movement, the young artists-as-translators expressed their pioneering art concepts through translation, expressing their desire to be both ‘reformers’ of Chinese art and ‘mediators’ of Chinese and Western modern art. As reformers, the artists attempted to innovate Chinese art by introducing surrealism, while as mediators they sought to reconcile the contradiction between their desire for innovation and the mainstream left-wing Chinese expectations of realistic art by adding ‘realism’ to the Chinese semantic meaning of ‘surrealism’. This paper thus argues that the CIFAA’s translation of surrealism reflects a complex relationship between translation and the artists’ cultural identity, which ultimately conceptualizing an unprecedented ‘Chinese surrealism’ that is very different from the original Western surrealism.

FACTORS AFFECTING THE ACQUISITION OF TRAINING KNOWLEDGE BY VIETNAMESE UNIVERSITY LECTURERS THROUGH INTERNATIONAL JOINT TRAINING PROGRAMS AT THE UNIVERSITY LEVEL

Exploring the factors affecting the acceptance of training knowledge by lecturers through international training programs will shed light on how teachers can receive the most knowledge. Knowledge acquisition will be most effective when the stakeholders increase the factors that have a positive impact and minimize the factors that have a negative effect on lecturers’ knowledge acquisition. When the majority of faculty in the international cooperative education program receive effective international training, knowledge and learning will spread throughout the university, moving toward increasing the overall level of teaching capacity of the teaching school. Since then, the quality of education at the school has improved, which meets both the desire for innovation in society's education and the needs of international integration of Vietnam's higher education. Theoretically, research on knowledge acquired through international collaboration in Vietnam and around the world focuses on organizational-level acquisition rather than individual learning. Some test results on the influence of individual factors on knowledge acquisition are inconsistent, suggesting the possibility of a moderating variable for this effect. In addition, previous studies have examined the influence of two groups of individual and social factors on knowledge acquisition separately, without taking into account the regulatory relationship between these two groups of factors. Research fills this theoretical gap.

FORMATION OF FUTURE BIOLOGY AND HEALTH BASICS TEACHERS’ READINESS FOR INNOVATIVE EDUCATIONAL AND PEDAGOGICAL ACTIVITIES

The article examines the main theoretical and methodological features of forming the readiness of future Biology and Health Basics teachers for innovative educational and pedagogical activities. The relevance of this topic is that the current education reform (changing the status of educational institutions, introducing modular programs, innovative changes in the assessment of students’ knowledge, optimizing the number of subjects) requires the expansion of theoretical and methodological knowledge about the implementation of innovative educational and pedagogical activities, which should be transformed into practical activities of a modern teacher. Substantiating the issue of innovative educational and pedagogical activities in the system of education as a whole, its essential characteristic is the improvement or updating of the entire educational content by creating, disseminating and mastering new effective ways and means of achieving the educational goals set by modernity. The purpose of the article is to actualize the peculiarities of the future teacher’s readiness for innovative educational and pedagogical activities.Today’s education in Ukraine is focused on the need to introduce a variety of approaches to solving new (reformist) educational tasks, and their active implementation in the theory and practice of professional and pedagogical activities. Innovative educational transformations require a particularly high level of theoretical knowledge and practical and professional training of the future teacher. Modern realities (modular programs, criteria for assessing the knowledge of students, etc.) require the future teacher to have a readiness to develop professionally, test and implement pedagogical innovations in the process of teaching such subjects as Biology and the Basics of Health, as this becomes a necessary component of his/her professional readiness.Having considered the essence and components of readiness for innovative activity, factors and conditions of its formation in future teachers of biology and health basics, we can draw the following conclusions:1. Formation of readiness for innovative activity in future teachers who will teach Biology and Health Basics in educational institutions of various types is one of the urgent problems of modern science and practice. Innovative activity in the education system involves rethinking, improving or updating educational practice by creating, improving and mastering new effective methods, techniques, ways and means of achieving the established goals in education.2. Readiness for innovation is an integral multi-vector quality of a personality, characterized by the presence and a certain level of formation of motivational and orientational, content and operational, and evaluative and reflective components in their unity, which is manifested in the desire for innovation, which is an update of teacher’s professional growth.3. Formation of biology and health basics teachers’ readiness for innovative activities is a process that reveals values and humanistic orientation, awareness of the methodology for solving professional and pedagogical problems, ways of implementing conceptual educational models in professional activities; comprehension of the results of pedagogical innovations, development of criteria for their evaluation and self-assessment.
 Keywords: readiness for innovative educational and pedagogical activity; motivational and orientation component; content and operational component; evaluation and reflection component; innovative potential; comfortable innovative environment; indicators of readiness for innovative activity; innovative behavior; social infantilism.

Both Pedagogy and Psychology Need the Concept of Thirst for Ability and Thirst for Blazing New Trails

The desire for ability (the interest in increasing wisdom) and the desire for innovation (the interest in creation) exist objectively, and the desire for knowledge (interest in recognition) cannot replace them. People pay more attention to ability, especially creativity, than to knowledge. It is much easier to make up for the lack of knowledge than to make up for the lack of ability. However, in pedagogy and psychology, there is only the concept of the desire for knowledge, but not the concept of the desire for ability and the concept of the desire for innovation. The strange phenomenon of "using cognitive interest to carry out intellectual and creative education" has existed for a long time. This makes insufficient the subjective initiative of "the cultivation of ability and innovation consciousness that must be started and run through". Strong comprehensive ability and innovation are the needs of the times for talents. Ability and innovation awareness can be cultivated. Just as the levels of knowledge and ability are different, the levels of thirst for knowledge and thirst for ability are also different. The thirst for knowledge cannot replace the thirst for ability and innovation. The process and methods of ability development and knowledge transfer are different and cannot be replaced by each other. It is necessary and possible to establish the concept of desire for ability and desire for innovation. Apply the concept of desire for ability and innovation to change the strange situation of cultivating creativity and comprehensive ability based on cognitive interest.

The influences of fashion on the design of fabrics and fashion at the time of contemporary social transformations

The design of fabrics and fashion is manifested by aesthetic advantages betting with the movement of society in its quest to develop as an independent art in itself that is linked to the values and aesthetic concepts of other arts and what appears in them of intellectual systems calling for renewal and modernity. Which brought about a wide change in public taste, as well as a desire for innovation . Which made fashion an interesting aesthetic phenomenon and taste is always subject to change constantly to comply with the social variables that occur in human life, as the fashion that appears in a certain era of time and takes a great distance from spreading as something new and out of the ordinary is in fact the fruit of the development of fashion design Today, it is subject to many studies in the aesthetic, historical and social structure . The design of fabrics and fashion, and became an independent art in appearance and influencing the recipients, which is a topic worthy of research. Hence the importance of research in the aesthetic necessities of the subject. Fashion and its impact on the development of textile and fashion design, raising the level of taste among the recipients, and deepening the level of aesthetic perception of theories and concepts related to fashion . he research aims to reveal the influences of fashion on the design of fabrics and fashion in a time that witnessed many social transformations, and the research identifies spatially in the role of fashion design in the world and temporally from 2019 to 2023. The second topic dealt with the influences of fashion in the time of contemporary social transformations. As for the third chapter, the researcher followed the analytical descriptive approach to analyze the fashion models selected from the international fashion houses and analyzed them. Designing textiles, fashion, and fashion, as one complements the other

NARRATIVE DEVICES IN PAULE MARSHALL’S FICTION

Like various other African-American female writers’ fictional works, Paule Marshall’s creative art is anchored in her triple roots (American, African and Barbadian). She thematizes countless sociocultural phenomena narrowly related to her ancestral background. Substantively, her novel titled Praisesong for the Widow embodies some analeptic narrative devices, which revitalize her community’s painful cultural experiences. With a pronounced passion for literature, she mingles, on the one hand, historical facts with fictional ones, black dialect with English, and on the other hand, fictionalizes tales, myths, legends, proverbs, and songs. Her literary imagination teems with some noteworthy extratextual values connected with the African, Caribbean and American societies. Those geographical spaces are mainly inhabited by the African descents. Deported during the colonial period, the latter’s ancestors take with them some of their African values, such as language, religion, and many other substantial traditional/cultural practices. The change of environment favors the implantation of that legacy in America and elsewhere. However, over centuries, those inherited resources undergo the impact of the values pertaining to the host spaces, thus provoking a cultural bereavement/alteration or shock whose immediate repercussion is known as acculturation. The longer this sway persists, the more Blacks suffer from diverse crises. With no instant palliative measures, which can enable them to fight against the exotic cultural domination, each of Marshall’s fictional beings deems it necessary to return to their ancestors’ benchmarks for a whole restoration of their “lost self”. In terms of aesthetic scope, the novel under consideration breaks with a number of artistic traditions. The subversion of some of the canonical norms and interweaving of linguistic devices, colonial facts, mythical, legendary, proverbial, ancestral figures, epitomize that rupture and desire for innovation. An in-depth study of those textual clues will therefore contribute to bringing out the significance of the author’s literary vision. To achieve those objectives, the criticism of postmodernism will serve as the methodological framework. Its principles will help to scrutinize both intergeneric devices, and hybrid/pacifist practices.<p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/soc/0073/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>

Empreendedorismo social: Motivações e oportunidade para a criação de emprego

Purpose: The creation of a social entrepreneurship initiative presents a huge potential in terms of creating social value. In addition to contributing to solving a social problem, it also allows for the creation of jobs in society. This research aims to analyze the main motivations that accompany the decision to create a social entrepreneurship initiative, as well as the potential that social entrepreneurship has for job creation, especially self-employment. Methodology: The research has an exploratory nature, based on a qualitative methodology. Primary data collection was carried out through semi-structured interviews with five social entrepreneurs in Portugal. Results: The results obtained indicate that the creation of the social initiative was essentially triggered by the recognition of a market failure and need for social intervention. The research indicates that the most relevant motivations for creating the social entrepreneurship initiative are related to pull factors, namely altruism, passion, desire for innovation and exploitation of the identified opportunities. Although it was not an explicit purpose in the creation of the initiative, there is a positive impact in terms of job creation, allowing social entrepreneurs to develop their professional activity in a full-time manner, while contributing to the resolution of the social issue previously identified. Job creation in society, although not being a main purpose, is seen as positive by social entrepreneurs. Originality: The article has contributed to broadening the knowledge on the motivations for the creation of a social entrepreneurship initiative, an area that, although relevant, still needs further development. The article also explores the potential of social entrepreneurship for job creation. Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship, Motivations, social entrepreneur, Employment, Self-employment.

MAIN CHARACTERISTICS AND STEREOTYPES OF GENERATION Z: ANALYSIS OF FOREIGN EXPERIENCE

The article considers and analyzes a new generation of students who have specific abilities and skills to work with modern digital devices. The term «digital natives», determined by the American researcher M. Prensky, has its synonyms – generation Z or network generation. Each generation is distinguished by certain values inherent in its representatives, has its own objectively determined, spontaneously formed social program, which depicts the state of material and spiritual culture, type of social relations, specific material and ideal relations through which the generation is formed. Generation Z also has its values and features. The aim of the study is to analyze the views of foreign researchers on the main characteristics and stereotypes of Generation Z as a new generation of students of higher education. Therefore, it is not surprising that many scientists, both practitioners and theorists (including psychologists, educators, and methodologists) pay close attention to the development of digital technologies and their impact on worldviews, relationships with other people, life in general. A number of characteristic features of Generation Z has been highlighted and characterized: freedom, personalization, information control, honesty, cooperation, entertainment and satisfaction, speed, desire for innovation. Two approaches to assessing the capabilities of modern students – Generation Z have been presented, and both positive and negative stereotypes of the generation (distraction syndrome, Internet addiction, health problems, social immaturity, low motivation, selfishness, narcissism, etc.) have been analyzed. Each subsequent generation (generation Z, Alpha) will always be different from the previous generation, because there are many different factors (external or internal) that affect the formation of the generation. The task of modern education is to study and analyze the changes taking place in ICT, the educational process, society and to predict the impact of these changes on the educational process and on students.

Biological restoration – Nature's own alternative for primary care

In humans, especially in childhood, the more prevalent disease is dental caries. Dental caries can extensively destroy the tooth structure. Extensive loss of the tooth structure and premature loss of the primary tooth can lead to loss of vertical dimension, developing habits such as tongue thrusting and mouth breathing that may lead to malocclusion in future. The treatment of mutilated primary teeth should adequately reestablish the anatomy of the tooth, which helps to maintain the mastication, phonation, esthetics, and acts as a natural space maintainer. It is always challenging for the pediatric dentist to satisfactorily restore these teeth to maintain space, esthetics, and function. In recent years, both children and their parents have given priority to esthetics over primary dental care. This demands the innovation and the development of newer treatment options that should be biological and conservative. Hence, natural teeth are increasingly being used as a restorative material to treat damaged teeth with this desire for innovation. As a result, here we report a case of a severely mutilated primary tooth of a 2½-year-old child treated with the technique of biological restoration. This biological restoration procedure involves bonding a sterile dental structure to a tooth that needs treatment.

Theoretical Optimization of the Production of Heating Layers Using Local Wool Fibers

Science is the basis of the country’s development and wealth. In particular, it is necessary to effectively use advanced scientific developments and technical achievements in order to strengthen the economy in the period when the desire for innovation in all fields is still growing. In theoretical-experimental Scientific Research work, both theoretical and experimental results are achieved, and it is more useful to withstand more theoretical-experimental loads for a longer period of time. The occurrences in the production process of natural wool fiber technologists are a complex of physical and mechanical phenomena, which can be used only by the modern achievements of science and technology. In most cases, the parameter relationship with the factors influencing the technological process or the object can open a curve without any other things.

ГНУЧКЕ УПРАВЛІННЯ ВИТРАТАМИ, ПРИБУТКОМ ТА ЦІНАМИ З ВИКОРИСТАННЯМ ЦІЛЬОВОГО ПЛАНУВАННЯ

Under market conditions, the main feature of enterprises is the focus on consumer demand, the desire for innovation, the implementation of appropriate scientific and technical innovation policy. Flexibility in management, the ability to restructure quickly without losing new opportunities can be more important than just cost savings. The high degree of uncertainty, which is characteristic of modern conditions of economic development, requires the use of flexible planning tools that allow you to quickly take into account changes in supply and demand, requirements for product quality, prices, etc. In the conditions of competition between producers and the need to improve their economic performance and, above all, profit, employees must have economic tools that would allow them to consider different options for prices, costs, scale of production, changes in the structure of its range and to monitor the consequences of these changes in the economy of the enterprise. One such tool is targeted planning of prices, costs and profits. It is believed that the methodology of target pricing and calculation of target costs was developed in Japan and it is based on a given level of price and profit. The difference between the target price and the target profit is the target cost. But this technology does not work in terms of multi-item production. The problem of the need for flexible management of costs, profits and prices in market conditions is outlining. On the basis of theoretical and empirical researches the critical analysis of foreign scientists’ points of view to the problem of “target profit” planning and “target prime cost” is given. As authors believe the latter are possible only for single-product manufacturing companies. It is suggested to form a flexible system of targeted planning suitable for multi-product companies on the basis of the fixed costs’ distribution in proportion to the marginal profit.

Set Down the Stethoscope.

In this moment of pandemic and social unrest, health workers feel overwhelming exhaustion, uncertainty, and powerlessness. At the same time, a deep spirit of resilience and a desire for innovation, discovery, and justice compel health workers to retain their commitment to serving patients and communities. This essay takes this context into consideration and proposes pragmatic steps toward a reimagined and reinvigorated future for our work as health workers.

Hybrid TV Comedy Genres-The Case of Comedy Panel Shows

As a hybrid genre, comedy panel shows satisfy both the audience’s need for continuity and their desire for innovation by combining two established genres – the panel quiz show and comedy – in novel ways. This article investigates the relationship between game and comedy elements in panel shows on British television. Four general types of constellations and some sub-types are identified and discussed: 1) game show without humour, 2 a) a sequential combination of game show and humour patterns, 2 b) game show and comedy patterns running simultaneously, but independently, 3) a blend of game show and comedy, and 4) comedy appropriating the game show patterns.

The Efficiency Toolkit: A Subversive Manual

As libraries increasingly turn to automated systems to make materials more available, they inadvertently create less accessible collections. The Efficiency Toolkit is an artists’ book exploring the implications of automation and efficiency innovations in human work. Using this bookwork as a point of provocation, the difference between the accessibility and availability of library materials is highlighted and the desire for innovation and efficiency in the workplace is questioned.

Criminalistics’ Language: Concept-Terminological Apparatus Formation

Any theory assumes the presence of its terminological apparatus – a language that is created to solve specific scientific problems and is designed to describe the relevant subject area; in criminalistics, it also serves as an effective means of thinking, should be highly specialised to reproduce the uniqueness of the subject of study, which actualises the study in this direction. Scientific approaches to the formation of the criminalistics’ language, its conceptual and terminological apparatus, through which this science describes its subject of study, were considered. It is emphasised that the development of science is determined primarily by the formation of its language as a system of general and individual concepts, which are reflected in certain terms, signs. It was stated that the criminalistics’ language is a complex, multilevel, holistic system, the elements of which are categories, concepts, terms, signs, symbols. Attention is drawn to the fact that during the development of criminalistics there is a continuous improvement of its language, clarification of definitions, enrichment of the terminological dictionary (thesaurus). It was noted that the current state of development of criminalistics, the formation of promising doctrines (theories) necessitated the introduction into its scientific apparatus of a large number of new concepts, terms, signs, through the use of various linguistic approaches, terminological elements, lexical units. The innovations concern not only the general theory of criminalistics, but also its main sections – techniques, tactics and methods. In this case, the criminalistics’ language, its conceptual and terminological apparatus must develop under certain criteria and conditions defined in both special and forensic literature. The rejection of traditional approaches to the definition of certain forensic concepts, the desire for innovation and unification always require special care and comprehensive justification.

Organizational Climate and Knowledge Sharing towards Employees’ Innovative Behavior in Design Industry

This study examined factors affecting innovative behavior amongst employees in Chinese design industry with the mediating effect of knowledge sharing. Its purpose is to motivate employees to work actively and stimulate their desire for innovation. The examined motivational factors were collective effective belief, freedom in decision. Knowledge sharing was included in the framework as the mediating variable. The survey data used in this empirical study were collected from 432 employees engaged in design work (that is, designers working in graphic design company in Shanxi province of China were the main research objects). Multiple regressions were used to analyses the hypotheses. The findings showed that the effect of collective effective belief on employees’ innovative behavior was high. Practical enlightenment is to discover the theory, how to stimulate and promote the employees’ innovative behavior in the organizational climates, and the organic symbiosis between individuals and collective development in the organizational environment.

Organizational learning during policy implementation: lessons from U.S. forest planning

ABSTRACTLearning is critical for land management agencies implementing new policies in the face of rapid social and ecological change. We investigated learning in the U.S. Forest Service as it implemented new planning regulations. Our research objectives were to: (1) identify collective learning processes and outcomes during this time, and (2) understand factors within the organization supporting or impeding learning. Based on participant observation and 25 interviews with planning personnel, we found evidence of collective learning on individual national forests and across the organization. Several factors helped the agency act as a ‘learning organization,’ including internal networks and tools for information sharing, and meetings for staff to exchange lessons learned. Learning was compromised by limited time and capacity, and lack of internal clarity about balancing the desire for innovation with the need to ensure legal compliance and meet deadlines. This work contributes to the empirical foundations of collective learning theory, allowing us to identify learning processes and outcomes at multiple levels in a public organization, and identifying topics for future research. Based on our exploration of organizational learning, we offer suggestions for how to effectively support learning during times of new policy implementation.

Technology Focus: Production Monitoring

Technology Focus It stands to reason that a major draw for JPT’s readers is the continual discussion of new technologies and emerging methods in its pages. Professionals in our industry, working in a highly technical field to begin with, appreciate innovation backed by rigorous study that will make their jobs easier and enable the goal of improving life for the planet’s population. (For more reflections on this theme, please see the Professional Pride section.) To this end, I have selected three papers that join this desire for innovation with the potential offered by emerging technologies. Oil-rim position is literally a moving target in the context of production monitoring and is often too challenging a task for the conventional approach of using periodic gradiometric surveys. The authors of paper SPE 188868, however, explore the possibilities presented by optical pressure gauges in capturing these fluid levels with greater accuracy without requiring costly interventions and associated health, safety, and environmental risks. In a similar vein, precise monitoring of the waterflooding process by traditional means of seismic- and gravity-based methods is problematic for a variety of reasons. One potential solution is the use of controlled-source electromagnetic (CSEM) techniques, but these have mostly been limited to 2D geometries. In paper SPE 191544, the authors discuss the implementation of a technique that marries CSEM technology with 3D-measurement capability to overcome the monitoring difficulties posed by the waterflooding process. Finally, as the big data revolution over-takes our industry as well as many others, increased attention has been paid to the area of machine learning. The authors of paper SPE 192819 use artificial neural networks to interpret data and estimate production rate effectively in both simulated and field data. Though many factors can influence the outcomes (as with any type of measurement), the method holds promise for improving the flowmetering and back-allocation phases of monitoring. As noted last year in this space, our industry is one often considered reactive and overly tradition-bound. These new technologies, however—and, more importantly, the drive of these researchers to harness their capabilities—prove that petroleum engineers remain at the forefront of innovation and discovery and that we all may share in their professional pride. Recommended additional reading at OnePetro: www.onepetro.org. SPE 193051 Revisiting Petrophysical and Fluid Characteristics of a Mature Smectite-Rich Shally Sand Reservoir for EOR Screening in the Sultanate of Oman by Arwa al-Harrasi, Petroleum Development Oman, et al. SPE 193183 Real-Time Hydrocarbon Mapping by Time-Lapse Borehole Electric Tomography by Paolo Dell’Aversana, Eni, et al.