Elements Of Contradiction Research Articles

Accessible nature: Balancing contradiction in protected areas

Physical and social barriers have long hindered people with disabilities from full participation in outdoor recreation and nature experiences. As spending time in nature, where protected areas constitute an important arena for nature engagement, is increasingly connected to improved health and well-being, there is a need for nature activities and experiences in protected areas to become more accessible and inclusive. However, the provision of accessible protected areas for outdoor recreation and nature activities poses challenges for planners and managers of such areas, as there are elements of contradiction between interests of accessibility and nature conservation. This qualitative study examines how providers of nature experiences and outdoor activities, such as governmental authorities, outdoor recreation associations and nature-based tourism entrepreneurs in Sweden view and practice the balancing of these interests, through perspectives of the social construction of nature, inclusion, and collaboration. Findings indicate that interests in nature conservation generally take precedence over measures of accessibility and that such initiatives are directed to a few, designated areas. There is also an apparent lack of knowledge about how people with disabilities wish to engage with nature, which hinders full access to nature. It is therefore important to include people with disabilities in the process of developing accessibility in protected areas and promote collaboration between stakeholders, to avoid excluding decisions. The study concludes by stating the necessity to challenge the viewpoint of accessible infrastructure for outdoor activities in protected areas as ‘ruining’ the nature experience, in order for access to nature to become a truly democratic right.

How Do Teachers Solve Problem With Contradiction Information? Study of Prospective Teachers - Professional Teachers in Solving IDEAL Model Problems

This research is a qualitative descriptive study which aims to describe the problem solving process of a professional teacher in finding solutions to problems of the Problem With Contradiction Information type. This research involved 1 mathematics teacher who had a professional teacher education certificate and had taught for at least 5 years (S1) and 1 mathematics teacher who had taught for at least 5 years but did not yet have a professional teacher education certificate (S2) and 1 prospective teacher who was still carrying out studies. S1 and does not yet have a professional teacher education certificate (S3). Data collection was carried out by tests and interviews. The research results showed that only S3 carried out all the IDEAL problem solving indicators and was the only research subject who realized the existence of contradictions in the given problem. Meanwhile, S1 and S2 do not look back and learn. All subjects started solving the problem by reading and making propositions from the problem given. S3 stated that he read twice, namely reading in depth and reading quickly to review the known data. S1 experienced Pythagorean priming when implementing the Making a Drawing and Backwards strategy. Meanwhile, S2 in implementing the Backwards strategy often has to do some work in his working memory so there are several steps that are not written down. S2 is aware that there is unnecessary data but considers it an open ended question. Meanwhile, S3 succeeded in stating that the question contained elements of contradiction and could not be done in the anticipating outcome and looking back steps. If you want to become a good problem solver then spend most of your time identifying and understanding problems and then determining how to work. Good problem solvers are not in a hurry but are still effective in solving problems. You even need to consider whether the problem can be solved or not.

O osobliwościach dyskursów w edukacji

The basic goal of the text is to follow the work strategy on selected pedagogical concepts as part of educational discourses. I assume that within the framework of the functioning of discursive practices in education, a certain work is done, which flattens the conceptual grid regarding education. Thus, these concepts are unambiguous, boil down to the most direct, superficial and obvious meaning. The way of thinking about education, present in the dominant discourses located in the social circulation, causes that educational processes are devoid of meaning wealth. This is how it sets the playing field in thinking about education, designing educational policy and educational practice. The treatment, which is to restore the educational discourses to depth, aporethism, internal struggle, the element of contradiction is to launch a specific etymological work that reveals the fuller meaning of the basic concepts that build the educational imagination. Thanks to this, a certain contrast will also be created between the extracted meaning and those meanings that are promoted in the most varied discursive practices launched in the field of education

Kinetic waves - dynamics of light propagation

An in-depth analysis of the dynamics connected to the Doppler-effect brings clear light to elements of contradiction with the original ground on which the axiom of the constancy of lightspeed was based.
 Thereby, with regard to electromagnetic phenomenology, the duality waves/particles and the wavy dynamic of light-propagation suggest the existence of a natural kind of waves, which differently from the classic ones, are originating by kinetic thrust and propagating, also though vacuum, by inertial force. The model taken into consideration, to which has been given the name of “kinetic waves” is, like the classic one, a concretely existing natural phenomenon which can also be visually perceived if produced on molecular scale. Moreover kinetic waves seem to offer many more points of similarity, in dynamic and behavior, with the electromagnetic waves, than the classic model.
 Applying the obtained results on the astrophysical field, taking as example the quasar 3C-273, the recently found, most far galaxy GN-z11 and the galaxy NGC 224 (better known as Andromeda), can mathematically and concretely be sustained that none of the energy sources we optically perceive, showing a Doppler-shift, nor is approaching nor regressing.
 In the appendix, a suggested and accurately described experiment on base of Radar Astronomy to possibly confirm the validity of the model presented by this article.

Leadership and sustainable entrepreneurship: classical approaches and contemporary contexts

The purpose of this research paper is to develop a theoretical framework of leadership behaviours and attributes which are unanimously endorsed. The model investigates a set of independent variables encompassing leadership behaviours. Leadership behaviours examined this research include task oriented, charismatic, visionary, team oriented, servant leadership and authentic. The literature review examines prior research studies on various aspects of leadership dimensions. A theoretical model clarifying the significance and establishing justification of selection of the abovementioned leadership behaviours and prior support for universal endorsement for some these dimensions e.g. Charismatic and Transformational leadership. Planned Methodology, measurement, empirical testing and application of the theoretical model is investigated where qualitative and quantitative approaches could be applied. A quantitative approach is employed to design a survey questionnaire to identify the appropriate conceptualisation of integrated leadership attributes and behaviour items. Higher Education, Banking, Insurance and telecommunication industries are potential industries that could be targeted and investigated in this research study. The competitive advantage of the theoretical model is characterised by the combination and integration of various characteristics and attributes of leadership which have elements of contradiction and consistency. The model argues that in spite of the divergence between different leadership attributes, they transcend national and organisational borders and maintain their importance in rather different contemporary contexts.

The Solution of Applied Problems of Optimization of Stability of System "Environment-Man-Technics"

Justified the application of the basic principles of the theory of dynamical systems in the study of the elemental balance of system “environment-man-technique” (EMT). It is established that the irreducibility of the system properties to the sum of the properties of its constituents leads to contradictions. The aim of the research is the development of methods to detect contradictions in the system EMT by assessing the consistency of its elements. The methodological base of the adopted theoretical generalization of scientific provisions of the leading scientists of the industry, constituting the content of the theory of machines. When solving the tasks, we used methods of systems theory, the theory of mathematical statistics, the theory of risk and catastrophe theory, methods of similarity and dimensions. Empirical dependences were based on regression analysis and are presented in the dimensionless form. In the process of research assessed the consistency of the elements for an idealized systems, which offered the reference indicators of their energy sustainability. Considered the behavior of each element of the system for the whole period of the life cycle in real conditions, obtained graphic dependences. The revealed contradictions in the interaction elements of the system EMT showed that current tasks, manmade and implemented technical means lead to the loss of stable equilibrium inside the “environment”, which in turn affects the balance of life-support of the person item, evidence in the form established that in both cases, a loss of equilibrium state calls a “technique”. Developed histogram situational assessment model perturbation in the system EMT can not only set the emerging element of contradiction, but also to develop a model of governance that ensures the balance of the elements of the system with a high level of security.

Structural impact on piezoelectricity in PVDF and P(VDF-TrFE) thin films

PVDF and its mostly used copolymer P(VDF-TrFE) are known to possess piezoelectric properties which strongly vary with processing conditions. As the final target of processing ultimately is the structure of the polymer, establishing a more detailed link between structure and properties would ease both the understanding and the practical usage of films piezoelectric activity. In spite of a number of thorough studies exploiting the nature of piezoelectricity in PVDF, available data does not generally exhibit reliable level of consistency and, in some cases, elements of contradiction are observed. Making no claim to be exhaustive in this vast area, we present a survey and discuss on a number of results both available and obtained by ourselves in an effort to assist to better interpretation and further progress in the field.

Judicial psychiatric hospital closings. Workers' expectations in rehabilitation facilities: A pilot study from the Province of Taranto (Italy)

The aim of this study is to gain a clear understanding of the level of knowledge and training of staff members from psychiatric rehabilitation services in the Province of Taranto (Italy), where patients released from judicial psychiatric hospitals will be admitted. A questionnaire taken from an earlier study on judicial psychiatric hospitals, conducted by The Ministry of Justice of the Department Penitentiary Administration - Superior Institute of Penitentiary Studies, was used in this study. Were contacted in advance of Directors 8 Community Rehabilitation and Psychiatric Care and Day Care Centres 7 present the province of Taranto, who has sought membership survey. Many requests for information and training regarding the problems and challenges related to the management of individuals who are mentally ill, perpetrators of crimes, and persons who are held in protective custody are made by those who work in these institutions. Hospital workers are highly apprehensive with regard to working with a patient population quite different from that which they are normally accustomed to. In order to confront these challenges, they, together with other colleagues from both the private and public services sector, have turned toward the concept of teamwork. One element of contradiction seems to be a low level of knowledge regarding what will be required of them when their work will be connected to the world of criminal justice in the future. The workers who were interviewed who have experience in working with patients from Judicial Psychiatric Hospitals seem to be up to the task of meeting the complex needs of the mentally ill and perpetrators of crimes within psychiatric rehabilitation facilities, as these patients must be kept under security.

Bourgeois opera:Death in Veniceand the aesthetics of sublimation

AbstractThrough investigating the production and reception ofDeath in Venice(1973), this essay considers the ways Britten and his audiences responded to the fraught discourse surrounding opera in the twentieth century. If the genre as a whole often threatened to fall on the wrong side of contemporaneous aesthetic oppositions – between abstraction and immediacy, the intellectual and the visceral, the high and the low – early critics of this particular work tended to translate its visual spectacles and musical rhetoric into more rarefied terms. Taking my cue from elements of contradiction and ambivalence in this sublimating criticism, I will examine how Britten's opera resists the very suppressions it promotes. I will suggest that, in simultaneously staging and confounding oppositions at the heart of contemporary operatic discourse,Death in Veniceoffers a powerful case study of the way composers, directors, critics and audiences responded to and overcame the terminal illness with which opera had been diagnosed in the middle third of the twentieth century.

The Paradox of Transforming Public Administration

Directing organizational change requires the ability to interpret—and reinterpret—the meanings customarily ascribed to crucial institutional values, norms, and events. If public managers are prepared to live with contradiction, conflict, and ambiguity, they can gain a new perspective on the complex social process of organizational change. An appreciation of the inherent tensions among crucial constructs in public administration—the binary opposition of bureaucracy and democracy, leadership and representation, policy making and implementation, centralization and decentralization, and the like—would allow administrators to determine if it is possible to reconcile tensions in particular instances. One element of contradiction in contemporary public administration is found in the debate concerning “modern” and “postmodern” perspectives of administrative practice, representing conflicting interpretations of substantive and normative aspects of institutional change. This study probes this issue at the intersection of the social and administrative sciences with administrative practice and also examines what the authors see as the paradoxical interplay of postmodernist theory, critical theory, and theories of political and economic development. An ancillary purpose is to assess the prospective value of critical-modern and postmodernist models for contemporary public administration.

Some Co-ordinates in Billy Budd

It may be that an element of contradiction is integral to any outstanding literary work. A major writer, in presenting one philosophical viewpoint or attitude directly, cannot help, by virtue of his sensitivity and breadth of awareness, but present the alternative angle indirectly. Nevertheless, although the narrative may shuttle ambiguously between two such poles, there should finally be no doubt as to which side of the argument the author inclines to. A limited degree of ambiguity makes for vitality. A total ambiguity makes for inferior art. If this criterion is acceptable the reputation of Melville's Billy Budd, Sailor may deserve revaluation. Critical opinion, which turns upon Melville's attitude towards Captain Vere, appears to have reached a stalemate, in spite of the recent publication of the Hayford-Sealts authoritative edition of the story which the editors hope ‘will narrow the ground of disagreement and widen that of understanding’. A division still exists between the ‘straight’ readers who see Vere as exonerated and the ironists who believe that Melville is subtly undercutting the validity of Vere's stand.