Evocative Processes Research Articles

The Potential of Mental Simulation for Enhancing Self-efficacy and Managing Stress in Emergency Care: A Nurse Education Perspective

This theoretical article explores how mental simulation can enhance self-efficacy and stress management in emergency care, focusing on its application in nurse education. This article delves into the concept, functionality, and applications of mental simulation in nurse education, specifically addressing stress mitigation in emergency care. We offer an overview of relevant literature and research, including a specific focus on surgical skills education. The mechanisms of mental simulation, encompassing the simulation theory of action and dual code theory, are discussed, providing valuable insights into neural networks and image evocation processes. The article underscores the significant impact of stress on emergency care performance. It highlights the potential benefits of incorporating mental simulation as a stress-exposure training technique in the learning process. By adopting a Bandurian theoretical framework, the article proposes how mental simulation can contribute to the cultivation of self-efficacious nurses. Integrating mental simulation in nurse education has the potential to mitigate stress’s negative impact on emergency care. Nurses mentally rehearse and simulate scenarios, becoming familiar with demands and stressors. This practice can potentially refine skills, improve performance under pressure, and boost self-efficacy. Mental simulation replicates real-life situations, enhancing learning from a patient safety perspective. Mental simulation enhances self-efficacy and stress management in emergency care. Its integration into nurse education prepares nurses for high-stress situations. Further research should explore its diverse applications. Understanding mental simulation mechanisms can improve training programmes, potentially empowering nurses in delivering self-confident emergency care.

Altruism Discussions in the Time of Pandemic: May We Ask, May They Tell?

Pandemic can prompt a variety of human motives, ranging from a desire for security to altruism. In our current perilous times, some patients have voiced a desire to help others. Such action can result in self-peril, and, as a result, their motives may be questioned. One health system now has a pandemic-based advance directive that queries patients about their value preferences regarding care that is directed toward others. Some object to this action because it may evoke patients to altruism. We examine both remote and recent examples of altruism, in which coercion could have played a major role. We next consider concerns based on aspects of the process of "inquiry versus evocation," slippery-slope claims, and inherent manipulation, and conclude that patients should be allowed to be asked about their preferences and values regarding altruism.

Aprendizagem matemática com jogos digitais online: um estudo fundamentado a partir da Neurociência

Este artigo tem o propósito de apresentar um produto educacional referente à pesquisa desenvolvida no Programa de Pós-Graduação Profissional em Educação em nível de Mestrado da Universidade Federal da Fronteira Sul - Campus Erechim. Trata-se de um estudo de campo na perspectiva qualitativa, cujo objetivo foi o de verificar as funções cognitivas de atenção e memória de estudantes em atividade com jogos digitais online de Matemática. Para tanto, subsídios teóricos relacionados aos jogos digitais, à Educação Matemática e à Neurociência Cognitiva foram elementares. Os participantes da pesquisa, estudantes voluntários dos anos finais do Ensino Fundamental de uma escola pública do estado do Rio Grande do Sul, participaram de oficinas interativas com jogos digitais, devidamente filmadas, tendo em vista a coleta de dados. Estes foram organizados e analisados a partir de categorias relativas às funções cognitivas de atenção e memória. Os resultados do estudo evidenciam, neste artigo, que o estudante, ao interagir com os jogos digitais, mantém a atenção sensorial/mental voltada à atividade, fazendo uso da memória de trabalho e dos processos de evocação e consolidação de memória permanente, o que garante que estes jogos são aliados da aprendizagem matemática.

Enhancing Creativity in the Educational Design Context: An Exploration of the Effects of Design Project-Oriented Methods on Students’ Evocation Processes and Creative Output

One of the challenges in today’s society is to satisfy the growing need for creativity and innovation, especially in design contexts, where designers have to come up with products that are bothnewandadaptedto their users. Although designers’ professional experience is crucial, we consider that their creative skills can be nurtured in design schools. We therefore explored the effects of two types of design project-oriented methods, which were operationalized as specific courses offered to design students. As our objective was to determine the impact of this training on creativity, we looked at both the students’ evocation processes and their creative output. In thefirstof two studies, 32 design students had to perform the same creative design task, but half of them received training based on brainstorming principles and the other half training based on constraint management. Here, we focused our analysis on the students’ evocation processes. In thesecondstudy, we asked 16 teachers specializing in creative activities to assess the students’ output according to different criteria. These two studies showed that the two types of training had a differential impact and allowed us to explore relationships between constraints and ideas in creative design.

Child-evoked maternal negativity from 9 to 27 months: Evidence of gene-environment correlation and its moderation by marital distress.

Past research has documented pervasive genetic influences on emotional and behavioral disturbance across the life span and on liability to adult psychiatric disorder. Increasingly, interest is turning to mechanisms of gene-environment interplay in attempting to understand the earliest manifestations of genetic risk. We report findings from a prospective adoption study, which aimed to test the role of evocative gene-environment correlation in early development. Included in the study were 561 infants adopted at birth and studied between 9 and 27 months, along with their adoptive parents and birth mothers. Birth mother psychiatric diagnoses and symptoms scales were used as indicators of genetic influence, and multiple self-report measures were used to index adoptive mother parental negativity. We hypothesized that birth mother psychopathology would be associated with greater adoptive parent negativity and that such evocative effects would be amplified under conditions of high adoptive family adversity. The findings suggested that genetic factors associated with birth mother externalizing psychopathology may evoke negative reactions in adoptive mothers in the first year of life, but only when the adoptive family environment is characterized by marital problems. Maternal negativity mediated the effects of genetic risk on child adjustment at 27 months. The results underscore the importance of genetically influenced evocative processes in early development.

Analysis of memory consolidation and evocation in rats by proton induced X-ray emission

It is well known that trace elements such as Mg, Ca, Fe, Cu and Zn have a key role in synapse plasticity and learning. Learning process is conventionally divided in three distinct and complementary stages: memory acquisition, consolidation and evocation. Consolidation is the stabilization of the synaptic trace formed by acquisition, while evocation is the recall of this trace. Ion-based techniques capable of providing information concerning the elemental composition of organic tissues may be helpful to improve our understanding on memory consolidation and evocation processes. In particular, the Particle-Induced X-ray Emission (PIXE) technique can be used to analyze different biological tissues with good accuracy. In this work we explore the versatility of PIXE to measure the elemental concentrations in rat brain tissues in order to establish any possible correlation between them and the memory consolidation and evocation processes. To this end, six groups of middle-age male Wistar rats were trained and tested in a step-down Inhibitory Avoidance conditioning. After the behavior tests, the animals were decapitated in accordance with the legal procedures and their brains were removed and dissected for the PIXE analyses. The results demonstrated that there are differences in the elemental concentration among the groups and such variations may be associated with their availability to the learning processes (by memory consolidation and evocation). Moreover, the control groups circumvent the possibility that a non-specific event involved in learning tasks cause such variations. Our results suggest that PIXE may be a useful tool to investigate memory consolidation and evocation in animal models.

Content Evocation Using Web Scraping and Semantic Illustration

Web scraping is the process of automatically collecting information from the World Wide Web. It is a field with active developments, sharing a common goal with the semantic web vision, an ambitious initiative that still requires breakthroughs in text processing, artificial intelligence and human-computer interactions. It means extraction of content from different web pages using web scrapping and semantic illustration. Web Scrapping is a process of evocation of content from HTML pages and related to web indexing. A commonly used measure for tree similarity is the tree edit distance which easily can be extended to be a measure of how well a pattern can be matched in a tree. An obstacle for this approach is its time complexity, so we consider if faster algorithms for constrained tree edit distances are usable for web scraping, and to reduce the size of the tree representing the web page. Different applications of web scraping are used by current market to achieve best web scraping output, Like Web Data Extraction, Data Collection, Screen Scraping. Many different algorithms are used for web scraping like “tree pattern matching”, “tree mapping”, “approximate tree matching”. But in general “tree edit distance” algorithm is used. But with this algorithm many issues of incorrectness of data, low efficiency and higher time complexity have analyzed. In this research I am focus to improve the performance of tree edit distance problem. And I am also trying to focus on higher bound time complexity of this algorithm.

The Interplay Between Genotypes and Family Relationships

Children's genotypes and their social relationships are correlated throughout their development. Heritable characteristics of children evoke strong and specific responses from their parents; frequently, these same heritable characteristics also influence the children's adjustment. Moreover, parental heritable traits that influence their parenting are also transmitted to children and influence their children's adjustment. Thus, genetically influenced evocative processes from children and parental-transmission mechanisms influence the covariances between measures of family relationships and child development. These findings suggest new targets for preventing adverse development: altering parental responses to heritable characteristics of children and influencing the genetically influenced ontogeny of parenting.

Towards supporting evocation processes in creative design: A cognitive approach

In order to contribute to a better understanding of creativity in non-routine design activities, we conducted an experimental study that focused on a cognitive mechanism involved in creative design, that of the re-use of aspects derived from previous sources of inspiration. Our objective was to determine to what extent designers consider potential sources as useful for solving a specific design problem. Since the relevance of sources of inspiration may be appreciated differently according to the level of expertise in design, the experiment was performed with two groups of participants: experienced designers and inexperienced designers. The results show differences in the number and nature of the aspects selected by each group of designers as well as in the judgments of usefulness they expressed about the different types of suggested sources of inspiration. On this basis, we discuss how these findings may influence the design of a computational system supporting creative design tasks and we consider how to facilitate the progression from novices to experienced designers.

Evocation Processes by Novice and Expert Designers: Towards Stimulating Analogical Thinking

Design activity occurs in many professions, ranging from technical to more artistic domains. Whatever the domain, it is a constant challenge for designers to introduce creativity in each design project they work on and minimize the tendency to repeat familiar design features. The goal of this paper is to present a cognitive approach to design problem solving as well as an experimental study. This study aims at determining whether creative ideas can be enhanced by the presentation of external sources of inspiration. In particular, we analyse the effect of the presentation of different kinds of sources (intra‐ versus interdomain sources, which are presented as graphical representations or as verbal labels) according to the designers’ level of expertise (lay‐designers versus professionals). Results show that it is possible to enhance evocation processes in design, but that it is dependent on both the nature of sources of inspiration and the designers’ level of expertise. Based on these results, we suggest ways for enhancing creative ideas in design tasks.

MONITORING OF CABBAGE RESPIRATION DURING FLOWERING INITIATION

At the Physiology Laboratory of the Lithuanian Institute of Horticulture investigation is carried out on initiation of cabbage flowering. Plant analyzing system 'Ecoplant-11' was utilized to study the respiration intensity within 5 outer leaves during flowering induction, evocation and flower initiation periods of cabbage. The aim of investigation was to establish the importance of respiration over different periods of cabbage flowering initiation. The evocation processes (organogenesis stages III-IV according to F. Kuperman, 1982) within cabbage heads were established to proceed in autumn during storage, nearly at once after the heads had been placed in the storage room at low temperatures. In the course of 30 days plants overcome organogenesis stage III and after another 60 days they overcome stage IV. Formation of floral meristems, which is flower initiation (stage V) starts approximately at the beginning of February. Monitoring of leaf respiration intensity showed that respiration intensity of outer leaves does not exceed 2-mg/dm 2 h CO 2 over all periods of flowering initiation. On the whole the outer leaves of heads breathe most intensively during flowering initiation. More alternating in time intensity of cabbage respiration is observed in stage III (beginning of evocation) after the heads had been placed into storage. Intensity of leaf respiration becomes equal in stage IV (evocation). At the beginning of formation of floral meristems (end of stage IV - organogenesis stage V) the increase of respiration intensity is observed that reflects the increase of intensity within biochemical, physiological and morphogenetic processes.

Positive feedback circuits and memory

The concept of regulatory feedback circuit refers to oriented cyclic interactions between elements of a system. There are two classes of circuits, positive and negative, whose properties are in striking contrast. Positive circuits are a prerequisite for the occurrence of multiple steady states (multistationarity), and hence, they are involved in all processes showing hysteresis or memory. Endogenous or exogenous perturbations can lead the system to exhibit or to evoke one particular stable regime. The role of positive circuits in cell differentiation and in immunology is well documented. Negative circuits are involved in homeostatic regulation, with or without oscillations. The aim of this paper is to show: a) that positive circuits account for many features of memory stricto sensu (i.e., neural memory and mnesic evocation) as well as largo sensu (e.g. differentiation or immunological memory); and b) that simple combinations of positive and negative circuits provide powerful regulatory modules, which can also be associated in batteries. These entities have vast dynamical possibilities in the field of neurobiology, as well as in the fields of differentiation and immunology. Here we consider a universal minimal regulatory module, for which we suggest to adopt the term ‘logical regulon’, which can be considered as an atom of Jacob's integron. It comprises a positive and a negative circuit in its interaction matrix, and we recall the main results related to the simultaneous presence of these circuits. Finally, we give three applications of this type of interaction matrix. The first two deal with the coexistence of multiple stable steady states and periodicity in differentiation and in an immunological system showing hysteretic properties. The third deals with the dual problems of synchronization and desynchronization of a neural model for hippocampus memory evocation processes.

Ventral hippocampal glutamate receptors in the rat: possible involvement in learning mechanisms of an active avoidance response.

The role of ventral hippocampus glutamate receptors on learning mechanisms and memory was studied in the rat. Adult male rats were unilaterally implanted in the ventral hippocampus with microinjection cannulas. The general experimental procedure used was the chemical stimulation of hippocampal neurons with glutamic acid alone or in combination with glutamate receptor antagonists during learning of an active avoidance response. The one-way active response consisted in avoiding an electric shock applied to the feet while an ultrasonic tone of 40 KHz was on. Two series of experiments were performed. In Experiment 1, the possible effect of glutamate on the evocation of the learned avoidance response was studied. In Experiment 2, the possible effect of glutamate on the acquisition of the avoidance response was analyzed. Experiment 1 showed that glutamate in the range 1-10 nmol did not interfere with the recall of the avoidance response, suggesting that glutamate has no effect on the hippocampal evocation processes. Experiment 2 showed that glutamic acid inhibits the acquisition process, increasing the latency time of escape and deteriorating the learning efficiency. This effect was antagonized by AP7, the NMDA-glutamate receptor antagonist, and increased by AP3, the metabotropic glutamate receptor antagonist. Present data suggest that metabotropic glutamate receptors facilitate and NMDA-glutamate receptors inhibit the learning hippocampal mechanisms in the rat.

The Novel as Feminine Entrapment: Valle-Inclan's Sonata de otono

A reading of the Sonatas (1902-05) is often an exercise in imagehunting: or expressed another way, it is a recreation, on Valle-Inclan's terms, of the process of evocation. But in remaking the poet's images, the reader is beguiled by the hypnotic current of the words themselves, the narcissistic reflection of the aesthetic object. Deceived by the surface (or image making) of Valle-Inclan's art, we interpret the text as an act of homage to the cult of the author, metonymically (and ironically) embodied in the central figure of the Marques de Bradomin. Indeed, the emphasis on memory, paramount in all the Sonatas, reinforces the notion of individual authorship, both within and outside the text. As an author of deeds, Bradomin extends his feats in time and space through el culto de los recuerdos (the cult of memory) just as the words on a white sheet of paper are made to last mnemonically by the process of repetition, alliteration, assonance, and adjectival expansion. But this act of individual assertion conflicts with an older tradition, based on collective memory-the oral capacity for mythmaking. Such distinctions are especially pertinent in Sonata de otofio (1902), which can be considered as paradigmatic of the Sonata form. In this essay I will argue that Valle-Inclan, by endeavoring to surpass the temporal boundaries of narration through the creation of a mythic patterning of events and characters, paradoxically ends up fashioning a verbal labyrinth from which neither reader nor creator can extricate himself. The birth of the novel seems to make inevitable not only the death of the author but of