Evolution Of Concept Research Articles

ВЛИЯНИЕ ТРЕНДОВ УСТОЙЧИВОГО РАЗВИТИЯ НА РОССИЙСКИЕ ПРОМЫШЛЕННЫЕ КОМПАНИИ И ВЕКТОР ИХ ТЕХНОЛОГИЧЕСКОГО РАЗВИТИЯ

The article describes the goals and evolutionary concept of sustainable development of the region, analyzes the main directions and barriers to the development of the ESG agenda in the development strategy of Russian industrial companies, and also assesses the impact of the ESG agenda on their technological and innovative development.

Death with Dignity in End-of-Life Nursing Care: Concept Analysis by Rodgers' Evolutionary Method.

The concept of dying with dignity is being discussed in various fields, including psychology, sociology, medicine, and nursing, with different definitions available for this concept. However, few studies investigated the concept of end-of-life nursing care, which plays an important role in the implementation of the concept. This concept can also affect people's perception, attitude, and behavior toward practicing dignified death in health-care centers. The current study aimed to clarify, understand, and further recognize the concept of death with dignity in end-of-life nursing care. Rodgers' evolutionary concept analysis was used to clarify the concept of death with dignity in end-of-life nursing care. MEDLINE, BLACKWELL, PROQUEST, Science Direct, and CINAHL databases and national databases of SID and Iran Medex were systematically searched to identify relevant studies using various combinations of the following keywords: "dignity," "dignified death," "dying with dignity," and "dignifying death" in combination with "end-of-life care." All articles with the above-mentioned terms in their title, abstract, or keywords and published in English from 2006 to 2020 were included. A total of 21 articles were finally identified for review. Characteristics of dying with dignity were categorized into two dimensions of human dignity and holistic care. The antecedents included professional and organizational factors, and outcomes included good death and career promotion. This study demonstrated that end-of-life nursing care is an important dimension of clinical nursing that plays a unique role in admission and facilitating the process of dying and, eventually, dying with dignity.

Эмоции и религия: перспективы теоретического исследования

The article deals with approaches to the theoretical study of emotions associated with religious experience. The purpose of the article is to analyze the prospects for the theoretical study of “religious emotions” in the “emotional turn” of contemporary humanities and social sciences. To determine the general frame of emotional-religious discourse, the phenomenological and anthropological research perspectives in the considered disciplinary field are investigated, as well as the confrontation of the universalist and constructivist approaches to the emotional nature of human in contemporary studies of emotions. Religious-emotional discourse is concretized by the example of explaining fear and using it within the framework of theories of the origin of religion. Religious fear is considered in the context of the phenomenological definition of religious feeling as the inexpressible “feeling of creature”, “numinous feeling”, “sublime feeling”. In conclusion, the author focuses on the dichotomy of “internal” and “external” for understanding religious experience as a subjective religious experience and its external expression through ritual, bodily and other practices, as well as on the use of modern evolutionary concepts to relieve tension between the universalist and constructivist views on the origin and development of human emotions.

НЕЭКВИВАЛЕНТНОСТЬ ПОЛИСЕМАНТОВ И МЕХАНИЗМ ФОРМИРОВАНИЯ СО-ЗНАНИЯ

The article deals with the interlanguage nonequivalence of polysemants in the context of an unresolved issue in the formation of co-knowledge within a language community. The author justifies the necessity of rejecting the postulate of “semantic transfers” as a generative mechanism of semantics and searching for an alternate approach that allows us to see the difference between the most meaningful side of language units and the act of awareness of this content. Based on a number of concepts directly related to human cognition (the evolutionary concept of anthropogenesis, the theory of attention scheme, enactivism, the concept of “living knowledge” and model-dependent realism), this paper hypothesizes that co-knowledge about the applicability of polysemants to various situations depends on internal models created by the brain. A specific instance of the model is a complex of certain marks (the mode of defeated signals) and their interaction. The hypothesis is aimed at explaining the “unconscious mastery” of native polysemants, the “congruence” of this process within the language community and its “variability” for native speakers of different languages. The main research methods are comparative analysis and deduction. Using the example of two polysemants from Chinese and Russian, the author proves that co-knowledge is formed because when activating the same marks, people will recognize the applicability of the model to similar situations and be aware of similar semantics at the same time. The “variability” of co-knowledge is inevitable, because the model works in an ego-involved mode: the role that a person can perform during their interaction with the environment directly affects the creation of models and the act of awareness. The originality of the semantics of the two polysemants is predetermined by the fact that in the case of the Chinese polysemant, the cognitive strategy of the OBSERVER prevails, and in the case of the Russian polysemant - the strategy of the ACTOR prevails. The new approach lays the groundwork for the strategy of comparing polysemants to analyze implicit language ability as the most important component of human cognition.

Safe Behavior at Work: Bibliometric Mapping of Conceptual Evolution and Trends (1957-2022)

Safe Behavior at Work: Bibliometric Mapping of Conceptual Evolution and Trends (1957-2022)

Questioning carbonate facies model definition with reference to the Lower Cretaceous Urgonian platform (SE France Basin)

Designing carbonate facies models requires the integration, correlation and conceptual interpretation of multiple geological data sets. Potential significant errors are sourced from uncertain stratigraphic correlations, speculative palaeoecological interpretations and poorly recorded palaeotopographic profiles. The present study explores a methodological workflow to define a well-supported facies model. An exhaustive literature review is presented on sedimentary facies and depositional profiles of Urgonian carbonate platform from SE France and Switzerland (Barremian–Aptian interval). The historical evolution of Urgonian facies models and related sedimentological concepts is investigated to contextualise published models. The presented conceptual model and table of depositional facies shows a consistent, process-based organization of specific elementary facies, facies associations and carbonate system. Within the chronostratigraphic framework, the study of synchronous strata correlations provides quantitative analyses of facies-belt extents and palaeobathymetric estimations. The resulting depositional profile is based on general palaeoecological and sedimentological concepts, facies distribution on palaeogeographic maps and stacking trends. In rare locations in the field, direct lateral facies belt transitions are recorded. Proximal (i.e. emersive and peloidal-foraminiferal) depositional facies are rarely observed; most outcrops record the (i) rudist facies association, which corresponds to distal parts of the inner platform, (ii) coral, ooidal and bioclastic facies associations, which are interpreted to occur on the outer platform, and (iii) calcisiltite, slope and basinal deposits. Key data and concepts allow for the building up of a robust, harmonised facies model that can be used to properly interpret palaeoenvironmental changes, stacking trends and stratigraphic sequence evolution, the resolution of which depends on the available chronostratigraphic framework.

Govindjee: One of the major architects for the conceptual evolution of the z-scheme of photosynthesis#

Govindjee: One of the major architects for the conceptual evolution of the z-scheme of photosynthesis#

Scientific evolution of Corporate Social Responsibility. A bibliometric analysis with mapping analysis tools.

When the term Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is heard today, a multitude of concepts such as Corporate Social Responsibility, Social Responsibility, Sustainable Development or Sustainability comes to mind where, without losing the essence of what its implementation entails, it implies not the existence of a consensus that unifies everything into a theory. The objective of this study is to obtain a better understanding of the current situation and trends in this area of research. Thus, in this paper, bibliometrics is used to evaluate performance and productivity in CSR, and scientific maps to extract and classify the most important research topics in this area. The results obtained when analyzing the period 1978-2017 show the conceptual evolution of CSR research, demonstrating the growth potential of CSR, as well as its great development, being the main thematic areas identified: Financial Performance, Corporate Reputation, Ethics, Consumers, Employees and Risk.

Towards the Multistage Ecosocial Theory of Glottogenesis: Modern Evolutionary Concepts, Principles, and Extension of the Nomological Approach

In recent decades, studies of the origin of language have seen shifts toward multistage concepts, explanations based on social and ecological patterns, and the integration of different levels of analysis (from behavioral practices to gene structures). The article develops these ideas. It aims to streamline and integrate evolutionary concepts and principles, suggest a special explanatory methodology. The models of gene-culture coevolution (Wilson et al.) and cultural drive (Laland et al.) are connected with the functionalist model of homeostatic dynamics and development (A. Stinchcombe). The conceptual core of the theory consists of the “zone of nearest evolutionary development,” “concern (need),” “providing structure,” “magic wand.” The formulated fundamental principles — a kind of "universal laws" of glottogenesis — draw on a rich intellectual tradition in biology and macrosociology. A priori rules fix the conditions of each new complexity stage of glottogenesis emergence. The main difficulty lies in justifying and explaining these stages. Moreover, the data obtained in archaeology, paleoanthropology, paleoclimatology, and paleogenetics are indirect. The extended variant of nomological explanation (C. Hempel) allows “on the industrial basis” to construct theoretical hypotheses and check them with the help of modern observations, comparisons, and experiments. Justified by this way, regularities connected logically with various indirect paleoscientific data can explain the main stages of early language evolution.

Raising Children’s Awareness about the Role of People on Supporting Sustainable Rural Land Use – Insights From Brazilian “Farm-School” Education Project

We proposed and evaluated a new approach (“Farm-school project”) to develop children's awareness about the role of people in agricultural production and environmental quality. The materialization of the “Farm-school” project was performed by a theoretical-practical 4-hour visit at an experimental farm. 240 Elementary school students were evaluated through concept maps and drawings, before and after the visit. There was a conceptual evolution in concept maps of 41 and 82%, and an increased number of categories per drawing of 23% and 37%. In concept maps, students did not relate people to the different spheres of agricultural production before the farm visit, but after, people became the main element. After the visit, students began to portray not only productive aspects in their drawings but also processes involving production, such as soil conservation practices and maintenance of mulch for soil cover. With the population concentrated in urban areas, there is a lack of contact with the rural landscape, generating a distorted view of food systems and rural land use, which affects social drivers and pro-environmental behavior. This imposes an educational task on governments to bring about information on agricultural production to elementary school students. We have proven the effectiveness of the “Farm-School” project as a low-cost educational policy alternative and a tool to increase children’s awareness about the role of people in agricultural production and environmental quality since students come to a better understanding of where food comes from and how it is produced.

Conceptual Analysis of Twice Exceptionality

The concept of twice-exceptional is used to define individuals who are gifted or talented in one or more domains while having disability, disorder or difficulty in certain areas. This situation has made the definition and acceptance of the concept difficult since giftedness and disability are mentioned together. In order to clarify current understanding of the concept, a conceptual analysis of the term "twice-exceptional" was conducted in this study using Rodgers' evolutionary concept analysis method. Firstly, the epistemological and ontological structure of the concept was discussed. It was seen that the concept was used in different terms in literature such as "twice exceptional", "dual exceptionality", "gifted with learning difficulties", "gifted handicapped". Instead of looking for an alternative term for the concept, existing studies were reviewed and the characteristics of the concept were tried to be revealed. Although the concept has been used for almost four decades, its implications date back to gifted studies addressing learning difficulties a century ago. It was later associated with Asperger's Syndrome, Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder, Autism Spectrum Disorder and other deficits. It was concluded that definition and characteristics of relevant concepts of twice exceptionality such as giftedness and disability have changed over time, which has also affected the evolution of twice exceptionality. Therefore, a clear definition or sharp boundary of the concept cannot be claimed, but its importance has been revealed by the field studies which also contributes to the further development of the concept.

Regional Management Centers as a New Form of Management Activity

The article explores a little-studied topic about the modern form of regional governance based on interdepartmental communication. On the example of the Regional Management Centers (RMC) as a modern form of communication among different departments and of an informational interaction among citizens and authorities, the authors analyze the ways of forming a new public management concept, based on actors-network concept and digitalization ethics, the analysis of social networks, the concept of figuration and the fractal evolutionary concept. The authors assume that the introduction of mechanisms of an online interaction and networking creates proactive connections between citizens and authorities and increases the level of confidence and the management efficiency. The empirical data were collected through a range of interviews with representatives of different departments directly linked with the RMC activity, as well as through the documents analysis and descriptive statistics. As a result of the study, the authors draw conclusions about the importance of a network approach in the organization of public administration, where the SDGs can become a full-fledged tool as part of the new paradigm of New Public Government (NPG). At the same time, the important goals are both increasing the level of digital maturity of the population and the readiness of the system itself for restructuring at all levels.

An Evolutionary Concept Analysis of Precision Medicine, and Its Contribution to a Precision Health Model for Nursing Practice.

Precision medicine is a new concept that has been routinely encountered in the literature for little more than a decade. With increasing use, it becomes crucial to understand the meaning of this concept as it is applied in various settings. An evolutionary concept analysis was conducted to develop an understanding of the essential features of precision medicine and its use. The analysis led to a comprehensive list of the antecedents, attributes, and consequences of precision medicine in multiple settings. With this understanding, precision medicine becomes part of the broader practice of precision health, an important process proposed by nursing scholars to provide complete, holistic care to our patients. A model for precision health is presented as a framework for care.

The added value of the nurse practitioner: An evolutionary concept analysis.

Nurse practitioners' added value is often mentioned in publications, but there is no consensus on what value is being added, what value is being added to, and in comparison with what can be considered to be an added value. A concept analysis was conducted to clarify the attributes, antecedents and meaning and better understand the Nurse practitioners' added value. Rodgers' evolutionary concept analysis. We selected 16 studies from CINAHL, PubMed, Embase and Medline to conduct a thematic analysis, considering the date, location and discipline of publications. Nurse practitioners' added value include: skills and competencies, activities performed, positive outcomes, and positive role perceptions, and antecedents and consequences were also identified. Nurse practitioners' added value is context-dependent and is often understood by comparing it to a context prior to implementation or other professional roles.

Transformation of Architectural Design Concepts During the Early Design Phase

The most difficult objective for students in an architectural design studio during the early design phase is to produce a design concept satisfyingly. This is due not just to the difficulty of selecting an appropriate method of approaching concepts, but also because of the many transformations associated with the concept's evolution over time.
 This research examines the modifications that occur throughout the conceptual phase of a design session, which typically lasts a few weeks. We hypothesize that while students' conception methods have been more abstract in creating a concept, they are subject to more alterations during the early phase of design. The research conducts concept generation and transformations by monitoring a group of fourth-grade architecture students through their design process. It also tries to link those transformations to the various methods utilized by students to create their concepts. It appears that the transformations that occurred throughout the design sessions were either formal or functional-oriented. Observations clarify that those transformations are linked to the sort of concept generating, which is either abstract or concrete. By observing the design sessions, the research was able to confirm the previous hypothesis. The modifications implemented to the design concepts were obviously tied to the nature of their selection of methods of production. When compared to concrete nature concepts, abstract nature concepts were more vulnerable to transformations throughout the conceptual phase of the design task on the scope of form and function.

The Concept of Double Protection in the Childhood Cancer Context.

The concept of double protection is used to describe communication avoidance used by parents and their child or adolescents with cancer in attempts to protect the other against disease-related stress and emotions, resulting from communication about the cancer, its treatment, and thoughts. This concept has received limited attention in the research literature. The aims of this concept analysis are to (1) explore its defining characteristics, applicability, and utility, (2) spotlight the concept and increase awareness and interest among healthcare providers and researchers, and (3) provide a direction for future interventions to improve parent-child communication in the childhood cancer context. Rodgers' Evolutionary Concept Analysis was used, and the findings from a study that explored the communication experience of Korean adolescents with cancer and their parents were integrated. This study explored the attributes, antecedents, consequences, and related terms. The following attributes were extracted: intention to protect, bidirectional, and absence of parent-child communication at a deeper level. Clarification of the concept of double protection provides insight into the concept as a barrier to engagement in parent-child communication and supports the significance of double protection in the childhood cancer context. There is a need for increased awareness of the challenges and dangers inherent in family communication avoidance, double protection. In order to address the issue, developing developmentally appropriate and valid clinical assessment tool and interventions are required. More research on the evidence-based benefits of effective parent-child communication is also required.

How is embodiment in physical education theoretically conceptualised? A concept analysis

ABSTRACT Background Interest in and debates around meaningful movement and embodiment in physical education (EPE) have grown over the last ten years. The quality of these discussions centre on a degree of conceptual clarity for talking pedagogically about embodiment, and consideration of ways of applying it in practice in meaningful ways. The aim of this study is to systematically analyse the theoretical concept of embodiment presented within physical education (PE) literature, in order to support a conceptual clarity upon which to build well-grounded pedagogical insights and practices for school-teachers and their students, as well as PE teacher educators. Method A narrative literature review methodology was used to identify twenty-three (23) papers from peer-reviewed literature between 2010 and 2021 that had some focus on embodiment. These were analysed using [Rodgers, B. L. 2000. “Concept Analysis: An Evolutionary View.” In Concept Development in Nursing: Foundations, Techniques, and Applications, edited by B. K. Rodgers and K. A. Knafl, 77–102. Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders.] theoretical evolutionary concept analysis method to systematically identify characteristics associated with the concept in published literature. Evolutionary concept analysis typically involves a six-phase process of usage over time. Data analysis involved the systematic extraction and analysis of the literature for surrogate terms, related concepts, attributes, antecedents, consequences, and references to the concept. Results Despite conceptual variances across the articles analysed, a set of common attributes that included intentionality, affect, meaning, sharing, and unity were identified. The review identified potential consequences of EPE including deeply transformative and meaningful change in the learner, the context, and the teacher. Events, situations or phenomena that precede EPE are broadly linked to the teacher, the learner, and the context. Conclusions The concept of embodiment as it pertains to its theoretical/philosophical deployment in PE, is both complex and varied, limiting its potential to inform the pedagogical practices of teachers and therefore realise the consequences espoused. To temper this disconnect the paper provides accessible, yet provisional guidance for teachers via clusters of familiar characteristics with accompanying descriptions of what the literature suggests as important for embodied approaches. Together the tables and analysis encourage and enable educators and researchers to believe in, commit to, and to operationalise embodiment as practice in their work.

CYBER DOCTRINARY APPROACHES CASE STUDY – FRENCH REPUBLIC, FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY AND THE KINGDOM OF SPAIN

In this paper, we aim to highlight the national efforts that representative countries of the European Union (EU) have made to harmonize national goals, with those of the NATO, in the field of cybernetics. This study also focuses exclusively on the approach of the French Republic, the Federal Republic of Germany and the Kingdom of Spain, in the field of cyber defense developments, while analyzing evolutionary concepts and phases in the field, at Allied and European levels.

Liderança altruísta e desempenho no trabalho: uma perspectiva evolutiva Darwiniana

This paper presents an altruistic leadership theory based on evolutionary concepts. The theory proposes that natural processes selected for selfish behaviors, and that these selfish behaviors continue in modern humanity. However, while these selfish tendencies provided positive survival traits among ancestral populations, they induce negative behavioral traits in modern times in most organizational situations. We argue that altruistic behavior – placing followers’ needs before one’s own – elicits increases in follower performance by increasing their commitment and job satisfaction. However, it seems that the same forces that led to the spread of selfish leadership traits among ancestral humans also inhibit the spread of altruistic leadership traits today. As such, we can expect few naturally altruistic leaders to be available, and we can also expect that organizations must nurture such behaviors to develop trained altruistic leaders. These trained altruistic leaders may have advantages if they can draw upon training to behave altruistically with followers, and selfishly to deal with external competition. We develop these ideas by presenting mechanisms for how selfish leadership traits developed and spread through ancestral humans, what role altruism plays in enhancing follower outcomes, and suggestions for future theoretical development.

A Competence Development Approach for Entrepreneurial Mindset in Entrepreneurship Education

In recent years Entrepreneurship Education (EE) has become prevalent throughout Higher Education (HE), with a proliferation of programming for learners from Undergraduate to Post-experience studies. Despite the rapid scaling of provision, the majority of extant EE offerings demonstrate little conceptual evolution and development from early programs. Many approaches fall short of enabling the cognitive and behavioral change so critical to supporting entrepreneurial action. In this article we consider the concept of entrepreneurial mindset (EM) as a framing for EE programming, conceptualizing it as an approach to support the development of multidimensional cognitive and emotional competences and behavioral outcomes to enable entrepreneurial value creating activity across a range of contexts. We focus specifically on how educators can actively support the development of an EM through EE programming and start a conversation on the practicalities of operationalizing the EM concept within HE teaching and learning activity.