Formal Concept Research Articles

Kant’s Thought Formation and the Role of the Mind: A Groundwork for Development

This paper argues that no form of meaningful development can be discussed without an incursion into the realm of consciousness, from which ideas emanate. This paper demonstrates that human civilization is driven by notions such as ideas, imaginations, concepts, plans, and projects which are germane to social development. An examination of Kant’s theory of concept formation reveals that though objects are given to us by means of sensibility, it is through the understanding that concepts arise. The mind therefore becomes the ‘breeding’ ground from which our ideas are generated and organized. In Kant’s analysis of the faculty of understanding, he noted that there are a priori pure intuitions and sets of categories such as Quality, Relation, Modality that organize particular sensations into unified objects of experience. This capacity of the mind enables it to produce or generate ideas within its own operations. Ideas generated are used to recreate our world. This paper provides a conceptual framework to explicate the foundation of development. Using the method of analysis, this essay concludes that the basis of development − social, economic, and cultural − is hinged on the nature and role of the mind.

Methodology for the formation of elementary quantitative concepts in preschoolers with intellectual disabilities

Methodology for the formation of elementary quantitative concepts in preschoolers with intellectual disabilities

Features of studying and implementing gamification technologies in the practice of teaching a foreign language

Importance. The development of gamification technologies in the practice of teaching activities is considered. The process of formation and development of gamification concepts in domestic and foreign education is analyzed, the main approaches to the specification of the term “gamification” are identified, it is emphasized that gamification, unlike many gaming practices, has a nonimitation nature, where, based on certain rules, an educational result is achieved.Materials and Methods. An overview of the results of foreign empirical studies of gamification is presented, the identified positive effects of technology application and promising directions of its study are shown.Results and Discussion. Structural and content types of gamification are identified, including the main elements and mechanisms of this pedagogical technology. The potential of pedagogical technology in the field of motivational orientation, involvement and immersion of students in the educational process is emphasized. The distinctive features and possible negative trends in the use of gamification in the educational process are identified.Conclusion. Gamification technologies make it possible to implement most didactic principles and implement sociocultural, communicative, self-development, therapeutic, correctional and entertaining pedagogical functions.

СУЧАСНИЙ СТАН НАУКОВОГО ДОСЛІДЖЕННЯ ТА ПЕРСПЕКТИВИ РОЗВИТКУ КРИМІНАЛЬНО-ПРАВОВОЇ БІОГРАФІСТИКИ В УКРАЇНІ

The article analyzes the current state of scientific research in criminal legal biography in Ukraine. The author defines criminal legal biography as a branch of biographical science which studies the peculiarities of formation, formation and development of fundamental criminal law doctrines, ideas, views and concepts of leading criminalists, taking into account their life biography, in particular, public, state, political, scientific and scientific-pedagogical activities. The author identifies the main areas of development of criminal law biography, in particular, writing dissertations, preparing monographic studies, compiling (organizing) editions of selected works and biographies (bibliographies) of leading criminalists. The first area in criminal law biography – conducting dissertation research on the criminal law (including criminological and criminal executive) heritage of prominent representatives of Ukrainian legal science. The second area in criminal legal biography – conducting monographic studies of the peculiarities of the formation and development of individual scientific schools in Ukrainian criminal law, criminology and criminal executive law. The third area in criminal legal biography is the compilation (arrangement) of publications (selected works, selected works, biographies (bibliographies), etc.) covering generalizations of the criminal legal (including criminological and criminal executive) heritage of certain leading representatives of Ukrainian legal science, in particular, containing both the full content and certain fragments of abstracts, articles, monographs, manuals, scientific and practical commentaries, textbooks, etc. The author outlines the prospects for the development of criminal law biography in Ukraine. Key words: biography, science, biographical method, law, research, criminal law heritage, doctrine, ideas, views, concepts, criminal law, criminology, criminal executive law.

Forgotten names: Kashshaf Patii

The article studies Kashshaf Patii’s work, identifying the development features of his poetry in the context of literary and aesthetic thought of the early twentieth century. As research shows, the educational paradigm contributes to the formation of a poetic concept of the world, the concept of a lyrical hero and motifs in his works. Tracing the main trends in the development of Kashshaf Patii’s poetry and the main periods of his work, we identify the features of the development of national literature of the early twentieth century as a whole and determine general and specific aspects in the patterns of the national literary art development. This determines the relevance of our work. It is for the first time that the work of Kashshaf Patii has become the object of a systematic study and literary analysis. It is the first study about the life and creative biography of the poet. As a result of the study, we conclude that Patii’s first works put forward the idea of developing Tatar society on the basis of education, knowledge and culture; their dominant motif is Tatar society’s call for social transformation. At the same time, romantic techniques predominate in the artistic and aesthetic aspects. This indicates that the poet’s work belongs to educational romanticism. At the second stage of his work, the author reflects on the mission of the poet and poetry in the context of classical romanticism - on the highest values in the world, while serving the nation is interpreted as divine predestination. The alienated lyrical hero, experiencing loneliness, comes to the fore in his philosophical lyrical poetry.

Intuitional Content or Avoiding the Myth of the Given – A Dilemma for McDowell

ABSTRACT McDowell’s “Avoiding the Myth of the Given” (2008, 2009) attempts to reconcile two claims: 1) what we most fundamentally experience is a fundamental level of invariable simple objects and their sensible properties; experience of these objects and properties is the ultimate ground of our knowledge of the world; 2) experience is through-and-through conceptually structured. This leads McDowell to endorsing the incoherent notion of intuitional content – necessary and thus irrevisable basic empirical conceptually structured contents or empirical categories. The notion requires the necessity and irrevisability of purely formal concepts and the on-going responsiveness to experience of empirical concepts. This reveals a dilemma: If the fundamental objects of experience are invariable then they cannot have empirically conceptual form; for revisability is a mark of the empirically conceptual. But purely formal concepts cannot give us the fundamental empirical structure of the world. The dilemma forces us to choose between claiming that the fundamental objects of experience are invariable and claiming that they are conceptually formed. I conclude by briefly describing how Kant successfully faces the challenge of accounting for the most fundamental invariable level of objects of experience without yielding to the myth of the given.

Организация труда среднего медицинского персонала как фактор повышения эффективности деятельности медицинских организаций.

The shortage of mid-level medical personnel is one of the most urgent problems of healthcare system in the Russian Federation and affects negatively the efficiency of hospitals. This deficit is partially caused by a high burden on mid-level medical staff and their necessity to provide a number of non-specific non-medical activities. This leads to the medical services quality reduction, negatively affects the motivation of employees and decreases employment in this area. Purpose of this study is to identify the key problems of the organization of labor of mid-level medical staff and the formation of a new concept of labor organization taking international experience into account. Materials and methods. The research is based on the analysis of existing academic literature, sources of official statistical data, regulatory documents, theoretical and practical aspects of labor management and organization in the field of healthcare, the study of relevant international experience in order to identify innovative approaches and methods of labor organization. Results. According to the research the main problems of organizing the work of mid-level medical personnel include shortage of this personnel, its high workload, problems of regulation etc. The reasons for the shortage of mid-level medical specialists are identified: low wages, dissatisfaction with working conditions, low prestige of the medical profession. A system for delegating non-medical duties of mid-level medical personnel to non-medical assistants is introduced as the most effective way to solve these problems based on examples from international experience. According to this approach the tasks of assistants should include non-medical care of patients, work with documents, communications, cleaning, preparing rooms, and so on. International experience shows that assisting staff increases the efficiency of medical organizations and reduces the burden on mid-level medical staff. Findings. The need has been identified for further elaboration of the concept of labor organization in the healthcare system of the Russian Federation based on the principle of delegating non-medical duties of mid-level medical staff to non-medical assisting staff.

The interrelation of motor and mental actions in the process of formation of social competitiveness of a personality

Introduction. The work is devoted to the study of the peculiarities of the formation of competitiveness in the process of physical education classes. The psychological features of purposeful formation of competitiveness are considered. The positive relationship between specially organized motor actions and the formed competitiveness of students has been practically proved and theoretically substantiated.Materials and Methods. To solve the research tasks, the semantic content of the basic concepts characterizing competitiveness was determined. The semantic analysis of the presented concepts was carried out according to the dictionary of the Russian language edited by A. P. Evgenieva. The definition of the semantic core of concepts was carried out by the content analysis method proposed by S. A. Gaponova. Semantic, basic units of textual information were identified. The semantic core, the fundamental feature of a text or concept, was determined.Results. We have established that the semantic core of all manifestations of competitiveness, without exception, is overcoming. It is proved that overcoming various external (physical) and internal (mental) barriers is a necessary and sufficient condition for the formation of competitiveness. It is argued that specially organized motor activity makes it possible to purposefully form competitiveness.Discussion and conclusions. The factors and conditions affecting the process of competitiveness formation are discussed. The basic feature of competitiveness has been established in previously conducted in-house scientific research. This process is analyzed from the perspective of the theory of the gradual formation of mental actions and concepts (P. Ya. Galperin), as well as the levels of movement control (N. A. Bernstein). The presented material is the theoretical basis for the creation of a methodology for the purposeful formation of competitiveness among students.

The influence of language on the formation of number concepts: Evidence from preschool children who are bilingual in English and Arabic

We asked whether grammatical number marking has specific influence on the formation of early number concepts. In particular, does comprehension of dual case marking support young children’s understanding of cardinality? We assessed number knowledge in 77 3-year-old Arabic–English bilingual children using the Give-a-Number task in both languages. Given recent concerns around the administration and scoring of the Give-a-Number task, we used two complementary approaches: one based on conceptual levels and the other based on overall test scores. We also tested comprehension of dual case marking in Arabic and number sequence knowledge in both languages. Regression analyses showed that dual case comprehension exerts a strong influence on cardinality tested in Arabic independent of age, general language skills, and number sequence knowledge. No such influence was found for cardinality tested in English, indicating a language-specific effect. Further analyses tested for transfer of cardinality knowledge between languages. These revealed, in addition to the findings outlined above, a powerful cross-linguistic transfer effect. Our findings are consistent with a model in which the direct effect of dual case marking is language specific, but concepts, once acquired, may be represented abstractly and transferred between languages.

Concept cognition for knowledge graphs: Mining multi-granularity decision rule

As part of cognitive intelligence, concept cognition for knowledge graphs aims to clearly grasp the typical characteristics of the things referred to by the concept, which can provide prior knowledge for machine understanding and thinking. Different from concept learning and formal concept analysis that learn new concepts from data and the general decision rule that comes from an independent decision table, this paper cognizes an existing concept by decision rules that come from multiple granularities. Specifically, 1) concept cognition for knowledge graphs is realized from the perspective of mining multi-granularity decision rule. 2) Decision tables corresponding to four granularities form a multi-granularity decision table group, and then the result from coarser granularity can guide and help obtaining the result from finer granularity. 3) We propose a framework for mining multi-granularity decision rules, which involves going from a multi-granularity decision table group to the frequent maximal attribute patterns to the decision rules to the credible decision rules. Finally, we verified effectiveness of dividing positive and negative data, monotonicity of attribute patterns in a multi-granularity decision table group, and downward monotonicity of credibility, and observed the impact of the parameter min_cov and min_conf on execution times.

Exploring Early Language Development through a Vygotskian Lens: A Focus on Concept Formation and Critical Period in Three-Year-Olds

Exploring Early Language Development through a Vygotskian Lens: A Focus on Concept Formation and Critical Period in Three-Year-Olds

Recognizing and Describing the Factors Affecting the Design of the Innovation Ecosystem Model in the Field of Health with an Emphasis on the Role of E-Government

Background: Development of innovation issues in countries has led to the formation of new concepts in this field. Some of these concepts include innovation systems ranging from national, sectoral, etc., innovation networks, commercialization, and innovation ecosystems. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to design recognition and description of the factors affecting the design of the ecosystem model of innovation in the field of health with an emphasis on the role of e-government. Methods: The type of qualitative study is a type of theory. A semi-structured interview was used to gather information. And the analysis of Strauss and Corbyn's method and the paradoxical model were used. The samples were selected through targeted sampling. And finally, 7 senior and middle managers of government and non-governmental hospitals in Yazd province entered the study. Results: The model designed in this study includes the effective dimensions and components, obstacles and strategies, causal conditions, contextual, intermediary and constituent elements that are the pivotal phenomenon, Shows the consequences and strategies. identifiers and Ecosystem Factors Innovation 37 Concepts, 4 Main categories Enabling policies and regulations, Access to data and infrastructure، funding and validation opportunities and ease of acceptance and dissemination of innovations (from interviews and research literature) were formulated in the form of a conceptual model Conclusion: The process of study was explained in the form of the story line of the electronic government data theory. Finally, the innovation ecosystem model in the field of biotechnology was designed and analyzed. Finally, this model can be used to design an innovation ecosystem in the field of health.

Revisiting data reduction for boolean matrix factorization algorithms based on formal concept analysis

Revisiting data reduction for boolean matrix factorization algorithms based on formal concept analysis

How Do Nature-Based Outdoor Learning Environments Affect Preschoolers’ STEAM Concept Formation? A Scoping Review

This scoping review examined the impact of nature-based outdoor learning environments on the formation of STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics) concepts in preschoolers. Preschool age (3–5 years) is the time when physical interaction with surrounding built environments increases, and spontaneous learning from the environment intensifies—making it an ideal age range to promote nature-based informal learning. An outdoor learning environment can influence STEAM concept formations of preschoolers with an intentional design that offers STEAM learning affordances. Despite the rising interest in early STEAM education, there is still limited literature on how the outdoor environment may influence STEAM learning behaviors of preschoolers (3–5 years old). This scoping review intended to evaluate the existing knowledge regarding the physical factors contributing to STEAM learning affordances in an outdoor environment for children aged three to five. The review included studies from the last twenty years. This scoping review was conducted following the criteria outlined in the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses Extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR). For this scoping review, 843 citations were discovered across four databases (JSTOR, Scopus, EBSCOhost, and Web of Science), ProQuest, and Google Scholar, and 31 articles were considered eligible for inclusion. The paper synthesized those 31 studies to identify the key STEAM learning behaviors of children and STEAM-activity-supportive settings that may positively influence preschoolers’ STEAM concept development.

IMPLEMENTATION OF THE ETHNO-STEM APPROACH ( SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, AND MATHEMATICS ) IN SCIENCE LEARNING TO IMPROVE CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS AND INTEREST OF STUDENTS

Education must be able to arouse students' curiosity , so that they can minimize knowledge misconceptions in science learning. There is a need to adapt appropriate learning models in teaching as part of the teacher's responsiveness in learning in accordance with current developments. The provisions that must be provided by students must be in accordance with the skills required by the education market share. Research objectives This is For enhancement Skills think critical and interested participant educate in science learning with use approach Ethno -STEM. Type of research used in study This that is study field research with approach quantitative . The sampling technique uses technique probability sampling . Deep data collection methods study This includes methods , questionnaires , and observations . Data analysis applied to research This is inferential data analysis . Inferential data analysis using the N-Gain test for measure enhancement Skills think critical participant educate . The research results are in the form of integration principle enthology and STEM concepts with seven characteristics main , among others is involve context wisdom local , learning based problem , involvement participant education , critical thinking , collaboration and teams , use technology , as well emphasis on the scientific process . Implementation approach Ethno -STEM is effective in increase Skills think critical and interested Study participant educate especially in class experiment . Teacher response to approach can classified as response good , the teacher response was 51.6% % which influenced response Good participant educate as much as 58.1%. By overall , approach Ethno -STEM can become method effective learning in learning science subjects ..

BERT4FCA: A method for bipartite link prediction using formal concept analysis and BERT.

Link prediction in bipartite networks finds practical applications in various domains, including friend recommendation in social networks and chemical reaction prediction in metabolic networks. Recent studies have highlighted the potential for link prediction by maximal bi-cliques, which is a structural feature within bipartite networks that can be extracted using formal concept analysis (FCA). Although previous FCA-based methods for bipartite link prediction have achieved good performance, they still have the problem that they cannot fully capture the information of maximal bi-cliques. To solve this problem, we propose a novel method for link prediction in bipartite networks, utilizing a BERT-like transformer encoder network to enhance the contribution of FCA to link prediction. Our method facilitates bipartite link prediction by learning more information from the maximal bi-cliques and their order relations extracted by FCA. Experimental results on five real-world bipartite networks demonstrate that our method outperforms previous FCA-based methods, a state-of-the-art Graph Neural Network(GNN)-based method, and classic methods such as matrix-factorization and node2vec.

Harmonizing International Environmental Law and National Sovereignty

International environmental law is an important legal tool to deal with the global environmental crisis. In recent years with the increasingly serious and global environmental problems the speed and depth of environmental problems are also increasing. In this process the relationship between state sovereignty and international environmental law and its conflict become the object of study. "To do a systematic analysis this paper attempts to destroy the conflict between national sovereignty and environmental rights and on the basis of in-depth discussion of the background concept formation and development stage of international environmental law to explore whether the two can be coordinated. In particular the concept of "soft standards" is proposed to analyze its actual status and role in international environmental law and its dialectical relationship between legal significance and legal effect in non-binding international instruments. On the basis of respecting national sovereignty the document said that strengthening the supervision of international mechanisms and improving the national responsibility system can promote the effective coordination of international environmental law and safeguard national sovereignty and realize the mutual benefit and win-win situation of environmental protection and national interests. At the same time it puts forward a more cautious attitude towards the criticism and modification of the soft law of the international environment and emphasizes that the universal basis of the law should be paid attention to in the practical application so as to avoid the marginalization of legal research due to excessive dependence on social analysis methods.This paper aims to provide theoretical support and practical guidance for the further development and practical application of international environmental law.

“Protean Mechanism”: Robert Willis and the Technics of Architectural History

Abstract Robert Willis’s writing in the nineteenth century was foundational to the development of the discipline of architectural history. Closely related to other Cambridge scientists, including William Farish and William Whewell, Willis deployed similar methods and forms of conceptualization in his writings about medieval architecture. He focused on five areas in particular: the isometric projection, the building as kit-of-parts, detailed technical forms of description using illustrations and specialized vocabularies, the machine tool, and new tools for measuring cogwheels and architectural profiles. Using an interdisciplinary approach and drawing upon contemporary ideas of political economy by Karl Marx and Charles Babbage, this article resituates Willis’s writing in the context of the separation of manual from intellectual labor under industrial capitalism, arguing that the architectural historian was complicit both with the forms of abstraction required of professionalization and with the alienation of labor.

LINGUISTIC STUDY OF THE SEMANTICS OF LANGUAGE TOOLS THAT NOMINATE THE CONCEPT OF " EYE " (ON THE EXAMPLE OF RUSSIAN AND UZBEK)

In this article, the linguistic picture of the world, linguistic signs, the fact that words in this case serve as a means of accessing a single information base of a person. It has been considered that words in different languages, meaning the same concept, differ in semantic possibilities, can cover different parts of reality, and their use in speech. In addition, under the linguistic picture of the world, we understand in the language the fixation of a set of knowledge and ideas about reality formed in social consciousness. Linguistic study of the semantics of language tools that nominate the concept of” eye", we will conduct research related to the conceptualization of body experience and the formation of concepts of the inner world of a person from it.

How to Study Virtual Entities Historically? A Proposal

Abstract This paper will not present a case study of the historical development of a virtual entity. Rather, I will develop an outlook on virtual entities in the sciences and propose a corresponding method for studying them (historically). In essence, my presentation can be considered a synthesis of different observations from the history and philosophy of science and has its roots in my dissertational research on the development of the virtual particle. Starting with a reflection on the role of presentism for the study of concept formation and development processes, I will show, through the example of the virtual particle, how current debates and interpretations can inform our access to a historical reconstruction. Following these reflections, I will argue for a pragmatist account of concepts as tools for the scientific practitioners. According to the approach presented in my article, concepts perform their functions through representations, and I will lay special focus on verbal representations and their different functions within scientific reasoning. In conclusion, I will frame the outcome of my discussion in terms of a proposal that might, through further research, enrich our understanding of virtual entities in the sciences.