Thinking Of Future Research Articles

A Quantitative and Qualitative Exploration of Futuristic Narratives on TVTropes.org

This paper embarks on a methodical exploration of TVTropes.org, a comprehensive crowd-sourced wiki that documents storytelling conventions across various forms of media, with a special focus on representations of artificial intelligence and future scenarios. The study delineates the multifaceted nature of the platform, asserting that its offerings extend beyond mere television tropes, and explores its potent applicability for futurists and scholars. Through the strategic application of web scraping and data analysis, this research quantifies diverse aspects of science fiction media and the embedded tropes therein. The paper underscores the pivotal role of tropes in shaping societal perceptions and influencing discourse, particularly in the realm of futuristic thinking, using instances such as the impact of “The Terminator” franchise on military strategic thinking as a case study. Furthermore, the research engages in a quantitative analysis of trope density and frequency within science fiction works, offering a nuanced understanding and uncovering patterns in storytelling conventions. This study thus offers a foundational framework for understanding, categorizing, and analyzing the influential images of the future that permeate today’s media environment, thereby providing a valuable resource for futurists, researchers, and media scholars in their respective endeavors.

IMPLEMENTASI PEMIKIRAN DIGITALISASI DAN FUTURISTIK DALAM PEMBELAJARAN MATEMATIKA DI SD

The digital era is the division of the economy caused by technological developments that refer to opportunities that impact education. This influence is called digitization in the learning process. The method used is a literature study by reviewing ten articles in national journals and then analyzing them according to the indicators of this study, namely digitization and futuristics. The results showed that (1) Learning is not limited by time and space; (2) Ease of obtaining information not only by teachers and students but also everyonel (3) Education requires learning to follow the development of innovative and creative technology to produce curriculum updates and other learning tools. One example of technological growth in line with futuristic thinking that can apply to mathematics learning in elementary schools is the application of GeoGebra, which can assist students in visualizing the mathematical learning process and tools for teachers in providing geometry to students.

Role of surgery in neuroblastoma.

Neuroblastoma is the most common malignant solid tumor handled by pediatric surgeons. It is well-known that neuroblastoma shows variable biological and clinical behaviors. In this review article, surgical strategy in neuroblastoma was described by risk stratification. Also, strategy of biopsy and clinical conditions that require special considerations such as neuroblastoma detected by mass screening, relapsed neuroblastoma, patients with stage MS and dumbbell type tumors was mentioned. As multimodal systemic treatments have been expanding, the role of surgery in neuroblastoma has become relatively less significant but requisite. We surgeons should decide therapeutic strategy based on the correct understanding of biology of neuroblastoma thinking of the better future of children.

A Study on Soft Skill for Engineers and its Correlation’s with Reference to Engineering Students in Mysore City

According to some of the Behavioral scientists when they have conducted a research on some of the most successful executives, they were able to identify that there are some characteristics, which made them to become successful executives. They are – Team player, Quick, Responsive, positive, Brave, Self-confident, Facilitator, Open, Resilient, Good learner, Good Teacher, Creative, Competitive, Imaginative, Fun, Reliable, Motivated, Enthusiastic, Inspirational, Committed, Persuasive, Adaptable, Flexible, Self knowing and Intuitive.Based on the above characteristic features they have grouped and classified them as the following soft skills. They are Employee development / coaching, Customer service, Goal orientation, Planning / Organizing, Diplomacy, personal effectiveness, Negotiation, Persuasion, Empathy, Leadership, Team work, Inter personal skills, Problem solving, Creativity, Information exchange, adaptability, presentation, ongoing learning, prospective thought, decision-making, self-management, and listening, among other skills. Soft skills equip individuals to deal with the persons first and business issues later i.e., secondary. There are about 14 dimensions that have been considered as core dimensions of soft skills. They are- Leadership, Teamwork, Inter personal skills, Problem solving, Creativity, Information exchange, adaptability, presentation, ongoing learning, prospective thought, decision-making, self-management, and listening.The 14 dimensions that have been considered as the core dimensions in evaluating the presence of soft skills are - Leadership, Team work, Inter personal skills, Challenge-solving, creativity, communication, flexibility, presentation, continuous learning, futuristic thinking, decision-making, self-management, and listening are some of the skills that are required. This study involved certain hypothesis formulation covering the various dimensions and testing these hypotheses using appropriate statistical techniques. The data was properly coded and analyzed with SPSS software package tool to establish the relationship between various dimensions, which discriminate between the students from urban and rural backgrounds.

A Study and Compare the Futuristic Thinking of Grade 9 Students in Schools of Different Sizes

The research aimed at studying and comparing the futuristic thinking of Grade 9 students studying in schools of different sizes. The samples of the research were Grade 9 students of semester 2 in academic year 2020 in Sisaket Province, Thailand. The multi-stage random sampling technique was employed for the selection of 860 students from 12 schools: 216 students were from extra-large-sized, 160 from large-sized, 302 from medium-sized, and 182 from small-sized schools. The instrument used in the research was a 15 item-5-point Likert scale futuristic test. The validity (IOC) ranged from 0.32 to 0.75, Item Total Correlation from 0.57 to 0.75, and reliability value was 0.94. The data was analyzed using Mean, Standard Deviation (S.D.), One way ANOVA, and Scheffe’ method. The results showed that 1) Grade 9 students’ futuristic thinking was at high level in both overall and individual aspect; 2) Grade 9 students studying in schools of different sizes had different levels of futuristic thinking at the .05 level of statistical significance. Students from extra-large-sized schools had higher level of futuristic thinking than those from medium-sized ones. For those students who were in large schools had higher futuristic thinking levels than the ones in medium and small-sized schools, with a statistical significance of .05 level. The other pairs were not different.

The 9th Graders’ Relation of Futuristic Thinking Factors Study

The objectives of this study are to study the relation of futuristic thinking and to create the prediction equation of the 9th graders’ relation of futuristic thinking. The subjects of this study are 860, 9th graders, studying in their second term in 2019 in Srisaket province, Thailand. The sujects of this study are from 12 schools from Multi-Stage Random Sampling. The study uses 216 students in especially big-size school, 160 students in big-size school, 302 students in medium-size school and 182 students in small-size school. The research instrument used are Futuristic Thinking form, Emotional Intelligence (EQ), Motivation (MO), Self-Directed Learning (SD) and Attitude towards learning (AT) with Likert Scale measurement (IOC), Item Total Correlation and Cronbach’s Alpha Coefficient. Statistics used are Mean, Standard Deviation, Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation (rxy), and Stepwise Multiple Regression Analysis. The study found that:
 
 
 All the five factors has relational statistics of .05 with Coefficient of Correlation from .673-.791
 Prediction equation both in the form of unstandardized scores and standardized scores are
 
 
 FT¢ = .180 + .483EQ + .179MO + .172SD + .148AT
 
 ZFT¢ = .441ZEQ + .172ZMO + .179ZSD + .148ZAT
 
 All five prediction factors and variance factors can be used to explain 70.7% of futuristic thinking.

Apa yang Meningkatkan Kinerja Lingkungan Perusahaan? Model Konseptual Berbasis Investasi Hijau dan Tata Kelola Perusahaan

This research seeks to improve the performance of green investment-based companies and good corporate governance to solve these problems developed a conceptual model Research methodology – The research was conducted through a survey using 112 respondents consisting of leaders of manufacturing companies in Indonesia. Then the concept model is developed and tested empirically. Results (Results): The hypotheses proposed in this study are all accepted and the empirical research model proposed in this study is the key strategy in improving the company's environmental performance based on futuristic thinking. Limitations:: Limitations in this study are, First, the questionnaire was sent via email. The second limitation is that this study does not consider the existence of other variables, and only focuses on Corporate Governance and the role of Green Investment as the interpening variable. Contribution: improvement of the Company's Environmental Performance which is facilitated by the concept of Green Investment as an interpening very relevant to be a key factor in improving the Company's Environmental Performance.

Poetic Thinking Today: An Essay

Poetic Thinking Today: An Essay

Characteristics, enablers and barriers affecting entrepreneurial behaviour for academics in low- and middle-income countries: A scoping review

ABSTRACT In the Fourth Industrial Revolution, academics should enhance entrepreneurial capacity to leverage digital-based advances and knowledge capital to support academic economic growth. A scoping review based on the Joanna Briggs Institute’s guiding principles, using Krueger’s intention-based entrepreneurship model as the theoretical framework, was undertaken to determine the extent of the literature related to characteristics, attributes, behaviours, enablers, and barriers of academic entrepreneurship in Higher Education Institutions in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). Twenty articles were identified and included. The most common academic entrepreneurial characteristics included hunger for success, desire for independence, innovation, creativity, futuristic thinking, and self-esteem. For entrepreneurship to flourish, donor support, strong regulatory systems, political and macroeconomic stability were necessary. Characteristics such as innovation, creativity and futuristic thinking were tied to academic entrepreneurship. Further research on enablers and barriers is suggested to guide academics in LMIC universities with their transition to entrepreneurship as their engagement with society develops.

EXPLAINING THE TOURISM RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT (TRM) IN TOURISM ENTERPRISES (CASE STUDY: ISFAHAN)

Manuscript type: Research paper Research Aims: The aim of the present study is to explain the relationship management with tourism in Isfahan tourism enterprises using structural equation modeling methodology. Design/methodology/approach: Based on distributing 312 questionnaires, the sample size was 300 academic experts, specialists and experts working in Isfahan tourism enterprises and professors and tourists in the fields of tourism management, IT and marketing selected by combining non-probability purposive (judgmental) sampling and snowball sampling methods. Research Findings: The results showed a correlation between “applications of TRM system” and “users' satisfaction with TRM” based on path analysis concerning confirmatory factor loadings analysis as 0.566 and a correlation between “applications of TRM system” and “IMHTs” based on path analysis concerning confirmatory factor loadings analysis as 0.521. Moreover, there was a correlation between “Consumers' satisfaction with TRM” and “IMHTs” based on path analysis concerning confirmatory factor loadings analysis as 0.936. Theoretical Contribution/Originality: The conceptual model of the study involves components including “the applications of TRM system,” “satisfaction of the tourists with TRM,” and “information management of health tourists (IMHTs)”. Practitioner/Policy Implication: 1) the analysis of information of health professionals, 2) converting information of health professionals, 3) retrieving information from health professionals, strategic attention in organizational decisions in tourism enterprises of Isfahan because the general manager of cultural heritage, tourism and handicrafts of Isfahan from holding the first quarterly meeting to review the tourism situation in Isfahan in 2021 entitled “path recognition” with the presence of young and elite tourism activists and announced to create futuristic thinking and the need for elite thinking in the future of Isfahan. Research limitation/Implications:  The tourism industry of Isfahan is currently so important in the comprehensive development of countries that economists call it invisible exports, and it is one of the largest industries in the world today.

Anwaha's Education Digitalization Mission

Based on the results of the study, it was concluded that Anwaha's mission of digitizing education was realized by visualizing, futuristic thinking, showing foresight, proactive planning, creative thinking, taking risks, process alignment, coalition building, continuous learning, and embracing change so as to be able to adapt to digitalization of administration and teaching. Develop a model for digitizing the publication of school activities.

Membandingkan Konsep Islam Keindonesiaan dengan Islam Nusantara dalam Kerangka Pluralisme

This study focuses on the dynamics of Islamic thought, which is a central issue in Indonesia. The study takes the case of Nurcholish Madjid and Abdurahman Wahid, who have a unique idea of the idea of Islamic renewal in Indonesia. These two figures have detailed conceptual formulations about futuristic thinking of Islamic reform in Indonesia. The method used in this research is qualitative, with library research involving books, commentaries, journals, papers, theses, theses, dissertations and others. Data analysis was carried out comparatively. Data analysis in qualitative research is divided into three stages: data collection, data presentation, and conclusion drawing/verification. This study finds that the concepts of Indonesian Islam and Nusantara Islam are ideas resulting from appreciation or reflection of Islam in Indonesia by elaborating Islamic values and Indonesian or Nusantara values. These two ideas play a strategic role in building relationships and collaborating on the grand narrative of Islam and Indonesia.

COVID‐19 and entrepreneurship: Future research directions

Innovation and futuristic thinking are needed to derive better policies to address the COVID‐19 pandemic. Policy considerations in terms of entrepreneurship will help understand the importance of future research on digital transformation, leadership, business impact, and social inclusiveness. The societal shifts due to COVID‐19 impacts unveil opportunities for entrepreneurial adjustments to achieve competitiveness and growth.

A Phenomenological Study:

The original plan of this research was to collect multiple sets of data from business students in a 2020 spring study abroad program including the pre-departure course, the experiential learning in Thailand and post experience. When the World Health Organization (2020c) categorized the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic, the pre-departure course was interrupted, resulting in the remaining sections of the program to be cancelled. To date, since no previous research was available on a pre-departure course interrupted by a pandemic of this kind, the experiences of the two faculty members teaching the course became central to the research making this study phenomenological. The experiences were captured by daily notes with reflections leading to four key findings: 1. The course lacked skills training and needed to be redesigned as it would be offered in spring 2021. Adding practical applications to the comprehensive collection of materials would lead students to start shifting their mindsets prior to the trip rather than during the trip resulting in maximized experiences. 2. The COVID-19 outbreak was unprecedented in that it was not a short-lived occurrence but an on-going crisis. The uniqueness of the situation brought futuristic thinking and scenario planning to the forefront when developing and implementing such global programs. 3. Faculty were not prepared for an on-going crisis. To be able to cope with similar uncertainties and act decisively, faculty leading such experiences needed training in futuristic thinking and scenario planning. 4. Faculty country-expertise strengthened student trust when teaching the course. Developing, teaching such courses, and leading such experiences need to be backed up by location-expertise to foster confidence for optimal benefits.

Implementation of Distributive Leadership into Teacher Competency Empowerment and Job Satisfaction

The leadership of the school headmasters play a very significant role in creating a conducive climate for elevating school excellence to the highest level. To this end, this concept paper examines the practice of distributive leadership practices, the empowerment of teachers, and the satisfaction of working among schoolchildren to realize such excellence. The school excellence is often expressed in the absence of the headmaster's style of leadership as a school leader. The distributive leadership is a form of collective leadership that empowers subordinates. This concept paper emphasizes the role played by the headmasters in efforts to enhance the teachers’ competence in the areas of strategic thinking, dynamic leadership, systematic work culture and futuristic thinking and to create an atmosphere of schoolwork. The pursuit of such competencies is expected to help school management implement planning and achieve its mission and vision more effectively. In addition, the inputs and discussions of recent studies on these elements and their sequences are also been discussed. It is hoped that the three elements discussed will serve as a guide for the headmasters in mobilizing the whole school to achieve inclusive excellence.

Human Capital: A Key Driver of Consumer Decision-making in Online Promotion (An Application of Grounded Theory in Exploratory Research)

This study throws light on the diversity of online sales promotion and deal acquisition with respect to human capital (time cost and efforts cost). This is the non-monetary investment of consumer while making a purchase. The influence of non-monetary cost decides the action towards purchase choice among various product offerings in online space. Findings of the research reveal (a) the different types of consumer: value conscious, price conscious and encounters, (b) different strategies a consumer adopts: track on information, futuristic thinking and formulating deals and (c) source of deal gratification for different goal-oriented consumer behaviour. This study proposes an empirical model validated by data interpretation using grounded theory. It shows how human capital decides approach of consumer to evaluate online sales promotion.

Insurance as Governance for Outer Space Activities

ABSTRACT Despite sixty-plus years of technological development, space activities are still ultra-hazardous in nature. These activities range from essential to modern life, like telecommunications, to futuristic and forward thinking, such as space tourism. In order for these activities to not only continue but also develop and grow, their inherent risk must be managed. Political will is lacking at an international level to create new binding rules for activities in space. Likewise, states are reluctant to unilaterally impose stricter, even if ultimately beneficial, regulations on their entities for fear that their domestic industries will flee abroad to greener pastures, creating a regulatory prisoner’s dilemma. States also usually require certain levels of insurance and indemnification to protect themselves against potentially costly mishaps. Likewise, banks and investors will often require insurance to protect their investments, as space business tends to be costly. Thus, a disproportionate amount of responsibility and authority can be transferred to a small number of global space insurers. They may be uniquely positioned to enforce, or at least promote, mechanisms to increase safety and sustainability in the commercial space industry. Increasing safety and sustainability in outer space may help to keep insurance premium costs from growing out of control for these hazardous activities. This article analyzes the sociolegal literature on risk and insurance as governance and applies these concepts to the space sector, considering the possibility that space insurers have become de facto regulators in space and exploring the implications of that possibility.

АКТУАЛЬНІ ПРОБЛЕМИ ФАХОВОЇ ПІДГОТОВКИ МАЙБУТНІХ ДИЗАЙНЕРІВ У ЗАКЛАДАХ ВИЩОЇ ОСВІТИ УКРАЇНИ: ТЕОРЕТИЧНІ ТА ПРИКЛАДНІ АСПЕКТИ

Purpose. The aim of this article was to reveal the current trends in the theory and practice of vocational training of future designers in higher education institutions of Ukraine, which relate to the understanding of the terms like “professional thinking” and “structure of professional thinking of a future designer” and the essential content of design vocational training. Methodology. A set of theoretical general scientific methods were used to meet the research aim. Those were systematic and comparative approaches based on analysis, synthesis, comparison, induction and deduction, as well as descriptive method.Findings. The analysis of scientific sources has allowed us to formulate our own definition of the concept “professional thinking of the (future) designer”, which we understand as a client-oriented design activity that combines logic, intuition, art, commerce and science. And we view the structure of professional (future) thinking of a designer as a dynamic spiral of cycles, which are a sequence of self-sufficient, self-compensating and self-perfect microprocesses aimed at intuitive-artistic and critical-logical thinking and realization of a design task. We also found that the problem of design typology remains debatable among practicing theorists today, since the use of hierarchical (subordination) or facet (the choice of classification features independently of one another and the semantic content of the object being classified) classification systems do not provide a solution to the problem. In the foreign sources, they use the term “a list of design disciplines” which is based on the main features of the way of thinking of the designer instead of the term “a typology of design by types of objects of design”. The list of design studies includes: applied arts, architecture, transport design, design of communications, configurations, engineering, graphic, fashion, game design, information architecture, industrial design, pedagogical, interaction design, interior design, landscape, light, video, process design, services, software, sound, web design. It made us convinced that with the development of technology, the above list has the potential to expand due to the fact that the principles and methods of design will adapt to other areas of human activity.Originality. The scientific novelty of the study is in formulation of the definitions of both the concept of “professional thinking of the (future) designer” and the structure of professional (future) thinking of a designer, and while analysing the scientific literature, the content of vocational training of the designers and curriculum of the higher institutions, it was discovered a trend of deepening of interdisciplinarity, namely in the direction of cross-sectoral convergence and increasing attention to the problem of formation of students’ competences of self-education.Practical value. It was specified the scope for the further investigation which is to study the possibilities of combining both trends in the model of forming the future designers’ readiness for self-education on the basis of interdisciplinary approach in art institutions of higher education.Conclusion. The list of design disciplines is based on the main features of a designer’s way of thinking. With regard to the vocational training of future designers in higher education institutions, there is a trend of deepening of interdisciplinarity, namely in the direction of cross-sectoral convergence and increasing attention to the problem of formation of students’competences of self-education.

The Effect of Instrumental Enrichment Strategy on the Acquisition of Psychological Concepts to the Fifth Preparatory Students and Developing their Futuristic Thinking

Conclusion: The pressent research aims to identify the effect of the strategy of enriching the facilitation in the acquisition of psychological concepts in the students of literary branch, fifth grade and the development of their future thinking. The researchers adopted the partial experimental design of the experiment and control experimental groups to suit the current research conditions. The researchers chose the fifth grade students from the secondary school of scientific branch and the secondary school for girls. The sample consists of 43 students. (21) of the students in the experimental group studied the Vasiliy enrichment strategy. The secondary division of Al-Hikma Secondary School represented (22 )students of the controlling group which studied in the usual way.The researchers used two tests to measure the variables of their research. The first test was to examine the psychological concepts, consisting of (36) items written in the form of multiple choices. The researchers also constructed a measure for future thinking. The measure may consist of (44) items. The results showed the superiority of the experimental group on the controlling group in the test of the concepts of psychological acquisition and the measure of future thinking

The pedagogic value of learning design with virtual reality

Spatial design as a discipline relies on the psychological construct of space. In the light of shortcomings and challenges faced by traditional approaches to spatial design learning, this paper investigates the role and value of Virtual Reality (VR) as a pedagogic vehicle. Based on understandings informed by action-research using VR with learners in two modules, and underpinning interdisciplinary research on cognition, perception of space, and learning pedagogies; the paper works through defined research questions on both impact of learning with VR, development of spatial cognition with VR, and the differences between traditional approaches to spatial design curriculum and VR enabled approach and whether or not these differences are associated with differential outcomes. We propose VR enhanced design education pedagogical framework and argues that such an approach is needed to shape futuristic thinking in spatial design teaching and learning.