Thoughts In Mind Research Articles

Investigation of the relationship between the theory of mind and creative thinking skills of children in rural area

Abstract The aim of this study, accordingly, is to determine the relation between creativity and theory of mind skills of children aged 5-11 (Ns:117) who continue Primary Education in rural areas and to reveal the relation between the sub-dimensions of these abilities. At the end of the study, it was found that there was a significant and positive relation between the total creativity score and the sub-dimensions of theory of mind. It was found that there was a significant and positive relation between all sub-dimensions of creativity and theory of mind. The total creativity score and the scores of the sub-dimensions of creativity (fluency, originality, and elaboration) were significant but weak predictors of theory of mind tasks.

Implementasi SPMI di SDN Wonotingal dapat Menumbuhkan Penguatan Karakter Pendidik dan Peserta Didik

Implementation of an internal quality assurance system, schools are encouraged to make improvements internally by involving various related parties so that there are participation and responsibility of each party. Improving the quality of schools is carried out systemically, planned, measured, and sustainable. Quality is everyone's business, not only the responsibility of the principal or a certain group. All parties work together to realize the vision and mission of the school through their respective roles. In addition, school activities to strengthen character education through heart training (ethics), fitness (aesthetics), mind thinking (literacy), and sports (kinesthetic) with public support and collaboration between schools, families, communities that become government programs of the National Movement Mental Revolution.

Sustainability and Authenticity of Chinese Traditional Crafts in the Contexts of Luxury and Tourism

Chinese crafts have been examined from economic, historical and aesthetic perspectives, but rather less attention has been devoted to them in the literature on luxury and tourism. When considering the former, it is worth noting that some of the world’s leading brands had their origins in craft businesses, notably Louis Vuitton, and that craft skills remain important for this industry in the 21st century. On the other hand, there is a common assumption that craft souvenirs represent a cheap and debased version of human material culture but, as many academics have asserted souvenirs come in a wide variety of forms, including what Graburn (2000) has called ‘pride goods’, in which peoples visited by tourists sell products that are simultaneously economically useful and boosters of esteem on behalf of the producing community. It is with these thoughts in mind that we turn our attention to the production of Chinese craft products in the early 21st century. As one of the leading handicraft producers in the world, the expanding demand for Chinese craft products has generated commercial opportunities and strong economic returns, it has also created challenges to the Chinese traditional crafts sector which may influence the direction and sustainability of its future development, and as such is worthy of deeper investigation and discussion.
 Keywords: Chinese traditional crafts, luxury, tourism, sustainability, authenticity

Vocational High School Students’ Habits of Mind In Physics Material Through Discovery Learning Models

<p>The Habits of Mind of SMK students must be classified as high, therefore researchers conducted research on investigating the thinking habits of SMK students by using the help of learning models based on problem solving in their own way (Discovery Learning). The method used is descriptive qualitative with a sample size of 33 students of class X in SMK Madiun. Data collection uses initial and final tests. The results of the study said that students' thinking habits improved after being given questions in the form of test training, and assisted with discovery learning models. Judging from the average number of pretest and posttest worth 80.8 and 115 the n-gain value is 0.6 with the medium category, the value is obtained from each indicator of habits of mind thinking about thinking 1 with high category, thinking flexibly 0.9 with high category, applying past knowledge to new situation 0.7 with high category, questioning and posing problem 0.6 with medium category, creating, imagining, innovating 0.2. Based on the N-gain value of each indicator, it can be concluded that the discovery learning model can improve students' habits of mind.</p>

The Role of Resilience in Research and Planning in the Tourism Industry

The concept of resilience is attracting increasing attention across a wide range of academic disciplines and business sectors. While academic researchers have increasingly employed the concept to inform their work on sustainability, there is also growing interest in a wider conceptualisation of resilience as the focus for tourism planning. With these thoughts in mind, this exploratory paper reviews how the concept of resilience is both illuminating academic research on sustainability and guiding the development of new planning strategies, within the tourist industry and offers some wider reflections on the use of the concept within the industry.

A commentary on the United Kingdom's leading food retailers' resilience plans in the face of climate change

In September 2019, the U.K. House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee warned that the United Kingdom's food supply was vulnerable to climate change. Within the U.K. food retailing is highly concentrated with the four leading food retailers accounting for almost 70% of all food sales. In the face of the threat of climate change to food supplies, a focus on resilience might be seen to have much to offer retailers. However, little work has been published in the academic literature on if, and how, retailers are employing the concept of resilience in their business plans. With these thoughts in mind, this commentary paper provides an exploratory review of how the United Kingdom's four leading food retailers, namely Tesco, Sainsbury's, Asda, and Morrisons, have publicly acknowledged the importance of resilience in the face of climate change. The paper outlines definitions of resilience and retail resilience, draws out four general themes within the U.K. food retailers' resilience plans, and offers some wider reflections on the retailers' resilience plans in the face of climate change.

Brain signal recognition system based on One-Against-One Multiclass Support Vector Machines: a comparison with Multiclass Neural Network

The human mind recognition system is a complex state of mind which can be connected to trigger an external reaction based on internal stimuli. This paper investigates the possibility of recognizing brain signal using signal processing and intelligent technique. The system is differenciate four difference mind thinking, namely moving left hand, moving right hand, moving foot and moving tangue, respectively. The Linear Prediction Coding (LPC) is used to extract the signal, in which the extracted signal is later used as input to the Support Vector Machine (SVM) based identifier. The brain signal parameters are compared and classified to identify the human actions that are intended to be perform. The results of the computer simulation show that this technique produces better accuracy to that of the existing technique based on artificial neural network (ANN), and it requires less training time of one second.

I'm Sad by M.I. Black and D.R. Ohi

Black, Michael I, and Debbie R. Ohi. I'm Sad. Simon & Shuster Books for Young Readers, 2018.
 This book is about a sad flamingo and his friends, a girl and a potato, who try to cheer him up. This absurd collection of characters talk about whether or not flamingo will always feel sad and what makes them feel less sad.
 Much of the dialog is silly. When the potato says that he knows what cheers him up, the picture is of a happy potato and the word “DIRT!!!” in giant letters. Coming after a discussion of ice cream as a “cheer me up”, “dirt” is unexpected and funny.
 At the end of the book the flamingo asks, “Will you still like me if I’m sad again tomorrow?” The potato responds with an almost nasty, “I don’t even like you now.” This response is meant as a joke and the next two pages show uproarious laughter. However, young children may not understand that it is not usually an appropriate response and some people would find it hurtful. 
 Debi Ridpath Ohi’s simple illustrations do a good job of presenting expressions and emotions. There are often broken black lines around the images, which, strangely, make the characters, particularly the flamingo, look like they are constantly trembling. Apart from that, the images are fun. The most amusing is the one showing the potato as a fourth scoop of ice cream on a cone, with whipped cream and a cherry on top. 
 This book might give a sad young child a few moments of laughter and in the end delivers the message that it’s OK to feel a little bit sad. With these two thoughts in mind, this book is recommended for libraries for young children: daycares, schools, and public libraries.
 
 Recommended: 3 out of 4 starsReviewer: Sean Borle
 Sean Borle is a University of Alberta undergraduate student who is an advocate for child health and safety.

The Dunn Worry Questionnaire and the Paranoia Worries Questionnaire: new assessments of worry.

The cognitive process of worry, which keeps negative thoughts in mind and elaborates the content, contributes to the occurrence of many mental health disorders. Our principal aim was to develop a straightforward measure of general problematic worry suitable for research and clinical treatment. Our secondary aim was to develop a measure of problematic worry specifically concerning paranoid fears. An item pool concerning worry in the past month was evaluated in 250 non-clinical individuals and 50 patients with psychosis in a worry treatment trial. Exploratory factor analysis and item response theory (IRT) informed the selection of scale items. IRT analyses were repeated with the scales administered to 273 non-clinical individuals, 79 patients with psychosis and 93 patients with social anxiety disorder. Other clinical measures were administered to assess concurrent validity. Test-retest reliability was assessed with 75 participants. Sensitivity to change was assessed with 43 patients with psychosis. A 10-item general worry scale (Dunn Worry Questionnaire; DWQ) and a five-item paranoia worry scale (Paranoia Worries Questionnaire; PWQ) were developed. All items were highly discriminative (DWQ a = 1.98-5.03; PWQ a = 4.10-10.7), indicating small increases in latent worry lead to a high probability of item endorsement. The DWQ was highly informative across a wide range of the worry distribution, whilst the PWQ had greatest precision at clinical levels of paranoia worry. The scales demonstrated excellent internal reliability, test-retest reliability, concurrent validity and sensitivity to change. The new measures of general problematic worry and worry about paranoid fears have excellent psychometric properties.

The students� reflective writing manifestation of reader-response literary analysis

This article presents reflective writing manifestation in Reader-response literary analysis. The article is aimed at finding out how the reflective writing is manifested in the students� Reader-response of literary analysis. The writer carried out the study by analyzing the students� portfolio documents of their reflective essays responding to three literary works. Fourteen students enrolling Literary Criticism Subject at a private university in West Java took part in the present research. Literary Criticism subject was chosen as the object of the current study, considering that the students in enrolling the subject were not merely introduced to literature, but also were led to be able to evaluate, describe, and analyze literary works. The study revealed some findings. Firstly, Reader-response prompts were helpful in giving aids to the students that they give the students idea how to write down their ideas and thoughts in minds. However, as the second finding, most students tend to keep their focus on the feeling section. Some of them were proven to be more critical by questioning things happened in the stories, yet they still had no idea how to analyze and evaluate the questions they had. The last finding, the writer noticed that none of the students relate their reflective essays to relevant literature to support their opinion. The writer considered that this occurred due to their lack of knowledge and practice of critical thinking and critical writing.

God's Own Ethics: Norms of Divine Agency and the Argument from Evil by Mark C. Murphy

Reviewed by: God's Own Ethics: Norms of Divine Agency and the Argument from Evil by Mark C. Murphy Brian Davies O.P. God's Own Ethics: Norms of Divine Agency and the Argument from Evil. By Mark C. Murphy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp. x + 210. $70.00 (cloth). isbn: 978-0-19-879691-6. By "the argument from evil" Mark Murphy has in mind two views: (1) Evil in the world proves that God does not exist, and (2) Evil in the world shows that God's existence is unlikely. Murphy rejects both of these views. He argues that, given certain understandings of the word "God," there is no reason to take evil as counting against God's existence in any way. While working toward this conclusion, Murphy focuses on three understandings of "God": (1) God as an absolutely perfect "Anselmian" being, (2) God as that being who is supremely worthy of worship by us, and (3) God as that being who is wholly worthy of allegiance from us. With these understandings in mind, Murphy maintains that God's ethics survives the argument from evil in both of its forms. Murphy is not offering a theodicy. He is not attempting to show that God is morally justified for allowing the evils that we find in the world. Nor is he suggesting that the argument from evil fails because we are in no position to fathom what God's reasons for allowing evil might be. Murphy is not even trying to argue that an Anselmian being exists. He aims to explain how attacks on theism that appeal to certain evils in the world can be sensibly rebutted in light of what an Anselmian being would be if it existed. He also tries to explain how an Anselmian being could be worthy of worship and allegiance, as Christians take God to be. By an agent's "ethics" Murphy understands "that agent's dispositions to treat various considerations as reasons, and as reasons of certain types." For Murphy, "an agent's ethics fixes how various matters play a role in that agent's practical life, shaping and guiding that agent's deliberation and action" (1). With these thoughts in mind, Murphy divides his book into two parts. Part 1 (chaps. 1-6) considers what the ethics of an Anselmian being would be and whether the argument from evil succeeds in calling into question the existence of God given that God is an Anselmian being. In part 2 (chaps. 7-9) Murphy considers whether an Anselmian being could be worthy of worship and allegiance. Murphy divides his book into two parts because he recognizes that part 1's claim concerning the ethics of an Anselmian being needs to be supplemented by an account of how an Anselmian being could be God, considered as worthy of worship and allegiance. So, part 2 builds on part 1 in order to press forward to [End Page 111] the conclusion that an Anselmian being can indeed be thought of as worthy of worship and allegiance. When telling his readers what the ethics of an Anselmian being would be, Murphy chiefly emphasizes that it would not be "our" ethics — meaning that it would not be an ethics of "familiar welfare-oriented moral goodness" according to which "the welfare of rational and perhaps sentient beings generally" is one of the values to which morally good agency responds (24). A morally good agent is good in this familiar sense, says Murphy, "only if that being treats setbacks to the well-being of rational and other sentient beings as to-be-prevented and so fails to prevent them only when there are other values that bear on the choice that make it appropriate to fail to act for the sake of well-being on that occasion" (ibid.). Murphy then goes on to argue that an Anselmian being would not be a morally good agent in this sense. The main steps of the argument here are as follows. (1) A "pure perfection" is one that does not presuppose any limitation or weakness, and an Anselmian being must exhibit every pure perfection to the utmost (it could not, for...

The Impact of Strategic Defense in Attainments and Growing the Mind Thinking for the Students

This studying aims to knowing the impact strategic defeuce about views in at tainmeut History Subject and retaining it at fourth literary students, Which depeuds on experimental approach to be appropriate approach for searcho's proceeding, so, the search socity familiarized from the preparatory and secoudary school in Babylon province Al-Hashimyha magistracy, It had choiced one of these school which is Al-Quds preparatory to be search's sample and the experiment applied in to two groups: The first is experimental group which studied with strategicedefeuce about views, and the second group is tuned group which studied in traditional way. The searcher proportionated between the two search group in some changes like the student's age counted in months. The results of search showed that the experimental group supermacied to the tuned group in the attainment test which means that there is a differentiate that countably denote at denote level (0.05) and for experimental group. Also this studying showed the thinking mind role in expressing opinions and discussing between the participated parties for getting the right idea or right opinions that getting the agreement of all.

Cultivating Courageous Talent: An Interview with Deb Morrison on Teaching Advertising and Brand Responsibility

Abstract: Award-winning mentor and teacher Deb Morrison talks about her place as an outlier in the world of academia, first at the University of Texas at Austin and then at the University of Oregon. Rather than focusing on the insular world of researching advertising for the academy's sake, Morrison explains how she works to build bridges between academia and industry in a variety of ways through her teaching: theoretically grounded case studies, visits to the field, and connecting her students with innovative industry leaders. In her teaching and mentoring, she aims to cultivate talented individuals who find their niche but always keep critical thinking, authenticity, responsibility, and courage in mind. Rather than training students to make advertising effective only for the bottom line, Morrison encourages her students to think about how advertising can have value and positive impact in the world.

Strategic foresight and auditor's cognitive contribution: the study of cognitive mapping

This research allows acquiring a better understanding of the strategic prospective of the auditor in the accounting audit mission, in which the emphasis is placed on the auditor mind and forward thinking. The analysis of the cognitive approach and the prospective strategy of the auditor using the cognitive mapping allow identifying the factors that enable the auditors to reduce the cognitive problems in their strategy. This paper provides new insights into the cognitive role of the auditors and their strategic foresight. Practitioners and researchers can use the findings of this study to better understand the success audit factors. Moreover, auditing firms may use the findings of this study to improve their foresight audit strategy.

Elaborating Industry 4.0 compatible DSS for enhancing production system effectiveness

Developments on the base of the Industry 4.0 philosophy are the most important drivers of the recent production efficiency increasing activities. For meeting the requirements of the production facility operators, integration of digitalization-, virtualization-, simulation-and info-communication technologies are essential. Automatic detection and elimination of the errors in the actual production processes is one the most promising outcome of utilization of the data resulted by the online data acquisition and monitoring of the production system. Having these thoughts in mind, an innovative application of the discrete event driven process simulation on actual sensor data will be presented in this paper. Minimizing the idle times and maximizing the capacity utilization are the required consequences of this application.

Walking as Practice and Prose as Path Making: How Life Writing and Journey Can Intersect

Walking as Practice and Prose as Path Making: How Life Writing and Journey Can Intersect

Rethinking the Life of Mary, the Mother of Jesus

ABSTRACTAt church, we are told that Mary conceived and gave birth to Jesus the Son of God as a virgin, without having had sexual intercourse with a man. Based upon this, the teaching of the “virgin birth,” Mary has been venerated as the “holy mother.” It is said, especially when discussing the beliefs of the Catholic Church, that the more the image of the Divine was restricted to the one-sidedly masculine “God the Father and Christ the Son,” the more the veneration of Mary increased, complementing those images with a feminine representation of the Divine. And in the Protestant churches, while there is no veneration of Mary, the teaching of the “virgin birth” is still an important one. However, how many people really believe in the possibility of conception without sexual intercourse? And do they believe that God the Almighty can instantly create an “iPS cell” and therefore generate a state of pregnancy? Or do they think that for Jesus, the divine Son of God, it is required that he be born as the result of a pregnancy which has not involved sexual intercourse? What kind of concept of the Divine and what kind of understanding of human nature leads to this kind of thinking? I cannot help feeling that there is a great danger in thinking in this way and that there is a great danger in this type of faith. This article meditates upon Mary, with these thoughts in mind.

The Goal of Education at the Secondary Level

To develop their knowledge, skills and outlook so that future citizens of Bangladesh can lead a healthy, productive and fulfilling life. To make aware of the heritage of citizens, rich cultural diversity and the heritage of religious tolerance. A well-intentioned mind and rational thinking is the power, which serves as a successful growth for the citizens of higher education and workplace. Under the influence of globalization, the international labor market supports the ability to respond positively to the negligible demand, such as literacy, mathematical knowledge, information and communication technology, communication through English. The deprived person is entitled to the qualities that the true falsehood is able to solve the problems of daily life by acquiring the right living standards of citizenship rights and responsibilities of good living and environmental personal liability.

THE FRIENDSHIP THAT VALLUVAR SHOWS

This article explores about the immense values of friendship as argued by Tiruvalluvar. The remarks of Tiruvalluvar about friendship are useful, and they would be there as long as the human race exist. There is no doubt that in today's increasingly humanized world, these ideas can be used to get away from the vagabond, free from the hassles of life, and befriend the good. Keeping these thoughts in mind for a long time, the friendship is a great place in the lives of everyone who seeks to promote friendship. ஆயவுச சுருககம வளளுவரின நடபைப கருததுகள மனித இனம இருககும வரை பயனபடககூடிய ஒனறாகும. இயநதிரமயமாகிவிடட இனறைய மனித வாழககையில, வஞசகரடமிருநது விலகி, வாழவின தொலலைகளிலிருநது விடுபடடு, நலலவரோடு பழகி நடபுககொளள இககருததுகள பெரதும பயனபடும எனபதில எளளளவும ஐயமிலலை. எககாலததிறகும ஏறபுடைய இககருததுகளை மனததில கொணடு, நடபைச சிறபபிதது நடபோடு வாழ முறபடும ஒவவொருவரின வாழவிலும நடபு சிறநததோர இடததைப பெரும எனறு திணணமாகக கூறலாம.

Mindreading in the Animal Kingdom: Philosophical Controversies

The central issue in the debate on animal minds is the issue of mindreading. This complicated cognitive ability belongs to the key elements of social cognition—as a form of adapting to specific circumstances connected with living in groups, it enables the reading of the mental states of other individuals, e.g. intentions, desires, and beliefs as well as the adaptation of one’s own behavior to this information. The primary purpose of the article is to present the main philosophical controversies which arise in the discussion of whether this ability can be attributed to animals; if so, then to what extent. Philosophical discussions concentrate on methodological issues: alternative interpretational models of animal behavior (mindreading vs reading behavior), anthropomorphism, experimental protocols, and gradeability of mindreading as well as the nature of the mind (thinking).