New Paradigm Of Science Research Articles

The Role of Virtual Reality in Science and Technology Education

In recent years, the integration of Virtual Reality (VR) into educational environments has marked a significant shift in pedagogical approaches, particularly in the realms of science and technology education. This study delves into the transformative potential of VR in enhancing interactive learning experiences. Our primary objective is to assess the impact of VR on student engagement, comprehension, and retention of complex scientific and technological concepts. Employing a qualitative research methodology, the study involved a diverse group of educators and students from various educational institutions. We conducted in-depth interviews, classroom observations, and thematic analysis of the data gathered from these interactions. The findings reveal that VR significantly enriches the learning experience by providing immersive, interactive environments that facilitate a deeper understanding of abstract concepts. This immersive technology enables students to visualize and manipulate scientific models and technological systems in ways that traditional teaching methods cannot. The results underscore the importance of VR as a tool for educators, offering a new paradigm in science and technology education that fosters a more engaging, interactive, and effective learning experience. The study concludes by highlighting the need for further research into the long-term effects of VR in educational settings and its potential to revolutionize traditional teaching methodologies.

Exploring the Role of Latin American Universities in the Implementation of Transformative Innovation Policy

Transformative Innovation Policy (TIP) is a new paradigm in science, technology, and innovation policy that seeks to produce a transition to sustainable development. In this paradigm, universities are crucial actors in the dynamics of science, technology, and innovation, but their role in the implementation of TIP should be defined. The objective of this article is to contribute to the understanding of the ideal role of Latin American universities in the implementation of TIP. Therefore—to describe and analyze the concepts of university and TIP in Latin America—this case study examines the co-creation of a public policy of science, technology, and innovation by Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in that region. This article underscores the vital role of universities in promoting transformative innovation that fosters social inclusion and sustainability. To achieve this goal, structural policy changes should be implemented, and different stakeholders (including researchers, students, and civil society) should be actively engaged. This paper also highlights the importance of addressing socio-economic, cultural, political, cognitive, and environmental issues faced by marginalized communities. By embracing the principles of transitions theory and prioritizing transformative innovation, universities can make significant contributions towards achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Судьба науки и образования в эпоху глобализации (социально-философский аспект проблемы)

This article attempts to comprehend in a socio-philosophical way the nature and status of science and education in the context of globalization processes taking place in the world. It is obvious that science and education, which are at the forefront of the formation of personality, society, and the state, are influenced by these serious processes. In this regard, the problem of ideological understanding of these institutions is actualized in order to determine the main directions of the development of science and education. The proposed article uses the concept of postnonclassical science, which appeals to the necessity and priority of interdisciplinary foundations of such research. The target program implemented in Kazakhstan today, the strategy “New Kazakhstan” requires strengthening the factors of science and education in this state and public construction. In the article, the author defines his research position through the analysis of the current state of the problem and the definition of the contours of the formation of a new paradigm of science and education. Recently, the role of science as a service component of the state and society has become increasingly obvious. Some state programs, for example, “Modernization of Public Consciousness” provided a comfortable existence for science and determined the place and importance of science as an interpreter and ideological justification of state policy. The author's position is connected with the understanding of the necessity and importance of reforms in education and science at all levels. The reforms should ensure academic freedom in education, a providentialist format for the existence of science.

Weaving the links: Traditional knowledge into modern science

Rapidly changing environment and fast shifting economic, political and cultural changes on a global perspective at the same time are affecting the world of indigenous people and their livelihood. Integrating Traditional Knowledge Systems (TKS) and reconnecting with ourselves, the community and the society with modern perspectives is not an easy task. When we weave two strands together, we may end with ultimately a stronger one. Kimmerer (2013) reveals that living things of all types provides an important lesson about the interconnectedness of life. He describes indigenous knowledge as an alternative or complementary approach to Western mainstream scientific methodologies. A systematic and scientific understanding of the TKS needs an interdisciplinary approach. This may address the livelihood security to people with limited financial means, protection of biodiversity and open new paradigm of Science and Technology (S&T) thinking and practice, achieving United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). This paper provides the perspectives of the web links from an Indigenous world and the modern science view. Integrating the Indigenous knowledge into modern science and addressing the gaps in the traditional knowledge for science-policy assessments should be set as a high priority.

Community Therapy and psychic distress in the family system: an approach based on the new paradigm of science

The scope of this study was to analyze the behavior patterns adopted by family members dealing with individuals in psychological distress within the scope of the relationships established in the family system, after participating in Community Therapy sessions. It was based on research with a qualitative approach using the research-action-intervention method. The intervention used centered around twelve Community Therapy sessions. Ten family members of people in psychological distress monitored by a Psychosocial Care Center took part in the study. Field notebook records, videos obtained with the tapes of the Community Therapy sessions, the interview material and Community Therapy itself were used as the empirical material production technique. The study revealed that the family members' understanding of psychological distress could be transformed as they attributed new meanings and performed fundamental actions to balanced living in the family. Community Therapy was seen as a practice that facilitated changes in the lives of its participants, as it contributed to generate social and individual interactions that stimulated family members to rethink concepts and to create spaces of coexistence and human and respectful care that permeated the family unit.

Assessment of the competence development level of personal agents in the context of relationship marketing

The paper represents novelty and features of the authors’ understanding of relationship marketing. It is scientific and practically new paradigm in science. The paper outlines the purpose of relationship marketing – to build, maintain and develop privileged relationships with the company’s stakeholders in order to obtain mutual benefits and help to society. The authors focus on definition of personal sales and personal sales’ target. The paper describes behavioral indicators characterizing demonstration of competences included in the “Influencing” cluster and proposes stages of assessment of the competence development level of personal agents. The paper reveals the authors’ questionnaire to assess the competence development level of personal agents. The authors propose three formulas for assessment of the individual competence development level.

Introducing self-organized maps (SOM) as a visualization tool for materials research and education

Materials informatics is an emerging discipline that opens a new paradigm of science: data-driven materials discovery. The visualization of high dimensional material properties data is challenging due to a lack of appropriate tools. This article describes a workflow for using Self-Organizing Maps (SOM) as a time- and cost-efficient method of visualizing and validating property relationships between materials. SOM is a machine learning technique that uses dimensionality reduction based on similarities between properties to visualize the relationships between materials in a high-dimensional dataset. While the conventionally used visualization method, Ashby plot, displays a pair of material’s properties, SOM is a technique that can display multiple properties that are effective for high-dimensional materials correlation studies. In this paper, SOM was used to validate property correlations among 21 material properties in a dataset of over 398 commercial materials. We employed U-matrix map, clustering map and heatmaps to visualize the SOM we trained. The clustering and heat maps produced from SOM were used to identify unique materials and infer correlations between material properties and fundamental material structure. We have also shown that SOM method can provide multiple layers of interpretation through visualizing not only numerical properties but also categorical information of materials. Lastly, we have used SOM to provide new insight into the quantity of Grüneisen parameter across metals and ceramics. Through these examples, it is demonstrated that SOM can be used for different types of materials analyses for various applications. This paper advocates SOM as an integrated approach to study material property relationships that can be used for both materials education and discovery.

The new paradigm of designing construction composites to protect the human environment

Introduction. The negative effects of the environment is increasingly reflected in the health of the human. With the development of nature-like technologies, the main task of scientists around the world is to create comfortable conditions for human existence on the Earth. This primarily relates to the construction industry, as materials for 80 to 90 % of his/her life surround the human. The purpose of the work is to develop the fundamental foundations for creating new generation composites to protect the human environment based on transdisciplinary approaches, including the theoretical principles of geonics (geomimetics).
 Materials and methods. The work was based on the study and analysis of published sources and personal experience. The new paradigm of science is based on transdisciplinary research with transferring cognitive patterns between disciplines. To test the results of theoretical studies, high-tech equipment and modern research methods, such as scanning and transmission electron microscopy, scanning and atomic force microscopy, IR spectral analysis, thermal analysis methods, etc. were used at the Shared-Use Center on the base of BSTU named after V.G. Shukhov, Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov, RAS Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics named after V.A. Kotelnikov and NIISF RAASN.
 Results. Generalized view of innovative practical and scientific activity allowed formulating the problems of innovative development of construction materials science, where the main constraint is the lack of use of available knowledge from various fields of science, such as physics, chemistry, crystal chemistry, mineralogy, etc. in terms of transdisciplinarity. The focus is on the multi-component materials, which are designed on the base of the synergism of different physical and chemical parameters.
 Conclusions. Transdisciplinary nature of new science-intensive research allows solving complex problems in the traditional, allied and new fields of science, more efficient using natural, energy and financial resources, as well as facilitates the development of new paradigms of engineering. Implementation of such approaches has already yielded to obtain a new generation of composites protecting people from the impact of aggressive environmental factors and will enable innovative breakthroughs in the future.
 Acknowledgements. The research was realized owing to the resources of the State Programme of the Russian Federation “Development of Sciences and Technologies” for the years 2013 to 2020, the Programme of fundamental scientific research of the State Academies of Sciences for the years 2013 to 2020, within the framework of the Plan of fundamental scientific research of the Ministry of Construction Industry, Housing and Utilities Sector of the Russian Federation and Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences, Topic 7.5.1.; a reference university development programme based on BSTU named after V.G. Shoukhov with use of equipment of the High Technology Center at BSTU named after V.G. Shoukhov.

The Doctrine of Reality: A New Paradigm of Science

The doctrine of reality and a new paradigm of science are proposed. The unity of formal logic and rational dialectics is the correct methodological basis for the solution of the problem of reality. The main result is the following system of conceptions: (1) reality represents the unity of opposites: the controlling (governing) aspect and the controllable aspect. The controlling (governing) aspect is God, and the controllable aspect is the Universe; (2) the principle of existence and of uniqueness of God reads as follows: the scientific object “Absolute, Creator, and Governor of essence (information) and of material manifestation of essence” exists. This scientific object is the unique and correct theoretical model (identifier) of the religious object “God (Creator and Governor of the World)”; (3) the Universe represents the informational-material system: the unity of essence (information) and of material manifestation of essence. The manifestation of information is matter. The material structure of the Universe represents the set of states of matter: the physical vacuum, the system block, the ether, and the discrete objects; (4) God created the system block, the ether and the objects, entering information into the physical vacuum. God governs the Universe by means of information; (5) the correct science of the 21st century should research the fundamental relation between the controlling (governing) information and the material manifestation of the controlling (governing) information in the Universe.

In data we trust? The implications of datafication for social monitoring

Today there is a remarkable tolerance for Big Brother and Big Business routinely accessing citizens’ personal information also known as Big Data. Part of the explanation for this may be found in the gradual normalization of datafication as a new paradigm in science and society. Datafication is becoming a leading principle, not just amongst techno-adepts, but also amongst scholars. This article deconstructs the ideological grounds of datafication arguing that in many respects datafication is rooted in problematic ontological and epistemological claims. The ideology of dataism shows characteristics of a widespread belief in the objective quantification of human behavior through online media technologies.

Land Administration System for Sustainable Development – Case Study of Poland

AbstractThe global idea of building state Land Administration Systems was to determine the infrastructures for the implementation of land policies and land management strategies in support of sustainable development. This new paradigm in science has directed many studies towards the development of concepts for the integration of various spatial information systems in the framework of interoperable infrastructures. Each infrastructure includes institutional arrangements, a legal framework, processes, standards, land information, management and dissemination systems, and technologies required to support allocation, land markets, valuation, control of use, and development of interests in land.Many countries are in the process of developing Land Administration Systems (LAS). Databases of Land Information Systems (LIS), including cadastres, land registries, tax registries and land-use plans, are integrated to improve Land Information System functions and provide effective support for other systems and economic processes.This article analyzes the LAS construction process in Poland with particular emphasis on the functionality of the infrastructure supporting the widely understood sustainable development of land, the economy and society. The presented solution may be an important model (template) for other national infrastructures.

O mapeamento participativo como metodologia de análise do território

A cartografia participativa, diante de um novo paradigma de ciência, apoiada na tecnologia computacional pode se tornar uma importante ferramenta para analisar as diversas territorialidades do espaço geográfico, territorialidades essas baseadas no cotidiano de quem vive e habita um determinado território. Por meio do mapeamento participativo como metodologia de análise do território, este artigo pretende essencialmente dialogar com essa categoria, entendendo o território de forma (I) material, baseado nas relações do sujeito nessa determinada fração do espaço. Diante dessa perspectiva, serão apresentadas as principais metodologias de mapeamento participativo disponíveis para os pesquisadores. Nesse sentido, após a apresentação das metodologias serão feitas recomendações que podem servir às práticas de mapeamento participativo, que traduzirão as complexidades das ações sociais que o homem realiza no espaço, levando a utilização do mapa como instrumento de lutas e representação social.

The New Paradigm of Science Suitable for the 21st Century

The work has a strictly theoretical character. It concerns a new, proposed paradigm of science, or more generally, also culture. What should it be like? First, above all, humanistic, putting in the centre of attention a personal man. And cultural - in a double meaning: 1) taking into account the socio-cultural examined facts and processes, 2) because it is impossible to separate the phenomenon of science from the field of culture. Cultural paradigm, which also takes into account the historical identity and traditions, respecting the cultural core of European civilization. Also not countercultural, not against civilization. The paradigm is to be finally systemic and holistic. This includes on the one hand, the overall treatment of a man (as a psycho-physical being; ontology) and the world, on the other hand, the avoidance of reductionism in research (methodology). We should not lose the aspect of time (temporal), relationships (relational), the context of events (contextual) and especially ethics, values (axiology) and evaluation.The author presents theoretical applications of the specified paradigm for the social sciences (selected subdisciplines of sociology), the field of education (pedagogy) and multi-disciplinary science (the science of physical culture, emerging science of tourism). Contrary to preserved till today the nineteenth-century institutional structure of science, the field of inter- and multidisciplinary sciences is what best meets the objectives of the new paradigm of science.

Microarrays as biomarkers in trauma

The traditional hypothesis-driven scientific approach cannot so far sufficiently elucidate complex pathophysiologies, such as posttraumatic systemic inflammation and subsequent multiple organ failure. This complex system includes different biological and functional levels, the genome, the transcriptome, the proteome, the biome (cells), the organs and finally the whole organism. Microarray techniques enable a simultaneous search for these different biological levels and their functional relationships on a large scale and to discover new functional pathways and networks and potentially new biomarkers for different pathologies. Microarray technologies lead to a new paradigm in science, the hypothesis-generating approach. This article reviews important microarray findings in trauma and systemic inflammation research and discusses potentials and limitations of these biotechnological screening methods.

CTE 2013: 2nd Workshop on Cloud Technologies in Education

The International Workshop will take place on December, 20, 2013 in Ukraine. It was an excellent occasion for specialists of different fields, e.g. IT specialists for e-learning design, e-learning tutors, teachers and lecturers, technologists, psychologists, educational managers and researchers to make a jump into new paradigm of Science and Education in High Tech Age.

Representing life as opposed to being: the bio-objectification process of the HeLa cells and its relation to personalized medicine

The immortal HeLa cells case is an intriguing example of bio-objectification processes with great scientific, social, and symbolic impacts. These cells generate questions about representation, significance, and value of the exceptional, variety, individuality, and property. Of frightening (a lethal cancer) and emarginated (a black, poor woman) origins, with their ability to “contaminate” cultures and to “spread” into spaces for becoming of extraordinary value for human knowledge, well-being, and economy advancements, HeLa cells have represented humanity, and emphasized the importance of individual as a core concept of the personalized medicine. Starting from the process leading from HeLa “cells” to HeLa “bio-objects,” we focus on their importance as high quality bio-specimen. We discuss the tension between phenomenological characteristic of fundamental biological research and the variety of material and methodologies in epidemiology and personalized medicine. The emerging methodologies and societal changes reflect present EU policies and lead toward a new paradigm of science.

How symbiogenic is evolution?

When new entities are formed by the integration of individual organisms, these new entities possess characteristics which go beyond the sum of the individual properties of each element of the association, resulting in the development of new attributes and capacities as an integrated whole. In this process, these new entities also agglutinate and dynamize synergies not present in the individual organisms. In this sense, evolution is a dynamic process that evolves not in the way of perfection or progress, but in the way of adaptation to new conditions. Symbiogenesis, as an evolutionary mechanism, allows a coherent conceptual rupture with some evolutionary ideas of the past and, at the same time, shows and builds a new approach to life, based on solid evolutionary ideas, expanding evolution to an adequate level of integration with the more recent data in biology. These ideas and concepts should be integrated in a post-neodarwinian approach to evolution that needs further attention from the scientific community. The development of a Symbiogenic Theory of Evolution could contribute toward a new epistemological approach of the symbiotic phenomenon in the evolutionary context. This, in our point of view, could be the beginning of a new paradigm in science that rests almost unexplored.

Different paths, same mountain: Daoism, ecology and the new paradigm of science

Western physics in the 18th century was fundamental in establishing basic concepts in the study of economics. However, this form of physics has now been comprehensively displaced by progress within Western science, notably the rise of the new paradigm of science formalised as systems theory. This utilises new mathematical techniques incorporating Newtonian science within a far larger field of understanding that also includes the complex, unpredicateble and fluid aspects of the real world. However, the institutions of the modern world, especially industrial globalisation, remain based on the principles of the Newtonian world view that sees the universe as ultimately stable and ordered, and human activity fundamentally separate from nature. Environmentalism and green economics are focused on redressing the imbalances between humanity and nature that are being caused by the success of the industrial revolution created by Newtonian physics. The awareness of other cultures made possible by modern globalisation has, however, produced opportunities to understand alternative ways of thought. The ancient Chinese system of Daoism is one which in many respects has an approach that can be usefully contrasted with the new paradigm of science and environmental issues.

'The unmasking of modern science' – the sequel (II)

In 1982, T.M. Moore claimed that positivism was in the process of being “unmasked”. Its shortcomings were being unmasked by its enemies as well as by its adherents. In describing the process of unmasking, Moore resorted to T.S. Kuhn’s sociological theory of normal science, paradigms, crises and revolutions. Moore then went on to challenge the Christian scholarly community to (inter alia) develop a new paradigm for science. Now, after just more than two decades have elapsed since this exhortation by Moore, a survey had to be done to see to what extent the secular as well as the Christian community has taken up the challenge and how both of them have progressed in the directions that Moore had predicted. It has also become time for the Christian community to assess its own progress towards developing a “new” scientific paradigm. In this, the second part of a two-part article on this subject, the author attends not only to how the Christian community took up Moore’s challenges, but also to how Christian scholars tried to avoid the pitfalls of secularism, postmodern fragmentation and a preference for contingent foundations, which have become the characteristic features of modern science, as outlined in part I of this article.

'The unmasking of modern science' – the sequel (I)

In 1982, T.M. Moore claimed that positivism was in the process of being “unmasked”. Its shortcomings were being unmasked by its enemies as well as by its adherents. In describing the process of unmasking, Moore resorted to T.S. Kuhn’s sociological theory of normal science, paradigms, crises and revolutions. Moore then went on to challenge the Christian scholarly community to (inter alia) develop a new paradigm for science. Now, after just more than two decades have elapsed since this exhortation by Moore, a survey had to be done to see to what extent the secular as well as the Christian community has taken up the challenge and how both of them have progressed in the directions that Moore had predicted. It has also become time for the Christian community to assess its own progress towards developing a “new” scientific paradigm. In this article, the first part of a two-part article on this subject, the author concludes that modern science has not only surrendered the positivistic search for universal foundations and truth, but has become characterised by secularism, postmodern fragmentation and a preference for contingent foundations.