Possibility Of Self Research Articles

To be like a "scholar": a study on the construction of authorial identity of Chinese EFL learners in academic writing: an intertextuality perspective.

Academic writing not only conveys academic content but also represents the authorial identity, serving as a means of presenting one's identity. Writers utilize various linguistic resources to present different possibilities of self, such as intertextuality, thereby constructing their authorial identity. This study examines the Chinese EFL learners' construction of authorial identity in academic writing from an intertextuality perspective. This study adopts a mixed method, utilizing interviews and written texts as data sources. Results were found that novice writers primarily construct their identities through the practices of direct intertextuality during the initial stages of identity construction. As novice writers gain more experience through extensive reading and writing practices, as well as academic writing courses, their intertextuality practices undergo a transformation. They begin to shift from direct intertextuality to indirect intertextuality, aiming to express their own conceptions, attempting to be like a "scholar" through indirect intertextuality. The study highlights the importance of intertextuality in the construction of academic writing identity for EFL learners. By understanding the interplay between intertextuality and authorial identity, educators can better assist EFL learners in achieving success in their academic writing endeavors.

Sites of infrastructure, apprenticeship and possibilities for self: Locating Indonesia's missing women in representative politics

AbstractWomen are under‐represented in Indonesian legislatures, and those women who are elected are disproportionately from ‘elite’ backgrounds. This research sought to understand the conditions for women to succeed in politics in conditions of patriarchy and clientelist politics. Research in North Sumatera, Indonesia, revealed that many women did not make the conscious decision not to enter politics, but rather found that they had not established the required preconditions earlier enough in life. Patriarchal social norms and a transactional political culture frustrate women's ability to acquire these conditions, yet they are also subject to change. Interviews with women elected representatives and women who had never contested an election revealed three sites that are critical to women either acquiring the preconditions to contest elections, or frustrating that pathway: the household, the ‘community’ and religious/ethnic associations. We demonstrate how women's actions in these sites transform the conditions to make them more conducive to women's political participation.

НЕКОТОРЫЕ ЗАКОНОМЕРНОСТИ ОТНОШЕНИЯ МАТЕРИ К БОЛЕЗНИ РЕБЕНКА, СТРАДАЮЩЕГО САХАРНЫМ ДИАБЕТОМ I ТИПА

Diabetes mellitus is one of the diseases that can significantly change a person’s lifestyle, significantly reduce the quality of his socio-psychological functioning. The rate of increase in the incidence of diabetes mellitus is not decreasing, and the number of children whose lives are forced to change due to type 1 diabetes is also growing. The influence of diabetes mellitus on mental development is indirect, the negativity of this influence can be significantly reduced or even excluded if the social situation of the child’s development is relevant to both age and the limitations associated with the disease. The opportunity to organize such conditions exists only for the child’s family, and the main responsibilities for the care and upbringing of a sick child are often assumed by mothers. Meaning-forming in this context is the attitude to the mother’s illness. Since type 1 diabetes mellitus is a disease that requires constant monitoring of the child’s condition, the possibility of self–realization of the mother in this case in another area. In addition to child-parent and family relations, they also undergo some restrictions. The possibility of optimizing the mother’s attitude to the child’s illness in the context of her self–actualization has become the applied goal of our research; the identification of some patterns in this mental education is an empirical goal. A study was conducted with the participation of 15 mothers of children with type 1 diabetes mellitus. To identify some patterns in relation to the child’s illness, psychodiagnostic methods were applied: the method of diagnosing the attitude to the child’s illness (V.E. Kagan, I.P. Zhuravleva); semantic differential on concepts: my life, my child, my work, my past, my present, my future, my family, me; diagnostics of self-actualization of personality (A.V. Lazukin in adaptation by N. F. Kalinin). It was found that in relation to the child’s illness, activity control and hypernosognosia dominate in mothers, a general tension is clearly expressed, which increases due to anxiety as the length of the child’s illness increases. It is impossible to change the conditions of child care, to reduce the level of routine, and therefore the mother’s self-actualization suffers primarily in the professional sphere. This is confirmed by correlations between the values of evaluation factors, strength and activity according to the concepts “my work”, “my present” and “my future” proposed for evaluation by the semantic differential method. To optimize the attitude to the disease of a child with diabetes, such aspects of self-realization as autonomy, creativity and flexibility in communication are most important.

Positive aspects and difficulties of teaching foreign languages in the blended learning course during COVID-19 pandemic

The aim of the research is to assess the learning process during a pandemic, provide feedback on this issue and promote a deeper understanding of the importance of the results of a Blended Learning Course project. This result clearly shows that effectiveness and satisfaction play an important role in involving students in this format of learning. It is obvious that the possibilities of self/ autonomous learning in BLC are significantly expanded. In general, it can be seen that the use of innovative and traditional forms of education makes it possible to obtain a much better result in the training of specialists. The experience of Vinnytsia State Pedagogical University in the implementation of blended learning shows that the integration of the traditional education system with e-learning is the most effective. The strategic plan for the development of the Pedagogical University for 2022 provides for the solution of a number of tasks that are directly related to the intensification of the use of digital technologies in the educational process.

The spiritual transformation of giving: Generosity’s constitution of the self and community in post-religious society

How has the ‘benevolent self’s relation to others changed as a result of (first) the liberalization of monotheisms and (then) the uneven transition to post-religious spiritual formations? The apparent (and misleading) effacement of the self in traditional monotheistic generosity has ultimately given way to a ‘liberal’ glorification of the self. In advanced liberalism (typically dubbed ‘neoliberalism’), the glorification intensifies, but paradoxically becomes self-critical. Post-religious spiritualities interact with these advanced liberal dynamics to open up new possibilities for self- and community-formation. Even though the contradictions between self-centeredness and self-criticism are most acutely experienced within American post-religious spirituality, a suggestive discussion of Egypt demonstrates that these trends are not exclusively ‘Western.’ In both contexts, the corporate takeover of spirituality confines alternative forms of generosity.

Beyond ‘State Ibuism’: Empowerment Effects in State‐led Development in Indonesia

ABSTRACTThis article examines the ways women's processes of self‐formation are indicative (or not) of new possibilities for women's gendered selves in the post‐Reformasi period in Indonesia. It focuses on the development arena to reveal how shifts in state rhetoric, from top‐down guidance based on a patriarchal familial model to bottom‐up, inclusive development based on empowerment, have transformed what is referred to as the ‘topography for self’. The article draws upon theories of personhood a) to show how gendered selves emerge and are contested within particular historical conditions; and b) to develop an alternative framework of ‘empowerment’ that focuses not on capabilities and choice, but on an expansion in the possibilities for self. It argues that models of community‐driven development have provided new opportunities for women to hold and enact socially recognizable subject positions. This constitutes a form of empowerment for individual women but does not necessarily reflect challenges to patriarchy in Indonesia.

Spiritual Discernment and Paul Ricoeur’s Theory of Hermeneutics

Spiritual discernment plays an important role in Christian life. Christian spiritual discernment connotes multi-layered tiers of meanings and involves multiple dimensions within its complicated processes. God’s will cannot be searched in an only universal way. In addition, spiritual discernment has a dimension beyond empirical observation, and thus cannot be analyzed nor explained with scientific evidences or proofs. Moreover, nobody is absolutely free from self-deception, distorted ideology or diabolical illusion. However, it does not mean that meaning can be anything, or that any interpretation is equally valid in understanding God. Ricoeur’s theory of hermeneutics, especially his idea of repeated dialectic engagements between explanation and understanding, distanciation and appropriation, and the hermeneutics of faith and of suspicion, can guide a discerner within the interpretive process to arrive at less distorted and more valid interpretation of realizing a way and call from God. For valid discernment, both accurate evaluation of context and insightful self-understanding as a discerning subject are necessary prerequisites. Ricoeur also indicates that the goal of interpretation is to disclose an alternative world and a new mode of being through discourse with the text, rather than to simply capture the original intention of the author. The discernment process may involve moments of uncertainty and of doubt, as the message of the infinite and transcendent Being is never self-evident within the finite nature of humanity. However, the transitory deconstruction of old schemes of faith and uncovering the cultural and personal distortions with suspicion during the discernment process will disclose a way to a deeper understanding of God’s will, a deeper apprehension of the world, and a new possibility of self. In this sense, spiritual discernment is a growing self-formative process.

Gaji Sejuta: Moral experiences and the possibilities for self in a community-driven development program in Indonesia

This article explores the moral experiences of volunteers working in a ‘community driven development’ program in Medan, Indonesia. Reframing development as a moral experience helps to illuminate its potential as a site for self-becoming: a potential that lies not only in the ethical dilemmas that development provokes but also in the affective and emotive responses made possible in scenes of development. For low class volunteers who are excluded from other forms of virtuous action, their participation provides an opportunity to enact an understanding of self in relation to others, and before God. It is in the minutiae of acts of care that overt representations and affective responses bear upon the ‘self-in-relation’, and as such, invite possibilities for new self-imaginaries. A focus on the experiences of local volunteers who come from modest socio-economic backgrounds reveals an unacknowledged consequence of community driven development: the expansion of possibilities for self.

Notes on the Existential and Interactional Dimensions of Authenticity: A Symbolic Interactionist Study of Breast Cancer Internet Forums

Notes on the Existential and Interactional Dimensions of Authenticity: A Symbolic Interactionist Study of Breast Cancer Internet Forums

Driver Behavior Monitoring through Sensors and Tracking the Accident using Wireless Technology

the driver behavior is one of the ways to prevent the fatal accidents and it is necessary to alert the driver when they are drowsy or in a distracted state. Distraction and drowsiness of the driver have been important factors for a large number of major accidents .They reduce the decision making capability and the perception level of the driver which negatively affect the ability of the driver to control the vehicle. A large number of serious or fatal accidents are occurred due to excessive or inappropriate speed of the vehicle and fatigue nature of the driver. With the new developed systems (sensors) there is a possibility of self controlling the vehicle when the driver was drunk or reckless or fatigue in order to reduce the major accidents. There is also a possibility of tracking the location of the accident, if occurs, through wireless access technology (GSM, GPS) so that proper measures are taken at a correct time.

Disfluencies as intra-utterance dialogue moves

Although disfluent speech is pervasive in spoken conversation, disfluencies have received little attention within formal theories of grammar. The majority of work on disfluent language has come from psycholinguistic models of speech production and comprehension and from structural approaches designed to improve performance in speech applications. In this paper, we argue for the inclusion of this phenomenon in the scope of formal grammar, and present a detailed formal account which: (a) unifies disfluencies (self-repair) with Clarification Requests, without conflating them, (b) offers a precise explication of the roles of all key components of a disfluency, including editing phrases and filled pauses, and (c) accounts for the possibility of self addressed questions in a disfluency. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/sp.7.9 BibTeX info

Endlessly Creating Myself: Examining Marketplace Inclusion through the Lived Experience of Black and White Male Millennials

This study qualitatively examines the synergetic relationship between identity projects and the marketplace. The sample consisted of 20 men between the ages of 18 and 29 years; 10 self-identified as black, and 10 self-identified as white. Consumers must navigate multiple sites of identification that constantly shift in importance and involvement. To more closely reflect actual consumers, this study incorporated gender orientation, age, and race into an intersectional analysis. By taking a more “true-to-life” approach to consumption/identity research, this project unearths new knowledge that is proximate to the lived experience of consumers. While both white and black informants use the symbolic meaning of commodities as a mode of self-expression, key differences exist. Dominant discourse pertaining to white and black male identity appears to influence how informants perceive possibilities of self, which in turn affects marketplace interaction. The author concludes with a discussion of ways public policy can be used to remedy marketplace inequities.

Acromegaly: the disease, its impact on patients, and managing the burden of long-term treatment

Acromegaly is a rare disease most often caused by the prolonged secretion of excess growth hormone from a pituitary adenoma. The disease is associated with multiple significant comorbidities and increased mortality. The delay to diagnosis is often long. This may be because of low disease awareness among health care professionals, the insidious onset of differentiating features, and because patients are likely to present with complaints typical of other conditions more frequently seen in primary care. Early identification of acromegaly facilitates prompt treatment initiation and may minimize the permanent effects of excess growth hormone. The primary treatment for many patients will be pituitary surgery, although not all patients will be eligible for surgery or achieve a surgical cure. If biochemical control is not achieved following surgery, other treatment options include medical therapy and radiation therapy. Improved biochemical control may only alleviate rather than reverse the associated comorbidities. Thus, lifelong monitoring of patient health is needed, with particular attention to the management of cardiovascular risk factors. It is additionally important to consider the impact of both disease and treatment on patients’ quality of life and minimize that impact where possible, but particularly for chronic therapies. For the majority of patients, chronic therapy is likely to include somatostatin analog injections. In some circumstances, it may be possible to extend the dosing interval of the analog once good biochemical control is achieved. Additional convenience may be gained from the possibility of self-/partner administration of treatment or administration of treatment by a health care professional at home. Overall, it is clear that the care of patients with acromegaly requires a highly coordinated approach involving numerous specialties (eg, endocrinology, surgery, cardiology). Further, patients’ needs must be at the core of management and every effort must be made to improve health care experiences and minimize treatment burdens.

Remembering Foucault: Queer Theory and Disciplinary Power

Popular post-structural approaches to gender and sexuality take it as axiomatic that disciplinary power constitutes subjectivities, if imperfectly, in an insidious process of domination and social control. While rejecting a project of liberation grounded in the simplistic premise of freedom from power, these formulations nevertheless propose an implicit emancipatory project anchored in the notion that identity discourse is a problem to overcome. In this article I use the sexual and gendered self in the sociological literature as a vehicle to explore more carefully the problem of disciplinary power. My discussion takes two directions. First, I argue that taxonomic discourse may, in some instances, expand upon subjectivities, opening up and empowering, rather than narrowing and setting in stone, the possibilities of self. And second, I argue that late modernity provides the conditions under which some individuals gain reflexive distance from their subject positions to a degree perhaps unparalleled in history. In this context and for these individuals, the multiplicity of available discourses and their often contradictory content come to resemble more a menu of sensitizing options than a regime of social control. Ultimately, I argue that these two observations are not anathema to Foucault’s own research but, are in fact, suggested in his thesis wherein discourse was theorized to establish the limits of self and, under certain conditions, new pathways for self-development. I argue that this more complex conception of disciplinary power is not only more effective in capturing the effects of power but also has the potential to open up important lines of inquiry regarding the sociohistorical conditions that mediate power and its effects.

Old marine seismic and new satellite radar data: Petroleum exploration of north west Labrador Sea, Canada

This paper presents some new concepts in the petroleum systems of the northern Labrador and southern Baffin Island offshore region of eastern Canada. The focus of this work is the region of the Hekja O-71 gas discovery of 1979 by Aquitaine, one of only five wells drilled between 1976 and 1980 within an area covering some 166,000 square kilometers within the Saglek Basin. This study emerged from a broad scale re-examination of the petroleum potential of this area “from the crust up” using regional reflection, refraction and potential field data. An opportunity to use SAR (synthetic aperture radar) data from the RADARSAT-1 Earth observation satellite was taken to incorporate alternative data sources to support this exploratory review and resource assessment. Examination of the final map of interpreted slick-like features on the sea surface, revealed a close correlation of some of these occurrences to several bathymetric features which have underlying seismic signatures similar to previously identified gas hydrate “pipes” or chimney anomalies as seen in data from offshore Nova Scotia and in the Irish Sea. Globally, many active marine hydrocarbon seeps appear on the seafloor as “pockmarks”; in this case no seafloor depressions were seen on conventional multi channel 2-D seismic data associated with active seepage. Instead, very distinct mound-like structures are seen associated with seeps at two locations east of Hudson Strait. The presence of significant cold water coral in close proximity to the active seepage sites may show a link between seafloor petroleum seepage and coral reef development similar to that observed offshore Norway. Close examination of the near surface seismic character led to the interpretation of what was originally seen as seismic noise in vintage data, as likely being fluid escape chimneys or gas pipes, along the eastern edge of the Hekja structural complex, where favourable hydrocarbon trapping conditions are present. No active seeps were seen there; this may be due to other factors, such as the nature of the fluids that are escaping or the possibility of self sealing activity by biological agents such as bacterial matting with associated carbonate hard-ground formation. One seep anomaly was noted relatively close to the major basaltic eruptive complex near the Gjoa G-37 well. This may be due to the presence of volcaniclastic- hosted hydrocarbons similar in style to those recently discovered at the Rosebank field in Paleocene volcanics in the Faroe-Shetland Basin. The occurrence of an active seep in a volcanically-dominated terrain raises the potential for a radical shift in accepted types of petroleum leads and where they may occur. The presence of apparent oil seepage versus the past history of finding only gas-prone accumulations is a strong indicator that a second, oil-prone petroleum system exists in the Saglek Basin. The signs of active petroleum systems as shown by oil seep anomalies with confirming seismic evidence of discrete sea floor structures in close proximity makes a compelling argument for re-examining these areas with an eye towards stratigraphic instead of structural plays.

生涯住宅の観点からみた新築都市住宅の現状 : 要介護度の観点からの現状および改善方向について

This paper deals with clarifying the present conditions and improvement trends of lifetime oriented homes from the viewpoints of required care management levels. Three urgent evaluation items for solving the problems are selected in order to initiate a self supporting life according to each level of the individualities. The following technological items are listed on the basis of performing comprehensive survey through five typical urban regions in Japan; 1) The average condition is located in the low level of necessity in nonstructural retrofitting. 2) The lower the care management level becomes, the lower the evaluation points of critical items becomes. 3) The present and near future conditions are not always promised for the care management levels with possibility of self supporting life.

Between the modern and the postmodern: The possibility of self and progressive understanding in psychology.

Psychology assumes defensible notions of human subjectivity and understanding. Yet, some versions of postmodernism, including some of those currently influential within psychology, eschew the possibility of the kind of understanding-capable personhood on which modern psychology has depended. The authors argue for a skeptical, middle-ground position that might allow psychologists to resist a forced choice between modernism and postmodernism in their subject matter and understanding. The authors set up their argument with 2 stories of human development and change. These stories assume no fixed, essentialist foundations of the sort favored in classically modern psychologies, yet they maintain the possibility of both self and understanding within a real but contingent physical, biological, and sociocultural world. The authors then articulate a middle-ground position as one that avoids the fixed foundationalism, essentialism, and absolute certitude of modernity, without endorsing the radical arbitrariness, antisubjectivism, and anarchistic relativism of some versions of postmodernity.

Between the modern and the postmodern: The possibility of self and progressive understanding in psychology.

Between the modern and the postmodern: The possibility of self and progressive understanding in psychology.

Self-controlled diffusion of Al in Cu thin film

A layer of copper with the thickness of 0.5 μm was sputter deposited on well polished aluminum substrates. The samples were exposed to a low pressure weakly ionized RF hydrogen plasma at different conditions. A layer of copper aluminide was formed on the sample at the temperature of approximately 250 °C. The formation of the aluminide was confirmed with the AES depth profile. The time necessary for formation of the coating depended on the sample temperature. At the maximum temperature of 250 °C it was three minutes, while at 320 °C it was 50 s. When the aluminum atoms reached the surface, the temperature of samples began to fall thus decreasing further diffusion of Al. This was explained in the terms of the change of the recombination coefficient for the reaction H + H → H 2. As the temperature of the samples fell as soon as the formation of the coating was accomplished, the possibility of self controlled formation of thin copper aluminide coatings is suggested.

Biologie florale et pollinisation chez Acacia Senegal (L.) Willd.

Summary Floral morphology, dynamics of flowering, maturity periods of reproductive organs as well as pollinating insects have been studied in Acacia Senegal (L.) Willd. in order to understand the reproductive biology and cross mechanisms. The pollen of Acacia Senegal is composed of sixteen monads bound into one polyad. The pollen maturity coincides with the stigma receptivity. The receptive stigma can not receive more than one polyad. Pollination is preferentially alloga- mic, with possibilities of self—pollination sensus lato.