Radical Change Research Articles

Thailand's Movement Party: The Evolution of the Move Forward Party

AbstractThe existing literature on the relationship between political parties and social movements draws mainly from European cases, and has rarely captured the kinds of relationships that may exist in other parts of the world. This article addresses the gap by shedding light on the dynamics of party–movement relationships in Thailand. We examine the connections between two Thai political parties and a variety of protest movements. Our analysis demonstrates that Thailand's Move Forward Party and its predecessor the Future Forward Party can be classified as movement parties, but that they operated differently. While Future Forward was a clandestine movement party, concealing its origins in grassroots activism, Move Forward later revealed its activist roots and underwent a transformation from a clandestine to a fully fledged movement party. This change was triggered by two emerging conditions: the rise of student-led mass movements and collective demands for radical change that had been ignored by other political parties.

The Significance of Postcolonial Studies for The Cognitive, Socio-Affective, And Procedural Objectives In Multicultural Foreign Language Teaching

The study of postcolonial literature and culture corresponds with recent developments in the didactics of foreign language teaching at the advanced secondary school level and, for that matter, at the university level as well. This article aims to highlight three significant interfaces connecting postcolonial and didactic discourse. Firstly, the challenge posed by the "center" to the "periphery" implies a radical change in perspective and consciousness. In parallel, modern didactics have been advocating a transition from a teacher-oriented to a student-oriented approach, as part of a paradigm shift from "instructivism" to "constructivism," emphasizing a high degree of self-determination and learner autonomy. Secondly, the dialectics of "self" and "other" involve a dual search for identity, which is directed both inwardly and outwardly. What holds true for individual students and their peer groups during adolescence is, to a varying extent, applicable to many postcolonial communities during their extended journey of rediscovering self-awareness and self-respect. Thirdly, the significance of the intercultural learning process, often associated with empathy, becomes evident in Postcolonial Studies, the foreign language classroom, and academic discourse.

Der Beitrag ethischer Faktoren zur Erklärung der rückläufigen Innovationsdynamik

Abstract When analysing the declining innovation and growth dynamics of modern economies, cultural and ethical influencing factors can be identified alongside economic causes. In his theory on the innovative capacity of the market economy, Edmund Phelps emphasised the importance of non-monetary motives for entrepreneurial activity, which can also be substantiated by looking back at the history of the industrial revolution(s). From a current perspective, the introduction of shareholder value-oriented approaches to corporate management and the transition to financial market-based benchmarks at the end of the 20th century led to a radical change in the culture of motivation in the financial and real economy. As a result, the ability to innovate was impaired by reduced investment in research and development, which was exacerbated by the misallocation of capital in the financial sector.

Cleavages Structure and Distortion of the Electoral Space

The article presents the results of testing the hypothesis, according to which ballot stuffing in favor of the “party in power”, while causing minor distortions to the structure of electoral cleavages, does not fundamentally change it. The author tested the hypothesis on the data from the 2016 and 2021 elections to the State Duma of the Russian Federation held via proportional system rules. He used the following method: in the regions where ballot stuffing was allegedly used in favor of the United Russia party, a certain number of votes were subtracted from the United Russia electoral results in accordance with the difference between the maximum and effective ranges of the electoral cleavage related to the confrontation between of the United Russia and the rest of elections’ participants. The author employed two models to run calculations: in the first model the threshold for deduction was a difference of 50% between the maximum and effective range, in the second model the difference was 5%. For 2016 elections, the first model took away more than 6.1 million votes from the United Russia, the second model subtracted more than 12.5 million votes; for 2021 elections — more than 5 and more than 10 million votes, respectively. Nevertheless, there was no radical change in the structure of electoral cleavages, let alone its elimination. The study showed that although ballot stuffing in favor of the “party in power” artificially overemphasizes the role of the authoritarian-democratic confrontation, sidelining other confrontations, the structure of electoral cleavages per se is largely preserved. Mathematical methods, especially factor analysis, can be efficiently used to detect this structure.

Opportunities and Challenges in Digital Transformation of Education

The World is facing a fast and radical change due to the expedited development of digital technologies. Advances in digital technology are constantly driving the digital transformation of society as a whole. The concept of “digital transformation” first emerged in 1968 and became distinctive in the research literature after the year of 2014 (Reis et al, 2018). In its broad sense, digital transformation refers to the process that new digital technologies are integrated into all sectors of human activity, fundamentally changing all aspects of human life. This leads to a world that is increasingly experienced with, through, and by information technology (Stolterman & Fors, 2004).

Неустойчивость общественного бытия как испанское своеобразие Хенкин С.М. Испания: Современное нестабильное общество. М.: Аспект Пресс, 2023

The published article represents a review of the monograph by S.M.Khenkin Spain: Modern Unstable Society. The monograph examines Spain’s experience at the end of the 20th and beginning of the 21st centuries, as a country that, due to historical circumstances, faces instability and unpredictability of development (so typical in the modern world) in an especially acute and concentrated manner. Khenkin identifies and describes, one by one, factors that characterize and explain the unstable state of the modern Spanish socio-political system, consistently integrating the current issues into the general context of the historical development of the Spanish society, its political and cultural traditions and comparing what is happening there with the situation in other European countries. Based on his research, he comes to the conclusion that several acute and persistent socio-political conflicts make high instability a distinctiveness of the country’s life. In the monograph the author provides careful and multilateral analysis of the transition from Francoism to consolidated democracy; various aspects of the ongoing transformations in the society; the specifics of the Spanish party-political system and its evolution; national-regional issue. He documents a radical change in the sentiments in the Spanish society with the appearance of a new generation, which clearly manifested in the reassessment of the transition, with harsh criticism replacing earlier approval, and in the conflict around “historical memory”. The author analyzes the relationship between the central government of the country and regional separatists and does not see any prospects for a prompt resolution of the conflict. According to his reasoned assessment, separation from Spain of any of its regions will inevitably cause irreparable damage to all parties to the conflict.

A Painful Divorce: Law vs Digital Technologies

Abstract In this article we wish to point out – using the metaphor of a marital crisis – some of the reasons behind the growing conflict between digital technologies and the law. We identify various causes: a)Over the last years there has been a radical change in roles: once one looked at the law for solutions, now they are searched in digital technologies, seen as very efficient instruments of governance. b)Legal instruments are inadequate to cope with a phenomenon in constant evolution, and whose economic and socio-political weight is immense. c)Digital actors have become the most effective law makers, with rules not only prescriptive but directly executable. Our conclusions are that: a)The digital has changed international relations. We see “digital empires” and “digital colonies”: the EU has gradually fallen in the latter category. b)The EU approach, expressed by thousands of normative provisions, is ineffective and will be counter-productive in respect of its objectives. c)It would be preferable to adopt a “general principles” model able to govern not only the present issues but also the changes expected in the next years.

Subaltern-centred Pedagogy: Field Notes and Reflections from Tunisia

Abstract This essay responds to the challenge of deconstructing the concept of democracy and decolonizing knowledge production. The authors, educators in secondary and higher education, grapple with the pedagogical dilemma of how to re-tell the stories of the marginalized and silenced ‘others’ in their classrooms. They explore the concept of ‘subalternity’ as a decolonial critique and a methodological perspective, with the aim of shifting the epistemic location of narratives about migration. This essay proposes a radical change in educational approaches, urging practitioners to listen to the subaltern rather than speaking for them, and to adopt a ‘subaltern-centered pedagogy’ (Reed 2013) to counter hegemonic and dehumanizing narratives about migration. By doing so, this reflective essay emphasizes the role of educators in fostering critical thinking and awareness about positionality. Before concluding, the authors call for a bold epistemic intervention in education systems, aiming to leave a lasting impact on pedagogical practices. They propose a process of unlearning through critical reflexivity to deconstruct Eurocentric and nationalist narratives, ultimately empowering students to become global citizens in a globalized world.

МЕТОДИЧНІ ПІДХОДИ ЦИФРОВОЇ ЕКОНОМІКИ В РАКУРСІ СТАТИСТИЧНИХ МЕТОДІВ ПРОГНОЗУВАННЯ

The spread of digital technologies over a long period determines the development trajectories of the economy and society and has more than once led to radical changes in people's lives. The formation of a digital economy is one of the priority directions for most countries of the world. As a rule, they are characterized by a long period of implementation of the "digital development agenda" and the succession of priorities - from the construction of the basic information and communication infrastructure to the formation of a coordinated policy in this area and programs to support the wide implementation of digital technologies. In recent years, the transformation of activity models in the business and social sphere has been unfolding, caused by the emergence of digital technologies of the new generation, which, due to the scale and depth of influence, have received the name "end-to- end": artificial intelligence, robotics, the Internet of Things, wireless communication technologies. According to estimates, their widespread implementation can significantly increase labor productivity. In the near future, it is the effective use of modern statistical methods of forecasting that will shape new methodological approaches to the digital economy and determine the competitiveness of both individual companies and entire countries that form the infrastructure and legal environment for further digitalization. The article considers the methodological aspects of the use of multidimensional statistical methods, methods of economic statistics and information technologies in the study of the economic direction "digital economy". The peculiarities of the application of various statistical approaches, as well as the possibility of their combined use, are noted. Features of forecasting the main indicators of the socio- economic sphere are presented.

Syria in Us Middle East Policy (2000-2011)

This article examines one of the most pressing topics related to an important area of US regional policy. As is known, after the terrorist attack in the United States on September 11, 2001, Washington made radical changes to its Middle East policy. The fight against terrorism and countries supporting terrorists has become a priority of US policy. The article examines the role of Syria in US Middle East policy. Before the Arab Spring, Syria had a prominent role in the Arab-Israeli conflict. This meant that political leaders, including those from the US, had to consider Syria’s stance on Middle Eastern issues and the opinions of the Syrian Arab Republic's government on significant regional problems.

We need a radical change to take place now´–The potential of integrated healthcare for rural long-term care facilities

This study explores healthcare professionals' perceptions in rural German long-term care facilities, focusing on integrated health systems. The aim is to understand experiences, challenges, and preferences. Twenty nurses and paramedics participated in in-depth interviews. Thematic analysis was applied to transcripts, revealing key themes: acute healthcare provision, interdisciplinary collaboration, telemedicine use, and preferences for the future healthcare landscape. Themes highlighted factors influencing acute care situations and the crucial role of interdisciplinary collaboration. Integrated care was infrequently encountered despite high demand in rural long-term care facilities. Though uncommon, integrated healthcare remains crucial in addressing long-term care facility residents' complex needs. Healthcare professionals express a strong demand for integrated care in rural areas, citing potential benefits for resident wellbeing, healthcare effectiveness, and job satisfaction. The findings guide healthcare organizations in developing institutional-level strategies for integrated care integration, emphasizing its importance in rural settings.

HUMANITY OF ENVIRONMENTAL AVAILABILITY OF LIVING

The article considers the development of the concept of accessibility of the living environment as a need of every person and the entire population as a whole. Aspects of barrier-free formation by urban planning means, which is a set of objects of the spatial, social, and informational environment and characterizes the presence or absence of certain favorable and comfortable conditions for the successful full-fledged life of all members of the community, testify to the degree of civilization of society and the development of the country as a whole. An important characteristic of our environment is the accessibility of objects and services, a barrier-free environment that provides the opportunity to visit places, buildings and premises, the opportunity to receive services, use devices for everyone: both for ordinary people and for citizens with limited mobility, including people with special needs of different categories. We need to take a broader view of barriers and shape a worldview based on human rights and rejecting discrimination that automatically assumes that a person cannot do something because of their physical, mental, personal or ethnic characteristics. Today, we realize that in addition to people with certain needs and limited opportunities due to their health, the population with limited mobility also includes pregnant women, parents with strollers and small children, temporarily disabled and elderly people, cyclists. Therefore, low mobility is a life cycle for almost every person. And this is a serious reason and argument in favor of the indisputable need of the entire population to organize an accessible environment. The construction of a barrier-free environment for post-war reconstruction, the development of barrier-free building standards and a mechanism for monitoring their implementation are especially relevant. As a result of the conducted analysis, the presence of radical changes in the principles of urban planning related to the creation of a comfortable and humane space accessible to all and reflecting the evolution of views on the quality of the living environment was revealed.

Literary Interpretation is Not Just About Meaning

The paper proposes a radical change of focus for understanding the fundamental purpose and value of literary interpretation. It criticises an orthodox view in analytical philosophy of literature, according to which theories of meaning in the philosophy of language, in particular Gricean or speech act or other pragmatic theories, offer the most illuminating way to grasp the relevant principles of interpretation. The argument here is that the application of such theories in this context is not just wrong in detail (this or that theory needs revising) but wrong in principle. The focus is wrong. The importation of philosophy of language distorts the essential character of interpretation, which should be seen as involving not so much meaning as value, not individual sentences but whole works, not obsessed with authorial intention but focused on the protocols of reading.

Epistemic Insights as Design Principles for a Teaching-Learning Module on Artificial Intelligence

AbstractIn a historical moment in which Artificial Intelligence and machine learning have become within everyone’s reach, science education needs to find new ways to foster “AI literacy.” Since the AI revolution is not only a matter of having introduced extremely performant tools but has been determining a radical change in how we conceive and produce knowledge, not only technical skills are needed but instruments to engage, cognitively, and culturally, with the epistemological challenges that this revolution poses. In this paper, we argue that epistemic insights can be introduced in AI teaching to highlight the differences between three paradigms: the imperative procedural, the declarative logic, and the machine learning based on neural networks (in particular, deep learning). To do this, we analyze a teaching-learning activity designed and implemented within a module on AI for upper secondary school students in which the game of tic-tac-toe is addressed from these three alternative perspectives. We show how the epistemic issues of opacity, uncertainty, and emergence, which the philosophical literature highlights as characterizing the novelty of deep learning with respect to other approaches, allow us to build the scaffolding for establishing a dialogue between the three different paradigms.

An Analysis of Risks and Challenges to the Polish Power Industry in the Year 2024

The green transition is a challenge for the Polish economy and energy sector. In this paper, the expert method of analysis was applied and findings revealed that the challenges and prerequisites for an effective transformation of the power sector mainly include technical, technological and organizational issues of energy production and use. The provision of electricity at competitive prices and with a low carbon footprint, for individual consumers and industry, is a prerequisite for maintaining the well-being of the population and ensuring the competitiveness of domestically produced goods. The ambitious climate policy goals of the European Union require immediate action and call for radical changes in the Polish energy sector; in the coming years, it must drastically reduce the amount of energy produced from fossil fuels and replace it with so-called green energy from renewable sources. The main purpose of this article was to highlight the need to modify Poland’s energy policy until 2040 in order to make it more consistent with the ambitious climate goals of the European Union. This article also shows that Poland’s energy transition must include a shift from fossil fuels to renewables, while ensuring that energy security is stabilized by the current energy and generation resources. To this end, we discuss the issues of creating reserves in the national energy system for the entire period of Poland’s energy transition.

The Graphic Legacy of Oleksandr Bogomazov: General Overview and Artist’s Notes in Some Thoughts on Graphics

The study presents a general overview of the graphic work and the publication of theoretical notes about the graphics of the Ukrainian artist O. K. Bohomazov. There are features of graphic works in different periods of creativity, which are noted, there are stylistic features of works of different periods,which are analyzed. Graphic works give an opportunity to trace all stylistic changes and identify reference points in the evolution of the artist’s work. Sketches allow to trace the stages of work on the creation of picturesque easel paintings. The graphic heritage of O. Bohomazov is really diverse. There are characteristic symbolist motifs and plots, which can be traced in the early graphics. Magazine graphics of 1908-1912 provide samples of the Art Nouveau style. In the works of this period, the line gives the picture maximum decorativeness. Fascination with color linocut gave the artist the opportunity to experiment with changing the psychological state of objects depending on the color change. At the turn of 1912-1913, a radical stylistic change takes place in O. Bohomazov’s work: the generalized decorativeness and linear rhythms of the modern style give way to the dynamics of futurism. While working at the Kyiv Art Institute in 1922–1930, Oleksandr Bohomazov taught painting and drawing as formal and technical disciplines. He taught in his educational programs the physical and psychological properties of colours and their interaction. The graphics of the late period of the artist’s work acquired a neo-realistic objectivity in the spirit of "New objectivity" (Die Neue Sachlichkeit).

Reciprocal Illumination and the Discovery of Fractal Patterns in Religious Diversity

This essay presents Arvind Sharma’s concept of “reciprocal illumination” as an innovative defense of interreligious comparison, showing that the comparative approach is still meaningful despite its currently widespread critique. In discussing Sharma’s concept, the essay focuses on the internal diversity of religious traditions, asking whether “reciprocal illumination” is possible because religious diversity is apparently not entirely at random but displays recurrent patterns and structures of a fractal nature. The existence of fractal patterns would explain very well not merely why “reciprocal illumination” is possible at all, but especially in what sense it fosters interreligious learning as part of the growing field of interreligious theology. The latter aspect is investigated by relating Sharma’s three types of “reciprocal illumination” to Catherine Cornille’s recent classification of six forms of interreligious learning. It will be argued that interreligious learning and reciprocal illumination are likely to lead to a radical change in religious self-understanding, perceiving one’s own tradition as a unique, internally diverse, and equally valid part and component of a larger diverse web of religious phenomena.

Research on wireless multimedia big data transmission model based on non-linear algebraic equation with the adaptive scheduling algorithm

With the rapid development of computer technology, image processing and automatic book recognition has become a very important and practical field, and this discipline has a broad prospect and great potential. The digital visión system is a multi-plane information análisis method basad on the human brain, which is applied to library identification problems by studying several regular changes in the distribution of objects themselves in two-dimensional space and three-dimensional position, in order to improve book quality and reduce costs. In addition, digital Reading devices have become an essential part of people’s daily learning life, and multimedia retrieval methods have also undergone radical changes, image processing is becoming more and more complex, and algorithms must become more efficient and reliable as the amount of computing increases to a certain level, so as to adapt to this fast and powerful data storage and query needs. Therefore, the tren is to improve the speed and reliability of computer systems. This paper discusses and proposes measures for the analysis and extraction, classification and sorting of library images.

Unleashing the potential of metaphors: a categorization system for exploring return to work after maternity

PurposeReturn to work after maternity leave represents a radical change in women’s lives. This paper aims to present a new metaphor categorization system based on two studies, which could assist working mothers in expressing the nuances of their experience when returning to work after maternity leave.MethodsWe carried out the analysis of the metaphors according to the method for thematic analysis, through a multistep, iterative coding process. To ensure the researchers encode the data similarly, inter-coder reliability was achieved through the judges’ agreement method. The level of agreement between the two judges was measured by Cohen’s kappa.ResultsIn Study 1, we established a system comprising ten metaphor categories (namely, Natural event and/or element, Challenge and destination, Movement and/or action, Fresh start, Fight, Game and hobby, Animal, Alternate reality, Means of transport, Hostile place). In Study 2, we recognized the same metaphor categories observed in Study 1, except “Means of transport”, even with data sourced from a distinct participant group, an indicator of credibility in terms of inter-coder reliability.ConclusionFindings highlight the usefulness of this new metaphor categorization system (named Meta4Moms@Work—Metaphors system for Moms back to Work) to facilitate a more straightforward elicitation of the meanings employed by working mothers to depict their return to work after maternity leave. Leveraging these insights, researchers/practitioners can develop and execute primary and secondary interventions aimed to enhance working mothers’ work-life balance, well-being, and mental health.

FDI and the Triangle “Growth, Inequality and Poverty” in North Africa

The economic literature has shown that the effect of FDI on poverty through these instruments has undergone radical changes which reflect, on the one hand, the growing progress, made by the academic community, in the very complex analysis of interactions with income growth and inequality; and the level of political interest in the topic of poverty reduction.