Technological Rationality Research Articles

Research on Ecological Restoration Technology in Arid or Semi-Arid Areas from the Perspective of the Belt and Road Initiative

In the new era of the rapid development of economic globalization and the community of human destiny, the implementation of the “One Belt and One Road” (OBOR) construction model is designed to coordinate environmental protection and economic development. Most of the countries along the Silk Road in the 21st century are developing countries, and the majority of them are facing the same ecological and developmental difficulties as China. In this paper, under the background of the “OBOR” strategy and on the basis of the distribution of global climate types, we selected Central Asia and Northwest China, which have temperate continental climates, as the research objects. We sorted out and summarized the main ecological problems faced by Western China and Central Asia during the development of the “Belt and Road” initiative. At the same time, in combination with the major ecological governance projects implemented in recent years, we proposed key ecological governance technologies that have a certain degree of scalability, such as key technologies for water resource utilization and protection, sand prevention and control, and saline-alkali land governance. The aim was to offer the experiences and a reference for providing technological models for the “one belt along the road” region and the country to build an effective ecological governance system. Two suggestions are then proposed for improving the feasibility and rationality of ecological governance technology in the construction of the “One Belt, One Road”. 1) With the implementation of the strategy of “OBOR” construction, the ecological threats the OBOR countries are facing cannot be ignored. Every country needs to jointly act to build an “OBOR” ecological civilization. 2) The participants must pay attention to the spatial heterogeneity and temporal dynamics of ecological carrying capacity, and provide data reference and support for the reasonable allocation of ecological governance technology.

Discussion on the Innovation of Mechanical Design and Manufacturing with Rationalization of Mechanical Processing Technology

Discussion on the Innovation of Mechanical Design and Manufacturing with Rationalization of Mechanical Processing Technology

Indigenous Philosophy and Multiple Modernities

The inception of the project of modernity resides in the projection of a self-fulfilling subjective rationality that leads both to better self-understanding as well as a control of the environment. Still, failing to serve a truly universal human agenda, modernity narrowly propagated the values of Western culture. Part of justifying such an ideological status quo is made possible by the colonial sciences that ascribed reason, logic and objectivity to Westerners and emotion, affection and oneness to the “other”. Operating within a binary framework of tradition and modernity and emotion and rationality, the colonial sciences like anthropology and ethnology created the notion of an indigenous culture and knowledge that is strictly traditional, static, oral and non-progressive. As such, rather than studying others in their entire milieu, the colonial sciences propounded an antithesis between traditional indigenous culture which is a seat of mythology, and scientific modernity that is empirical and technical. Such a quest systematically degrades indigenous knowledge, culture and philosophy for the paradigm of scientific and technological rationality. This paper argues that the solution to such Westernization of all human knowledge resides in the concept of multiple modernities which situates alternative movements in the world of globalization as attempts to contextualize modernity in different sites of knowledge and also allows for different cognitive dimensions that are mutually incommensurable. This allows for the contestation of indigenous, scientific, secular and other modes of knowledge.

Konsep Tauhid Imam Al-Ghazali Tentang Mekanisme Pasar Dalam Islam

Pasar merupakan elemen dari keselarasan alamiah, pasar memiliki peranan sangat penting dalam perekonomian. Al Ghazali memandang mekanisme pasar berevolusi seperti komponen yang natural. Dasar pemikiran al-ghazali tentang mekanisme pasar yaitu dari permintaan dan penawaran, permintaan dan penawaran menurut Al-Ghazali terjadi atas kuasa Allah. Kajian ini menggunakan deskriptif kualitatif yaitu menggunakan studi literatur yang dikutip dari jurnal buku serta web yang relevan. Tujuan dari kajian ini ialah manusia akan melibatkan Tuhan dalam aktivitas apapun tanpa terkecuali dalam pasar sebab pasar bukan hanya sarana untuk jual beli akan tetapi juga tempat untuk beribadah. Konsep tauhid ini lah yang memiliki peranan penting dalam pasar sebab tauhid mengajarkan bahwa Tuhan itu satu. Dan dengan konsep tauhid inilah profit yang besar tidak menjadi prioritas utama bagi pelaku pasar karena mereka akan lebih mementingkan kehidupan akhirat daripada dunia. Jika setiap manusia memiliki keimanan yang kuat maka mekanisme pasar yang islami akan tercipta dan akan tercipta pula pasar yang adil sehingga akan mensejahterakan kehidupan manusia.

Towards a philosophy of education built on fragile parts: Technological rationality and knowledge of pathos

The aim of this paper is to examine the relationship between education and technological rationality from the perspective of the philosophy of education, and to show that while education is deeply related to technique, skills, or technology, it can never be reduced to technical knowledge, and that there are things in education that overflow technical knowledge. I will here ask why there is something in education that overflows technical knowledge — I will define it as knowledge of pathos — and why it is necessary to redefine the meaning of education in terms of knowledge of pathos. In order to address this issue, I will first examine the relationship between technology and transcendence in the world of education in Kei Hachiya’s Education and Transcendence. Second, I will show that recent outstanding theoretical achievements of Japanese philosophers of education — Satoji Yano’s Education from the Perspectives of Gift and Exchange, Yasuo Imai’s Medial Perspective on Education, and Tsunemi Tanaka’s Clinical Theory of Human Becoming — are all located within the problematic area of ‘technology-pathos-education’. Finally, I would like to propose a ‘philosophy of education built on fragile parts’, with a view to redefining education through the knowledge of pathos, paying attention to the experience of pathei mathos and the opportunity of weakness in the philosophy of education.

Energy savings through rationalization of exhaust ventilation emission treatment technology

The scheme of purification of exhaust ventilation emissions from harmful impurities of production sites. Calculated energy costs according to the traditional scheme cleaning, including a cyclone and a Venturi scrubber. To reduce energy costs, it is proposed air purification scheme from fine dust using an innovative irrigated nozzle made of porous plastic plates for turbulence of air flow. It is proved by calculation that in order to achieve the required environmental dust efficiency in the innovative system, energy consumption is about 9 times less.

Pengaruh Dimensi dalam Fraud Diamond dan Penyalahgunaan Teknologi Informasi Terhadap Perilaku Kecurangan Akademik

This study aims to analyze the influence of the dimensions in the fraud diamond consisting of pressure, opportunity, rationalization, and ability, as well as the misuse of information technology on academic fraud behavior in accounting economic education students at the State University of Semarang. The population in this study were 160 students of accounting economics education class 2015 Semarang State University. The sample was calculated using the Slovin formula, obtained 114 students. The sampling technique used is proportional random sampling. The collection method used a questionnaire and the data were analyzed by multiple linear regression. The results showed that simultaneously pressure, opportunity, rationalization, ability, and misuse of information technology had a positive and significant effect on academic cheating behavior. Partially, pressure, opportunity, rationalization and misuse of information technology have a positive and significant effect on academic cheating. The ability to cheat has no effect on academic cheating behavior

ЗАСТОСУВАННЯ ЛОГІСТИЧНИХ МЕТОДІВ ДЛЯ ВПРОВАДЖЕННЯ CROSS-DOCKING ТЕХНОЛОГІЇ В ТРАНСПОРТНО-СКЛАДСЬКІЙ СИСТЕМІ

Abstract Introduction. The efficiency of logistics operations, the speed of processing of goods largely depend on how all parts of the logistics chain interact, how optimized business processes in the warehouse, so any company tries to constantly improve the organization of the supply process so as to deliver in the shortest possible time. term for minimum logistics costs. One of the tasks to solve the problem of supply chain imperfections is to reduce the huge number of warehousing operations during the placement of goods for long-term or short-term storage. This can be done with the help of Cross-Docking technology, which eliminates the storage phase and reduces warehousing costs. Problem statement. Today, Cross-Docking technology is mobile, technologically proven, because it is a very advanced method of processing goods. However, in order to successfully implement this technology, it is necessary to understand the concept of Cross - Docking, knowledge of the features, benefits, conditions and limitations for the implementation of this technology. That is why the question of determining the list of goods for which the introduction of this Cross - Docking technology is expedient and rational is becoming relevant. Purpose. To substantiate the definition of the list of goods for which the introduction of Cross-Docking technology is expedient and rational, using the coefficient of variation and making recommendations for their processing and methods of handling - by grouping by logistic method XYZ analysis. Methods. The XYZ analysis method was used during the work. Results. The study justified the use of the coefficient of variation to identify goods for which it is appropriate and rational to implement Cross-Docking technology, and the use of logistics method - XYZ analysis - to develop recommendations for processing and handling of certain goods. Conclusions. Based on research based on theoretical and applied aspects, the development and implementation of Cross - Docking technology is an element that simplifies business logistics and reduces the cost of its products by reducing warehouse costs, and properly organized process speeds up delivery, allows businesses to send perishable products over long distances and organize turnover even in high season. The proposed logistic method of differentiation by HYZ analysis allows to clearly identify those products that are characterized by maximum demand, high turnover, stable predictability, mass consumption, ie those products for which the recommendation is to minimize their number in warehouses, respectively - the feasibility and rationality of Cross technology - Docking. Key words: supply chain, Cross - Docking technology, one - stage Cross - Docking, two - stage Cross - Docking, XYZ - analysis, coefficient of variation, methods of grouping in XYZ - analysis, XYZ - analysis solutions.

Analysis on Rationality of Process Pipe Design Technology in Petrochemical Plant

Analysis on Rationality of Process Pipe Design Technology in Petrochemical Plant

The Education for Sustainable Development, Online Technology and Teleological Rationality: A Game between Instrumental Value and Humanistic Value

The concept of education for sustainable development (ESD) belongs to the latter exogenous type. It was not put forward as an independent concept at first. At present, it is necessary to shift from the approach to an understanding concentrating on sustainable development to an interpretation that focuses on the structure of education. Under the guidance of online technology’s pursuit of efficiency, effect, simplicity and materialization, the process of ESD embedded with online technology has highlighted its value of tools, while lacking rules and guidance of the teleological rationality, hence it cannot achieve the value tendency of humanism which accords with its reason and being good to it. In the course of realistic education, the instrumental value and humanistic value of ESD are always intertwined together, and the value choices of educational entities are often manifested as bounded rationality. Therefore, around the theme of ESD, any two of the players of educational organizations constitute the “evolutionary game with bounded rationality”. Based on the result of an evolutionary game, ESD should pay more attention to the humanization of purpose, the contextualizing of content, the experience of process and the rationalization of technology, to fully realize the return of humanistic value of ESD.

Mahasiswa Iain Kediri dan Dominasi Teknologi Herbert Marcuse

Modern society has unknowingly been dominated by modern technology which makes humans passive and uncritical of social conditions, as well as receptive. That people no longer live with technology, but is controlled by technology, this rationality can be seen when cellphones do not have a connection to the internet, it can be said that they will be out of date because they cannot update the latest information. This becomes an interesting discussion because it is almost felt by students, especially students of IAIN Kediri. This research uses a critical study of Herbert Marcuse's technological rationality which leads to one-dimensional humans or commonly referred to as One Dimensional Man. Therefore, this study seeks to explain the phenomena that occur among students related to meeting the needs of data packages that can affect various aspects of their daily lives. The results of this study are the need for a data package for the students of IAIN Kediri as a primary need. This is because with the data package students are able to find out the latest information on matters related to lectures, on the other hand, with the student data package, smartphones are also dominated by various features in it.

An Analysis of Antinuclear Thought in William Golding's Literary Works from the Perspective of Ecoenvironmental Psychology: Taking "Lord of the Flies" as an Example.

In “Lord of the Flies,” William Golding integrates the living conditions of human beings into the relationship of the community of destiny between man and nature and reveals the neglect of ecological morality in the modern Western ethical value system with modernity as the core, showing a postmodern ecological ethics consciousness beyond modernity. The novel embodies the ecological integrity of the nonbinary opposition between man and nature, criticizes anthropocentrism and technological rationality that destroy the ecological integrity, and points out that modern science and technology have led to greater ecological disasters due to the lack of ecological ethics. Ecological morality that respects nature and the harmonious coexistence of man and nature is advocated. The forward-looking ecological ethics consciousness contained in the novel is especially thought-provoking in today's serious ecological problems and lack of ecological ethics. This paper will use ecological psychology as a new interdisciplinary research field to study the relationship between man and nature and open up new horizons and research methods. In this way, we will solve the growing ecological and environmental crisis.

Pengaruh Dimensi Fraud Diamond dan Penyalahgunaan Teknologi Informasi Terhadap Perilaku Kecurangan Akademik Mahasiswa Akuntansi saat Perkuliahan Online

This study aims to determine the effect of the fraud diamond dimensions consisting of pressure, opportunity, rationalization, and ability, as well as the effect of misuse of information technology on the academic cheating behavior of accounting students during online lectures. The author chooses students of the accounting study program of West Java province as the research subjects. This type of research is a quantitative research. The sample selection technique used purposive sampling, in determining the sample size of 384 samples. The data analysis technique used was multiple linear regression analysis using SPSS version 16 software. The results showed that partially the pressure variable had no significant effect on the academic cheating behavior of accounting students, while opportunity, rationalization, ability and misuse of information technology had a significant effect on fraudulent behavior. academic accounting students. Simultaneously, all independent variables have a significant effect on the academic cheating behavior of accounting students.
 
 Keywords: Academic Fraud Behavior, Fraud Diamond (Pressure, Opportunity, Rationalization, and Ability) and Information Technology Misuse

Development of technology to accelerate SBS-modified asphalts swelling in dry modification mode

Given that a polymer modifier cannot fully swell with asphalt in the existing dry modification mode, modified asphalt in most cases does not meet the standard of modification. This work aimed to develop an accelerant swelling agent to shorten the time of modified asphalt swelling. Molecular dynamics simulation technology was used to determine the diffusion and adhesion laws of asphalt components during swelling. The modification effect evaluation system was established to speculate on the promotion of polymer modifiers rapidly swelling molecular structure characteristics. The macro test was designed to determine the optimal pre-swelling time and to verify the rationality of bio-oil pre-swelling technology. At the micro level, the saturation with special long carbon chain structure diffuses best in SBS, and the adhesion strength of modifiers is stronger than that of the three other components. Linoleic acid, which is more similar to saturation, is suitable as an accelerant swelling component, and the adhesion between SBS-R and asphalt components is stronger than that of SBS-L and asphalt. Thus, SBS-R is more suitable than SBS-L as a pre-swelling modifier. At the macro level, the use of linoleic acid as a bio-oil pre-swelling agent is reasonable, and the optimal pre-swelling time is 30 min. The 5% pre-swelling SBS-L and 4% pre-swelling SBS-R meet the standards of wet modification processes.

Hope for Our Technological Inheritance? From Substantive Critiques of Technology to Marcuse’s Post-Technological Rationality

This paper explores the promise that Herbert Marcuse found in late modernity’s technological inheritance—his “other side” to his critique of technological rationality. With the goal of beginning to recover Marcuse’s desire for technological reform and a more hopeful project for a contemporary critical philosophy of technology, the paper first situates and contrasts Marcuse’s double-sided critique of technological rationality with the mostly negative critiques of modern technology exemplified by Heidegger, Adorno, and Horkheimer. Rather than offer concrete possibilities for socio-technical transformation, Heidegger, Adorno, and Horkheimer’s pessimistic views of technology tend to lead towards resignation in our late-modern fate. The paper then meditates on Marcuse’s “ambivalence theory of technology”—the notion that technologies are neither neutral nor inherently deterministic but, rather, politically and socially inscribed and entangled within webs of social struggles where their designed intentions are worked out and often reappropriated in actual use by users. The paper then looks at how Marcuse’s ambivalence theory can help in understanding the possibilities for re-valuing the technological base of advanced capitalist society within re-materialized values of love, joy, refusal, and sensuousness. Illustrating the continued relevance of Marcuse’s analysis for today’s radical left, the final section of the paper presents six key historical-conjunctural moments in Marcuse’s writings on technology that could be seen as prefiguring contemporary examples of technological reform and liberation from exploitative and alienating modes of life. Some of the newest social movements against neoliberal global capital, this final section argues, touch on elements of Marcusean-like re-rationalized and re-sensualized technological and organizational transformations.

Digital Dependence of Higher Education Evaluation: Challenges and Resolutions

The Digital dependence in this study is not a dependency on the Internet in traditional contexts. The digital dependence of higher education evaluation has the following manifestations: The widespread penetration of "digit" exists everywhere in higher education evaluation; “Digit” takes up the priority within the coordinate system of higher education evaluation; Irrational "digit" becomes disciplinary force by alienation in higher education evaluation. Its roots in the fact that it derives from the long-term restriction by the evaluation views on rationalism under the control of technological rationality, the promotion of simplifying perception of the higher education field, and the resource black hole and benefit inducement that "digit" can be manifested. Therefore, the key to eliminate the digital dependence in higher education evaluation and breaking the utilitarian thinking should include the following three aspects: returning the meaning of digital criterion in higher education evaluation to be genuine, clarifying the reasonable boundaries of the digital application in the evaluation of higher education, and optimizing the structure of the higher education evaluation system.

Dark, clear or brackish? Using Reddit to break down the binary of the dark and clear web

ABSTRACT Using Reddit as a case study, this article blurs the boundary between the ‘dark’ and ‘clear’ web, arguing that in between these spaces there is what I describe as a ‘brackish web’, inhabited by ‘brackish social spaces’. Reddit, I argue, sits in a murky space between the dark and clear, with its technological rationality, politics, and technological affordances exhibiting elements of both the clear and dark infrastructures. I study these similarities through examining Reddit’s relationship to surveillance, arguing that it exhibits similarities to the dark web through a politics of anonymity and its practices of content moderation. Reddit, however, has slowly moved away from some of its ‘dark’ elements, in particular through a growing reliance on advertising revenue. This has pushed the platform to engage in more surveillance of its users, pushing it away from its dark web politics. This article challenges the dark and clear web binary, further nuancing our understandings of the politics, economics and technological rationality that underpins online digital platforms.

En torno al debilitamiento de un rol profesional

The purpose of this article is to analyze the situation of delegitimization of the teaching role. Its technical character is postulated to the detriment of its pedagogical role in the current institutional reality. As support, background information is provided on the changes experienced by Chilean society and their impact on the national education system. Cultural changes at a deep level in which new technologies penetrate school spaces, transforming daily life in them and generating heterogeneous pedagogical and relational demands. It also describes the tensions and challenges that imply for a professional action, being constrained by a technological rationality that values and promotes efficiency, efficacy and productivity in schooling. The teacher, part of the life-world, faces complex processes of individuation in which he/she must take personal responsibility for the performance of his/her role. Faced with a controlling and coercive system, which has limited their autonomy, their participation in pedagogical decisions, a strong tension is created with the life-world, of the intersubjectivity shared in the school. Consequently, the professional experiences a strong weakening of his professional role.

INEQUALITY AND CONCETRAТION OF CAPITAL

Inequality in capital, property and income is a major determinant of modern society. An enormous concentration of the capital is accomplished.The number of the rich, and extremely rich, is increasing. On the other hand are those who have less and the poor. There is also an increase in the number of global plutocrats. Growth dynamics is slowing down. The future is uncertain. The purpose of this paper is to see the growing social inequality as a problem nowadays. Historical, deductive-inductive, structural and comparative analysis are applied. The distribution of wealth is one of the most debated issues today. But do we know enough about its long-term development? Does the dynamics of accumulation of private capital inevitably lead to a strong concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a few? Do equalization of growth rate, competition and technical progress lead to less inequality and greater stabilization in the advanced stages of development? What do we know about income and wealth development and what lessons can we learn from it?
 The history of the distribution of wealth is always deeply political and cannot be reduced to pure economic mechanisms. The history of inequality depends on the way economic, social and political actors see what is unfair and what is not, as well as on their relative power and the resulting common choices: distribution is a common product of all actors.
 The dynamics of wealth distribution reveal powerful mechanisms that alternate between convergence and divergence, so there is no natural spontaneous process that would prevent destabilizing, non-egalitarian tendencies from permanently prevailing.
 We start with the mechanisms that move towards convergence, i.e. towards reducing inequality. The main force of convergence is the process of disseminating knowledge and investing in training and education.
 The law of supply and demand, as well as the mobility of capital and labor, which is a variant of that law, can be equally relied upon in that direction, but the impact of this law is less powerful than the spread of knowledge and skills and is often ambiguous and contradictory. The process of disseminating knowledge and skills is a key mechanism that simultaneously enables general productivity growth and reduction of inequality.
 From a strictly theoretical point of view, there are potentially other forces moving towards greater equality. Technological rationality should automatically lead to the victory of human capital over financial capital and real estate, capable managers over shareholders, skills over nepotism. Somehow it would automatically lead to democratic rationality.
 The issue of wealth distribution will always have a subjective and psychological dimension. The answers offered are always imperfect and unfinished.
 Changes are logically possible and to some extent real, but their impact is far smaller than we can imagine.

An effective strategy for distinguishing the processing degree of Polygonum multiflorum based on the analysis of substance and taste by LC-MS, ICP-OES and electronic tongue

The efficacy of raw and processed products of Polygonum multiflorum (PM) varies greatly. "Nine cycles of steaming and sunning" (NCSS) is recognized as an effective technology in enhancing efficacy and reducing toxicity for PM. In this paper, PM was prepared differently into three groups (including group R, M, and "9"), which represent raw PM, PM processed using the method of Chinese Pharmacopoeia (ChP) and PM processed using traditional NCSS, respectively. The purpose is to establish an effective method to distinguish raw PM from different processed products and highlight the rationality of processing technology. The main organic compounds that could distinguish these three groups of samples were identified by in-depth mining of mass spectral information and various chemometric methods. Level of related metal cations have been quantified and used as another important distinguishing markers. The electronic tongue was utilized to determine the taste traits of aqueous extract from PM. Furthermore, the material basis that caused the difference in taste was discovered according to correlation analysis. In detail, saltiness has the most important contribution associated with the concentrations of K+ and Na+, however, bitterness and astringency were mainly associated with the contents of epicatechin gallate, catechin, procyanidin B1, procyanidin B2 and epicatechin. This study proposed a novel and effective strategy for identification of processing technology of PM. It lays the foundation for clarifying the modern scientific recommendations of processing technology to PM. On the other hand, it also provides a reference for related researches on other traditional Chinese medicine (TCM).