Relational Processes Research Articles

PMR Learning Model as Materials of Summary of 1st Grade Students

Mathematics education must begin when children enter school, namely at the elementary school level. The success of a student's education can be influenced by the learning approach used by the teacher. In particular, the additional lessons covered in the first grade of elementary school are very suitable for the PMR learning model. Learning to count can be facilitated by using candy-themed media and educational videos. The purpose of this study was to analyses the results of applying the PMR learning model to the educational process in relation to student learning. PTK which includes cycles I and II is the methodology of choice for this study. The PMR learning model was not implemented in Cycle I until after the pre-test was carried out. In Cycle II, we practiced the PMR learning paradigm with the help of learning videos and candy media. Twenty students from grade one at elementary school participated in this study. Data collection techniques were collected by tests and documentation. The result of this study show the average student score in cycle I was below the KKM standard. The KKM requirements were met with an average student in cycle II after the PMR learning model was applied. The findings from this study indicate that when the PMR learning paradigm is used together with learning videos and candy media, student learning outcomes show a significant increase.

Architecture and Globalization, a very intimate relationship

The invitation to write this article gave rise to a review of my studies and writings produced in the last twenty-five years about the approximation between architecture and globalization. If in the 1990s the texts referred to the dissemination of Brazilian modern architecture in different parts of the world, by the turn of 1990s to the 2000s, they focused on the popular dissemination of elements of modernism in Brazil, with an interest in expanding the architectural scholarship limits in two directions: 1) vertically, discussing high-low relationships unfiltered or controlled by trained architects; and 2) horizontally by challenging the North Atlantic canon to debate the global reach of the Brazilian case. Reviewing these studies today allowed us to dialogue with contemporary reflections that involve an effort at epistemic decolonization, starting from the understanding that the understanding of globalization was closely related to the emergence of abstraction in the 16th century, a phenomenon that killed relational processes themselves, but which should be urgently recovered nowadays, making us unlearn the intimate relationship between architecture and globalization.

Kinetic studies on thermal degradation of automotive lubricant oils and estimation soot content by TGA

Thermal degradation of fresh automotive lubricant characterized using TGA technique under Helium atmosphere at different heating rate 5, 10,20,30,40 Co /min based on mass loss as a function of temperature. To obtain the kinetic parameters and to describe the thermal decomposition of lubricant, TGA curves and their derivatives were analyses using Coast-Redfern methods. Kinetic parameters were determined was satisfactory presenting good correlation with linear correlation coefficient close to unit using SPSS package and was in a good agreement with publishes data. Also the present study describes soot content determination for different used lubricant. This wok aims to characterize the thermal decomposition process in relation to its kinetic, thermodynamic property and measure amount of soot.

Communication quality and relational self‐expansion: The path to leadership coaching effectiveness

AbstractLeadership coaching—a relational process by which a professional coach works with a leader to support their development—is a common component of learning and development portfolios in organizations. Despite broad agreement about the importance of the coaching relationship, relational processes remain undertheorized, failing to account for the growth and intertwining of coach‐leader self‐concepts as they engage in a generative and co‐creative coaching process. To address these shortcomings, we reconceptualize the relational process within coaching as one of relational self‐expansion and theorize that the communication channel and communication quality impact relational self‐expansion which, in turn, influences coaching effectiveness. Our hypotheses are tested in a field experiment featuring random assignment to experimental conditions (communication channels) in which a coaching intervention was deployed in five organizations. Using structural equation modeling, we demonstrated that communication quality and relational self‐expansion during the coaching process positively predicted coaching effectiveness. Contrary to expectations, communication quality did not differ by channel (phone, videoconference, face‐to‐face) nor did it predict relational self‐expansion.

“This is China’s Wailing Wall”

AbstractDr. Li Wenliang, an ophthalmologist at Wuhan Central Hospital, was accused of spreading rumors when he sent a WeChat message containing the diagnostic report of a suspicious pneumonia case to a group of friends. When he later died from COVID-19, his Weibo page quickly become known as “China’s Wailing Wall,” where hundreds of thousands of netizen shared replies to his final post in a mega-thread that continues into the present. Drawing upon a selection of posts from an archive of messages posted to Li’s Weibo in the year following his death, this article examines how participants used chronotopes (Bhaktin 1981) to situate Li vis-à-vis various culturally salient “figures of personhood” (Agha 2005;Park 2021), including “moral hero,” “kin figure,” and/or “deity.” Our analysis further suggests how such positioning, as a response to grief and uncertainty, “moved” authors into a position of distance from hegemonic national chronotopes situating people in a symbiotic relationship of mutual care with the Chinese state. Our analysis thus offers insight into the ways in which collective crises have the capacity to (but do not necessarily) motivate a complex discursive and relational process through which interlocutors enactscalar intimacy(Pritzker and Perrino 2020) as they grapple with shifts in their felt experience of nationhood and/or “culture.”

Use of Software Solutions for Simulations of Traffic Processes Depending on the Type of Traffic Models

Abstract This article is aimed at introducing the issue of simulating traffic processes and the possibility of creating traffic models using software solutions. The introduction describes the basic problems that are present for the responsible authority in the decision-making process on the implementation of transport infrastructure projects and the verification of the validity of their implementation. The importance of computer technology in the process of evaluating projects and the socioeconomic effects they bring is also mentioned. The benefits of retrospective evaluation of already implemented projects and comparison with predictions made in the preparation process in relation to the verification of forecasts and the structure and scope of input data are also indicated. In the next part, the starting points for the creation of traffic models, input data and expected outputs are summarized due to the nature of the performed simulation. The final part provides an overview of the possibilities of using software solutions for the creation of traffic models and the suitability of their application according to the specifics of the simulation and output requirements.

Microscale evolution of reefal microbialites

Reefal microbialites are crusts and infills of microbialites developed within primary cavities of late Quaternary coralgal reef frameworks. In spite of many previous studies, factors controlling mesofabric transitions, particularly from laminated to digitate microbialites but as well as the microscale formation process in relation to microbial communities, have not yet been fully understood. Furthermore, there are still controversies regarding age differences between reef framework growth and microbialite formation. The authors have discussed the macroscale evolution of primary cavities as well as the microscale evolution of reefal microbialites obtained in a middle Holocene reef core drilled off Okinawa Island, south-west Japan, based on petrographic observations using light and scanning electron microscopy with energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy and radiocarbon (14C) ages of corals and reefal microbialites. The authors’ petrographic observations show that coralgal reef framework growth was followed by encrusting foraminifers and metazoans, coevally with macro-bioerosion and microbioerosion of coralgal frameworks, then finally infilled with an intraskeletal and boring-filling microbialite (IBFM) and encrusted by reefal microbial crusts (RMCs), including structureless and digitate microbialites. The observed macroscale evolution was probably driven in response to progressive changes to reduced light and water circulation in the primary cavities associated with middle Holocene transgression and reef formation. The microfabric of reefal microbialites consists of primary in situ precipitated peloids (spherical micritic clots), voids (primary pores) and allochthonous detrital grains (bioclastic and siliciclastic) fallen from upper reef surfaces. IBFM geopetally infilled inside bioeroded cavities soon after the bioerosion of coralgal frameworks. RMCs have a two-layered microfabric succession, which is composed of the alternation of dense peloidal aggregates and laterally aligned voids in the lower part and the mixing of peloidal aggregates and irregularly and vertically developed voids in the upper part. The authors speculate that the repeated occurrences of laterally aligned voids in the lower part may imply the intermittent pauses of peloidal formation, while peloids accumulated on the irregular outer surfaces may result in the formation of vertically developed voids and digitate surfaces in the upper part. These peloids are probably formed by coccoid sulfate-reducing bacteria in anoxic environments developed by the degradation of bacterial biofilms and organic matters, allowing sulfate reduction and increasing alkalinity, therefore carbonate precipitation. The two-layered microfabric succession generally observed in RMCs may reflect spatial-temporal oxic/anoxic variations in interstitial water and the degree of sulfate ion supply by the gradual closing of primary cavities.

Out of the Closet and Into the Home: Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, and the Affordances of the Domestic Interior

The domestic sphere was of great importance to Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. Indeed, their home in Paris was a social epicenter of expatriate modernism. This article reads Stein’s experimental literature of 1908 to 1920 to understand the identificatory and relational processes that the affordances of the domestic space make possible. It situates the queer in Stein as a domestic phenomenon, arguing that queer bonding and identity formation happen, for her, most meaningfully in the home.

Patient-therapist expectancy convergence and outcome in naturalistic psychotherapy.

Research on close relationships demonstrates that dyadic convergence, or two people becoming more similar in their experiences and/or beliefs over time, is commonplace and adaptive. As psychotherapy involves a close relationship, patient-therapist convergence processes may influence treatment-specific outcomes. Although prior research supports that patients and therapists tend to converge on their alliance perspectives over time, which associates with subsequent patient improvement, no research has similarly examined belief convergence during therapy. Accordingly, this study focused on patient-therapist convergence in their outcome expectations (OE), a belief variable associated with patient improvement when measured from individual participant perspectives. We predicted both that significant OE convergence would occur and relate to better posttreatment outcome. Data derived from a trial of naturalistic psychotherapy. Patients and therapists repeatedly rated their respective OE through treatment, and patients rated their symptom/functional outcomes at posttreatment. For dyads with the requisite OE data (N = 154), we tested our questions using multilevel structural equation modeling. Counter to our hypotheses, there was no discernable OE convergence pattern over treatment (γ₁₀₀ = 0.01, SE = 0.03, p = .690) and OE convergence was unrelated to outcome at the between-dyad level (γ₀₂₀ = 2.37, SE = 10.28, p = .818). However, on its own, higher early patient OE was significantly associated with better outcome at the between-dyad level (γ₀₅₀ = -0.04, SE = 0.01, p = .007). Results suggest that OE may be more of a facilitative patient versus relational process factor. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).

A Transitivity Analysis of the British Queen’s Parliament Speech

This study analyzes the parliament speech delivered by the British queen under the framework of transitivity through the employment of qualitative and quantitative methods. The function and distribution of the transitivity process in the speech are explored, aiming at revealing the linguistic feature of the speech so that the understanding of the linguistic characteristics and the speech content is deepened. The study finds out four process types in the speech, among which the material process accounts for the largest proportion, with the relational process, the mental process and the existential process followed. There is no verbal and behavioral process in the speech. The material process shows the vigorous actions of the government. The relational process makes the power of the government closely connected with the country and the citizens, and the mental process implies the government’s outlook on the future and the confidence to do all the work well. This linguistic pattern shows the seriousness and authority of the speaker and the study concludes that the specific linguistic structure determines the implied meaning of the utterance.

Key Indicator Taxonomy of Relational Teaching

ABSTRACT How teachers relate to their students when they teach can contribute to a deeper and more coherent relational understanding of teaching as an interpersonal profession. This article presents a key indicators’ taxonomy of relational teaching. Within the theoretical perspective of teaching called Pedagogical Relational Teachership a taxonomy to inquiry the relational dimension of the teaching profession is developed. The concept of relational teaching is categorised into a model under the themes of Tact and Stance and then further organised into six smaller units. These six relational key indicators can be used by empirical researchers to capture and illuminate the ongoing relational processes between teachers and students on a micro-level, as well as support pre-service and in-service teachers to create sustainable and trustful relationships with their students. Finally, the article discusses how this nuanced taxonomy can be applied in practice and research to cultivate the relational proficiencies of teachers in the twenty-first century.

'Qualculating' a low-carbon future – Assessing the performativity of models in the construction of the French net zero strategy

The aim underlying the notion of a Net zero 2050 future (NZ 2050) is the achievement of a balance between anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases by sources, and their removals by carbon sinks, by the mid-point of the current century. This paper delves into the relation between numerical modelling and political decisionmaking in the construction of a NZ future, by examining the recent development of the French national low-carbon strategy (SNBC-2) (2016-2018) and related processes. SNBC-2 was the first attempt to put a NZ2050 France, and the path towards it, into a numerical, calculative form. We show that, aside from yielding a collective capacity to quantify farther into the future, one major lesson of the French attempt at representing NZ2050 was that available models for doing so were of limited relevance. The analysis discusses these shortcomings and their implications with regard to the performativity of numerical models in making NZ2050 a doable horizon. Performativity refers to a circular and dynamic relation between modelling and the realm that they aim to represent (here, NZ2050 future). Modelling a future is thus conceived as an algorithmic and relational process, which contributes to the assembly of all the elements that might compose this future, or to bringing about their emergence. Based on the notion, drawn from science and technology studies, of ‘qualculation’ – which understands calculation as a process that is at once qualitative and quantitative, relational and algorithmic – we underline the crucial, but ambiguous role of non-calculative adjustments used to compensate for the calculative limitations of models. We show that these adjustments can potentially lead to both gain and loss in performativity, depending on whether or not the qualculation process makes them explicit and allows them to be collectively remembered and critically discussed. We also argue that calculative limitations and the resulting adjustments show that the relationship between models and policymaking is somewhat more reciprocal than what has been argued in the literature: models do encapsulate a form of politics which they enact, but they also can be challenged and reshaped by the emergence of new political objectives.

Conceptualising feminist resistance in the postfeminist terrain

PurposeIn this paper, women entrepreneurs are seen as leaders and women leaders as entrepreneurial, making both groups an easy target of postfeminist expectations, governed by calls to embody the entrepreneurial self. Acknowledging that the entrepreneurial self has its roots in the universal, rational and autonomous subject, which was shaped in a male form during the Enlightenment, the purpose of this study is to conceptualise feminist resistance as a process through which the autonomous subject can be de-stabilised.Design/methodology/approachEmpirically, this study draws on an extensive research project on women’s rural entrepreneurship that includes 32 in-depth interviews with women entrepreneurs in rural Sweden. This study interpreted expressions of resistance from the women by using an analytical framework the authors developed based on Jonna Bornemark’s philosophical treatise.FindingsFeminist resistance unfolds as an interactive and iterative learning process where the subject recognises their voice, strengthens their voice and beliefs in a relational process and finally sees themselves as a fully fledged actor who finds ways to overcome obstacles that get in their way. Conceptualising resistance as a learning process stands in sharp contrast to the idea of resistance as enacted by the autonomous self.Research limitations/implicationsThis study helps researchers to understand that what they may have seen as a sign of weakness among women, is instead a sign of strength: it is a first step in learning resistance that may help women create a life different from that prescribed by the postfeminist discourse. In this way, researchers can avoid reproducing women as “weak and inadequate”.Originality/valueThrough the re-writing of feminist resistance, the masculine entrepreneurship discourse including the notion of the autonomous self is challenged, and a counternarrative to the postfeminist entrepreneurial woman is developed. Theorising resistance as a learning practice enables a more transforming research agenda, making it possible to see women as resisting postfeminist expectations of endless competition with themselves and others.

Relations in Aesthetic Space: How Color Enables Market Positioning

Color is omnipresent, but organizational research features no systematic theory or established method for analyzing it. We develop a relational approach to color, conceptualizing it as a means of positioning relative to a reference group or style and validating it through a computational method for processing digital images. The research context is Norwegian black metal—a genre of extreme metal music that achieved notoriety in the early 1990s through band members’ criminal activity. Our analysis of 5,125 album covers between 1989 and 2019 confirms the alignment of aesthetic and music features and articulates the role of color in the construction of a relational identity based on forces of association and disassociation. Black metal bands associated with past color choices of non-black metal bands up to a point, after which they started to disassociate from them. The positioning is dynamic, pursuing adaptation to external events. Black metal bands reacted to their stigmatization in Norwegian society by increasing colorfulness and later returning to a darker aesthetic in defiance of the genre’s commercialization. Our analysis attests to color’s ability to organize producers’ exchange of information and attention, illustrating the interweaving of aesthetic features and relational processes in markets.

Customer injustice and service employees' customer‐oriented citizenship behavior: A social exchange perspective

SummaryRecent research has uncovered the debilitating effects that customers' unfair treatment of service workers has for both employees and their employers. These studies have largely explained the effects of customer mistreatment through a conservation of resources (COR) theory lens, arguing that customer injustice depletes the regulatory resources of service employees, thereby impairing their well‐being and ability to perform their jobs effectively. In our paper, we contend that aspects of employee–customer social exchange should also be considered, and that such relational processes are critical above and beyond COR effects. After formulating our theoretical model, we offer time‐lagged data from a field study of service workers (N = 337) supporting our hypothesis that the negative relationship between customer injustice and employee citizenship behavior directed toward customers is sequentially mediated by perceived customer support and customer commitment, respectively, over and above COR effects. Incorporating insights from the customer service literature, we further demonstrate the role of display rule perceptions as a moderator of these sequential indirect effects.

TRANSITIVITY ANALYSIS IN JONATHAN MURRAY CHU’S MOVIE “CRAZY RICH ASIANS”

This study aims at explaining the transitivity processes and their effectiveness in Jonathan Murray Chu's Crazy Rich Asians movie. It uses a qualitative method. The data are the utterances of the characters in the Crazy Rich Asians movie. Then, they are categorized and analyzed based on the processes of transitivity and their effectiveness. The types of transitivity processes found in the movie are material processes of action and event, mental processes of perception, cognition and affection, relational processes of identification and attributive, verbal processes, behavioral processes, and existential process. For their effectiveness transitivity components can be measured by ten parameters i.e participant, kinesis, aspect, punctuality, affirmation, mode, agency, affectedness of object, and individuation of object.

Reflections on nursing students’ fear and anxiety arising from clinical practicums

Background. Anxiety and fear are emotional responses that may emerge when individuals anticipate threats. Undergraduate nursing students may experience feelings of hopelessness and anguish in the clinical learning experience, directly impacting their academic performance. This study aims to reflect upon the fear and anxiety faced by nursing students during clinical training.
 Synopsis of Contents. Two thematic axes were focused: Students’ perception regarding preceptorship attitudes and positions; Relational teaching-learning processes and their influence on the students’ professional identity. Preceptors are expected to encourage the establishment and maintenance of good relationships in the collaborative network in which students are included, especially with the multi-professional health team, to have more comprehensive academic support.
 Conclusion. The role and importance of each individual in academic training, such as students and professors, is emphasized, seeking to promote positive experiences in the teaching-learning process to enable undergraduate students to more effectively develop moral sensitivity and take responsibility for patient-centered care.

Reflections on nursing students fear and anxiety arising from clinical practicums.

Anxiety and fear are emotional responses that may emerge when individuals anticipate threats. Undergraduate nursing students may experience feelings of hopelessness and anguish in the clinical learning experience, directly impacting their academic performance. This study aims to reflect upon the fear and anxiety faced by nursing students during clinical training. Two thematic axes were focused: Students' perception regarding preceptorship attitudes and positions; Relational teaching-learning processes and their influence on the students' professional identity. Preceptors are expected to encourage the establishment and maintenance of good relationships in the collaborative network in which students are included, especially with the multi-professional health team, to have more comprehensive academic support. The role and importance of each individual in academic training, such as students and professors, is emphasized, seeking to promote positive experiences in the teaching-learning process to enable undergraduate students to more effectively develop moral sensitivity and take responsibility for patient-centered care.

Knowing, relating and the absence of conflict: relational leadership processes between hospital boards and chairs of nurse councils

PurposeThis study aims to enhance understanding of the collaboration between chairs of nurse councils (CNCs) and members of executive hospital boards (BM) from a relational leadership perspective.Design/methodology/approachThe authors used a qualitative and interpretive methodology. The authors study the daily interactions of BM and CNCs of seven Dutch hospitals through a relational leadership lens. The authors used a combination of observations, interviews and document analysis. The author’s qualitative analysis was used to grasp the process of collaborating between BM and CNCs.FindingsKnowing each other, relating with and relating to are distinct but intertwined processes that influence the collaboration between BM and CNC. The absence of conflict is also regarded as a finding in this paper. Combined together, they show the importance of a relational process perspective to understand the complexity of collaboration in hospitals.Originality/valueCollaboration between professional groups in hospitals is becoming more important due to increasing interdependence. This is a consequence of the complexity in organizing qualitative care. Nevertheless, research on the process of collaborating between nurse councils (NCs) and executive hospital boards is scarce. Furthermore, the understanding of the workings of boards, in general, is limited. The relational process perspective and the combination of observations, interviewing and document analysis proved valuable in this study and is underrepresented in leadership research. This process perspective is a valuable addition to skills- and competencies-focused leadership literature.

Congregational Music as Phatic Communication: Affect, Atmosphere, and Relational Ways of Listening and Being

Much of the scholarship of congregational music focuses on participatory music in organized corporate worship. This article draws on theories of communication and affect to examine the secondary, background music that happens alongside other events in a worship service or in places other than the space of the sanctuary. Instead of understanding affects as an individual emotion, this article argues that music is made meaningful through a socio-cultural and relational affective process. This in turn enables one to understand how musics, particularly secondary non-participatory musics, work beyond language and representation in phatic ways that can engender powerful feelings of human community and sacred connection.