Symbolic Context Research Articles

Comparing Ninth-Grade Students’ Approaches to Trigonometric Ratio Problems Through Real-World and Symbolic Contexts

This study investigates the problem-solving strategies employed by ninth-grade students when addressing symbolic and real-world contextual problems involving trigonometric ratios. Conducted with 46 ninth-grade students from a Turkish public high school, this research employed a worksheet consisting of six problems aligned with the Turkish ninth-grade mathematics curriculum. Three of these problems were based on real-world contexts, while the other three were conventional symbolic problems. The findings indicate that students exhibited proficiency in identifying similarity ratios using side length ratios. Additionally, the results revealed that students were more adept at solving real-world mathematical scenarios compared to purely symbolic tasks. This study offers significant insights into the problem-solving strategies of ninth-grade students when confronted with trigonometric ratio problems. It underscores crucial implications for mathematics curricula and pedagogy, highlighting the importance of preparing ninth-grade students for success in their future academic and professional endeavors. The study emphasizes the necessity for a balanced approach in teaching, integrating both real-world and symbolic problem-solving tasks to enhance students’ mathematical understanding and application. By identifying the strengths and areas for improvement in students’ problem-solving strategies, this research contributes to the development of more effective educational practices that address the diverse needs of learners.

Artistic transformations of the image of father in the Ukrainian cinema during the Stalinist era

The purpose of the article is to study the peculiarities of artistic interpretations of the image of father in Ukrainian cinema during the Stalinist era, with special attention to the socio-cultural and political factors of the period, which fundamentally influenced the trends in the interpretations of the screen image of father.
 The methodology. On the example of the films “Ivan” (1932), “Wonderful Garden” (1935), “Aerograd” (1935), “Guerillas in the steps of Ukraine” (1942), “Third strike” (1948) historical factors were analyzed that fundamentally determined the peculiarities of the screen character of father during the years of Soviet repressions. In the article, a definition of the concept of paternalism in the context of the theory of law and statecraft is provided. Also in the article Ukrainian films of the Stalinist era were studied, in which the paternal concept “The state is father of its citizens” was fully manifested. Socio-cultural analysis of films, in which the figure of the genetic father was relegated to the background by Soviet ideology, and the role of the main educator of children was taken over by representatives of the Russian imperial authorities, was carried out. The paternal figure is considered in the broadest symbolic context — when the paternal role for a citizens can be played by an entire social institution or the apparatus of state power.
 The results. The period of Joseph Stalin turned out to be one of the most difficult in Ukrainian history. In those years, the Ukrainian nation faced numerous political cataclysms: industrialization, the Holodomor, deportation to remote regions of the USSR, repressions and World War II. However, the cinematography presented a completely transformed picture of reality, according to which the Bolshevik government was a kind and caring father for Ukrainians, but not a cruel tyrant. Nevertheless, even in such a tragic historical period, national directors were able to reflect in propagandistic films the longing of Ukrainian society for the traditional family system, and by biological parents in particular.
 The scientific novelty. The main attention is focused on the essential characteristics of the archetypal image of father and it makes it possible to analyze many Ukrainian classic films in a new scientific context.
 The practical significance. The article can contribute to further research in the field of several humanitarian disciplines: film studies, cultural studies, art studies, sociology and History of Ukraine.

ОБРАЗ ВРЕМЕНИ И ПРОСТРАНСТВА В ТЮРКСКОМ ТРАДИЦИОННОМ ДЕКОРАТИВНОМ ИСКУССТВЕ

The world culture knows various systems of time calculation, and one of the most complex is the 12-year animal cycle (the Tengrian calendar), which has allowed to order the nomad’s existence, to form a globally important ability to live in a single rhythm with time and space. This calendar, like all other ethnocultural calendars, is not only a “time-measuring device”, but a much wider and more extensive cultural phenomenon. This article reveals the problems of time and space reflection in Turkic arts and crafts, or rather in ornaments. The thesis that the spatio-temporal picture in art is represented exclusively in a symbolic context is already undeniable. This context can be expressed in a variety of images: geometric, zoomorphic, plant and even anthropomorphic. The article focuses on the comprehension of animal images of the Tengrian calendar and their reflection in the Kazakh ornamental system. At the same time, the author is far from thinking that all samples of traditional arts and crafts reflect the folk calendar, but it is difficult to ignore some of its echoes. Thus, the article clarifies the traditional Kazakh names of the years of the Tengrian calendar, and also presents some aspects of comprehension of animal images in the ornamental system.

Resources in the Advertisement of Tertiary Institutions Qualifying Exams

The study adopts van Leeuwen’s social semiotics theory. The study reveals that the advertisers deploy semiotic resources which suit the symbolic context of appealing to the dreams and anxiety of the admission seekers.

CMMS-GCL: Cross-Modality Metabolic Stability Prediction with Graph Contrastive Learning.

Metabolic stability plays a crucial role in the early stages of drug discovery and development. Accurately modeling and predicting molecular metabolic stability has great potential for the efficient screening of drug candidates as well as the optimization of lead compounds. Considering wet-lab experiment is time-consuming, laborious, and expensive, in silico prediction of metabolic stability is an alternative choice. However, few computational methods have been developed to address this task. In addition, it remains a significant challenge to explain key functional groups determining metabolic stability. To address these issues, we develop a novel cross-modality graph contrastive learning model named CMMS-GCL for predicting the metabolic stability of drug candidates. In our framework, we design deep learning methods to extract features for molecules from two modality data, i.e., SMILES sequence and molecule graph. In particular, for the sequence data, we design a multi-head attention BiGRU-based encoder to preserve the context of symbols to learn sequence representations of molecules. For the graph data, we propose a graph contrastive learning-based encoder to learn structure representations by effectively capturing the consistencies between local and global structures. We further exploit fully connected neural networks to combine the sequence and structure representations for model training. Extensive experimental results on two datasets demonstrate that our CMMS-GCL consistently outperforms seven state-of-the-art methods. Furthermore, a collection of case studies on sequence data and statistical analyses of the graph structure module, strengthens the validation of the interpretability of crucial functional groups recognized by CMMS-GCL. Overall, CMMS-GCL can serve as an effective and interpretable tool for predicting metabolic stability, identifying critical functional groups, and thus facilitating the drug discovery process and lead compound optimization. The code and data underlying this article are freely available at https://github.com/dubingxue/CMMS-GCL. Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

Sawsawan: explicating the culinary heritage significance of Philippine condiments using bibliometrics (1972–2018)

The Philippine condiment, or sawsawan, comes in many forms such as suka (vinegar), toyo (soy sauce), patis (fish sauce), and calamansi (Philippine lime), to name a few. This paper aims to create a bibliographic database surrounding sawsawan with the goal of preserving the culture and adding information on Filipino heritage, as well as garnering attention and appreciation for Philippine condiments to further the nation’s culinary heritage. The qualitative research approach was used to investigate three themes of culinary heritage significance: aesthetics, social relevance, and symbolic context. A total of 523 definitions of various sawsawan were categorized into seven themes: matubig, durog, pinreserba, sariwa, mamantika, maykapares, and pinaghalo. Through the bibliometric approach, the study showed that sawsawan has the potential to be more known locally and globally. About 56 references that discuss the culinary heritage significance of Philippine condiments have been found, ensuring the timeless nature of the rich Filipino culinary heritage. Some 26 publishers from four countries and 58 authors, mostly Filipinos, contributed to Philippine cuisine literature. Food enthusiasts, food writers and editors, and chefs will have a better understanding of each condiment and can choose the combinations that will work best for their dishes. This study may also be helpful as related literature to future scholars working on a related topic.

Towards a Politics of Recognition: Exploring the Symbolic Contexts of Material Agroecological Transitions

Scientific debates on agroecology highlight the relevance of appropriate narratives as a means to widen and amplify agroecological transitions in the material world. However, it is actually far-right discourses—often linked to populist political proposals—which, though not majoritarian, are reaching broad and growing diffusion among both rural communities and farmers. Research focusing on the symbolic mechanisms around food systems’ transitions are scarce. In order to address this gap, an exploratory research project was developed to identify responses to different messages and audiovisual languages favorable to agroecological transitions, through the dissemination of three brief audiovisual pieces among specific socio-professional profiles linked to food systems, together with an online survey. The results obtained (n = 524) show significant differences in the responses to open questions collected, regarding socio-economic diversity expressed in the axes male/female, urban/rural, farmer/not farmer and organic/conventional farming. Responses from conventional farmers express a need for developing a “politics of recognition” and repair that would acknowledge the unfair, subordinated role that farmers and rural communities feel in the current globalized food system. The paper shows the need for further empirical research on the issue, covering different territories and socio-economic and cultural profiles, in order to fully understand the symbolic mechanisms underlying material, agroecological transitions.

Artifacts from the Perspective of Effutu Masquerade Performance: An Aesthetic Album

Artifacts from the Perspective of Effutu Masquerade Performance: An Aesthetic Album

Semiotic Resources in the Rhetoric of Advertising Tertiary Institutions

The study adopts van Leeuwen’s social semiotics theory. The study reveals that the advertisers deploy semiotic resources which suit the symbolic context of appealing to the dreams and anxiety of the admission seekers. It also demonstrates how general features of advertising language are harnessed creatively with digital resources to achieve rhetorical effect.

«Забороведение» Валерия Савчука: размышления о пределах цивилизации и возможностях человека

The article is a reflection on the recently published book by Valery Savchuk “Fence as a balance of forces”. The author uses solid historical and cultural ma­terial to reveal the key symbolic contexts of a fence as a special cultural code. In the symbolism of a fence, the fundamental existentially and socially oriented cultural attitudes are correlated, in which the philosophical and cultural pro­paedeutics of “native” and “alien” is dialectically represented. The fence appears to be a leading civilizational symbol of protected everyday life and mastered space, as well as a natural result of the individual demystification of the world. On the other hand, these structures should be considered as elements of a single civilizational system “house – fence – city wall”, in which the social priorities of the organization of any institutional spaces are clearly fixed. This means that the fence is a border separating/uniting man and nature, man and society, “city” and “world”, turning into an integral element of the institutional topology of civ­ilization, physically and symbolically holding collective bodies in the space of power. The sacralization of power inevitably turns the fence into a symbol of social domination over nature within the boundaries of established laws and reg­ulations. Such limits are extensively reproduced by stratifying and preserving panoptic environments, acting as visible indicators and conduits of social alien­ation, whereas new technological conditions only aggravate anthropological and institutional isolationism every time, condemning civilization to previously un­precedented tragedies of separation and loneliness.

"ЗЕРЦАЛО ЧЕЛОВЕЧЕСКОГО СПАСЕНИЯ" В МОНУМЕНТАЛЬНОЙ ЖИВОПИСИ ВОСТОЧНОЙ ПРУССИИ: ВИЗУАЛЬНАЯ ИНТЕРТЕКСТУАЛЬНОСТЬ

This research is dedicated to two rare cycles of monumental painting from the second half of the 14th century, in the interior of Königsberg (Kaliningrad) Cathedral and St. Catherine’s Church in Arnau (Rodniki, Kaliningrad region). Although these monuments are almost completely lost, their reconstruction based on available photo documents, sketches, and descriptions carries a special value towards understanding the visual intertextuality of the Speculum humanae salvationis iconographic program in the symbolic context of the architectural space of the two churches. Contrary to the monumental cycles of Europe sharing this iconography, here in these two the zoning of space for knights and townspeople plays an important role. The study concludes that the manuscript miniatures from Wolfenbüttel HAB 2805 and the East Prussian mural cycles have a common protograph of the “Italian” or “mixed” type in an abbreviated edition (“Cologne group”), which can be traced back to an earlier prototgraph (of the “Italian” type), used in the Darmstadt Codex Hs. 2505. The interest of the patrons in the iconographic program, which preaches the dignity of the priesthood, could be associated with the relationship between the clergy of the Samland diocese and the Teutonic Knights engaged in northern crusades.

O jogo teatral e a construção do conhecimento simbólico: do jogar à experiência significativa

Abstract This article aims to analyze the practice of the theater games by Viola Spolin (1906-1994) in her construction of the symbolic form and as a driver of meaningful experience (Dewey 1859-1952). The definition of symbolic form will be based on the writings of the philosopher Ernst Cassirer (1874-1945) and the philosopher and educator Susana Langer (1895-1985). For these thinkers, the symbolic is presented as a fundamental element of knowledge and structuring of human culture in myth, religion, language, history, and art. The central problem of this research is based on theater-educational studies experienced by the authors, taking the practices of the theater games as a way of expanding knowledge for an integration of the being, as a cultural, social, and symbolic form being, in the construction of practices of significant acts in the world. Thus, the methodology used is the bibliographic review of the fundamental concepts of theater games in correlation with the construction of symbolic knowledge. We aim to understand art in the production of the symbolic context so that we can base the embodiment as a symbol. Such studies aim to promote the consummate experience of game practitioners in the theater-educational context, supported by the principle that the aesthetic experience played will enable the expansion of the player’s experience so that they can re-signify their world, building autonomy and knowledge of/in the aesthetic experience in a constant process of living and learning, forged in the webs of culture.

“Daily Burnt-Offering” and “Financial Offering”: The Understanding of Service in the Hevrat Shomerim la-Boker

At first sight, the charter of Venetian Hevrat Shomerim la-Boker (active circa 16–17th century) mirrors the conflict between the religious aim of the fraternity’s creation and the attention its compilers gave to the procedural and administrative issues. However, the in-depth examination of the data presented in the charter reveals the deep connection between various payments and the religious character of the fraternity. This connection dwells on the range of dual meanings indicative of the payments imposed on the fraternity members. The present paper discusses the dual meanings, connotations, and symbolic dimensions of several aspects of the fraternity’s activities. Two fraternity charters accessed through its minute book (pinkas) provide the necessary data. The first section examines the terminology used to designate payments; the second highlights the connection between the charter and the “last days” before the coming of the Messiah; the third section analyzes the connotations of the “new moon evening” when one of the key fraternity procedures occurred. The data at hand suggests that the fraternity aimed to restore the Temple sacrifice in a symbolic form. The “new sacrifice” took the form of various payments, primarily the monthly payment – tamid, which corresponds to the daily Temple sacrifice. The other aspects of the fraternity’s activities have a symbolic dimension, too. For example, the afternoon prayer on the new moon day, which corresponds to the additional sacrifice in the Temple, turns into one of the central events in the fraternity’s life. Understanding the symbolic contexts of the association’s charter gives way to at least partial reconstruction of the worldviews, mentality, and identity of the fraternity’s members and broadly the early modern Venetian Jews.

Conceptions of Zero Among Students With and Without Learning Disabilities

Zero is philosophically and symbolically interpreted differently from other numbers throughout the history, and is at the basis of mathematics although it is denounced as it represents nothing. In the current study, the understanding of zero of the students with learning disabilities (LD) and non-learning disabilities (NLD) were investigated. It is a multiple case study based on qualitative design. The participants of the study were six students, 3 students with LD and 3 with NLD, aged between 10-12 years. In the data collection that is conducted through clinical interviews, the meaning of zero as a number, its meaning of nothing, cardinality of an empty set, and its use as a symbol (place value-placeholder-digit) were examined. According to the findings that were obtained through content analysis method, it was observed that the conceptualizations of the students with LD and NLD regarding zero show similarities only in their use of the knowledge about symbolic contexts. The results were discussed considering the similarities and differences in the conceptions of the students with LD and NLD.

La tesis doctoral de Joaquín V. González en un estudio sobre tesis doctorales en la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba de fines del Siglo XIX

This work emerges from my ongoing doctoral research, called "The doctoral theses produced in the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences of the National University of Córdoba during the period 1883-1904: meanings and representations in the framework of modernization". I develop an analytical approach, from the historiographical approach of intellectual history, of the thesis entitled "Study on the Revolution", written by Joaquín V. González, whose choice justified in the political, social and cultural transcendence of the work and its author. I propose to describe the institutional, social and symbolic context of production of the thesis studied, within the political-ideological process of Argentina in the late nineteenth century and describe the trajectory of the thesis. Considering both, develop a beginning of their analysis, exposing the use of predominant words, such as the word revolution.

A confusion of tongues: Trauma, fantasy, and dissociation in Lacanian theory and the imperative for social change

Discussions of treatment and recovery from child sexual abuse often focus on the therapeutic aspects of speech and witness. Using concepts from Lacanian theory and from Sandor Ferenczi’s account of child sexual trauma, this article argues that speech and witness are not, in themselves, sufficient to facilitate recovery. While misogyny and violence are embedded within the available symbolic contexts within which survivors must attempt to recover, social and political change is needed to enable recovery for survivors of sexual abuse. Implications for recovery from other socially sanctioned traumas, such as racial trauma, are explored.

Community mobilisation in the framework of supportive social environment to prevent family violence in Solomon Islands

• Supportive social environment is vital for effective and sustainable community mobilisation to prevent family violence. • Rigid social and gender norms and bride price in Solomon Islands can and do reinforce violence against women and girls (VAWG). • Understanding context specific factors of social environment is a vital first step in developing violence prevention interventions. • There is a dearth of evidence on response to and prevention of VAWG in the Pacific region. This paper seeks to fill some of those gaps. Community mobilisation is one of the promising approaches to prevent Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG). Yet, there is very little research on the social contextual factors of community mobilisation for violence prevention based on broader theoretical framework. Particularly, the South Pacific remains one of the most under-researched regions in the world. This paper aims to address this and attempts to conduct process evaluation by elucidating the contexts that facilitated or hindered sustainable community mobilisation to prevent VAWG implemented by the Safe Families programme in Solomon Islands where the prevalence of violence is significantly high. This study adopted the Social Environment Framework developed by Campbell and Cornish, 2010 , Mannell and Dadswell, 2017 . They sought social contextual factors comprised of symbolic, material, relational and institutional dimensions that are of crucial importance to examine the mobilisation process, hence having influence on programme outcomes. Qualitative data were collected and analysed from 33 In-depth Interviews and 15 Focus Group Discussions with community and Oxfam staff members in 6 communities of Malaita and Temotu provinces and Honiara. A thematic analysis presented various contextual factors in the framework of Social Environment. Those include: (1) the symbolic context addressing social and gender norms that condone VAWG in the context of small and remote island communities; (2) the lack of consideration for a comprehensive programming that includes economic and material based support for sustainable interventions; (3) formation of long-term, trusting and mutually respectful relationships with communities and external stakeholders; and (4) strong demand for the institutional support through gender-responsive policy and legal systems as well as informal community by-laws that are instrumental in successful prevention interventions. Overall, the supportive Social Environment is of vital importance to achieve effective and sustainable community mobilisation, and is useful when policy makers and implementing agencies formulate community based violence prevention interventions.

Anthropomorphism and Zoomorphism in the Ornamental Art of the Crimean Tatars

The author of the article reveals the problem of anthropomorphic and zoomorphic images in Islamic art, particularly in the Turkic ornamentation of the Crimea. Superficial, unscientific interpretations of motifs and ornamental compositions often lead to the search for and appropriation of anthropomorphism without appropriate research, loose interpretations of motifs, and the creation of a new mythology. Despite conservative views regarding the categorical denial of the permissiveness of the image of a person, there are many surviving works of fine and decorative art that confirm an opposite tradition. Currently, there are practically no studies of anthropomorphism and zoomorphism in the Turkic ornamentation of the Crimea, their typological and artistic features, and their symbolic context. Based on the material of decorative and applied art of the Crimean Tatars from the fourteenth century to the present, examples of zoomorphic and anthropomorphic ornamental images are provided in the article. They are stylized objects – fully, partially, or in the form of a silhouette – reflecting the surrounding real world of living beings. Complete naturalistic images (birds, fish, animals, insects) are found on objects until the first half of fifteenth century, and then starting again from the second half of eighteenth century. From the sixteenth to the first half of eighteenth centuries, anthropomorphic and zoomorphic motifs were depicted in a stylized form. The author of the study reveals the symbolism of the most common motifs, along with the typological and artistic features of the images. As a result of the study, it was revealed that the color, silhouette, and figurativeness of anthropomorphic and zoomorphic images in the Crimean Tatar decorative and applied art depend primarily on the material, technique, and functional purpose of the created object. In addition to images on objects, anthropomorphism is present as the silhouette of objects.

The Universe as an Aesthetic Symbolism of Postmodernity

The article reveals the philosophical, worldview, aesthetically-axiological aspects of considering the universe as a symbolic phenomenon of the postmodern era. It is emphasized that the analysis of beauty, as the basic category of aesthetics, needs to find out its aggregate nature, depending on the individual and social semantic characteristics of reality. One of the key points of such an analysis is its metaphysical problematic – the direct emergence of constructive emotion into the realm of the transcendental, namely, the view of Man from the Universe from the standpoint of eternity. The timeliness and necessity of considering the problem of the symbolic context of the universe is obvious in the context of the third millennium, the realities of which call into question the very fact of conservation of wildlife on Earth. In the minds of assimilating the finality of the earthly boot, its primarity of progressive stochasticity, in the midst of the amplification of the eschatological context, the people of the era of postmodernity are demonstrating the development of the fastflowing, hardened nonsense. In the philosophical tradition, the symbol is the role of a pure "selfness", not tied to the powerful moment of the object: the symbolic picture does not reflect reality, as it is - the symbol of knowing the "refair" in the sphere of the virtual. It is proved that for the modern man the Universe is the object of not only scientific, technological, but also philosophical, cultural studies, it synthesizes for the unity of the object of scientific interest, a symbol of aesthetic pleasure and a source of formation of appropriate images and archetypes.

On the Visual Symbols of Dian Bronze Animal Decoration

Among the animal patterns on the bronzes of the Dian Kingdom, the cow and the snake are the most common and 
 representative visual symbols. They have strong visual tension, expressiveness and artistic appeal, showing the unique artistic 
 aesthetics and ideas of the ancients of Dian Kingdom, and They all have specific meanings and contexts. This article mainly 
 explores the decorative symbols of animal decorations in Yunnan bronzes, and uses “ox” and “snakes” as the main objects to 
 analyze semantics and context.Methods:This article first elaborates on the types and decorations of ancient Dian bronzes, and then 
 elaborates on the characteristics and symbolic meanings of cow and snake patterns by listing some representative Dian bronzes; 
 finally, it is in-depth with the semantics and context of visual symbols. Analysis. Result:The types of animal images on the bronze 
 ware of Yunnan culture are rich and diverse, and each animal has different shapes and forms, and has its own symbolic meaning and 
 function. This also reveals the relationship between man and nature from the side, reflecting the ancient people of Yunnan’s sacrifices 
 and sacrifices. The social and economic conditions such as hunting and breeding record the trivial life of the ancients. The animal 
 decoration art of the Dian Kingdom has a very strong ethnic customs and regional characteristics. It depicts the intense scenes of 
 animal daily life and fighting in detail. The animal’s shape, demeanor and own characteristics are all vividly shaped, with a strong 
 artistic atmosphere and visual tension. To a large extent reflects the aesthetic concept and ideological pursuit of the ancients of Dian 
 Kingdom. Conclusion:The two visual symbols of the cow pattern and the snake pattern are the records of the people of the ancient 
 Dian kingdom on nature and life, and they also carry the ancient people’s feelings for nature. They reflect the religious beliefs and 
 ideas of the ancient Dian civilization and have local characteristics and customs. , It is the spiritual sustenance of the ancient Dian 
 people to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages.