Rational Type Research Articles

Неклассическая парадигма политического управления: политический менеджмент

The article considers and analyzes the phenomenon of political management as a reflection of the non-classical type of scientific rationality and the non-classical paradigm of political management. The interdisciplinary nature of political management, the possibilities and limitations of its application in political management in the aspect of transformation of its manipulative essence in the direction of mediation and coordination of interaction of political actors are revealed.

Yritysten joukkorahoituskutsut genrehybrideinä koronapandemian ja Ukrainan sodan aikana

Crowdfunding campaigns are a form of digital fundraising in which anyone can participate as a supporter (backer). The central genre of crowdfunding is campaign call, that is, a fundraising-oriented pitch published on a crowdfunding platform. This study focuses on crowdfunding campaign calls in times of two world-wide crises: Ukrainian war and Covid pandemic. The aim of the study is to find out what kinds of hybrid genres crisis-contextualized crowdfunding campaign calls are. The material of the study consists of 67 successful business-oriented campaign calls, 27 of which are from Ukrainian companies fundraising on Kickstarter during the Ukrainian war, while 20 Mesenaatti campaign calls belong to Finnish and 20 Indiegogo calls mainly to U.S. companies suffering from the Covid pandemic. The study utilizes Rhetorical Genre Studies (RGS) and approaches crowdfunding campaign calls as mixtures or combinations of characteristics from several genres. The study discusses the five most typical genres found in the data: 1) entrepreneurial narrative, 2) advertisement, 3) conditions of contract and delivery, 4) project plan, and 5) political statement. The results indicate that in times of societal crises, crowdfunding campaign calls mix emotion-evoking storytelling and political stance-taking with more rational types, such as product information (a type of advertising) and project plan.

New Reversals in the Theory and Methodology of Political Science: Introducing the Issue

The editorial board presents an issue dedicated to the consideration of topical subjects and variants of methodological approaches in modern political science. The editorial review examines the global trends of turbulence and nonlinearity of development, which pose new largescale tasks for political theory to comprehend new political processes and phenomena. To a great extent, they are associated with the assertion of a “post-non-classical” type of rationality, which requires a revision of established practices, methodologies and research methods. Yet, in conditions of chaos and uncertainty, the potential of political theory remains largely underestimated against the background of a passion for commenting on current politics.

The System-communicative Theory: Structure, Anomalies, Application

The article provides a critical analysis of the main theoretical provisions of the system-communicative approach. As a starting point, the premise of communicative interaction is considered as a substrate of any public interactions, the foundation of social as such, which is conceptually justified in the works by N. Luhmann. It demonstrates both the methodological success of the use of system-communicative theory within a wide range of social fields of knowledge (sociology, epistemology, economics, political theory, psychology, art research, etc.), and a number of internal limitations (in legal theory, in the study of religious practices). Structure-forming developments of the conceptual apparatus of system-communicative theory are discussed, for example, the concepts of “media” and “form” proposed in the social psychology by F. Heider. The authors reconstruct the theoretical framework of the system analysis of communication on the basis of fundamental differences in act/experience, Ego/the Other and the comparison of the fields of their combinations and constellations. The empirical outcomes of the systemic view of communication are examined in detail, during which anomalies are identified — some gaps, or problem areas, or systemic inconsistencies in the course of communicative interaction within the framework of the proposed unified scheme of the ratio of combinations/constellations of distinctions. Special attention is paid to comparing and identifying the specifics of scientific and political communicative subsystems. Behind the first is approved a special type of system-communicative rationality, justifies the doubling of the binary true/false code in the application to scientific knowledge, proposes a variant for solving Gettiers paradox by system-communicative theory, and also notes the potential of system-communicative theory in ranking types of scientific knowledge, due to the evolutionary selection mechanism as part of the methodological basis of system-communicative theory. The political communication subsystem is provided by the authors for analysis in a system voltage with a scientific one, during which algorithms of rational re-entry and self-reproduction are revealed according to the means of binary oppositions and connections of actors (power, social movements, mass media, etc.).

Working as a contact center attendant: Relating purpose, meaning, sustainability and mental health.

There are companies that can be considered financially successful while creating negative externalities for their workers. This is the case of contact centers. The objective of this article is to investigate the challenges for a service company (such as a contact center) in reconciling its economic and financial objectives with the promotion of the work dimension, guaranteeing workers the possibility of professional, collective, and human development. This research has a qualitative ethnographic approach. An activity-centered work analysis method, also known as "Ergonomic Work Analysis" (EWA), was carried out in one of the largest companies in the Brazilian contact center market. The case shows that the achievement of economic-financial objectives of the analyzed company is mainly done by harming the well-being of its workers. In particular, the work of the attendants did not bring any development perspective for them. The prevalence of instrumental rationality in decision-making processes and the asymmetry of power relations between stakeholders are the main reasons why workers' well-being is not considered. The discussion proposes that work-related sciences, such as ergonomics and psychodynamics of work, can bring another type of rationality to the decision-making processes of companies. The work also needs to be sustainable enough to allow the construction and development of professionals, and the health of working population, while improving the company's performance.

Equivariant formality of the isotropy action on (ℤ2 ⊕ ℤ2)-symmetric spaces

Compact symmetric spaces are probably one of the most prominent class of formal spaces, i.e. of spaces where the rational homotopy type is a formal consequence of the rational cohomology algebra. As a generalization, it is even known that their isotropy action is equivariantly formal. In this paper, we show that [Formula: see text]-symmetric spaces are equivariantly formal and formal in the sense of Sullivan, in particular. Moreover, we give a short alternative proof of equivariant formality in the case of symmetric spaces with our new approach.

ANALYSIS OF CONSTRUCTIONS OF RECEIVED AMORTIZATION SYSTEMS

The theoretical research is devoted to the improvement of the existing structures of shock absorbers, which ensure the recovery of mechanical energy into electrical energy with further useful use. First of all, an analysis of the use of different shock absorbers by drive type was performed. The advantages and disadvantages of each of them are established according to the criterion parameters of reliability, manufacturability and operation. A refined classification of shock absorbers by type of kinematic connection and structural design is proposed. According to the proposed classification, the rational type of drive for creating new models of recuperative shock absorbers is determined to be hydraulic. According to the developed recommendations for choosing the shock absorber drive type, you can choose the drive type depending on the desired prevailing technical indicator. The paper presents the results of a theoretical study of existing designs of recuperative damping systems. It has been established that, in addition to energy recovery, such damping systems provide improved damping and damping performance and allow the user to choose the desired mode of operation of the suspension. Analysis of existing designs of regenerative shock absorbers indicates better efficiency of systems with feedback. This type of communication is provided in most cases by using electronic measuring systems with a control unit, which greatly complicates and increases the cost of the design. Based on the results of the theoretical analysis of the existing designs of recuperative shock absorbers of world manufacturers and developers, technical and technological requirements for new designs of recuperative shock absorbers were formed, which, in our opinion, are aimed at rationalization and optimization of the latter. According to the developed technical and technological requirements, a basic design scheme of a recuperative damping system with hydrovalves for improving quality parameters was developed. The principle of operation of the quality valve with a profiled spool window is described

Algorithm for a simulation model for the selection of a rational type of vans on technological routes of the transport and recycling system for recycling of a metallurgical enterprise

The article presents an algorithm of the simulation model for selecting the rational type of trucks on the technological routes of the transport and production system of waste transportation in the conditions of a metallurgical enterprise. The study was conducted on the basis of formalized models and queuing systems theory. In the simulation, a discrete-event model of a closed queuing system was chosen as the basic model. In this model, cars are represented as requests that go through the following phases of service: loading at the temporary waste storage dump; movement to the unloading point (crushing and sorting complex); unloading raw materials to the crushing and sorting complex; returning to the loading point along the same route; servicing of vehicle breakdowns. The following data were used to build the simulation model through statistical studies of the transportation process on technological routes: vehicle loading time, vehicle unloading time, and time determined by the duration of vehicle failure. When constructing the algorithm of the simulation model, the duration of one experiment and the number of simulation experiments were determined using the methods of mathematical statistics and the theory of experiment planning. The modeling process begins with the input of the following initial data: the number of vehicle units, the average vehicle travel time, the current amount of raw materials in the crushing and sorting complex, the vehicle carrying capacity, the intensity of raw material supply to the crushing and sorting complex, the vehicle unloading time, the intensity of minor vehicle breakdowns, and the intensity of vehicle repair. The algorithm is built in accordance with the principles of special states and meets the requirements for discrete-event models. As a result of the algorithm development, it will be possible to determine the required number (types) of vehicles necessary to ensure the smooth functioning of this transport and production system, to determine the idle time coefficient and the coefficient of time losses due to technological delays of vehicles.
 Key words: modeling, simulation model, dump truck, carrying capacity, metallurgical slag, crushing and screening equipment.

Hubert Treiber and the Sociology of Law of Max Weber: From the Ideal Types of Legal Rationality to the Plurality of Law

Abstract Hubert Treiber has established himself as one of the world’s leading scholars of Weber, in particular of his Sociology of Law. Especially, Treiber defends Weber’s decisive contribution to legal pluralism, comparable to Eugen Ehrlich’s, although from a quite different perspective. Indeed, it is not possible to analyse Weber’s distinction between state and non-state law (a central distinction for legal pluralism) without taking into consideration what he means, sociologically, by “law” on the one hand and by “the state” on the other. Weber’s ideal typical construction of social relations under the category “law” requires an Archimedean point, which is the formal rationality of law, closely associated, at the end of an historical development, with the efforts of legal abstraction and systematisation by the proponents of Pandectism in modern Germany. In the following text, linked to some of Treiber’s major works, the author addresses first Weber’s analysis of the rationalities of law, and then deals with the question of the plurality of law, as these two aspects are closely intertwined.

Integrating hormones and transcriptome to explore the formation of dwarf and lateral buds in Capsicum

Plant type in pepper is an important morphological characteristic and reproductive basis, among which dwarfing and lateral buds are important traits of plant type. Significantly, the integrated analysis of metabonomics and transcriptome data helps to elucidate the key metabolites and genes in the formation of plant-type traits, which is helpful to understand the formation of target traits. However, relevant studies on pepper are still lacking. In the current study, three pepper cultivars with significant differences in the two traits were used, then, RNA-seq of stem tissues was performed based on a sequencing platform, and HPLC-LC-MS was used for metabolite determination. The results showed that the low content of key cytokines, gibberellin and high content of auxin may be the important factors causing plant dwarfing. Meanwhile, jasmonic acid may be an important metabolic factor affecting the trait of branches. Moreover, combined with metabolic pathway analysis and transcription factor analysis, a total of 131 candidate genes were obtained, which were involved in metabolite synthesis and affect the formation of two important plant-type traits. These findings provide data support for metabolic and molecular basis of trait formation and give guiding significance for the improvement of rational plant type.

Rational type cyclic contraction in G-metric spaces

Rational type cyclic contraction in G-metric spaces

Against the newer evidentialists

A new wave of evidentialist theorizing concedes that evidentialism may be extensionally incorrect as an account of all-things-considered rational belief. Nevertheless, these newer evidentialists maintain that there is an importantly distinct type of epistemic rationality about which evidentialism may be the correct account. I argue that natural ways of developing the newer evidentialist position face opposite problems. One version, due to Christensen (Philos Phenomenol Res 103:501–517, 2021), may correctly describe what rationality requires, but does not entail the existence of a distinctively epistemic type of rationality. Another version, due to Maguire and Woods (Philos Rev 129:211–249, 2020), characterizes a normative concept that is both distinct and epistemic, but struggles to explain why this concept should be classified as a type of rationality. I conclude that the newer evidentialist strategy of extensional compromise may be less favorable to evidentialism than previously supposed.

Retracted: Rational Type Fuzzy-Contraction Results in Fuzzy Metric Spaces with an Application

Retracted: Rational Type Fuzzy-Contraction Results in Fuzzy Metric Spaces with an Application

Medical Thinking in the Light of Classical, Non-Classical and Post-Non-Classical Rationality

In the modern theory and practice of medical sciences, one can observe the proximity of various types of rationality, which determine both the direction and quality of thinking. This is due both to the heterogeneity of the development of various areas of medical culture and clinical thinking. This determines the relevance and expediency of the study, associated with the need to distinguish between the prevailing methods of rationality of medical thinking; to determine its direction and, accordingly, the effectiveness in the activities of medical workers. The definition of the limitations inherent in a particular type of scientific rationality in relation to medical thinking. This approach makes it possible to overcome the limitations associated with foundations of thinking in one form or another of scientific rationality, thereby expanding the heuristic possibilities of medical thinking itself as such. To achieve the goal of the study, methodological practices of philosophical reflection and analysis of thought processes are used. Classical rationality is characterized by a mechanistic approach to a person; non-classical rationality is characterized by the penetration of researchers into the microcosm and a corresponding expansion of ideas about reality; post-nonclassical rationality is characterized by a search for integrity and interactions, as well as human-dimensional research practices. The main conclusion arising from the study was the statement that medical thinking is characterized by the use of various types of rationality, which determines both the deontological approach to the patient, based on appropriate medical anthropology, and the choice of strategies and methods of treatment.

Health behavior in Russia during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In this article, we report results from a nationwide survey on pandemic-related health behavior in Russia. A total of 2,771 respondents aged 18 to 82 were interviewed between January 21 and March 3, 2021. The survey included questions on perceived vulnerability to coronavirus, prevention-related health behavior, readiness for vaccination, and general awareness about COVID-19. Descriptive data showed that 21.2% of respondents reported high vulnerability to the coronavirus, and 25% expressed fear. Moreover, 38.7% of the surveyed individuals reported low trust in vaccination efficacy, and 57.5% were unwilling to take a vaccine, which was much higher than the official data. Based on the evidence obtained, four types of health behavior during the pandemic were constructed. Rational (29.3%) and denying (28.6%) behaviors prevailed in men, while women were found to more likely behave with a vaccine-hesitant demeanor (35.7%). Educational background affected the proportion of respondents with the denying type of health behavior, who were also of younger age. The rational behavioral type was found to be more common among respondents aged above 50 years and prevailed as well among individuals with university degrees. The middle-aged population of Russia was highly compliant with prevention-related health practices; however, vaccine hesitancy was also high among them. Furthermore, health behaviors varied significantly across the Federal Districts of Russia. We are convinced that our results contribute to existing public health practices and may help improve communication campaigns to cause positive health behaviors.

Законность как юридическая данность или социальный конструкт?

Abstract: The introduction to this article deals with the problem of understanding legality as a fundamental category of legal science and legal practice in general. The genesis of the concept «legality» and the evolution of ideas about this category are considered both contextually, i.e. in terms of material conditions of people’s life and their mentality, and in discursive practices reflecting the scientific community’s ideas about this phenomenon. The connection of the connotation of this concept with the types of legal understanding is noted. Methods: this article proposes to use the post-classical approach as a kind of moderate post-postmodern type of scientific rationality, which emphasises the contextuality of legal phenomena. Therefore, this methodological strategy, from the point of view of the author of the article, looks more adequate in comparison with the established in science notion that «legality» is always a steady observance of the law, which has the attribute of universality and, therefore, has a universal character. The results of the study suggest the following: legality contains a dialectical combination: on the one hand, adherence to the law, on the other hand, it allows a certain backlash for the negation of old outdated norms in the everyday behavioural practices of all those who create and apply the law. This, in turn, gives grounds for an acceptable mechanism of adaptation to the system in which a person actually lives, in which he realises his social statuses, including in the sphere of law. The article actualises the idea that legality is a construct that is formed by man at all stages of his formation as a social being, in potency claiming universal law and order. Therefore, a more adequate strategy of understanding «legality» from the point of view of post-classical theory is proposed, according to which «legality» acts as a regime in which subjects of law realise their legal statuses in all spheres of society.

Реляционный аспект неэмоциональности

Introduction. The article presents the relational aspect of non-emotionality as a type of cognition and scientific development of reality in particular. The focus is on non-emotional states that influence scientific activity and characterize the modern type of scientific rationality, as well as the relational concept of time. The aim of the research in this regard is to study the ontological sources of the phenomenon of non-emotionality, the conditions and relationships that lead to creative solutions. Theoretical analysis. The relational approach allows us to explore the possibilities of the mind in a state of emotionlessness both in scientific activity and in the cognitive process as a whole. Non-emotionality performs signaling and regulatory functions, which are expressed, firstly, in the fact that the absence of feelings arises in connection with the specifics of the surrounding reality or together with changes in the human body, and, secondly, unemotionality helps to overcome emerging barriers and prevents unwanted activity, that is, the regulatory mechanisms of non-emotionality can contribute to both the growth of emotionality and remove its excess right up to a complete blockage. Conclusion. The relational analysis of the phenomenon of non-emotionality reveals the possibilities of the human mind in special states of unemotionality to carry out creative activity, to get out of extreme situations when solving research problems in scientific activity.

Investigating the role of rational and emotional content towards consumer engagement and EWOM intention: Uses and gratification perspectives

This study aims to examine the role of rational and emotional content in social media on consumer engagement and EWOM intention. The population of this research is e-commerce social media users with a total sample size of 394 respondents using the purposive sampling technique. The Partial Least Square-Structural Equation Model (PLS-SEM) is used to test the research hypothesis. The results of the study revealed the role of rational and emotional content in influencing consumer engagement but did not affect EWOM intention. Consumer engagement affects EWOM intentions. The study’s findings support consumer engagement which is proven to mediate the relationship between rational and emotional content and EWOM intention. Social media marketing practitioners use rational and emotional content types on their brand pages in order to gain engagement and EWOM from social media users.

Rational Type Contraction in Partially Ordered Metric Space and Classical Results of Common Coupled Fixed Points.

Rational Type Contraction in Partially Ordered Metric Space and Classical Results of Common Coupled Fixed Points.

Hematological indicators of bulls and their meat productivity depending on the structure of the ration

The article reflects the results of long-term scientific research conducted by the department of animal feeding and feed technology on fattening cattle. The task of the research was to study the specifics of the formation of meat productivity by the body of bulls of the Volyn meat breed, depending on the level of feeding, which, under the same type of ration, fully meets the animal's need for nutrients, in particular, in dry matter, available energy, the fractional composition of protein, carbohydrates, minerals and biologically active substances. The question of the organization of full-fledged nutrition of livestock of specialized meat breeds with the same type of feeding all year round using hay-type monoforage is relevant, especially in the practice of fattening young animals, with the aim of obtaining veal meat and young beef. This type of fodder according to the recipe proposed by us is produced at the “Pchany-Dеnkovich” farm. More complex fodder mixtures of three, four and five components have also been developed, based on the principle of field-made compound feed, which has received the name grain hay. Rations of this type do not require the use of concentrated feed when fattening livestock. This is exactly the approach reflected in the materials of the scientific and practical publication on the intensity of the functional growth processes of muscle tissue without excess fat. The data obtained in our research allow us to conclude that there is a direct relationship between the total protein content in muscle tissue and the nutritional qualities of the forage in the ration. Monofeed components such as grain of corn cobs of milk-wax maturity and soybean pods provide a relatively high protein content in the feed, which ensured high average daily gains in live weight with a limited amount of concentrates. The control slaughter of bulls at the end of the experiment showed that the average pre-slaughter live weight was at the level of 541–501 kg. The slaughter yield of the carcass had a direct dependence on the structure of the ration with a slight intergroup difference, which was within 0.8–1.2 % in relation to the first group, whose ration compensated the animals' need for energy and protein due to concentrates and was usually more expensive. Therefore, the replacement of part of the concentrates in terms of nutrition of the second and third groups does not lead to a significant negative impact on the morphological composition of the carcasses, which gives reason to assert the effectiveness of such rations. The conducted studies on fattening bulls of the Volyn beef breed allow us to state that the harvesting of monoforage (corn-soybean) of the hay type, the nutritional value of which is more than 0.5 fodder unit, which contains a sufficient amount of protein, carbohydrates, vitamins and mineral salts, ensures high average daily gains in live weight and has a positive effect on the quality indicators of young beef meat. The production of this type of fodder allows to produce 78.1–99.8 hundredweights of fodder unit from 1 ha of fodder area and 6.1–13.9 hundredweights of digestible protein and makes it possible to reduce the consumption of concentrated feed in the structure of the rations of fattening animals.