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김동현 and 김동수. "Exploring the priority of the Taekwondo Character Constructs." TAEKWONDO JOURNAL OF KUKKIWON 7, no. 4 (December 2016): 195–213. http://dx.doi.org/10.24881/tjk.2016.7.4.195.
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Mahmoudi, Armin. "Character Constructs of Mentality Problems kids Through Rorschach Ink Blots." Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 46 (2012): 340–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2012.05.118.
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Harriss, Chandler. "Getting into character: Narrative form, motivation and Treme’s Harley Watt." Critical Studies in Television: The International Journal of Television Studies 14, no. 3 (August 12, 2019): 322–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1749602019856195.
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This essay explores the utility of the formalist concept of motivation as a way to interrogate the textual and cultural operation of a TV character, Harley Watt from HBO’s Treme (2010–2013). Peeling the layers of character construction reveals how signs convey meaning and confine interpretation. This analytic process highlights how performers and character connect, in this instance, with how the casting of singer-songwriter Steve Earle as a musician with a social conscience imports knowledge of him, his music and history. Ultimately, this essay contributes to the body of research that explores characters as creative and cultural constructs.
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K. Balasubramanian, Siva, Hemant Patwardhan, Deepa Pillai, and Kesha K. Coker. "Modeling attitude constructs in movie product placements." Journal of Product & Brand Management 23, no. 7 (November 11, 2014): 516–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jpbm-04-2014-0552.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose and test a conceptual framework of attitudinal constructs that influence attitude toward the brand in movie product placements. Advertising literature is replete with studies on factors that influence attitude toward the brand (Ab). However, this topic remains under-explored for product placements. Design/methodology/approach – Our framework showcases several theories to relate attitude and fit constructs to attitudes toward the product placement and attitude toward the brand. We use the structural equation model approach to estimate the conceptual framework. Findings – Several attitudinal movie constructs (attitude toward the actor, the character and the movie) influence attitude toward the product placement, which in turn mediates the relationship between the former attitudinal constructs and attitude toward the brand. Interestingly, only the fit between the actor and placed brand impacted attitude toward the product placement, with no effects found for the fit between the character and the fit between the movie and brand and the attitude toward the product placement. Research limitations/implications – We focus on explicit attitudes; implicit attitudes need future research attention. Practical implications – Findings affirm a key role for the actor featured in the placement in directly or indirectly shaping the attitude toward the brand. Originality/value – This is the first study to apply the structural equation modeling approach to this research area.
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정영우. "A Study about Moral Functioning of The Core Constructs of Moral Character." Journal of Moral & Ethics Education ll, no. 30 (July 2010): 159–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.18338/kojmee.2010..30.159.
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Husna, Aftina Nurul, Aning Az Zahra, and A. Amrul Haq. "SKALA KARAKTER WIRAUSAHA (SK-WIRA): KONSTRUKSI DAN VALIDASI AWAL." Jurnal Psikologi 17, no. 2 (January 16, 2019): 143. http://dx.doi.org/10.14710/jp.17.2.143-160.
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This article reports development of new scale to measure entrepreneurial characters. Entrepreneurial Characters Scale (SK-WIRA) measures personality traits indicating a person’s capacity to engage in entrepreneurial activity and can be used to study tendency and suitability to work as entrepreneur. In preliminary study, entrepreneurial character is operationalized based on concepts found in literatures: achievement motivation, innovativeness, risk taking, and autonomy. Four SK-WIRA subscales were constructed according to those dimensions. In phase 1 item selection, exploratory factor analysis and reliability analysis were applied. Initial set of SK-WIRA constituted of 40-48 items per subscale was administered to university students (N = 130). It is found that items were not clustered based on the theory, but item types (favorable-unfavorable). Therefore, it is predicted that entrepreneurial characters and non-entrepreneurial characters are probably two different constructs and need to be measured using different tools. Final compilation of SK-WIRA consists only 22 items (all is favorable items) with good internal consistency (Cronbach’s α = .863). Phase 2 construct validity test using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) confirms that SK-WIRA consists of four correlated factors. The examination of scale internal structure shows good model fit (c2/df = 244.077/205; RMSEA = .038; CFI = .943; TLI = .936; SRMR = .069).
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Madestam, Jenny, and Lena Lid Falkman. "Rhetorical construction of political leadership in social media." Journal of Organizational Change Management 30, no. 3 (May 8, 2017): 299–311. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jocm-10-2016-0204.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze how political leaders can rhetorically use social media to construct their leadership, with a special focus on character – rhetorical ethos. Design/methodology/approach The authors used a qualitative case study which consisted of two political leaders’ activities on Twitter. The leaders were chosen on the basis of similarity – both foreign ministers in Scandinavian countries and early adapters to ICT. All tweets, including photos, for selected period were analyzed qualitatively with the classical rhetorical concept of ethos. Findings Social media is the virtual square for political leadership. The two political leaders studied use social media similarly for rhetorical means and aims, with ethos as rhetorical strategy. The rhetorical ethos they constructed differs radically though: busy diplomat vs a super-social Iron man. There is no single constructed ethos that political leaders aim for. Research limitations/implications Even though this is just one qualitative case study, it shows a variety of rhetorical means and constructs of ethos in political leadership. Practical implications The study shows a possibility for political leaders to construct their own image and character through social media, for a potentially large audience of voters, without being filtered by political parties or media. Originality/value This study contributes to the evolving area of rhetoric in leadership/management and it adds to knowledge about how political leaders use social media.
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Salin, Ahmad Saiful Azlin Puteh, Siti Khadijah Ab Manan, and Norlela Kamaluddin. "Ethical framework for directors – learning from the prophet." International Journal of Law and Management 62, no. 2 (April 9, 2020): 171–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijlma-04-2018-0075.
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Purpose This paper aims to explore the director’s work ethics with particular attention given to the Islamic perspectives and prophetic character toward sustaining the performance of the business organizations. As at now, there is a limited code of ethics that can be a guidance for the business organizations and its leaders specifically. Design/methodology/approach This paper examines and reviews the foundation and prior studies on directors’ work ethics and Islamic work ethics. Then, briefly discuss and present a conceptual review of the directors’ work ethics based on prophetic characters, as well as its application in modern business activities. Findings Based on Quran and Hadith, this paper proposes that four fundamental moral characters of directors are siddiq (truthfulness), fatanah (intelligent), tabligh (deliver) and amanah (trust). Research limitations/implications This paper is conceptual in nature, thus further research needed to empirically test all the characters in actual practices. Practical implications The outcome of this paper contributes in way of it can be used and applied by the firm and policymakers to construct a comprehensive code of ethics that based on the Islamic values. Originality/value This paper is original as it attempts to suggest the appropriate constructs of directors’ work ethics from the religious studies in the ethics and management literature. These constructs able to increase the integrity and moral behaviors of the directors, which eventually preventing them from a commit in various unethical and malpractices that may obstruct the progress of the country’s economic development and growth.
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Chang, En-Chi. "Influences of the spokes-character on brand equity antecedents." Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics 26, no. 3 (June 3, 2014): 494–515. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/apjml-02-2013-0030.
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Purpose – To draw attention to the importance of the spokes-character to marketing communications and a company's branding strategy, this exploratory study attempts to suggest a scale for measuring the spokes-character perception and to explore the relationships among the spokes-character perception and brand equity antecedents, i.e. brand awareness, brand association, perceived quality and brand loyalty, in the context of a retail brand. The purpose of this paper is to encourage the discussion about spokes-characters’ functions in marketing and branding, particularly in the Asian market. Design/methodology/approach – Data were collected through a survey among university students in Taiwan. The survey questionnaire was based on the literature on spokes-characters and on the available scales of consumer-based brand equity. Data were analyzed by using structural equation modeling. Findings – The results in this study show that the spokes-character perception is properly reflected by likability, relevance and expertise and likability is the most salient attribute. The spokes-character perception influences brand awareness/association and perceived quality, which in turn influence brand loyalty. Research limitations/implications – This study suggests that likability, relevance and expertise are proper constructs connoting the spokes-character perception and verifies the influence of the spokes-character, as a source of secondary association, on brand equity antecedents, i.e. brand awareness/association, perceived quality and brand loyalty. This study also finds that the spokes-character serves as a cue of perceived quality. Practical implications – The suggested scale provides marketers with an instrument for measuring consumers’ perception of a potential spokes-character. Besides, when the advertiser or the marketer designs a spokes-character, the character should not only be likable, but also be relevant and show expertise relating to the endorsed brand. Originality/value – This study hopes to encourage more discussions about the utilization of the spokes-character in the Asian market because the discussion about how the spokes-character works in this market is still scant. This study also provides empirical evidence for the influence of a secondary association, i.e. the spokes-character, on brand equity antecedents.
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Gabriel, Yiannis, and Howard S. Schwartz. "Organizations, from Concepts to Constructs: Psychoanalytic Theories of Character and the Meaning of Organization." Administrative Theory & Praxis 21, no. 2 (June 1999): 176–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10841806.1999.11643362.
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Niemiec, Ryan, Tayyab Rashid, and Marcello Spinella. "Strong Mindfulness: Integrating Mindfulness and Character Strengths." Journal of Mental Health Counseling 34, no. 3 (July 1, 2012): 240–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.17744/mehc.34.3.34p6328x2v204v21.
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This article explores the integration of mindfulness meditation and character strengths. Beyond simply focusing attention, mindfulness involves the cultivation of attention infused by an unconditional friendliness and interest. Universally valued character strengths (Peterson & Seligman, 2004) are useful constructs for such an infusion. Most mindfulness approaches and programs deal with managing a problem or psychological disorder; far less discussion, empirical work, and scholarly papers have addressed mindfulness from a positive psychology perspective that explicitly attempts to increase what is good. We review research and practice considerations for such an integration and discuss how character strengths enhance mindfulness (i.e. Strong Mindfulness) by dealing with barriers to mindfulness practice and augmenting mindful living in walking, driving, consuming, speaking, and listening.
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Bexley, Erica. "RECOGNITION AND THE CHARACTER OF SENECA'S MEDEA." Cambridge Classical Journal 62 (August 8, 2016): 31–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1750270516000051.
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This article examines the character and identity of Seneca's Medea. Focusing on the recognition scene at the end of the play, I investigate how Medea constructs herself both as a literary figure and as an implied human personality. The concluding scene of Seneca's Medea raises crucial questions about self-coherence and recognisability: in contrast to other moments of anagnōrisis in Greco-Roman drama, it confirms the pre-existing facets of Medea's identity, rather than revealing new ones. This concept of recognition as self-confirmation is also integral to Seneca's Stoic view of human selfhood, and Medea's use of Stoic principles in this play reinforces her dual status as textual entity and quasi-person.
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Aguiar, Naomi Ruth, Melissa N. Richards, Bradley J. Bond, Kaitlin L. Brunick, and Sandra L. Calvert. "Parents’ Perceptions of Their Children’s Parasocial Relationships: The Recontact Study." Imagination, Cognition and Personality 38, no. 3 (April 25, 2018): 221–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0276236618771537.
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Parent report measures indicate that young children’s parasocial relationships (PSRs) are multidimensional constructs consisting of dimensions such as social realism, attachment and character personification, and human-like needs. However, little is known about how parent perceptions of these dimensions evolve as children mature and form new PSRs. In this 3-year follow-up study, parents ( N = 156) from two previous studies were recontacted, and they provided updated information about their children’s PSRs in an online questionnaire. A principal components analysis revealed that the dimensions of social realism, attachment and character personification, and human-like needs reemerged when children were approximately 6- to 8-years-old and had formed new or retained previous relationships with favorite media characters. A new dimension of character qualities also emerged, paralleling the developmental changes that occur in children’s real friendships. These results clarify parent reports of the dimensions that comprise children’s PSRs and provide descriptive information about the ways in which parent perceptions of children’s PSRs shift as their children mature.
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Brant, JO-ANN A. "Husband Hunting: Characterization and Narrative Art in the Gospel of John." Biblical Interpretation 4, no. 2 (1996): 205–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156851596x00194.
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AbstractDirect approaches to the characterization of Jesus in the Gospel of John produce E. Käsemann's glorified Lord. If one looks at Jesus through the eyes of two of the female characters, the Samaritan woman and Mary of Bethany, one encounters a potential lover or mate, a man capable of being loved and loving in return. By employing a mimetic theory of characterization and approaching the character of Jesus indirectly through the secondary characters, the reader constructs a "round" person. This reading of Jesus' character is supported by the exploration of these women's motives for their actions. In both cases, έρωζ, the desire to have and to keep that which is good or beautiful for one's own, compels them to act. In the first case, the result is comedy; in the second case, pathos. In either case, Jesus' response to their words and acts provides them with sufficient motivation to proceed with their overtures of love.
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Rosevear, Ryan, and Tania Cassidy. "The role of character in talent identification and development in New Zealand rugby union." International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching 14, no. 3 (May 2, 2019): 406–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1747954119847172.
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The purpose of the study was to gain understanding of how character is understood in the New Zealand Rugby (NZR) ecology and how the Player Development Manager (PDM) in one Provincial Union (PU) negotiates, constructs and operationalizes interpretations of character within talent identification and development practices. The study design was informed by Bronfenbrenner’s ecological systems model of development and the methodology was case study. The participant in the study was the PDM who worked for one provincial rugby union and NZR. Data was gained using; interviews, document analysis and observations. An iterative strategy was employed when adopting the deductive and inductive analysis. The study found that across the NZR ecology there was no universal definition of character, or set of criteria used to assess players’ character. Within the NZR macrosystem there were formal policies that explicitly identified character as a value to be assessed. Yet, implicit understandings and assessment of character also existed. The PDM working in a microsystem constructed his understanding and assessment of character based on his experiences working with, and for, NZR (macrosystem) and the PU (exosystem) respectively, as well as drawing on his personal value set. The findings of this study are significant not only for rugby, in New Zealand and elsewhere, but they are relevant and topical for any selector, recruitment agent or coach who implicitly and explicitly (de)selects participants based on character.
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He, Yi. "The Research of Complex Network on Archives Blog." Advanced Materials Research 181-182 (January 2011): 14–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.181-182.14.
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At the background of archives blog on Internet, this paper constructs a directed complex network model, and analyzes the network characters such as degree distribution. To verify its efficiency, we collect blogs’ information and set up a complex network..From the analysis result of the simulation and demonstration network, we know that they have the same characters, which show that, the virtual society network has small-world effect and scale-free character compared with real society network. The results indicate that the establishment of archives blog is favor to spread rapidly archives information, improve information sharing efficiency and promote the development of archives technology.
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Takase, Sho, Jun Suzuki, and Masaaki Nagata. "Character n-Gram Embeddings to Improve RNN Language Models." Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 33 (July 17, 2019): 5074–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v33i01.33015074.
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This paper proposes a novel Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) language model that takes advantage of character information. We focus on character n-grams based on research in the field of word embedding construction (Wieting et al. 2016). Our proposed method constructs word embeddings from character ngram embeddings and combines them with ordinary word embeddings. We demonstrate that the proposed method achieves the best perplexities on the language modeling datasets: Penn Treebank, WikiText-2, and WikiText-103. Moreover, we conduct experiments on application tasks: machine translation and headline generation. The experimental results indicate that our proposed method also positively affects these tasks
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Walen, Denise A. "Momma Rose: An Aristotelian heroine in the mother of all musicals." Studies in Musical Theatre 14, no. 3 (December 1, 2020): 293–306. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/smt_00042_1.
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The character of Rose from Gypsy has been compared to tragic characters such as Medea, King Lear and Willy Loman. She has been credited as one of the most psychologically complex characters in musical theatre history and is a role coveted by performers. Equally appalling and compelling, Rose, like characters in ancient Greek tragedies, is an imperfect human struggling to do her best in difficult situations but is ultimately misguided and suffers a tragic reversal of fortune. This article applies dramatic theory from Aristotle’s Poetics and Arthur Miller’s article ‘Tragedy and the common man’ to discover the dramaturgical practices the authors of Gypsy used to structure Rose, a figure from musical comedy, within the theoretical constructs of a tragic heroine.
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Tanduk, Rita. "Learning Wisdom beyond Ma’tammu Tedong of Toraja People: Using Semiotic Approach to Understand Myths and Ideology." Utamax : Journal of Ultimate Research and Trends in Education 1, no. 3 (November 28, 2019): 112–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.31849/utamax.v1i3.6305.
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This paper discusses the meaning beyond ma’tammu tedong of Toraja People using semiotic approach to reveal wisdom beyond it. Participant observation methods used with field notes, recording, and interview techniques completed the data collection. The ritual text of the Ma’tammu Tedong or buffalo meeting ceremony in rambu solo’ ceremony is a symbolic form, parallelism, and metaphor which also constructs the meaning of customary ritual myth. Through the ritual remarks on the seven types of buffalo in the ceremony of rambu solo’ indicating views, concepts, and motivations are used as guidelines for life for Toraja people. The result of the research shows that, (1) the customary ritual text of buffalo meeting is symbolic, parallelism, and metaphor characteristics that represent myth meaning, (2) customary ritual text of buffalo meeting is to construct myth and ideology about Toraja character value. The value of the characters is represented by the seven types of buffalo in the customary ritual ma'tammu tedong namely, (a) balian buffalo represented as a leader figure or role model; (b) bonga buffalo as torch in human life of Toraja; (c) pudu’ buffalo as guardians in maintaining the life of the Toraja; (d) todi’ buffalo as a unifier that strengthens kinship ties; (e) sokko’ buffalo describes a polite and humble person; (f) tekken langi’ buffalo as a safeguard that reconciles the Toraja over the conflict; (g) sambao’ buffalo as customary guardians for customary offenses. Those values indicate the existence of the relation between man and Almighty and man with others. Also, they strengthen the character of human life of the Toraja and nation character.
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Clayton, Wickham, and Georgia Humphreys. "‘Keep it to yourself’: Shame and female masturbation in American independent cinema." Sexualities 22, no. 1-2 (November 10, 2017): 244–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460717731930.
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This article considers four films released in American independent cinema since 2000 that contain examples of female masturbation as linked with shame within the character constructs: Mulholland Dr. (2001; dir. Lynch), Secretary (2002; dir. Shainberg), Margot at the Wedding (2007; dir. Baumbach), and Black Swan (2010; dir. Aronofsky). Utilising formalist analysis of the relevant masturbation sequences in the films, along with psychoanalytic theory in relation to both masturbation and the concept of shame, this article aims to demonstrate how these films frame masturbation as negative and transgressive, and link autoerotic behaviour to the concept of shame within the development of the characters.
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Wu, Yingnan, Zheng Yang, Vinitha Denslin, XiaFei Ren, Chang Sheng Lee, Fung Ling Yap, and Eng Hin Lee. "Repair of Osteochondral Defects With Predifferentiated Mesenchymal Stem Cells of Distinct Phenotypic Character Derived From a Nanotopographic Platform." American Journal of Sports Medicine 48, no. 7 (March 19, 2020): 1735–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0363546520907137.
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Background: Articular cartilage has a zonal architecture and biphasic mechanical properties. The recapitulation of surface lubrication properties with high compressibility of the deeper layers of articular cartilage during regeneration is essential in achieving long-term cartilage integrity. Current clinical approaches for cartilage repair, especially with the use of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), have yet to restore the hierarchically organized architecture of articular cartilage. Hypothesis: MSCs predifferentiated on surfaces with specific nanotopographic patterns can provide phenotypically stable and defined chondrogenic cells and, when delivered as a bilayered stratified construct at the cartilage defect site, will facilitate the formation of functionally superior cartilage tissue in vivo. Study Design: Controlled laboratory study. Methods: MSCs were subjected to chondrogenic differentiation on specific nanopatterned surfaces. The phenotype of the differentiated cells was assessed by the expression of cartilage markers. The ability of the 2-dimensional nanopattern-generated chondrogenic cells to retain their phenotypic characteristics after removal from the patterned surface was tested by subjecting the enzymatically harvested cells to 3-dimensional fibrin hydrogel culture. The in vivo efficacy in cartilage repair was demonstrated in an osteochondral rabbit defect model. Repair by bilayered construct with specific nanopattern predifferentiated cells was compared with implantation with cell-free fibrin hydrogel, undifferentiated MSCs, and mixed-phenotype nanopattern predifferentiated MSCs. Cartilage repair was evaluated at 12 weeks after implantation. Results: Three weeks of predifferentiation on 2-dimensional nanotopographic patterns was able to generate phenotypically stable chondrogenic cells. Implantation of nanopatterned differentiated MSCs as stratified bilayered hydrogel constructs improved the repair quality of cartilage defects, as indicated by histological scoring, mechanical properties, and polarized microscopy analysis. Conclusion: Our results indicate that with an appropriate period of differentiation, 2-dimensional nanotopographic patterns can be employed to generate phenotypically stable chondrogenic cells, which, when implanted as stratified bilayered hydrogel constructs, were able to form functionally superior cartilage tissue. Clinical Relevance: Our approach provides a relatively straightforward method of obtaining large quantities of zone-specific chondrocytes from MSCs to engineer a stratified cartilage construct that could recapitulate the zonal architecture of hyaline cartilage, and it represents a significant improvement in current MSC-based cartilage regeneration.
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Sharp, Jennifer E., Ryan M. Niemiec, and Christopher Lawrence. "Using Mindfulness-Based Strengths Practices with gifted populations." Gifted Education International 33, no. 2 (May 27, 2016): 131–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0261429416641009.
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Mindfulness and character strengths are synergistic tools that work together to cultivate well-being. Mindfulness-Based Strengths Practice (MBSP) combines the research and practice of these constructs to enhance well-being, meaning, and engagement. In this article, research supporting how mindfulness and character strengths may benefit the gifted population is explored. Particular attention is devoted to exploring practical implications for the integration of mindfulness and character strengths together and the application to support gifted students and their teachers/parents. MBSP provides a promising avenue for addressing some of the unique challenges inherent in working with gifted students.
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Ferris, Kaitlyn A., Rachel M. Hershberg, Shaobing Su, Jun Wang, and Richard M. Lerner. "Character Development among Youth of Color from Low-SES Backgrounds: An Examination of Boy Scouts of America’s ScoutReach Program." Journal of Youth Development 10, no. 3 (May 17, 2016): 14–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/jyd.2015.6.
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This study examined character attributes associated with participation in ScoutReach, Boy Scouts of America’s recent program innovation created to deliver Scouting curriculum to underserved populations. Participants were predominantly Black/African American (72.9%; N = 266, Mage = 10.54, SD = 1.58) and resided in low-income urban communities. Youth completed surveys assessing how much they embody different character attributes (e.g., kindness, helpfulness, hopeful future expectations), and a subset of youth (n = 22) also participated in semi-structured interviews examining character-shaping experiences within the program. Results replicated an eight-factor character structure established with youth involved in traditional Scouting programs, and indicated that involvement in ScoutReach may positively contribute to the development in youth of prosocial behaviors, future career goals, tolerance beliefs, and the manifestation of character attributes across Scouting and non-Scouting contexts. Together, these findings have implications for measuring character constructs among youth of color from low-SES backgrounds, and for the conduct of youth-serving character development programs more generally.
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Xu, Zhen Hui, Bao Quan Mao, Li Xu, and Jun Yan Zhao. "Study of Missile Radiator Predicting and Tracking Technology on the Basis of Kalman Filter and Mean-Shift Algorithm." Advanced Materials Research 383-390 (November 2011): 1584–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.383-390.1584.
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In order to improve the real-time character of missile radiator tracking and solve the predicting tracking problem when missile radiator shortly shelter or missing, it introduces moving target predicting and tracking technology. According to the predicting and tracking method, it proposes three predicting and tracking overall schemes of missile radiator based on Kalman filtering and improved Mean-Shift algorithm. Also it compares the real-time character of three kinds of schemes. According to the trajectory character of missile radiator, it constructs Kalman filter. The experiment results indicate that by using Kalman filtering technology, there are improvements in real-time character and shortly shelter or missing problem can be solved well. It plays a certain compensation function to the whole system.
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Seago, Karen. "“Philip Marlowe in drag?” – The construct of the hard-boiled detective in feminist appropriation and translation." Ars Aeterna 9, no. 2 (December 20, 2017): 39–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/aa-2017-0008.
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Abstract Hard-nosed female investigators Sara Lund and Saga Norén from the extraordinarily successful Scandinavian TV crime series The Killing and The Bridge are the latest examples of female hard-boiled detectives - dysfunctional loners who solve crimes where no one else succeeds. This article looks at the character construct of the hard-boiled male detective, maps these tropes against social expectations of gender norms and then considers how Sara Paretsky constructs an explicitly feminist “tough guy” private eye in V.I. Warshawski. It then analyses how Paretsky’s negotiation and partial subversion of the tropes of the hard-boiled genre are handled in translation, drawing on the German translation of Indemnity Only.
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MacDonald, Douglas A., and Daniel Holland. "Examination of Relations between the Neo Personality Inventory-Revised and the Temperament and Character Inventory." Psychological Reports 91, no. 3 (December 2002): 921–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pr0.2002.91.3.921.
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The present investigation examined the relation of the Five Factor Model of personality as measured by the NEO Personality Inventory-Revised to the seven-factor model of temperament and character as tapped by the Temperament and Character Inventory by testing a sample of 344 undergraduate students. Correlations and regression analyses suggest there is substantial overlap between the NEO-Personality Inventory-Revised domains and Temperament and Character Inventory dimensions as reflected in multiple correlations ranging from .54 to .80 for the latter when used as predictors of NEO Personality Inventory-Revised domains and .46 to .78 for the former domains when used as predictors of Temperament and Character Inventory dimension scores. Information for constructing the regression equations to allow for the prediction of personality constructs for one model from scores obtained on the other are provided.
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Tanduk, Rita, Nirwanto Maruf, and Sallolo Suluh. "Myths and Ideology in Customary Ritual of Ma’tammu Tedong for Life of Toraja People." Budapest International Research and Critics Institute (BIRCI-Journal): Humanities and Social Sciences 4, no. 2 (May 24, 2021): 2709–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.33258/birci.v4i2.1979.
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Customary ritual of rambu solo’ in Toraja is based on noble values of culture that influences life pattern of Toraja people. Current development has changed the way of life and thinking of Toraja people to customary ceremony. Basic understanding is needed in interpreting the ceremonies. This paper discusses the meaning of ritual text myth that is represented by buffalo meeting. Participant observation methods used with field notes, recording, and interview techniques completed the data collection. The data were analyzed interpretatively by semiotic approach. The ritual text of the buffalo meeting ceremony in rambu solo’ ceremony is a symbolic form, parallelism, and metaphor which also constructs the meaning of customary ritual myth. Through the ritual remarks on the seven types of buffalo in the ceremony of rambu solo’ indicating views, concepts, and motivations are used as guidelines for life for Toraja people. The result of the research shows that, (1) the customary ritual text of buffalo meeting is symbolic, parallelism, and metaphor characteristics that represent myth meaning, (2) customary ritual text of buffalo meeting is to construct myth and ideology about Toraja character value. The value of the characters is represented by the seven types of buffalo in the customary ritual ma'tammu tedong namely, (a) balian buffalo represented as a leader figure or role model; (b) bonga buffalo as torch in human life of Toraja; (c) pudu’ buffalo as guardians in maintaining the life of the Toraja; (d) todi’ buffalo as a unifier that strengthens kinship ties; (e) sokko’ buffalo describes a polite and humble person; (f) tekken langi’ buffalo as a safeguard that reconciles the Toraja over the conflict; (g) sambao’ buffalo as customary guardians for customary offenses. Those values indicate the existence of the relation between man and Almighty and man with others. Also, they strengthen the character of human life of the Toraja and nation character.
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García-Barrón, Sergio Erick, Luis Guerrero, Ariel Vázquez-Elorza, and Oxana Lazo. "What Turns a Product into a Traditional One?" Foods 10, no. 6 (June 4, 2021): 1284. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/foods10061284.
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Consumer interest in traditional food products (TFPs) has increased in recent decades. The concept of TFPs is made up of seven dimensions. However, it is not yet clear what the contributions of these dimensions are to the perception of the traditional image of a specific product. In addition, the effects of constructs such as habit, product involvement and objective and subjective knowledge on the traditional character of a product have not been explored either. The aims of this work were to evaluate the influence of the dimensions of the traditional food concept on the perception of mezcal and tequila and to understand consumer’s perception of the traditional character of the beverages through their segmentation characteristics. Eight hundred consumers were surveyed in four Mexican cities. A questionnaire was designed to assess the constructs, TFPs’ dimensions, sociodemographic information and consumption patterns. Results showed that the dimensions of the traditional concept allowed a better understanding of the traditional character of the product, as well as their individual relevance showing that frequent consumption is not always linked to the traditional character of a product. Three clusters were obtained for both products based on the assessed dimensions of the traditional concept. The presence of the segments showed variations in the contribution of the different dimensions to the concept of “traditional”. Geographic location, special dates and sensory dimensions are determinant in the traditional perception of both beverages, which is useful to design effective strategies to promote rational and responsible consumption.
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Wan, Zi Cheng, Huan Zhou, Yi Ping Deng, and Rong Li. "Hybrid Modeling Method Based on FSPN for Sensor Networks." Applied Mechanics and Materials 341-342 (July 2013): 1197–204. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.341-342.1197.
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Sensor networks play a central role in the Internet of things, which attracts lots of attentions recently. Mathematical models are of much help to explore intricate scheduling on the sensor node or interactions between different sensor nodes. Although many existing approaches have shown that the sensor network behaves like a hybrid system, where discrete character and continuous character exist together, few of them have attempted to consider two characters together. In this paper, we propose a novel quantitative modeling framework based on Fluid Stochastic Petri nets (FSPNs), and provide comprehensive theoretical analysis to a typical sensor network example. Our modeling framework, which combines advantages of both Stochastic Petri Nets (SPNs) and Hybrid Functional Petri Nets (HFPNs), reflects the hybrid nature of sensor networks, and at the same time eases the problem of state space explosion. The modeling mechanism proposed in this paper constructs sensor network models that are comprised of both stochastic processes and fluid flow approximation technique. From the evaluation, it's shown that the new method performs well.
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Wortham, Stanton, Renata Love-Jones, William Peters, Stacy Morris, and Juan Cristóbal García-Huidobro. "Educating for Comprehensive Well-being." ECNU Review of Education 3, no. 3 (June 2, 2020): 406–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2096531120928448.
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Purpose: Educational approaches that advocate “well-being,” the “whole child,” “social and emotional learning,” “character,” and the like emphasize human development beyond the acquisition of knowledge and skills. These approaches vary widely in their views of human nature, their visions of a good life, and their prescriptions for educational practice. This article maps out heterogeneous contemporary approaches to “well-being” and related constructs, thereby allowing researchers, educators, and policymakers to understand the divergent assumptions made by the proliferating approaches to education that go beyond academics. Design/Approach/Methods: This article presents results from a 2-year project, which included interviews with advocates of different approaches and review of key literature about eleven educational approaches to “well-being,” the “whole child,” “social and emotional learning,” “character,” and similar noncognitive ends. Findings: The article argues that any educational approach to “well-being” and related constructs must respond to four questions: whether humans are bundles of discrete competencies or integrated wholes, what the appropriate relation is between individuals and society, the relative importance of instrumental and intrinsic goals, and the importance of an overarching purpose for one’s life. The analysis reviews how eleven contemporary approaches address these four questions. Originality/Value: Despite the global proliferation of divergent approaches to “well-being,” the “whole child,” “social and emotional learning,” “character,” and related constructs in education, there are no comprehensive frameworks for understanding the alternatives and their key assumptions. This article organizes the globally proliferating educational movements that promote “well-being,” making sense of a confusing set of alternatives. We also argue that any comprehensive approach to education that goes beyond academics must consider the four questions that we identify.
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Rentzsch, Katrin, and James J. Gross. "Who Turns Green with Envy? Conceptual and Empirical Perspectives on Dispositional Envy." European Journal of Personality 29, no. 5 (September 2015): 530–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/per.2012.
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Previous research has conceptualized dispositional envy as a general construct that does not vary across comparison domains. In five studies (N = 1393), we examine dispositional envy as a domain–specific construct. In Study 1, we present the development of a domain–specific measure of dispositional envy. Across samples from different populations and two countries (Studies 2 and 3), the measure is shown to have good reliability, construct validity and stability over three months, highlighting the trait–like character of the construct. State levels of envy were also examined in the academic domain (Study 4) and in dyadic interactions between unacquainted participants (Study 5). Results show a Person × Situation Interaction effect (i.e. Dispositional Envy × Situation) on experiences of envy. By placing domain–specific dispositional envy into a network of similar and dissimilar constructs, the current findings serve as a foundation for drawing conclusions about the nature of dispositional envy. Copyright © 2015 European Association of Personality Psychology
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Husna, Aftina Nurul, and Nur Akmal. "CONSTRUCT VALIDATION OF ENTREPRENEURIAL CHARACTER SCALE." Jurnal Psikologi 19, no. 4 (November 17, 2020): 323–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.14710/jp.19.4.323-342.
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This article reports on the effort to test psychometric properties of the revised version of Skala Karakter Wirausaha (SK-Wira). The research aims to clarify the scale’s internal structure by examining its construct validity. Construct validity is proven through confirming the internal structure and associating the scale with relevant variables. Revised version of SK-Wira and other measures were administered to university students in Magelang and Makassar (N = 598). After completing CFA, Study 1 confirmed that SK-Wira can be used as both multidimensional scale (model 1) to measure general entrepreneurial character, and unidimensional scales (model 2) to measure specific domains separately. Both models showed good fit. In Study 2, general and specific domains of entrepreneurial character were correlated with hope of success, fear of failure, openness to experience, neuroticism, entrepreneurial intention, and entrepreneurial self-efficacy. The results accepted all proposed hypotheses. In conclusion, SK-Wira is a valid instrument to measure entrepreneurial character for psychology of entrepreneurship research.
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Akhyar, Yundri, and Wilaela Wilaela. "THE PERSONALITY OF ‘IBADURRAHMAN IN QUR’AN (Character Education Construction in Building Civilization)." Jurnal Ushuluddin 26, no. 2 (December 13, 2018): 154. http://dx.doi.org/10.24014/jush.v26i2.4899.
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Education should lead to creating human beings who believe in the Divine. Here, their personality in the characteristics of ‘Ibadurrahman is to become true believers, as mentioned in the Holy Qur’an. Such characteristics as the faithful servants of God are necessarily taught in Islamic education. The word ‘Ibadurrahman as stated in the Qur’an (Surah al-Furqan, verse 63-77) is indeed the core of character education. This article describes what and how the character of ‘Ibadurrahman works and how it constructs the objectives of Islamic education. Methodically, this article is a library research considering the data examined and analyzed are based on library references. The result shows the Holy Qur’an has set an example of human personality, a true believer who owns the character of ‘Ibadurrahman, the loving servant of God. To this end, the millennial character education must refer to constructing the personality of ‘Ibadurrahman to build civilization
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Shapiro, Valerie B., Sarah Accomazzo, Jennette Claassen, and Jennifer L. Fleming Robitaille. "The Choices, Challenges, and Lessons Learned from a Multi-Method Social-Emotional / Character Assessment in and Out of School Time Setting." Journal of Youth Development 10, no. 3 (May 17, 2016): 31–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/jyd.2015.5.
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Out-of-School-Time (OST) programs are increasingly recognized as a venue to actively engage children and youth in character development activities, but little guidance exists as to how to assess individual children and youth in OST environments for the sake of evaluating their character development. This research brief uses an illustrative case study to reflect upon the experience of selecting and completing a strength-based, multi-modal social-emotional / character assessment that used a direct assessment and a multiple informant behavior rating scale in an OST setting. Insights derived from the case study reveal opportunities and challenges associated with each assessment modality. This paper shares lessons learned with those conducting individual assessments in OST environments and with those seeking to improve our capacity to complete screening, formative, and summative assessments of social-emotional and character constructs in OST youth development programs to help children.
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Isaacson, Atara. "NORMA – A MULTI FACETED PERSONA." Revista Europeia de Estudos Artisticos 3, no. 4 (December 30, 2012): 1–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.37334/eras.v3i4.54.
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This essay offers a detailed account of Bellini’s Norma, focusing specifically on the title character. It describes the different facets of Norma: a priestess leader, a daughter, a mother, a friend and a woman scorned by her lover. It discusses the irony in Norma's status, showing that in each of the five facets that constitute her personality there are two opposing states: the noble- authoritative state versus the fragile-wounded state. All Norma's arias are analyzed with a special emphasis on how Bellini fit the different arias and ensembles to match Norma’s complex character and how Bellini’s music constructs Norma’s dramatic persona.
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Watson, Patricia. "Juvenal's scripta matrona: Elegiac Resonances in Satire 6." Mnemosyne 60, no. 4 (2007): 628–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156852507x169582.
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AbstractScholarly work on Juvenal has focused on the poet's self-fashioning as an 'angry man'. This paper, on Satire 6, shifts the emphasis to the object of the invective, in this case the Roman matrona. In creating a character who allegedly represents the typical Roman married woman of his day, the poet constructs an anti-matrona who resembles to a large extent her polar opposite in Roman thinking—the meretrix. A major way in which this effect is achieved is via intertextual connections with Latin love elegy, and the paper offers a detailed discussion of several passages in which the wife is constructed as elegiac puella and her husband as elegiac lover.
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Korte, Barbara. "Heroic affect and structures of national feeling on British television: 1990s Sharpe vs. 2010s The Last Kingdom." Journal of European Popular Culture 11, no. 2 (October 1, 2020): 105–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jepc_00020_1.
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This article uses the affective and affecting concept of the hero to trace the structures of national feeling in two British television series: Sharpe (ITV 1993‐97) and The Last Kingdom (BBC 2015‐17). Both series are adaptations of military historical fiction by the bestselling author Bernard Cornwell but were created in and for two different periods in the United Kingdom. Television drama articulates the anxieties, hopes and needs of the time when it is produced. Its multimodal medium enables complex affective arrangements of (heroic) character, plot, genre conventions and televisual style. The article shows that Sharpe and The Last Kingdom present occasions for the viewers to perceive their hero characters as affective constructs, and it asks whether the hero affect is linked to an equally affective conception of nationhood. When viewed through the lens of the heroic, the series indicate a shift in structures of national feeling between the 1990s and the 2010s. Sharpe invited its contemporary viewers to perceive the titular character as heroic, but the aesthetic arrangement in which the character predominantly appears is that of the swashbuckler genre with a focus on stirring adventure; the hero affect is dissociated from an affective concept of nationhood. By contrast, The Last Kingdom links its hero to the nation in a highly affective and affecting manner, and its aesthetic arrangement draws considerably on the conventions of epic, a genre of national significance and the aesthetics of the sublime.
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Jiang, Ling Li, Yi Lun Liu, Xue Jun Li, and Anhua Chen. "Fault Diagnosis of Roller Bearing Based on Bispectrum Estimation and Fuzzy Cluster Analysis." Applied Mechanics and Materials 36 (October 2010): 129–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.36.129.
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Performing bispectrum analysis on the actual measured vibration signals of the roller bearing with different failure modes, it developed that the spectrum distribution regions are similar among the same failure modes, and distinguishable among the different failure modes, thus this character can be used to classify fault types. The binary images extracted from the bispectra are taken as the feature vectors. The fuzzy clustering analysis based on objective function is applied for pattern recognition, which makes use of the binary image to construct a core and a domain representing the common and scope of bispectrum distribution, respectively, then constructs the objective function as the classify to achieve pattern recognition and diagnosis. The roller bearing fault diagnosis is performed as an example to verify the feasibility of the proposed method.
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Sadtyadi, Hesti. "Evaluasi Reflektif Pengembangan Karakter Bangsa (Nasionalisme) Dalam Pendidikan Agama Buddha Tingkat Sekolah Dasar." INFERENSI: Jurnal Penelitian Sosial Keagamaan 12, no. 2 (January 31, 2019): 371–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.18326/infsl3.v12i2.371-394.
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The Objective of this Study is to a reflective evaluation of Indonesian national character in the education of Buddhism in elementary schools, which can produce a picture that poures national values character (nationalism) in the context of learning that is administered. The reflective evaluation is carried out with the CIPP evaluation model, which includes five constructs and five reflective Buddhism educational instruments wich consits of context dimensions, the teacher’s interest, the teaching materials, the learning process and the product. All instruments are valid and reliable. The result of the development of the reflective evaluation instrument of Buddhist education that has been built consists of five aspects / dimensions of evaluation with the name Context, Teachers’ Knowledge / Interest (Input), Materials (Input), Process and Product (Product). The content of the nation’s character in Buddhism is explicit in the components of History, Faith (Saddha), Behavior or Morality (Sila), Buddhist holly Books (Tipitaka), Meditation (Samadhi), and Wisdom (Panna), accumulated in context, input, process, and output, through the evaluation of the Buddha’s education refelective in the development of the nation’s character.
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Marchyshyna, Alla. "MASCULINITY IN A POSTMODERN TEXT: CONCEPT, IDENTITY, CHARACTER." Germanic Philology Journal of Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University, no. 831-832 (2021): 187–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.31861/gph2021.831-832.187-198.
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The paper considers masculinity representation in a postmodern text. The author reveals the theoretical background of the origin and development of masculinity studies as a branch of gender research. The key parameters of masculinity include sexual, social, cultural, national, and age components. Specific traits of masculine personages are explicated in postmodern texts of different styles. Masculinity is treated as an objectivated realization of androcentrism which loses its dominant positions in the bipolar world of gender dichotomy due to the postmodern transformations of the outlook. It acquires the features which form a new image of a man in consciousness, community, and a text. The paper proves that contemporary society does not possess gender polarity, it witnesses weakening of “hegemonic masculinity” and diffusion of boundaries between men and women as subjects of social intercourse. There appear new aspects of masculinity which destroy male stereotypes; masculinity splits into plurality of identities often being polarized inside this sex-gender group. The paper reveals the characters framed linguistically in a text. Resulting from restructured social relations and reestimation of values, they turn up not as a traditional character of a father in a literary text but a “divorced father” who performs his father’s duties remotely as a spouse, a “domestic partner”, “ex-husband”, and/or “lover (boyfriend)”. All the newly formed gender identities and the corresponding text constructs obtain relevant lingual nominations. Analysis of dictionary definitions enables to fix the correlation between the systemic meaning of masculine gender identities and their contextual semantics. The article concludes that postmodern masculinity is no longer interpreted as a biologically determined entity but rather as a performative option of a personal choice.
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Riccardi, Nicoletta, Elsa Froufe, Arthur E. Bogan, Alexandra Zieritz, Amílcar Teixeira, Isabella Vanetti, Simone Varandas, Serena Zaccara, Karl-Otto Nagel, and Manuel Lopes-Lima. "Phylogeny of European Anodontini (Bivalvia: Unionidae) with a redescription of Anodonta exulcerata." Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 189, no. 3 (December 7, 2019): 745–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz136.
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Abstract Freshwater bivalves are highly threatened and globally declining due to multiple anthropogenic impacts, making them important conservation targets. Because conservation policies and actions generally occur at the species level, accurate species identification and delimitation is critical. A recent phylogenetic study of Italian mussel populations revalidated an Anodonta species bringing the number of known European Anodontini from three to four species. The current study contributes to the clarification of the taxonomy and systematics of European Anodontini, using a combination of molecular, morphological and anatomical data, and constructs phylogenies based on complete mitogenomes. A redescription of A. exulcerata and a comparative analysis of morphological and anatomical characters with respect to the other two species of Anodonta present in the area are provided. No reliable diagnostic character has emerged from comparative analysis of the morphometric characters of 109 specimens from 16 sites across the Italian peninsula. In fact, the discriminant analysis resulted in a greater probability of correct assignment to the site of origin than to the species. This confirms the difficulties of an uncritical application of visual characters for the delimitation of species, especially for Anodontinae.
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Dinnie, Keith. "Contingent self-definition and amorphous regions." Marketing Theory 18, no. 1 (June 2, 2017): 31–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1470593117708467.
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This article explores the concept of contingent self-definition, whereby place brands employ flexible self-definitional approaches in constructing their place brand architecture. Adopting a view of regions as social constructs, the article builds on and extends previous work on place brand architecture by identifying the underlying factors that drive contingent self-definition decisions. Based on an empirical study of professionals tasked with managing region brands in the Netherlands, 11 factors are identified as drivers of contingent self-definition by place brands. These factors are grouped into four thematic categories: (i) external perceptions, (ii) proximity, (iii) brand relationships, and (iv) politics and power. A dynamic approach to place brand architecture is advocated, foregrounding the amorphous character of regions as social constructs that defy reification solely as fixed territorial-administrative spaces.
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Haddorff, David W. "Can Character Ethics Have Moral Rules and Principles? Christian Doctrine and Comprehensive Moral Theory." Horizons 23, no. 1 (1996): 48–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0360966900029844.
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AbstractThis paper investigates how character ethicists use rules and principles in their virtue-centered and narrative-dependent theories, and how such limited use fails to appreciate the performative content of Christian doctrine. If they are correct in insisting that Christian ethics begin with the practical import of theological convictions, then they not only limit the description of such beliefs but also the performance of such beliefs. A more “comprehensive ethic” that includes rules, principles, practices, and virtues, when one begins with the performance of doctrine not scriptural narratives. Such an argument unfolds through three states of the article: (a) it describes how character ethics uses rules, norms, and principles in its own moral theory; (b) it further evaluates this theory based on its own procedural starting point; and (3) it constructs how rules and principles can emerge from such a methodological starting point.
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Jing, Yuqin. "Research on fuzzy English automatic recognition and human-computer interaction based on machine learning." Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems 39, no. 4 (October 21, 2020): 5809–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/jifs-189057.
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Fuzzy English recognition is affected by many factors, which leads to certain accuracy problems in intelligent recognition results. In order to improve the automatic recognition efficiency of fuzzy English, based on machine learning technology, this study constructs a neural network model. At the same time, this paper analyzes the research status and existing problems of handwritten character recognition, analyzes the model, and adopts multiple modules for automatic English recognition. In addition, the system is built on the basis of algorithms and model support, which makes fuzzy English recognition intelligent. Finally, in order to study the algorithm and model performance, the fuzzy English recognition is carried out through experiments. The research shows that the model constructed in this paper has certain recognition effect, which can be applied to practice, and can provide theoretical reference for subsequent related research.
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Da Silva, Eliciane Maria, Mario Sacomano Neto, and Sílvio Roberto Ignácio Pires. "AN EVALUATION OF THE VARIABLES AND TERMINOLOGIES EMPLOYED IN THE CONSTRUCTS OF SCM PRACTICES." Journal of Operations and Supply Chain Management 5, no. 1 (June 18, 2012): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.12660/joscmv5n1p1-15.
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The main aim of this study was to conduct a meticulous analysis of which words or terms are <br />used in the variables that best represent the concepts of SCM practices. The research conducted can be classified as being of a descriptive, exploratory and qualitative character. The search of the articles was made in <br />the Scopus and Web of Science. The final sample was composed of 51 articles, drawn from 18 periodicals. For <br />analysis, the definition of a construct was taken as the base, its relation with manifested variables and words or <br />terms most used and coherent with the definition of the concepts and the contexts in which these terms were <br />applied. A total of 639 variables that defined constructs, were transcribed. Similarity is noted in the employment of their variables and common use of words in the definition of the concepts. However, the constructs <br />possess different nomenclatures. Therefore, confusion is present in the studies analyzed. The study sought to <br />contribute to greater discernment of the concepts, making a critical reflective understanding of the practices <br />in the area. It was raised in the subsections of the discussions that the authors used the same terms in different <br />contexts. It was pointed out the future prospects for formation of the concepts, showing how such constructs <br />are being modified and perfected by means of the introduction of theories, such as the theory of Transaction <br />Cost Economics, the Resource-Based View, Agency Theory, and Knowledge-Based Theory
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Ionata, Maddalena, Benedetta Ionata, Stefania Del Torre, and Maria Regina Liberti. "By the Kindness to the Gift of Self." Journal for Perspectives of Economic Political and Social Integration 19, no. 1-2 (July 17, 2014): 261–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/v10241-012-0021-7.
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Abstract The object of this research is gentleness, a construct maybe not treated enough in the literature, but just in the area of the so called Positive Psychology. And precisely from his representative Martin Seligman, the inspiration for the construction of a questionnaire and of a specific hypothesis has been born, including the use of a precise terminology. In general terms, maybe the most interesting result lies in the fact of having found a correlation between the various items, therefore between the various constructs, in accordance with the idea of gentleness proposed as a synergy of “quality”. This idea has also been supported from recent research in which has emerged a very tight bond between optimism and a particular character trait that is extroversion. Being placed at a higher, transcendental level, the “gift of oneself” could become the “jump of quality” to fulfil ourselves in the relation with the other.
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Herold, Niels. "Madness and Drama in the Age of Shakespeare. A Review Article." Comparative Studies in Society and History 37, no. 1 (January 1995): 94–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s001041750001954x.
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Duncan Salkeld's study of madness in the age of Shakespeare is conceived of as being against the grain of both traditional literary criticism and historiography. Noting that the critical contemplation of the inner life of Shakespearean character has been central (as far back as Coleridge) to previous approaches to the study of madness in Shakespeare, Salkeld argues instead that the “inner worlds of the mind of Shakespearean characterization are largely represented by external appearance, in language describing corporeal states.” Thus, the towering constructs of personality in Lear and Hamlet, for example, are turned inside out when critical attention is focused on the “materiality” of madness and its forms. This privileging of “external appearance” and “corporeality” over the imagined inner life of character is licensed by Salkeld's thesis that personal crises in the dramatic lives of Shakespeare's tragic heroes and heroines must invariably be read qua political crisis. The author writes that any “discussion of the internal life of a character then becomes a second order issue, and considerably more problematic when the historical specificity of these conditions is addressed” (p. 2).
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Grosser, Michelle. "Avatar/Player Subjectivity." Journal of Sound and Music in Games 1, no. 3 (2020): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/jsmg.2020.1.3.1.
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Many music scholars have theorized about musical agency, drawing perspectives from fields including cognition, semiotics, and musical meaning. Few, however, have explored musical agency in relation to ludic agency, a gap I hope to fill here. Through this article I will explore how the multimodal nature of Crypt of the NecroDancer influences the player's experience. I will first outline several theories of agency. Then I will analyze of Crypt of the NecroDancer and its various virtual and actual agencies, including narrative, music and sound, character, and virtual environment. I will use these analyses within the framework of theories of agency in order to support the hypothesis that the player identifies with a character in the game and constructs a relationship in which they virtually coexperience the game with the avatar. This relationship is a bipartite, distributed agent that I call the “avatar/player.”
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Shek, Daniel T. L., Lu Yu, and Xiao Fu. "Confucian virtues and Chinese adolescent development: a conceptual review." International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health 25, no. 4 (December 1, 2013): 335–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ijamh-2013-0031.
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Abstract Despite the fact that different Chinese communities have already undergone industrialization and urbanization, Confucian virtues are still regarded as developmental ideals in Chinese culture. Unfortunately, while Confucian virtues are commonly discussed under Chinese philosophies, they are rarely examined in the context of developmental research. In this paper, several key Confucian virtues are discussed, including loyalty (“zhong”), filial piety (“xiao”), benevolence (“ren”), affection (“ai”), trustworthiness (“xin”), righteousness (“yi”), harmony (“he”), peace (“ping”), propriety (“li”), wisdom (“zhi”), integrity (“lian”) and shame (“chi”). These Chinese traditional virtues are also linked to the concepts of character strengths and positive youth development constructs highlighted in Western culture. It is argued that Confucian virtues provide an indigenous conceptual framework to understand character strengths and positive youth development in Chinese culture. Furthermore, when service leadership is considered in Chinese contexts, these virtues should be regarded as important cornerstones.
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Polizzi, David. "The Impossibility of Criminal Justice Ethics: Toward a Phenomenology of the Possible." International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology 63, no. 1 (June 17, 2018): 135–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0306624x18779182.
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Regardless the specific theoretical perspective, all ethical formulations for criminal justice practice in some way construct the ontological character of the offender, which, in turn, situates both epistemology and method. How this ethical process ultimately constructs the offender will likely help to establish the degree of ethical worth such an individual is deemed worthy to receive. Whether based upon the seriousness of the crime or based upon the specific configuration of the architecture of incarceration, the very possibility of legitimate ethical practice is greatly compromised. Such results can be better avoided when the ethical import of the individual is ontologically situated within the very definition of what it means to be human.1 By situating this discussion within the context of the analytic psychology of Carl Jung and his concept of the shadow and the originary ethics of Martin Heidegger found in Being and Time, a more ontologically configured possibility for a criminal justice ethics can be recognized.