scholarly journals Technology Analysis and the Need of a Value Framework

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 421-430
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Lekka-Kowalik
Keyword(s):  
Technology Development ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Cooperative Effort ◽  
Technology Analysis ◽  
A Value

Abstract The idea that technology is only a value-neutral instrument that can be used for good and bad purposes is not tenable anymore. Technology shapes our human life in all its dimensions and determines the direction of social changes. In the paper, I first show a few arguments in favor of the value-ladenness of technology and then approaches developed in response to that fact. I will argue that none of those responses is satisfactory, for they lack a formative value framework that would serve for decisions and their justification in the realm of technology development. Building such a framework requires a transdisciplinary and cooperative effort.

Can animals sing? On birdsong, music and meaning

2013 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 272-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hektor KT Yan
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
A Value ◽  
Music And Meaning ◽  
To Come ◽  
Factual Issue ◽  
The Way

This article deals with conceptual questions regarding claims to the effect that humans and animals share artistic abilities such as the possession of music. Recent works focusing on animals, from such as Hollis Taylor and Dominique Lestel, are discussed. The attribution of artistic traits in human and animal contexts is examined by highlighting the importance of issues relating to categorization and evaluation in cross-species studies. An analogy between the denial of major attributes to animals and a form of racism is drawn in order to show how questions pertaining to meaning can impact on our understanding of animal abilities. One of the major theses presented is that the question of whether animals possess music cannot be answered by a methodology that is uninformed by the way concepts such as music or art function in the context of human life: the ascription of music to humans or non-humans is a value-laden act rather than a factual issue regarding how to represent an entity. In order to see how humans and animals share a life in common, it is necessary to come to the reflective realization that how human beings understand themselves can impact on their perception and experience of human and non-human animals.

Postmoney theory: value function in the domain of postmoney

foresight ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 554-570
Author(s):  
Boyan Christov Ivantchev
Keyword(s):  
Social Impact ◽  
Value Function ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Intrinsic Value ◽  
Panel Study ◽  
Economic Research ◽  
Strong Base ◽  
Content Type ◽  
A Value ◽  
First Time

Purpose The purpose of this study is to research the latest quantitative and qualitative transformations of money and its interaction with the market economy and societies in terms of their influence on the inner nature of money and its transformation from a simple tool to an aim per se, i.e. postmoney. Transforming the perception of the intrinsic value and “soul” of the money into the postmoney, influenced by the rising longevity and wide expectation for the ability to scientifically prolong the human life, will be discussed. This transformation will be confirmed by analysing the results from a national representative sociological survey (panel study with sample size n = 1,000). Design/methodology/approach The author uses the following philosophical methodological approaches – comparative-constructive, phenomenological, cognitive and deconstructive analysis. Findings The objective and qualitative reasons offered by the postmoney theory (PMT) for the transformation of money into postmoney, are related to the being of temporality, as well as to technologization and the sixth factor of production, scientific exponentiality and mental changes in the human being. A current postmoney survey gives a strong base to believe that the perception of an intrinsic value of postmoney changes the shape of a value function – from logarithmic to linear or even stochastic. This is the reason to believe that increasing of a postmoney quantity will lead to a qualitative transformation and psychological increase of postmoney sensitivity. Research limitations/implications The author intends to expand the postmoney survey on the international level so to confirm local findings. Practical implications Postmoney survey might be used as a powerful tool in creating and legalizing non-monistic money based on blockchain technologies and philosophical and socio-economic research of the postmoney issue. Social implications The future of money is of great importance for the exponentiality of the socio-economic environment and societies. Social impact of the money will be inevitably rising in the domain of postmoney perception. Originality/value The author of the current paper coined for the first-time notion of postmoney and now is expanding research developing PMT. As per the best knowledge of the author, shape of the curve of value function was not questioned and believes it might be of help to better understand the money phenomenon.

scholarly journals Information Retrieval Document Classified with K-Nearest Neighbor

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alifian Sukma ◽  
Badruz Zaman ◽  
Endah Purwanti
Keyword(s):  
Information Retrieval ◽  
Evaluation System ◽  
Nearest Neighbor ◽  
Technology Development ◽  
Health Science ◽  
Cosine Similarity ◽  
K Nearest Neighbor ◽  
Physical Sciences ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
A Value

Along with the rapid advancement of technology development led to the amount of information available is also increasingly abundant. The aim of this study was to determine how the implementation of information retrieval system in the classification of the journal by using the cosine similarity and K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN).The data used as many as 160 documents with categories such as Physical Sciences and Engineering, Life Science, Health Science, and Social Sciences and Humanities. Construction stage begins with the use of text mining processing, the weighting of each token by using the term frequency-inverse document frequency (TF-IDF), calculate the degree of similarity of each document by using the cosine similarity and classification using k-Nearest Neighbor.Evaluation is done by using the testing documents as much as 20 documents, with a value of k = {37, 41, 43}. Evaluation system shows the level of success in classifying documents on the value of k = 43 with a value precision of 0501. System test results showed that 20 document testing used can be classified according to the actual category

HEALTH AND ITS IMPORTANCE IN THE FAMILY CARE, EDUCATIONAL AND SOCIALIZATION PROCESS ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE FUNCTIONING OF PROFESSIONAL FOSTER FAMILIES IN SZCZECIN

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 273-291
Author(s):  
Urszula Kazubowska
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Family Care ◽  
Family Health ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Health Attitudes ◽  
Socialization Process ◽  
Foster Families ◽  
A Value ◽  
The Family ◽  
Socialization Processes

Health is in the area of analysis of many sciences, e.g. psychology, sociology, pedagogy or philosophy. Each of them presents health and its specificity in a specific way. The most frequently indicated dimensions of health are: physical, mental (including intellectual and emotional), social, spiritual and transcendent. Contemporary pedagogical concepts of health emphasize that they can be considered as: value, resource (wealth), means, aim, a concept emphasizing the benefits of being healthy. Attention is also paid to the health mandala and the eudaimonic concept of family health. Thanks to these concepts, health is part of family care, educational and socialization processes. Parents, the main implementers of integrated interactions, create, among others, health behaviors, attitudes or lifestyle of their children. The subject of the research was the course of care, educational and socialization processes in professional foster families functioning in the city of Szczecin. The aim of the research was to find out about the specificity of family care, educational and socialization processes. The activities of professional foster families in caring for: children's health, their health attitudes and behaviors as well as health as a value in human life were especially emphasized. The research method was to triangulate the diagnostic survey method with the qualitative dimension of the case study. The technique used for the study was a questionnaire, in-depth qualitative interview and direct observation. The obtained empirical material was subjected to an in-depth quantitative and qualitative analysis with elements of interpretability of the data, however, efforts are being made to make a holistic diagnosis of the family. Axiologization of health attitudes in the surveyed families and making children aware of the need to take care of their own health on the basis of resources at hand are particularly significant for the armory. 

Interview with Caroline Couret about the Creative Tourism Network ®.

2021 ◽  
pp. 59-61
Author(s):  
Caroline Couret ◽  
Cláudia Pato de Carvalho
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Regional Scale ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Negative Externalities ◽  
Intangible Heritage ◽  
Industrial Sectors ◽  
A Value

Abstract Introduces what Creative Tourism Network is, the paper also presents how creative tourism is important. Creative tourism is important in two main ways: it meets a growing and irreversible demand that reflects social changes more than a marketing gimmick, and it is, above all, perceived by the territories as a lever for sustainable development. Indeed, far from being considered as a danger for local communities as mainstream tourism used to be; creative tourism is valued for its capacity to create a value chain at the local and regional scale, by turning weaknesses and negative externalities into a virtuous ecosystem. In addition to this, assets such as communities' empowerment, inclusiveness, seasonality, resilience, intangible heritage recovery, social cohesion, and governance (just to mention a few) are applicable to any kind of destination and are particularly beneficial for the rural areas that cannot rely on other industrial sectors. The destinations that are part of the Creative Tourism Network ® are labelled 'CreativeFriendly' for guaranteeing both the quality and authenticity of the creative experiences they are promoting, as well as for the value chain generated through the project design.

Learning Vector Quantization Image for Identification Adenium

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 383
Author(s):  
Resty Wulanningrum ◽  
Bagus Fadzerie Robby
Keyword(s):  
Vector Quantization ◽  
Technology Development ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Ornamental Plants ◽  
Learning Vector Quantization ◽  
Training Dataset ◽  
Image Identification ◽  
The World ◽  
New Varieties ◽  
Test Scenarios

Information and technology are two things that can not be separated and it has become a necessity for human life. Technology development at this time was not only used for intelligence purposes only, but has penetrated the world of holtikurtura. Adenium is one of the plants are much favored by ornamental plants lovers. Many of cultivation adenium who crosses that appear new varieties that have the color and shape are similar to each other. From this case, then made an application that can identify the type of adenium based on the image of that flower. Learning Vector quantization is one of the algorithm  that used for clustering. Based on test scenarios were performed, image identification applications Adenium petals produce an accuracy of 86.66% with a number of training dataset of 135 images and datasets with a test as many as 45 images max epoch 10 and learning rate between 0.01 to 0.05.

scholarly journals Serum Concentration of Bone Metabolism Biomarkers in Goats during the Transition Period

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Mohamed Tharwat
Keyword(s):  
Bone Resorption ◽  
Serum Concentration ◽  
Transition Period ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Serum Concentrations ◽  
Bone Specific Alkaline Phosphatase ◽  
Periparturient Period ◽  
A Value ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Cross Links

Objective. During the transition period, the animal experiences a series of nutritional, physiological, and social changes. The objective of the present study was to evaluate the influence of the periparturient period in goats on the serum concentrations of the bone biomarkers osteocalcin (OC), bone-specific alkaline phosphatase (b-ALP), and pyridinoline cross-links (PYD). Method. Blood samples were collected from fifteen female goats during the periparturient period 3 wk before expected parturition (T −3), within 12 h of parturition (T 0), and 3 wk after parturition (T +3). Results. Compared to a value of 77.67 ± 47.6 ng/mL at T −3, the serum concentrations of OC measured 51.91 ± 22.09 ng/mL at T 0 and 72.61 ± 35.21 ng/mL at T +3. A comparison of OC values at T −3, T 0, and T +3 did not reveal any significant difference (P>0.05). Compared to a value of 42.00 ± 19.50 U/L at T −3, the serum concentration of b-ALP measured 32.49 ± 15.41 U/L at T 0 and 34.31 ± 18.89 U/L at T +3. A comparison of b-ALP values at T −3, T 0, and T +3 did not reveal any significant difference (P>0.05). Compared to a value of 17.86 ± 9.15 nmol/L at T −3, the serum concentration of PYD decreased significantly at T 0 to a value of 7.48 ± 4.50 nmol/L (P<0.0001). At T +3, the PYD serum concentration measured 7.72 ± 2.91 nmol/L, which differed significantly from T −3 values (P<0.05). Conclusion. The results of this study showed that the bone formation biomarkers (OC and b-ALP) did not change significantly during the periparturient period, while the bone resorption biomarker decreased significantly at parturition compared to 3 wk before and 3 wk after parturition. The significantly increased serum estrogen around parturition may have had a role in the increased bone resorption at this time.

Miejsce pracy w Marksowskim humanizmie

Etyka ◽  
1970 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 113-131
Author(s):  
Zbigniew Kuderowicz
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Division Of Labour ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
A Value ◽  
Individual Personality ◽  
Free Development ◽  
Spontaneous Expression ◽  
Material Conditions ◽  
The Individual

The article deals with the attitude of Marx and Engels towards the appraisal of labour as a value, and the relation between labour and the implementation of the principle of universal development of the individual personality. First, the changes in their views on the appraisal of labour are discussed. In his Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts Marx understood labour as a spontaneous expression of human thought and the formation of a new environment in which man recognizes his own qualities. In that period Marx considered value to be an affirmation of human life and a requirement put to the individual and to society. In his later, mature works Marks refused to consider an act of labour as value and defined it as conquering nature. The act of labour was to Marx no longer a value but a process which is giving value to human products and, therefore, is a necessary condition of human existence in all social systems. Marx did not regard the act of labour as a postulate or an ideal. In his opinion, the act of labour acquired value depending on its effects for the universal development of all individuals. The Marxian ideal of a perfect man implied a series of postulates relating to the organization of labour. The author criticizes Raymond Aron’s interpretation of Marxian humanism. In the works of Marx, Aron perceives a contradiction between the postulate of universal labour and the postulate of leisure in the meaning of condition in which the idea of the perfect man is realized. According to the author, from the ideal of a perfect man results the postulate of obligatory labour for all members of the society, i.e., that everybody should contribute to the development of the productive forces in order to secure the material conditions for the development of their personality. The realization of Marxian humanism requires also the maintenance of definite proportions between labour determined by the social division of labour (necessary in this sense), and leisure which should imply not only resting but also activity towards a free development of various individual abilities. In the works of Marx there is no contradiction but a complementary relation between labour and leisure. Pobierz

scholarly journals Effacing the Dilemma of the Rumouring Subject: A Value-oriented Approach towards Studying Misinformation on Social Media

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rajiv Aricat
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
A Value ◽  
Two Sides ◽  
Oriented Approach ◽  
True False

Rumour has been part of collective human life for centuries. Communities deal with anxiety and make sense of the unknowable by mixing apprehensions with what is already known to them. With modernity, and in line with studies on a range of social phenomena, there have been efforts to develop a science on rumour. Most of these studies deal with rumour at the propositional level, such that the rumouring or rumour-rebutting subject invariably belongs to one of the two sides of the ‘true–false’ divide. Similar categories are followed in the study of rumour in social media, where the nodes in a rumour chain are, however, less hierarchical, and where images are increasingly used for persuasion. This paper, following a value-oriented approach, argues that the science on rumour has objectivized the problem, and has suggested instrumental solutions like enhancing the digital literacy of social media users. Whereas a value position should ideally attempt to efface the dilemma of the rumouring/rumour-rebutting subject, and locate rumours within the larger socio-political and historical context of a society.

scholarly journals Internalization of Religious Values in The Islam Program Teacher's Family Education of High School and High Vocational School Muhammadiyah Banjarmasin

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 180-190
Author(s):  
Abd. Basir ◽  
Abdul Rahman
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Religious Education ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Boarding School ◽  
Day School ◽  
Learning System ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Vocational High School ◽  
The Family ◽  
School Learning

Technology that develops along with social changes so that it has an impact on human life, including educational institutions in the family. The study in this study is a field with a phenomenological nature. This study aims to examine the PAI high school and vocational high school Muhammadiyah teachers in Banjarmasin City about the values given by parents as religious teachers to their children. The results showed that; First, the values given by parents as PAI teachers in Banjarmasin City in providing education in the family are to give the values of faith, faith and sharia. Second, the challenges are so great for parents as teachers in providing education to their children, so parents provide additional religious education to their children, which is to enter the boarding school with a full day school learning system.

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