Assessing the Impact of Hierarchy on Model Understandability – A Cognitive Perspective

2012 ◽  
pp. 123-133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Zugal ◽  
Jakob Pinggera ◽  
Barbara Weber ◽  
Jan Mendling ◽  
Hajo A. Reijers
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Perspective ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Model Understandability

Impact of training on entrepreneurial intention: an interactive cognitive perspective

2015 ◽  
Vol 27 (6) ◽  
pp. 593-616 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fayçal Boukamcha
Keyword(s):  
Training Program ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Entrepreneurial Intention ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Cognitive Perspective ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Success Stories ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
Entrepreneurial Training ◽  
The Impact

Purpose – This paper aims to clarify the impact of the entrepreneurial training on a Tunisian trainee’s entrepreneurial cognitions and intention. An interactive cognitive perspective was adopted to test the interaction effect between the entrepreneurial cognitions: the perceived entrepreneurial self-efficacy, the perceived entrepreneurial feasibility and entrepreneurial desirability. A research model was built showing several relationships between entrepreneurial training, cognitions and intention. Design/methodology/approach – A survey was conducted on a convenience sample of 240 participants in four business incubators. The maximum-likelihood test was used as a structural equation modeling method to test the model. Findings – The results show the importance of the entrepreneurial training in the development of entrepreneurial cognitions. Further, the findings, to some extent, validate the interaction between the entrepreneurial cognitive patterns. However, entrepreneurial intention was only predicted through the entrepreneurial desirability. Several implications are discussed at the end of this paper. Practical implications – The findings seem interesting insofar, as they show the importance of entrepreneurial trainings in the entrepreneurial intention development through the enhancement of desirability. This process can be triggered by a training program that contains case studies, success stories and conferences to make the youth enthusiastic about self-employment. Originality/value – The significant impact of the entrepreneurial training on trainees’ cognitions should encourage governments and incubators to promote entrepreneurial training programs to enhance the youths’ willingness to create their own businesses. The findings in this paper seem interesting insofar as they show the importance of entrepreneurial trainings in the entrepreneurial intention development through the enhancement of desirability. This process can be triggered by a training program that contains case studies, success stories and conferences to make the youth enthusiastic about self-employment.

Perceptual–Motor Relations in Obvious and Nonobvious Domains

2013 ◽  
pp. 236-270
Author(s):  
Mark A. Schmuckler
Keyword(s):  
Motor Development ◽  
Spatial Updating ◽  
Cognitive Systems ◽  
Development Research ◽  
Motor Systems ◽  
Motor Action ◽  
Cognitive Perspective ◽  
History Of ◽  
Developmental Domains ◽  
The Impact

This chapter focuses on the relation between perceptual/cognitive systems and motor/action processes. Beginning with a brief review of this concept, different characterizations of the idea of perceptual and motor relations are traced, using the history of motor development research as a framework. Following a discussion of more recent conceptualizations of perceptual and motor relations, this chapter then reviews the impact of the idea of perceptual–motor integration across a range of developmental domains. Specifically, research and theory on the importance of perceptual–motor integration is examined in a set of obvious and nonobvious areas of application. The obvious domains in this regard are derived from work in motor development and include reaching, postural control, and locomotion. The nonobvious domains of application are topics that have typically been approached from a more cognitive perspective and include tool-use development and the growth of spatial orientation and spatial updating. The research reviewed strongly supports the concept of perceptual and motor systems being functionally integrated earlier in life, with such perceptual–motor integration playing a key role in understanding developmental processes across various domains of application.

scholarly journals Echoes of Contemporary Indian Francophone Literature

Politeja ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (2(59)) ◽  
pp. 177-194
Author(s):  
Diana Mistreanu
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Emotional Abuse ◽  
Life Experience ◽  
Francophone Literature ◽  
Cognitive Perspective ◽  
Her Family ◽  
Textual Representation ◽  
The Impact

This article analyzes Shumona Sinha’s first novel, Fenêtre sur l’abîme (Window to the Abyss, 2008) from a cognitive perspective. As the narrator, a young Bengali woman named Madhuban, is struggling to make sense of her existence, past events and present sensations, as well as nightmares and memories unfold in an accelerating rhythm, questioning the impact of her life experience upon her mental health. Drawing on Alan Palmer’s typology of fictional minds, the aim of this work is to provide some preliminary remarks on the textual representation of the narrator’s mind, depicted on the verge of a mental breakdown triggered the by physical and emotional abuse she was subjected to by her family in Calcutta, and reinforced by her emigration to Paris.

The impact of an embodied theory of meaning on the epistemology of semiotics

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Marie Klinkenberg
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Meaning Construction ◽  
Cognitive Perspective ◽  
Nature And Culture ◽  
Theory Of Meaning ◽  
The Social ◽  
Harsh Criticism ◽  
The Impact

AbstractCognitive semiotics has an experiential basis: its thesis is that the origin of meaning – a problem that classical semiotics usually glosses over – lies in the sense system. This paper will outline the mechanisms that make possible such meaning construction, but its main focus will be the impact of the cognitive perspective on the epistemology of semiotics. It implies a process of naturalization of the humanities and the social sciences. This naturalization has triggered harsh criticism: its arguments are supposed to be circular; these are secretly founded on a postulate of innateness; it is at the service of an individualistic ideology in tune with a neoliberal society…. The paper will examine these pieces of criticism, which lead us to oppose and challenge both neural autonomism and the culturalist autonomism inherent in classical European semiotics. The conclusion is a plea for a continuum between nature and culture.

Formation of Lunar Craters and Bright Rays as a Result of Meteorite Impacts

1962 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 415-418
Author(s):  
K. P. Stanyukovich ◽  
V. A. Bronshten
Keyword(s):  
Explosive Charge ◽  
The Moon ◽  
Meteorite Impacts ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Lunar Craters ◽  
The Impact

The phenomena accompanying the impact of large meteorites on the surface of the Moon or of the Earth can be examined on the basis of the theory of explosive phenomena if we assume that, instead of an exploding meteorite moving inside the rock, we have an explosive charge (equivalent in energy), situated at a certain distance under the surface.

The Geosciences Applied to Lunar Exploration

1962 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 169-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Green
Keyword(s):  
Lunar Surface ◽  
Probable Mechanism ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Lunar Exploration ◽  
Geological Model ◽  
Apply Geophysics ◽  
Surface Features ◽  
The Impact

The term geo-sciences has been used here to include the disciplines geology, geophysics and geochemistry. However, in order to apply geophysics and geochemistry effectively one must begin with a geological model. Therefore, the science of geology should be used as the basis for lunar exploration. From an astronomical point of view, a lunar terrain heavily impacted with meteors appears the more reasonable; although from a geological standpoint, volcanism seems the more probable mechanism. A surface liberally marked with volcanic features has been advocated by such geologists as Bülow, Dana, Suess, von Wolff, Shaler, Spurr, and Kuno. In this paper, both the impact and volcanic hypotheses are considered in the application of the geo-sciences to manned lunar exploration. However, more emphasis is placed on the volcanic, or more correctly the defluidization, hypothesis to account for lunar surface features.

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