A new paradigm for graduate research and training in the biomedical sciences and engineering

2005 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 98-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. D. Humphrey ◽  
G. L. Coté ◽  
J. R. Walton ◽  
G. A. Meininger ◽  
G. A. Laine
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Teams ◽  
Biomedical Sciences ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Graduate Research ◽  
Educational Paradigm ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
The Individual ◽  
New Generation ◽  
Collaborative Efforts ◽  
And Training

98Emphasis on the individual investigator has fostered discovery for centuries, yet it is now recognized that the complexity of problems in the biomedical sciences and engineering requires collaborative efforts from individuals having diverse training and expertise. Various approaches can facilitate interdisciplinary interactions, but we submit that there is a critical need for a new educational paradigm for the way that we train biomedical engineers, life scientists, and mathematicians. We cannot continue to train graduate students in isolation within single disciplines, nor can we ask any one individual to learn all the essentials of biology, engineering, and mathematics. We must transform how students are trained and incorporate how real-world research and development are done–in diverse, interdisciplinary teams. Our fundamental vision is to create an innovative paradigm for graduate research and training that yields a new generation of biomedical engineers, life scientists, and mathematicians that is more diverse and that embraces and actively pursues a truly interdisciplinary, team-based approach to research based on a known benefit and mutual respect. In this paper, we describe our attempt to accomplish this via focused training in biomechanics, biomedical optics, mathematics, mechanobiology, and physiology. The overall approach is applicable, however, to most areas of biomedical research.

Formation of Human Adaptation Mechanism as Bio-social System: Educational and Philosophical Interpretation

10.12737/6223 ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 12-18
Author(s):  
Пронин ◽  
E. Pronin ◽  
Костючков ◽  
S. Kostyuchkov ◽  
Лепницкий ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Populations ◽  
Adaptation Mechanism ◽  
Philosophical Interpretation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Self Development ◽  
Philosophical Aspect ◽  
Self Actualization ◽  
The Individual ◽  
New Generation ◽  
And Training

This paper discusses problems affecting philosophical and educational aspects of the formation of adaptation mechanism of a human considered as a biosocial system. In the core of authors’reflections lies a belief that education and training is a process of continuous improvementof a human. Authors substantiate the idea according to which the continued growth and development of the individual are attributive characteristics of the adaptation process as a set of components of a productive in teraction between the individual and the environment, self-actualization, self-development and self-organization of people in a particular social setting. From the standpoint of Philosophy authors treat adaptation as a social phenomenon, a form of interaction between the individual and the social group with the environment in which the coordinated and consistent requirements and expectations of its members. Authors emphasize that the system of education and training, inparticular in philosophical aspect, is intended to form a new identity as well as another, different from the present, image of worldorder. Emphasis is put that a modern man, especially an individual of the new generation, is not a passive contemplative, but an activeactor of political change, a form of expression which is a course on the development of a progressive institution of social life, which is an association of free and equal individuals, the rate of development of civil society. Authors conclude that education and training are closely interrelated processes of continuous improvement of man, in other words – improvement of bio-social skills of an individual, and, respectively, of human populations.

scholarly journals Descriptive and approximate translation of Arabic & Russian creative texts: Individual approaches to practical adaptation with text: الترجمة الوصفية والترجمة التقريبية للنصوص الإبداعية العربية والروسية: الأساليب الفردية للتكيف العملي مع النص

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bayan Maqsed Al-Safi
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Success Rate ◽  
Original Text ◽  
Translation Process ◽  
Sacred Texts ◽  
Original Language ◽  
Poetic Texts ◽  
The Individual ◽  
New Generation ◽  
And Training

The aim of the study is to provide insights to the new generation of translators on the importance of using the descriptive and approximate method and the use of the individual method to adapt to the secular and sacred creative texts to avoid the mistakes of their predecessors. The study highlights the need to modernize education and training in the field of creative translation. The research discusses the concept of linguistic equivalence، which constitutes a major problem in theorizing the science of translation and in the creative translation process، especially in poetic texts and in sacred texts، due to the presence of context، melody and poetic taste in poetic texts and the presence of rhetorical and semantic differences in the sacred texts. The research deals with the importance of studying the structure of the two languages and knowing the analysis of the syntax in the translation process، as well as the importance of dissecting the linguistic structure of each language، taking into account the multiplicity of meanings in one word، and also the importance of translating the text from its original language، due to the difficulties of delving deep into the words without knowledge of the original language، and the psychological، cultural and environmental factors of the creator of the original text، which constitutes an effective element to determine the success rate of the translator's work.

Overcoming stereotypes of renewable energy

2019 ◽  
pp. 124-136
Author(s):  
Victor D. Gazman
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Energy Generation ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Financial Instrument ◽  
Promising Direction ◽  
Investment Projects ◽  
Power Stations ◽  
New Generation ◽  
The Impact

The article considers prerequisites for the formation of a new paradigm in the energy sector. The factors that may affect the imminent change of leadership among the energy generation are analyzed. The variability of the projects of creation and functioning of power stations is examined. The focus is made on problematic aspects of the new generation, especially, storage and supply of energy, achieving a system of parity that ensures balance in pricing generations. The author substantiates the principles of forming system of parities arising when comparing traditional and new generations. The article presents the results of an empirical analysis of the 215 projects for the construction of facilities for renewable energy. The significance and direction of the impact of these factors on the growth in investment volumes of transactions are determined. The author considers leasing as an effective financial instrument for overcoming stereotypes of renewable energy and as a promising direction for accelerated implementation of investment projects.

PHILOSOPHICAL PROPAEDEUTICS IN THE SYSTEM OF PRESCHOOL EDUCATION

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (11) ◽  
pp. 11-15
Author(s):  
Gan N.Yu. ◽  
Ponomareva L.I. ◽  
Obukhova K.A.
Keyword(s):  
Modern Science ◽  
Preschool Education ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Social Relevance ◽  
The Social ◽  
Moral Problems ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual ◽  
And Training

Today, worldview, spiritual and moral problems that have always been reflected in education and upbringing come to the fore in society. In this situation, there is a demand for philosophical categories. One of the priority goals of education in modern conditions is the formation of a reasonable, reflexive person who is able to analyze their actions and the actions of other people. Modern science is characterized by an understanding of the absolute value and significance of childhood in the development of the individual, which implies the need for its multilateral study. In the conditions of democratization of all spheres of life, the child ceases to be a passive object of education and training, and becomes an active carrier of their own meanings of being and the subject of world creation. One of the realities of childhood is philosophizing, so it is extremely timely to address the identification of its place and role in the world of childhood. Children's philosophizing is extremely poorly studied, although the need for its analysis is becoming more obvious. Children's philosophizing is one of the forms of philosophical reflection, which has its own qualitative specificity, on the one hand, and commonality with all other forms of philosophizing, on the other. The social relevance of the proposed research lies in the fact that children's philosophizing can be considered as an intellectual indicator of a child's socialization, since the process of reflection involves the adoption and development of culture. Modern society, in contrast to the traditional one, is ready to "accept" a philosophizing child, which means that it is necessary to determine the main characteristics and conditions of children's philosophizing.

Motivation of New Generation Students for Learning Physics and Mathematics

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Palmira Pečiuliauskienė ◽  
Valdemaras Aleksa
Keyword(s):  
And Mathematics ◽  
New Generation

scholarly journals Transnational sustainability certification for the bioeconomy? Patterns and discourse coalitions of resistance and alternatives in biomass exporting regions

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Vogelpohl
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Studies ◽  
General Pattern ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Political Economies ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Sustainability Standards ◽  
Discourse Coalitions

AbstractThe bioeconomy is nowadays widely proclaimed by governments and corporations around the world as a new paradigm for a sustainable economy. Essentially, it broadly denotes the promotion, development and establishment of the use of biogenic resources in diverse kinds of industrial technologies, production processes and products. Yet, in order for the bioeconomy to be sustainable, it has to be assured that these biogenic resources are sourced sustainably. In the last 30 years, transnational sustainability certification (TSC) has established itself as a popular instrument in this context, for example in the case of European biofuels sustainability regulation. In the last decade or so, however, TSC initiatives in several biomass production sectors like palm oil, soy, fruits, aquaculture or fisheries—mostly initiated by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and corporations from the Global North—are increasingly met with resistance from actors from the resource-producing countries, mostly located in the Global South. Issues brought up in this context concern their lack of legitimacy and respect for national regulatory sovereignty and conflicting priorities in terms of sustainable development. Consequently, governmental and corporate actors from the resource-producing countries have developed sustainability standards that now at least partly compete with TSC. Against this background, this contribution investigates this apparent dilemma of biomass certification by taking stock of existing TSC initiatives and territorial responses to them in several sectors of the bioeconomy in order to discover general patterns and dynamics of transnational biomass sustainability certification. This analysis is based on a review of existing empirical studies on these issues as well as on conceptual literature on discourse coalitions and transnational hybrid governance for the classification of the different aspects and developments in the individual sectors. Results show that TSC is indeed challenged in all sectors around story lines of sovereignty and sustainability, employed by closely associated state and industry actors in the specific context of the prevalent state-industry relations and the practices and institutions of the respective international political economies. Beyond this general pattern, these alternative systems take on different shapes and complex relations between transnational and territorial sustainability governance emerge that are not always antagonistic, but also exist in parallel or even complementarily and involve various hybrid configurations of public and private actors. Overall, this casts some doubt on the potential of TSC as an instrument to safeguard the sustainability of the bioeconomy and shows one of its potential pitfalls, which is reflected upon in the conclusion.

scholarly journals Self-similar resistive circuits as fractal-like structures

2017 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudio Xavier Mendes dos Santos ◽  
Carlos Molina Mendes ◽  
Marcelo Ventura Freire
Keyword(s):  
Scale Invariance ◽  
Self Similarity ◽  
General Properties ◽  
Modern Physics ◽  
Resistive Networks ◽  
Self Similar ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Individual

Fractals play a central role in several areas of modern physics and mathematics. In the present work we explore resistive circuits where the individual resistors are arranged in fractal-like patterns. These circuits have some of the characteristics typically found in geometric fractals, namely self-similarity and scale invariance. Considering resistive circuits as graphs, we propose a definition of self-similar circuits which mimics a self-similar fractal. General properties of the resistive circuits generated by this approach are investigated, and interesting examples are commented in detail. Specifically, we consider self-similar resistive series, tree-like resistive networks and Sierpinski’s configurations with resistors.

scholarly journals Women in Blue: Structural and Individual Determinants of Sex Segregation in Blue-Collar Occupations

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 410-438 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margarita Torre
Keyword(s):  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Blue Collar ◽  
Gender Composition ◽  
Vocational Education And Training ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Parental Background ◽  
Individual Determinants ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
The Individual ◽  
And Training

The number of women occupying male-dominated blue-collar jobs continues to be very low. This study examines segregation in the blue-collar trades, taking into consideration both structural and individual factors. Using nationally representative data for 25 countries, the study shows that segregation in the blue-collar sector does not vary with the strength of vocational education and training programs. At the individual level, findings reveal higher degrees of social reproduction among working-class families, but parental background alone does not fully account for the gender composition of the sector in which children end up working. Overall, the findings point to the existence of a socializing mechanism that entrenches horizontal segregation in the blue-collar sector. The study indicates that to reduce segregation in the blue-collar fields, policies must address this prior mechanism, both at the structural and individual level.

scholarly journals China's Rural Migrant Workers, the State, and Labor Politics

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenny Chan ◽  
Mark Selden
Keyword(s):  
Migrant Workers ◽  
The State ◽  
Labor Politics ◽  
Rural Migrant ◽  
Industrial Labor ◽  
Class Power ◽  
The Individual ◽  
New Generation ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Rural Migrant Workers

The proletarianization of rural migrants is distinctive to contemporary China's development model, in which the state has fostered the growth of a “semi-proletariat” numbering more than 200 million to fuel labor-intensive industries and urbanization. Drawing on fieldwork in Guangdong and Sichuan provinces between 2010 and 2014, supplemented with scholarly studies and government surveys, the authors analyze the precarity and the individual and collective struggles of a new generation of rural migrant workers. They present an analysis of high and growing levels of labor conflict at a time when the previous domination of state enterprises has given way to the predominance of migrant workers as the core of an expanding industrial labor force. In particular, the authors assess the significance of the growing number of legal and extra-legal actions taken by workers within a framework that highlights the deep contradictions among labor, capital, and the Chinese state. They also discuss the impact of demographic changes and geographic shifts of population and production on the growth of working-class power in the workplace and the marketplace.

scholarly journals Parental Involvement and High School Dropout: Perspectives from Students, Parents, and Mathematics Teachers

2022 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 469-480
Author(s):  
Giang-Nguyen T. ◽  
Byron Havard ◽  
Barbara Otto
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Parental Involvement ◽  
Drop Out ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
School Students ◽  
Education Statistics ◽  
Using Data ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
The Individual

<p>Students drop out of schools for many reasons, and it has negative effects on the individual and society. This paper reports a study using data published in 2015 from the Educational Longitudinal Study conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics to analyze the influence of parental involvement on low-achieving U.S. students’ graduation rates from high school. Findings indicate that both students and parents share the same perspective on the need for parental involvement in their academic progress. For low-achieving high school students, parental involvement in academic work is a positive factor influencing students’ graduation from high school.</p>

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