An Interdisciplinary Approach to Parasitism Bird-Parasite Interactions: Ecology, Evolution and Behavior J. E. Loye M. Zuk

The Condor ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 95 (1) ◽  
pp. 242-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul W. Ewald
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Bird Parasite ◽  
And Behavior

scholarly journals Spatial Navigation: Implications for Animal Models, Drug Development and Human Studies

2014 ◽  
pp. S237-S249 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. STUCHLIK ◽  
S. KUBIK ◽  
K. VLCEK ◽  
K. VALES
Keyword(s):  
Animal Models ◽  
Moving Objects ◽  
Declarative Memory ◽  
Spatial Navigation ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Screening Tests ◽  
Therapeutic Approaches ◽  
Dynamic Nature ◽  
Natural Settings ◽  
And Behavior

Spatial navigation and memory is considered to be a part of the declarative memory system and it is widely used as an animal model of human declarative memory. However, spatial tests typically involve only static settings, despite the dynamic nature of the real world. Animals, as well as people constantly need to interact with moving objects, other subjects or even with entire moving environments (flowing water, running stairway). Therefore, we design novel spatial tests in dynamic environments to study brain mechanisms of spatial processing in more natural settings with an interdisciplinary approach including neuropharmacology. We also translate data from neuropharmacological studies and animal models into development of novel therapeutic approaches to neuropsychiatric disorders and more sensitive screening tests for impairments of memory, thought, and behavior.

scholarly journals Diseño de una micro-red virtual fotovoltaica, aplicando monitoreo energético en tiempo real, y estrategias de cambio de conducta para el ahorro de energía

2019 ◽  
pp. 5-17
Author(s):  
Francisco Daniel Rentería-Macedo ◽  
Santiago Martín García-Guerrero ◽  
Nicolás Haro-Falcón ◽  
Alberto Coronado-Mendoza
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Diffusion Of Innovation ◽  
Stages Of Change ◽  
Transtheoretical Model ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Energy Market ◽  
Generation Plant ◽  
Photovoltaic Plant ◽  
And Behavior

The Mexican energy reform of 2013 enabled the development of new management models and energy infrastructure. However, there is growing and unattended evidence of the weight of human behavior analysis in energy consumption. Therefore, this research integrates, with an interdisciplinary approach, the design of a virtual microgrid and an energy market in the Tonalá Campus of the University of Guadalajara, with real-time energy monitoring and behavior change theories. Firstly, the design of a virtual microgrid of 5 buildings, each with a virtual generation plant, is proposed. Each one dimensioned based on its historical demand and the generation of a 499-kWp photovoltaic plant, installed at the Campus. Both consumption and generation have real-time monitoring installed since May 2018. It was from this data that the virtual power plant for each building was dimensioned. Parallelly, the Transtheoretical Model of the stages of change and the Diffusion of Innovation Theory, are applied to design an intervention to modify energy consumption habits in the Campus community and set the foundations of an energy market pilot program.

Advancing SDG competencies in higher education: exploring an interdisciplinary pedagogical approach

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Karin Alm ◽  
Maria Melén ◽  
Caroline Aggestam-Pontoppidan
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Pedagogical Approach ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Key Competencies ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Cherry Picking ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Development Of Students

Purpose This study aims to explore an interdisciplinary pedagogical approach for advancing knowledge and understanding of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) at higher education institutions (HEIs). Design/methodology/approach This qualitative study conducted an explorative experiment to elaborate on forms to advance a pedagogical approach that embeds sustainability. The design of the pedagogical project was explorative and interdisciplinary, using a predefined framework on key competencies for sustainability. Findings The findings showed that an interdisciplinary approach can create a learning setting that stimulates students’ problem-solving competencies for sustainability-related issues. Students were trained in the five key sustainable competencies addressed by Wiek et al. (2011). Moreover, although it is not always possible to arrange an interdisciplinary pedagogical setting, this might be a key condition for the development of students’ key competencies regarding their understanding of the SDGs. Addressing the SDGs from an interdisciplinary perspective paved the way for the development of students’ strategic competencies, including systems thinking and anticipatory competencies. Practical implications The pedagogical project, as an interdisciplinary explorative experiment, was shown to be a potentially suitable method to counteract “cherry-picking” approaches to teaching the SDGs at HEI. Originality/value The pedagogical approach advanced in this paper, extends active learning and interdisciplinarity in higher education. The authors argue that this approach encourages students to take ownership of and responsibility for their learning process and indicates a changed mindset and behavior.

“Anthropological or Humanistic View of the World”: a Model of Scientific Cognition in Mikhailovsky's Heritage

Istoriya ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (8 (106)) ◽  
pp. 0
Author(s):  
Olga Leontyeva
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Original Model ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Literary Critic ◽  
Scientific Cognition ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Subject Of Cognition ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
The 19Th Century

The article focuses on the approach to the study of human psyche and behavior, suggested by literary critic and ideologist of Narodnikism N. K. Mikhailovsky in the second half of the 19th century. Mikhaylovsky is proved to have developed an original model of scientific cognition, which was based on the synthesis of knowledge from different fields of science and built around an “anthropological or humane point of view”. Scientific search within the framework of this model is carried out with the help of the subjective method, based on the effort to understand another person, and the subject of cognition is a “profane” — a person complete with all of his social experience. The problems put forward by Mikhailovsky seem relevant in the light of the modern “cognitive turn” in the humanities, the desire for interdisciplinary approach and the creation of an integrative scientific picture of the world, fundamental rethinking of the classical objectivistic model of scientific knowledge.

Correction of school maladjustment based on interdisciplinary approach

2019 ◽  
pp. 24-29
Author(s):  
O. V. Balandina ◽  
E. D. Bozhkova ◽  
V. V. Dvoryaninova ◽  
V. V. Katunova ◽  
A. A. Konovalov
Keyword(s):  
Primary Schools ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Psychological Problem ◽  
Technological Changes ◽  
Systematic Assessment ◽  
Active Involvement ◽  
The Family ◽  
Modern Methods ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
School Maladjustment

The article presents the results of the analysis of modern (from 2011 to the present) foreign sources on school maladjustment as an interdisciplinary medical and psychological problem. The urgency of the problem is aggravated against the background of global socio-economic and technological changes that determine the lifestyle and behavior of younger schoolchildren at school and in the family. Taking into account the prospects for the growth of the influence of these factors, the article presents a systematic assessment of modern possibilities for diagnosing, compensating, and correcting disorders to adapt to primary school education for pupils in primary schools based on the results of studying advanced domestic and foreign experience. The analysis showed an increase in the number of modern methods, including with the participation of specialists from various specialties, including psychiatrists, psychologists and teachers, as well as with the active involvement of the families of schoolchildren. It is noted that the validity of the methods is not always at the proper level. Based on the analysis, it was concluded that an interdisciplinary approach is appropriate both in assessing risk and eliminating the causes of school maladjustment, as well as in dealing with its consequences. The prospect of introducing an appropriate approach assumes the project «Healthy Future» on the territory of Nizhny Novgorod.

scholarly journals Phase Transitions and Bifurcation Points in the Initiation Dynamics of Venture Emergence: A Conceptual Framework

2021 ◽  
Vol 04 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
N. S Akilu ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Phase Transitions ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Adaptive System ◽  
Complex Adaptive System ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Bifurcation Points ◽  
Literary Sources ◽  
Entrepreneurial Cognition ◽  
Complex Adaptive ◽  
And Behavior

Based on isomorphic considerations, this paper attempts to establish an entrepreneur as complex adaptive system, which is one of the concepts that appear prominently in the field of complexity sciences. The attempt to equate the notion of an entrepreneur with the idea of a complex adaptive system, presupposes recognition of the entrepreneur’s role in adaptive agency. Along with this recognition, comes the convenience of contextualizing the concepts of phase transitions and bifurcation points in terms of venture emergence. The dynamics of these concepts are however more commonly explored within the workings of complex or dynamic physical systems. Yet, the broad applicability of the underlying ideas offers the possibility of identifying similar concepts in biological systems and by extension, the field of entrepreneurial cognition and behavior. Thus, the paper adopts an interdisciplinary approach and employs retroductive reasoning in the assemblage of relevant ideas, sought from diverse literary sources. The outcome is a conceptual framework, which presents certain propositions that offer implication for action.

scholarly journals Historico-philosophical interpretation of the archetypes of personality as symbolic images of the collective unconscious in the receptive field of psychoanalytic views of Сarl Gustav Jung

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (9) ◽  
pp. 40-64
Author(s):  
Maryna Mazur
Keyword(s):  
Receptive Field ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Internal Conflict ◽  
Collective Unconscious ◽  
Philosophical Interpretation ◽  
The World ◽  
Scientific Principles ◽  
Symbolic Images ◽  
The Individual ◽  
And Behavior

The purpose of the study is a historicо-philosophical interpretation of the archetypes of personality as symbolic images of the collective unconscious in the receptive field of psychoanalytic views of Carl Gustav Jung. The methodological basis of the study is the such general scientific principles: interdisciplinary approach, the principle of objectivity, the principle of integrity and general philosophical methods: psychoanalytic method; phenomenological method; hermeneutic method. Scientific novelty of the study consists in the fact that within the Jungian analytical psychology to the author managed to carry out historico-philosophical reconstruction of ideas about the archetypes of personality, as myth-making constructs that fill the gaps between conscious and unconscious instance and reveal the symbolic meaning of archetypal figures, which are translators of generic information. In the course of the study were obtained the following conclusions: (1) determined that the collective unconscious is a fraction that consists of structural components-archetypes, which are able to establish the internal relationship between the individual and the world around him and directly influence his worldview and behavior, which is accompanied by radical mood swings (emotional lability); (2) emphasized that the individual, as a conscious subject in order to reach maturity on a psychological level must go beyond «comfort zone», that is go through the «path of the hero» and to win their inner demons, overcoming their own fears, phobias and complexes; (3) substantiated that the archetypes are archaic images, which breaks through the «defense» of consciousness and affects the fate and life activities of human; (4) emphasized that the predominance in the collective unconscious of animal archetypes and instincts can negatively affect the human psyche and lead to the decentration of the subject (according to P.–M. Foucault), that is to the splitting of the personality; (5) analyzed the specificity of archetypes аs integrated images of own «Ego», which are reduced to universal mythologies (lat. summa summarum) and are common to the cultures of different peoples of the world; (6) found that the transcendental function is a link between conscious and unconscious structure, which in their collide is able to «painlessly» neutralize the effects of internal conflict.

scholarly journals Hashtag as a Linguocognitive Unit of Spanish Political Discourse

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 774-788
Author(s):  
Marina V. Larionova ◽  
Anastasia V. Demkina
Keyword(s):  
Political Communication ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Language Game ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
Call To Action ◽  
Frequent Use ◽  
The Status ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
The Impact

The article presents an analysis of the discursive features of the hashtags functioning in the current Spanish political discourse which are retrieved from Spanish government, ministries and bodies web publications dedicated to combating coronavirus infection. The purpose of the research is to understand and treat hashtags as a discursive unit in terms of theoretical linguistics, discourse theory, cognitive science and pragmalinguistics. The paper reveals significant linguo-cognitive parameters of the hashtags functioning in Spanish political communication and determines the impact of their verbal and pragmatic influence as a tool for structuring the political agenda in the interests of the sender and manipulative means influencing the consciousness and behavior of the addressee. The interdisciplinary approach is applied together with a set of systemic linguistic research methods - cognitive, pragmalinguistic, comparative, semantic, contextual and discourse analysis. The article clarifies the status of hashtags as an independent category of discourse, in other words, a unit of meaningful information that seamlessly conveys the designed content in the Internet communication, which includes political discourse. In accordance with the functional criterion, the following taxonomic classification of hashtags is substantiated: hashtags-prototypes of a situation or event, hashtags-concepts, hashtags-metaphors, hashtags-imperatives and hashtags-performatives. Key cognitive-pragmatic and linguistic characteristics of hashtags include: metatext structure, semiotic polycode, hypertextuality, interactive essence, intentionality, manipulative potential, simplified syntax, frequent use of performative and imperative verbs to intensify a call to action, emotionality, empathy, use of a language game mechanism to facilitate memorization of a key message, repetitions, rhythm.

scholarly journals INTERACTIVE METHODS OF TRAINING IN SUSTAINABLE WASTE MANAGEMENT

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 81-86
Author(s):  
Bogdan Nikolov ◽  
Slaveya Petrova ◽  
Vanya Naydenova ◽  
Delka Karagyozova-Dilkova
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Education ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Interactive Methods ◽  
Sustainable Waste Management ◽  
Thematic Content ◽  
Working Hypothesis ◽  
Use Of Resources ◽  
Extra Curricular Activities ◽  
And Behavior

Environmental education addresses the most common and current environmental problems as they could lead to a serious ecological misbalance on Earth. One of them is associated with a huge amount of waste, the need for sustainable management and recovery. For this reason, the topic of sustainable waste management needs to be included in the process of environmental education, to be based on an interdisciplinary approach, to start from an early age and be embedded not only in school curricula but also in extra-curricular activities, to be conducted systematically and methodologically provided. This paper presents an interactive model for training in sustainable waste management through an activity approach that could be successfully applied in some extra-curricular activities. Didactic instruments have been developed in the course of a project funded by the University of Plovdiv, aiming to enhance the ecological competencies of both pupils (11-13 years’ age) and students (pre-teachers in Biology).  The thematic content included four themes: Waste definition and classification, Waste treatment, the Recycling process, and the Composting process. Learning activities and the expected results of the training are defined for each theme. The innovative model of training in sustainable waste management includes four of the most popular interactive educational methods:   research-based education, problem-based education, game-based education, and project learning. Worksheets have been developed for all activities, and the thematic content was structured following environmental topics, enabling environmental education through a proactive approach. In order to assess the effectiveness of the interactive methodology, two questionnaires (pre-test and post-test) were developed. Each one consisted of 15 questions allowing the analysis of the environmental competencies of pupils (knowledge, attitude and behavior construct), as well as the attitudes, habits and behavior of both children and their families to the problem of sustainable waste management. The first questionnaire was made before the training in order to determine the entry-level of knowledge and competencies, while the second one was conducted after the training in order to evaluate the competencies’ enhancement. The experimental trainings conducted (2019-2020) show that these models for training in sustainable waste management, based on the constructivist approach, lead to a significant increase of pro-ecological behavior and can be successfully implemented in the education process. According to the knowledge construct, we found that the working hypothesis was confirmed for 80.2% of the pupils (χ2 = 2.043, p <0.05). Based on the attitude construct, we found that the working hypothesis was confirmed for 46.7% of the pupils (χ2 = 1.205, p <0.05). In the behavior construct, the working hypothesis was confirmed for almost 23% of the pupils who had not had long-term habits for nature conservation and rational use of resources before the time of training (χ2 = 0.383, p <0.05). This was the construct with the lowest positive change from the three studied.

Neuroscience Approaches in Social and Personality Psychology

2012 ◽  
pp. 110-150
Author(s):  
David M. Amodio ◽  
Eddie Harmon-Jones
Keyword(s):  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Social Neuroscience ◽  
Biological Mechanisms ◽  
Dynamic Interactions ◽  
Personality Psychology ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Mind ◽  
And Behavior

Social neuroscience is an interdisciplinary approach to studying the mind and behavior, noted for its appreciation for the dynamic interactions of situational and dispositional processes as they relate to neural and biological mechanisms. In this chapter, we describe the methodological approach of social neuroscience and review research that has applied this approach to address the interplay of the person and situation in the domains of social cognition, attitudes, emotion and motivation, intergroup relations, and personality. We provide critical discussion of how neuroscience may contribute to classic questions in personality and social psychology, and we describe how the social neuroscience approach promotes the integration of dispositional and situational accounts of the mind and behavior.

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