Pseudo Ideal and Pseudo Strong Ideal of Pseudo-Q-Algebras

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (12) ◽  
pp. 600-606
Author(s):  
Shwan BAJALAN ◽  
Şule ÖZBAL
Keyword(s):  
Strong Ideal

scholarly journals An Investigation of the Motivational Profile of EAP Learners at a Transnational Education English Medium Instruction University

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-114
Author(s):  
Austin Pack
Keyword(s):  
Mainland China ◽  
Initial Step ◽  
English For Academic Purposes ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Transnational Education ◽  
English Medium Instruction ◽  
Motivational Profile ◽  
Second Year ◽  
Motivational Profiles ◽  
Strong Ideal

The number of transnational education (TNE) higher education institutions (HEI) around the globe is on the rise. This study attempts to examine the motivational profiles of English for Academic Purposes (EAP) learners at a TNE university in Mainland China that uses English as the medium of instruction (EMI). Participants (N = 300) were primarily first- and second-year students enrolled in EAP classes. The study relied on an adapted version of a motivational questionnaire (Taguchi et al., 2009) to measure some of the most commonly researched motivation constructs. Findings suggest that these students had relatively strong Ideal L2 Selves, were confident in their linguistic abilities, viewed learning EAP as being beneficial for their lives, and desired to integrate with or become like members of their respective academic or professional communities. No meaningful significant differences were found between the motivational profiles of male and female students. This Work-in-Progress study serves as an initial step towards understanding the motivational profiles of EAP learners within the TNE EMI context.

Tobit's Religious Universe Between Kinship Loyalty and the Law of Moses

2005 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriele Faßbeck
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Hellenistic Period ◽  
Religious Behavior ◽  
Jewish Family ◽  
Ancient Judaism ◽  
Family Loyalty ◽  
The Law ◽  
Strong Ideal ◽  
Family Centered

AbstractThe book of Tobit is among those Hellenistic period writings that convey a strong ideal of Jewish family life and family-centered religious practice. Tobit highly values family loyalty as a guideline for religious behavior, but establishes the Mosaic Law as the ultimate authority overruling requirements of family allegiance. In a world surrounded and threatened by Gentiles, the paterfamilias is responsible for redirecting the family's religious priorities to accord with the Law. Tobit displays close parallels with Jubilees in its use of the patriarchal stories to launch its pious message, which may help to situate the former within ancient Judaism.

scholarly journals Listening to the Learner: A Qualitative Investigation of Motivation Towards the Use or Avoidance of Self-access Centres

2010 ◽  
pp. 189-211
Author(s):  
Hamish Gillies
Keyword(s):  
Survey Data ◽  
Classroom Environment ◽  
First Year ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Student Body ◽  
L2 Motivation ◽  
L2 Motivational Self System ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Strong Ideal

This paper reports on a follow-up study to Gillies (2007), in which a survey was conducted to investigate how tertiary-level Japanese EFL students understand and interpret their use or non-use of their institution’s self-access centre (SAC). The survey data revealed general trends regarding the factors which motivate the students’ use of the SAC as well as reasons why students choose not to use it, while also suggesting four types of students, via cluster analysis. Employing Dornyei’s (2005) L2 Motivational Self System as a theoretical framework, the current paper attempts to probe deeper into the survey data, and specifically tease out the factors influencing the use or non-use of the SAC. It reports on a set of semi-structured interviews with a purposeful sample of nine students from amongst the survey respondents. The interviewees included representatives of each of the four clusters identified in the survey data. The interview transcripts were then subjected to coding and labelling, and key themes in the data emerged: the SAC as an environment; the SAC as a community of selves; the SAC as contrasted with the classroom. Related to these themes, it was found that in the first year of university, identities are forged, distinguishing regular SAC users and rare SAC users. The SAC is an attractive environment for students with strong ideal L2 selves, while being uncomfortable for less confident students. The former type of student is more likely to see the classroom environment as restrictive, while the latter views it as sheltered and supportive. Meanwhile, the level of English proficiency is not in itself predictive of SAC use, but rather the level of L2 motivation, in particular the strength of the learner’s ideal L2 self. The paper discusses these themes and findings, and concludes with implications for the SAC, and suggestions for making the centre accessible and appealing to a wider cross-section of the overall student body.

scholarly journals The Good Life and the Ideal of Flexibility

Human Affairs ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Blanka Šulavíková
Keyword(s):  
Good Life ◽  
Value Systems ◽  
The Good Life ◽  
Modern Culture ◽  
The Past ◽  
Continuous Stream ◽  
Strong Ideal ◽  
Fundamental Requirement ◽  
People Today ◽  
The Ideal

The Good Life and the Ideal of FlexibilityThe author focuses on the issue of the "good life" in relation to a strong ideal of flexibility that operates in contemporary western culture. The era we live in may be called a "continuous stream of innovations" and can be characterized by a fundamental requirement "to adapt flexibly and cope with the new". The need for such flexibility is mentally and physically demanding; the demands also mark the approach to values, the ideas of the good life and the project of the paths in life. Contemporary people in western civilization are exposed to the pressure of modern culture that has caused problems in the past decades as a result of the incompatibility of its fragmentary value systems. People today apply their abilities in a never-ending whirl of activities and effort where there is no more space available for becoming aware of and for perceiving the deeper meaning of and formulating their specific ideal of the good life.

scholarly journals What Helps and What Hinders? Exploring the Role of Workplace Characteristics for Parental Leave Use and Its Career Consequences

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 270
Author(s):  
Samtleben ◽  
Bringmann ◽  
Bünning ◽  
Hipp
Keyword(s):  
Parental Leave ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Mixed Methods Study ◽  
Paid Work ◽  
Professional Advancement ◽  
Strong Ideal ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Ideal Worker Norm ◽  
Ideal Worker

The division of parental leave among couples today is still unequal—even in countries with progressive leave schemes. Given the gendered nature of the workplace, we examine how organizational characteristics relate to fathers’ uptake and length of parental leave as well as to the perceived career consequences of leave uptake among those fathers who took leave. In our mixed methods study, we draw on unique quantitative and qualitative data on different-sex couples with young children in Germany (2015). We find that the fear of professional repercussions and the lack of a replacement at work inhibit fathers both from taking leave in general and, for those who take leave, from taking it for more than two months. Interestingly, however, the majority of fathers who took leave did not think that their leave negatively affected their professional advancement. This positive evaluation was independent of the length of leave. We compared fathers’ perceived leave consequences to those of mothers, who tended to have a more negative view of the impact of taking leave on their careers. Both fathers and mothers were more likely to report negative career consequences if they worked in organizations that promoted a strong ideal worker norm, that is, where employees thought that they were expected to prioritize paid work over their private life.

scholarly journals Anomalous diffusion across a tera-Gauss magnetic field in accreting neutron stars

2020 ◽  
Vol 86 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Russell M. Kulsrud ◽  
Rashid Sunyaev
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Field ◽  
Neutron Star ◽  
Flux Distribution ◽  
Polar Regions ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
Neutron Star Mass ◽  
Field Lines ◽  
Strong Ideal ◽  
The Magnetic Field

When mass falls on the polar regions of a neutron star in a binary X-ray source system, it tends to spread out over the entire surface. A long-standing question in research on this problem is: will the mass be anchored on the magnetic field lines and drag the field with it or is there a special mechanism that allows the mass to slip through the magnetic field lines, leading to much less distortion? As the amount of mass falling on the neutron star can actually be comparable with the neutron star mass, the question of which alternative holds is very important. We suggest an efficient mechanism that will allow the mass to slip through the lines. The mechanism is based on a strong ideal Schwarzschild (Structure and Evolution of the Stars. Princeton University Press, 1958) instability. As the instability itself is ideal, it cannot directly force the mass to slip though the lines. However, it can create a cascade of eddies whose scale extends down to a resistive scale, at the same time mixing the field lines up without breaking them. On this scale the mass can cross the lines. This instability is efficient enough that it can produce a mass flow in the plasma without growing to a large amplitude but saturates at a small one. The instability determines the mass per flux distribution of the accumulated material on different lines so that the equilibrium is marginal to the instability on every line. This makes the equilibrium unique. Thus, as the extra mass on the neutron star grows, the state of the outer shell proceeds through a sequence of unique critically unstable equilibria. In an appendix, an attempt is made to track the critical equilibria over long times.

scholarly journals Constructing a Framework for Criminal Justice Research: Learning from Packer's Mistakes

2008 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 257-311 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart Macdonald
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Normative Claim ◽  
Ideal Types ◽  
Justice Research ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
Justice Process ◽  
Criminal Justice Process ◽  
Criminal Justice Research ◽  
Strong Ideal

This article examines the framework which Herbert Packer devised for analyzing the criminal justice process. Warning against an indiscriminate use of the word "model"——something which Packer introduced, which critics of his work have perpetuated, and which today is commonplace in criminal justice research——it distinguishes three distinct tools which researchers might employ——strong ideal types, weak ideal types and non-ideal types——and underscores the importance of drawing a sharp distinction between empirical work and evaluative work. Exposing other fundamental flaws in Packer's framework, the article also abstracts two other general lessons for criminal justice research: (1) arguing that a one-dimensional framework like Packer's is insufficient, it advances the normative claim that a multidimensional framework is needed; and (2) it shows that Packer's simplistic approach to the analysis of values is ultimately inadequate. So as well as constructing a number of tools which may be used by criminal justice researchers, and offering examples of how they might be employed, the article establishes the general contours of a framework for criminal justice research.

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