The Impression of Training Entertainment on the Social Expansion of Kindergarten Kids

Undoubtedly the most critical dimension of an individual’s personality in terms of society is the social dimension of personality. Social behaviour forms the basis of every person’s life. Man is a social being and needs to communicate with others. Many humans' significant needs and flourishing of their talents and abilities can only be entirely fined through interpersonal interaction and social communication—the necessity of social life psychological preparation, social skills, self-confidence and power of the social adjustment. Human growth and development in childhood in terms of social development emotional, cognitive and physical development has characteristics that can make the child vulnerable to mental health. Social development is the most critical aspect of every person’s existence. It is assumed that children can’t do without social development and having the necessary skills to perform their duties in social interaction with others. Social growth promotes intellectual growth and other aspects of one’s development. In the process, people learn skills, knowledge and adaptation techniques and the possibility of reciprocal relations in continuous interaction their considers social development in the form of the child’s mutual adaptation to the social environment and about peers and it is a process that enables the child to understand and predict the behaviour of others, to control their behaviour and regulate their social interactions.

Fictional Narratives as a Laboratory for the Social Cognition of Behavioral Change: My Ajussi

Fictional narratives cannot be considered as mere escapist entertainment, and have a significant social cognition potential. Their study is also important in understanding the mechanisms of behavioral change, as many fictions focus on processes of personal transformation of the main characters. Romantic fictions are of special interest in this regard, as the formation of a new couple entails negotiation and mutual adaptation between partners, with possible transformation of personal attitudes, value orientations, and behaviors: ‘marrying’ a new idea or cause is, tellingly, the strongest possible metaphorical statement of adoption. Korean TV series (K-dramas) are a particularly interesting source of case studies in this regard due to the specific characteristics of their production system. We analyze a K-drama, My Ajussi, where the lead characters go through a complex process of personal change, through the lens of the so-called Tie-Up Theory, which has proven useful in the analysis and interpretation of fictional representations of human mating processes, and show how the context provided by the potential formation of the couple between the two main characters provides us with valuable insights about human behavioral change and for policy design strategies to tackle societal challenges.

A metastable attractor model of self–other integration (MEAMSO) in rhythmic synchronization

Human interaction is often accompanied by synchronized bodily rhythms. Such synchronization may emerge spontaneously as when a crowd's applause turns into a steady beat, be encouraged as in nursery rhymes, or be intentional as in the case of playing music together. The latter has been extensively studied using joint finger-tapping paradigms as a simplified version of rhythmic interpersonal synchronization. A key finding is that synchronization in such cases is multifaceted, with synchronized behaviour resting upon different synchronization strategies such as mutual adaptation, leading–following and leading–leading. However, there are multiple open questions regarding the mechanism behind these strategies and how they develop dynamically over time. Here, we propose a metastable attractor model of self–other integration (MEAMSO). This model conceptualizes dyadic rhythmic interpersonal synchronization as a process of integrating and segregating signals of self and other. Perceived sounds are continuously evaluated as either being attributed to self -produced or other -produced actions. The model entails a metastable system with two particular attractor states: one where an individual maintains two separate predictive models for self - and other -produced actions, and the other where these two predictive models integrate into one. The MEAMSO explains the three known synchronization strategies and makes testable predictions about the dynamics of interpersonal synchronization both in behaviour and the brain. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Synchrony and rhythm interaction: from the brain to behavioural ecology’.

Becoming Team Members: Identifying Interaction Patterns of Mutual Adaptation for Human-Robot Co-Learning

Becoming a well-functioning team requires continuous collaborative learning by all team members. This is called co-learning, conceptualized in this paper as comprising two alternating iterative stages: partners adapting their behavior to the task and to each other (co-adaptation), and partners sustaining successful behavior through communication. This paper focuses on the first stage in human-robot teams, aiming at a method for the identification of recurring behaviors that indicate co-learning. Studying this requires a task context that allows for behavioral adaptation to emerge from the interactions between human and robot. We address the requirements for conducting research into co-adaptation by a human-robot team, and designed a simplified computer simulation of an urban search and rescue task accordingly. A human participant and a virtual robot were instructed to discover how to collaboratively free victims from the rubbles of an earthquake. The virtual robot was designed to be able to real-time learn which actions best contributed to good team performance. The interactions between human participants and robots were recorded. The observations revealed patterns of interaction used by human and robot in order to adapt their behavior to the task and to one another. Results therefore show that our task environment enables us to study co-learning, and suggest that more participant adaptation improved robot learning and thus team level learning. The identified interaction patterns can emerge in similar task contexts, forming a first description and analysis method for co-learning. Moreover, the identification of interaction patterns support awareness among team members, providing the foundation for human-robot communication about the co-adaptation (i.e., the second stage of co-learning). Future research will focus on these human-robot communication processes for co-learning.

FFECTIVE USE OF PREVENTIVE DEVELOPMENT RESERVES OF THE PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION DURING DIGITALIZATION

Введение. Современные предприятия серийного машино- и приборостроения, их цеха и участки харктеризуются расширением номеклатуры, высокой скоростью её обновления, развитием цифровизации, совмещением виртуальных процессов с реальными, изменением условий взаимной адаптации производства и продукции, обоснованием снижения потенциальных ошибок и потерь при переходе к лучшему варианту развития и др. Необходимость учета этих факторов объективно обусловливает поиск новых методов повышения эффективности организации действующего производства. Данные и методы. Представлен комплексный подход к развитию организации серийного производства участков и цехов в условиях цифровизации неразрывно связан с мобилизацией внутренних резервов, моделированием параметров парности, виртуальных кластеров, эмерджентности, упреждения, взаимодействия ресурсов, снижения напряженности, согласования перестройки с подстройкой и др. Полученные результаты. Рассмотрено использование задач, входящих в концепцию планирования эффективного развития, включающую совокупность логически вытекающих одно из другого решений, которые ассоциируются с применением системы моделей, необходимых пояснений по работе с ними и конкретной последовательности шагов по реализации. В неё включены модели учета упреждения, локальной оптимизации, взаимодействия резервов, кластеризации, сближения виртуальной среды с реальной. Заключение. Использование рассмотренного подхода и методов оценки перехода от виртуальных кластеров организации к реальному производству в условиях снижения стабильности заказов позволяют в режиме on-line по-новому планировать использование резервов опережающего адаптивного развития эффективной организации производства участков и цехов предприятий. Благодарность проф. В. Димитрову, д-ру А. Бахмутскому и проф. А. Колосову за обсуждение материала статьи Introduction Modern enterprises of serial machine-building and instrument-making, their workshops and sections are characterized by: expansion of the nomenclature, high speed of its updating, development of digitalization, combining virtual processes with real ones, changing conditions for mutual adaptation of production and products, justification of reducing potential errors and losses during the transition to the best variant of development, etc. The need to take into account such factors objectively determines the search for new methods to increase the efficiency of organizing existing production. Data and Methods. An integrated approach to the development of the organization of serial production of sites and workshops in the context of digitalization is presented, which is inextricably linked with the mobilization of internal reserves, modeling of paired parameters, virtual clusters, emergence, anticipation, resource interaction, tension reduction, reconciliation of restructuring with adjustment, etc. Results Obtained. The use of tasks included in the concept of effective development planning, including a set of decisions that logically follow one from the other, which are associated with the use of a system of models, the necessary explanations for working with them and a specific sequence of steps for implementation, are considered. It includes models: accounting for anticipation, local optimization, interaction of reserves, clustering, convergence of the virtual environment with the real one. Conclusion. The use of the considered approach and methods for assessing the transition from virtual clusters of an organization to real production in conditions of decreasing order stability allows on-line to plan in a new way the use of the reserves of proactive adaptive development of the effective organization of production of sites and workshops of enterprises

Differential Impact of Plant Secondary Metabolites on the Soil Microbiota

Plant metabolites can shape the microbial community composition in the soil. Two indole metabolites, benzoxazolinone (BOA) and gramine, produced by different Gramineae species, and quercetin, a flavonoid synthesized by many dicot species, were studied for their impacts on the community structure of field soil bacteria. The three plant metabolites were directly added to agricultural soil over a period of 28 days. Alterations in bacterial composition were monitored by next generation sequencing of 16S rRNA gene PCR products and phospholipid fatty acid analysis. Treatment of the soil with the plant metabolites altered the community composition from phylum to amplicon sequence variant (ASV) level. Alpha diversity was significantly reduced by BOA or quercetin, but not by gramine. BOA treatment caused a decrease of the relative abundance of 11 ASVs, while only 10 ASVs were increased. Gramine or quercetin treatment resulted in the increase in relative abundance of many more ASVs (33 or 38, respectively), most of them belonging to the Proteobacteria. Isolation and characterization of cultivable bacteria indicated an enrichment in Pseudarthrobacter or Pseudomonas strains under BOA/quercetin or BOA/gramine treatments, respectively. Therefore, the effects of the treatments on soil bacteria were characteristic for each metabolite, with BOA exerting a predominantly inhibitory effect, with only few genera being able to proliferate, while gramine and quercetin caused the proliferation of many potentially beneficial strains. As a consequence, BOA or gramine biosynthesis, which have evolved in different barley species, is accompanied with the association of distinct bacterial communities in the soil, presumably after mutual adaptation during evolution.

Slave Trades and Diaspora in the Middle East, 700 to 1900 CE

In the Middle East, Africa was only one of multiple sources of servile labor. Building on the legacy of earlier civilizations, the region drew on all of its immediate neighbors for slaves. Local kingdoms and empires arose, clashed, expanded, and adapted old and new slaving strategies from internal and external rivals. From the 7th century, the rapid expansion of Islam and the building of Muslim empires are salient features in this history, but many other historical developments played key roles. Ensuing encounters with other civilizations, empires, and trading networks frequently resulted in friction, mutual adaptation, or new cultural, political, or economic synergies. In the Middle East, Islamic practices toward slaves influenced all regional cultures, yet many variants emerged due to local customs; changing economic and political considerations; specific environmental conditions; and the experiences, cultures, and talents of the enslaved. Slaves were captured directly or purchased. In wars and raids, Middle Eastern armies captured enemy combatants and civilians to ransom or enslave. The mix of enslaved and servile persons brought into the region varied in its composition, reflecting the geographical areas of military actions, the development of powerful trading partners, and the extent of trading networks. Foreign merchants imported additional slaves from the Balkans, the Black Sea region, the islands and shores of the Mediterranean, Central Asia, and Africa—including the West African savanna, the Lake Chad region, Sudan, Ethiopia, and the Horn of Africa, particularly via the Swahili coast. These practices brought new servile populations as workers, domestic staff, concubines, soldiers, or bureaucrats to serve in imperial outposts, trading towns, or centers of agricultural, handicraft, or industrial production. The constant demand for servile labor was driven not only by expanding empires and new economic enterprises but also by growing urban populations, the multiple options for manumission under Islamic law, high mortality rates and low rates of reproduction among enslaved populations for social and medical reasons, and the resultant scarcity of second-generation slaves. Broadly speaking, enslaved Africans were more common in the southern tier of the Middle East and demand for them generally increased over time, as northern and internal sources of slaves dwindled. Enslaved persons, including Africans, served in numerous capacities and were dispersed throughout the Middle East and its areas of slave supply.