AN ANALYSIS OF EFL AUTONOMOUS LEARNERS IN LEARNING ENGLISH

This research aimed to find out the factors affecting the autonomous learners in learning English and how these factors can influence the autonomous learners in learning English. This research employed qualitative narrative research. Narrative research was deemed to be relevant for this research since it deals with the specific phenomenon of the autonomous learner which analyzed life experience from the participants in learning English. The research subjects were two identified of autonomous learners. The data was taken by conducted interviews. In analyzing the data, the researcher used some procedures; data condensation, data display, and drawing conclusion/verification. The research revealed a finding related to the research question indicating that (1) internal and external factors were the factors affecting autonomous learners in learning English. From internal factors, it was argued that self- motivation (passion and willingness) was the biggest factor effecting autonomous learners eager to learn English. In addition, they also mentioned several external factors such as the family environment, school environment, and teachers as other factors that affected them in learning English (2) from several factors affecting autonomous learners in learning English, the participants also explained how these factors could encourage them in learning English, because of there were self-initiation, self-direction, and self-realization in themselves that stimulate them to become autonomous in learning. From these findings, it can be inferred that teachers or lecturers could play a role to promote students learning autonomy in order to stimulate students’ others positive psychological behavior, English proficiency and academic achievement.

“Every human action is anthropophagic”

The Freudian theory and the era of acceleration announced by the Futurist Manifesto arrived in Brazil in 1899 and 1909, respectively. Afterwards the concrete reception of these two significant events became more than the symptomatic revelation of the shocks provoked by industrial modernity and its powerful undercurrent of anxieties. The poet, „clown“, writer and major figure of the Brazilian modernist avant-garde, Oswald de Andrade (1890-1954) absorbed Freud and the Futurist Manifesto at once, re-pragmatized and re-semantized them. Oswald's concept of Cultural Anthropophagy (1928) as a central interpretative strategy, to be exact, an hermeneutic approach is defined by Haroldo de Campos aptly: “Oswald's ‘Anthropophagy’ [...] is the thought of critical devoration of the universal cultural heritage” (Campos,1986). The introduction of the anthropophagic trope inspired by Native Americans’ metaphysics leads the poet to a subversion of the Gestalt/Behavior psychological theories: “The anthropophagic function of the psychological behavior is reduced to two parts: 1) totemiser the external taboos; 2) create a new taboo in exogamic function” (Andrade,1929). From 1928 to 1950 the Anthropophagy approach on the interaction between the individual and the environment gained philosophical consistency. Oswald's thesis is a conceptual alternative that attempted to bring answers through the amplification of our ethical becoming. As an epistemological perspective attentive to the different modes of existence, the proposition of Oswald is a field of transformative practices having the power to overcome the techno-industrial paradigms. I will examine the contribution of Oswald de Andrade to theoretical psychology and to the issues that arise in an “Era of Acceleration” where the symbolic field is replaced by a cybernetic field.

Two-Sided Matching Model of Shared Manufacturing Resources considering Psychological Behavior of Agents

Sharing manufacturing is a new manufacturing mode based on sharing economy, which is one of the pillars of intelligent manufacturing. This paper proposes a two-sided matching model of shared manufacturing resources considering the psychological behavior of agents. We describe the definition of two-sided matching and introduce the concept of the cloud model. The preference information of agents is transformed to values according to the cloud model. We combine prospect theory and grey relational analysis to calculate the prospect values. Furthermore, an optimization model which aims to maximize the overall satisfaction degree of matching agents is established. A numerical example for the matching of providers and demanders is provided to verify the feasibility and effectiveness of the model.

Modernist interpretation of the image of the sun in the European literature of the late 19th and early 20th centuries

The article is devoted to the clarification of the semantic and text-creating potential of linguistic cultures in the european and ukrainian artistic speech. The research was carried out in several directions: a) on the material of texts of european and ukrainian authors of the beginning of the twentieth century revealed semantic-stylistic features of the linguistic culture of the sun; b) considered the semantic structure of the text through the projection of this image into the context; c) through the description the modernist features of the interpretation of the image in the European literature of the early twentieth century. In the work, a comparative method of analysis was used, which allowed to find out the common and excellent in interpreting the image, revealing its deep meaning. Modern linguistics defines the concept of linguistic ethnocentrism. It becomes the background for the development of an ethnic group as an original phenomenon, acts as a uniting beginning of each individual nation, a marker of the national language, traditions, and culture. The history of its formation is dynamic. The philosophical origins are hidolen in the idea of anthropocentrism. Human being is regarded as an organic part of nature, and its surrounding animals, birds, trees, plants, rivers, rocks – as living beings endowed with a human soul The formation of linguistic ethnocentrism was significantly affected by the geographical and climatic features of the ethnic group's residence (natural landscape, climate, natural phenomena, flora and fauna). The natural origin caused the occurrence of a system of cult concepts associated with phyto-and dendrological symbols. It is expedient to analyze the historical and social conditions of the formation of an ethnic group and its culture (economic activity, occupation, relations with neighbors, social and political forms).The distinctive features of any ethnic group affect its psychological behavior and mental traits. Among the most characteristic features of Ukrainians, it is appropriate to name humanity, individualism, emotionality, sentimentalism, receptivity, hospitality, a kind of sincerity, lyricism. Formation of national-marked language units (epithets, metaphors, comparisons, proper names, compound words, associative language relations, specific vocabulary and phraseology) becomes the background of individualization of any ethnic culture, and Ukrainian especially. Ethnic language pictures of the world, which all members of society are involved in, affect the way people think and behave.

RELIVING - Rethinking the interior architecture during and after Pandemic situation

Architects are currently facing the understanding of the transformation of the work practices of people, teams and organizations in response to COVID-19 pandemic. Europe is still in the gloom of this pandemic and it can be seen changes in the office-domestic workplaces. These places have been mutating during the last year, they have been transformed according the new requirements. Individuals have adapted their homes and companies are already thinking the office space according the new reality. This study aims to determine how the interior space could adapt in order to provide comfort and well-being in contemplation of the contemporary and near future situation. The principal objective of this project was to create a tiny piece of space which contributes to create our “existence maximum” in a small space. To test the hypotheses that with the creation of a piece of furniture it can help us in the transformation of the domestic and office interior space is the key to make sure that people feel safe and work comfortably. Contemporary source material was used to examine the evolution of the pandemic and how it affects the individuals’ psychological behavior during this time. The findings provide a solid evidence base for the future will be a hybrid reality, where knowledge employees will continuously be working from home most of the time. It is evidently clear from the findings that as modernist architecture could be understood as a consequence of the result of some diseases of that period. Nowadays, architects have the responsibility to think how the interior architecture could be improved in order to make the people feel safe, comfortable and well connected where individuals could learn to live together confronting of our own homes and our own workspaces. The result is the design of an ergonomic workstation which contemplates the users’ requirements for working, providing adaptation to different working positions, mobility within the space and transformation according to individual needs. In addition, it has been considered the sustainability of the materials and the easy assembly with the possibility of the addition of accessories.

Analysis of the prevalence of the open bite in the medical records of preventive orthodontics at the Faculdade de Ilhéus

Objective: To verify the prevalence of open bite in the medical records of preventive orthodontics at the Faculdade de Ilhéus, associating it with the individual's psychological behavior and functional analysis. Material and methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out with 145 medical records of preventive orthodontics of the Faculdade de Ilhéus in the years 2018 and 2019. Result: The prevalence of open bite identified in the medical records of preventive orthodontics of the Faculdade de Ilhéus was 15.8%. The female gender was the majority with 55%, with 61% of cases of malocclusion. Regarding the dentition that the patient was in, 73.91% were in mixed dentition, 21.74% in primary dentition and only 4.35% in permanent dentition. In the functional analysis observed in the dental document, 40.54% were oral-nasal breathers, followed by 35.14% with interposed tongue and abnormal speech was 24.22%. Patients who had an open bite in the psychological behavior item 68.75% used pacifiers and 31.25% had the habit of digital sucking. Conclusion: The data collected in this study reinforce the significant prevalence of open bite and the close association with harmful habits and the individual's respiratory, swallowing and phonation physiology. Explanatory measures are necessary for those responsible for the prevention of harmful habits that can cause open bite in children, if the open bite is already present, it should be interfered as soon as possible, as this way the less invasive treatment can be adopted by the orthodontist, enabling a satisfactory regression to the patient.

Hadith Scholars Personality Development Review: Relevance in the development of psychological behavior

One of the definitions of personality involves character patterns that include feelings, thoughts and actions. Based on this definition it turns out that personality can not run away from the field of psychology. Personality traits are biological while personality values are environmental products influenced by culture, education and life. In the study of modern psychology, thought-based traits that are in the cognitive domain are higher than emotional traits in relation to values. In the tradition of Islamic science, there is a special traits, which is the yardstick of superior personality; that is, Al-‘Adalah or is called adil (fairness). Related to the trait of adil is the trait of dhabit (strong memory). A qualitative study using this library approach seeks to trace the properties possessed by hadith scholars, who once inspired the West to apply those attributes in their intellectual work. Studies have found that these properties have unique characteristics because of their ability to integrate ontological, epistemological and axiological dimensions and also balance the role of cognitive and affective domains in human beings that direct human physiological and psychological behavior in a positive direction.

A Qualitative Exploration of “Empathic Labor” in Chinese Hospice Nurses

Background: Hospice nurses may devote more emotional labor during the empathy process with patients, and this empathy can be used as a form of psychological behavior of emotional labor in the hospice care model. The aim of this study was to analyze hospice nurses’ empathy characteristics in the context of emotional labor theory, and explore the impact of empathy on patient care.Method: We conducted semi-participant observations from three hospitals and multicenter in-depth interviews with n=26 hospice nurses from eight cities. Interviews were transcribed, and directed content analysis was applied.Results: Two categories with four sub-categories were extracted from the data analysis. Category 1 described the “empathic labor” process which covers cognitive empathy (including empathic imagination, empathic consideration, and empathic perception) and affective empathy (including natural empathy, surface empathy, and deep empathy). The second category concerns the outcome of nurses’ “empathic labor” which incorporates both positive and negative effects.Conclusions: The findings indicated that hospice nurses’ empathy process should be understood as emotional labor. Nursing managers should pay more attention to raising the ability of deep empathy with hospice nurses, and explore more sufficient active empowerment strategies to alleviate the negative impact of empathy on nurses and to strengthen nurses' deep empathy with terminal patients.

Reasons for the professional deformation of intelligence officers

The article reveals the psychological mechanism of professional and psychological behavior ofintelligence officers in conditions of risk. Professional deformation is associated mainly with the specifics of theprofession, the situation in which special services specialists have to work. The motives of the readiness to act in theregime of extreme danger and increased danger are revealed. The factors influencing the specifics of the behavior of different employees to act differently in the same situations are described. The theoretical understanding of personality and internal locus-control is given. In this regard, these motives and non-motives of risk are revealed, as well as risk for the sake of. The reasons why there is a probability of personnel risks in the organization are revealed. A comparative characteristic of the concepts of "stress resistance" and "self-control" is given. The influence of the propensity of aspecial services specialist to take risks on his psychological readiness to take action in the extreme mode is shown. The relationship between risk readiness and motivation to avoid failures is described. An explanation is given why older employees are less prepared for risky actions in non-standard situations.