Investigation of Social Opinion on Green Lifestyle and Eco-friendly Buildings. Decision Making Criteria

The present paper develops decision-making criteria through literature research to assess the social opinion on green life style and eco-friendly buildings. Validity of criteria was ensured among company executives and academic staff, based on elaborated criteria small pilot survey was performed and analysed. Current research focuses on the influence of demographic variables (e.g., age, gender) and individual subjective characteristic factors; external influencing factors (e.g., social norms, policies) are not used. According to the research results, our concept helps to outline the most crucial factors in industry regarding customer subjective requirements on eco-friendly building and innovative building materials. Nowadays companies need to meet customer requirements in order to adjust them in terms of eco-innovation approach and industry’s green ecosystem development and remove the gaps in value preposition. This paper helps to investigate respondents’ awareness, requirements, and willingness-to-pay for the eco-friendly houses.

IDENTITY AS A SUBJECT OF PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH

The article is devoted to a theoretical analysis of the problem of studying personality identity from the point of view of a psychological research. The article shows why the question of self-identity, self-identity and the strength of self-image is becoming increasingly topical in modern conditions. The concepts of identity, identification, self-identity are divorced. In the article are analysed the development of the content of the concept of «identity» in the psychoanalytic, social, cognitively oriented and other directions. Two basic functions of identity are presented - adaptive and organizing ones. Theoretical approaches are identified that consider identity as objective, as a subjective and objective-subjective characteristic in the organisation of psychological research. The types and levels of identity are presented such as: «ego-identity», «personal identity», «social identity». The authors noted that most researchers saw in identity a dynamic structure that contains the needs, abilities, beliefs and one’s own experience. As a subject of research, identity is most often considered as an internal system of social regulators, due to which a person builds its own relationships with the surrounding reality, relates itself to a certain social and professional group, forms its own system of personal values, ideals, norms, requirements, attitudes towards the world and yourself.

Multi-Objective Design Optimization of a Shape Memory Alloy Actuated Robotic Catheter

In this paper, we present a method for optimizing the design of a shape memory alloy (SMA) actuated robotic catheter. The robotic catheter is designed for use in endocardial ablation procedures, where “trackability” (bending flexibility) and “pushability” are desirable but conflicting catheter traits, leading to a multi-objective optimization problem. The catheter uses SMA tendons for internal actuation, which create a bending moment about a central structure. The design of SMA actuators is often non-intuitive and complicated due to the material’s hysteretic dependence on stress and temperature. The modeling and design difficulties increase when considering antagonistic SMA actuation, which is the case for the robotic catheter. The catheter is optimized using a genetic algorithm coupled with COMSOL Multiphysics Modeling and Simulation software. The objective functions are formulated in order to improve bending flexibility and pushability. Bending flexibility is quantified by radius of curvature. Pushability is a more subjective characteristic that depends on axial stiffness and friction, but for optimization purposes, it is quantified using axial stiffness and the surface area of the catheter. Several design variables that affect the catheter behavior are considered; these include the SMA tendon diameter and its pre-strain, the offset of the SMA tendon from the neutral axis of the central structure, and the central structure’s diameter and elastic modulus.

The Memory Experiences and Dreams Questionnaire (MED-Q): A Validated Measure of Dream Remembering

Dream recall has been investigated via various means, often relying upon self-report judgments. Such methods, as well as individual differences and cognitive correlates of dream recall, rarely acknowledge models, theory, or empirical work concerning waking memory. Study 1 presents the development and psychometric validation of the Memory Experiences and Dreaming Questionnaire (MED-Q)—a 30-item measure of autobiographical and dream memory sensations incorporating items on dreaming, sensory experiences, and autobiographical remembering behaviors. It produces a single score and can be broken down into its constituent factors: “awareness of dreaming,” “daydreaming,” “dream sensations upon waking,” “déjà-states,” “comprehensibility of dream content,” and “senses.” Study 2 demonstrates the validity of the MED-Q as compared with dream report indices of dream detail. The MED-Q measures the extent to which a person engages with their dream memories through both frequency and subjective characteristic ratings. It is therefore novel in emphasizing the context of autobiographical memory for dreaming.

Assessment of the Fidelity of Dynamic Flight Simulators

The evaluation of dynamic flight simulators is considered from the standpoint of the efficiency and validity of the currently used pilot evaluations and assessment techniques. A set of requirements for an ideal fidelity measurement technique is presented, followed by a comparison of the two general approaches to fidelity measurement, the analytic and the empirical, with reference to those requirements. A hybrid method which involves the use of pilot psychomotor responses rather than verbal responses is introduced. This technique retains the subjective characteristic of rating scales, but provides information of an analytic nature that is more amenable to engineering analyses. Problems involved in the development of the technique are considered.