The present article examines the nature and function of human agency within the conceptual model of triadic reciprocal causation. In analyzing the operation of human agency in this interactional causal structure, social cognitive theory accords a central role to cognitive, vicarious, self-reflective, and self-regulatory processes. The issues addressed concern the psychological mechanisms throug...

This article provides some philosophical “groundwork” for contemporary debates about the status of the idea(l) of critical thinking. The major part of the article consists of a discussion of three conceptions of “criticality,” viz., critical dogmatism, transcendental critique (Karl-Otto Apel), and deconstruction (Jacques Derrida). It is shown that these conceptions not only differ in their answ...

This paper presents the conception of a Smart Low Power Temperature Sensor which is powered using ambient vibration energy. It is presented the architecture of the conception of the sensor to be implemented. This power system will be the main part of the power stage for a self-powered micro temperature sensor inside a distributed sensor network where accessibility to human being operators is ve...

Mobile device positioning in ad hoc networks is a crucial issue due to the network properties and hardware limitations of particular devices (nodes). In this paper, a new conception of mobile device based on software defined radio architecture for mobile positioning in ad hoc networks is proposed. Sixport technology is implemented into our software defined radio receiver. Angle of arrival local...

We offer a critical review of the concept of neural information, as received within mainstream neuroscience from Artificial Intelligence. This conception of information is constructed as a conditional probability of a stimulus given a certain neural activation, a correlation that cannot be accessed by the organism and fails to explain its causal organization. We reconstruct an alternative conce...

Abstract In this article, I argue against a widespread misconception concerning the nature of things in Sartre’s philosophy. conception concerns idea that outside consciousness single undifferentiated mass brute being exists which is divided into definitive by consciousness. propose different reading realism. Such based primarily on Nausea, Being and Nothingness Consciousness Self Knowledge sta...