Back to the future with an up-dated version of RFT: More field than frame?

The current chapter presents an overview of a line of research that focuses on the behavioral dynamics of arbitrarily applicable relational responding (AARRing), and the implications of this research for the on-going development of relational frame theory (RFT) itself. Specifically, the integration of two recent conceptual developments within RFT are described. The first of these is the multi-dimensional, multi-level (MDML) framework and the second is the differential arbitrarily applicable relational responding effects (DAARRE) model. Integrating the MDML framework and the DAARRE model emphasizes the transformation of functions within the MDML, thus yielding a hyper-dimensional, multi-level (HDML) framework for analyzing the behavioral dynamics of AARRing. The HDML generates a new conceptual unit of analysis for RFT in which relating, orienting, and evoking (ROEing) are seen as involved in virtually all psychological events for verbally-able humans. Some of the implications of the ROE as a unit of analysis for RFT are explored, including the idea that it may be useful to conceptualize the dynamics of AARRing as involving a field of verbal interactants.

Student’s Conceptions of Function Transformation

The purpose of this study is to assess object and schema conceptions of transformations of functions for undergraduate level students of Mongolian National University. The research participants were 37 undergraduate students who attended the Calculus course of the third author. To achieve our purpose two of the authors analyzed students’ project work independently based on the pre-developed rubrics and further analyses were made. Students’ project work included recognition of simple and complicated transformation of functions visually, expressing algebraic forms of such transformations and drawing a doll using transformations of a half circle of radius one. The research results show that students’ object and schema conception of transformations of functions were poor. Finding the reason for these poor results is a subject for future research. Moreover, students who were able to recognize more complicated transformations visually could draw a doll using the half circle while the ones who could express transformations of both simple and complicated transformations in algebraic form were able to construct a doll using transformations of the half circle.

Kajian Transformasi Fungsi Bangunan

This study discusses about the transformation of functions with a case study of buildings at Ara Center, located in Gading Serpong, Tangerang. Ara Center was originally designed as an apartment complex. However, during the construction process, two of the pleasant buildings that were designed underwent a process of changing into a hotel and university. The purpose of this study is to find out how the transformation that occurs in buildings that have been designed, both in the spatial system and physical and figural systems. This study also has a purpose to find out how the spatial, physical, and figural patterns that are formed to the current activities. The method used in this study is a qualitative descriptive method with a case study approach. The results of this study found that the transformation of functions that occur changes the spatial system in buildings in terms of spatial layout. Whereas in physical and figural systems only a few changes occur.

Kryzys jako skutek kryzysu funkcji pieniądza i kryzysu instytucji

The paper analyses transformation of functions of money and addition of a newone. The newest function transforms money from a right to buy goods and servicesinto the right to buy money itself.

Revising the Regulations on Social Organizations

This paper is the first from the “Salon Series on the Creation of Legislation on the Right of Association and Social Organizations”. This was a series of salons jointly hosted by Tsinghua University’s ngo Research Center, the Philanthropy and ngo Support Center, and the editorial office of the China Nonprofit Review. In 2013, China’s three main sets of regulations on social organizations are all to undergo major revisions. This is part of the requirements laid out in the State Council Institutional Reform and Transformation of Functions Plan. But what is the thinking behind these revisions? Just what connection do the revisions to these regulations have to the legislation process to create a basic law for social organizations and the formulation of a law on the right of association? These were the kinds of questions that formed the discussion on which this paper is based. Four experts came together during this salon to explore the context for the revision to the three sets of regulations, the necessity of these revisions, the level of difficulty in making the revisions, and the fundamental problems that may be faced. They call for the government to guarantee that social organizations will become genuine entities in their own right, to guarantee the separation of the functions of the government from those of social organizations, and to create the right conditions within which a basic law for social organizations may become a reality.