‘Teaching’ the path towards university: understanding student access through storied-futures and meritocratic grand narratives

The notion that the stories of our lives shape dispositions towards imagined futures is another lens through which university underrepresentation should be viewed. A storied lens attends to how futures, like university attendance, are storied during childhood to the extent that some youth imagine, and therefore plan, these futures as natural progression. Such was the case for study participants, indicating that childhood stories contain answers for mitigating social reproduction connected to parental education and cultural forces within the home. Examining social mobility through the underexplored storied-futures grand narrative presents unique solutions that lay hidden within the dominant meritocratic grand narrative.     

不真正连带责任研究

作为广义请求权竟合之一种的不真正连带责任,在我国民法领域中尚未受到足够的重视。但其作为一种成熟而科学的理论,有着异于连带责任理论而独立存在的价值。作者对不真正连带责任的确定、类型和效力、债权人对不真正连带责任的求偿和不真正连带责任的内部求偿问题进行了论述。     

论图书馆与网络信息资源优势互补的切入点

在分析评价网络信息资源自身的弱势和图书馆信息优势的基础上，论述图书馆与网络资源信息服务功能优势互补的切入点。     

统一的环境法精神探微

传统的环境法是由自然资源 (包括能源 )法、污染防治法、自然保护法三个不同的法域组成的部门法 ,三个法域各自着眼点并不相同 ,以至于难以形成环境保护的合力。资源保护、污染防治以及自然保护对公益衡平的价值追求和对环境保全的共同目标追求使得现代环境法形成统一的精神成为可能。这种精神应是 :在考虑到环境承载力的前提下 ,实现人类的可持续发展。     

和谐社会中的信息公平制度

探讨信息公平在和谐社会构建中的重要意义，分析我国存在信息鸿沟的现状及其对和谐社会建设的消极影响，提出消除信息鸿沟、实现信息公平的若干政策建议。     

Analysis of the urban/rural broadband divide in Canada: Using GIS in planning terrestrial wireless deployment

Millions of Canadians residing in Canada's northern, isolated, rural, and remote communities do not have broadband Internet access. This situation has led to a national “broadband divide.” That is, the deployment of wireline broadband is very limited in Canada's northern, isolated, rural, and remote areas because of the significant expense of installation and maintenance of the wired infrastructure needed to reach dwellings in these locations.Terrestrial broadband wireless technology, on the other hand, does not entail the same kind of physical infrastructure. As a result, there are dramatic changes in how spatial considerations affect the provision of broadband Internet services (BIS) to areas beyond the urban zone. In particular, the spatial question is now focused on assessing the capacity for different technological solutions to reach profitable population bases, and brings to the forefront organizations that are developing non-line-of-sight (NLOS) technologies that would permit wireless Internet access over much greater distances than current solutions.We begin this paper by establishing the importance of broadband connectivity to Canada's northern, isolated, rural, and remote communities. This discussion comments on the role of the Government of Canada in the provision of broadband connectivity to residents of these communities, and outlines the current regulatory issues that govern wireless services and policy formulation.The second part of the paper illustrates the use of geographic information system (GIS) approaches in the study of wireless broadband planning and deployment. Case study findings suggest that GIS applications can make a significant contribution to the analysis of wireless deployment planning, to the understanding of the relationships between wireless signal sources and consumers, and to the spatial configuration of terrestrial wireless broadband networks. We conclude the paper by discussing how the GIS approach employed could be used to inform the public policy process with regard to increasing access to broadband Internet services in all regions of the country, and thereby providing the opportunity for all Canadians, regardless of location, to fully participate in the Information Society.     

Update: The Invisible Farmer: securing Australian farm women’s history

This article reviews the Invisible Farmer project – the largest study of Australian women on the land – a third of the way through its three year funding period. It introduces the aims of this collaborative and multidisciplinary project, focusing on the role of records and oral histories in the creation of new narratives, and the task of raising public awareness of the important historical and contemporary contributions made by Australian women farmers. We examine the way digital platforms work to curate records and promote research, and outline the important role that the Australian Women’s Register, a core project of the Australian Women’s Archives Project, will play in achieving outcomes.     

三自由度并联式波浪补偿平台建模与仿真

鉴于船舶在波浪中的六自由度运动中,其升沉、横摇和纵摇运动对船舶工作平台上的设备影响较大,设计一种三自由度并联式波浪补偿平台来减少这种影响。通过对平台进行运动学分析,得到平台的运动学模型。利用ADAMS和Simulink建立带有控制系统时间延迟参数的虚拟样机模型,依据平台的运动学模型设计对船舶运动进行补偿的控制策略,并利用虚拟样机进行仿真,验证平台机构和相应控制策略对船舶运动的补偿效果。结果表明:当控制系统的时间延迟参数取值为1 ms时,平台对船舶升沉、横摇和纵摇运动的补偿效果分别为88.81%、95.44%和91.97%;当控制系统的时间延迟参数取值为0.1 ms时,平台对船舶升沉、横摇和纵摇运动的补偿效果分别为96.04%、99.07%和97.65%。由此可见:平台对误差有一定的包容性;可利用具有船舶运动预测功能的算法为平台提供超前的船舶运动数据或者提高控制系统的实时性来提高补偿效果。     

Something new: value and change in finance*

ABSTRACT

Ethnographic and social scientific accounts of the financiers that buy and sell companies for profit often homogenize the players in these social dramas, relying on blunt, totalizing definitions of culture or overly deterministic articulations of habitus. This article, drawing on a two-year study of private equity investors, offers an alternative analytic frame for making sense of how private equity people buy and sell companies. It explores the ways in which private equity people make arguments persuading one another and the larger public that an investment is worth making. Important to these arguments are not only substantive content, the evidence that investors marshal to support a thesis, but also reflective evaluation of what counts as good evidence, meta-commentary. It is in these split levels of analysis that we can appreciate the cultural diversity within finance, Wall Street, and investment banking. I will also suggest that understanding how investors are arguing substantively as well as meta-pragmatically begins to outline a useful theory of culture change within the world of investment banking.     

基于HEA方法的神府煤炭开采区受损植被生态补偿评估

本文根据我国煤炭开采区的特点,修改、优化了HEA的部分参数和代数模型。运用2007年"中国生态系统生态服务价值当量因子表",构建了求解煤炭开采区受损植被受损量、补偿量、补偿规模的HEA模型。运用模型处理、分析了相关统计与调查数据,计算出榆林神府煤炭开采区草地生态服务功能价值损失量、补偿量和补偿规模。认为,2004年—2008年,榆林神府煤炭开采区草地生态服务功能价值的损失量逐年上升,受损植被应补偿量逐年扩大;榆林神府煤炭开采区应当把从荒漠到林地作为实现受损植被生态服务功能转换的主体方案,把从农田到草地、荒漠到草地、农田到林地作为实现受损植被生态服务功能转换的3种补充方案。