北太平洋巨型章鱼

北太平洋巨型章鱼是170余种巨型章鱼中的一种。人们曾经误把它们看成为海怪,实际上,它们性格平和,并不像古老传说描述的那样会攻击船只。     

我不吃我的朋友

女儿6岁的时候,缠着我要养小动物,这不由让我想起我小时候养小兔子的事。     

战前星期天

星期天,在英格兰西部一处居家稀少、民性平靖的幽远山谷,如在寂静的群山之中一样,全无世人忧心忡忡的迹象。谷地的人们没有外部世界的消息,看来也不想打听。当地邮差接获通知,让他整日守着小小的办公室。这是引人关注的不寻常事态,不过也只是因为事关邮差而已。     

维吾尔族农民工职业教育情况简析——基于武汉地区维吾尔族农民工内地城市生存状态调查

新疆维吾尔自治区职业教育普及率低,维吾尔族农民工职业水平较低。面对维吾尔族农民工在内地城市生存与适应困难的境况以及新生劳动力在当地的就业需要,如何运用新疆现有的资源,寻求既能持续性提高劳动力素质,又能促进地方经济的发展,无疑是目前新疆维吾尔自治区职业教育和经济达到双赢的有效途径。     

磨练营的秘密

为了保证大家的安全,老师决定让同学们先在磨练营住一夜,第二天再出发。她直接和管理处联系,让他们火速派人去寻找两个探险的孩子。晚上十点多,阿呆怎么也睡不着。他想不明白,杜飞和陈然为什么会去野狼谷呢？     

言而有信

在美国圣迭哥有这样两个兄弟,哥哥叫哈里,弟弟叫杰克。兄弟俩非常有钱,可他们为富不仁,经常为非作歹。不过,为了掩人耳目,他们经常用金钱来粉饰自己。他们还经常去教堂做礼拜,希望借此把自己装扮成一位完美的基督徒。     

七片口香糖

我突然意识到,不仅仅是一片口香糖,母亲还可能默默做着不计其数的牺牲,只是我从来没有注意到罢了。终于来了,我青春年华中最让人激动的时光。我第一次驾车行驶在通往大学的路上,12年的学习终于等到这一天。我真的搞不清谁更高兴,妈妈还是我?父亲三年前撒     

Bringing text display digital radio to consumers with hearing loss

Radio is migrating to digital transmission, expanding its offerings to include captioning for individuals with hearing loss. Text display radio requires a large amount of word throughput with minimal screen display area, making good user interface design crucial to its success. In two experiments, we presented hearing, hard-of-hearing, and deaf consumers with National Public Radio stories converted to text and examined their preferences for and reactions to midsized and small radio text displays. We focused on physical display attributes such as text color, font style, line length, and scrolling type as well as emergency alert messages and emergency prompts for drivers, announcer identification schemes, and synchronization of audio and text. Results suggest that midsized, Global Positioning System (GPS)-style displays were well liked, synchronization of audio and text was important to comprehension and retrieval of story details, identification of announcers was served best with a combination of name change in parenthesis and color change, and a mixture of color and flashing symbols was preferred for emergency alerting.     

Longitudinal patterns of emerging literacy in beginning deaf and hearing readers

The emerging reading and spelling abilities of 24 deaf and 23 hearing beginning readers were followed over 2 years. The deaf children varied in their language backgrounds and preferred mode of communication. All children were given a range of literacy, cognitive and language-based tasks every 12 months. Deaf and hearing children made similar progress in literacy in the beginning stages of reading development and then their trajectories began to diverge. The longitudinal correlates of beginning reading in the deaf children were earlier vocabulary, letter-sound knowledge, and speechreading. Earlier phonological awareness was not a longitudinal correlate of reading ability once earlier reading levels were controlled. Only letter name knowledge was longitudinally related to spelling ability. Speechreading was also a strong longitudinal correlate of reading and spelling in the hearing children. The findings suggested that deaf and hearing children utilize slightly different reading strategies over the first 2 years of schooling.     

Statistical learning of action: The role of conditional probability

Identification of distinct units within a continuous flow of human action is fundamental to action processing. Such segmentation may rest in part on statistical learning. In a series of four experiments, we examined what types of statistics people can use to segment a continuous stream involving many brief, goal-directed action elements. The results of Experiment 1 showed no evidence for sensitivity to conditional probability, whereas Experiment 2 displayed learning based on joint probability. In Experiment 3, we demonstrated that additional exposure to the input failed to engender sensitivity to conditional probability. However, the results of Experiment 4 showed that a subset of adults—namely, those more successful at identifying actions that had been seen more frequently than comparison sequences—were also successful at learning conditional-probability statistics. These experiments help to clarify the mechanisms subserving processing of intentional action, and they highlight important differences from, as well as similarities to, prior studies of statistical learning in other domains, including language.