The influence of anxiety on visual attention in climbing

The object of the current study was to investigate anxiety-induced changes in movement and gaze behavior in novices on a climbing wall. Identical traverses were situated at high and low levels on a climbing wall to manipulate anxiety. In line with earlier studies, climbing times and movement times increased under anxiety. These changes were accompanied by similar changes in total and average fixation duration and the number of fixations, which were primarily aimed at the holds used for climbing. In combination with these findings, a decrease in search rate provided evidence for a decrease in processing efficiency as anxiety increased.     

Lost and Found: Making Sense of Foreign Spaces and the Self with Public Transport

How does public transport both enable and restrict one’s negotiation and interaction with cultural, social and material landscapes? The understanding of social space and self is guided by one’s journey through those spaces, by witnessing events and public conduct. This article presents autoethnographic accounts of two communication studies researchers placed in Cape Town, South Africa, and Helsinki, Finland, for more than three months. In both situations, researchers relied on public transport with which they were unfamiliar. This study considers how those experiences were perceived, and how the researchers encountered and experienced the new social environments, local population and themselves.     

Die ODAWA-Methodik für den Entwurf von Data-Warehouse-Datenbanken

Zusammenfassung. Zusammenfassung Der Softwaremarkt für Data-Warehouse-Systeme hat in den letzten Jahren stark zugenommen. Da Standards fehlen, bringen Softwaresysteme jeweils eigene multidimensionale Datenmodelle und (physische) Entwurfswerkzeuge mit, sodass der Entwurf von Data-Warehouse-Datenbanken verfrüht auf die eingesetzten Systeme zugeschnitten ist. In diesem Beitrag präsentieren wir ein werkzeuggestütztes Entwurfsvorgehen, das ausgehend von einem Drei-Ebenen-Entwurf die zielplattformunabhängige, konzeptionelle Modellierung multidimensionaler Data-Warehouse-Schemata und anschliesend eine Transformation und Optimierung dieser Schemata für konkrete Zielplattformen ermöglicht. Durch die konzeptionelle Modellierung wird gewährleistet, dass Implementierungsdetails nicht zu früh in den Entwurfsprozess einfliesen und stattdessen fachliche Anforderungen im Vordergrund stehen.CR Subject Classification: D.2.2, H.2.1Arne Harren: Die hier beschriebene Arbeit entstand während unserer gemeinsamen Tätigkeit am Oldenburger Forschungsinstitut OFFIS (http: //www.offis.de).Eingegangen am 25. Juli 2003 / Angenommen am 1. Juni 2004, Online publiziert 6. September 2004     

Eine Methode zur Konstruktion robuster Klassenhierarchien

Zusammenfassung. In diesem Beitrag wird eine Methode zur Konstruktion robuster Klassenhierarchien vorgestellt. Hierzu wird aus den überlegungen bezüglich der polymorphen Verwendung von Klassen [2] eine Vorgehensweise zur Konstruktion von Klassenhierarchien abgeleitet. Die Begriffe Konformit?t und Spezialisierung werden verfeinert, indem nicht mehr s?mtliche Methoden einer Klasse, sondern Teilmengen davon betrachtet werden. Dies führt zum Begriff der partiellen Konformit?t. In Erweiterung von [2] sind partiell konforme Klassen dann polymorph verwendbar, wenn der Anwendungskontext, der sich aus der Benutzung der Klasse ergibt, sich ausschlie?lich auf konforme Methoden erstreckt. Diese Eigenschaft ist statisch zur übersetzungszeit überprüfbar. Damit k?nnen Fehlbenutzungen bereits zur übersetzungszeit ausgeschlossen werden. Eingegangen am 24. Dezember 1996 / Angenommen am 15. Oktober 1997     

Writing and pseudo‐writing from Internet‐based sources: implications for learning and assessment

In recent years, plagiarism has been on the increase across the Western world. This article identifies Internet access as a contributory cause of this trend and addresses the implications of readily available Internet sources for the teaching and assessment of writing in schools. The basis for the article is a previous study showing a wide incidence of plagiarism in the Internet‐based writing of students in three classes at upper secondary school level in Norway. I relate the students' choices to writing as a cognitive process and as a cultural practice. My basic assumption is that the students' writing is work. It is this work we have in mind when we relate writing to learning and when we assess students' skills on the basis of their written texts. Access to the Internet changes the premises for this work because writing can be replaced by ‘pseudo‐writing’. ‘Pseudo‐writing’ is a work reducing writing practice, which neither excludes nor coincides with what we traditionally associate with plagiarism in schools. The main point in this article is that when students have access to the Internet during essay writing, the result is unavoidably a product of both writing and pseudo‐writing. Internet access thus leads to greater uncertainty about the role writing plays in student learning and makes it more difficult to take written assignments into account in assessing students' school results and effort.     

Small Circles: Mobile Telephony and the Cultivation of the Private Sphere

This article examines how we use mobile telephony to maintain our physically and socially closest social circle. The analysis is based on traffic data gathered from Norway using approximately 24 million calls and texts made by private individuals. Previous research has shown that our temporal and spatial movement is highly predictable and that the majority of calls and text messages are sent to only four to six different persons. This article extends this research by examining both tie strength and the distance between the interlocutors in urban and rural settings. The findings show that even as information and communication technologies (ICTs) potentially put the world at our fingertips, the mobile phone is an instrument of a more limited geographical and social sphere. Approximately two-thirds of our calls/texts go to strong ties that are within a 25-km radius.     

研究生教育投资的经济学分析

本文深入探讨了对研究生收费标准的影响因素，并运用大量的相关数据计算出一个具体的收费标准。计算表明，我国硕士研究生每年的最高收费可达27000多元，目前的低学费是考研热的重要原因之一。我国博士学历人员的收入相对较低，目前不宜收费。     

The use of colours on the the seventeenth century royal warship Vasa

The seventeenth-century Swedish Royal warship Vasa was painted and decorated with almost 500 figure sculptures and many carved ornaments. It is probably the most extensive sculptural work in wood to have been preserved from this period in European history. The ship's decorations are of particular importance given the scarcity of knowledge of how sculptures in general, and large ships in particular, were painted in Northern Europe during this period. About 20 different pigments have been characterized and it has been possible to reconstruct the appearance of many of the sculptures and to extend this knowledge to the ship's original appearance.