Unsustainable Growth,Hyper-Competition,and Worth in Life Science Research: Narrowing Evaluative Repertoires in Doctoral and Postdoctoral Scientists’ Work and Lives

There is a crisis of valuation practices in the current academic life sciences, triggered by unsustainable growth and “hyper-competition.” Quantitative metrics in evaluating researchers are seen as replacing deeper considerations of the quality and novelty of work, as well as substantive care for the societal implications of research. Junior researchers are frequently mentioned as those most strongly affected by these dynamics. However, their own perceptions of these issues are much less frequently considered. This paper aims at contributing to a better understanding of the interplay between how research is valued and how young researchers learn to live, work and produce knowledge within academia. We thus analyze how PhD students and postdocs in the Austrian life sciences ascribe worth to people, objects and practices as they talk about their own present and future lives in research. We draw on literature from the field of valuation studies and its interest in how actors refer to different forms of valuation to account for their actions. We explore how young researchers are socialized into different valuation practices in different stages of their growing into science. Introducing the concept of “regimes of valuation” we show that PhD students relate to a wider evaluative repertoire while postdocs base their decisions on one dominant regime of valuing research. In conclusion, we discuss the implications of these findings for the epistemic and social development of the life sciences, and for other scientific fields.     

Beyond Journal Impact and Usage Statistics: Using Citation Analysis for Collection Development

This article outlines a methodology to generate a list of local core journal titles by doing a citation analysis and details the process for retrieving and downloading data from Scopus. It analyzes correlations among citation count, journal rankings, and journal usage. The results of this study reveal significant correlations between journal rankings and journal usage. No correlation with citation count has been found. Limitations and implications for collection development and outreach are also discussed.     

贺州市土瑶七年级学生实施英语任务型教学的设想

本文以科研项目形式,对贺州市土瑶七年级学生的英语学习基本情况和研究意义等进行分析,并在研究方法和具体操作两方面提出了在土瑶学生中实施英语任务型教学的设想,以探索出培养、提高土瑶中、小学生,乃至其他少数民族和边远山区的汉族中、小学生英语能力的有效途径。     

A learning-based method to detect and segment text from scene images

This paper proposes a learning-based method for text detection and text segmentation in natural scene images. First, the input image is decomposed into multiple connected-components (CCs) by Niblack clustering algorithm. Then all the CCs including text CCs and non-text CCs are verified on their text features by a 2-stage classification module, where most non-text CCs are discarded by an attentional cascade classifier and remaining CCs are further verified by an SVM. All the accepted CCs are output to result in text only binary image. Experiments with many images in different scenes showed satisfactory performance of our proposed method.     

顾客满意度测评系统在企业中的应用

ISO 9001:2000标准中,质量管理八项原则的第一条就是以顾客为关注焦点,它强调组织应该理解顾客当前和未来的需求,满足顾客要求,并争取超越顾客期望。通过偏最小二乘法实现了顾客满意度指数计算,讨论了顾客满意度测评系统在企业中的应用。     

武术俱乐部视域下武德对学生传统美德的寓理教育

采用文献资料法、访谈调研法、实践教学法、逻辑分析法等方法,探讨中华武德对学生传统美德的教育作用。结果表明:中华武德的核心观念是仁、义、礼、智、信、勇,蕴含着仁慈、爱国、爱民、重义、守礼、和谐、谦让、中正、诚实、守信、忠勇、报国等传统美德,通过校内外武术俱乐部进行中华武德交流,对学生的传统美德修养具有良好的寓理教育作用,能促进学生美德修养的自我养成。     

Bedingungen der Bindungswirkung inkrementeller Normen in Fußballvereinen

Sports clubs depend on the pooling of resources by their members. The supportive distribution of the resources within a club is facilitated in particular by the effectiveness of incremental standards. A basic prerequisite for a fair distribution of resources is a minimum of community spirit among the members. Based on a nationwide survey of football clubs and an ordinal logistic regression model, factors were determined that reflect the extent of the community spirit within a club. The opening up of the club by payment to players and perceived problems with acquiring and binding of volunteers are associated with a reduction of community spirit. In contrast, the perception that the club activities can be continued in the long term shows a positive correlation to a highly developed community spirit.     

浅圆仓侧压力分析

Rankine理论和Coulomb理论均不适合用于浅圆仓的侧压力计算. 基于此, 本文研究了浅圆仓散料侧压力的实际分布规律及计算方法. 根据极限平衡理论, 首先得到散粒体作用在单位周长的仓壁上的合压力, 然后通过严格的数学推导, 得到浅圆仓侧压力的分布规律. 结果表明, 本文结果与实仓试验结果相符, 说明本文公式不论对平堆还是锥堆都比较适合, 而Rankine理论和Coulomb理论用于浅圆仓均有缺陷.     

试析《那片血一般红的杜鹃花》与《木木》的人物悲剧

关注小人物的生活及命运,是中外文学艺术创作的重要母题之一。白先勇的《那片血一般红的杜鹃花》和屠格涅夫的《木木》就是这一类作品。文章试图通过对这两个文本的对比阅读,揭示作品中两个小人物的悲剧命运,同时也试图探析隐藏在作品背后的不同创作思想和艺术追求。