汪喵星人的自白

每次看着那些萌萌的汪喵星人,内心总会变得一片柔软,不禁产生"我也好想抱养一只"的想法,但我也知道养这些萌宠就好比养孩子,责任重大,所以到最后也是想想而已,不过这也不妨碍我对这些萌系星人的喜爱。每次在街上或者在亲戚朋友家看到它们,总忍不住盯着它们看好久,有时它们也会回看我,那时我就会想,它们会不会在心里暗暗嘀咕"为什么这个怪阿姨一直盯着我,还在对我笑?"这样一脑补,感觉不能更萌啦!但同时,这也让我产生好奇:在这些可爱的猫猫狗狗眼里,这个世界是怎样的?我们这些人     

生命最后的馈赠

在中国,每年需要做器官移植手术的病人约有150万人,但是能够真正完成移植的只有大约1万人,而器官捐献不足是主要原因之一。由于供体和受体之间的巨大差额,许多病人在绝望的等待中渐渐死去。说起遗体捐赠,多少有点儿犯了中国人的忌讳,认为这会扰了逝者的安宁——这也是许多人不愿意捐赠器官的一个原因。但是,这种想法应该慢慢地被改变,人们应该去理解器官捐赠的意义。这样的话,将会有无数条生命因此而受惠。如果有一天,我将要面临死亡,那么我愿意捐赠出自己的遗体吗?在初次接触到器官捐赠这个观念的时候,我就这么问过自己,答案是愿意,所以我也去网上登记注册成为了一名器官捐献志愿者。自己死了,但是自己的一些器官却能在其他人的身体     

Canoe slalom competition analysis

The aim of this study was to quantify the differences between groups of elite canoe slalom athletes based on the class they paddle in and the strategies they use in competition. Canoe and kayak footage was recorded using three cameras and analysed using lapsed-time time-motion analysis. Analysis was undertaken on the ten fastest competition runs for men's kayak and canoes and women's kayak for the 22-gate semi-final/final course at the 2005 canoe slalom world championships. Comparison between the categories of paddlers revealed that despite canoe paddlers taking significantly (P < or = 0.05) fewer strokes than kayak paddlers, they were not significantly slower than men's single kayak paddlers with respect to their run times and only significantly slower between 4 of 22 gates. Results revealed also that paddlers using different turn strategies (spin vs. pivot) had significantly (P < or = 0.05) different split times for the gates before and after the execution of the manoeuvre. For a paddler this means that their individual strategy could be analysed and compared with those of others to determine if alternate strategies would be beneficial to their performance.     

Plans that work: improving employment outcomes for young people with learning disabilities

This article offers a critical reflection on the function of education, health and care plans (EHCPs) in pathways to employment for disabled young people. We consider ‘the education plan’ as an artefact of special educational needs systems. We problematise the often taken‐for‐granted assumption that such plans are always and only a ‘good’ thing in the lives of disabled young people seeking pathways to employment. At the same time, we consider the rise in demand for plans that are understood by many as a crucial mechanism for achieving support. Following the recent policy reforms in England, we describe a context in which the funding of education is shrinking and in which the promise of employment for disabled young people has yet to be delivered. We conclude by proposing some changes to policy and practice to enhance employment opportunities for disabled young people.     

Getting to No: Pragmatic and Semantic Factors in Two‐ and Three‐Year‐Olds' Understanding of Negation

Although infants say “no” early, older children have difficulty understanding its truth‐functional meaning. Two experiments investigate whether this difficulty stems from the infelicity of negative sentences out of the blue. In Experiment 1, given supportive discourse, 3‐year‐olds (N = 16) understood both affirmative and negative sentences. However, with sentence types randomized, 2‐year‐olds (N = 28) still failed. In Experiment 2, affirmative and negative sentences were blocked. Two‐year‐olds (N = 28) now succeeded, but only when affirmatives were presented first. Thus, although discourse felicity seems the primary bottleneck for 3‐year‐olds' understanding of negation, 2‐year‐olds struggle with its semantic processing. Contrary to accounts where negatives are understood via affirmatives, both sentence types were processed equally quickly, suggesting previously reported asymmetries are due to pragmatic accommodation, not semantic processing.