Chaos theory, informational needs, and natural disasters

This study applies chaos theory to a system-wide analysis of crisis communication in a natural disaster. Specifically, we analyze crisis communication during the 1997 Red River Valley flood in Minnesota and North Dakota. This flood, among the worst in modern American history, consumed entire metropolitan areas, displacing thousands of people. The conditions and decisions leading to the disaster, and the subsequent reactions are retraced. Communication related to river crest predictions (fractals), the shock at the magnitude of the crisis (cosmology episode), novel forms of reorganizing (self-organization), and agencies that aided in establishing a renewed order (strange attractors) are evaluated. Ultimately, we argue that preexisting sensemaking structures favoring rationalized, traditional views of a complex system led officials to make inappropriately unequivocal predictions and ultimately diminished the effectiveness of the region's crisis communication and planning.     

公路、水路交通行政综合执法的必要性初探

在一定调研的基础上对我国步入市场经济时期、加入WTO、国家机构改革和政府职能转换等背景下的公路、水路是否应实施交通行政综合执法的必要性进行了初步探讨 ,并指出交通行政综合执法是大势所趋。     

著名图书馆学家杜定友先生与广州国立中山大学图书馆

杜定友先生（1898年－1967年）是中国近代图书馆事业卓越开拓者之一，是中国著名的图书馆学家，图书馆学教育家，图书馆管理学家和图书馆学社会活动家。杜家友先生曾于1927年4月－1999年8月和1936年8月－1950年2月两度聘为广州国立中山大学教授，主持图书馆工作，对国立中山大学图书馆的建设和发展作出重要贡献。     

急性运动对人体细胞免疫功能的影响

为探讨运动对细胞免疫功能的影响 ,检测了 7名男子田径运动员 1次急性疲劳性运动前和运动后即刻、3h、2 4 h的外周血 T淋巴细胞转化 (TL T)、白细胞介素 - 2 (IL- 2 )活性和皮质醇及胰岛素浓度的变化。结果 :在运动后即刻 ,TL T显著增强 ,IL- 2活性和血浆皮质醇浓度分别略有上升和下降 ;在运动后 3h,前 2项指标和血浆皮质醇浓度分别明显增强和降低。这 3项指标在运动后 2 4 h均恢复到运动前水平。 IL - 2活性变化与皮质醇浓度变化有显著负相关关系。胰岛素在运动前后无明显变化。提示 :1次急性适度运动可提高人体的细胞免疫功能 ,并可持续数 h。这种变化与血浆皮质醇浓度下降有一定关系     

广西自治区九运会举重比赛调研报告

研究结果表明 ,广西青少年举重运动正处于上升阶段。其表现背景是小级别优势项目仍在发挥作用 ,运动水平增长速度较快 ,运动员达到高水平的年龄和训练年限趋向提早 ,重点项目布局体系正在发挥效益功能。但试举成功率较低 ,杠铃后掉和挺不起是试举失败的主要因素。     

冰上课教学方法与难点教学实践初探

在教学实践中感到冰上课的难点有2个:站立和弯道技术.就冰上站立和弯道技术进行了技术和教学方法的初步探讨.在冰上首先要解决站立问题,能站立后滑行就比较容易;另一个难点就是弯道滑行,这点若也解决,冰上课就成功了.     

Storage and retrieval of e-mail in a business environment: An exploratory guide

Executives recognize the value of maintaining access to information. More managers filter their own e-mail rather than have assistants do this task. Organizing and storing data for future use are left to the personal preference of the individual manager. Is this in the best interest of the organization? Are data being stored in a manner causing them to be irretrievable in the future? Are irrelevant data being stored? This study investigates the strategies used to store and retrieve e-mail. The results revealed that the primary search strategy was a reliance on memory. The labels assigned to the e-mail folders triggered the user's memory. Although, in the short term, memory is sufficient for organizing and retrieving information, the lack of transferability and preservation of this information poses a danger. The association between the electronic file label and the stored information is unique to the manager and may lead to inaccessibility of relevant corporate knowledge in the future.     

湖南省田径队男子三级跳远成功的启示

通过湖北省田径队优秀男子三级跳远运动员熊卫在湖南省田径队男子三级跳远组训练过程的分析，认为教练员科学的、极具鲜明特点的训练方法，以及与运动员团结协作，努力拼搏，无私奉献的敬业精神，是湖南省男子三级跳远取得成功的关键。