Erratology and the Ill-Logic of the Seismotic University

With the tertiary education mantra of creativity, critical thinking and innovation in mind, we consider the critical-creativity of error. Taking the university to model social orthography, or ‘correct writing’, according to the norms of disciplines, we consider the role of error in the classroom. Looked at another way, error questions the norms governing norms and the instability of disciplinary grounds. Beyond correction, error involves a mis-taking, or taking another way. Tracing the origin of error we are able to reconstruct the social world in terms of which it is conceivable for a mistake of any kind to have been made. The university, we find, withholds worlds which are not new but are sources of creativity, and constitutes a pluriversity or poly-versity.     

Reshaping academic capitalism to meet development priorities: the case of public universities in Kenya

As colleges and universities have adopted a corporate model in recent decades, debate over the public versus private good associated with higher education has surged. The deliberations have typically been entrenched in Western notions about academia’s contributions to development and scholars have framed academic capitalism dichotomously; a force for good or evil. Far less is known about the market model of higher education in developing nations. We sought to explore this gap by examining how faculty and staff at two public universities in Africa view the intersection of marketization and development.     

西南地区宗教旅游资源特点分析及开发对策研究

通过分析西南地区宗教旅游资源的特点,并针对目前西南地区宗教旅游资源开发中存在的问题,提出西南地区宗教旅游资源开发对策。     

Re-victimization patterns in a national longitudinal sample of children and youth

OBJECTIVE: To understand to the degree to which a broad variety of victimizations, including child maltreatment, conventional crime, peer, and sexual victimizations, persist for children from 1 year to the next. DESIGN: A national sample of 1467 children aged 2-17 recruited through random digit dialing and assessed via telephone interviews (with caretakers and youth themselves) about a comprehensive range of victimization experiences in the previous year, and then re-assessed (72.3% of baseline sample) after a 1-year interval. RESULTS: The risk for re-victimization in Year 2 was high for children victimized in Year 1, with risk ratios ranging from 2.2 for physical assault to 6.9 for sexual victimization. Victimization of any one type left substantial vulnerability even for different types of subsequent re-victimization (e.g., property crime victimization was associated with higher risk of sexual victimization the next year). Children with four or more types of victimization in Year 1 ("poly-victims") were at particularly high risk of persisting poly-victimization. Persisting poly-victimization was more likely for children who scored high on anger/aggression and who had recent life adversities. Desistence from poly-victimization was associated with having more good friends. Onset of poly-victimization in Year 2, in contrast to persistence from Year 1, was associated with violent or maltreating families, family problems such as alcohol abuse, imprisonment, unemployment and family disruption. Having more older siblings acted as both a risk factor and a protective factor for different groups of youth. CONCLUSION: Children previously victimized in 1 year are at higher risk of continued victimization, and the poly-victims are at particular risk. These findings suggest the potential merit of identifying these high-risk children and making them priority targets for prevention efforts.     

PHOTON-SUBTRACTED (-ADDED) THERMO VACUUM STATE AND THEIR APPLICATION IN JACOBI POLYNOMIALS

We construct photon-subtracted (-added) thermo vacuum state by normalizing them. As their application we derive some new generating function formulas of Jacobi polynomials, which may be applied to study other problems in quantum mechanics. This will also stimulate the research of mathematical physics in the future.     

商品包装设计中的文化美感对消费行为的影响

随着社会经济的发展,人们对商品的包装提出了更高的要求,提高商品包装的艺术美感,突出人文气息、提高商品的文化内涵成为现代包装设计面临的又一个重要课题。而要把握好商品包装设计审美中的文化内涵趋向,包装设计的材料美、色彩美、造型美则起着主导作用。对产品进行文化定位,对消费群体的文化心理进行全方位的了解,使产品外包装所表现的文化内涵与消费者产生知觉共鸣,才能促使消费者产生购买商品的欲望与行动,从而影响消费行为,通过包装达到启迪消费的功能。