Direct skeletal attachment prosthesis for the amputee athlete: the unknown potential

Lower limb amputees often experience complications with the use of conventional socket-type prostheses, which further reduce their already compromised ability to perform the activities of daily living, or to participate in sporting activities. During the last two decades, a new technology of direct skeletal attachment (osseointegration) of prosthesis to the femoral residuum has been developed. The aim of this research was to assess the implant design, surgery protocols, and functional testing of this new technology on the first 100 patients using the Integral Leg Prosthesis procedure. This new knowledge can guide future engineering developments of osseointegration within the sporting arena. Between 1999 and 2013, direct skeletal implantation was performed on 112 amputees, from two centres in Germany and Australia. From the experience of the surgical team, modifications were made to the implant design. This re-engineering of the implant has reduced the surgical revisions due to infection from 29 % with the early implant design down to 7 %. The functional testing of the 34 Australian cases were assessed pre- and 12 months post-implant with significant improvements of one complete K-scale; the Q-TFA measures increased (50.9–86.7), whilst the Timed Up and Go decreased significantly (12.43 s ± 3.89 to 8.03 s ± 2.80), and the 6 min walk increased (304.0–383.9 m). From these findings, osseointegration technology is realistically the way of the future for amputee athletes. Further refinement of the implant design and sports-specific functional testing are required to define the potential of this technology.     

绿色建筑：学校建筑发展的新趋势

绿色建筑指具有健康、舒适、节能、环保特性的建筑物。在学校中规划实施绿色建筑有利于学生的健康和学习效率：有利于培养具有可持续发展观念的公民；可降低学校的日常运作成本。为了保障学校绿色建筑的实施，需要从政策、技术和管理、观念等层面分别推进。     

浅论教师与家长关系的中介性

教师与家长之间关系的特殊性——中介性,决定了他们之间关系的复杂性,这种关系会影响到第三者——儿童的发展。教师和家长是通过儿童的行为和儿童对对方的评价来认识、了解彼此的。教师与家长应采取对话的方式,加深了解,相互尊重。     

中国现代远程教育质量论略

远程教育的教学质量应该由开展远程教育的机构、参加远程教育的学习者、社会来认可,而三者对教育质量的标准的认同必须统一。认定远程教育的质量标准是一项较为复杂的工作,需要经过科学研究,由国家权威部门制定或由行业制定国家认可的标准,同时由相关部门组成专家对开展远程教育的机构、学院进行经常性的评估。     

Effect of blended learning and learners’ characteristics on students’ competence: An empirical evidence in learning oriental music

Blended learning emerged as the most popular instructional design strategy in the field of education since last decade to present date. In fact, it is well acknowledged that blended learning approach significantly elevate students’ engagement and competency in learning process. Despite immense potentiality, many countries are still lag behind adopting this instructional design, such as Sri Lanka. Therefore, the primary aims of this study are two fold, (a) to investigate the effect of blended learning and learners’ characteristics on students’ competence and (b) to investigate the effectiveness of blended learning in teaching Oriental Music. This study mainly carried out among the senior secondary schools students at Colombo, Sri Lanka. A mixed methods, experimental and survey, were carried out to test the effectiveness of blended learning and identifying the important factors for enhancing students’ competence in learning Oriental Music. Results of independent sample t-test confirmed that blended learning is effective in terms of improving students’ performance in learning Oriental Music. Similarly, regression analysis confirmed that attitude and motivation are the two most important determinants for improving students’ competence. This study fulfilled an existing research gap by utilizing blended learning to teach highly traditional abstract art. Results of the study contributes to the curriculum designing field with novel ideas to adapt in hybrid instructions to teach secondary level students effectively. The curriculum designers will make use of these findings during innovation and future researcher would be benefitted to overlook more possible platforms to deliver music instructions. It will help them to understand how their set objectives have been achieved in technology integrations and seek for improvement where necessary.     

儒家“立德立功”观与大学生的理想教育

儒家把立德立功、为国为民谋利作为评判个体有无价值的重要依据,并以此为人生的不朽追求。个体正确价值观的养成对个体的发展意义重大。重温儒家立德立功思想及相应的培训方法,对当今大学生的理想教育具有重要启示。     

洪武乌部经略概论

乌蛮诸部位于云南、四川、贵州三省区交界地带,是洪武时期西南经略的重要组成部分.概括其时经略乌部的主要措置,即军事挞伐制其不叛,卫所设置控扼要道,诸部分治防其合势,文教化之使其不叛.     

WTO:中国教育的真正世界舞台

世贸组织不仅仅是一种国际经济组织,而且是当代全球社会的基本组织框架、模式和系统,是中国教育走进国际社会的真正世界舞台。这是一彻底开放的、高度趋同的、丰富多样的和激烈竞争的舞台。中国教育工作者要在这个全新的世界舞台上,作为“世界型教育剧编、导、演”,以世贸组织《服务贸易总协定》为范例,优选剧目、建构剧情、编写剧本,协调剧务和演出话剧,创造性地编写演出立体综合化的中国教育当代剧:塑造和培养能为世界社会理解、欣赏、接纳和仿效的世界公民和国际新人角色,全面反映人类当代丰富多彩的新生产新生活,为全球各类教育“观众”和消费者提供各种规格的教育服务。     

Improved fast intra prediction algorithm of H.264/AVC

With advanced prediction modes of intra prediction, intra coding of H.264/AVC offers significant coding gains compared with previous video coding standards. It uses an important tool called Lagrangian rate-distortion optimization (RDO) technique to decide the best coding mode for a block, but the computational burden is extremely high. In this paper, we proposed an improved fast intra prediction algorithm including block type selection and mode decision algorithm based on analysis of edge feature of a block. Our algorithm filters out unlikely block type and candidate modes to reduce the RDO calculations. Experimental results showed that the proposed algorithm can reduce the computation complexity of intra prediction from 52.90% to 56.31%, with 0.04 dB PSNR degradation and 2% increase of bit rate.     

立足应用性人才培养 创建新型高职院校校园文化

高职院校的校园文化,既具有高等学校校园文化所共有的特征,又具有自身的鲜明特色。本文立足于高等职业技术教育,从高职院校应用性人才的培养上入手,探讨了高职院校校园文化建设的框架。