Affection Deprivation in Romantic Relationships

The current study examined the role of affection deprivation, the need for greater affection than an individual is currently receiving, in the context of romantic relationships. Using affection exchange theory, the authors hypothesized several testable relationships between affection deprivation and relational outcomes (relational satisfaction, closeness, and commitment). The study also examined the possible moderating roles of relational maximization and relational uncertainty. Overall, the results supported the predictions, with affection deprivation significantly related to satisfaction and closeness. Relational maximization moderated the significant relationships between deprivation and relational satisfaction and commitment. Relational uncertainty moderated the significant relationships between deprivation and closeness and commitment. Implications and possible directions for future research are discussed.     

Improving collaborative learning in online software engineering education

Team projects are commonplace in software engineering education. They address a key educational objective, provide students critical experience relevant to their future careers, allow instructors to set problems of greater scale and complexity than could be tackled individually, and are a vehicle for socially constructed learning. While all student teams experience challenges, those in fully online programmes must also deal with remote working, asynchronous coordination, and computer-mediated communications all of which contribute to greater social distance between team members. We have developed a facilitation framework to aid team collaboration and have demonstrated its efficacy, in prior research, with respect to team performance and outcomes. Those studies indicated, however, that despite experiencing improved project outcomes, students working in effective software engineering teams did not experience significantly improved individual achievement. To address this deficiency we implemented theoretically grounded refinements to the collaboration model based upon peer-tutoring research. Our results indicate a modest, but statistically significant (p?=?.08), improvement in individual achievement using this refined model.     

Simulating the global workplace for graduate employability

Higher education institutions increasingly recognise the need to develop both disciplinary knowledge and soft skills to foster the employability of their graduates. For students in International Studies programmes, the workplace opportunities to develop soft skills relevant to their intended professions are scarce, costly and unavailable to many. This paper argues that universities can harness the power of ICTs in ways that students find engaging and offer opportunities to gain professional experience that prepares them for an international workplace. We describe a new work-integrated learning model that embeds a multi-layered in-person simulation within an academic context. Facilitated by cross-national pedagogical collaboration, students participate live in cross-campus experiential learning with online peers. Students’ reflections on the model indicate that this model can foster a range of generic soft skills that enable them to apply their academic knowledge, collaborate with a culturally diverse group and work in a digital world. To refine this blended learning model, more attention needs to be paid to designing appropriate evaluation tools and harnessing cultural diversity more effectively.     

An interview study of responses to diagnostic,multiple-choice,physics items

Conclusion In three-quarters of the student-item pairs the multiple-choice items correctly identified the use of adequate or inadequate strategies so on a general level the items might be thought to have performed satisfactorily. However as diagnostic tools they were generally inadequate and this fact points to the desirability of using the student-oriented procedure for constructing such items. In this procedure student understanding of the domain of knowledge is probed through interviews and distractors are designed to reflect the dominant types of misconceptions. The importance of the school-related context was something which emerged during the interviews and, in the light of the discrepancy between student understanding as revealed through school tests and interview studies, this is an area to which more attention needs to be given.     

当代文化的众声喧哗——浪漫伦理与现代消费主义精神

本文为英国社会学家柯林.坎贝尔《浪漫主义伦理与现代消费主义精神》的导论部分。此书从标题到研究思路沿袭了韦伯的《新教伦理与资本主义精神》,通过对18世纪英国工业革命时期伴随而来的消费革命的梳理与分析,探寻现代消费主义的起源,试图将文学浪漫主义与现代工业社会的“获取与花费”相联接。通过对文学、历史、社会学、经济学等学科的例证,坎贝尔提出现代社会消费主义的特征不仅源于工业资本主义的市场力量,也与获取快感和白日梦的浪漫艺术相关。此书是西方消费文化研究的经典作品,也是研究消费文化的必读书目。此书在消费文化研究、大众文化研究等领域影响深远。在导论一节中,作者主要介绍了研究的方法、方法论及其思路形成过程。     

Neurosecretory hormones in insects

Although the existence of hormones in insects has been known for many years, it is only comparatively recently — with the benefit of sensitive new techniques of assay, isolation, and sequencing — that an overall picture of their nature has begun to emerge. From this it is clear that, like vertebrate hormones —with which they have some structural affinity — they fall into related families. Apart from their great intrinsic scientific interest, these studies suggest new lines of approach to the development of more potent or discriminating drugs and insecticides.     

Can ‘pooling teaching tips’ be more than ‘pooling teaching tips’?

Tertiary Education and Management - There is increasing interest in how academic development of various kinds influences university teaching and student learning. To date the focus has been on...     

First- and second-generation design and engineering students: experience,attainment and factors influencing them to attend university

Challenges for students who are ‘first-in-family’ to attend university have been discussed within widening participation discourse. However, in the UK, ‘first-in-family’ or first-generation students have frequently been conflated with those experiencing poverty or from lower socio-economic groups. This research integrated survey data with assessment data from final-year design and engineering students in a UK university to examine students’ attainment, the influences on why students decide to attend university and students’ experiences during their degree programmes. Analysis of the data showed variations in the reasons for first- and second-generation students wanting to go to university, particularly a significant difference in the influence of parents. First-generation students described significantly less parental influence on the decision to attend university than second- or subsequent-generation students. Smaller differences in students’ experiences and attainment in university were also noted. Whilst first-generation students reported differences in study habits, their attainment was, on average, marginally higher than that of their peers. Building on others’ theoretical work, which suggests the importance of social capital within higher education (HE), this research highlights the difference in social influences on both university application and expectations of university for those with and without a family history of tertiary education. Further research is needed to explore, in larger samples, whether the social influences on individuals’ perception of HE are in turn shaped by whether or not their parents attended university, and further, what impact this may have, not only on degree outcomes but also on the broader benefits typically associated with graduate experience.     

The Last Mathematician from Hilbert's Gottingen: Saunders Mac Lane as Philosopher of Mathematics

While Saunders Mac Lane studied for his D.Phil in Göttingen,he heard David Hilbert's weekly lectures on philosophy, talkedphilosophy with Hermann Weyl, and studied it with Moritz Geiger.Their philosophies and Emmy Noether's algebra all influencedhis conception of category theory, which has become the workingstructure theory of mathematics. His practice has constantlyaffirmed that a proper large-scale organization for mathematicsis the most efficient path to valuable specific results—whilehe sees that the question of which results are valuable hasan ineliminable philosophic aspect. His philosophy relies onthe ideas of truth and existence he studied in Göttingen.His career is a case study relating naturalism in philosophyof mathematics to philosophy as it naturally arises in mathematics.

1. Introduction
2. Structures and Morphisms
3. Varieties of Structuralism
4. Göttingen
5. Logic: Mac Lane's Dissertation
6. Emmy Noether
7. Natural Transformations
8. Grothendieck: Toposes and Universes
9. Lawvere and Foundations
10. Truth and Existence
11. Naturalism
12. Austere Forms of Beauty