Students' Emotions as an Organizing Principle in the Social Work Curriculum

Using a quasi-experimental one-group, pretest–posttest design with non-random convenience sampling, the researchers assessed 61 advanced standing MSW students who matriculated at a rural intermountain Northwest school of social work. Changes in students' knowledge and attitudes toward lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) people were measured using subscales of the LGB-KASH scale and include knowledge of LGB history, religious conflict, internalized affirmation of LGB people and issues, hatred and violence toward LGB people, and knowledge and attitudes toward extension and exclusion of civil rights for LGB people. Completion of required, highly experiential bridge course content regarding LGB history and experience appears to be significant in reducing religious conflict, increasing knowledge of LGB issues, and enhancing internalized affirmation of LGB individuals.     

Is a higher rate of R&D tax credit a panacea for low levels of R&D in disadvantaged regions?

This paper studies the impact of R&D spending on output as well as forecasting the impact of a regionally enhanced R&D tax credit on the ‘user cost’ (or price) of R&D expenditure and subsequently the demand for R&D. The example we use of a ‘disadvantaged’ region is Northern Ireland (partly because it has the lowest levels of R&D spending in the UK, and partly because the necessary data is available for this region). We find that in the long run, R&D spending has a mostly positive impact on output across various manufacturing industries. In addition, plants with a zero R&D stock experience significant one-off negative productivity effects. As to the adjustment of R&D in response to changes in the ‘user cost’, our results suggest a rather slow adjustment over time, and a long-run own-price elasticity of around −1.4 for Northern Ireland. We also find that to have a major impact on R&D spending in the Province, the R&D tax credit would need to be increased substantially; this would be expensive in terms of the net exchequer cost.     

中国地方政府绩效评估中的绩效维度:现状与未来——基于德尔菲法的研究

对绩效的认识是确定政府绩效评估内容的基础,而评估内容往往反映了对不同绩效维度的使用。本文应用德尔菲法,对当前地方政府绩效评估中各种绩效维度的使用情况进行系统描述,并对其未来可能的发展趋势进行预测。分析表明,目前各地政府偏重于用"关键议题是否解决"来衡量政府绩效,以GDP为代表的"正式的效果"被普遍而且优先使用;而在未来三年中,各种绩效维度的使用均会得到不同程度的加强,各个维度的使用情况将可能不再存在显著差异,总体上会向着评估内容逐渐全面、区域之间逐渐统一的方向发展。     

异形藻属一新种——扁球异形藻及其生活史的研究

本文报道了团藻目、壳衣藻科、异形藻属一新种——扁球异形藻。此种从非洲的土壤标本中分离 获得。营养细胞(囊壳、原生质体)与已知的其它8个种有明显的不同。生活史的培养观察发现有性生殖为异配，这是此属未曾被描述的一个特征。     

现行美国教育体制

美国现行的教育体制构建在两个理想的前提上,一是必须保证所有的人接受基础教育,但由于各州经济状况的不同而导致基础教育发展不平衡;一是必须保证所有人都有接受高等教育的权利和机会。美国教育体制下存在公助和私助两种办学模武,他们更强调教会学生创新和独立思考,一些学校正进行改革试验,并取得了一定成效。     

Academic users’ interactions with ScienceDirect in search tasks: Affective and cognitive behaviors

This article presents part of phase 2 of a research project funded by the NSF-National Science Digital Library Project, which observed how academic users interact with the ScienceDirect information retrieval system for simulated class-related assignments. The ultimate goal of the project is twofold: (1) to find ways to improve science and engineering students’ use of science e-journal systems; (2) to develop methods to measure user interaction behaviors. Process-tracing technique recorded participants’ processes and interaction behaviors that are measurable; think-aloud protocol captured participants’ affective and cognitive verbalizations; pre- and post-search questionnaires solicited demographic information, prior experience with the system, and comments. We explored possible relationships between affective feelings and cognitive behaviors. During search interactions both feelings and thoughts occurred frequently. Positive feelings were more common and were associated more often with thoughts about results. Negative feelings were associated more often with thoughts related to the system, search strategy, and task. Learning styles are also examined as a factor influencing behavior. Engineering graduate students with an assimilating learning style searched longer and paused less than those with a converging learning style. Further exploration of learning styles is suggested.     

Knowledge translation and research careers: Mode I and Mode II activity among health researchers

Defining knowledge translation activities using Gibbons and Nowotny's Mode I and II forms of knowledge production, health researcher (N = 240) characteristics are compared with their knowledge translation activities. Applied researchers (n = 168) engaged in more Mode II activity (p < .001), perceived their work as having more impact (p < .001), and reported higher levels of relational capital (p < .001) when compared to basic researchers (n = 72). Those from medical schools (n = 128) had more publications (p = .004) as did applied researchers in medical school compared to applied researchers from other faculties (p = .001). These findings provide early empirical insights into emerging tensions in environments where Mode I and Mode II activities co-exist; tensions that may extract unintended costs from researchers. Such costs may be paid in the currency not only of tenure and promotion, but also of successful grant and career scientist award acquisition.     

Adapting Curriculum to Student Diversity: Patterns of Perceptions Among Alternate-Route and College-Based Teachers

This study examined the perceptions of alternate-route and college-prepared teachers about the adaptation of mathematics and writing curriculum to student diversity. Findings from analyses of survey and interview data suggest that while at any given time a majority of teachers from both groups favored curriculum adaptation in mathematics and writing, commitment to these beliefs among individual teachers was inconsistent over time, with a pattern of deflected responsibility emerging. With the exception of two specific teachers, when discussing the value of adapting writing curriculum to students' cultural values, neither group of teachers went much beyond a general rhetorical discussion. With regard to mathematics, both groups of teachers only infrequently discussed the value of adapting mathematics to students' cultural values.