Making It Fit: Reshaping Library Services and Spaces for Today's Students

University course assignments increasingly focus on group work and group projects to help students collaboratively discover more about their fields of study. The Thomas G. Carpenter Library realized the need to investigate means for reimagining itself to better accommodate today's researchers. The complex process of planning for the redesign of both services and space undertaken by the library is described and explained in this first of a planned series of articles.     

Exploring the International Student Experience: Providing Insight Through a Mixed-Methods Approach

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE) has seen a dramatic increase in international student enrollment in the last four years. To serve this rising population effectively, librarians at SIUE created a research study to explore the information needs and academic experiences of international students at SIUE. The study employed a mixed-methods approach including a survey as well as in-depth interviews and photo diaries. The results provide insight into international students’ library use and academic life.     

The Beautiful and the Ugly: Reading Ability Modulates Word Spacing Effects in Chinese Children

There are no salient word spaces in Mandarin Chinese. Thus, it is unclear whether word spacing information differentially affects the reading speed of children with and without reading difficulties (RD). In the present study, native Chinese-speaking children of differential reading abilities were tested with Chinese text in un-spaced versus spaced versions at different time points during training. The results indicated that spaced texts slow down reading speeds in children without RD. In contrast, spaced texts improved reading speeds in children with reading difficulties after some training took place. These findings suggest that the effect of word spacing information on Chinese reading might vary as a function of individual differences in reading abilities. We argue that children with RD can accommodate to the spaced text better than children without RD and that they can take advantage of using bottom-up spacing information to segment and recognize words in text.     

不可压渗流方程解的衰减性

考虑不可压渗流方程,利用半群e^-t（-d）n算子的性质,研究当初值充分小时,方程的解在空间PM^n＋1-2a（Rn）中的整体衰减速率。     

船舶近满载液体舱自由液面对稳性影响的修正方法

若考虑船舶液（体）舱内自由液面对稳性的影响，对于非液货舱通常是按装载５０％舱容液体的固定值计算。当液舱（接）近满载时，许多船舶由于缺乏修正资料或方法，其影响值均被看作为零。事实上，对于那些设置有容量大、数量多的液舱的船舶，若将众多近满载液舱对稳性的影响进行叠加，其数值已不容忽视。本文通过数学推导，借助计算机模拟运算，结合计算实例，介绍了一种适应性较强的近满载液舱自由液面对稳性影响的计算方法，具有一定的实用价值。     

Competition processes and the management of innovation

This paper presents two different forms of research practices: Mode 1 and Mode 2. These forms of knowledge production are adumbrated not so much to demonstrate their radical differences, though there are some, but as a way of calling attention to the fact that, in both modes, static and dynamic competition are at work. It will come as no surprise to academics to be told that their research is carried out in a competitive context. Competition for ideas and for intellectual leadership in a particular field or sub‐field is the bread and butter of academic life. In industry, too, the observation that research takes place in a competitive environment would be uncontentious were it not for the fact that researchers in business management seem reluctant to take on board the uncertainties that competition generates and to put their intellectual energies into developing specific strategies that are appropriate to two diverse forms of competition. The argument moves on to spell out the differences that specify static and dynamic competition, as they occur in the innovation process. This raises the crucial question of the importance of boundary work in generating innovation in both academic and industrial contexts. The nature of boundary work is then related to different types of competition and then to the appropriate organisational imperatives of each. The paper concludes by asking for how much longer can research into business management carry on ignoring the fact that fundamentally different approaches to management are required in these two radically different environments.     

L-fuzzy拓扑空间中的可数＊超仿紧性

以＊超仿紧性为背景,介绍了可数＊超仿紧性的定义,并刻画了其基本特征.深入研究了L-fuzzy可数＊超仿紧性的性质,并证明了可数＊超仿紧性是＂L-好的推广＂.     

旅游产品传播中构建消费文化空间

旅游产品对文化和传播具有很强的依赖性,本文分析了旅游与文化产业的关系、旅游产品传播体系的现状及旅游产品传播体系中出现的问题,进而提出在旅游产品传播中构建消费文化空间的建议。     

Elaborating pedagogical content knowledge: what it means to know students and think about teaching

The purpose of this study was to examine how a teacher understood her students and then thought and made decisions about content, curriculum and pedagogy. Pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) and Deweyan philosophies of experience and education provided the theoretical frameworks. Data were collected through observations (N?=?38) and interviews (N?=?38) over four months and analysed using constant comparison. Findings indicated that this teacher possessed a broad repertoire of knowledge about students that she used to think and make decisions about content, curriculum and pedagogy. The connections between knowing students and thinking about teaching were more sophisticated and interconnected than is typically recognized or articulated in teacher knowledge literature. Three themes are used to explain how this teacher understood her students’ emotional and social lives in and out of her classroom, and ways it influenced her thinking and teaching. The discussion centers on the need for more comprehensive analyses of teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge.