Color characterization of roofing slates from the Iberian Peninsula for restoration purposes

Substitution of slate roofing tiles is a conventional operation during building restoration, since tiles are very difficult to restore or clean because of the high degree of alteration they suffer. Criteria for replacement of historical building stones must be based on geological, geotechnical and esthetic parameters, among which color is of great importance. In this sense, this paper constitutes a comprehensive and useful colorimetric study of roofing slates from the Iberian Peninsula, for the purposes of restoration. The color of 50 commercial varieties of roofing slate mined in quarries from the 12 mining districts in the Iberian Peninsula was analyzed with a spectrophotometer device, by considering the CIELAB color space. The results of the study were used to develop a protocol for characterizing the color of roofing slate and to define the color range of roofing slate from the Iberian Peninsula. In addition, the similarities and differences in the color and microstructure of the different commercial varieties of Iberian roofing slate were established and the limit of acceptability of replacement of one type of slate by another was determined. Parameter h_ab was found to be the most important CIELAB color coordinate as regards the formation of homogeneous color groups, and the specular component excluded (SCE) mode was most sensitive as regards detecting color differences between two samples.     

Measuring Communication Styles in the Malaysian Workplace: Instrument Development and Validation

The aim of the present study is to access communication style in the Malaysian workplace through the development and validation of a communication scale appropriate to the Malaysian workplace. The analysis involved data from 200 state development employees, and construct and criterion-related validation using data from 510 employees, representing three organizations in Malaysia. The results provided support for the use of language (pekerti) and communication and interaction (bicara) as crucial communication dimensions for the Malaysian workplace, which are identified from the item-generation procedure.     

社会变革中大学生政治社会化面临的挑战与对策

在当代中国,社会政治、经济、文化和大众传媒的急剧变革,对大学生政治社会化产生了深刻的影响。现代社会变革呼唤着优化大学生政治社会化的途径。把大学生作为一个特定环境条件下的整体进行政治社会化问题研究,针对社会变革中我国大学生政治社会化存在的问题与挑战进行归因分析,探求更具可操作性和针对性的促进大学生政治社会化的对策,从而更好地指导当代大学生的现实生活。     

素质教育、跨文化能力与英语教学

分析了我国大学英语教学中目前所存在的问题,并且从素质教育的角度阐述了在大学英语教学中必须加强文化教育的重要性,讨论了适合于语言教学的文化项的选择办法。指出外语教育的核心应该是包含素质教育在内的跨文化教育。同时,还以培养学跨文化能力,强调了对比法等一些方法和技巧,是用以进行跨文化教育的有效手段。     

论文化互动教育研究的价值取向、对象与方法

在联合国教科文组织大力推进文化互动教育走向国际化的进程中,愈来愈多的国家开始关注并积极助推文化互动教育的现代发展。纵观当前我国学界关于文化互动教育的研究成果,价值取向上,理论价值与实践价值并举;研究对象上,宏观、中观与微观相联结;研究方法上,时间—历史研究与空间—比较研究相互演进。然而,文化互动教育研究依然存在着理论研究的“薄弱化”、实践研究的“片段化”、综合研究的“浅表化”等问题。为此,今后的相关研究需要注重丰富更多视域的理论研究、畅显文化互动教育的具体实践研究、开展三观互联的综合性研究。     

We make the road by walking together: New teachers and the collaborative and context-specific appropriation of shared social justice-oriented practices and concepts

This study examined the work of a collaborative group of six new United States-based social studies teachers from the same social justice-oriented teacher education program (SJOTEP). Shared practices and concepts introduced previously in the SJOTEP were developed and appropriated to their classrooms and schools in consideration of the local context, through the collaborative problem-solving process of the group. It is argued that SJOTEPs and TEPs committed to issues of diversity, democracy, inclusion, and/or equity should be collaboration-based, teach a coherent and consistent social justice-focused curriculum, and provide post-graduation collaborative support and research it.     

施奈德翻译的寒山诗对寒山文化身份的限制与重构

中国唐代诗人寒山在美国文化中被接受的原因在于,译者施奈德为了迎合垮掉派亚文化运动的意识形态建构,对寒山的文化身份进行了限定和重塑,使寒山具有了杂合的文化身份,从而使其成为美国垮掉派的精神领袖,在改变美国道德和文化方面发挥了意想不到的作用。     

论音乐教育对儿童发展的价值

音乐教育是儿童教育中一个不可缺少的组成部分,对儿童的发展有着独特且不可替代的价值。音乐教育对培养儿童的音乐能力、促进儿童的生长发育、促进儿童的社会化进程有着重要的价值。     

关于高校后勤社会化改革存在问题分析与解决措施研究

在深入分析存在的问题的基础上,就如何消除存在的问题,扎实推进高校后勤社会化改革,建立起高校新型后勤服务保障体系提出相关建议对策。     

民办高校图书馆开拓社会化服务的思考

探讨了民办高校图书馆开拓社会化服务的优势、意义、主要形式和措施。