Family of origin history, psychological distress, quality of childhood memory, and content of first and recovered childhood memories

Objective: Individual differences in quality of childhood memory and recovered memories from childhood remain poorly understood. Therefore, this study tested several hypotheses which may help account for the large amount of variation that individuals report in the general quality of their childhood memory and the valence of the memories that many individuals report recovering from their childhoods. It was hypothesized that family of origin dysfunction would be associated with poorer childhood memory, that current depressed mood would be associated with impaired childhood recall and the recall of negative memories, and that the content of recovered childhood memories would be disproportionately negative because they include a significant number of memories which had been repressed or dissociated.Method: Questionnaires were administered to 553 college students, 27% of whom reported a history of child abuse.Results: The participants reported substantial variation in the general quality of their childhood memories and also a wide variety of different types of experiences for both their first childhood memories and the recovered memories that most of them had from their childhoods. Weak associations were found between family of origin dysfunction and poorer general quality of childhood memory, but the study as a whole resulted in few significant findings.Conclusions: Only weak support was found for some of the factors that have been hypothesized to distort autobiographical memory. The substantial individual variation in childhood memory that has been reported by college student samples remains poorly understood.     

Memories of childhood sexual abuse: a survey of young adults

Objective: To explore the prevalence of, characteristics of, and factors associated with forgetting of childhood sexual abuse memories in a large non-clinical sample (N = 1712).Method: Using an anonymous survey, we asked respondents about (a) the nature and severity of their childhood abuse; (b) the continuity of their abuse memories; and (c) their experiences with others suggesting to them that they might have been abused.Results: A substantial minority of victims in our sample reported having temporarily forgotten their childhood sexual abuse. Forgetting was largely unassociated with victim or abuse characteristics. Compared to individuals who always remembered their abuse, however, individuals who temporarily forgot were more likely to report that someone had suggested to them that they might have experienced abuse. Those who received such suggestions were particularly likely to suspect that they may have experienced childhood sexual abuse that they do not yet remember.Conclusion: Forgetting may be less common than implied by earlier estimates from clinical samples, yet it is not uncommon. Also, a sizable minority of the population is wondering whether they have experienced unremembered abuse, and these suspicions are linked to having encountered suggestions from others. We discuss the implications of these findings for understanding the phenomenon sometimes labeled repression.Spanish abstract was not available at time of publication.     

The effective visual field in reading Chinese

The size and shape of the effective visual field in Chinese reading was investigated by systematically manipulating the availability of meaningful information on both sides of a fixated character. A self-paced, moving-window technique (Chen 1992) was adopted to measure the viewing time of individual characters as an on-line indicator of reading effectiveness under various display conditions. The results showed that the effective visual field in reading Chinese was asymmetric and skewed in the direction of scanning with a highly limited size, composing of the fixated character and two characters to its right.     

内存数据库中恢复技术研究

本文从内存数据库的定义入手,讨论了影子内存这种物理组织方式,并在此基础上给出了一般恢复机制模型,探究了内存数据库中的具体恢复技术,比如记日志、检验点、重装等。这些恢复技术与传统的恢复技术有较大的不同。     

独塔悬索桥主粱施工技术

混凝土锚跨及混凝土加劲梁施工技术在独塔悬索桥主梁施工中受到了很高的重视,需要技术人员预先制定严谨的施工方案,多方面了解现场实际情况,遇到问题及时处理。本文主要介绍混凝土锚跨及混凝土加劲梁施工技术,简要地介绍钢加劲梁施工技术。     

立足素质教育 加强管理案例教学

高素质人才是当今经济竞争的制高点 ,如何培养高素质管理人才 ,该文从管理案例教学的实践经验探索出一条可行之法。     

Collaboration in,Collaboration Out: The Eighties in the Age of Digital Reproduction

In this article I bring together the practical, pedagogical and theoretical implications of a relatively small digitization project, ‘Observing the 80s’, in order to explore the ways in which ‘the digital’ might transform historical practice. Borrowing from Benjamin’s work on production and reproduction I argue that not only are historians currently using digital tools in interesting ways, we are also well equipped to understand what the implications of these tools are. By thinking about digitalization, we can draw together the processes of production, analysis and reception of our historical evidence. Digital technology may only have become the subject of historical research, funding and teaching relatively recently, but the frameworks of cultural and social history provide us with the skills to evaluate its potential meanings. Not least, Benjamin helps us to analyze and evaluate what it really means to be a historian researcher and teacher in a British University today. In so doing, Benjamin’s work can help us uncover and celebrate the unknown through a process of collaboration, juxtaposition and engagement despite the increasingly quantified and goals orientated context in which most academic historical work takes place.     

Memory films and the politics of revisiting: on Amir Muhammad's films about the Communist Party of Malaya

Abstract

This article argues that Amir Muhammad's two films about the Community Party of Malaya—The Last Communist and Village People Radio Show—can be understood as “memory films”: films that search for, create, question, and function as memories, especially when they are no longer in place, or nowhere to be found. Its reading of Muhammad's films also engages with a discussion of the politics of revisiting as it pertains to the invocation of the Malayan consciousness, the national history and racial conditions of today's Malaysia. Ultimately, it asserts that such films about the communist past engage in a memory war to demand a rethinking of the present.     

Critical adult learning of asian immigrant workers: A social network perspective

An earlier version of this paper was presented at the 2006 Adult Education Research Conference, May 20, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to This study reveals how the social networks of immigrant workers play a key role in mediating critical learning towards a particular political attitude. Theoretical relationships between critical learning and political attitudes were set up and four types of political attitudes were identified. A “resistant political attitude” was conceptually linked to critical learning, and this link was investigated by using social network analysis. Finally, based on the social network analysis, we argue that both the network size and network position of immigrant workers who represented a resistant political attitude tended to shape critical adult learning when they were associated with the collective reinterpretation of the immigrant workers’ social lives.     

超大跨度下撑式部分折线预应力正交空间管桁架钢网格结构

大跨度或超大跨度建筑结构的主体一般为空间钢网格结构或索、杆、膜组成的张拉整体结构,这些结构体系均有其自身的设计理论和最佳的合理跨度。除考虑安全第一的因素外,又要做到造价低、施工周期短,是设计工作者需要认真思考的问题。作者以”安全、合理、先进、经济“的结构设计基本原则为基础,对“超大跨度下撑式部分折线预应力正交空间管桁架钢网格结构”进行了开发性研究。对超大跨度预应力正交空间管桁架网格结构组成及基本要求、节点与支撑架构造、施工方法以及超大跨度下撑式部分折线预应力正交空间管桁架网格结构屋盖设计及技术经济指标进行了周密的分析和论证。在遵循现行技术标准的基础上,将选中的超大跨度下撑式部分折线预应力正交空间管桁架钢网格结构体系进行缩尺模型试验,通过理论分析、模型试验后转化为实际工程,并提出预应力空间钢网格结构新体系的优秀设计标准。