Relative age and birthplace effect in Japanese professional sports: a quantitative evaluation using a Bayesian hierarchical Poisson model

Relative age effect (RAE) in sports has been well documented. Recent studies investigate the effect of birthplace in addition to the RAE. The first objective of this study was to show the magnitude of the RAE in two major professional sports in Japan, baseball and soccer. Second, we examined the birthplace effect and compared its magnitude with that of the RAE. The effect sizes were estimated using a Bayesian hierarchical Poisson model with the number of players as dependent variable. The RAEs were 9.0% and 7.7% per month for soccer and baseball, respectively. These estimates imply that children born in the first month of a school year have about three times greater chance of becoming a professional player than those born in the last month of the year. Over half of the difference in likelihoods of becoming a professional player between birthplaces was accounted for by weather conditions, with the likelihood decreasing by 1% per snow day. An effect of population size was not detected in the data. By investigating different samples, we demonstrated that using quarterly data leads to underestimation and that the age range of sampled athletes should be set carefully.     

论"万里模式"

“万里模式”在宏观高等教育体系方面的特点是从既不同于国立高校,又不同于一般意义上的民办高校两个侧面体现出来的,它是国立高校的拓展,又是对民办高校的完善;“万里模式”的办学理念是“以生为本,以师立校,面向市场,国际接轨”。“以生为本”是办学之纲。“万里模式”的办学机制是与其全新的办学体制密不可分的,推动这一机制运行的是以万里精神为核心的“文化力”,这一机制形成的关键是将市场经济的规则引入到高校管理内部。     

科技创新与构建福建特色的学习型社会

阐述科技创新是将科技成果直接转化到经济社会活动中以获得实际绩效的过程。在现代社会中,科技创新已经带来了学习型社会的构建。指出我省在构建有福建特色的学习型社会的过程中要注意提高全省人民的科技创新的社会认同感,科技创新应实现与自然、经济和社会的协调发展。     

信息时代下的翻译教学

信息时代的来临和大众阅读需求、阅读习惯的改变，使我们需要重新认识翻译的定义，翻译应体现时代性，适应时代的发展变化。而信息时代的翻译教学，除了要提高教师的教育技能，还要重视学生现代翻译理念的培养和现代翻译技能的掌握。     

非减次矩阵的标准形及其应用

给出了非减次矩阵的概念及其在相似变换下的标准形,研究了非减次矩阵的一些性质和应用.     

以女性为对象的英语商业广告的语言特点

在现实生活中,女性的购买欲通常大于男性。因此,商业广告特别关注女性群体。分析以女性为对象的英语商业广告的语言特点,将有助于消费者理解和欣赏英语广告。     

传统与现代的融合——图书馆在数字时代更具生命力

图书馆的大规模数字化建设,激发了公众对这个梦想的兴趣;数字时代的传统图书馆不会消亡,有形图书不会被电子图书取代;公共图书馆的读者人数连年倍增、纸出版物印量猛增的事实;图书馆不会变成只是收藏图书的仓库,它是有灵性、有生命的机构。     

房地产合作开发若干问题探讨

作为房地产开发的一种形式，合作开发促进了开发行为的实施。合作开发具有其特殊性，极易引起纠纷。对其概念特征、合作开发的组织方式、如何确保合同的合法性等问题进行探讨。     

家兔胴体品质和肉质性状的比较研究

本文通过研究表明:本文用完全双列杂交对五品种肉兔:加州兔(C)、新西兰兔(N)、丹麦白兔(D)、花巨兔(G)、比利时兔(B)进行了一般配合力(GCA)和特殊配合力(SCA)分析,估计了杂交组合的杂种优势率(RH),结果表明:半净膛、全净膛屠宰率在父本中差异不显著,在母本则有极显著差异。多重比较方法分析所得半净膛、全净膛屠宰率在母本中高低依次为新西兰兔、花巨兔、比利时兔、丹麦白兔、加州兔,其中新西兰兔、花巨兔的母本的半净膛率分别极显著(P<0.01),显著高于丹麦白兔和加州兔。因此,新西兰兔母本最好,加州母兔最差。特殊配合力分析两指标互作效应均不明显,杂交无优势。肉质性状间普遍存在一定的表型相关,但多数未能达到0.05的显著水平。pH2L与pH2S有显著的强正相关(P<0.05);对于胴体性状而言,全净膛屠宰率、半净膛屠宰率为极显著的强正相关(r=0.985,P<0.01)。肉质性状和胴体性状之间存在弱负相关,因此,总体上讲肉质与胴体性状间的关系表现为一种颉颃性的相关。     

Developmental discourses as a regime of truth in research with primary school students

While developmental discourses have been heavily critiqued in relation to education systems, less attention has been paid to how these impact the data collection process in classroom research. This article utilises Foucault’s concept of regime of truth to highlight the pervasiveness of developmental discourses when conducting research in primary schools. Such a theoretical framing makes explicit how developmental discourses work and are constructed as ‘truth’, which limit the possibilities for alternative perspectives. This article shows how this regime of truth works in practice by reflecting on qualitative research conducted with two age groups in two primary schools in Australia, focusing on the researcher’s navigations of these discourses. In particular, this article examines the impact of developmental discourses on conducting research with multiple age groups, initiating research, choosing methods for data collection, and negotiating power relations and ethical practices.