Contributions and challenges to vocational psychology from other disciplines: examples from narrative and narratology

Other disciplines offer new perspectives, concepts, and models that would help vocational psychology reinvigorate itself. The paper identifies contributions (such as narrative) that post-modern sources and scientific disciplines could make, though with reservations about importing ideas from the physical sciences into the social sciences. There would also be challenges for vocational psychology, primarily to its core values as a science but those could change over time. As an example, the paper then discusses how some of the lessons of narratology could enrich post-modern approaches, while its structuralism could enable vocational psychology to take advantage of the potential contributions of narrative.     

湘南宁远县“土话”分布状况及特点

湘南宁远县内除官话，平话外，还有一些“土话”。它们主要分布在县境东部与新田，嘉禾，蓝山县交界的太平，冷水两镇的部分村子，人口接近五万。这些“土话”在当地均以姓氏或地名称谓。根据它们之间的差异程度，大致可以分为三片，下坠片，张胡贺片和王单骆片。从地理上看，这些“土话”分布在半山区的分水岭地域。     

Preliminary Report on the Theory of Elastic Circular Plate with no Kirchhoff-Love Assumptions

lTheThree-DimensionalEquationsnsofAxisymmetricElasticCircularPlatesOnthebasisofthegeneraltheoryofthepreviouspaperl'],whichabandonsKirchhoff-Loveassumptionsl"'1intheclassicaltheory,thispaperestablishesafirst-orderapproximationtheoryofelastic'circularplates…     

Genomic Research and Data-Mining Technology: Implications for Personal Privacy and Informed Consent

This essay examines issues involving personal privacy and informed consent that arise at the intersection of information and communication technology (ICT) and population genomics research. I begin by briefly examining the ethical, legal, and social implications (ELSI) program requirements that were established to guide researchers working on the Human Genome Project (HGP). Next I consider a case illustration involving deCODE Genetics, a privately owned genetic company in Iceland, which raises some ethical concerns that are not clearly addressed in the current ELSI guidelines. The deCODE case also illustrates some ways in which an ICT technique known as data mining has both aided and posed special challenges for researchers working in the field of population genomics. On the one hand, data-mining tools have greatly assisted researchers in mapping the human genome and in identifying certain "disease genes" common in specific populations (which, in turn, has accelerated the process of finding cures for diseases tha affect those populations). On the other hand, this technology has significantly threatened the privacy of research subjects participating in population genomics studies, who may, unwittingly, contribute to the construction of new groups (based on arbitrary and non-obvious patterns and statistical correlations) that put those subjects at risk for discrimination and stigmatization. In the final section of this paper I examine some ways in which the use of data mining in the context of population genomics research poses a critical challenge for the principle of informed consent, which traditionally has played a central role in protecting the privacy interests of research subjects participating in epidemiological studies.     

化学探究式学习中学生实验观的调查与反思

科学素养是探究式学习的产物。然而通过探究式学习，学生能自发形成科学精神、科学态度等科学素养吗？本文作者用了一个学期的时间，实施探究式教学，并针对学生的实验观，进行问卷调查，得出结论：学生的实验观存在实证主义倾向。结合文献资料，作者分析了造成这种现象的主要原因是不恰当的探究教学设计和错误的教学语言。     

港口供应链中分配公平关切和对等公平关切对订单分配的影响

为研究港口供应链中公平关切对订单分配的影响,针对由一个港口企业与两个依次参与分配竞争的港口业务服务商组成的二级港口供应链,构建考虑分配公平关切和对等公平关切的博弈模型。运用博弈论分析公平关切对港口供应链订单分配的影响。研究表明：港口企业的最优效用会随第二个港口业务服务商的对等公平关切增加,随当前港口业务服务商的分配公平关切减少。港口企业期望港口业务服务商具有更多的对等公平关切和较少的分配公平关切,故提出一种协调机制,当参数满足一定条件时可以提高港口企业的效用。     

解决二维连续型随机变量函数分布的一种方法

讨论二维连续型随机变量的和、差、积、商分布函数时,可先求出它们的密度函数,然后利用分布函数是密度函数的积分这一关系,即可求出其分布函数。     

Killing a culture softly: Corporate partnership with a Russian museum

Information communications technology provides a way on the World Wide Web for national museums to represent the cultural artefacts they house. Framed by the notion of cybercolonization, a colonizing of cultures and cultural institutions by computing ideas, this on-site case study of the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia examines computing ideas shaping information communications technology developments within the museum and, particularly, its current IBM sponsored website 〈http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/〉. The paper will illuminate subtle cybercolonizing influences by Global IBM evident in the website structure, design, targeting, esthetic choices, cultural content realignment, IBM corporate e-business underlay, and American English branding. The notion of cyberglocalization, an adapting of global cyber processes to local circumstances, is offered as an avenue to address colonization present in the Hermitage-IBM website. The case study offers museum professionals an illustration of the underlying assumptions about information communications technology (ICT) ideas, interaction, and appearance in the development of museum websites.     

Exploring Relationship between Teaching Practice and Student Learning: Comparative Analysis Using Large Data Bases

This special issue introduction specifies several rationales for its focus on the relationship between teaching practice and student learning. Worldwide teaching reforms show some converging policy patterns with shared assumptions around the role of teaching practices in shaping students’ learning outcomes as their bases. These assumptions and policy patterns are seriously challenged by various countering arguments and critiques. Such a contentious situation demands extensive and solid empirical knowledge for its productive resolution at a conceptual level and for guiding the development of the relevant teaching reforms in different countries. However, such knowledge is not available readily in the exiting literature, which is fragmented and limited, with few studies based on large databases from a comparative perspective involving non-Western countries and regions. It goes on to introduce four studies in the special issue that use international databases and comparative analyses involving different countries/regions and highlights their contributions to the much-needed empirical knowledge. Finally, it calls for further and more extensive research along this line of empirical exploration.     

The Impact of Ignoring Time Series Processes in Linear Growth Mixture Modeling

Growth mixture modeling (GMM) is a useful statistical method for longitudinal studies because it includes features of both latent growth modeling (LGM) and finite mixture modeling. This Monte Carlo simulation study explored the impact of ignoring 3 types of time series processes (i.e., AR(1), MA(1), and ARMA(1,1)) in GMM and manipulated the separation of the latent classes, the strength of the time series process, and whether the errors conformed to the time series process in 1 or 2 latent classes. The results showed that omitting time series processes resulted in more serious bias in parameter estimation as the distance between classes increased. However, when the class distances were small, ignoring time series processes contributed to the selection of the correct number of classes. When the GMM models correctly specified the time series process, only models with an AR(1) time series process produced unbiased parameter estimates in most conditions. It was also found that among design factors manipulated, the distance between classes prominently affected the identification of the number of classes and parameter estimation.