The ‘White Man’s Game’? West Indian Cricket Tours of the 1900s

The 1900s saw two tours of the United Kingdom (UK) by a mixed race cricket team representing the West Indies. This paper argues that the tours were part of a concerted cultural campaign largely organized by the West India Committee to raise the profile of the British West Indian colonies in the Mother Country in the light of competition for favour among the settler colonies. It analyzes the selection of the team and its reception in the UK to argue that the existing literature has been mistaken in portraying the team to have been subject to consistent hostility due to the inclusion of black players in the touring party. Rather it is argued that the team of 1900 was largely welcomed as a truly representative West Indian team but that by 1906 a tightening of the definition of who could represent the empire on the sports field, influenced by the settlement of the South Africa War, meant that mixed race cricket would be rejected and the West Indians unjustly excluded from the Imperial Cricket Conference, which became an all whites club.     

公益性赛马与赌博的本质区别探析

通过对公益性赛马与赌博内涵的分析探讨,从“规则性”、“公开性”、“公平性”、“公益性”等几方面明确了双方的本质区别,指出了我国的公益性赛马是一种体育文化活动,而赌博是一种不正当的娱乐和违法活动。     

厦门国际马拉松赛风险调查及对策

采用问卷调查、走访调查、现场观察的方法,对厦门国际马拉松赛存在的风险源进行研究。结果表明:厦门国际马拉松赛事主要存在赛事形象、自然、人为灾害、比赛组织管理、赛事商业、人员和政治等风险。应对策略包括变换跑道、变更赛时、交通管制、环卫保护、安全防患、技术培训和风险转移等。     

三维定点摄像方法在竞走运动中的应用研究

通过查阅大量竞走运动相关文献资料发现,竞走技术的研究方法主要为平面摄影或摄像,对于竞走技术的深入研究在方法上存在明显不足,而在竞走规则修改后的十多年里,中国竞走运动员的＂小步幅、高步频＂技术受到巨大挑战。为了进一步深入探讨竞走运动技术特征,研究方法必须有所改进,对于竞走关键技术的研究,宜采用三维定点摄像方法,本文对三维定点摄像方法在竞走运动中的应用进行了探讨。     

竞走项目最大速度能力和足底压力特征研究

通过二维录像解析和足底压力分布实验测试,对竞走项目运动员最大速度能力和足底压力分布特征进行相关的基础研究,以获得竞走项目运动员在特定的技术规则规定下,世界级优秀竞走运动员的极限最大速度能力、关键运动学参数和足底压力分布特征参数情况,并对这些运动学和动力学参数进行了相关分析.     

中国武术散打运动员在K-1比赛中的制胜策略研究

文章通过对我国武术散打运动员参加K-1比赛的录像研究分析,对双方运动员在比赛中的技术水平、身体素质、心理竞技状态进行对比分析,找出我国武术散打运动员在K-1比赛中的的优势和不足,并试图找出原因,以期为以后中国散打运动员在K-1比赛取得更好的比赛成绩乃至成为K-1比赛的王者提供理论指导。同时促进我国武术散打的更新和完善、更快地与世界搏击运动接轨。     

Within‐High‐School Versus Across‐High‐School Scaling of Admissions Assessments: Implications for Validity and Diversity Effects

Previous research has established that SAT scores and high school grade point average (HSGPA) differ in their predictive power and in the size of mean differences across racial/ethnic groups. However, the SAT is scaled nationally across all test takers while HSGPA is scaled locally within a school. In this study, the researchers propose that this difference in how SAT scores and HSGPA are scaled partially explains differences in validity and subgroup differences. Using a large data set consisting of 170,390 students each of whom matriculated at one of 114 separate colleges, the researchers find that awarding SAT scores by ranking SAT within a high school generally results in substantial reduction in the size of subgroup mean differences for this predictor. However, validity for predicting first‐year GPA is also reduced by a small amount. Conversely, placing HSGPA onto a nationally normed metric through the use of multiple regression procedures results in a moderate increase in the size of subgroup mean differences, while also producing a small increase in validity. Taken together, these findings suggest that differences in predictor scaling can partially explain differences in the size of subgroup mean differences between HSGPA and SAT scores and have implications for predictive power.     

Cloning the Blairs: New Labour's programme for the re-socialization of working-class parents

In his speech to the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) in July 1999, the UK Secretary of State for Education, David Blunkett, set out New Labour's vision for a system of education in which there is ‘excellence for the many not just the few’. He outlined what is essentially a bi-focal strategy for achieving this vision. The first focus is on the education system itself, the structures and practices that New Labour believes need to be in place if schools and services are going to meet the needs of all children and not just a privileged minority. The second focus is on the need to promote ‘a culture of achievement’, as, according to Blunkett, the vision ‘depends on changing attitudes as well as the system itself’. This paper focuses on this second strategy, more specifically the government's attempts to change the attitudes of parents. It is argued that this strategy aims to eradicate class differences by reconstructing and transforming working-class parents into middle-class ones, that it represents possibly the most important and far-reaching aspect of New Labour's policy agenda, and that it has not so far received the attention it deserves. The paper is in two parts. The first part sets out what is involved in New Labour's programme of re-socialization and explores the mechanisms by which New Labour is attempting to universalize the values, attitudes and behaviour of a certain fraction of middle-class parents. The second part develops a critique of this programme.     

论图书馆视觉文化建设

阐述了视觉文化在社会文化发展中的地位和作用，着重论述了图书馆进行视觉文化建设的意义和必要性，以及图书馆视觉文化建设的主要内容。