Stories that stayed "under the skin"

This paper is a critical reflection on students' withholding of relevant personal stories in a college classroom which was uniquely designed to validate and welcome them. The instructor in Stories Under the Skin, an interdisciplinary course in history of science at Harvard, generously shared her own stories in lectures, regularly called upon students' subjective judgement, and engaged them in explicit discussion of the value of personal experience as evidence. Still, students' reactions were those of hesitancy and questioning the appropriateness of personal stories in an academic or scientific discussion. The qualitative lens used in this research not only helps capture the polyphony of student opinions on the subject, but also serves as a key point of debate about the use of interpretive, qualitative data in an academic setting today. The paper calls on students and instructors to acknowledge the difficulty of presenting subjective experiences in the context of academic or scientific discourse, and to consider ways of legitimizing and stimulating the constructive use of personal story in a college classroom.     

Theorising participation in urban regeneration partnerships: an adult education perspective

While the policy approach in Urban Regeneration Partnership tends to be viewed as participatory governance using an urban studies lens, this article posits an alternative theorisation that takes an adult education perspective. We draw from Lefebvre’s notion of space, Engeström’s Cultural Historical Activity Theory and Holand et al.’s concept of positionality and social identity to theorise Urban Regeneration Partnership as expansive participation that acknowledges discursive struggle and contradiction in authentic democratisation. We argue for a multiscalar understanding of citizenship that attends to sociocultural conditions, challenges hegemonic spatial modalities and inculcates conditions for transformative agency. Our theorising is illustrated using data from a doctoral study examining one Urban Regeneration Partnership in the Republic of Ireland. Three themes emerged from the study: market-led discourse of transformation versus a narrative of community; rhetoric of empowerment versus the unequal positioning of residents, and the dominant hegemony of official knowledge versus community-based experiential knowledge. The article examines whether the academy can make a difference in people’s lives through challenging the prevailing orthodoxy, revealing unexamined assumptions and offering alternative frameworks for deeper understanding of the policy cycle in Urban Regeneration Partnerships.     

基于馆校联动的科普阅读推广活动设计与实践——以重庆师范大学图书馆为例

高等学校是参与社会科普事业的重要力量,以高校图书馆为平台与小学联动合作,多途径为小学生提供科普阅读推广服务,不但契合小学生的实际需求,也是充分发挥高校图书馆资源优势,提升高校阅读推广的创新性和影响力的有效途径。以实践为基础,总结提炼高校图书馆整合资源、合作开展科普阅读推广活动的形式和内容,并提出了相关的改进建议。     

电子政务中的在线式文本控制技术研究与应用

分析了在线式文本控制技术目前在电子政务领域中的作用,阐述了在线式文本控制技术中文本控制插件应用以及大容量文本网络分段传输控制技术中的主要关键技术,总结了在线式文本控制插件应用技术在电子政务、电子商务以及企业ERP领域的应用前景。     

IC卡预付费燃气表收费系统的整合与开发

由于不同厂家的IC卡智能燃气表互不兼容,各预收费管理系统设计缺乏规划、标准不统一、互不兼容、系统通用性差等一些共性问题相当突出。在售气点要安装与这些燃气表相对应的售气系统,造成资源浪费。开发了多卡兼容燃气售气用户管理系统,解决了上述问题。     

基于GPRS的电力集抄系统多层架构研究

研究的基于GPRS的电力集抄系统,是使用GPRS技术实现对用户用电情况的远程监控与管理。整个系统由主站管理软件和硬件集抄终端产品两部分组成。主站软件实现对于安装在用户现场的集抄终端的管理,编制并下发抄收或负控计划,接收终端报警数据。集抄终端安装在用户现场,根据主站下发的管理方案进行用户电表的实时抄收、监测与管理。     

作业成本法在物流企业中的应用分析

物流已经成为国民经济的支柱产业之一,加强其成本管理已经成为物流管理的重中之重。文章在分析物流企业特点及成本管理现状的基础上,探讨作业成本法在物流企业中应用的必要性和可行性,提出了在物流管理中应用作业成本法的程序。     

基于活动理论和布鲁姆教学目标的Web数字化教学模式探究——有感于“Web数字化教学国际暑期班”学习课程启示

文章总结分析了当前Web教育时代的发展及特征。并从国外学习过程的体验中,提出了Web数字化课程教学设计的特点是:整体课程运用"活动理论"来架构;教学目标遵循"布鲁姆教育目标"的原则;强调以学生为主体,让学生在教育中主动获取知识,并充分交流、参与合作、分享体验学习的快乐。     

基于科研合作网络演化的个体网络生命过程分析

将复杂网络的研究方法引入到科研合作网络的研究中,为分析和评价科研人员提供了一个新途径.文章以合作网络为背景,微观深入地研究了科研合作网络中个体成员的网络生命特性,从全局网络和局部社团演化的角度定量分析个体网络生命过程对网络发展的影响.文章以大量的科技文献数据为实验数据集,以网络演化为线索跟踪个体成员的生命过程,同时考虑网络演化中的普通成员和核心成员对社团演化的不同影响,定量分析演化特性和个体网络生命过程.数据分析证实了科研团队要持续不断地发展,既要不断吸纳新成员为科研团队注入新活力,同时又要有相对稳定的中坚力量维持着团队的科研方向.更进一步地,文章的研究方法可以扩展到对其他社会组织分析,追踪分析相关组织的发展趋势及关键人物对组织演化的影响.     

Serum thyroglobulin antibody levels within or near to the reference range may interfere with thyroglobulin measurement

High concentration of thyroglobulin antibodies (TgAb) is a major limiting factor of thyroglobulin measurements in patients with differentiated thyroid cancer. We investigated whether thyroglobulin antibody added to serum samples could interfere with the thyroglobulin assay. Thyroglobulin levels in serum samples with different concentrations of thyroglobulin were measured by electrochemiluminescence immunoassay before and after the addition of increasing concentrations of thyroglobulin antibody using the secondary calibrator solution of the thyroglobulin assay kit containing sheep thyroglobulin antibody to reach thyroglobulin antibody levels within or near to the reference range. Thyroglobulin and thyroglobulin antibody concentrations were also measured in 134 serum samples from 27 patients after thyroid ablation. There was a strong negative association (slope = −1.179) between thyroglobulin antibody and thyroglobulin concentrations in samples with added thyroglobulin antibody (beta = −0.86; P < 0.001). Changes in thyroglobulin concentrations were described mathematically as loss of thyroglobulin% = −0.2408 × Ln(thyroglobulin antibody IU/ml) + 0.1944. Thyroglobulin concentrations were significantly lower than those calculated from experiments with added thyroglobulin antibody in 26/134 samples from patients after thyroid ablation. We conclude that if the same TgAb interference exists in the presence of naturally occurring human TgAb, our observation may prove to be useful during follow-up of patients with differentiated thyroid cancer. However, further studies are needed to explore the clinical relevance of thyroglobulin antibody levels within or near to the reference range in monitoring these patients.