Making American Friends: The Effects of Musical Tastes and English Proficiency on Chinese International Students’ Social Networks in the United States

This study investigated the relationship between Chinese international students’ social networks in the United States and their musical tastes. Based on concept of homophily, this study used a self-reported Social Network Analysis (SNA) survey to examine whether sharing similar musical tastes affected Chinese international students’ relationship, their musical tastes, and music consumption. The results showed that having high musical taste similarity predicted closer relationship between respondents and their alters, and higher likelihood of new music consumption. This study also found that frequent American English-language songs listeners were more likely to have Americans in their social network than less-frequent American English-language songs listeners.     

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Later eighteenth-century newspapers have been credited with shaping and reflecting readers' politics and growing sense of regional and national identity. However, historians have long ignored the role that newspaper proprietors played in the construction of those newspapers. Through a close study of one provincial proprietor, John Ware of Whitehaven, this article demonstrates that newspaper owners were shrewd operators in the public sphere. They were businessmen and women for whom the imagined community of readers was a real community of friends and business associates.     

Catalyzing Research Competitiveness: The Georgia Research Alliance

Virtually everywhere, there is governmental interest in developing and using science and technology as a tool for economic development and other public purposes. States within the United States look to advance vis-à-vis other states, just as nations seek to rise in competitiveness. What institutional mechanisms work? What research and other strategies are effective? The Georgia Research Alliance (GRA) represents an important model that appears successful. During the 1990s, key business executives, university presidents, and state government forged a research partnership - GRA. A non-profit entity, GRA played a catalytic role in getting state government, industry, and universities in a specific region to work in concert to hire scientific luminaries, attract federal research funds, and translate research into economic development. The dynamics of this catalytic entity are discussed using a life-cycle model of organizational development.     

基于遗传算法的新建给水管网优化设计

遗传算法是一种较新的工程优化算法,将其引入给水管网优化设计,增强了管网设计方案的经济合理性。对给水管网优化设计的数学模型建立,遗传算法的基本原理、实数编码技术、评价函数的建立进行了分析,并用实例验证了其有效性。     

基于神经网络的监控数据智能处理方法

针对船用系泊缆绳安全智能报警系统中的表格试验数据，提出了应用神经网络技术的智能数据处理方法。该方法克服了传统数据处理方法一般难以找到合适的逼近函数、处理过程复杂的弱点，避免了传统数据处理方法上的不便性和局限性，实现了表格数据非线性输入输出的映射。通过样本学习而建立的网络可以提高数据的取用效率，具有很大的灵活性和适用性。这是一种很有应用价值的数据处理方法。     

模糊神经网络在故障诊断中的模型与应用

对一种基于模糊神经网络的故障诊断方法进行了研究，探讨了模糊神经网络诊断模型和模糊算子选择。以柴油机示功图作为特征信号，构造了船舶主机故障诊断仿真系统，并给出了系统知识学习和模糊推理结果。     

江西中小企业协同创新影响因素的实证分析——以产业技术创新联盟为例

本文以产业技术创新联盟为例,对江西中小企业参与协同创新行为的影响因素进行实证分析。回归结果表明,研发投入强度、参与编制产业技术路线图、成为共性技术研发和成果推广依托单位等因素对江西中小企业参与联盟有显著性正向影响,并提出针对性的政策建议。     

基于多主体协同创新的产学研联盟运行机制研究※(修改）

加强产学研融合和提出具有可行性的产学研联盟运行机制具有重要意义,笔者针对目前产学研联盟在运行过程中存在的诸多不协调的原因进行了分析,提出了多主体协调创新的产学研联盟运行机制,通过建立保障制度、人才软引进、健全工作机制和协调盈利模式等实现多方利益共赢,尤其是倡导利用商业化运营公司解决目前产学研联盟中的一些运行弊端来促进产学研联盟的健康发展。研究成果把运行机制具体化,并经过了实践的检验,便于落实和推广。     

非正式网络对研发团队创造力的影响研究——以共享心智模型为中介变量

国内外学者迄今很少研究非正式网络与团队创造力的关系,对于团队外部非正式网络也没有给予足够的关注。以共享心智模型为中介变量,基于181个研发团队的数据,构建并验证了研发团队(内部和外部)非正式网络与团队创造力的关系。研究表明:团队内部、外部非正式网络与团队创造力均呈倒U函数关系;团队内部非正式网络与两类共享心智模型(任务式和协作式)均显著正相关,团队外部非正式网络与协作式共享心智模型显著正相关;团队内部非正式网络通过两类共享心智模型的中介作用影响团队创造力,团队外部非正式网络通过协作式共享心智模型的中介作用影响团队创造力。     

Governing software: networks,databases and algorithmic power in the digital governance of public education

This article examines the emergence of ‘digital governance’ in public education in England. Drawing on and combining concepts from software studies, policy and political studies, it identifies some specific approaches to digital governance facilitated by network-based communications and database-driven information processing software that are being discursively promoted in education by cross-sectoral intermediary organizations. Such intermediaries, including National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts, Demos, the Innovation Unit, the Education Foundation and the Nominet Trust, are increasingly seeking to participate in new digitally mediated forms of educational governance. Through their promotion of network-based pedagogies and database-driven analytics software, these organizations are seeking to delegate educational decision-making to socio-algorithmic forms of power that have the capacity to predict, govern and activate learners' capacities and subjectivities.