Embedded Technical Expression: Code and the Leveraging of Functionality

Abstract

In this article, I argue that a key problem for understanding the social ramifications of software is an implicit separation of software programs into two separate elements: expressive aspects, which are seen as socially driven and affectual, and functional aspects, understood as scientific and rational. In order to overcome this binary, I develop an alternative framework that examines the ways software expresses best practices, correct behaviors, and social organization. A key element of this framework is an understanding of software programs as simultaneously rhetorical and tangible objects. Given that Western society is dependent on sociotechnical systems in which software plays a crucial role, understanding the complex ways software expresses normative tasks, practices, and social orders is increasingly important.     

张之洞备荒赈灾思想的渊源与内涵

中国历史上灾荒频仍,晚清时期自然灾害更是频繁发生,其中尤以光绪年间为重。张之洞为官就处于这样一个时代。频繁发生的灾荒以及在灾荒影响下的民生困苦情形使得张之洞内心深处受到极大震撼,由此直接造就了张之洞的备荒赈灾思想。这一思想的主要渊源有:经世致用思想、天命主义禳灾论和古圣先贤救治灾荒的成功经验等。该思想的内涵则主要表现为:珍重生命的以民为本思想、注重实效的实用主义思想、防患于未然的未雨绸缪思想和不分畛域的顾全大局思想等。     

日本招财猫及其背后的文化内涵

日本的餐馆、酒店、商店等地随处可见憨态可掬的招财猫,它们色彩艳丽、形态各异,不仅深受日本人民喜爱,也大量出现在我国的商业领域。小小的招财猫背后有着怎样的文化内涵。本文将从其来源,种类,功能等方面分析日本的招财猫文化。     

Teaching Visual Design Principles for Computer Science Students

Computing has become highly visual as interactive programs become increasingly prevalent. Computer science students need to be able to create effective visual displays as part of interface implementation. This paper describes a course covering graphic design topics relevant to computer science students. In this course, students learn the basic visual elements, the visual organizational principles and how to use them in the context of the digital page. The other topics of this paper are the presentation of course information to the computer science student, the implementation of the course information as praxis, course project construction, and a method for critiquing student projects. Curriculum Integration will also be discussed as a feature towards achieving a seamless and collaborative experience.     

Kairos as Indeterminate Risk Management: The Pharmaceutical Industry's Response to Bioterrorism

The pharmaceutical industry's response to the threat of bioterrorism following 9-11 invoked the rhetorical notion of kairos as an urgent and ongoing opportunity not only to protect the nation but also to improve the industry's reputation and fortify its political power. Yet the notion of kairos as seizing an advantage—grounded in modernist assumptions about agency and control—is also complicated by the case history of big pharma's response, which left the industry vulnerable to heightened and additional risks. This case history suggests that kairos can be less about seizing an advantage than about indeterminately responding to shifting, unbounded, uncertain, unpredictable, and uncontrollable risks shaped by the processes of globalization.     

Open online system adoption in K-12 as a democratising factor

This study seeks to understand how district size and wealth factors influence the adoption of open-source online systems in primary and secondary (K-12) education. Most schools now utilise online systems (e.g. CMS, LMS, SIS) for a number of purposes, and it is anticipated that no-cost and open-source systems could be of great value for democratising access to information system resources and improving the plight of struggling schools. By using web extraction techniques to collect all public school website data for K-12 districts in the target state (n = 133) and merging this data-set with public financial records, researchers conducted a series of one-way analysis of covariance and multivariate analysis of variance tests to determine main effects. Results indicate that larger, wealthier districts are more likely to adopt open source systems than smaller, poorer districts. These results call into question the democratising impact of open-source systems for struggling schools and suggest the importance of literacy development for supporting open adoption.     

海洋生态补偿法律制度构建研究

本文从海洋生态环境法律现状和现实情况出发,以可持续性发展、环境公平和环境正义以及生态补偿理论为基础;对海洋生态补偿分别从补偿的主体、资金来源、补偿方式、补偿标准和保障机制等方面来分析论证,旨在推进建立我国海洋生态补偿机制,促进海洋环境与沿海社会经济的协调发展。     

济南市PM2.5中多环芳烃的季节变化特征及健康风险评价

使用中流量颗粒物采样器采集济南市2011年春、夏、秋、冬季大气气溶胶中PM_2.5样品,并利用气相色谱-质谱（GC-MS）对PM_2.5样品中的16种多环芳烃（PAHs）进行分析,研究PM_2.5中PAHs的季节变化特征和来源.结果显示,PM_2.5中16种PAHs的全年总浓度变化范围为1.94～92.19 ng·m^-3,且浓度水平具有季节性变化特征,秋、冬季灰霾天PAHs浓度明显升高.诊断参数法和主成分分析法分析指出机动车尾气排放、煤燃烧和生物质燃烧是PM_2.5中PAHs的主要污染源.4个季节灰霾天的BEQ平均值和CR平均值均高于清洁天,秋、冬季灰霾天BEQ平均值（5.32ng·m^-3,8.65 ng·m^-3）和CR平均值（5.85×10^-6,8.88×10^-6）明显高于春、夏季灰霾天的BEQ值（3.31ng·m^-3,2.63ng·m^-3）和CR值（3.64×10^-6,2.89×10^-6）,表明济南市秋、冬季灰霾污染的健康风险高.     

小便器尿液源头分离及其磷资源回收关键技术的研究

在研发源头尿水自动分离技术的基础上,集成了尿液磷高效回收技术. 评价了延迟时间和如厕尿量对尿水分离影响,以及尿纯度对尿液磷回收影响. 结果表明,随延迟时间增长,收集的尿纯度下降;随如厕尿量增加,尿纯度增加. 在70%~100%尿纯度下,尿液磷回收率大于96%. 可见,研发的基于尿水分离小便器的尿液磷回收技术,在回收尿液磷领域具有广阔的应用前景.     

Android开源技术在计算机教学与自学中的应用

针对在现阶段本科计算机课程传统教学模式中存在的问题,结合宁夏师范学院实际教学经验,提出以Android开源技术为基础的改进的教学模式及自学方式以促进课堂教学,并构建多维方式的开源技术教学平台,从而提高学生实践动手能力.