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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ABSTRACT

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.     

浅谈图书馆的复杂岗位与简单岗位

传统的图书馆设岗方法大多按照工作序列进行，文章以广西图书馆为例剖析了其状况及弊端，并对图书馆的复杂岗位和简单岗位进行了论述，提出了按照工作层次设置图书馆岗位的新思路。     

健美操教学中克服心理障碍的初步研究

本文分析了健美操教学中学生产生“羞怯”、“胆怯”心理的原因,以及如何克服和消除学生这些心理障碍的方法。     

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。     

从心理分析的视角解读《玻璃动物园》中的逃避主义

《玻璃动物园》是田纳西·威廉斯的一部带有强烈自传色彩的戏剧,剧中的三个主要人物,即阿曼达,劳拉和汤姆都一概被评论家们贴上了“逃避者”的标签。然而通过对这三个人物更深层的探讨,不难发现这一标签贴得过于一概而论。该文由心理分析学派学者阿尔弗雷德·阿德勒的自卑情结理论及卡尔·荣格的人格面具理论作为理论依据,深入探索人物内心,从而得出结论：人物阿曼达并非所谓的“逃避者”,相反,她敢于面对现实,活在当下;而她的一双儿女劳拉和汤姆却实实在在是逃避主义的奉行者。     

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.