The role of numerical and non-numerical ordering abilities in mathematics and reading in middle childhood

This study investigated whether different types of ordering skills were related to mathematics achievement in children (n = 100) in middle childhood, after the effects of age, socio-economic status, IQ, and processing speed were taken into account. The relations between ordering skills and magnitude processing were also investigated, as well as the possibility that some of the shared variance between math and reading is explained by ordering abilities. The ordering tasks included the ordering of familiar numerical and non-numerical sequences, a parental report of children’s everyday ordering skills, and an order working memory task. Three magnitude processing tasks (symbolic and non-symbolic comparison and number line estimation), were also administered, as well as measures of inhibition and spatial working memory. From this set of measures, number ordering, order working memory and number line estimation emerged as the most important predictors of mathematics skills. We found that number ordering mediated the effect of both symbolic and non-symbolic comparison skills on mathematics, further confirming that this task captures some essential skills related to mathematics. Additionally, order working memory mediated the effect of both number comparison and reading skills on math. Finally, whereas non-symbolic comparison and number line estimation are considered important indicators of magnitude processing skills, there was no relationship between these abilities, but there was a correlation between each of these abilities and reading skills, with number line estimation also mediating the effect of reading skills on math. These novel findings could contribute to a better understanding of the basic processes underlying math ability, and why math and reading are strongly related in typical populations and in children with learning difficulties.     

The role of feedback in changing organizational routine: A case study of Haier,China

The ability to change organizational routines according to the need of organizational transformation is difficult to achieve, but increasingly vital for an organization to survive in a highly turbulent business environment. However, despite fruitful research on organizational routines, how routines evolve through feedback remains unclear. This study aims to investigate the role of feedback in routine changes by examining a case study of Haier, the largest home appliance manufacturer in the world. The findings of this case show that feedback of a routine plays a critical role in routine changes. It highlights that feedback helps an organization to make sense of its behavior patterns and evaluate these patterns properly, which enable the organizations to better initiate and advocate routine changes that are necessary for a successful organizational transformation. Further, this case shows the importance of leveraging IT in managing routine changes.     

考试系统开发过程中关键问题的研究与实现

本文介绍了用VB技术开发考试系统过程中的数据库设计、结果统计、随机抽题、自动评分等一些关键问题的实现方法。     

几类一阶递推数列的通项公式的求法

数列的通项公式的求法是数学学习中的一个重要内容,文章对一阶递推数列的通项公式给出几种类型的求法,这对学生的数学学习具有一定的指导作用。     

谈高校保卫工作中的行政处分与思想教育

行政处分与思想教育相结合是高校保卫工作中常抓不懈的工作，我们不仅要用行政处分使违法违纪者受到惩处，而且要造思想教育切中要害，使其认识到处分的目的是维护包括自身利益在内的整体利益；认识到违法违纪的危害性，从而培养起自觉遵纪守法的意识，达到预防违纪违法、维护校园治安稳定的目的。     

以“订单班”为切入点创建制药生产性实训基地的探索与实践

以"订单班"为切入点的制药生产性实训基地创建模式易行、高效。其以互惠互利为基础,调动企业积极性,开放其生产场地承担学生实训教学,教学效果优势明显。建立面向原料药生产、制剂生产和医药研发等主要就业方向的"订单班"体系,创建校企合作、功能多样的生产性实训基地,对不同就业需求的学生进行针对性的生产性实训,可实现"零距离上岗"制药专才的培养目标。     

三官寨彝语形容词修饰语与名词中心语的语序

三官寨彝语“形修名”结构有两种语序：居前和居后,这两种语序不同于其它彝语方言的形修名语序。结合标记理论和其他藏缅语的情况,探究了彝语特殊形修名语序的原因。     

The role of IT in achieving operational agility: A case study of Haier,China

Operational agility has increasingly become essential for survival and prosperity for contemporary organizations. Given its significant role in a turbulent business environment, this concept has garnered considerable research attention over the past ten years. However, due to the complex nature of operational agility, how to achieve this important organizaitonal capability is still not clearly understood. Thus the present study attempts to open this black box through examing a case study of Haier, the largest household appliances producer in China. The findings of this case highlight the significant role played by IT leveraging competence in achieving operational agility. It shows that IT leveraging competence helps enhance firm's ability to process information in a turbulent business environment, which results in information processing efficiency and information processing effectiveness. With the enhancement in the ability to process information, the focal firm is capable to sense and respond to market changes more readily.     

“半费之讼”问题如何解决

师徒二人的辩词,由于违反同一律和矛盾律,故均不成立。把"半费之讼"当做是合同意义下的"第一场官司",是违反一条叫做逻辑先后律的思维原则的,这是造成人们思想混乱和困惑的逻辑根源。制定合同,却不曾考虑到规则的例外情况,这是造成人们思想困惑的认知原因。法官判决之后,不再执行合同,是问题获解的唯一合理途径。     

Seeing the Communist past through the lens of a CIA consultant: Guy J. Pauker on the Indonesian Communist Party before and after the ‘1965 Affair’

Abstract

This paper explores Guy J. Pauker’s works on Indonesia in the 1960s, particularly the ones concerning the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) before and after the killing of six top Army officers on 30 September 1965 (called the ‘1965 Affair’ for short). Of Western scholars working on Indonesia in 1960s, Pauker was indeed infamous. Being a consultant for the CIA‐sponsored RAND Corporation has made his academic integrity doubtful. In addition, his active roles in several historical events in Indonesia in the 1960s have given his scholarship a bad reputation. Consequently, it is his name, rather than his works, that has often been mentioned and associated with what happened in Indonesia in the 1960s. However, this paper argues that precisely because of such a position, his pre‐‘1965 Affair’ works were to give a cool report and analysis of the current history, through which one can understand better the PKI before it was exterminated due to being accused of masterminding the killing of six top Army officers. Through these works the narrative of the Communist past can ironically be freed from the demonizing image constructed by the New Order regime. Yet, his post‐‘1965 Affair’ works were not only in parallel with, but also a part – if not the core – of the demonization as such. Through his ways of seeing the PKI in 1960s, one can see the shift from Baconian knowledge/power to Foucaultian power/knowledge relations.