Initial Communication with and Attitudes toward International Students: Testing the Mediating Effects of Friendship Formation Variables

From the theoretical perspectives of intergroup contact, predicted outcome value (POV), and similarity-attraction, this study examined U.S. host nationals’ (N = 342) communicative behaviours in a recent initial encounter with an international student and attitudes toward the student’s cultural group as a whole. Testing of two models indicated the significant sequential mediator effects of perceived similarity-social attraction and POV-social attraction between communication variables (e.g. amount of communication exchange in both models, self-disclosure in model 1, and information seeking in model 2), and intergroup attitudes (e.g. behavioural attitudes). Findings in general demonstrated that contact effects in the intercultural context varied according to specific measures of communication, the mediating mechanisms, and intergroup attitudes.     

Disciplining the Future: A Critical Organizational Analysis of Internet Studies

This article provides a critical, cautionary stance toward the future structure of “Internet studies” as a field. A social constructionist reading of the process of organizing reveals the ways in which apparently obdurate structures are constructed and negotiated through everyday discursive practices. Subsequent structures and practices function ideologically to control organizational members in a concertive fashion by shaping and directing the conceptual frameworks for inquiry and action in a seemingly natural way. Definitions and metaphors construct conceptual boundaries of meaning for the field of inquiry, delimiting and protecting over time what counts as Internet and Internet studies. Over time, origins of knowledge are hidden within the structure of the organizations and a culture of unobtrusive control emerges. Unless radical measures are taken to reflexively interrogate everyday routines and habitual ways of talking in academic environments, the future field of Internet studies will not transcend the traditions of the academy but will be entrenched in and reproduce traditional structures and a traditional scholarly enterprise.     

TRIZ理论视域下高职教育产业文化育人的可行性分析

高职教育的职教性特点使教育与行业、企业等紧密联系在一起。TRIZ理论是来源于发明并适用于教育领域的创新问题解决方法论。高职教育产业文化育人在TIRZ理论中可以定义为一个创新问题,并通过各种矛盾解决方法,将高职教育文化与产业文化对接融合确定为最终理想解。因此,高职教育通过产业文化育人具有可行性。     

水利水电工程灰色局势招标决策

水利水电工程投资决策均要求通过招标投标来实现 ,如何搞好招标决策不仅关系到业主或项目法人的利益 ,而且关系到水利水电工程的成败。利用灰色理论对招标决策进行较为系统的分析和研究 ,为招标投标这一新机制的应用和研究 ,提供一些有益的建议     

关联理论和古汉诗词翻译

从关联理论的角度探讨古汉诗词英译。古汉诗词翻译实质也是一种交际活动，一种言语交际行为，在源语的理解和翻译过程中对语码的选择所依据的是最佳关联。     

电机转子参数振动的稳定性分析

在工程中 ,两极电机转子等具有矩形截面的轴 ,由于不同方向上的弯曲刚度不同而引起振动 ,即使激振频率远离系统自然频率 ,也可能产生较大响应而造成破坏 ,这就是参数激励共振。所以 ,研究参数激励系统的稳定性及其稳定区域 (范围 )是很重要的。本文以非对称刚度转子和实际电机转子截面轴转动时的弯曲振动为例 ,用Floquet理论研究其振动稳定范围     

邓小平理论的民族化特性

邓小平理论的现实意义在于找到了一条解决二十世纪末中国人民如何走上振兴富强道路的方法。它抓住了中华民族在发展过程中内在的积极因素，立足本土文化，面对中国现实，使理论在指导实践的过程中带有鲜明的民族化特性。     

企业智力资本交易的委托-代理分析

在对企业内部智力资本市场的交易主体、价格系统和市场信号分析的基础上，运用委托代理理论，分析了企业智力资本交易机理，并提出了一些建议。     

试论田径运动中的速度

采用生物力学原理分析了田径运动成绩与运动这间的关系。认为田径运动成绩虽然表现在时间、高度和远度上，但实质是个速度问题。只有获得高的运动速度，才能有高水平的运动成绩。并进一步总结出与成绩关系最为紧密的3种速度，即跑的后蹬速度，起跳速度和器械出手速度。分析了速度产生的原因以及创造和保持高速度运动的条件。