Exploring Verbal,Visual and Schematic Learners' Static and Dynamic Mental Images of Scientific Species and Processes in Relation to Their Spatial Ability

The current study compared different learners’ static and dynamic mental images of unseen scientific species and processes in relation to their spatial ability. Learners were classified into verbal, visual and schematic. Dynamic images were classified into: appearing/disappearing, linear-movement, and rotation. Two types of scientific entities and their related processes were investigated: astronomical and microscopic. The sample included 79 female students from Grades 9 and 10. For the purpose of the study, three instruments were used. The Mental Images by Guided Imagery instrument was designed to investigate participants' visualization of static and dynamic mental images. The Water-Level Task was adopted to estimate participants' spatial ability. The Learning Styles Inventory was used to classify participants into verbal, visual and schematic learners. The research findings suggest that schematic learners outperformed verbal and visual learners in their spatial ability. They also outperformed them in their vividness of microscopic images; both micro-static and micro-dynamic images; especially in the case of appearing/disappearing images. The differences were not significant in the case of astronomical images. The results also indicate that appearing/disappearing images received the least vividness scores for all three types of learners.     

The Combined Effects of Instructor Communicative Behaviors,Instructor Credibility,and Student Personality Traits on Incivility in the College Classroom

This study investigated the combined role of instructor communication variables (nonverbal immediacy and self-disclosure), instructor credibility (competence, caring, and trustworthiness), and student personality traits (extraversion, neuroticism, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and openness) in predicting students’ uncivil behaviors in class. A total of 406 students completed online questionnaires regarding the instructor of the class they attended prior to the one in which the study was administered. Personality and instructor behavior variables contributed approximately equally to explaining variance in student incivility. Students’ conscientiousness and agreeableness had direct negative relationships with incivility, whereas instructors’ amount and negativity of self-disclosure had direct positive relationships with incivility.     

基于语义和引用加权的文献主题提取研究

[目的/意义]传统的文献主题提取方法主要是通过关键词、摘要、全文等提取文献的主题内容,使得主题内容不全面或存在"噪音",而从文献内容语义出发,结合引用内容提取文献的主题,能够更加准确地提取出多文档的主题内容。[方法/过程]提出一种面向多文档的基于语义和引用加权的科技文献主题提取算法,利用文献的引用内容和关键词构建Labeled-LDA主题模型,形成文档-主题概率向量,再根据K-means聚类方法聚类文档,提取每类文档集的主题内容。[结果/结论]以PubMed生物医学数据库中的数据作为实验数据,测试该方法的可靠性,结果证明该方法能够准确、全面地提取出多文档的主题内容。     

Structural dynamic responses analysis applying differential quadrature method

INTRODUCTION The differential quadrature method (DQM) was proposed by Bellman and Casti as an analogous ex- tension of the quadrature method for integrals (Bellman and Casti, 1971; Bellman et al., 1972). It can be essentially expressed as the values of the de- rivatives at each grid point as weighted linear sums approximately of the function values at all grid points within the domain under consideration. As a distinct numerical solution technique to obtain the initial and/or boundary …     

论"万里模式"

“万里模式”在宏观高等教育体系方面的特点是从既不同于国立高校,又不同于一般意义上的民办高校两个侧面体现出来的,它是国立高校的拓展,又是对民办高校的完善;“万里模式”的办学理念是“以生为本,以师立校,面向市场,国际接轨”。“以生为本”是办学之纲。“万里模式”的办学机制是与其全新的办学体制密不可分的,推动这一机制运行的是以万里精神为核心的“文化力”,这一机制形成的关键是将市场经济的规则引入到高校管理内部。     

从词义角度谈现在进行时言外之意

英语时态形式与意义不一致的现象是广大英语学习者在英语应用中很容易产生错误的地方。时态的意义和用法并不能以时态形式笼统解释。现在进行时不表示"正在进行"的原因正是动词本身的词义所决定的。根据词义,动词有静态动词和动态动词之分,现在进行时除表示"现在正在进行"的行为动作以外,还包括表示"过去"、"将来"、"渐进"、"重复"、"临时"、"描述"等意义。     

卢瑟福模型中电子运动分析

关于卢瑟福模型中电子的运动是加速还是减速,不同文献给出不同描述,甚至是截然相反的描述.本文分别从能量和力的角度定量、定性地分析了卢瑟福模型中电子的运动情况,得出了卢瑟福模型中电子绕原子核旋转、辐射能量时作加速运动的结论.     

政治文化视野中的"样板戏"

“样板戏”是特殊历史年代的政治产物,无论从情节、题材、内容的选择上,还是人物形象的塑造上看,“样板戏”都带有深重的意识形态烙印。从政治文化的角度来审视“样板戏”的生成、发展、改编的过程,可以为反思这一艺术形式提供广阔的批评视野。     

农业国际化竞争对中国农业的影响与对策

面对经济全球化引发的农业国际化竞争带来的机遇和挑战 ,并针对中国农业发展中存在的主要问题 ,提出 :中国农业发展需要坚持市场化的改革 ,才能适应当今农业国际化竞争的形势。这是艰巨的、复杂的、系统的工程 ,是全方位的工作。为此 ,要在土地使用制度与户籍管理等诸多方面进行一系列的创新 ,以提高中国农业的国际竞争力。