Facework Strategies of Sri Lankans Working in Australia

This study unfolds the facework (communicative) strategies of Sri Lankans in comparison to Australians working in Australia, the values of Sri Lankans, and how they have adapted to Australian culture. A survey-questionnaire based on Oetzel and Ting-Toomey's Face Negotiation Model, and interviews were done in this investigation. The study revealed Sri Lankans are higher in interdependent self-construal, self-face concern, and other face concern than Australians, nevertheless, similar to Australians in other facework strategies. Sri Lankans do not change their values by living in Australia, yet make some changes to how they do things as adopting to work practices and the routine in Australia.     

海南省高校图书馆网络环境下的馆际互借服务模式

简述了海南省高校图书馆网络环境下开展馆际互借服务模式,总结了实施该模式产生的效益和对传统图书馆的冲击,并对影响效益的因素进行了简析。     

关于高职院校开展岗位设置管理工作的思考

岗位设置管理是高职院校深化人事制度改革、优化人力资源配置、实现人才强校战略的重要举措。高职院校应抓住岗位设置管理的大好时机,结合高职院校特点,把握有效开展工作的基本原则和思路,研究分析岗位设置管理中的重难点问题与对策,实现高职院校管理体制机制创新,促进高职院校的健康发展。     

基于YCbCr空间的高斯肤色模型的人脸检测

主要研究人脸检测算法,分析了现有人脸检测算法的特点和不足之处。采用基于YCbCr空间的高斯肤色模型,利用颜色信息把彩色图像分割成皮肤区、头发区和背景区。对皮肤区进行去噪处理,实现脸部区域的具体定位,然后对人脸上的眼睛、嘴巴和鼻子定位。给出了人脸检测的模块设计和算法流程。     

论《红与黑》中的人物激情及其社会内涵

《红与黑》在表现人物的现实生活时表面上多倾向于描写精神、情感、爱情、婚姻方面,实际上作者却对这些方面所蕴含的心理内容赋予了深刻的现实意义,使其中贯穿着社会性的主线,作品透过人物的心灵深处,折射出社会氛围和时代特征。     

基于几何与数学特征的人脸识别

提出了一种新的基于几何与数学特征相融合的人脸识别算法,分别提出了眉毛几何特征、人脸个性几何特征以及数学特征在人脸比对时的比对策略,采用打分的机制记录特征比对的结果。为了融合几何与数学特征,提出了基于权值的几何特征与数学特征的融合策略。实验结果表明,采用几何特征与数学特征相融合进行人脸识别比使用单一人脸特征进行人脸识别时有更高的识别率。     

The Role of Intermediating Institutions in the Diffusion of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI): How Industry Associations Intervened in Denmark, Finland, and Hong Kong

Electronic data interchange (EDI) provides means for interorganizational communication, creates network externalities, requires an advanced information technology (IT) infrastructure, and relies on standards. In the diffusion of such innovations, institutional involvement is imperative. Such institutions contain governmental agencies, national and global standardization organizations, local government, and nonprofit private organizations like industry associations. The last type of organizations we call intermediating institutions. They intermediate or coordinate ("inscribe") the activities of a group of would-be adopters. Unfortunately, little is known of how these organizations shape the EDI diffusion trajectory. In this article we examine one specific type of intermediating organizations?industry associations?and how they advanced the EDI diffusion process in the grocery sectors of Hong Kong, Denmark and Finland. We identify six institutional measures, placed into a matrix formed by the mode of involvement (influence vs. regulation) and the type of diffusion force (supply push vs. demand pull), that can be mobilized to further the EDI diffusion. Industry associations were found to be active users of all these measures to varying degrees. Their role was critical especially in knowledge building, knowledge deployment, and standard setting. Furthermore, institutional involvement varied due to policy and cultural contingencies and power dependencies.     

A color basedface detection system using multiple templates

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Drinking glucose improves listening span in students who miss breakfast

Low blood sugar level resulting from fasting has been shown to reduce performance on a number of cognitive tasks. In this study, 80 non-diabetic A-level students missed breakfast. They completed a version of Daneman and Carpenter's Listening Span Test at 9.00 a.m. Half were then given a drink containing glucose, while the other half received a saccharine drink matched for taste. After 20 minutes, both groups completed another form of the Listening Span Test. A subset of the sample had their blood glucose levels determined immediately before the drink and again before the second application of the test. Blood glucose levels did not change, but listening span performance significantly improved after a glucose drink yet not after a saccharine drink. It is concluded that missing breakfast does not seriously affect blood sugar levels in healthy young students, but listening span performance which is a good predictor of listening comprehension is improved when fasting individuals imbibe a glucose-rich drink, although not when a saccharine drink is drunk. Ideally students should eat breakfast, but if this is omitted, then a glucose snack or drink before the first class may reverse any adverse effects.     

Teaching young children: perceived satisfaction and stress

This paper explores how early years teachers feel about their work. Responses to an open-ended questionnaire indicated that teachers found working with young children both satisfying and rewarding. However, they felt they were being impeded by external factors, such as educational change and current curriculum initiatives, which caused them stress. More specifically, teachers expressed frustration in implementing policies that they felt were contrary to their own pedagogical understandings and professional values. It is concluded that teachers need to be more actively involved with consultation processes that affect their work.