从及物性的视角分析威廉·戈尔丁的小说《继承者》

《继承者》是英国作家威廉·戈尔丁(William Golding)的代表作之一,该小说主要描写了人类祖先尼安德特尔人的生活及其和更有智慧的"新人"之间的接触和冲突,从而对人类的文明继承有了更深层次的理解和思考。文章运用系统功能语言学中的及物性系统中的六大过程,即物质过程、心理过程、关系过程、行为过程、言语过程和存在过程,对小说选段进行分析,得出小说文字背后暗含的深层含义,即作者威廉·戈尔丁对人类文明继承的批判性态度。     

论台湾作家黄海的科幻小说——以《银河迷航记》为例

黄海是台湾具有代表性的科幻小说作家,是台湾科幻小说的开拓者之一,也是在这一领域创作最勤、最为丰产的作家。黄海小说《银河迷航记》以银河探险为背景,包涵着作家对未来社会人类生活空间的思考,对人的本质与人性的思考,以及对人的生命状态的思考,体现了作家对人类未来的极大关注与热情想象。     

Disability,Stigma and Otherness: Perspectives of Parents and Teachers

This qualitative study explored the perspectives of parents and teachers in the US with regard to the meaning and implications of disability in the context of schoolling, and of raising a child with a disability. The findings revealed broad conceptual differences in the perspectives of these two groups. Teachers’ beliefs were generally consistent with medical model perspectives on disability as biologically defined. Parents’ interpretations, more aligned with a sociocultural paradigm, were situated in the cultural meanings ascribed to disability and linked with issues of stigma, marginalisation and access. The findings also revealed the existence of master narratives on families of children with disabilities, entrenched in assumptions of pathological functioning and negative outcomes among these families. Implications for professional–family partnerships in the education of students with disabilities are discussed.     

Seeing the forest as well as the trees: general vs. specific predictors of environmental behavior

The domain of environmental protection is comprised from many sub-domains as recycling, conserving water, or reducing the consumption of energy. The attitude–behavior gap is partly explained by the gap between the specificity levels of the particular measured behavior and of its antecedent(s). The present study aimed at assessing the effects of general vs. domain-specific behavior’s proximal antecedents included in the theory of planned behavior (TPB) model (intentions, attitudes towards the behavior, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control) on performance of specific environmental behaviors (EBs) in five environmental sub-domains. We found that in all of the environmental domains examined, a specifically worded TPB model predicted specific behaviors better than a generally worded TPB model did. However, the magnitude of the improvement varied among behavioral domains and the improvement did not arise from the same TPB elements in every domain. The implications for environmental education and for EB research are discussed.     

Conceptualising Intergenerational Lived Experience: Integrating Art–Moving–Well-Being across Disciplines,Communities and Cultures

Art and movement are motivating forces in, through, and beyond education. As populations age, there is an increasing need to support physical and social well-being. Yet, since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a reported exponential increase in feelings of loneliness across generations. Complex challenges require trans-disciplinary solutions, and this paper represents a joint effort within and across disciplines, communities and cultures to find ways to ameliorate this silent epidemic. In this paper, we propose a cross-disciplinary conceptual framework where Aboriginal Artists and Knowledge Holders, Teacher Educators, and Physical and Occupational Therapists come together to explore theoretical and pedagogical insights that encompass intergenerational art–moving–well-being practices, reducing feelings of loneliness and improving social connections across generations. There are two main aims of this paper; first, to better understand current studies that report on integrating art–moving–well-being practices, and the effect this has on health and well-being of intergenerational participants (under 10-year-olds, 20+ year olds and 50+ year olds). Second, based on community needs, the long-term aim is to propose a flexible art–moving–well-being conceptual model that is scalable, sustainable and based on social and relational support systems. We propose a model that is flexible and adaptable within and across our local community and beyond. We argue that feelings of loneliness are unique to each individual, and there is a need to connect specific intergenerational programmes with art–moving–well-being practices that readily engage and integrate varied communities and cultures in sustainable ways and thus, contribute to thriving communities.     

Knowing what it takes: The effect of information about returns to studying on study effort and achievement

We study the effect of providing students with information on the returns to study effort in a large introductory microeconomics course. To do so, we use historical time-use data from the course’s online homework module to estimate the association between study time and course performance. We measure the impact of providing students this information on subsequent study effort, class attendance, homework scores, and exam performance using a randomized research design. Results show that the information contained in our intervention increased time spent studying by approximately 7% throughout the entire course, though this effect is imprecisely measured. However, when examining shorter-run outcomes (prior to the next exam) we find larger and more precisely estimated treatment effects on time spent on homeworks (12%) and homework scores (14% of a standard deviation). Treatment effects on longer run outcomes in the course are negligible. We additionally estimate large, but somewhat imprecise, average treatment effects on class attendance and small positive and insignificant average treatment effects on exam performance throughout the course.     

基于无人机的安防监控系统在智慧城市中的应用前景与实现

本文阐述了无人机在安防监控领域的优势与背景。无人机安防监控系统的构建主要为三个模块:首先介绍了无人机的机体设计与内部系统设计;接着阐述了安防监控后台系统的主要功能,以及无人机如何与后台系统进行无线通信;最后总结了无人机安防监控系统的优势,并提出了该系统目前存在的缺陷与改进方法。     

Revisiting Cross-document Structure Theory for multi-document discourse parsing

Multi-document discourse parsing aims to automatically identify the relations among textual spans from different texts on the same topic. Recently, with the growing amount of information and the emergence of new technologies that deal with many sources of information, more precise and efficient parsing techniques are required. The most relevant theory to multi-document relationship, Cross-document Structure Theory (CST), has been used for parsing purposes before, though the results had not been satisfactory. CST has received many critics because of its subjectivity, which may lead to low annotation agreement and, consequently, to poor parsing performance. In this work, we propose a refinement of the original CST, which consists in (i) formalizing the relationship definitions, (ii) pruning and combining some relations based on their meaning, and (iii) organizing the relations in a hierarchical structure. The hypothesis for this refinement is that it will lead to better agreement in the annotation and consequently to better parsing results. For this aim, it was built an annotated corpus according to this refinement and it was observed an improvement in the annotation agreement. Based on this corpus, a parser was developed using machine learning techniques and hand-crafted rules. Specifically, hierarchical techniques were used to capture the hierarchical organization of the relations according to the proposed refinement of CST. These two approaches were used to identify the relations among texts spans and to generate multi-document annotation structure. Results outperformed other CST parsers, showing the adequacy of the proposed refinement in the theory.     

基于OSGI的人力资源绩效考评系统设计与实现

对于人力资源管理来说,科学、合理地评价员工的工作绩效具有非常重要的意义。分析了人力资源绩效考评系统主要功能模块和处理流程,构建了一个人力资源绩效考评模型。介绍了OSGI框架的基本原理,提出了基于OS—GI框架的绩效考评系统架构,并讨论了系统关键技术实现。     

人体解剖学课程教学改革浅析

人体解剖学是学习基础医学和临床医学各学科不可动摇的基石,是学习其他医学课程坚实的形态学基础。为提高学生的学习兴趣,启发学生的立体思维能力和动手能力,在教学过程中,可通过"眼"、"脑"、"手"三者结合,使学生快速地熟悉和掌握解剖学知识,挖掘学生形态思维能力,并将临床常见病例与理论知识紧密结合引发学生的学习热情,以灵活的教学方式,提高解剖学知识的趣味性和实用性。