“This is the Whiteman’s Law”: Aboriginal resistance,bureaucratic change and the Census of Canada, 1830–2006

Census information of some form has been collected in Canada since the 1611 census of New France. Aboriginal people, identified or not, have been included in these enumerations. The collection of this information has had a profound impact on Aboriginal people and has been an element that has shaped their relationship with the dominant society. In response, Canadian Aboriginal people have often resisted and refused to co-operate with census takers and their masters. This article is an examination of this phenomenon focused on the censuses conducted in the post-Confederation period to the present. A census is made to collect information on populations and individuals that can then be used to configure and shape social and political relations between those being enumerated and the creators of the census. However, the human objects of the census are not just passive integers and they have resisted its creation in a number of ways, including being “missing” when the census is taken, refusing to answer the questions posed by enumerators or even driving them off Aboriginal territory. A census identifies elements of the social order and attempts to set them in their “proper” place and those who do not wish to be part of that order may refuse to take part. Archivists and historians must understand that the knowledge gained in a census is bound with the conditions of own creation. This has been noted by contemporary Aboriginal researchers who often state that the archival record of their people often distorts history and reflects the ideas and superficial observations of their Euro-Canadian creators. Changes to the Census of Canada since 1981, have increased the participation rate and therefore changed the nature of the record.

高校图书馆电子资源使用与用户检索行为统计分析-以ScienceDirect数据库为例

以爱思唯尔(Elsevier)公司的ScienceDirect数据库为例,根据数据库在线统计平台所提供的使用报告的主要指标数据,研究电子资源的利用情况,并结合购买经费对使用绩效进行评价。通过统计重点需求期刊的学科分类和影响因子的分布,了解各学科电子资源的实际需求,进一步分析我校重点需求期刊的学科满足度及利用层面。同时,基于用户的检索行为数据,了解用户在检索过程中的习惯偏好。由此,为图书馆馆藏资源建设提供有针对性的指导意见,同时为信息素养教育的有效开展提供建议。     

COUNTER: Looking Ahead to Release 5 of the COUNTER Code of Practice

Since its first Code of Practice was published in 2003, setting the first international standard for reporting usage of scholarly content, Counting Online Usage of Networked Electronic Resources (COUNTER) has been continually refining the code of practice to meet the evolving needs of its library, publisher, and vendor membership. The latest release of the Code of Practice went into effect in early 2014 and introduced several improvements over the prior releases. Work is now underway on Release 5 of the COUNTER Code of Practice with a promise that it will provide further improvements to better report on usage of scholarly information in an ever-changing discovery and access environment. This column discusses current challenges and how Release 5 might address them.     

国内(不含港、澳、台)英文版学术期刊的发展和现状

文章从中国现代历史的角度详细查证了国内(不含港澳台)出版的英文版学术期刊的数量,并按刊物创办的时间顺序列出了210份英文版学术期刊的信息资料,进而根据中国科技信息所近几年的期刊统计资料分析了英文版学术期刊在国际科学界交流中的重要作用,同时也提出了期刊目前在国外发行的困惑。     

概率统计教学改革的实践与探讨

在高校教改新形势下,数学专业基础课程概率统计的课程与教学改革也势在必行.如何走出一条符合民族地区实情的教改之路?本文根据在具体教学实践中进行教改的尝试,从教学内容、教学方法、教学与科研等方面进行了阐述,以促进民族地区概率统计教学改革的深入进行.     

2011-2012赛季CBA总决赛北京队夺冠的原因分析

通过对北京队与广东队在赛前实力和总决赛五场比赛的分析,结果发现北京队整体实力应低于广东队,但是从比赛的过程和赛后的技术统计来看,北京队的技术统计几乎全面占优,球队表现出敢打敢拼的精神面貌,特别是核心球员的稳定发挥,成为其夺冠的主要因素.     

文献借阅史对采选决策的作用

通过对暨南大学图书馆外文图书2001～2004年外借情况的分析,论述文献借阅史有助于采访人员在宏观上对馆藏文献的学科结构、读者层次结构的把握,在微观上有利于对具体文献的取舍,从而建设具有较高利用率的馆藏。     

Statistics Online Computational Resource for Education

The Statistics Online Computational Resource (www.SOCR.ucla.edu) provides one of the largest collections of free Internet-based resources for probability and statistics education. SOCR develops, validates and disseminates two core types of materials - instructional resources and computational libraries.     

Influencing the Probability for Graduation at Four-Year Institutions: A Multi-Model Analysis

The purpose of this study is to identify student and institutional characteristics that influence the probability for graduation. The study delves further into the probability for graduation by examining how far the student deviates from the institutional mean with respect to academics and affordability; this concept is referred to as the “match.” The validity of the matching model is tested using a multivariate analysis with select variables from the Beginning Postsecondary Study: 1996/2001 (BPS:96/01) and the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS). Traditional multivariate models examine the importance of both student and institutional characteristics but assume the two are independent of one another. This study is different in that it uses the matching model to examine the relationship between student and institutional characteristics. The results are compared to more frequently used models and show that the relationship between students and their institutions plays an important role in understanding the probability for graduation.

Determinant factors of attitude towards quantitative subjects: Differences between sexes

Nowadays, almost all curricula in the social sciences contain at least one course in statistics, given the importance of this discipline as an analytical tool. This work identifies the latent factors relating to students' motivation and attitude towards statistics, tests their covariance structure for samples of both sexes, and identifies the possible differences between the sexes. Specifically, using a structural equations model the work confirms that the evaluative factors affect the affective factors and the interest variable affects the level of anxiety. The findings obtained using the partial least squares method allow the authors to confirm the proposed relations and validate the model.