The Arts and Open‐Mindedness

Open‐mindedness is typically considered an intellectual virtue that brings humans into (closer) contact with reality and its complexities. In this essay, Susan Verducci expands the ways we typically think of cultivating open‐mindedness in classrooms to include the practice of engagement with the visual and performing arts. Working with the arts allows students and teachers to perceive and embody realities they would not normally experience. Specifically, the arts enable the drawing forth and exploration of multiple and subjective interpretations; the arts can therefore be uniquely productive in opening minds by helping one negotiate human perceptual constraints, by providing opportunities to enter standpoints other than one's own, and by encouraging the practice of living with uncertainty and ambiguity.     

构建基于高效课堂的有效数学活动

通过创设基于数学情境的数学活动,提高学生的学习动力,引领学生积极地开展自主探究学习、合作交流,促进学生有效数学理解和高层次思维的产生,生成有效的活动经验,再现数学知识的生成过程,引领学生数学地解决问题,提升创新能力,达成高效课堂。     

心灵与言辞——王蒙、张承志新疆经验书写比较

不同个人经验下,关于同一对象的书写呈现出不同的面貌,王蒙和张承志不同的新疆经验使他们在关注对象的书写上迥然不同,尤其是他们的新疆题材小说分别将日常生活情境和宗教神性氛围作为书写对象,前者热衷于描绘新疆人的生存智慧和异域情趣,后者将目光聚焦在民族宗教信仰和＂心灵模式＂。作为外来者书写新疆,两者的写作都存在着不同程度的＂想象＂,探寻王蒙和张承志新疆经验书写差异的原因,可以从一个侧面观照中国当代文学的人文精神及文化价值的建构。     

用VB构建INTERNET的应用

发展Intemet技术为编程人员提供了更广泛的施展身手的空间.早先"Intemet应用程序"这个词只是指一些用FTP协议下载文件或浏览HTML页面的工具,如今使用Visual Basic,不仅可为Internet开发应用程序,还可把Internet技术作为一部分融入大型的解决方案中.     

基于Visual Basic.net软件开发风电机组监控系统人机界面

提出并研究了一种以Visual Basic.net编程软件为平台,与PLC控制器建立通讯连接以开发风力发电机组监控系统人机界面软件的实现方法,充分利用了Visual Basic.net的强大的可视性功能。研究应用表明,Visual Basic.net编程软件平台为风机人机界面软件的开发提供了有效的新途径。     

基于OpenGL的三维地形可视化原理与实现

OpenGL是当今业界最为广泛使用的三维图形技术标准.本文以模拟三维地形数据为基础,针对地理信息区域的三维地形可视化,探讨了在Visual Basic环境下实现三维地形的模拟以及三维可视化的原理和方法,并给出了部分相关的实现代码.     

多媒体计算机房综合控制系统设计与实现

基于VB和单片机设计实现了多媒体计算机房综合控制系统。该系统可控制学生机的批量开启、关闭和重启,可发送即时短消息并支持通过遥控器演示PPT课件。该系统使用简便,响应迅速,既能帮助管理员完成繁复的工作,提高机房的管理效率和水平,又能帮助教师充分利用多媒体教学资源开展教学活动,提升教学效果。     

A comparison of visual search strategies of elite and non-elite tennis players through cluster analysis

Considerable research has documented that successful performance in interceptive tasks (such as return of serve in tennis) is based on the performers’ capability to capture appropriate anticipatory information prior to the flight path of the approaching object. Athletes of higher skill tend to fixate on different locations in the playing environment prior to initiation of a skill than their lesser skilled counterparts. The purpose of this study was to examine visual search behaviour strategies of elite (world ranked) tennis players and non-ranked competitive tennis players (n = 43) utilising cluster analysis. The results of hierarchical (Ward’s method) and nonhierarchical (k means) cluster analyses revealed three different clusters. The clustering method distinguished visual behaviour of high, middle-and low-ranked players. Specifically, high-ranked players demonstrated longer mean fixation duration and lower variation of visual search than middle-and low-ranked players. In conclusion, the results demonstrated that cluster analysis is a useful tool for detecting and analysing the areas of interest for use in experimental analysis of expertise and to distinguish visual search variables among participants’.     

Business communication as cultural text: Exchange and feedback of promotional video clips

Our research is a response to the need to improve the understanding of the complexity of global professional communication. To investigate the complex cultural interpretations that producers and audiences apply to professional texts, we developed a two-year interactive project. Business students in New Zealand and Israel produced promotional “texts” – video clips to promote a university program – which they exchanged with their counterparts overseas to receive feedback. We adapted models of home-made visual communication and advertising which used the categories of participants, settings, topics, and style, to analyze the eight clips. Emergent findings suggested two more categories – information and language – as important analytical tools. Variables of age, gender, intra- and intercultural differences, and (cultural) context also resulted in student audiences’ multiple interpretations of the texts. The outcomes indicate the need to extend the culture-in-context approach for a “situation focused communication approach,” where the primary focus is a group of producers and their audience as they produce and interpret a professional text. This approach also foregrounds contextual variables and a plural understanding of culture to accommodate the potential for miscommunication of business and professional texts in pluricultural contexts.