Identifying the combinations of motivations and emotions for creating satisfied users in SNSs: An fsQCA approach

Social Networking Sites (SNSs) play an important role in our daily lives and the number of their users increases regularly. To understand how users can be satisfied in the complex digital environment of SNSs, this study examines how motivations and emotions combine with each other to explain high satisfaction. Users’ motivations comprise four attributes, entertainment, information, social-psychological, and convenience. Emotions are divided into their two main categories, that is positive and negative emotions. We draw on complexity and configuration theories, present a conceptual model along with propositions and perform a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA). Through an empirically study with 582 SNSs users, we present eight combinations (configurations) of motivations and emotions that lead to high satisfaction, which highlight the role of high convenience, followed by entertainment and information motivations in being satisfied with SNSs. High satisfaction can be achieved both when positive and negative emotions are high and low, depending on how they combine users’ motivations. None of the factors are indispensable to explain high satisfaction on their own, instead they are insufficient but necessary parts of the causal combinations that explain high satisfaction. This study contributes in SNSs literature by extending current knowledge on how motivations and emotions combine to increase satisfaction, and by identifying specific patterns of users for whom these factors are important and influence greatly their satisfaction.     

Humor in middle management: women negotiating the paradoxes of organizational life

Women in middle management continue to face multiple paradoxes arising from their structural and gendered locations that add to the uncertainty of negotiating organizational life. Investigating the lived experiences of women middle managers can illuminate the constraints and paradoxes endemic to organizing, for such experiences foreground tensions at the intersection of structure, identity, agency, and power. Specifically, this contextual investigation of conversational humor explores links between organizational status, gender, and paradox. In so doing, it demonstrates how women can use humor to negotiate managerial identities and to navigate organizational life. This study uncovers nuanced and important communication tactics of middle management women. This study also reveals the value of investigating the complex convergence of humor, gender, and organizational communication theory.     

教学点在农村学校布局中的地位探析——基于中西部六省的实证分析

随着我国农村中小学布局调整工作的推进,大量农村教学点被撤并,这给偏远地区学生带来了上学远、上学难的问题。在新一轮的农村学校布局调整中,适当保留偏远地区教学点,对农村义务教育的发展具有重要意义。本文在实地调查的基础上,对农村教学点的现实作用进行了分析和探讨,并对加强农村教学点的建设提出了建议。     

基于多源数据的中国UNESCO名录遗产地可持续发展目标监测

SDG11.4.1将保护世界遗产的“保护支出”作为评价遗产可持续发展目标的指标,其处于有方法无数据的状态,亟需具体数据和测算案例支持。利用48处中国UNESCO名录遗产的统计数据对SDG11.4.1指标进行测度和分析,基于Landsat遥感数据对4处自然遗产人为干预度进行变化监测分析。结果表明：1)单位面积支出可作为测度自然保护地(世界自然遗产、混合遗产、地质公园和生物圈保护区)可持续发展状态的指标,但不适用于文化遗产的测度。2)从资金投入角度看：自然保护地年均投入400万元/km²可作为优质发展目标阈值,年均投入80万～400万元/km²可作为发展状态良好的阈值。3)人为干预度作为扩展指标可以反映自然遗产地的可持续保护状态和趋势,可进一步在中国及其他国家类似保护地进行推广应用。     

Improving cognitive and physical function through 12-weeks of resistance training in older adults: Randomized controlled trial

ABSTRACT

We performed a randomized, controlled trial to analyse the effects of resistance training (RT) on cognitive and physical function among older adults. Fifty participants (mean age 67 years, ~60% woman) were randomly assigned to an RT program or a control group. Participants allocated to RT performed three sets of 10-15RM in nine exercises, three times per week, for 12-weeks. Control group did not perform any exercise. Variables included cognitive (global and executive function) and physical function (gait, mobility and strength) outcomes. At completion of the intervention, RT was shown to have significantly mitigated the drop in selective attention and conflict resolution performance (Stroop test: -494.6; 95%CI: -883.1; ?106.1) and promoted a significant improvement in working memory (digit span forward: -0.6; 95%CI: ?1.0; ?0.1 and forward minus backward: -0.9; 95% CI: ?1.6; ?0.2) and verbal fluency (animal naming: +1.4, 95%CI 0.3, 2.5). No significant between-group differences were observed for other cognitive outcomes. Regarding physical function, at completion of the intervention, the RT group demonstrated improved fast-pace gait performance (?0.3; 95% CI: ?0.6; ?0.0) and 1-RM (+21.4 kg; 95%CI: 16.6; 26.2). No significant between-group differences were observed for other mobility-related outcomes. In conclusion, RT improves cognitive and physical function of older adults.     

Public Library Services for Veterans: Selected Brief Case Studies

Public libraries across the country design and deliver programs for military veterans and their families, often collaborating with other organizations and agencies. The examples were assembled from both general and specialized interviews with librarians, and literature and Internet searches, with summaries of programs assembled and written by multiple researchers. The specific limitations on the listing in this article are clearly outlined in the first section. Overall, however, the article provides a good introductory overview of what’s going on in veteran’s programs and services in America’s public libraries in over seventy libraries in forty states. We hope this list of what public libraries have organized or are doing will supply other public librarians with ideas on how to provide new services or enhance their existing ones.     

论敌后战场的历史地位

中国共产党预导的人民军队开辟的敌后战场，与正面战场相配合对日军形成战略夹击的战略布局，是一个伟大的创造一敌后战场从1941年后上升为主战场，最后成为战略大反攻的出发地和争取抗战胜利的战略基地，为赢得抗战的彻底胜利，做出了不可磨灭的历史贡献：敌后战场能够开辟、坚持和发展壮大，成功经验有四条。     

Competence-based blended learning in building automation: towards a EU curriculum in ‘Domotica’

A competence-based approach was applied to a blended learning on line distance training in the Euroinno EU project aimed at vocational training in building automation. The current paper describes the experience gathered during the learning process and the definition of the curriculum. A number of issues emerged during the sessions concerning regional differences among the various European partners involved in the learning. Refusal to accept e-learning approaches has been considerable among teachers and students in piloting building automation courses, and mainly related to four factors in the tradition of adult education: curriculum tradition, oral tradition, lack of confidence in technical solutions to educational matters and lack of experience with the media.     

冯友兰先生为西南联大撰写的爱国主义颂歌——西南联大的校训、校歌、进行曲、碑文

全面抗战爆发,冯先生随着清华大学流亡到昆明西南联合大学。民族兴亡"启示和激发"了冯先生的爱国情愫。为了复兴中华,他奋笔创造哲学体系,同时还直接投入联大的爱国活动。他出任校歌校训编制委员会主席,与同仁们殚精竭虑地一起进行创作,其中著名的校歌、进行曲的歌词以及纪念碑的碑文,均出自冯先生之手。冯先生的美文极大地张扬和鼓舞了联大师生的爱国主义精神和对抗战胜利的信心,促使了师生们的思想得到净化和升华,为联大培养爱国志士和世界一流人才作出了杰出的贡献。冯先生的爱国主义精神永垂青史。     

抗战期间阎锡山为何能够偏安晋西达7年之久

抗战时期，阎锡山在晋西偏安长达7年之久的原因有：主观上根据其“存在就是真正”的哲学观点，不断加强政治统治，多方开辟财源，积极扩充军队；客观上日军的诱降，根据地的屏障，国民党的支持。