中职机电技术应用专业岗位职业能力调查与分析

本文依据有关调查结果，对广西壮族自治区及珠三角地区的大中型机电类企业机电技术应用技能型人才就业岗位和岗位能力要求的情况进行了分析，并据此提出了机电技术应用专业的建设思路。     

通信网络系统安装与维护“岗课赛证”融合教学实践

专业核心课程对接国家职业技能标准、世赛标准、行业企业操作标准的“三对接”要求，是对相关文件提出的职业教育“岗课赛证”育人模式的解释，符合人力资源社会保障部提出的要推动对接世界技能大赛标准深化专业课程改革工作的具体化要求，是技工院校一体化课程体系开发的标志性特点，是世界技能大赛成果转化的重要形式。通信网络系统安装与维护的“岗课赛证”融合教学模式是指一体化课程对接《智能楼宇管理员国家职业技能标准》、世界技能大赛信息网络布线项目竞赛标准，以及符合通信网络系统维护岗位相关的国家技术标准、行业标准、企业岗位能力要求。     

高职院校机电专业学生就业岗位和培养要求的调查与分析

为使高职院校机电专业适应高职教育强化能力培养的发展趋势,满足现代科学技术发展及社会诸多企业对该专业人才的需求,并以之为导向对学生进行相应的培养,推动机电专业以"项目任务"驱动教学为重点的专业改革,笔者和同事组成调查组到企业进行调研工作,从了解本专业对应岗位的人才需求状况、培养要求入手,了解各企业实际生产的工作流程及工作任务,调查、研究、分析机电专业人才的培养规格、能力与素质结构要求,从而促使该专业高职教育及教学改革缩小与用人单位岗位要求的距离,为教学改革和优化课程体系做好准备工作.     

高职药品检测专业群组群发展调研报告

本文根据高职药品检测专业群建设的要求,通过多种形式对制药企业进行岗位群人才需求等多方面的调查,分析制药企业人才的需求趋势、岗位技能与课程要求的对应关系,专业群人才培养定位与岗位群职业能力需求的对接关系,提出高职药品检测专业群组群逻辑、培养方向,并提出专业群发展的策略。     

国企成房地产行业人才求职新目标

据近日由东方慧博公司发布的《2012年房地产人才市场特征分析及2013年趋势分析》报告显示，房地产行业正呈现出人才价值回归岗位、高端岗位对人才的专业经验要求更加苛刻等趋势。其中，一个明显的趋势就是国企对行业人才的吸引力增大，由此可能导致非国有企业人才流动的加大。     

基于工作过程的中职染整技术专业课程体系构建研究

本文对绍兴纺织印染产业背景和中职染整技术专业人才需求现状进行了充分的分析调研，通过对中职染整技术专业就业岗位（群）及岗位（群）能力进行调研，提出了“以工作领域（岗位）引领工作任务，以工作任务引领知识技能”的染整技术专业模块化课程改革思路，确定本专业所覆盖的工作领域（职业岗位群）、典型工作任务及对应的职业能力要求，形成了基于工作过程的染整技术专业课程体系。     

技工院校公共营养保健专业定位探索

当前,人民群众生活水平不断提高,现代健康产业飞速发展,但是公共营养保健专业的人才却十分缺乏.在技工院校中如何设立公共营养保健专业成为一个值得探讨的问题.本文通过对行业协会、企业、院校、高职毕业生进行相关调研结果的分析,对公共营养保健行业发展现状、岗位人才需求现状、行业岗位群、岗位职责和能力要求,以及技工院校开设该专业的定位进行分析探讨.     

高职市场营销专业《网络营销》课程教学内容的构建——基于网络营销人才需求的调查分析

网络营销是市场营销专业学生就业方向之一。因此,在构建课程教学内容时,应遵循以就业为导向,从企业对网络营销人才的需求岗位及本专业学生在网络营销方向上的主要就业岗位出发,并针对这些岗位分析其岗位职责及任职要求,进而在此基础上提炼出学生所需具备的岗位能力,最终构建出该课程的教学内容体系。     

技工院校药物检验方向课程一体化教学模块探讨

本文从教学实践入手，针对技校药物制剂专业药物检验方向课程教学内容琐碎、重复，与企业岗位实际不够贴近的情况，对相关课程的一体化教学模块进行了探讨，以培养适应市场需求的技能人才。     

技校电子商务一体化教学改革初探

针对当前技工院校电子商务专业毕业生的职业能力达不到企业岗位要求这一突出问题，本文分析了技工院校电子商务专业教学现状，重新定位了技工院校电子商务人才培养目标，提出了构建一体化课程体系，搭建一体化教学实施平台等建议，并对技校电子商务专业一体化教学改革进行了有益的探索。     

Young Adult Predictors and Midlife Outcomes of Male Fine Art Careers

The fine artist is often characterized as atypical and as one who persists with an unconventional lifestyle and career pattern because of the satisfaction derived from creating. To persevere with such an unconventional pattern over an extended period requires an unusual person. Can such a person be identified before he or she experiences this career pattern? The current study followed a group of male fine and applied artists over an 18-year period and identified the young adult and midlife variables that differentiated the two groups. Results indicate that men in stereotypical fine art careers (labeled fluid careers) are more talented, inner-focused, and less materialistic as young adults than their peers. By midlife, such fine artists also have significantly lower socioeconomic status than those in stable applied art careers, yet are equally satisfied with their lives. The results suggest that men who experience a fluid, fine-art career are intrinsically oriented.     

Cultural Consumption in the Fine and Popular Arts Realms

In this paper, we review recent sociological research dealing with the consumption of culture produced in the fine and popular arts realms. Most of the initial theoretical developments in the study of culture consumption were intended to explain audience segmentation in the fine arts realm under the 'cultural capital' paradigm developed by Pierre Bourdieu. This paradigm shift has led to the current dominance of the 'omnivore thesis' in the sociology of taste. The consumption of popular culture, however, remained for a long time dominated by the Birmingham 'resistance' and 'subculture' paradigms developed in the 1970s. Recent popular arts consumption research has moved beyond the limitations of the subculture paradigm by incorporating the theoretical legacy of the cultural capital paradigm in order to account for patterns in audience and producer differentiation in popular arts 'scenes'. This has brought the study of popular and fine arts culture consumption under a single conceptual framework after a long period of theoretical disengagement.     

Sparrows in urban complexity: macro and micro-scale habitat use of sympatric sparrows in Guwahati City,India

In recent decades the House Sparrow and Tree Sparrow have suffered considerable declines. To date, little is known about the fine scale habitat selection of sparrows where they occur together. We investigated how sympatric sparrows used macro and microhabitats in the urban environment of Guwahati city. Survey of sparrows was carried out in 572 locations of different urban settings to find out the city scale distribution. We classified urban habitats and collected micro-habitat variables at 45 point count stations during 2013–2015. Urbanization gradient was found to be influential in limiting the abundance of sparrows. House Sparrow was more common within the urbanized areas compared to low settlement densities located far from the urban core. In contrast, Tree Sparrows were more scattered and seldom found in crowded areas. Spatial overlap was comparatively high in the residential areas adjacent to hillocks. At micro scale, House Sparrow had quadratic response to the degree of urbanization. Both the species avoided areas where urbanization reached the peak; specifically, the areas which were completely devoid of natural vegetation and top soil was paved, and in shopping centers with glass facades. Habitat requirements of both the species at local landscape scale seemed to be similar, although, with some overlaps, they occupied different gradients of the urban environment. Since urban landscapes are highly managed, the fundamental tool for enhancing urban sparrow populations would be the protection of mosaic habitat prioritizing suitable design and management of private gardens and allotments.

     

Translating transgender: Using Western discourses to understand Samoan fa'afāfine

The analysis of gender as a socially constructed category is one of the foundations of the sociological project. The concept of transgender is of particular interest, in that it reveals that sex is not necessarily constitutive of gender. Gender nonconformity in non‐Western contexts particularly demonstrates that the ways in which sex, gender, and sexuality are conceptualised in Western discourses are open to challenge. However, academic research about non‐Western transgender identities and populations often ultimately replicates specific heteronormative and/or Western ways of seeing the world. In this article, I discuss how Samoan fa'afāfine have been represented by various academic disciplines, using a sociological perspective to deconstruct discourses commonly used in this process, which include Orientalism, essentialism, and functionalism. I then outline research that allows for a more nuanced understanding of the lived experience of fa'afāfine, situating them within the broader Samoan cultural context and paying attention to how fa'afāfine themselves construct and maintain their identities. I conclude that this more holistic approach should be taken with all representations of non‐Western and Western nonheteronormative identities and populations.     

Resilient and Vulnerable At-Risk Children

Data from a large representative sample of American kindergarten children were used to examine the role of risk and protective factors involved in vulnerability and resilience as they relate to the development of school-based competence. Better fine motor, gross motor, and interpersonal skills and internalizing behaviors were associated with good outcomes across competence domains, even among children from at-risk backgrounds. Resilient children (higher risk, higher competence) had much in common with their competent peers with no risk factors, including average or better fine and gross motor skills, parental educational expectations, home literacy environment, and social skills and behavior. Results suggest that center-based child care and literacy-rich home environments are tied to competence as well as resilience among at-risk children.     

Regulating behavior management practices in residential treatment facilities

Model licensing requirements were developed by the New Jersey Department of Human Services' Division of Youth and Family Services to assist child welfare/human services licensing agencies in regulating children's residential facilities that use mechanical/physical restraints, isolation and/or exclusion in order to manage the behavior of severely emotionally disturbed and acting out youths. These requirements also identified practices that should be prohibited, such as forced physical exercise, certain types of mechanical restraint and group punishment. This article highlights a number of studies that help support the rationale for the model licensing requirements. In addition, the article discusses staff ratios, policies/procedures, documentation requirements, informed consent, peer review committees and staff training.     

DO SNAP WORK REQUIREMENTS WORK?

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act waived work requirements nationally in 2010 and broadened waiver eligibility in subsequent years for Able‐Bodied Adults without Dependents (ABAWDs) receiving Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits. From 2011 to 2017, many states voluntarily imposed work requirements, while other areas became ineligible for waivers because of improved economic conditions. Using data from the American Community Survey from 2010 to 2017, I analyze the influence of work requirements on employment and SNAP participation for ABAWDs. I find that work requirements increased employment for ABAWDs and also significantly decreased SNAP participation.(JEL J21, J68, H42)     

Decomposition of urban atmospheric carbon in Sonoran Desert soils

Urban atmospheres can have high concentrations of particulate organic carbon (oC) but the rate and fate oC deposition in near-urban ecosystems are rarely quantified. We collected atmospheric particulate matter in Phoenix, AZ and applied these samples to Sonoran Desert soils in a series of laboratory incubation experiments. The addition of fine particulate matter (<2.5 μm aerodynamic diameter) increased microbial respiration in soils collected from the interspaces between desert shrubs. The increase in soil respiration was equivalent to 25% to 30% of the added oC. In contrast, we did not detect increases in respiration when coarse particulate matter (>2.5 μm aerodynamic diameter) was added to interspace soils, suggesting that coarse particulate oC is recalcitrant to microbial decomposition. Due to comparatively higher background levels of C mineralization, we rarely detected changes in microbial respiration when fine or coarse particulate oC was added to soils collected beneath shrub canopies. We measured total atmospheric C concentrations within and surrounding Phoenix and, using inferential methods, estimated rates of deposition that ranged from 0.02 to 0.58 mg C m⁻² d⁻¹ for fine particles and from 0 to 6.15 mg C m⁻² d⁻¹ for coarse particles. Results show that fine atmospheric particulate matter deposited at low rates downwind of Phoenix is a labile oC substrate for soil heterotrophs. In contrast, oC deposited at higher rates as coarse particulate matter may accumulate in soils due to slow microbial decomposition rates.     

Motor-skill learning in older adults—a review of studies on age-related differences

This paper reviews research on motor-skill learning across the life span with particular emphasis on older age. For this purpose, studies that focus on age-related differences in fine and gross motor skills and studies that analyze the further refinement of known skills as well as learning of unknown motor skills are summarized. The reviewed studies suggest that although motor performance tends to decline in old age, learning capabilities remain intact, and older adults are able to achieve considerable performance gains. The extent to which the learning capability varies with age, however, has to be considered very carefully. While most studies revealed that performance gains in fine motor tasks are diminished in older adults, results for gross-motor-skill learning are more contradictory. Additionally, there is considerable agreement on the finding that age-related learning differences are statistically more robust in complex tasks, whereas in low-complexity tasks, the learning of younger and older adults is very similar. This applies to fine and gross motor skills. Relative age differences seem to become enlarged when effortful resources are required for motor performance. Thus, the decline in motor learning that accompanies aging is task specific and not absolute.