Random Remarks on the Teaching and Study of Scientific Prose——A Tentative View of the Formation of Technical Texts

Perhaps the readers might wonder why the writer would like to choose the topic "The Teaching and Study of Scientific Prose" for his writing today. The rcason. for this is not far to seek. It is twofold: First, we are teachers of technical English or students majoring in science and     

The Exploration on New Model of the Community Construction of the City''s New District——retrospection and thinking of the community construction of Hefei Economic and Technological Development Area

合肥经济技术开发区的社区建设在全国开发区解决“三农”问题方面具有重要的示范作用。作者分析了合肥经济技术开发区社区建设的背景及原因,回顾了合肥经济技术开发区社区建设的进程及其取得的巨大成效,最后探讨了社区建设面临的一些问题和进一步健康发展所需要的制度创新。     

The Mirror of America——Notes on "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"

<正> Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by the pen name ofMark Twain, was the first real American auther. He grew upnext to the river (Mississippi), and had been tramp printer, ri-ver pilot, Confederate guerilla, prospector, journalist. He traveled ac-ross the country for more than a third of his life, digestingthe American experience, after that he translated it into litera-ture. When he was old, he grew cynical, bitter, saddened by the     

Comparing the Use of Articles——English and Chinese

英语有冠词,汉语没有冠词。英汉冠词的比较,实际上是比较两种语言中名词的限定性与非限定性在表达方面的异同。如果说英语的不定冠词A/AN与汉语的“一+量词”结构,只是在单数可数名词的有限范围内具有可替换性,那么,在英语的定冠词THE与汉语的“这”、“那”之间就不能简单地划上等号了。使用冠词是英语的一大特征,唯其特殊,在另一种语言中便很难找到一种等值的对应词语。事实上,汉语中名词的限定性与非限定性的表达手段远比英语冠词复杂。具体讲,说话人的意图,名词本身的涵义,上下文对词义的影响,谓语动词的肯定与否定,名词在句中的位置等,都能传达英语冠词所特有的句法功能。     

Gulliver''''s Travels and Tang-ao''''s Travels——A Comparison Study on their Similarities

Jonathan Swift is known to students of literature as one of thegreatest satiric writers.Gulliver's Travels is his most ambitious literarywork.In the nineteenth century Chinese literature,there is also a satiricnovel called Tang-ao's Travels by Li yu-zhen in the Qing Dynasty,the lastfeudal society in China.Although Tang-ao's Travels appears one centurylater and is less famous than Gulliver's Travels the two books resemble     

Duplicate Decomposition of Regional Economic and Finance Difference in China—— from the Perspective of Space and Industry

Based on the provincial panel data from 1991 to 2016, this paper uses the method of population-weighted variation coefficient to study the evolution path of regional economic and finance disparities, then decomposes and compares spatial and industrial disparities of economy and finance. Empirical results show that regional economic and finance disparities present an inverted U-shaped trend, inter-regional and intra-regional disparities in non-agricultural section are key factors of regional disparities. Non-agricultural disparities of economic and finance development in Bohai Rim Economic Circle and Yangtze River Delta Economic Circle can well account for main parts of regional disparities. Financial agglomeration degree is higher than economical agglomeration degree in non-agricultural section of eastern region, which causes deviation between economic and finance difference. Therefore, it is necessary to promote adaptive financial diffusion from core areas such as Beijing and Shanghai to surrounding areas and channel financial resource of urban area to rural area for the coordination of regional economy and finance.     

The opposition of Wu Wan Schools and JiangFan’s evaluation on DaiZhen

从《国朝汉学师承记》、《国朝经师经义目录》、《国朝宋学渊源记》看,江藩基本把握住了戴震的学术全貌,比较注重戴震对友朋后学的影响,当然,这两点处处都渗透着江藩的"纯汉学"眼光;江藩对戴震以"晓徵为第二人"颇有微词,这是缘于他认为戴氏之学低于钱大昕,实际上他在多处是惠戴并称的;江藩品人论学多以戴震为参照,其前辈学者及友朋论戴惠之学亦无贵己贱彼之迹象。认为吴皖分帜之观念始于江藩且其有重吴略皖之倾向,实有武断之处。     

A Novel Pregnant with Meaning——On the Theme of Sons and Lovers

劳伦斯的《儿子与情人》被誉为 2 0世纪初最具创新精神的长篇小说之一。该小说的主题成为后人研究的焦点 ,人们的看法不尽相同。在这部充满着矛盾和冲突的作品中 ,其主题不是单一或单层次的。这部作品的主题包含两个层面 ,即表层主题和深层主题。表层主题与深层主题相互交织 ,相互加强 ,共同筑成一部情节复杂、寓意深刻的著作。首先 ,笔者从人物心理角度探析了父亲和母亲、保罗与母亲、保罗与情人之间的关系 ;然后 ,从社会学的角度探究了人类与社会、社会与自然、人类与自然之间的关系并阐明了社会是导致“病态”家庭的根源。     

The Effects of Divorce on Men’s Employment and Social Security Histories

Analyses of the economic consequences of divorce have emphasized the negative effect of divorce for women. For men, consequences of divorce are most often believed to be social or psychological. This is not consistent with an economic literature showing the positive effects of marriage on men’s wages. Using a nationally representative life-history survey among men in the Netherlands, this paper reanalyzes the possible negative effects of a divorce for the careers of men. Complete life histories provide information on upward and downward occupational mobility as well as on unemployment and disability. Multivariate event history models show that after divorce, men experience an increased chance of becoming downwardly mobile, an increased chance of becoming unemployed, and an increased chance of becoming disabled. Additional analyses are done to assess whether these effects are spurious, due to the influence of earlier problems that men experienced in their lives, as measured by indicators of employment problems, health problems, and problems in social relationships. While these variables have an effect on the future career, they are not strong enough to eliminate the divorce effect. Implications are discussed for different theoretical hypotheses about the importance of marriage and divorce for men’s employment. Kalmijn, M., 2005, Les effects du divorce sur les histoires professionnelle et socio-médicale des hommes, Revue Européenne de Démographie, 21: 347–366.     

Differential Effects of Perceived Maternal and Paternal Acceptance on Male and Female Adult Offspring’s Psychological Adjustment

The purpose of this study was to measure and compare differential effects of perceived maternal and paternal acceptance of adult sons and adult daughters during childhood on their current psychological adjustment. The sample consisted of 200 young adults (100 males and 100 females) from Bangladesh. Measures used were Adult versions of the Parental Acceptance and Rejection Questionnaire for Mothers and Fathers (Adult PARQ: Mothers and Fathers), and Adult version of the Personality Assessment Questionnaire (Adult PAQ). Results showed that both maternal and paternal acceptance have significant independent effects on adult sons’ psychological adjustment, and only paternal (not maternal) acceptance has significant independent effect on adult daughters’ psychological adjustment. Paternal acceptance accounts for greater variability in adult sons’ and adult daughters’ psychological adjustment than maternal acceptance. Results also showed that parental gender has significant interaction effect on the adult daughters’ (not adult sons’) psychological adjustment. Results further showed that adult daughters reported significantly greater maternal and paternal acceptance and higher psychological adjustment than adult sons.     

The Silenced Technology—the Beauty and Sorrow of Reassembled Cars

Reassembled cars can be seen everywhere in Taiwan. In the past few decades, the government has repeatedly clamped down on them. It has also taken measures such as negative persuasion, technical requirements, alienation, phaseout, and developed standard agricultural vehicles to eradicate reassembled cars. But they are able to take advantage of the social context and rationalize their existence. Reassembled cars have not only gained support or sympathy but also overturned the conventional concept of safety, which allows them to fight against official clampdown. To compete against mass-manufactured vehicles, their best strategy is to respond to the circumstances of Taiwan’s rural area and offer the best solution. Their external advantages include their services, adaptability to all kinds of environments, not to mention that they are license-free and tax-free. Internal advantages include their safety, low prices, and flexibility in production and use, thanks to the collaborated network consisting of salvage yards and reassembled car makers. By making good use of all the aforementioned advantages and following Taiwan’s social development, reassembled cars have gained a competitive niche that has failed the clampdown actions over and over again. But most importantly, they have supported Taiwan’s economic development in many sectors.

Evaluating the Theoretical Construct on the Factors of personality in Language Teaching and Learning

Introduction The factors of personality may be directly or indirectly related to learners' success in foreion language learning. A lot of research work has been devoted to elucidating what kinds of learner's characteristics appear to be related to success in learning a foreign language and in what way they are retatad. However,the results prove to be problematic. As a result,it is not easy for language teachers to evaluate and utilize the results of those in-     

Psychological and Linguistic Research on Motivation

I Psychological Research on Motivation1.1Psychological perspectives on motivationIt is an urgent task for applied linguists to employthe essential and useful parts frompsychological theoriesof motivation andtheir findings.Concerning psychological approach…     

The Effect of Children on Men’s and Women’s Chances of Re-partnering in a European Context

This work examines what role children play in the re-partnering process in five European countries (Norway, France, Germany, Romania, and the Russian Federation) by addressing the following research questions: (1) To what extent do men and women differ in their re-partnering chances?; (2) Can gender differences in re-partnering be explained by the presence of children?; (3) How do the custodial arrangements and the child’s age affect the re-partnering chances of men and women? We use the partnership and parenthood histories of the participants in the first wave of the Generations and Gender Survey (United Nations, Generations and Gender Programme: Survey Instruments. United Nations, New York/Geneva, 2005) to examine the transition to moving in with a new partner following the dissolution of the first marital union, separately for men and women. The story that emerges is one of similarities in the effects rather than differences. In most countries, men are more likely to re-partner than women. This gender difference can be attributed to the presence of children as our analyses show that childless men and women do not differ in their probability to re-partner. Mothers with resident children are less likely to re-partner than non-mothers and a similar though often non-significant effect of resident children is observed for fathers. In most countries we find that as the child ages, the chances to enter a new union increase. In sum, our study indicates that children are an important factor in re-partnering and a contributor to the documented gender gap in re-partnering, and this holds throughout distinct institutional and cultural settings.     

Research on Xinhai Revolution and Social Change of Shandong Province： for the 100th Anniversary of Xinhai Revolution

Xinhai Revolution, breaking out in the year of 1911, overthrew the tyranny of Qing Dynasty, set up Republic of China and meanwhile it enhanced the consciousness of democracy and the concept of republic and democratic. Since then China has transit preliminarily from traditional society to modern one, which was led to a modern-society-developing orbit and was proved to be a great era-significant national democratic revolution. Xinhai Revolution strengthened the social change of China and greatly influenced politics, economy, culture, education, media, regional cities, civil life and social space in Shandong to pave for modernization. Although met with many difficulties, the society in Shandong was filled with many turning points and headed for the way of developing Shandong during the period of Republic of China.     

Diverse Effects of Women’s Employment on Fertility: Insights From Italy and Poland

In this paper, we look into how country-specific factors shape the interrelationship between childbearing and women’s labor supply. To this end, we compare Italy and Poland, two low-fertility countries where the country-specific obstacles to work and family reconciliation are similarly strong but which differ in the history of women’s labor supply and the extent to which couples’ material aspirations are satisfied by men’s earnings. Our findings show that women’s employment clearly conflicts with childbearing in Italy, while in Poland women tend to combine the two activities, despite the similar difficulties they face. These results challenged the standard microeconomic explanations and point to the importance of other country-specific factors, apart from conditions for work and family reconciliation, in shaping women’s employment and fertility decisions, such as economic incentives or culturally rooted behavioral patterns. Overall, our study provides thus foundations for explaining the variation in the relationship between women’s employment and fertility in an enlarged Europe.     

The impact of resources and family-level cultural practices on immigrant women’s workforce participation

This article aims to assess the extent to which women's labor force participation reflects culturally or situationally induced family strategies above and beyond the well-known effects of opportunities and constraints associated with education and the life cycle. We focus particularly on women immigrants from the former Yugoslavia in Australia, and explore the family strategies by comparing the Yugoslav women systematically to immigrant women from other parts of the Mediterranean world and to immigrant women from other parts of the Slavic world. To this end, we use data from the one percent public use sample of individual records of the 1981 Australian Census. We find that the labor force particiaation patterns of immigrant women from the former Yugoslavia are more shaped by education and less shaped by the life course than is true of other groups, although the life course matters for all of them. Indeed, in the impact of education on labor force they closely resemble the Eastern Europeans across most of the range of education. But in the impact of life cycle stage on participation they more closely resemble the Greeks and the Italians. This emphasizes how important it is that statistical agencies release data at the greatest possible level of detail: A country may belong in one group for some purposes, but in a different group for other purposes. We assess a number of explanations for birthplace differences in participation patterns, and find most wanting. We suggest that they may reflect culturally conditioned intergenerational wealth flows and patterns of time investiment in children and the elderly. M.D.R. Evans's research focuses on comparative, international analyses of stratification, ethnicity, culture, and gender. Her book, Prejudice or Productivity, is forthcoming from Westview Press.