Tiger Mothers

NATIVE only to China and Russia's Siberia, the Dongbei (Northeast) Tiger is a magnificent wild animal. Over the last few decades, the sound of its roar has become weaker and weaker. In the 1970s, over 80 wild Dongbei Tigers still roamed the northeast of China. By the 1980s, though, it had become very difficult to track these tigers. To obtain a comprehensive     

Tiger Boy Learns Peking Opera

Twelve-year-old Yang Ming looks as strong and dignified as a young tiger, which happens to be the year of the Chinese zodiac that he was born under. In 1996, his mother sent little Yang Ming to the Jingshan Children's Palace to learn Peking Opera, hoping that training in the acrobatic fighting would strengthen his frail body. To everyone's     

1997年上海公用事业发展展望

简要回顾1996年上海公用事业的服务与供应。提出1997年上海公用事业发展的指导原则和主要目标。     

2003年度的费萨尔国王世界奖

由沙特阿西尔省首长、费萨尔国王慈善基金会会长、费萨尔国王世界奖委员会主席哈立德·费萨尔亲王殿下主持举行的费萨尔国王慈善基金会庆祝会宣布了基金会各评选委员会评选出的2003年度费萨尔国王世界奖获奖名单.     

上海市城市供水2000年规划方案概要

本文曾由作者于1993年11月在上海召开的“第2届国际水都会议”上以英文发表,并曾于1993年12月在台湾省台北市召开的“第2届海峡两岸环保学术研讨会”上发表。文中部分内容曾选登在《华东给水排水》内部刊物上。     

“隔笼戏虎”:青少年网络生存的别样风景

隔笼戏虎是一种隐喻,揭示了青少年互联网生存的一种显著特点。隔笼戏虎为青少年无须更多关注种种现实关系的维持和修缮、无须更多在意现实利益的增益和消减、随心所欲上网冲浪提供了强有力的保障,从而成就了当今青少年的社会话语权。同时,隔笼戏虎也以种种可能之弊,消减了他们直接面对各种困难和考验的机会,对他们培养各种生存发展能力形成了较大的影响和阻碍,是当今青少年必须超越的一种生存状态。当今青少年隔笼戏虎的互联网生存方式不仅事关当下,也将对社会的未来发展产生深远的影响,值得全社会关注和重视。社会要拿出具体有效的办法,吸引更多青少年告别隔笼戏虎的生存方式。     

Welcaming the Lunar New Year

On the 24th, clean the house; on the 25th, make beancurd; on the26th, steam some bread; on the 27th, do the shopping; on the 28th, killthe pig; on the 29th, buy some wine; on the 30th day, eat dumplings....This is a rhyme the Chinese have been singing for generations. Itdescribes the joy of the biggest festival for Chinese people-the traditionalSpring Festival, or, more accurately, the Chinese lunar New Year. Thisyear, the Spring Festival falls on February 16, 1999.     

Corporate philanthropy and united way: Challenges for the Year 2000

This article reports the results of a national survey of corporate philanthropy programs in which the influence of strategic philanthropy on corporate contributions to United Way was investigated. The results indicate that highly strategic philanthropy programs gave a lower percentage of total direct contributions to United Way than less strategic programs. Strategic philanthropy was defined in this study as the process by which contributions are targeted to meet both business objectives and recipient needs. Based on the results of the study, the author encourages United Way staff and other nonprofit managers to work more closely with corporate contribution managers to develop measurable criteria regarding the impact of health and human services contributions on strategic business goals and objectives.     

Understanding Interest in the Second Year of Life

Infants (n = 24, mean age 13 months and n = 24, mean age 19 months) were tested on an extension of the method introduced by Tomasello and Haberl (2003) to examine the understanding of another person’s interest in a novel object. Four objects were presented serially. For two objects, infants played with an experimenter. The infant played with one object alone, and the experimenter played with one object alone. Finally, all four objects were presented together, and the experimenter excitedly asked for one without indicating which. Results showed that younger infants tended to chose the object that they had not yet played with, whereas older infants were significantly more likely to choose the object that the experimenter had not yet played with. These results are discussed in the context of research on the development of understanding diversity of simple object‐directed attitudes in the second year of life.     

Body Representation in the First Year of Life

Like faces, bodies are significant sources of social information. However, research suggests that infants do not develop body representation (i.e., knowledge about typical human bodies) until the second year of life, although they are sensitive to facial information much earlier. Yet, previous research only examined whether infants are sensitive to the typical arrangement of body parts. We examined whether younger infants have body knowledge of a different kind, namely the relative size of body parts. Five‐ and 9‐month‐old infants were tested for their preference between a normal versus a proportionally distorted body. Nine‐month‐olds exhibited a preference for the normal body when images were presented upright but not when they were inverted. Five‐month‐olds failed to exhibit a preference in either condition. These results indicate that infants have knowledge about human bodies by the second half of the first year of life. Moreover, given that better performance on upright than on inverted stimuli has been tied to expertise, the fact that older infants exhibited an inversion effect with body images indicates that at least some level of expertise in body processing develops by 9 months of age.     

The Celtic Tiger and home leaving among Irish young adults

This paper examines the effect of local economic growth on whether young adults move out of the parental home to form new households—an important milestone in the transition to adulthood. I use the placement of foreign direct investment during the Celtic Tiger, the large economic expansion in Ireland during the 1990s, to estimate the impact of local job growth on the likelihood that young adults leave home. This paper contributes to the literature by exploiting an exogenous shock to the local labor market to identify the main effect of employment growth on home leaving behavior. The results show that local economic growth increases the probability that young adults leave home particularly for the well-educated young adults most likely to be employed in the factories that opened during the period.     

Developmental Trajectories for Mother–Infant Coregulation in the Second Year of Life

Ten dyads were observed biweekly from 10 to 24 months of infant age while playing together at home with a set of toys. The aim was to examine whether mother–infant coregulation changes over the second year of the infant’s life and whether there are individual differences in that process. Normative trends as well as variability between and within dyads were tested using a multilevel modeling technique. We found that unilateral coregulation, in which only the mother was actively involved in play, largely prevailed at the beginning of the year and then decreased linearly, while symmetrical patterns, implying that the infant was also involved, were for the most part absent at the beginning but then increased rapidly, overtaking unilateral from the middle of the year on and becoming predominant by the end. In particular, symmetrical episodes of shared affect and shared action increased first and then decreased, being replaced by shared language. Variability in data was significant between the dyads, with some dyads advancing toward symmetrical coregulation at an earlier age and more rapidly than the others. It was also significant within the dyads, as the increase in symmetrical coregulation unfolded in a quite irregular manner across the sessions, unlike the decrease in unilateral. Results are discussed with reference to a view of joint attention development as a gradual and complex process.     

The 15 Year Relay

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Eat Dumpling and Say good-Bye to the Year

Dumplings are the food thatChinese people eat during the SpringFestival,the ceremony to celebrate thecoming of the new year in the Chineselunar calender.Spring Festival startson the eighth day of the twelfth lunarmonth and does not end until the 15thday of the first lunar month of thefollowing year.The most importantactivity of this festival is the waitingin of the new year—that is,people