Learning technologies at the service of higher education: global trends and local Israeli opportunities

This paper provides an overview of global trends in e-Learning and opportunities opened by harnessing learning technologies at the service of the Israeli higher education. The introduction of innovative learning technologies is examined in light of an organizational change. A series of substantial issues should be taken into account to successfully manage the change. Among these are: rethinking of academic learning and instruction, redefining the role of the teachers and the students, decoupling the learning materials and the learning process, new approaches to student assessment and program evaluation, and instituting a well thought out organizational plan including a support center. The above-mentioned issues guided the introduction of a recent call for project proposals for the integration of technologies into Israeli higher education. The main principles, criteria and results of this call are described.     

Deaths at the borders database: evidence of deceased migrants’ bodies found along the southern external borders of the European Union

Irregular migrants and asylum seekers have died and continue to die attempting to cross the external borders of the EU without authorisation, seeking to enter the territories of its Member States. Yet, remarkably little is known about these ‘border deaths’. In 2015, the Human Costs of Border Control project published the Deaths at the Borders Database for the Southern EU, an open-source ‘evidence base’ of individualised information about people who have died border deaths between 1990 and 2013, sourced from the death management systems of Spain, Gibraltar, Italy, Malta and Greece. It is the first database on border deaths in the EU to be based on official sources as opposed to the news media. The project involved searching 563 state-run death registry archives and deductively selecting the death certificates of persons who died border deaths. This paper describes, in detail, the making of the Deaths at the Borders Database: from the systematic, multi-sited, quantitative data collection and qualitative case studies, to the construction and final results of the Database itself.     

力触觉建模及再现技术研究

力触觉再现关键技术之一是物理模型和碰撞检测算法的构建。以7自由度力触觉设备为基本构架,介绍了力触 觉设备的反馈机理和电气组成;分析比较了力触觉建模的特点,研究弹簧一质点模型,给出了弹簧一质点模型的面模型和 体模型的具体表现形式;分析了力触觉再现碰撞检测算法的优劣,实现了AABB包围盒的遍历算法。最后在Chai 3D环 境构建一个操作手与虚拟柱体的力触觉交互反馈模型,分析了在3种交互情况下的反馈力情况。本文可为力触觉再现 技术的深入研究提供理论参考。     

Bite Mark Evidence in Crimes Against Persons

Abstract

Bite marks are often found on victims of homicide, sex crimes, and child abuse. Since this type of physical evidence often links victims and assailants, it is essential that bite mark evidence be recognized and properly preserved. The superior courts of several states and United States military courts have accepted this evidence as admissible.

This article is intended to familiarize college and university health workers and security personnel with the appearance of bite marks as they may be found on victims. Further, it describes techniques of photography and related procedures, necessary for the preservation of this essential evidence. Photographs of actual bite marks and diagrams illustrating correct techniques for photography are included. This article is intended to alert college health and security personnel that early recognition and preservation of bite mark evidence is essential to investigative procedures.     

日常知识与生活世界——知识社会学的现象学传统评析

现象学社会学构成知识社会学的一个重要传统。它关于日常知识的生成机制和建构社会的功能的基本思想,揭示了日常知识同生活世界之间辩证的交互建构关系,以及个体知识同社会共享知识之间的转化机制。现象学社会学关于生活世界的日常知识是一种"现实感"的阐释,既显现知识同主观世界的关联,也没有否定知识的客观性,在知识的客观真实性问题上提出了不同于知识社会学其它学派的主张。它对常识知识的关注及其社会建构论思想,对当代知识社会学的发展均有重大贡献。     

The Internalization of the “Father” Object Among Young Men and Its Relation to Separation–Individuation Patterns, Anxiety and Depression

While the father’s influence on his offspring’s personalities and well-being has historically been neglected, literature on this topic has recently been accumulating. The father’s influence is touches upon numerous practical and ethical implications for social work, psychotherapy, and psychodiagnosis. The present study draws from Mahler’s (Mahler, Separation individuation. The selected papers of Margaret S. Mahler, 1963, 1967, 1974; Mahler et al., The psychological birth of the human infant. Symbiosis and individuation, 1975) theory of the psychological birth of the child and offers a novel focus on the pivotal internal representation of the father. According to this theory, hindered developmental processes lead to depression and anxiety. 130 students took part in the current study, in which the internal father object was examined with regard to separation–individuation processes, and the levels of anxiety and depression were recorded. The study’s results show a significant negative relation between the quality of the paternal object and levels of anxiety and depression. A theoretical model was constructed to illustrate the similarities and discrepancies in the development of depression and anxiety in light of the father object as mediated by the separation–individuation processes that were examined.     

农户土地流转意愿及其影响因素分析

我国现行的家庭联产承包责任制导致农户土地经营规模小,严重影响了土地资源利用效率的发挥。要解决这一问题必须借助农地流转这一途径来实现。然而如今土地流转过程中却出现了越来越多的制约因素,遇到了发展过程中的瓶颈期。通过调查问卷和农户访谈的方法,了解河北省Z市的土地流转现状,建立Logistic模型分析影响农户土地流转意愿的因素,运用SPSS软件进行回归分析,从而分别确定每一个相关因素对于土地流转的影响方向和影响大小。并针对分析结果提出相应的政策建议,这对于推进我国土地制度改革,保障民生,构建和谐农村和稳定社会有着十分重要而深远的意义。