Go home, gay boy! Or, why do Singaporean gay men prefer to "go home" and not "come out"?

Anglo-American ontologies posit that gay men should come out to match their outer selves with their inner ones. In Confucianized Singapore, however, gay men refrain from coming out to their parents to avoid shaming their families. Instead, they couch their homosexuality in kinship terms and "go home" with their boyfriends (Chou, 2000). "Going home" gains familial acceptance, but it does not challenge mainstream discourses of homosexuality. By examining how Singaporean gay men negotiate their sexuality with their families, I question the validity of coming out and going home as both ontological discourses and strategies.     

Almost sure central limit theorem for the maxima and sums of stationary Gaussian sequences

In this paper, we proved an almost sure central limit theorem for the maxima (after centered at the sample mean) and the partial sums of standardized stationary Gaussian sequences under some conditions related to the convergence rate of covariance functions, which extended the existing results.     

Breaking bad news with CONSOLE: Toward a framework integrating medical protocols with crisis communication

This paper develops the CONSOLE (Coherence, Orientation, Nuance, Support, Ongoing, Leadership, Emotions) framework to guide practitioners on how to break bad news effectively to stakeholders during crises. Arguably the first study integrating well-established medical protocols such as SPIKES (Baile et al., 2000) and COMFORT (Villagran et al., 2010) with crisis communication literature, the CONSOLE framework is applied on four aviation crises to examine the manner in which organizations communicate bad news on social media platforms, which are increasingly used to communicate with stakeholders (Siah, Bansal & Pang, 2010). Data was obtained during the height of the crises (Vasterman, 2005) from official Twitter and Facebook pages of Malaysia Airlines, AirAsia and Asiana Airlines. Findings showed that the airlines’ communication of bad news to stakeholders suffer from emotional deficit. Practitioners can use the CONSOLE framework to break bad news in a holistic and empathetic manner during crises.     

Evaluating the effects of canine urine on urban soil microbial communities

Due to extensive areas of impermeable surfaces, combined sewer overflow (CSO) is currently a major problem in urban areas across the United States. In CSO systems, sewage can travel through underground pipes to be decontaminated in treatment facilities, or it can combine with stormwater after a precipitation event and discharge into local waterways. Many cities are implementing green infrastructure installations, which use vegetation and bioactive soil microbial communities to enhance soil water-holding capacity, thereby minimizing CSO events. Understanding the factors that structure soil microbial communities in green infrastructure will facilitate more effective management of these engineered ecosystems; however, few studies to date have evaluated ecological patterns and processes of microbes in the urban environment. Nitrogen loading is known to be a major factor structuring fungi and bacteria in non-urban soils, and since cities also contain large populations of canines, N-rich urine deposition is a potential factor that could be important for structuring soil microbes in ground-level green infrastructure installations. Our study investigated the effects of canine urine on the urban soil microbial communities in a greenhouse experiment by treating Liriope muscari, a common plant found in New York City green infrastructure, with different concentrations of canine urine for 4 weeks in an experimental setting. We found that urine application significantly decreased total soil microbial biomass and microbial richness, and increased water runoff volume. These findings indicate that canine urine may have negative consequences for soil water-holding capacity and nutrient cycling in urban green infrastructure installations by directly decreasing the abundance and richness of soil microbial communities.

     

中华民族共同体意识视域下的民族地区"四史"教育——以甘孜藏区基层干部、中小学教师的调查为例

以“四史”教育为切入点,既丰富了铸牢中华民族共同体意识的研究内容,又是贯彻落实习总书记有关“四史”教育重要讲话精神的需要。通过分析中华民族共同体意识深刻内涵的“五个认同”核心要义,探讨中华民族共同体意识与“四史”教育的内在统一性,明确中华民族共同体意识与认同国家历史、认同党的领导、认同共同理想和认同远大理想的内在关联。根据民族地区基层干部、中小学教师的调查,分析在民族地区加强“四史”教育的作用、必要性及其与铸牢中华民族共同体意识的影响相关性,进而提出民族地区“四史”教育要以“共情”教育为抓手、“共鸣”教育为主线和“共行”教育为目标的三条路径。     

认可、批判与误解:王夫之的老子观

王夫之继承了朱熹"老氏之学最忍"、被用来欺诈对手的论断,并引申之。在其儒学注疏中,直接斥责老子为欺诈之小人。但是,在《老子衍》中又不得不尊重其文本,同情地理解老子。于是,其儒学注疏与《老子衍》中对老子的评价便出现了张力。我们认为,这种张力源于他的儒家道统偏见和他缺乏对老子思想深邃性的认识。老子是从天之包容无为的角度,要求统治者仁慈、利物而不争,以感化天下。王夫之却执着于儒家的教化和儒、道的区分,将老子斥为异端小人。王夫之的矛盾态度揭示出,王夫之以儒家的人类福利教化为视角,是不能出于老子之上、切中要害地批判老子的。     

全球化、民族性与新发展观--立足于民族经济学的学理思考

本文从经济文化的全球化与民族性关系出发,分析以往研究的一些缺憾;进而从新发展观的视野考察我国民族经济学的研究现状,并对这门学科的形成、发展及其学理价值、科研特征与应用前景进行初步的探讨和阐释。强调加强民族经济学研究对于中国经济学、民族学等学科的发展以及西部大开发等实践具有重要意义。     

Linking Objectives to Actions: A Decision Support Approach Based on Cause–Effect Linkages

The process of translating objectives into actions is a difficult task. This difficulty is due to the wide range of possibilities and the lack of structured information. Managers must take into account relevant information and generate a range of options before a decision is reached. So far, little is available to guide managers in translating a set of objectives into actions. This paper presents a three‐stage action‐planning process to address this gap. The process, supported by a software tool, takes managers through the stages of model building, action generation, and action evaluation and selection. A case study illustrates the application of the process. The paper concludes by discussing the implication of this work for managers and academics.     

暂时性的生育延迟:适龄婚育青年对于女性冻卵的认知研究

冷冻卵子作为一项辅助生殖技术,正成为国内外适龄婚育女性解决生育问题的选择之一,但对于女性跨境冻卵的实践、冻卵的动机及影响还缺乏研究.根据在线社区56位女性书写的"冻卵笔记"和15位适龄婚育青年的深度访谈发现:大多数用户将冻卵描述为一种都市中产的"身体消费",象征着女性能重建主体意识并获得更大的生育自主权;女性选择冻卵的...     

草珊瑚低温半致死温度对自然降温的适应

以草珊瑚为材料 ,研究了其叶片低温半致死温度与自由基清除系统随气温下降的变化。结果表明 ,低温半致死温度降低的同时 ,SOD、POX活性增强 ,VitC含量增加 ,使自由基清除系统的清除能力加强 ,O2 .- 水平降低 ,MDA含量下降。自由基清除系统的适应性变化导致低温半致死温度的下降是抗寒性提高的生理基础