Comparison of rotatable designs for regression on balls,I (quadratic)

Designs for quadratic and cubic regression are considered when the possible choices of the controlable variable are points x=( x₁,x₂,…,x_q) in the q-dimensional. Full of radius R, B_q(R) ={x:Σ⁴_ix²_i?R²}. The designs that are optimum among rotatable designs with respect to the D-, A-, and E-optimality criteria are compared in their performance relative to these and other criteria, including extrapolation. Additionally, the performance of a design optimum for one value of R, when it is implemented for a different value of R, is investigated. Some of the results are developed algebraically; others, numerically. For example, in quadratic regression the A-optimum design appears to be fairly robust in its efficiency, under variation of criterion.     

Supervision in Family Therapy: A Developmental Perspective

A group model of supervision of family therapy was implemented by a team of three supervisors with doctoral students in counseling psychology. It was believed that such an approach would provide students with more opportunity to work as therapists with families and to observe a greater variety of families, therapists, and therapeutic styles than in other models. Interchange in supervisory sessions focused on co-therapy issues, observation skills, family dynamics, differing therapeutic techniques and approaches, and planning and goal setting in therapy. This experience contributed to the professional and personal growth and development of students.     

Expertization of Everyone and the Revolt of the Client*†

American society is witnessing a dramatic explosion and dissemination of knowledge, accompanied by the increasing refusal of patients, customers, students, and other types of clients to passively receive the services of the expert in any body of knowledge or skill. There has been an expansive growth of occupational experts and a demand on the part of clients for a change in the relation. Knowledge monopolization is decreasingly possible due to the activities of mass communication and of the literate public, and clients are becoming varied in the amount of knowledge with which they turn to the expert. Thus, while the political and economic groups are increasingly depending on the expert elite for plans and programs, the members at all levels of society are demanding rights of decision making.     

Dialectical dialogue: the struggle for speech, repressive silence, and the shift to multiplicity

In the present essay I intend to explore 'dialectical dialogue' in three distinct moments: the battle for recognition, the ethics of giving recognition, and the multiplicity of conversation. The essay begins with Hegel's figures of Master and Slave portraying the struggle of speech for recognition. This struggle culminates in a duel for mastery, which implies the repression and silencing of the other's speech. Ethical dialogue comes as a response to repressive silence, calling the other into egalitarian exchange. Ethical dialogue as such, however, remains within the dialectical framework of agonistic relations. To shift from dialectics to multiplicity, the essay turns from the politics of recognition to the poetics of conversation, to polyphony and to passage. I will follow the three moments both separately, through particular dialogic instances and theoretical perspectives, and as they develop, respond to, and shift from one to the other. Together they will portray an idea of the 'social' as a critical dialogic stance with its inherent dialectical betweenness and potential opening and expanding multiplicity.     

中国社会发展对"跨越论"思想的深化和丰富

马克思、恩格斯探索东方社会发展道路时提出了"跨越论"设想,并在分析东方落后国家实现跨越的条件中提出了吸收资本主义一切积极成果的思想.中国社会发展在不同的历史时期不仅体现出了"跨越论"的"吸收"思想,而且在推进中国社会发展的实践中,毛泽东和邓小平极大地深化和丰富了吸收资本主义积极成果的思想.     

论明中叶史学的转型

明中叶是明代史学的转型期,这表现理学化史学批判思潮的出现、博古考信风的兴起、史汉风格的确立、史学理论的受人重视、经世史学思潮的勃兴．当然,以纲常正统论思想改编旧史,仍有很大的市场。     

解释学·多元化·建筑创作

解释学是理解和解释“意义”的理论或哲学。意义是人的社会存在的必然产物 ,对各种各样意义的理解和解释实际上是人类认识自己、认识世界的活动的最主要方面 ,因而也是人类最基本的活动之一。在建筑领域 ,随着对意义的普遍关注 ,“理解”和“解释”正日益受到重视并参与作品审美意义的生成 ,这不仅导致了当代建筑审美意义的多元取向 ,而且更主要的是导致了建筑审美活动中生命意识的自觉和凸现。