Marital dissolution among the 1958 British birth cohort: The role of cohabitation

This paper investigates the effect of previous cohabitation on marital stability among the 1958 British birth cohort. Prospective data from the National Child Development Study are used to investigate the way in which family background factors and early lifecourse experiences, including cohabitation, affect the risk of first marriage dissolution by age 33. Discrete time logistic regression hazards models are used to analyse the risk of separation in the first eight years of marriage. Many socio-economic and family background factors are found to act through more intermediate determinants, such as age at marriage and the timing of childbearing, to affect the risk of separation. Previous cohabitation with another partner and premarital cohabitation are both associated with higher rates of marital breakdown. The effect of premarital cohabitation is attenuated but remains significant once the characteristics of cohabitors are controlled, and cannot be explained by the longer time spent in a partnership.     

Post‐3/11 Japan and the Radical Recontextualization of Value: Music,Social Media,and End‐Around Strategies for Cultural Action

The disasters of 3/11 provoked a global outpouring of emotion towards the suffering in Japan. In many ways, this singular event seemed to refigure the meanings of community and technology by drawing attention to the fragility of human control in times of disaster. Although the long‐term consequences remain uncertain, this radical recontextualization of value points to a way of thinking about broader processes of change, a contrast to cultural analysis that proceeds by directly critiquing structures of power on their own terms. If we look to processes whereby a new context can be the impetus that undermines seemingly entrenched interests, we might find inspiration for alternative forms of critique and action. Music provides a model for cultural movements that do not attack power directly, but rather operate through this kind of slippery, insidious, “end‐around” strategy of change that gains its force from recontextualizing social logics. These features of music foreshadow some of the contemporary developments in social media, and may point to untapped potentials for subverting, and possibly transforming, enduring structures of power and inequality.     

Selecting for Social Work

Summary Social work courses need to spell out the characteristics andconsequences of particular selection procedures, as a prerequisiteof improvement. This article reports a survey of applicantsfor a postgraduate social work course, where entry is determinedby two independent, individual interviews. Previous social workexperience and the candidate's degree subject emerged as importantcorreiates of selection. Paired interviewing appeared to operatein an impartial fashion, with a high degree of consistency betweeninterviewers of different kinds, and an absence of hierarchyin resolving conflicts. However, the outcome of interviewingwas partially contingent upon the degree of agreement betweeninterviewers on their initial, individual assessment of thecandidates' suitability.     

Windows 2000 Server典型实验在VMware中的实现

Windows 2000 Server的实验需要专门的网络实验室,从而需要很大的设备投入。随着虚拟仿真技术在计算机网络中的应用,可以利用虚拟机软件构造虚拟计算机网络实验平台。VMware是一个功能强大的虚拟机软件,本文介绍VMware环境下Windows2000 Server的多个典型实验的实现原理与方法。     

基于案例推理的压力容器故障维修方法

针对目前压力容器故障维修依赖经验知识的程度高,智能知识库利用率低的问题,提出基于案例推理的压力容 器故障维修方法。通过定义对应故障特征关键词字典,优化案例库案例存储与索引机制,对故障案例信息进行结构化和 知识化;并采用结合最近相邻法和灰色关联度算法的案例相似度匹配方法,提高案例匹配精度。经应用实例验证,从案 例库中匹配相似案例速度快、可靠度高,可供原故障案例参考。因此,该方法在实际使用中有效降低了经验知识的依赖 程度,较好地利用智能知识库,为压力容器全生命周期的维护、修理和操作( MRO)提供便利。     

高职教育综合实验教学的研究与探讨

高等职业教育的目标是培养应用型、技能型人才。综合实验能激发学生的学习兴趣,调动学生的积极性,有助于培养学生的动手能力和独立工作能力,确实是一条实验教学改革的好路子。     

全球化进程中大学生理想信念教育探析

全球化的深入发展,极大地改变了人类的生产方式、消费方式、交换方式及其思想行为方式,也使我国的大学生理想信念教育不断面临挑战。由于多元文化的传播及非主流意识形态的影响,大学生政治观念逐渐淡化,主流价值观念受到冲击,理想信念弱化或迁移。因此,应进一步加强马克思主义理论和社会主义核心价值观教育,不断提升主流意识形态影响力;引导大学生准确把握我国的国际定位,增强道路、理论、制度和文化自信;培养大学生国际政治素养。     

Classifying Undecided Voters in Pre-Election Polls

The treatment of "don't know", "no opinion," or other nsonsubstantiveresponses is a problem in many consumer research surveys. Thispaper looks at the problem in the context of 1980 presidentialelection opinion polls. During the campaign, a relatively largeproportion of those interviewed said that they were undecidedas to whom they planned to vote for. Discriminant analysis isused to allocate undecided voters to candidates. The methodis validated by a postelection follow-up survey.