What Cruising Infants Understand about Support for Locomotion

“Cruising” infants can only walk using external support to augment their balance. We examined cruisers' understanding of support for upright locomotion under four conditions: cruising over a wooden handrail at chest height, a large gap in the handrail, a wobbly unstable handrail, and an ill‐positioned low handrail. Infants distinguished among the support properties of the handrails with differential attempts to cruise and handrail‐specific forms of haptic exploration and gait modifications. They consistently attempted the wood handrail, rarely attempted the gap, and occasionally attempted the low and wobbly handrails. On the wood and gap handrails, attempt rates matched the probability of cruising successfully, but on the low and wobbly handrails, attempt rates under‐ and overestimated the probability of success, respectively. Haptic exploration was most frequent and varied on the wobbly handrail, and gait modifications—including previously undocumented “knee cruising”—were most frequent and effective on the low handrail. Results are discussed in terms of developmental changes in the meaning of support.     

浙商“穿越现实”经验与中国式现代性自由

针对中国现代知识分子依附既定中西方观念造成的"平面化自由"问题,以及东亚现代化不能向世界贡献东方式的现代重大理论的"弱创造性自由"问题,浙商"穿越现实"的个体自由经验值得重视。这种经验以"亲和群体但不依附群体的隐性个体自立"、"亲和经验但不限于经验的潜在个体理解"为其基本内容,不仅可以诊治中国学界百年来依附西方"超越现实"的自由观批判中国传统思想的文化错位之症,也可为东亚的世俗性现代化提供一种"穿越世俗"的东方自由文化理想图景。     

高职院校校园文化建设要融入行业文化——以陕西铁路工程职业技术学院为例

高职院校校园文化建设是高职院校精神文明建设的重要内容,高职院校校园文化应以特色专业文化为核心,走与行业文化相互融合的建设之路,只有这样,才能突出高职院校校园文化的特色.     

Quasi-minimax estimation in the partial linear model

This article discusses the minimax estimator in partial linear model y = Zβ + f + ε under ellipsoidal restrictions on the parameter space and quadratic loss function. The superiority of the minimax estimator over the two-step estimator is studied in the mean squared error matrix criterion.     

中国文章学成立与古文之学的兴起

关于中国文章学成立时代的讨论,不仅是对成立时间的不同判断,更涉及对中国文章学的基本内涵、理论体系、总体特色与历史演变的理解与认同。魏晋南北朝中国文章学的基本内涵已经明确,理论系统初步建构,并且产生代表性成果,可以视为中国文章学成立的时代。魏晋南北朝文章学以诗赋骈文为中心。宋代以后,散体古文占据文坛中心地位,古文之学的兴盛引发中国文章学中心发生转移,并导致文学批评的一系列变化。不能以古文文章学的成立等同于中国文章学的成立,文话也难以称为中国文章学成立的标志。"文章"与"文章学"应视为动态的、有弹性的历史概念,中国文章学系统兼具开放与稳定的特点。     

Constructing poverty in anti-welfare Singapore

In recent years, attention on the issue of poverty in Singapore has been increasingly placed in the spotlight. This study examines the various types of attitudes among Singaporeans and how they are formed, relating them to the broader institutional context of Singapore. A mixed method design is employed where clusters or groups of attitudes are derived through the use of cluster analysis. Subsequently, discourses of poverty and welfare attitudes are construed through qualitative interviews with the aid of Foucauldian Discourse Analysis. Quantitative findings point to three clusters of attitudes: ‘Conservatives’, ‘Liberals’, and ‘Sui Generis’. Qualitative findings, however, show that ‘Sui Generis’ ultimately align themselves closer to either ‘Conservatives’ or ‘Liberals’ in their discourses of welfare. In fact, respondents in all three clusters reproduce state discourses, albeit in varying ways. In essence, this study explicates poverty and welfare attitudes as a product of social identities premised on subjective notions that are shaped by state discourses of meritocracy, self-reliance and anti-welfarism. It is thus argued that current socio-political constructions of poverty ensue a paucity of major welfare reform in the near future of Singapore.     

Children's Physiological Regulation and Sibling Conflict as Correlates of Children's Conscience Development

Children's conscience, including the ability to experience guilt and engage in rule‐compatible behavior, develops across early childhood. The current study investigated whether within‐family variation in children's baseline respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) and sibling conflict behavior were associated with individual differences in children's guilt and internalized conduct. Between‐family differences across sibling dyad gender compositions were also examined. A within‐family design that included 70 families with two siblings between the ages of 2 and 5 was utilized. Children's baseline RSA was measured while sitting quietly with their family. Mothers and fathers completed questionnaires that assessed siblings’ conflict behavior, guilt, and internalized conduct. Older siblings had higher levels of guilt and internalized conduct than younger siblings. Results from actor‐partner interdependence models indicated that there were no direct effects of children's baseline RSA. The interaction effects approached significance (p's ≤ .08) suggesting that older siblings’ conflict moderated the association between older siblings’ baseline RSA and both older and younger siblings’ guilt. In contrast, older siblings’ conflict was positively associated with older and younger siblings’ internalized conduct. Guilt and internalized conduct also differed for older and younger siblings in different dyad gender compositions. The results underscore the need for greater clarity regarding the function that siblings serve in promoting children's moral development during early childhood.     

丝绸之路经济带农牧业合作的空间、潜力与中国农业“走出去”策略

通过丝绸之路经济带的建设,强化我国与中亚五国在政治、经济、文化和民族间的联系,开展农业领域的合作,发展地区经济,是一件互利双赢的事业.与中亚国家进行深度的农牧业合作,既可以加快这些国家农牧业的发展,提高人民食物保障能力或提高其农产品出口的水平,又可以为我国的涉农企业走向深度参与一带一路建设、消化产能、布局农产品全球供应链提供良好的机遇.     

College students with congenital heart disease: A critical time for transition

As medical and surgical advances improve, more young adults with congenital heart disease (CHD) are attending college. This case study illustrates some of the issues that these young adults may face as they attend college and discusses the role that college health practitioners can play in easing that transition. Participants: A case of a male with CHD presenting to the college health clinic with a new onset headache. Methods: The authors discuss some of the unique challenges that college health practitioners may face when caring for students with CHD. In addition, they make recommendations on how best to care for these patients and how best to coordinate care with CHD students other care providers. Results: This student with a history of coarctation of the aorta presented with new onset headaches and was found to have high blood pressure. He was diagnosed with recurrent coarctation, underwent percutaneous treatment with stenting and quickly resumed classes. Conclusions: As more students with CHD enter college, college health providers will need to understand some of the health risks that CHD students face. In addition, understanding some of the optimal ways to coordinate care with CHD providers can ease the transition that CHD students face as they enter college.     

Multiple comparisons of exponential location parameters with a control based on doubly censored sample under heteroscedasticity

In this article, a one-sample procedure for multiple comparisons of exponential location parameters with a control under heteroscedasticity is proposed. The observations are obtained by doubly censored samples. A one-sided and two-sided confidence intervals are used to perform such multiple comparisons. Statistical tables of critical values and an example of comparing four drugs in treating leukemia are provided.