“七月流火”与北豳物候俗解

"七月流火"是《诗经·豳风·七月》中的名句,历来解释"火"为心宿之大火星,"流"为向西偏下。其意是言七月大火星向西偏下预示七月天已寒凉,是古代天文现象的真实记录。但据《七月》产地北豳的物候特征及《诗经》对"火"字的运用体例考量,以直觉通俗的眼光释"七月流火"为七月天热得像下火像着火,非但与豳地气候相应而未尝不可,或许与古诗的原貌更为切贴。     

高等农业院校提高实践教学质量的思考

本文在分析高等农业院校实践教学现状的基础上 ,认为提高实践教学质量应强化实践教学的“重心”地位 ,加强师资队伍建设 ,促进知识的更新、升级 ,着力解决仪器、设备陈旧问题 ,增大教学环节的灵活性 ,加强基地建设和健全考核管理制度     

台湾《联合报》副刊的文学传承与角色变迁

报纸副刊是文学与传媒结合的产物,兼具了文学与传媒的双重特点.台湾<联合报>副刊继承与发扬中国报纸副刊"名家办刊"与"文学摇篮"这两大文学传统,在传播的空间构建想像的文学社群,用传播的方式培育时代的文学新锐,并在50年风云变幻中不断调整自己的社会角色:从"文学的伊甸园",到"启蒙的前沿阵地",再到"精致的文学堡垒".其主编从"文学的园丁",到"媒体英雄",再到"新文学的守门人".<联合报>副刊不仅折射出台湾社会变迁的历史轨迹,也为世人留下了文学与传媒互动关系的经典个案.     

试析中国诗性智慧语境下的《镜花缘》

在理性的语境下解读充满浪漫主义色彩的<镜化缘>,一方面扭曲了固有的鲜活灵动的审美旨趣,另一方面遮蔽了艺术思维与人类思维的血脉渊源.因此,只有把<镜化缘>放到中国诗性智慧的独特语境下,才能使文本凸显中国诗性文化特有的生命一体化的哲学维度以及女性崇拜的原形题旨.     

Analyzing mental health evaluation: moral and ethical dimensions

Now that evaluators have been sensitized to the importance of moral and ethical issues in their work, it is time to move beyond generalities and examine the moral and ethical implications of specific evaluation models in specific settings. This paper proposes a framework that can be used to examine moral and ethical dimensions of evaluation and illustrates it by analyzing a selected model of mental health evaluation. Such a systematic identification of moral issues can improve evaluation practice both proactively, by shaping the training of evaluators, and retrospectively, by contributing to meta-evaluation.     

读《永生医院》，想象“永生”——从“写什么”说到“生生”

文章以郝景芳在《永生医院》中遭遇到的"永生"问题为切入点,在中西方生命哲学的大背景下,对当代科技手段制造出来的"新人"所带来的文化冲击和个体生命的意义危机进行了深入的思考。作者从中国传统的"生生"哲学出发,深入剖析了以技艺人的工作经验为基础的古希腊"制造"哲学借助于当代科技手段造成的生命哲学危机,指出"永生"不是生命的最高目标,唯有在变动不息的"生生"之中,才有生命的真实意义。     

霍桑《红字》的人名寓意研究

分析霍桑《红字》的人名寓意,探讨其对揭示作品主题的重要作用,以期从新视角研究文学作品,准确深入把握作品主题。     

Differences in white-nonwhite community mental health center service utilization patterns

Routinely collected computerized data were used to study the process of service delivery in terms of admission patterns, type and quantity of services rendered, and status at termination for whites and nonwhites in two community mental health centers. Social area analysis techniques were employed to control for socio-economic status, ethnicity and life style variables, and an epidemiologic model was used to analyze admission and service delivery rate differences. It was found that nonwhite admission rates were at least twice as great as white rates. Service delivery rates to the population at large were considerably greater for nonwhites than for whites. Delivery of direct services within the centers differed for whites and nonwhites, but no consistent trends emerged when types and amounts of services rendered were analyzed, controlling for sex, ethnicity, age, diagnosis and social area. Disruption of care indices were greater for nonwhites than for whites. Highlighted were some of the complexities involved in interpreting results of utilization studies.     

Mental health program evaluation: Where you start?

Seduced by the elegance, sophistication and jargon characteristic of new developments in applied research, practicing evaluators are in danger of becoming distracted from achievement of their evaluative goal: that of providing timely, reliable and useful data to program management to facilitate rational data-based decision-making. To avoid such seduction, the author advocates adaptation of simple, inexpensive and efficient evaluative methods tailored to organizational needs and presentation of findings in language readily understood by constituent groups. Likewise, insistance by evaluators upon maintenance of a strict role boundary — that is, limiting role functioning exclusively to those tasks considered evaluation — may be dysfunctional. Rather than detract from accomplishment of his goals, the author maintains that such participation allows development of skills, insights and staff relationships which enhance the evaluator's effective functioning within the organizational context and contribute to organizational acceptance and use of his evaluative results.     

Evaluating a private foundation's health program

Public policy decisions in health are increasingly difficult and expensive. Although there will never be enough information available, private foundations can help to bridge the most important gaps in knowledge. Larger foundations may also wish to respond to those who doubt the value of foundation activities. This article reviews the experiences over the past eight years of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in employing evaluation and related social research procedures in the planning and implementation of a major philanthropic effort to improve the health and medical care of Americans. Discussed are the still evolving Foundation evaluation framework, the unanticipated problems in undertaking specific evaluations, and the substantive findings of some of the studies.