Oral History: Snapshots from a Family Album

This piece presents six short scenes from the conception of twins by alternative insemination through gender determination and birth, to the first vaccination. It shows that the question “Who is the real mother?” is just as important as the question “Is your baby a boy or a girl?”     

刍议景区轮休制度

旅游开发对环境造成的影响是不可避免的,但通过实施景区周期封闭轮休可以缓解开发与保护之间的矛盾。景区轮休制度的理论背景和黄山风景区的实践经验进行分析,论述景区轮休制度的重要意义和相关的运作过程,对其未来发展趋势提出构想。     

《左传》委婉语的替代现象浅析

《左传》委婉语中存在着普遍的替代现象。从词汇系统角度看,替代现象主要表现为特定的称谓和一些词语的特殊说法;语法系统中的替代现象则表现为抽象的格式或表达式;修辞中的替代现象多是临时且非固定的,其理解要借助于语境。《左传》中替代现象的运用达到了交际的完美效果,实现了言说者自我保护的目的,体现了含蓄委婉的风格。其背后隐藏着由近及远、由熟知到陌生、由简单到复杂、由具体到抽象等人类认知的规律。     

浅谈英语在“性别”方面的差异

〕英语在语言中存在较大的性别差异，即我们常说的“性”、“数”、“格”三大特点中的“性”。这种差异主要体现在名词、代词中阴性和阳性的明显区分及其他一些方面。本文不仅探究语言中的这种差别，也探究其社会影响和社会意义     

论王充闾智性散文的叙事节奏

王充闾的智性散文有着鲜明的叙事节奏。这种叙事节奏源于文本中古代与现代的反复交替，故事时间与文本时间的反复交替，引文和叙述的反复交替，表层结构与深层结构的反复交替。     

21世纪世界石油工业展望

随着全球对油气资源需求的不断增长、石油资源量的限制及技术的制约,与20世纪世界石油工业发展相比,21世纪世界石油工业将面临更加严峻的考验与挑战,如油气资源量的限制、需求量的不断增长、技术的制约、天然气的发展、非常规油气资源的开采、替代能源的出现和后石油时代的来临等。     

A One-Sided Rank Test for Multivariate Censored Data

An asymptotically distribution-free test is proposed for testing the equality of two multivariate failure distributions against a particular one-sided alternative based on censored observations. This test may be interpreted as a multivariate one-sided Gehan test. The consistency of the test is established. An illustrative example is given.     

A robust alternative to the normal distribution

A wider-tailed family of distributions is suggested as an alternative to the normal distribution having many of the desirable properties of the normal family. One advantage of this alternative is the greater robustness of maximum-likelihood estimates.     

合并现金流量表编制方法的选择

合并现金流量表的编制在我国会计界仍然处于讨论阶段。通过比较合并现金流量表的两种编制方法,对合并现金流量表编制方法的选择提出了一家之言,最后举例说明直接法下合并现金流量表主表的编制。     

Bodywork Boundaries: Power,Politics and Professionalism in Therapeutic Massage

In the last decade or so, complementary and alternative medicine generally, and therapeutic bodywork in particular, has been attempting to enhance its professional status and standing. By focusing upon the sex/gender dimensions of therapeutic massage and the wider historical, cultural and legal contexts in which such work is situated, this article explores and analyses the discursive formations and practices which women therapeutic massage practitioners deploy in the course of their attempts to achieve professional recognition. Drawing upon both primary and secondary data, it is argued that particular difficulties pertain in the case of the professionalization of therapeutic massage. Because of the widespread elisions between massage and sex work, women therapeutic massage practitioners have to mark out their professional distance from clients by deploying professional identifications and by using boundary‐setting devices or techniques which act to distinguish them from sex workers. This article explores these discursive formations and practices and argues that they act to create near‐intractable problems for women massage practitioners. The article concludes that, because these issues are not commonly acknowledged in much of the academic, policy or practitioner‐orientated literature, the neglect of sex/gender in the case of therapeutic massage has consequences not only for the professionaliza‐tion project of this particular therapeutic modality but for the ways in which various body work occupations in which women predominate tend to be seen as marginal and illegitimate ‘professions’.