Sightseeing Buses: Cruising,Timing and the Montage of Attractions

Abstract

This article focuses on spatial performances, modes of vision and touring practices enabled by sightseeing bus‐tours. Thereby, three aspects of the process by which these buses transform urban space into destination space are discussed. First, bus‐tours delineate, as they move, a unique geography of routes and stops, which is based on structured improvisation. Second, guiding practices of tour guides are crucial for assembling together a destination and their success depends on timing. Third, tourist experiences enabled by sightseeing bus‐tours involve a ‘cruise‐ship‐like’ style of movement and a mode of vision reminiscent of the ‘montage of coming attractions’ characteristic of film‐trailers. The article concludes by stressing the multiple spatial displacements involved in bus‐tour production of destination space.     

A Social Problems Framework for the Critical Appraisal of Automobility and Sustainable Systems Innovation

Over the past three decades, critical assessment of the automobile has evolved from a focus on the technical inadequacies of the internal combustion engine to a more comprehensive appraisal of the sociotechnical system for providing mobility. The following study charts the evolution of this discourse by focusing in particular on the way in which the Worldwatch Institute has interpreted the various problems of the motorcar during this timeframe. There are now indications that a more thoroughgoing systems view of automobile dependency is developing predicated upon three problem dimensions: fuel use, urban congestion and sedentary lifestyles. The analysis presents a social‐problems framework for beginning to conceptualize more sustainable modes of mobility in the post‐automobile era.     

Taming the road,tamed by the road: sense of road as place among Indigenous Bedouin in an ethnic frontier in Israel

ABSTRACT

We propose the concept ‘sense of road as place’ for an Indigenous group within an ethnic frontier, specifically in the case of the Israeli Bedouin. A road in this spatial context carries far greater meanings than elsewhere, particularly when also impacted by power relationships with the state. We reveal how Road 31 was/is subjectified by the Bedouin as a place prior to and after an upgrade. Initially they were able, through their Indigenous spatiality, to tame the road into their informal mobility and make it a place, but following the upgrade their informal mobility has been tamed into formal state-regulated mobility, making the road a non-place.     

三维有限元渗流模拟计算在蟒河口水库防渗设计中的应用

蟒河口水库工程天然来水量较小，开发目标高，采取有效的防渗处理措施才能保证水库开发要求的蓄水量．工程中采用三维有限元渗流模拟计算对防渗处理措施进行复核．根据计算结果，对防渗措施进行调整、优化，确定了经济、高效的防渗方案．通过工程经验类比知，计算所采用的方法和最终得到的结果是满意的．     

企业财务危机预警双基点距离比值法

本文介绍了国内外主要企业财务危机预警模型,对模型的空间几何意义进行解释。提出了企业财务危机预警双基点距离比值模型,该模型采用非线性方法对危机企业与非危机企业的财务指标集合进行分割。用112例样本实证,预警识别率达到92.8%。     

Socio-economic re-structuring and employment: the case of minority ethnic groups

The consequences of major changes in employment, due to the decline of manufacturing and the growth of the service sector, have not been well-documented, nor theorized, in the sociology of ethnic relations, even in recent studies. For example, Blumer's classic argument that economic development adapts to 'race relations', rather than the reverse as predicted by the modernization school, has not been either empirically resolved or conceptually applied to the UK. By adapting data from the Labour Force Survey and the Census, the paper begins to fill this gap with a detailed account of three main minority ethnic groups, and a separate analysis of male and female employment. It is demonstrated that, contrary to assumptions that members of the minority ethnic groups suffered most from de-industrialization, they actually did rather well, and in some cases did better than the majority population. These findings are re-conceptualized as collective social mobility, as part of a review of a number of conceptual frameworks in the light of the data.     

Social mobility and personal satisfaction: evidence from ten countries

This paper examines survey data relating class mobility to satisfaction and dissatisfaction with seven different domains of everyday life among nationally representative samples of men and women living in ten industrialized nations. The evidence is set against competing pessimistic and optimistic accounts of the mobility experience found in earlier literature. Results show that individuals who move from working-class origins to middle-class destinations are no more likely to be systematically satisfied or dissatisfied with life than are the socially immobile or even those downwardly mobile from advantaged backgrounds into the working class. Indeed, in all nations, the overall association between class experience and satisfaction with life is both weak and uneven across the different life-domains. The study also serves to illustrate an important principle of research methodology more generally.     

科技资源要素及其参与企业收益分配的研究

十六大明确提出"确立劳动、资本、技术和管理等生产要素按贡献参与分配的原则,完善按劳分配为主体、多种分配方式并存的分配制度",强调了技术要素参与分配的重要性。科技对经济增长的作用至关重要,通过增长函数法的实证分析,证实了这一点。因此,科技资源要素应和其他要素一样参与企业收益分配,但由于科技资源本身具有的特征,决定其参与收益分配的形式不同于其他要素,它还需要相应的政策和外部环境的支持。     

“V＋着（zháo）”和“V＋到”的义素分析

义素是词义的语义成分,义素分析是在相关词义之间进行的词义结构分解,以显示相关词义之间的联系与区别。词是造句单位,词义的语义成分制约着句法成分的语义特征和语义分布。对于句法结构相同句法意义相近的同义句式,义素分析能准确地揭示它们之间深层的语义结构和语用结构差别。"V+着"和"V+到"是一组句法结构和句法意义都相同的句子,用义素分析的方法可以准确地揭示两者的语义和语用差别。     

引导学生学通学活物理通量概念

物理学中的"通量"概念非常重要,根据通量的基本定义展开讨论"电通亮"、"磁通量"、"光通量"及"水流速疏通量"等概念,从而引导学生如何形成基本概念,学会实学,领悟真知;如何理解概念,学会融会贯通,扩展知识;如何更新知识,学会创新思维,自我升华.