民国时期北京育英学校述略

北京育英学校是美国公理会开办的教会学校,教学设施及师资均属一流,教学质量远近闻名.学校不仅引进了西方教育模式,课程多样,而且还开展了文艺、体育、卫生等丰富多彩的校园活动,使学生得到西方现代文明熏陶的同时,在德、智、体方面全面发展.育英学校在中西异质文化交流碰撞背景下不断改进完善教学环境,也推动了北京教育的早期现代化进程.     

关键期假说与儿童第二语言学习

第二语言关键期是否绝对存在学界尚未形成定论，国内上有大量学者从不同角度研究证明或反证明了这一假说的存在，但是反对派的观点并未否认儿童学习第二语言的种种优势；同时，通过与成人的比较也可说明儿童学习第二语言的优势所在，从而得出儿童学习第二语言完全可行的结论。     

从热力学第二定律探析《拍卖第49批》中的秩序和混乱

托马斯·品钦是美国最重要的后现代作家。他的代表作《拍卖第49批》描写了主人公在混乱荒谬的现代社会中为寻找意义和恢复秩序所做的努力。品钦运用了热力学第二定律和马克斯韦尔小精灵等科学概念,刻画了现代社会中秩序和混乱对立并存的矛盾关系,由此揭示了现代社会中人类失去生活的意义并处于精神荒芜状态的悲剧内涵。     

汉语自然会话评价行为应答语研究--批评行为应答语研究

就评价行为中的批评行为而言,根据批评对象的不同,应答语的话轮构建方式和立场各有不同,批评自己时应答语倾向于不同意,立场表现为强不同意、弱不同意、弱同意,而批评对方时应答语倾向于同意,立场表现为强同意、弱同意和弱不同意。采用会话分析方法研究自然会语,描写汉语应答语话轮的基本句法形式与话轮构建方式,分析各种话轮形式所表达的立场,从而力图揭示互动与语法的密切关系。     

Toolkit for assessing the readiness of local safeguarding children boards: origins,ingredients and applications

A central plank in the transformation of children's services in England and Wales is the creation on a statutory footing of Local Safeguarding Children Boards in every local authority area. The focus of the boards will be on the promotion, multiagency coordination and scrutiny of services to safeguard and promote children's welfare. They replace Area Child Protection Committees, which were judged to be ineffective. This paper presents the origins, ingredients and applications of an audit and preparation Toolkit designed to support the establishment of the new boards. The Toolkit was developed from the findings of a survey of 204 members of 16 ACPCs by the first author, and has been tested and refined through work with a large number of ACPCs. This survey identified problematic aspects of interagency collaboration that will need remedying if the new boards are to succeed where the previous committees failed. These include: the board's strategic relationship to wider children's planning fora; operational definition of the term ‘safeguarding’; collective accountability; level of membership; performance management capacity; service user consultation. The ingredients of the Toolkit are described in relation to the findings of the survey. The paper concludes with a discussion of the applications and approaches to be considered in using the Toolkit. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Educational differentials in cohabitors' marriage intentions at different childbearing stages in seven European countries

Several studies have looked into the socio-economic gradients of cohabitation and non-marital fertility. According to the theory of the Second Demographic Transition, highly educated individuals can be considered as forerunners in the Western European spread of non-marital family forms after the 1970s. In Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), however, research has provided evidence for a Pattern of Disadvantage where those with the lowest education have been the most likely to adopt such family forms. Hitherto, few studies have considered the educational gradient of the intentions underlying these behaviors. This contribution uses information on marriage and fertility intentions from the Generations and Gender Surveys for seven European countries to assess educational differentials. In Western Europe we observe no strong educational gradients in marriage intentions at any childbearing stage (before, during or following). In CEE countries, however, less educated cohabitors more frequently choose for cohabitation during childbearing.     

刘少奇“天津讲话”思想与七届二中全会精神比较研究

以宣传和贯彻党的七届二中全会精神为中心的“天津讲话”,蕴涵着刘少奇思想的精华。把我们党的理论探索成果与新生城市人民政权的实际情况紧密结合起来 ,正是“天津讲话”思想的实质所在。本文以对比“天津讲话”思想与七届二中全会精神为切入点 ,重在剖析两者之间的辨证关系。     

基于网络组织理论的高校董事会运行分析

高校建立董事会，联系政府、企业与研究机构进行共建和产学研联合办学，实际上形成了产学研联合办学模：式网络组织结构。从网络组织理论角度看，建立运行有效的机制，使组织成员的优势资源得以充分利用，是高校董事会运行成效显现的优势途径选择。     

二语习得理论下英语交际能力培养策略浅析

本文是在二语习得理论的框架下探讨英语交际能力的培养策略。     

Board of directors structure and firm financial performance: A qualitative comparative analysis

Previous research about the effects of board structure and process on the firm financial performance is based on conflicting theoretical perspectives, and empirical results, mostly based on regression analysis, are inconclusive. Building from Complexity Theory and configurational analysis, this study offers clarity to inconclusive previous empirical results about the link among several board features and firm financial performance. From a sample of 295 non-financial firms from Southern Europe for the period 2001–2010, and by using fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis, findings of this study show that firm financial performance depends on a complex configuration of several board features (board size, board independence, leadership structure and board activity) and several corporate characteristics (firm size, firm leverage and firm age). This paper has implications for academics. Despite different theoretical arguments and inconclusive results of the wide empirical literature addressing the effect of board characteristics on the firm performance, building from Complexity Theory this paper adds to our knowledge because it empirically explores under which circumstances different board features should contribute positively or negatively to firm performance. The results of this study have also implications for policy makers and practitioners by providing some useful hints to the controversial relationship between corporate governance and financial performance. In this sense, general corporate governance recommendations must be rethought.