Young helpline callers and difference: exploring gender, ethnicity and sexuality in helpline access and provision

This article, which has its origin in a feasibility study carried out for three youth telephone helplines, focuses on gender, difference and helpline access by young people. During the research process the writers noted that for the three commissioning helplines, as is the case with the majority of other telephone helplines, approximately two‐thirds of callers are female. A helpline for young Muslims where the gender access ratio was 50/50 stood out as being different in this respect. Until recently, literature on gender and help‐seeking has tended towards making a blanket identification of males as experiencing difficulties in negotiating pathways to help. Although this difficulty of males is evident in relation to both help‐seeking and access to helplines, our study suggests that, at least in relation to helpline usage, when we take culture, ethnicity and sexuality into account, the help‐seeking situation may be more nuanced. This has implications in terms of enabling a cross‐section of young people to access helplines as well as with regard to helpline service development.     

On pooling data summaries in the absence of interactions “response-by-study”

The standard hypothesis testing procedure in meta-analysis (or multi-center clinical trials) in the absence of treatment-by-center interaction relies on approximating the null distribution of the standard test statistic by a standard normal distribution. For relatively small sample sizes, the standard procedure has been shown by various authors to have poor control of the type I error probability, leading to too many liberal decisions. In this article, two test procedures are proposed, which rely on thet—distribution as the reference distribution. A simulation study indicates that the proposed procedures attain significance levels closer to the nominal level compared with the standard procedure.     

试论资产评估折旧与会计折旧的区别

文章针对部分资产评估人员在建筑物折旧问题上存在的错误认识和做法 ,通过分析建筑物折旧的原因和重置成本法评估中折旧的实质 ,从多方面详细比较论述了资产评估折旧与会计折旧的区别     

分振幅薄膜干涉课件的制作

利用电脑对点光源和发光平面的薄膜干涉进行模拟 ,并将其制作成多媒体课件 ,使看上去很复杂的光路图变得简单、清晰 ,使教学具有良好的视觉效果 ,大大增强了课堂的容量     

中西文化差异在翻译中的特殊作用

在翻译中常遇到的难题是中西文化差异。本文从物质文化、社会文化和思想文化三个层面对中西文化差异进行了探讨 ,同时进一步剖析了这种反映在语言层面上的差异及其在翻译中的特殊作用     

文化差异对企业管理绩效的影响--以西部地区为例

本文从西部地区的民族、宗教、语言文字、地域亚文化入手 ,分析文化差异对企业管理中个体行为、企业文化、投资环境的冲击 ,以及对企业管理绩效的影响 ,并针对西部地区文化差异大的事实 ,提出对西部地区的企业管理 ,应实行跨文化管理和跨文化培训     

产业结构和所有制结构的差异--关于东西部地区经济增长差距的一种解释

改革开放以来 ,西部地区与东部地区经济增长的差距有越控越大的趋势 ,形成这些差距的一个重要原因是双方在产业结构和所有制结构上存在的差异 ,并从实证分析的角度进行了检验。     

英语民族与云南少数民族语用习惯差异

语用学是20世纪70年代兴起的一门独立学科,它越来越受到语言学界的关注。语用学主要研究在特定情景中的特殊话语以及在不同的语言交际环境下如何理解和运用语言。从语用学相关理论的角度,通过对英语和部分少数民族语言的表达习惯比较,可以进一步展示中西方民族文化的差异,从而提高语言学习者的目的语文化意识,更好地实现跨文化交际目的。     

语用失误对英语教学的启示

本文以JennyThomas的理论为依据,针对日常英语交际中经常出现的语用失误,进行了分析调查,阐明了语用失误的主要原因,研究出了一些对英语教学非常有用的方法,提出了在日常英语教学中怎样培养学生的语用能力的一些建议。     

从第二语言教学谈语言教学与文化的关系

汉外文化差异会直接影响对外汉语教学效果,因此语言教学必须与文化教学紧密结合,不可分割,否则会影响交际,甚至引起文化冲突。本文以汉俄两种语言对比为例,论述了汉外文化差异及其将文化导入语言教学的方法。