Framing “at risk” students: Struggles at the boundaries of access to higher education

Access to an education is a social justice issue that requires a new courageous commitment to identifying and eliminating barriers to college success. For first generation, low income and students of color, education is the one remaining single most powerful factor to bring about a different outcome for their lives. This article explores what we can learn from the experience of students at a regional public university designated “at risk” and how to reclaim the place of public college education as an equalizing force in our nation.     

A sensorial No Man’s Land: corporeality and the Western Front during the First World War

ABSTRACT

During the First World War in France and Belgium life on the Western Front was predominantly lived below the surface. The proliferation of hitherto unimaginably powerful weaponry rendered surface existence untenable. This retreat into the earth necessitated a complete revision of soldiers’ somatic engagement with their immediate environment. In my work as an archeologist of modern conflict landscapes, I have devised a methodology which combines archeological exploration with participant sensation or “sensory ethnography” to interrogate these complex, ambiguous and often dangerous subterranean places. In this article I show that as the war destroyed it also created new realities in which the senses were forced to work together like never before under the pressures of industrialized warfare. My work suggests how a holistic investigation (grounded in sensorality) of particular modern conflict landscapes can take the form of an ethnographic archeology, or an ethnography of the dead, demonstrating the potential for archeology and anthropology to work together in the increasingly interdisciplinary field of modern conflict studies.     

论中国的联合国外交特点

自1971年第26届联大恢复中华人民共和国在联合国的一切合法权利以来,以联合国为核心的多边外交成为中国独立自主的和平外交的重要组成部分。联合国舞台上的中国外交充分显示：中国政府始终坚持维护联合国的权威,努力实现中国内政外交的建设性互动,寻求国家利益和国际责任的综合平衡,树立了中国良好的大国形象。     

毛泽东书法在湖南第一师范的影响与传承

通过对湖南第一师范在校学生的现状了解,进行关于毛泽东书法的调查,搜证文献参考资料,着力影响毛泽东书法在湖南第一师范传承,以激发青年学生对书法的热爱与追求。     

西方丑化阿莱克修斯一世形象原因探析

拉丁人丑化阿莱克修斯一世,主要是因为野心家波希蒙德的宣传.第一次十字军东征使得十字军首领与拜占廷皇帝直接接触,双方不可避免出现误解和偏见;阿莱克修斯与十字军的目标和利益不同,阿莱克修斯阻碍了十字军首领的利益追求,引起不满;野心家波希蒙德利用十字军首领对阿莱克修斯的不满和误解,利用拜占廷与西方的宗教分歧,大肆进行反阿莱克修斯宣传、反拜占廷宣传,结果阿莱克修斯形象被丑化.     

论外逃腐败犯罪资产追回机制的构建——以公益诉讼制度为视角

资产追回与返还机制是《联合国反腐败公约》最重要的机制之一;但是要在我国现行法律下顺利追回外逃腐败资产还存在诸多障碍。从公益诉讼的角度探讨如何在我国建立外逃腐败资产追回机制及应该注意的问题,以期在公约的效力范围内最大程度追回外逃腐败资产。     

略论国际公务员的特权与豁免制度

国际公务员作为国际社会新的行为体,积极地活跃于国际舞台。为了保证国际公务员顺利地开展工作,必须赋予其特权与豁免制度。可以预见地是,在日渐形成的国际公务员法中,国际公务员的特权与豁免制度是其重要的内容。     

Riordan matrices and higher-dimensional lattice walks

An algebraic combinatorial method is used to count higher-dimensional lattice walks in Z^m${\mathbb{Z}}^m$ that are of length n ending at height k. As a consequence of using the method, Sands’ two-dimensional lattice walk counting problem is generalized to higher dimensions. In addition to Sands’ problem, another subclass of higher-dimensional lattice walks is also counted. Catalan type solutions are obtained and the first moments of the walks are computed. The first moments are then used to compute the average heights of the walks. Asymptotic estimates are also given.     

Bayesian and likelihood-based inference for the bivariate normal correlation coefficient

The paper develops some objective priors for correlation coefficient of the bivariate normal distribution. The criterion used is the asymptotic matching of coverage probabilities of Bayesian credible intervals with the corresponding frequentist coverage probabilities. The paper uses various matching criteria, namely, quantile matching, highest posterior density matching, and matching via inversion of test statistics. Each matching criterion leads to a different prior for the parameter of interest. We evaluate their performance by comparing credible intervals through simulation studies. In addition, inference through several likelihood-based methods have been discussed.