敦煌叙事文献《大目乾连冥间救母变文》英译的描写研究

“目连救母”是对中国民间习俗、戏曲文化等产生了深远影响的文化故事。《大目乾连冥间救母变文并图一卷并序》是敦煌出土的载述该故事的唐五代时期文献。二十世纪中期以来,汉学家们先后对该文献进行了英译,其成为在西方文化语境讲释“孝道”这一中国传统伦理思想的文字载体。通过双语语料的描写与对比,收集可观察的文本数据,可探究汉学家英译重构敦煌“救母”叙事过程中的决策机制和特点,以便为多语文化语境中“中国故事”的翻译与传播提供理论参照。     

席慕容作品中古典诗歌母题的表现

席慕容在她的作品尤其是早期作品中,不断地运用那些源自中华抒情文学的母题、古典的意象、包含着中华传统审美意蕴内容的文化符号。其中以闺思闺怨、相思鸟连理枝、思乡怀归三个母题表现得最为明显。这些母题体现了中国古典文学的价值追求和审美取向,这种现象也表明了席慕容的创作思维及她的创作实际上并没有突破或者超越古典诗歌的题材范围。文化传统在现代作家笔下的回响,是一种族群文化认同感,也表明了席慕容创作资源主要是来自中国古代文学。     

Examining the association between Medicaid coverage and preterm births using 2010–2013 National Vital Statistics Birth Data

Reducing the number of preterm births is a high public health priority in the U.S. Preterm birth, affecting an estimated 380,000 infants annually, is a leading cause of infant mortality and morbidity and is associated with individual and systemic characteristics. Preterm birth is estimated to cost society $26 billion annually. Despite an elevated financial burden caused by preterm birth, very little is known about who bears these costs. This study seeks to understand the relationship between Medicaid and private insurance payment for preterm birth, using multiple years of vital statistics data, which for the first time since 2010 include information on payment source. The nationwide data cover births that occur in all settings, including non-hospital settings, and many maternal characteristics not available in other datasets, improving upon previous analyses. These data can be used to promote better Medicaid coverage of interventions known to be effective in reducing preterm births.     

贵州建省六百年之“黔中三宝”

贵州建省600年来,贵州传统学术文化瑰宝中最具有本土特点且又最能与全国乃至世界学术文化接轨、交流和对话的当首推"黔中三宝",即黔中王学、佛学和易学,这"三宝"是黔中传统文化中的奇葩,它们相对于贵州原有的其他地域文化来说,具有更加系统、更加理性和更加深刻的特点,再加上这一传统文化本身所蕴含的深厚的中国文化精神,使其自然拥有宏大的文化影响力和亲和力,具有强大的生命力,至今仍然能够给予人们以形上智慧的启迪,值得我们重新发掘和认识。     

Is prenatal sex selection associated with lower female child mortality?

I examine whether prenatal sex selection has substituted postnatal excess female mortality by analysing the dynamics of child sex ratios between 1980 and 2015 using country-level life table data. I decompose changes in child sex ratios into a ‘fertility’ component attributable to prenatal sex selection and a ‘mortality’ component attributable to sex differentials in postnatal survival. Although reductions in numbers of excess female deaths have accompanied increases in missing female births in all countries experiencing the emergence of prenatal sex selection, relative excess female mortality has persisted in some countries but not others. In South Korea, Armenia, and Azerbaijan, mortality reductions favouring girls accompanied increases in prenatal sex selection. In India, excess female mortality was much higher and largely stable as prenatal sex selection emerged, but slight reductions were seen in the 2000s. In China, although absolute measures showed reductions, relative excess female mortality persisted as prenatal sex selection increased.     

Differences in meconium stained amniotic fluid in an Australian population: A retrospective study

Background

Meconium stained amniotic fluid commonly occurs postdates (?>40 weeks gestation) indicating fetal maturity. Previous literature indicates that different ethnicities mature at different rates.

Maternal Conflict Behavior Profiles and Child Social Skills

The current study examined associations between mothers’ behavioral profiles during mother‐child conflict interactions and their children's social skills. This person‐centered approach classified 181 mothers according to their levels of emotional responsiveness, intrusiveness, negativity, and engagement facilitation behaviors during an eight‐minute conflict discussion task with their child. Three distinct classes of mothers were identified using latent profile analysis: sensitive/engaged, moderately sensitive/engaged, and insensitive/disengaged. An analysis of covariance indicated that children of mothers in the sensitive/engaged group had significantly higher social skills than children of mothers in the moderately sensitive/engaged and insensitive/disengaged groups. Results suggest that mother‐child conflict interactions may benefit children's social development when mothers facilitate their children's participation in a highly sensitive manner.     

Pre-term Foetal Life Times in Scotland

A proportional hazards model was used to evaluate the association between ten categorical covariates and the risk of pre-term delivery for women having their first child and women in subsequent pregnancies. An adaptation of the model for use with grouped survival times made it possible to model foetal life times between 28 and 36 completed weeks of gestation for 67,000 Scottish singleton births in 1981. The use of the model was justified by testing time-dependent effects. For both groups of women age, and a history of abortion, were major factors associated with increased hazard. For women experiencing a second or higher-order birth a history of perinatal death was also associated with substantially increased hazard to the pregnancy.     

以语言能力发展为导向的高校汉语课程体系构建

高等教育是个人母语能力发展的重要阶段,高校语言教育需要构建科学的汉语课程体系.目前高校素质教育课程中包含了一些汉语教育的课程,但是语言教育意识不够突出,现有的以大学语文、应用写作和普通话训练等为主干的汉语课程为高校学生提供了提升汉语能力的途径,但是课程设置还存在定位模糊、教学目标不明确等问题,不能满足大学生母语教育的需要.构建以发展语言能力为目标的汉语课程体系应该把握三个原则:课程设置以发展语言能力为核心目标进行统筹规划;课程开发以语言能力量表为依据;课程内容编排要满足语言应用实践.