试析反身宾语句的生成机制

反身宾语句生成有两个方面的因素，一是“身心二分”的“心支配身”认知框架，二是主观移情。反身宾语句有较强的描写性和事件伴随性，主要出现于文艺语体中。     

临水夫人的造神背景与传播特色

临水夫人是福建省第二大民间信仰女神，她堪称与妈祖齐名的闽地内陆女神，其信仰产生具有鲜明的闽地历史背景，造神与传播过程也独有特色。     

美国高等教育质量认证机构及其活动特征研究

美国高等教育质量认证活动是非政府、自愿的民间行为,但其认证活动却因科学客观、公正严明而享誉世界。究其原因,笔者认为美国高等教育质量认证机构采取的种种手段、方式方法对质量产生了保证作用,如权威的资格认可、认证机构专家的多元构成、认证标准的个性化和科学规范的操作程序等,学习和借鉴美国高等教育质量认证机构及其活动的特征将有益于我国构建科学、规范的教育质量评估制度。     

俄罗斯联邦对妇女的刑事政策

俄罗斯联邦《刑法典》中单独将某些侵害妇女的行为规定为犯罪,对某些侵害妇女的犯罪行为规定较重的刑罚;对犯罪妇女规定了相对轻缓的刑罚措施。《刑事诉讼法典》规定对特定身份的妇女不适用某些强制措施;有3岁以下子女的妇女可以免除陪审员职责。《刑事执行法典》中规定了男女有别的执行程序;对女犯的管束比男犯宽松;极力照顾怀孕和有幼年子女的妇女。     

维纳归因理论在大学生思想政治教育中的运用

归因理论作为社会心理学中的重要概念和理论，对思想政治教育一直具有重要的借鉴作用。文章概述了维纳归因理论，分析其优点和不足，并在此基础上就如何在思想政治教育中正确运用维纳的归因理论提出了自己的看法和观点。     

Boredom and social meaning

Meaning is necessary in social processes. An absence of meaning in an activity or circumstance leads to an experience of boredom. This is a restless, irritable feeling that the subject's current activity or situation holds no appeal, and that there is a need to get on with something interesting. Thus boredom emotionally registers an absence of meaning and leads the actor in question towards meaning. Boredom, then, is central to key social processes centered on questions of meaningfulness. Given the pervasive preconditions for boredom, release from boredom is a factor that explains characteristic social practices, including risk taking and intergroup conflict.     

The Transport System and Society’s Metabolism in the UK

This paper analyses the interrelation between the transport system and measures of resource consumption such as material and energy consumption over a 60-year period (1937–1997) in the UK. Non-motorized transport and time consumption for mobility are estimated in addition to conventional measures of transport. During the period analyzed, the UK population grew by 20% while transport of goods and persons increased more than threefold and material and energy consumption almost doubled. The transport intensity of domestic material input (DMI) doubled to 300 ton-kilometers (tkm) per ton of DMI while the transport intensity of domestic energy consumption (DEC) doubled to 20 tkm per gigajoule (GJ) of DEC. Thus, while the material and energy intensity of GDP declined significantly, a well-established trend in many advanced countries, the transport intensity of materials and energy consumption rose. These findings suggest a close link between transport, economic development, and long-term structural transformations. In the case of personal transport, a rebound effect was also observed: whereas the average speed of transport has greatly increased, the average number of hours per day devoted to personal transport has not declined.     

Perspectives on Incorporating Human Neurobehavioral End Points in Risk Assessments

Three topics are addressed: (1) measurement issues (e.g., the reliability and validity of neurobehavioral test scores), (2) general principles of assessment, including test selection, and (3) interpretation of scores. Psychological tests generally perform as well as medical tests in terms of reliability and validity. Test manuals, assessment textbooks, and psychologists are useful resources to the risk assessor. The variety of different tests employed in neurobehavioral studies complicates interstudy comparisons. In addition, tests that ostensibly assess the same general domain of function might assess somewhat different abilities within that domain. Although a uniform battery for use in all studies seems desirable, the battery appropriate for a specific study depends on study goals, knowledge about the mechanism(s) of neurotoxicity, nature of the study population, and pattern of exposure. Exposure-related neurobehavioral deficits are generally indicators of "altered function" rather than of "clinical disease." Limiting concern to end points corresponding to clinical disease might not be appropriate. Many neurobehavioral diagnoses are phenomenological and a neurotoxicant might cause a unique pattern of deficits for which no label has been created. The concern that a small shift in the central tendency of a distribution of test scores has no significance for the individual should be reexamined in light of the prevention paradox, formulated on the basis of epidemiologic studies of chronic disease. Poor performance on a neurobehavioral test does not necessarily map clearly onto underlying behavioral or neural substrate. The absence of such linkages, given current knowledge about brain-behavior relationships, should not reduce confidence in neurobehavioral end points. Use of neurobehavioral test scores involves considerations that differ little from those that the risk assessor routinely addresses in using end points commonly used in research on other topics in environmental epidemiology.     

A class of symmetric bivariate uniform distributions

A class of symmetric bivariate uniform distributions is proposed for use in statistical modeling. The distributions may be constructed to be absolutely continuous with correlations as close to±1 as desired. Expressions for the correlations, regressions and copulas are found. An extension to three dimensions is proposed.