Researching Chinese Cultural Understandings of Marriage via Similes and Metaphors on the World Wide Web

In an attempt to understand how changes in the societal context of Chinese marriage are reflected in Chinese cultural understandings of marriage, we explore Chinese similes and metaphors for marriage posted on the World Wide Web. Seven themes were found: You will have to decide whether a marriage will work for you, marriage is not about romantic love, marriage is bitter and sweet at the same time, marriage is strong and real, you must work at a marriage, marriage is risky, and marriage is not always taken seriously. The themes give a picture of cultural meanings for marriage in China that reflect more traditional ideas and such recent changes as the move to greater freedom of choice of spouse and greater ease of divorce. The themes provide cultural understandings both by characterizing contemporary marriage and by capturing advice about how to find a partner and make a marriage work.     

Reduction of Face‐to‐Face Contact Hours in Foundation Research Courses: Impact on Students' Knowledge Gained and Course Satisfaction

This study investigated the impact of reducing the number of face‐to‐face contact hours in a Masters of Science in Social Work (MSSW) foundation research course in an urban school of social work on students' knowledge gained and course satisfaction. A quasi‐experimental pretest/posttest comparison group design was used to test the following hypothesis: reducing the number of face‐to‐face contact hours will not negatively impact knowledge gain and course satisfaction in a foundation research course. The findings of this study suggest that reducing the number of face‐to‐face contact hours does not negatively affect student learning as both the comparison and the experimental group demonstrated an increase in foundation research knowledge. The level of course satisfaction was influenced by the number of hours completed in the program, age, and the number of hours worked in paid employment. Students who are especially vulnerable are younger students who have completed less course hours. They tend to struggle at the beginning to get used to new technology as part of their educational experience. This paper demonstrates that it is no longer ‘if’ web‐based and distance learning technologies are appropriate for social work education but rather ‘when’ and the degree to which their integration yields greatest educational value.     

北极航道：欧盟的政策目标和外交实践

气候变暖和海冰的快速融化向世界展示了北极航道开发的经济前景。经济上高度依赖贸易和海上运输的欧盟对参与北极事务和北极航道开发给予了高度关注,同时也面临着北极国家和北极理事会一定程度的排斥。欧盟充分利用北极多层级治理结构的特点,开展多支点外交,将自身在北极的利益与北极生态环境保护和北极治理过程有机地结合在一起,将自己塑造成公共产品提供者;同时,以市场和投资为手段使自己成为北极经济和社会发展重要的合作者。中国与欧盟在北极事务上具有许多类似的战略利益和外交立场,欧盟的经验值得借鉴。     

Digital navigation and the driving-machine: supervision,calculation, optimization,and recognition

ABSTRACT

In this paper, I explore the navigational implications of a possible driving world. In the last few years, autonomous vehicles (AVs) have garnered significant attention, with much of this scrutiny centered on the technical possibilities, legal restrictions, and utilitarian ethics of AVs. In this paper, I look at how AVs are radically transforming the nature of navigational decision-making. Research into the automation of industrial processes and aircraft fly-by-wire systems suggests that navigational supervision, by humans, will become a significant duty, recalibrating navigation itself. I draw out the implications of automation through three navigational practices of the ‘driving-machine’ I refer to as route-calculation, terrain-optimization, and object-recognition. Attending to these practices assists in the ongoing interrogation of the machinic rendering of automobile space.     

Web3.0时代的数字图书馆服务探析

Web3．0的核心理念是“人性化”加“智能化”,高效、迅速、准确地满足读者的知识需求,将是一种新的数字图书馆服务模式。本文阐述了Web3．0的内涵、特征,论述了Web3．0对数字图书馆服务工作的影响,提出了Web3．0下数字图书馆发展的新要求。     

How climate change organizations utilize websites for public relations

This study is designed to examine climate change organizations (CCO)’s online public relations. It analyzes CCOs’ communicative efforts to build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders including media, donors, volunteers, and communities by using their websites and social networks. To accomplish this, a content analysis of 60 CCO websites was conducted. The result indicates that CCOs utilize websites primarily for media relations and fund raising purposes. The function of building and maintaining relationships with communities, current donors/volunteers was not actively utilized on CCOs’ websites. The interactivity of communication with stakeholders was somewhat limited in CCO's online communication activities.     

网络数据库管理技术在CIMS工程中的应用

CIMS技术在制造业的应用是制造业和信息技术融合,必然趋势,作为CIMS应用的支撑平台也随着Internet的迅猛发展不断完善提高,因而Web技术和企业Internet数据的集成一直是人们关注的热点。本文在研究参考了多种Web和CIMS技术之后,通过一定程度的验证,提出了适合中小企业应用的信息方案。     

AUTOCAD在INTERNET上的应用

探讨如何在ＩＮＴＥＲＮＥＴ上进行全球性ＡＵＴＯＣＡＤ设计。讨论网络格式图形文件的生成、浏览和发布的具体步骤。     

Web3.0对图书馆参考咨询服务的启示

简要介绍了Web3.0的概念.基于Web2.0阐述了图书馆参考咨询服务及其存在的问题,并针对这些问题,从参考咨询服务和咨询人员队伍建设两个方面讨论了Web3.0对图书馆咨询服务的启示.     

A Study of Online Auction Sellers’ Intention to Switch Platform: The Case of Yahoo!Kimo Versus Ruten_eBay*

The study of consumers’ switching from one service provider to another has a long tradition in economics, information systems, and marketing. The emergence of electronic commerce presents new challenges in understanding consumers’ switching intentions in the context of e‐commerce in general and online auctions in particular. With the abundance of literature on online auctions, there is a surprising lack of research on auction sellers’ intentions to switch from one online auction platform to another. Using the competition between Yahoo!Kimo and Ruten_eBay, two leading auction platforms in Taiwan, as the backdrop, we developed a research model and collected empirical data based on this real case to study what factors influence auction sellers to switch to a competing service provider. We find that the higher the procedural switching costs, financial switching costs, relational switching costs, site design quality, or interaction quality, the lower the intention of an auction seller to switch to a competing auction service provider. A higher perceived transaction fee, however, leads to a higher switching intention.