"Show me your impact": evaluating transitional justice in contested spaces

This paper discusses some of the most significant challenges and opportunities for evaluating the effects of programs in support of transitional justice - the field that addresses how post-conflict or post authoritarian societies deal with legacies of wide spread human rights violations. The discussion is empirically grounded in a case study that assesses the efforts of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and one of its Guatemalan partners to evaluate the effects of a museum exposition that is attempting to recast historic memory and challenge racist attitudes in post-conflict Guatemala. The paper argues that despite the increasing trend to fund transitional justice programs, many international aid donors are stuck in traditional and arguably orthodox paradigms of program evaluation. This is having a negative effect not only upon the administration of aid but also upon how transitional justice research is perceived and valued by local populations. The case study experience indicates that there is no perfect evaluation model or approach for evaluating transitional justice programming - only choices to be made by commissioners of evaluation, evaluators, and those being evaluated. These are profoundly influenced by the extreme politics and moral values that define transitional justice settings as contested spaces in which calls to remember the tragic past must be balanced with aspirations to re-build a hopeful future.     

证券市场并购目标的财务特征分析和预测研究

应用自组织映射神经网络（SOM）和Hopfield神经网络模型对上市公司并购目标公司进行了实证研究。SOM网络的聚类分析表明目标公司可分为6个类别,各类别之间差异较大,目标公司明显区别于非目标企业,在总体上具有盈利能力低、经营能力差、偿债能力较强的特点。Hopfield网络模型的预测结果显示,目标企业的平均预测准确率为80．69％,非目标企业的预测准确率为61。33％,由于并购交易发生受多种因素影响,财务指标与其它因素相结合方能提高模型预测的效果。     

信息技术与高中数学课程整合探究

信息技术与数学课程整合已成为必然趋势,各种教学辅助软件的出现使教师应接不暇。数学软件Maple凭借其简单的操作和强大的功能等优势被越来越多的数学教师作为辅助教学软件。本文用数学实验的方法介绍了Maple在高中数学教学中的几个应用实例,并对信息技术与课程整合与传统教学法之间的优缺点进行了比较。     

论品特威胁喜剧中的疾病情感隐喻

人本观基础上的后现代主义视野下的隐喻观可以看作是隐喻发展的第四阶段。隐喻表达在抽象情感的理解与表达中起着至关重要的作用。从疾病是情感的维度对品特威胁戏剧进行语言考察,可以看出剧中大量出现的疾病是情感的隐喻,盲、哑、疯、麻风病、风湿病、癫痫病等各种疾病映射了剧中人物内心的极度压抑,以及人物内心的不安、惊恐与危机感,折射出了存在主义的哲学思想。情感隐喻具有经验基础,是为戏剧主题服务的。     

概念整合对语篇外部衔接的阐释

概念整合理论是当今认知语言学家研究的焦点之一,众多学者都运用此理论从不同的角度对语篇进行了分析,本文试图以概念整合理论的核心内容即空间映射论为指导,以三种不同类型的空间映射(投射映射、语用函数映射、图示映射)为切入点来分析语篇的外部衔接。     

基于家庭收入的保障性住房标准研究

 保障性住房是关系国计民生的重大问题,为使保障性住房充分发挥作用,其准入标准的确定尤为重要。目前我国保障性住房准入标准大都以人均收入作为参考指标,本文旨在测算并确立以家庭收入为参考指标的保障性住房准入标准。由于厦门市保障性住房在全国具有示范效应,故以厦门为例考察基于家庭收入的保障性住房准入标准。根据抽样调查的分组数据界定“中低收入组”,通过正态分布与均匀分布的转换,利用格点映射法,找出覆盖面为40%的收入上限值,即为保障性住房的准入标准。基于此标准,结合“按年人均收入限值”这一指标,将家庭组别按人口细分,划分出针对不同家庭规模的参考准入标准。     

概念隐喻理论对隐喻理解的优化

传统的修辞学、哲学和语言学对隐喻的研究均未对隐喻的内涵范围、表现形式、以及隐喻的产生和理解过程,展开科学系统的界定和研究。二十世纪七、八十年代兴起的认识语言学将语言的隐喻表达看作人类共有的概念隐喻体系的外在表征。认知视域的概念隐喻理论引导人们将隐喻理解为人类将身体经验所获取的认知向未知抽象领域的映射。人类通过隐喻映射来认知未知的、为身体经验所不能感触的抽象世界。     

西方隐喻研究理论视点述要

追溯了西方隐喻研究的历史,梳理和归纳出五种主要研究理论:“替代论”、“比较论”、“互动论”、“映射论”和“概念合成论”,指出这五种理论的发展是一种在不断否定中彼此相承相续的演进过程。尽管各种理论都是在超越前人的基础上发展而来,可自身却又带有明显的缺陷。文章在讨论介绍各种理论的要旨的同时,析解了各自所作出的贡献及存在的不足。     

试论晚清武昌舆地学会的舆图出版及其经营特点

光绪二十二年（公元1896年）成立的译印西文地图公会（后改称武昌舆地学会）是中国第一个地理学会。学会用西方先进的测绘方法和印刷技术编制出版了七百余幅中外地图，在晚清地图学史上占据着举足轻重的地位。其所绘制出版的地图严谨、科学；用小比例尺绘制地图；地图表示和绘制方法新颖，并经过仔细审查修订；用新式烂铜版法印制地图，开铜版雕刻彩印出版小比例尺地图之先河。学会的经营特点是：集资招股编绘、印制地图不以投资为终极目的；购股者分次付清股票款项；以推广舆地学为务，厘清所筹股金的用途及作用，通过售书偿还股金和利息。     

Supporting collegiate foster youth and alumni: A mixed-method planning approach for higher education

Despite the proliferation, of on-campus academic support programs for foster youth and alumni (e.g., those formerly in foster care), few conceptual frameworks for developing these programs exist. This study employed Group Concept Mapping (GCM) methodology to delineate a conceptual framework, from the perspective of foster youth and alumni (N = 51), for the development of on-campus support initiatives. GCM is an integrated mixed-method research method that uses non-metric multidimensional scaling and hierarchical cluster analyses, to analyze qualitative data (e.g., statement form) collected during brainstorming sessions. This research was guided by two separate queries: (1) How do foster youth/alumni conceptualize support programs to support foster youth/alumni through to degree completion; and, (2) Is there a difference in priority areas of this conceptualization between current college students, and those who have dropped out of college within the last 18 months? Analyses revealed that participants conceptualized on-campus support programs via an eight-cluster solution, including Campus Awareness, Advocacy, Data Tracking, Pre-College Supports, Fostering Family Connections, Academic Financing, Campus Life, and Peer/Mentor Supports clusters. Additionally, analyses revealed significant priority ratings between areas of this conceptualization. In terms of Importance to academic success, current students rated statements in the Academic Financing and Peer/Mentor Supports clusters significantly lower than did non-students. For Feasibility, current students viewed statements in the Data Tracking, Campus Life, and Peer/Mentor Supports clusters as significantly more feasible than non-students. Pragmatic implications derived from these findings include fostering inclusive campus environments for foster youth/alumni and advocacy undertakings by institutions, on behalf of this population.