The relationship between lifetime health trajectories and socioeconomic attainment in middle age

A large literature demonstrates the direct and indirect influence of health on socioeconomic attainment, and reveals the ways in which health and socioeconomic background simultaneously and dynamically affect opportunities for attainment and mobility. Despite an increasing understanding of the effects of health on social processes, research to date remains limited in its conceptualization and measurement of the temporal dimensions of health, especially in the presence of socioeconomic circumstances that covary with health over time. Guided by life course theory, we use data from the British National Child Development Study, an ongoing panel study of a cohort born in 1958, to examine the association between lifetime health trajectories and socioeconomic attainment in middle age. We apply finite mixture modeling to identify distinct trajectories of health that simultaneously account for timing, duration and stability. Moreover, we employ propensity score weighting models to account for the presence of time-varying socioeconomic factors in estimating the impact of health trajectories. We find that, when poor health is limited to the childhood years, the disadvantage in socioeconomic attainment relative to being continuously healthy is either insignificant or largely explained by time-varying socioeconomic confounders. The socioeconomic impact of continuously deteriorating health over the life course is more persistent, however. Our results suggest that accounting for the timing, duration and stability of poor health throughout both childhood and adulthood is important for understanding how health works to produce social stratification. In addition, the findings highlight the importance of distinguishing between confounding and mediating effects of time-varying socioeconomic circumstances.     

Design selection for strong orthogonal arrays

Strong orthogonal arrays (SOAs) were recently introduced and studied as a class of space‐filling designs for computer experiments. An important problem that has not been addressed in the literature is that of design selection for such arrays. In this article, we conduct a systematic investigation into this problem, and we focus on the most useful SOA(n,m,4,2 + )s and SOA(n,m,4,2)s. This article first addresses the problem of design selection for SOAs of strength 2+ by examining their three‐dimensional projections. Both theoretical and computational results are presented. When SOAs of strength 2+ do not exist, we formulate a general framework for the selection of SOAs of strength 2 by looking at their two‐dimensional projections. The approach is fruitful, as it is applicable when SOAs of strength 2+ do not exist and it gives rise to them when they do. The Canadian Journal of Statistics 47: 302–314; 2019 © 2019 Statistical Society of Canada     

用联想神经网络设计的信道均衡器

研究了联想神经网络在数字通信信道均衡器实现中的应用,讨论了其设计方法和设计步骤,给出了计算机模拟结果,并进行了性能比较。研究结果表明:Hopfield联想神经网络实现的信道均衡器具有比传统线性横向均衡器更优越的性能。     

ELAN网络控制系统通信处理时间的测量与分析

针对ELAN嵌入式网络微机控制系统中的实时性问题，给出了ELAN网络系统中的通信处理时间的测量方法，并对网络中的通信处理时间进行了分析，最后提出了代码下装的方法。     

中国网上聊天室中英语语言特征

中国网上英语聊天室中的英语与英语国家聊天室中的英语相比较 ,在某些方面 ,如缩写的使用、句首字母少用大写、句尾少标点等有一些共同的特征。但由于受本族语的影响 ,中国人网上聊天的语言有其独到之处。中国人用英语聊天的目的主要是为了练习语言 ,使英语语言的交际功能减弱。受语言水平所限 ,中国聊天者的会话语言更接近书面语体 ,聊天的内容狭窄且缺乏连续性。网上聊天 ,作为一种新的语言交际方式 ,为英语学习者们提供了另一种学习途径 ,在练习快速英语思维及表达方面有着积极作用     

三维实体设计与工程制图课程的改革

三维实体设计是工程设计的必然趋势,设计方法的变革导致企业对人才的新需求,也给传统的工程制图课程体系带来了巨大的冲击。改革与现代生产和人才需求不相适应的教学内容,建立以三维设计为主线,以培养创新思维和创新能力为目标的工程制图新体系,是工程制图课程改革的方向。     

非专业大学英语开设背诵课探讨

从3个方面分析阐述了背诵在外语学习中的重要性,并结合有关教学实践,提出在大学公共英语教学中增开背诵课的设想,并对如何开好背诵课提出一些建议。     

精英意识与大众文化的契合——方方的“警察故事”小说特点探析

纵观方方的警察故事题材的小说,可以见出其创作上的特点及变化,体现了方方对人生及历史新的思索与探讨,表明作者在精英文化与大众文化之间寻找的最佳契合点     

从计算机英语词汇中的隐喻现象谈构词特点

由于计算机和网络的出现,计算机英语词汇日益增多。有些新词汇是通过联想,经历语义变化及隐喻修饰后产生的。更多的计算机英语词汇是通过赋新、缩略、合成等方法构成的。对它们构词的特点进行分析并找出规律,可便于计算机使用者更好地理解词义。     

多媒体技术与素质教育

多媒体技术有利于开发人的潜能,提高教学质量,培养学生的广泛兴趣,有利于加强德育教育.素质教育需要多媒体技术,需要掌握多媒体技术的教师.造就一支具有创新意识、创新精神、创新能力的高素质教师队伍,是全面落实素质教育的根本保证.