Challenges to Connecting Sociology and Service Learning

Service-learning programs are not free from challenges brought about by lack of financial support, lack of widespread commitment from professors, community agencies, and recipients of service, and lack of knowledge and insight in students directly involved in such programs. While service-learning initiatives and programs serve positive functions for organizations and individuals, rhetorical accolades for service learning can distort or omit the realities of program implementation and sustained delivery. This paper specifically explores the following challenges connected to service-learning programs: (1) pedagogical difficulties; (2) student limitations; (3) time constraints; and (4) community cooperation.     

Household strategies in the face of resource scarcity in coastal Ghana: are they associated with development priorities?

In many developing regions, women and young girls spend several hours daily in the collection of natural resources. Still the link between these household resource strategies and stakeholder perceptions of development priorities remains unexplored. This project examines this association with survey data representative of the adult population from Ghana’s Coastal Region. Although natural resource scarcity and the sustainability of resource use represent key development challenges, there are others (e.g., energy, sanitation, employment, and educational opportunities). As such, even in the face of natural resource scarcity, individuals may place greater importance on other dimensions of development, especially if household resource strategies are perceived as relatively efficient. The analytical focus here is on water and the results suggest that gender roles shape household water collection strategies, while also shaping these strategies’ perceived opportunity costs. Specifically, Ghanian adults more often see drinking water provision as their primary development need when water sources are distant and/or when male household members collect water (particularly male heads). In the end, I argue that social science inquiry benefits by contextualizing social dynamics within environmental context, particularly within cultural settings in which human subsistence is intimately tied to the state of the natural environment.     

非英语专业研究生英语课程教学“需求分析”及应对策略

根据英国学者Tom Hutchinson和Alan Waters的需求分析理论,通过问卷形式对合肥工业大学非英语专业110名研一新生进行调查,并对结果进行分析,旨在了解他们的目标需求和学习需求,设计行之有效的英语课堂活动,以提高他们的说写能力及国际学术交流能力。     

浅谈高校声像档案管理中存在的问题及对策

对目前高校声像档案管理中存在的一些问题进行了分析，并结合工作实践提出了强化声像档案意识、加强声像档案收集以及管好用好声像档案的对策，以提高高校声像档案管理水平，更好地为学校各项工作服务。     

Basic aspects of evolution strategies

Evolution strategies (ESs) are a special class of probabilistic, direct, global optimization methods. They are similar to genetic algorithms but work in continuous spaces and have the additional capability of self-adapting their major strategy parameters. This paper presents the most important features of ESs, namely their self-adaptation, as well as their robustness and potential for parallelization which they share with other evolutionary algorithms.Besides the early (1 + 1)-ES and its underlying theoretical results, the modern ( + )-ES and (, )-ES are presented with special emphasis on the self-adaptation of strategy parameters, a mechanism which enables the algorithm to evolve not only the object variables but also the characteristics of the probability distributions of normally distributed mutations. The self-adaptation property of the algorithm is also illustrated by an experimental example.The robustness of ESs is demonstrated for noisy fitness evaluations and by its application to discrete optimization problems, namely the travelling salesman problem (TSP).Finally, the paper concludes by summarizing existing work and general possibilities regarding the parallelization of evolution strategies and evolutionary algorithms in general.     

What's wrong with sociology? Its public image

In response to editor Stephen Cole's question—"What's wrong with sociology?"—the answer is nothing that cannot be overcome by clearer communications and better public relations. The problem is that the field is not held in high esteem by college administrators, legislators, and the public. Many see us as rebels of the 1960s, political liberals, and impractical thinkers with a penchant for jargon. Even our research is derided by some as a waste of money. The solution consists of strategies for overcoming our poor public image. Seven strategies for doing so are discussed: (1) Write clearly. (2) Write for a mass audience. (3) Seek board positions. (4) Strengthen our identity. (5) Teach sociology in high school. (6) Develop academic partnerships. (7) Emphasize outcomes: increase in tolerance and research skills.     

元认知与大学英语网络自主学习

目前我们汉译英的课堂教学模式过于简单且效率低下,本文提出了一种针对低学业成就者的、基于学习策略培训的汉译英SB I教学模式,从汉语语义结构分析、英语句子结构定型、英语词汇选择以及检查核对等多方面尝试将汉译英学习策略的培训渗透到汉译英的课堂教学活动中,以期提高这些学习者的汉译英技能,帮助他们掌握必要的语言学习策略,培养他们的自主学习能力,改善课堂教学效果。     

微博在教学应用中的传播模式研究

本文分析了微博的特点以及微博在教学中的应用。     

商标英汉翻译的优选论分析

商标英汉翻译的成败对于国外产品能否成功进军国内市场起着关键性的作用。本文在黄忠廉、胡远兵的术语全译策略系统的基础上,建立了商标翻译策略系统,并在优选论的理论框架中,探讨了商标翻译的各种策略的认知理据,提出了商标翻译的制约条件的等级排列。     

注意性告知与元认知策略对培训效果的影响研究

计算机审计培训是培养高素质审计人才的有效途径。注意性告知和元认知策略是影响计算机审计培训效果的重要因素。实证研究了注意性告知与元认知策略对培训效果的影响,研究发现:注意性告知与元认知策略都会对培训效果产生正向影响;注意性告知还会对元认知策略产生正向影响。此外,注意性告知通过元认知策略部分中介作用于培训效果。