The ‘right time’ – negotiating the timing of interviews with vulnerable young people

Participant retention is a key factor in determining the success of longitudinal research. Challenges in re-locating and retaining participants over the long term are major issues for researchers working with young people who face adversity and experience frequent changes in circumstances. This article reports on a study of vulnerable young people and their transition into adulthood. Rather than the more conventional schedule-based approach to locating and re-interviewing young people, a relational process, the ‘right time’ framework, was used to facilitate young people's involvement in the study. Embedded in the ‘right time’ framework is recognition of the diverse and fluctuating circumstances that shape young people's availability for interviews. Several case examples are considered which amplify the way that the ‘right time’ framework allowed the research to navigate around these circumstances. The case examples highlight the value young people attached to being involved in the research, the influence on the ‘right time’ of wider relational tensions for young people and the need to negotiate researcher status as a different sort of adult. The ‘right time’ framework contributed to a high retention rate in the study generating a more representative sample and enhancing the subsequent data analysis by providing valuable insights into the lives of these vulnerable young people.     

SBR工艺特点及SBR脱氮除磷技术

介绍了序批式活性污泥法(Sequencing Batch Reactor,简称SBR)工艺的产生、发展和特点以及目前脱氮除磷研究的主要进展。     

客户价值模型及对企业价值影响的研究

本文在对现有客户价值组成估算方法及企业股东价值(Shareholder Value,SHV)理念的局限性进行评价和分析的基础上,提出了计算客户整个生命周期价值(Lifetime Value,LTV)的客户价值(Customer Value,CV)模型;并简要分析了客户价值对提升企业价值的促进作用。通过运用CV模型计算出更准确的FCFF,本文亦提出了新的SHV计算模型。文章最后对模型的数据获得途径进行了简要介绍。     

房地产企业留住人才的博弈分析

本文通过建立博弈矩阵模型,并利用线性规划理论进行分析,指出房地产企业在提高工资待遇吸引人才的同时,建立有效的动态激励机制才是留住人才的关键.     

隐喻应用意识与词汇记忆技巧——关于英语词汇学习方法的创新研究

隐喻是一种复杂的认知现象,同时也是一种非常特殊的语言现象。隐喻意识的提升对帮助学生加强词汇记忆有着重要作用。教学实验表明:很多比喻性用语往往可以追溯到一个共同的喻题或源域,用喻题或源域来对词汇进行归类有助于记忆生疏的比喻性用语。因此,有必要多组织一些旨在提高语言学习者隐喻意识的课堂活动,将隐喻意识变成词汇习得的一个新的渠道。     

Analytic strategies for longitudinal networks with missing data

Missing data are often problematic when analyzing complete longitudinal social network data. We review approaches for accommodating missing data when analyzing longitudinal network data with stochastic actor-based models. One common practice is to restrict analyses to participants observed at most or all time points, to achieve model convergence. We propose and evaluate an alternative, more inclusive approach to sub-setting and analyzing longitudinal network data, using data from a school friendship network observed at four waves (N = 694). Compared to standard practices, our approach retained more information from partially observed participants, generated a more representative analytic sample, and led to less biased model estimates for this case study. The implications and potential applications for longitudinal network analysis are discussed.     

戴望舒在萧红研究中缺失缘由探析

戴望舒和萧红都是著名作家。戴望舒与萧红的交集，不仅仅是编辑与作者之间的来往，也有朋友之间的私交，以及在人格魅力上的相互欣赏，相互尊重，相互信任。但在萧红研究里，戴望舒似乎是一个可有可无的人物，关于戴望舒的资料看来是故意舍弃了。本文意从戴望舒在香港向萧红与端木约稿、戴望舒与萧红在香港的交谊、戴望舒在萧红研究中缺失缘由三个方面加以探讨。     

The Black male teacher: a 10-year content analysis of empirical research

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study was to characterize the last decade of Black male teacher empirical research. The present study aimed to elucidate the most salient themes, commonalities, and departures in the literature on Black male educators. A quantitative content analysis was performed to systematically characterize the research trends present in this line of inquiry. The data were collected using an inductively generated coding scheme. A sample of n = 31 studies were identified and examined from articles published between 2006 and 2016. Then frequency data were computed to characterize the data under investigation. The study results indicate that Black male teacher research is nuanced and burgeoning, despite several lapses in article production. The results of this study contribute to the literature on Black male teacher recruitment, retention, and experiences by providing a survey of current research trends that suggest areas of strength, as well as challenges warranting further consideration.     

文学视角下的唐代诏敕研究--由唐武德九年六月至九月诏书看李世民弑兄夺权及李渊被迫让位的真相

初唐诏敕文是初唐时期皇帝于施政过程中发布的“王言政令”,是具有最高权威的下行政治公文,涉及到了当时的政治、经济、军事、律法、外交、教育、文化等多方面的史实,和《大唐创业起居注》、《唐太宗实录》等史籍一道,都属于第一手资料,史料价值很高,可补正史之阙。即便是那些旨在宣扬皇德的诏敕文,如皇帝的即位、改元、祭天、封禅诏书,也为我们考察当时的史实提供了很多有价值的线索。本文主要从文史结合的角度出发,通过考察唐武德九年六月至九月诏书,来挖掘其中隐藏的李世民弑兄夺权及李渊被迫让位的真相。      

Active‐controlled,non‐inferiority trials in oncology: arbitrary limits,infeasible sample sizes and uninformative data analysis. Is there another way?

In oncology, it may not always be possible to evaluate the efficacy of new medicines in placebo-controlled trials. Furthermore, while some newer, biologically targeted anti-cancer treatments may be expected to deliver therapeutic benefit in terms of better tolerability or improved symptom control, they may not always be expected to provide increased efficacy relative to existing therapies. This naturally leads to the use of active-control, non-inferiority trials to evaluate such treatments. In recent evaluations of anti-cancer treatments, the non-inferiority margin has often been defined in terms of demonstrating that at least 50% of the active control effect has been retained by the new drug using methods such as those described by Rothmann et al., Statistics in Medicine 2003; 22:239-264 and Wang and Hung Controlled Clinical Trials 2003; 24:147-155. However, this approach can lead to prohibitively large clinical trials and results in a tendency to dichotomize trial outcome as either 'success' or 'failure' and thus oversimplifies interpretation. With relatively modest modification, these methods can be used to define a stepwise approach to design and analysis. In the first design step, the trial is sized to show indirectly that the new drug would have beaten placebo; in the second analysis step, the probability that the new drug is superior to placebo is assessed and, if sufficiently high in the third and final step, the relative efficacy of the new drug to control is assessed on a continuum of effect retention via an 'effect retention likelihood plot'. This stepwise approach is likely to provide a more complete assessment of relative efficacy so that the value of new treatments can be better judged.