Changing Frameworks in Attitudes Toward Abortion

For more than two decades, legal abortion has been the subject of heated political debate and adversarial social movement activity; however, national polls have shown little change in aggregate levels of support for abortion. This analysis examines how the determinants of abortion attitudes have changed between 1977 and 1996, using data from the General Social Surveys. While in early time periods, whites were more approving of abortion than blacks, that pattern had reversed by the late 1980s. After controlling for other factors, older people are more accepting of abortion throughout the two decades, while gender is generally unrelated to abortion views. Catholic religion weakens slightly as a predictor of abortion attitudes, while religious fundamentalism and political liberalism increase in explanatory power. The associations between attitudinal correlates and abortion approval also change over this time period. Religiosity becomes a less powerful predictor of abortion attitudes, while respondents' attitude toward sexual freedom and belief in the sanctity of human life increase in their predictive power. Support for gender inequality remains a weak but stable predictor of abortion attitudes. This pattern of results suggests that the public is influenced more by the pro-life framework of viewing abortion than by the pro-choice perspective.     

监理企业的综合评价与决策分析

根据层次分析法(AHP),分析如何选择最合理的监理企业,为评估准则和希望投标的监理企业构建了一个层次结构,提出了分析模型和计算方法,并给出了一个具体实例。在决策分析过程中,按综合权重大小排序,进行方案优选,为决策提供依据。该方法得出的评价结果直观,为择优决策中标监理企业提供一种科学的评价方法。     

Multivariate outlier detection in incomplete survey data: the epidemic algorithm and transformed rank correlations

Summary.  As a part of the EUREDIT project new methods to detect multivariate outliers in incomplete survey data have been developed. These methods are the first to work with sampling weights and to be able to cope with missing values. Two of these methods are presented here. The epidemic algorithm simulates the propagation of a disease through a population and uses extreme infection times to find outlying observations. Transformed rank correlations are robust estimates of the centre and the scatter of the data. They use a geometric transformation that is based on the rank correlation matrix. The estimates are used to define a Mahalanobis distance that reveals outliers. The two methods are applied to a small data set and to one of the evaluation data sets of the EUREDIT project.     

关于大学英语写作教学实践的调查与反思

本研究以第二语言写作理论为指导,对五所高校的大学英语写作教学现状进行抽样调查。调查结果表明,学生写作能力欠佳的原因主要来自于教师的教及学生的学等不同的层面。为提高大学英语写作教学的质量,在教学中教师应该改变现有的教学模式,加强英语写作地位;合理设置写作任务,激发学生写作动机;加强目的语输入,扩大学生积极词汇量。     

测定二氧化碳分子量的微型实验

利用自制的简易气体发生器和洗气装置对二氧化碳分子量测定微型实验作了进一步的探索和实践、测定结果不仅达到无机化学实验对测定精度的要求。而且更便于推广和普及．     

NURBS曲面的算法分析及实现

讨论了ＮＵＲＢＳ曲线和节点矢量、控制点和基函数对曲面形状的影响，给出了ＮＵＲＢＳ的算法分析及其实现方案，最后，将ＮＵＲＢＳ曲面与老式曲面（如Ｂ样条、Ｂｅｚｉｅｒ曲面等）进行了比较。     

Predicting body fat using weight–height indices

While body fat is the most accurate measure of obesity, its measurement requires special equipment that can be costly and time consuming to operate. Attention has thus typically focused on the easier to calculate body mass index (BMI). However, the ability of BMI to accurately identify obesity has been increasingly questioned. This paper focuses attention on whether more general body mass indices are appropriate measures of body fat. Using a data set of body fat, height, and weight measurements, general models are estimated which nest a wide variety of weight–height indices as special cases. In the absence of a race and gender categorisation, the conventional BMI was found to be the appropriate index with which to predict body fat. When such a categorisation was made, however, the BMI was never selected as the appropriate index. In general, predicted female body fat was some 10 kg higher than that of a male of identical build and predicted % body fat was over 11 percentage points higher, but age effects were smaller for females. Considerable racial differences in predicted body fat were found for males, but such differences were less marked for females. The implications of this finding for interpreting recent research on the effect of obesity on health, society, and economic factors are considered.     

基于模糊判断矩阵信息确定专家权重的方法

本文对群组模糊判断矩阵集结过程中确定专家权重的问题进行了研究,建立了模糊判断矩阵的特征矩阵和求解群集结矩阵的最优化模型,通过矩阵之间距离度量判断信息自身逻辑一致性程度和群体相容性程度,给出一种基于专家判断信息的可信度计算其后验权重的方法,最后用算例予以说明.     

基于灰关联约束超效率DEA的重点实验室评估研究——以河北省省级重点实验室为例

目前国内外对重点实验室的评估主要采用专家评价等软评价方法,较少考虑科技投入和科技产出之间的关联关系。在对国内外重点实验室评估方法进行深入研究的基础上,利用灰色关联度分析指标内在的关联性,将其作为限制条件加入超效率DEA评价模型中,构建了基于灰色关联权重约束的超效率DEA评价模型,并应用于河北省省级重点实验室评估的实证分析。研究结果显示,此模型与传统的CCR模型和超效率DEA模型相比,既可以揭示科技投入和科技产出之间的内在联系,又可以保持DEA评价的客观性,与此同时,还可实现不同实验室评估结果的全排序,使得评估结果更加符合实际。     

学前儿童基于重量和声音进行因果推理的发展研究

儿童的推理能力历来都是考察儿童认知发展的重点。本研究探讨了在多种属性刺激下3~5岁儿童基于重量和声音进行 因果推理的表现。结果发现：4岁和5岁儿童选择正确目标物的准确率显著高于3岁儿童；和同时使用声音与重量判断目标物相 比，儿童在单独使用重量或声音的情况下更容易区分目标物。总之，儿童因果推理能力发展的关键期在4岁并且当任务难度较高 的情况下其因果机制极易受到干扰。