The working group on design and evaluation of intelligent system ergonomics,under SAC/TC 7,Ergonomics,was officially established in Qingdao city,Shandong province on June 18.The launching ceremony was jointly organize...The working group on design and evaluation of intelligent system ergonomics,under SAC/TC 7,Ergonomics,was officially established in Qingdao city,Shandong province on June 18.The launching ceremony was jointly organized by the Sub-institute of Fundamental Standardization of CNIS and China Standard Certification Co.,Ltd.It was attended by more than 60 experts and industry representatives in fields such as smart home technology,intelligent driving,wearable devices,medical health,and nuclear engineering.展开更多
正At the invitation of the University of Mississippi, Friendship Force International and the North America Association for International Exchanges, Mr. Du Kening, Deputy Secretary-General of CAFIU, leading a 3-member ...正At the invitation of the University of Mississippi, Friendship Force International and the North America Association for International Exchanges, Mr. Du Kening, Deputy Secretary-General of CAFIU, leading a 3-member working group展开更多
On August 1st, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) convened a conference to transmit the spirit of national quality work and study an important speech regarding sta... On August 1st, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) convened a conference to transmit the spirit of national quality work and study an important speech regarding standards from Wen Jiabao,Premier of the State Council.……展开更多
The year of 2004 is the first year for EPC (Electronic Product Code) enteringChina. EPC brings the new opportunity for RFID (Radio Frequency Identification Hardware) technologyand boundless imagining space and market ...The year of 2004 is the first year for EPC (Electronic Product Code) enteringChina. EPC brings the new opportunity for RFID (Radio Frequency Identification Hardware) technologyand boundless imagining space and market chance, and provides an open platform for global logisticsdevelopment. China EPC Working Group organized the first Chinese EPC forum on April 22^(nd), 2004.After June of last year, there were almost 2 or 3 forums on EPC/RFID every month. Over tenministries and commissions, such as Ministry of Information and Industry, Ministry of Science andTechnology, have been paying much attention to the EPC development. International retailers, such asWal-Mart, Metro, Tesco and DOD all support the development of EPC. Especially, Wal-Mart gave themandate to it's first 100 suppliers, and all the goods shipped to Wal-Mart distributor center shouldbe tagged since January 2005.展开更多
The UK government set up a Herbal Medicines and Practitioners Working Group(HMPWG)to assess possibilities of:1.Setting up Statutory Regulation of Herbal Medicine Practitioners;2.Allowing continued public access to val...The UK government set up a Herbal Medicines and Practitioners Working Group(HMPWG)to assess possibilities of:1.Setting up Statutory Regulation of Herbal Medicine Practitioners;2.Allowing continued public access to valuable herbal medicines.On 26th March 2015 the HMPWG published the key recommendations after over a year of meetings and consultation with experts.展开更多
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s China visit has yielded a new commitment to a long-term stable comprehensive strategic partnership,with significant breakthroughs in financial cooperation including a newly estab...British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s China visit has yielded a new commitment to a long-term stable comprehensive strategic partnership,with significant breakthroughs in financial cooperation including a newly established financial working group.THE four-day visit of British Prime Minister Keir Starmer to China-the first by a U.K.Prime Minister in eight years-has marked a significant step toward stabilizing and deepening bilateral relations.展开更多
A series of study and investigation has been made on the basis of the theory of group work. The purpose is to study the effectiveness of group work in the interaction class, thus to attract more English teachers＇ att...A series of study and investigation has been made on the basis of the theory of group work. The purpose is to study the effectiveness of group work in the interaction class, thus to attract more English teachers＇ attention to seek for the new approach to the breakthrough of traditional English class mode.展开更多
Group work has many advantages from language acquisition point of view. However, some teachers are unwilling to introduce group work in their own classroom because group work is very difficult to manage. The author of...Group work has many advantages from language acquisition point of view. However, some teachers are unwilling to introduce group work in their own classroom because group work is very difficult to manage. The author of this essay explores the discourse features of successful and unsuccessful group work using discourse analysis in the hope that the results of this language classroom research can help language teachers gain some insight into the use of group work and make more informed decisions about group work management.展开更多
This paper discusses group work from affective domain. It points out that group work can make learners feel less anxious because it can provide learners with the sense of security and unity, besides, it can establish ...This paper discusses group work from affective domain. It points out that group work can make learners feel less anxious because it can provide learners with the sense of security and unity, besides, it can establish good relationship between the teacher and learners. Group work can also be motivating because it can fulfill the human needs for experiencing competence, relatedness and autonomy.展开更多
This English teaching in language classroom essay is based on an investigation into the use of pair work and group work in middle school China by means of a corpus to throw some light on the interaction patterns of ou...This English teaching in language classroom essay is based on an investigation into the use of pair work and group work in middle school China by means of a corpus to throw some light on the interaction patterns of our English teaching展开更多
Nowadays, new paradigm of enterprise organization i s constantly changing due to the emergence of the global marketplace, the rise of information technology, and the emphasis of the social developments. This re quires...Nowadays, new paradigm of enterprise organization i s constantly changing due to the emergence of the global marketplace, the rise of information technology, and the emphasis of the social developments. This re quires a more flexible form of organization that are more adaptable to rapid cha nges in business environment such as autonomous work groups (AWGs) in order to achieve higher productivity and effectiveness. AWGs are work units responsib le for the production of goods and the provision of services. They involve team members in making decisions that are traditionally the responsibility of the sup ervisors and managers (Cohen & Bailey, 1997). Team members of AWGs are allowed t o self-regulate their behavior on jobs such as task assignments, methods for ca rrying out the work, and scheduling of activities etc. (Cohen & Ledford, 1994). For example, Motorola achieved a high organizational performance due to the succ essful implementation of AWGs in quality management (Piczak & Hauser, 1996). Xer ox also reported their operational successes based on the team-oriented work gr oups (Wageman, 1997). In recent years many organizations have replaced the traditional layers of manag ement with autonomous team-based work arrangements. Surveys indicated that the adoption of AWGs has soared in responding to the competitive business challenges . Many enterprises are making a deliberate effort to use AWGs to carry out work and operational processes as an alternative for hierarchical approaches (Lawler et al., 1995). There is a growing body of evidence that AWGs are more effective than traditionally managed groups and they contributes to organizational perform ance, such as improvement in operational performance, productivity, quality, cos t savings, employee attitude and behavior, and employee satisfaction (e.g. Pears on, 1992; Cohen & Ledford, 1994; Seers et al. 1995). Given the complexity and cognitive nature of team-based organizations, the mech anisms that the enterprises use in the development of the increasingly sophistic ated models, which can contribute to the effective functioning of AWGs, are extr emely important. The process of developing effective AWGs enables enterprises to inherent built-in intelligence of the organizations so that they will be more able to accommodate to external pressures and changes. The context of this paper is the construction of a dynamics framework and a stra tegic path for autonomous work groups in the technology-oriented manufacturing organization re-design. The framework is a conceptual one drawn from the litera ture survey. The importance of studying autonomous work groups for today’s manuf acturing organizations is claimed. Based on the General System Theory (GST), the characterization of AWGs is addressed. Three-dimensional domains such as t echnical content, service content, and relationship content are identified. A st rategic path is proposed to guide the organizations how the development of AWGs progresses at different levels of maturity that are associated with organization al effectiveness and performance. The utility of the model for AWGs is expected to provide technology-oriented organizations with a strategic path to achieve h igher organizational performance.展开更多
Nowadays, collaborative teaching has become an original and effective teaching strategy, which has been generally accepted in many countries. It is an effective means to cultivate and train students＇ language using a...Nowadays, collaborative teaching has become an original and effective teaching strategy, which has been generally accepted in many countries. It is an effective means to cultivate and train students＇ language using ability and their autonomous learning ability. The core of collaborative teaching is making students accomplish a common learning goal via group work. In view of the current situation of college English teaching, this paper has explored issues on the group work in collaborative teaching, including group work designing, group work implementing and group work evaluating. In addition, it has discussed with examples the merits and demerits of group work and come up with concrete measures for improvement so as to further promote college English teaching reforms.展开更多
Over the past decades, the rapid development has taken place in the teaching and research of English writing throughout the nation. However, due to the drawbacks in traditional teaching of English writing, especially ...Over the past decades, the rapid development has taken place in the teaching and research of English writing throughout the nation. However, due to the drawbacks in traditional teaching of English writing, especially the lack of effective information input （EII）, it is not an easy task for students to improve their writing level in conventional classes. This paper focuses on the study on group work from the perspective of information input. Unlike previous research, this paper intends to demonstrate the role of group work in obtaining effective information input. It starts with a brief introduction to problems in traditional teaching of English. Then it states the definition of group work and the ZPD theory applied in the paper. In the third part, it proposes a case study to testify how group work may improve the effective information input and terminate the study with the conclusion that group work can help to enhance students＇ effective information input. Based on the results of the study, we may suggest that applying group work in an English writing class will finally help students to elevate their writing level.展开更多
Group work is a form of voluntary association of members benefiting from cooperative learning,which enhances the total output of the activity.Therefore,group discussion is a way for active participants to explore new ...Group work is a form of voluntary association of members benefiting from cooperative learning,which enhances the total output of the activity.Therefore,group discussion is a way for active participants to explore new ideas.Based on the previously observed practices in 4th year civil engineering students at Debre Markos University,the group member participations was not pleasing.The objective of this study was to identify the core causes of low participation of group members in their project work and to take actions for improving group member participation.The data collection method used questionnaires and interviews and was analyzed using Microsoft Excels.Action research done in civil engineering 4th year Extension courses focused on continuous advising and instruction.These practices have achieved a good understanding of how to increase active participation in their group work activities.Therefore,a main conclusion of this project is that an active learning method helps the students to share skill,knowledge and attitude to each other.展开更多
In the past few years,group activities have been warmly welcomed by EFL(English as a foreign language)classes in Chi-na,but few studies have discussed it from a critical perspective.Thus,this study explores from stude...In the past few years,group activities have been warmly welcomed by EFL(English as a foreign language)classes in Chi-na,but few studies have discussed it from a critical perspective.Thus,this study explores from students’experiences what and whythe strengths and weaknesses of group work in actual contexts appear.The findings reveal that Chinese learners regard group workas an effective interactive activity for language,personal,and emotional development.However,the possible pitfalls,such as pseu-dogroups,unequal participation,groupthink,L1(first language)influence may prevent learners from obtaining the benefits of CL(collaborative learning).Finally,some suggestions are given,with the purpose of creating a more suitable facilitative EFL classroomenvironment for future Chinese EFL teaching and learning.展开更多
This paper is to explore the validity of group work in improving Chinese learners’English-speaking skills.It starts with briefly investigating the current situations concerning the teaching of conversational English ...This paper is to explore the validity of group work in improving Chinese learners’English-speaking skills.It starts with briefly investigating the current situations concerning the teaching of conversational English in Chinese context.Then a literature review about group work is presented.Finally,a great deal of tentative advice on how to implement group work activities in a spo⁃ken class will be recommended to Chinese EFL teachers.展开更多
In shipping,which is one of the drivers of the world’s economy,many marine accidents continue to occur,such as ship collisions and grounding.To reduce marine collision accidents,seafarers’skills must be improved thr...In shipping,which is one of the drivers of the world’s economy,many marine accidents continue to occur,such as ship collisions and grounding.To reduce marine collision accidents,seafarers’skills must be improved through training.Therefore,the authors propose a ship handling training for collision avoidance(hereinafter referred to as“T for CA”)in which a group of several people discusses the ship handling for collision avoidance,assuming the situation of the collision avoidance.After T for CA implementation,anchoring training was done and the effect of T for CA was verified through comparison with a group where T for CA was not applied.Two instructors evaluated the anchoring training conducted with and without“T for CA”.The anchoring training experiment showed a difference of 27.5%in the achievement rate between the proposed training and previous training.T for CA maximises the effects of group work and resulted in good evaluations in the anchoring training experiments.The training was effective because the students themselves set the scenarios and devised ship handling strategies for collision avoidance.In addition,group work discussions helped deepen students’knowledge and skills.展开更多
From 25 November to 4 December 2024,at the invitation of the United Nations Alliance of Civilisations,Europe-China Returnee Alliance,and the“Polish House”Civil Association,Zhu Rui,CAFIU counselor and former Assistan...From 25 November to 4 December 2024,at the invitation of the United Nations Alliance of Civilisations,Europe-China Returnee Alliance,and the“Polish House”Civil Association,Zhu Rui,CAFIU counselor and former Assistant Minister of IDCPC,led a CAFIU working group to Portugal to attend the 1Oth Global Forum of the United Nations Alliance of Civilisations.展开更多
文摘The working group on design and evaluation of intelligent system ergonomics,under SAC/TC 7,Ergonomics,was officially established in Qingdao city,Shandong province on June 18.The launching ceremony was jointly organized by the Sub-institute of Fundamental Standardization of CNIS and China Standard Certification Co.,Ltd.It was attended by more than 60 experts and industry representatives in fields such as smart home technology,intelligent driving,wearable devices,medical health,and nuclear engineering.
文摘正At the invitation of the University of Mississippi, Friendship Force International and the North America Association for International Exchanges, Mr. Du Kening, Deputy Secretary-General of CAFIU, leading a 3-member working group
文摘 On August 1st, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) convened a conference to transmit the spirit of national quality work and study an important speech regarding standards from Wen Jiabao,Premier of the State Council.……
文摘The year of 2004 is the first year for EPC (Electronic Product Code) enteringChina. EPC brings the new opportunity for RFID (Radio Frequency Identification Hardware) technologyand boundless imagining space and market chance, and provides an open platform for global logisticsdevelopment. China EPC Working Group organized the first Chinese EPC forum on April 22^(nd), 2004.After June of last year, there were almost 2 or 3 forums on EPC/RFID every month. Over tenministries and commissions, such as Ministry of Information and Industry, Ministry of Science andTechnology, have been paying much attention to the EPC development. International retailers, such asWal-Mart, Metro, Tesco and DOD all support the development of EPC. Especially, Wal-Mart gave themandate to it's first 100 suppliers, and all the goods shipped to Wal-Mart distributor center shouldbe tagged since January 2005.
文摘The UK government set up a Herbal Medicines and Practitioners Working Group(HMPWG)to assess possibilities of:1.Setting up Statutory Regulation of Herbal Medicine Practitioners;2.Allowing continued public access to valuable herbal medicines.On 26th March 2015 the HMPWG published the key recommendations after over a year of meetings and consultation with experts.
文摘British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s China visit has yielded a new commitment to a long-term stable comprehensive strategic partnership,with significant breakthroughs in financial cooperation including a newly established financial working group.THE four-day visit of British Prime Minister Keir Starmer to China-the first by a U.K.Prime Minister in eight years-has marked a significant step toward stabilizing and deepening bilateral relations.
文摘A series of study and investigation has been made on the basis of the theory of group work. The purpose is to study the effectiveness of group work in the interaction class, thus to attract more English teachers＇ attention to seek for the new approach to the breakthrough of traditional English class mode.
文摘Group work has many advantages from language acquisition point of view. However, some teachers are unwilling to introduce group work in their own classroom because group work is very difficult to manage. The author of this essay explores the discourse features of successful and unsuccessful group work using discourse analysis in the hope that the results of this language classroom research can help language teachers gain some insight into the use of group work and make more informed decisions about group work management.
文摘This paper discusses group work from affective domain. It points out that group work can make learners feel less anxious because it can provide learners with the sense of security and unity, besides, it can establish good relationship between the teacher and learners. Group work can also be motivating because it can fulfill the human needs for experiencing competence, relatedness and autonomy.
文摘This English teaching in language classroom essay is based on an investigation into the use of pair work and group work in middle school China by means of a corpus to throw some light on the interaction patterns of our English teaching
文摘Nowadays, new paradigm of enterprise organization i s constantly changing due to the emergence of the global marketplace, the rise of information technology, and the emphasis of the social developments. This re quires a more flexible form of organization that are more adaptable to rapid cha nges in business environment such as autonomous work groups (AWGs) in order to achieve higher productivity and effectiveness. AWGs are work units responsib le for the production of goods and the provision of services. They involve team members in making decisions that are traditionally the responsibility of the sup ervisors and managers (Cohen & Bailey, 1997). Team members of AWGs are allowed t o self-regulate their behavior on jobs such as task assignments, methods for ca rrying out the work, and scheduling of activities etc. (Cohen & Ledford, 1994). For example, Motorola achieved a high organizational performance due to the succ essful implementation of AWGs in quality management (Piczak & Hauser, 1996). Xer ox also reported their operational successes based on the team-oriented work gr oups (Wageman, 1997). In recent years many organizations have replaced the traditional layers of manag ement with autonomous team-based work arrangements. Surveys indicated that the adoption of AWGs has soared in responding to the competitive business challenges . Many enterprises are making a deliberate effort to use AWGs to carry out work and operational processes as an alternative for hierarchical approaches (Lawler et al., 1995). There is a growing body of evidence that AWGs are more effective than traditionally managed groups and they contributes to organizational perform ance, such as improvement in operational performance, productivity, quality, cos t savings, employee attitude and behavior, and employee satisfaction (e.g. Pears on, 1992; Cohen & Ledford, 1994; Seers et al. 1995). Given the complexity and cognitive nature of team-based organizations, the mech anisms that the enterprises use in the development of the increasingly sophistic ated models, which can contribute to the effective functioning of AWGs, are extr emely important. The process of developing effective AWGs enables enterprises to inherent built-in intelligence of the organizations so that they will be more able to accommodate to external pressures and changes. The context of this paper is the construction of a dynamics framework and a stra tegic path for autonomous work groups in the technology-oriented manufacturing organization re-design. The framework is a conceptual one drawn from the litera ture survey. The importance of studying autonomous work groups for today’s manuf acturing organizations is claimed. Based on the General System Theory (GST), the characterization of AWGs is addressed. Three-dimensional domains such as t echnical content, service content, and relationship content are identified. A st rategic path is proposed to guide the organizations how the development of AWGs progresses at different levels of maturity that are associated with organization al effectiveness and performance. The utility of the model for AWGs is expected to provide technology-oriented organizations with a strategic path to achieve h igher organizational performance.
文摘Nowadays, collaborative teaching has become an original and effective teaching strategy, which has been generally accepted in many countries. It is an effective means to cultivate and train students＇ language using ability and their autonomous learning ability. The core of collaborative teaching is making students accomplish a common learning goal via group work. In view of the current situation of college English teaching, this paper has explored issues on the group work in collaborative teaching, including group work designing, group work implementing and group work evaluating. In addition, it has discussed with examples the merits and demerits of group work and come up with concrete measures for improvement so as to further promote college English teaching reforms.
文摘Over the past decades, the rapid development has taken place in the teaching and research of English writing throughout the nation. However, due to the drawbacks in traditional teaching of English writing, especially the lack of effective information input （EII）, it is not an easy task for students to improve their writing level in conventional classes. This paper focuses on the study on group work from the perspective of information input. Unlike previous research, this paper intends to demonstrate the role of group work in obtaining effective information input. It starts with a brief introduction to problems in traditional teaching of English. Then it states the definition of group work and the ZPD theory applied in the paper. In the third part, it proposes a case study to testify how group work may improve the effective information input and terminate the study with the conclusion that group work can help to enhance students＇ effective information input. Based on the results of the study, we may suggest that applying group work in an English writing class will finally help students to elevate their writing level.
文摘Group work is a form of voluntary association of members benefiting from cooperative learning,which enhances the total output of the activity.Therefore,group discussion is a way for active participants to explore new ideas.Based on the previously observed practices in 4th year civil engineering students at Debre Markos University,the group member participations was not pleasing.The objective of this study was to identify the core causes of low participation of group members in their project work and to take actions for improving group member participation.The data collection method used questionnaires and interviews and was analyzed using Microsoft Excels.Action research done in civil engineering 4th year Extension courses focused on continuous advising and instruction.These practices have achieved a good understanding of how to increase active participation in their group work activities.Therefore,a main conclusion of this project is that an active learning method helps the students to share skill,knowledge and attitude to each other.
文摘In the past few years,group activities have been warmly welcomed by EFL(English as a foreign language)classes in Chi-na,but few studies have discussed it from a critical perspective.Thus,this study explores from students’experiences what and whythe strengths and weaknesses of group work in actual contexts appear.The findings reveal that Chinese learners regard group workas an effective interactive activity for language,personal,and emotional development.However,the possible pitfalls,such as pseu-dogroups,unequal participation,groupthink,L1(first language)influence may prevent learners from obtaining the benefits of CL(collaborative learning).Finally,some suggestions are given,with the purpose of creating a more suitable facilitative EFL classroomenvironment for future Chinese EFL teaching and learning.
文摘This paper is to explore the validity of group work in improving Chinese learners’English-speaking skills.It starts with briefly investigating the current situations concerning the teaching of conversational English in Chinese context.Then a literature review about group work is presented.Finally,a great deal of tentative advice on how to implement group work activities in a spo⁃ken class will be recommended to Chinese EFL teachers.
文摘In shipping,which is one of the drivers of the world’s economy,many marine accidents continue to occur,such as ship collisions and grounding.To reduce marine collision accidents,seafarers’skills must be improved through training.Therefore,the authors propose a ship handling training for collision avoidance(hereinafter referred to as“T for CA”)in which a group of several people discusses the ship handling for collision avoidance,assuming the situation of the collision avoidance.After T for CA implementation,anchoring training was done and the effect of T for CA was verified through comparison with a group where T for CA was not applied.Two instructors evaluated the anchoring training conducted with and without“T for CA”.The anchoring training experiment showed a difference of 27.5%in the achievement rate between the proposed training and previous training.T for CA maximises the effects of group work and resulted in good evaluations in the anchoring training experiments.The training was effective because the students themselves set the scenarios and devised ship handling strategies for collision avoidance.In addition,group work discussions helped deepen students’knowledge and skills.
文摘From 25 November to 4 December 2024,at the invitation of the United Nations Alliance of Civilisations,Europe-China Returnee Alliance,and the“Polish House”Civil Association,Zhu Rui,CAFIU counselor and former Assistant Minister of IDCPC,led a CAFIU working group to Portugal to attend the 1Oth Global Forum of the United Nations Alliance of Civilisations.
