Educational discourses,or to be more specific,universities’introductory discourses have not been studied from the contrastive perspective using critical genre analysis theories.This study uses Fairclough’s framework...Educational discourses,or to be more specific,universities’introductory discourses have not been studied from the contrastive perspective using critical genre analysis theories.This study uses Fairclough’s framework of discourse analysis to take a corpus-based contrastive study between the Chinese and global universities’introductory discourses from three aspects.Firstly,the textual dimension will be explored using the corpus-based approach.Secondly,it studies from the discursive dimension from intertextuality and interdiscursivity.Finally,the social cultural perspective study will be given about the corresponding social cultural interpretation on the differences between Chinese and global universities’introduction discourses.展开更多
This paper takes the C-E translation of product introductory texts on official websites of three mobile phone makers as the study object under the Skopos theory, with an aim to identify and analyze the distinctive tra...This paper takes the C-E translation of product introductory texts on official websites of three mobile phone makers as the study object under the Skopos theory, with an aim to identify and analyze the distinctive translation features of such special type of text. The exhausted parse and analysis bring out the findings that there exists a significant translation difference between the Chinese and English-version product introductory texts on official websites. It is found that Chinese introductory texts are more inclined to rely on exquisite words and redundant expressions to describe products’ features and functions, while switching to the corresponding English version, simple vocabularies and compact sentence structure are more frequent. Hereafter, this paper raises two practical guidelines to instruct translation activities in business contexts.展开更多
<span style="font-family:Verdana;">Psychiatric day care plays an important role as transitional support after discharge in Japan. However, interruption rate of the day care treatment is high during the...<span style="font-family:Verdana;">Psychiatric day care plays an important role as transitional support after discharge in Japan. However, interruption rate of the day care treatment is high during the introductory period. The purpose of this study was to clarify the experiences of psychiatric day-care patients during the introductory period and find an approach to care. A qualitative study with thirteen patients at the </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">introductory period was designed to explore participant’s experiences through </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">semi-structured interviews. At first, patients were confused about their attitude because they paid attention to themselves, and consequently closed their </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">involvement with others. However, through therapeutic day care activities, they </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">attempted to adapt themselves and gradually turned their attention toward others and accumulated interpersonal experiences. As interactions with others became more frequent, they became conscious of themselves and others. </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Finally, while having worries about the future, they looked toward recovery and </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">became aware that they were changing. Experiences of patients during the introductory period were essential to their recovery and gave meaning to their day care usage. Nurses should collaborate with patients to determine whether day care would serve to open a patient’s life to new possibilities.</span>展开更多
This study attempts to investigate if and how students＇ perceptions regarding the first accounting course related with the selection of accounting as a major. Moreover, it examines students＇ initial perceptions and ...This study attempts to investigate if and how students＇ perceptions regarding the first accounting course related with the selection of accounting as a major. Moreover, it examines students＇ initial perceptions and course performance regarding the introductory accounting course. Participants in this study were 120 students from Technological Educational Institute of Kavala, School of Business and Economics （3 departments）, who were asked to complete a survey instrument. The instrument used eleven statements regarding students＇ perceptions （such as difficulty and motivation of the course） of the first accounting course. The main factors affect students＇ decisions to follow accounting and seem to be similar with other researchers＇ findings （Geiger ＆ Ogilby, 2000）. Future research could be used larger sample from different countries and the survey could also be used for a longer time period.展开更多
The case describes the situation of a Brazilian accounting courses in undergraduate programmes middle-class family, as an alternative to teach introductory In its solution, it was used an accounting system, adapted to...The case describes the situation of a Brazilian accounting courses in undergraduate programmes middle-class family, as an alternative to teach introductory In its solution, it was used an accounting system, adapted to the needs of register, control, and information of the family equity, through the application of the content of introductory accounting. The authors aim to offer a didactic and playful alternative for the teaching of introductory accounting in undergraduation courses, such as business management, accountancy, economy, and others in which this course is offered. The aim is to show the integration of accounting contents offered in the course, applied to the most common and nearest experience of freshmen in their first year during the undergraduate program： the family. The case can be solved in two phases： In the first, during a class of up to 100 minutes, the professor develops six activities, culminating in the students answering up to four suggested questions; in the second, whose application is left to the professor, in another class further ahead, is numerical.展开更多
Renaming of the Journal of Natural Gas Chemistry to the Journal of Energy Chemist~ is most timely and appropriate. The past decade has seen a rapid growth in research and technology devoted to the use of renewable ene...Renaming of the Journal of Natural Gas Chemistry to the Journal of Energy Chemist~ is most timely and appropriate. The past decade has seen a rapid growth in research and technology devoted to the use of renewable energy resources, principally biomass and solar radiation, at the same time that reserves of fossil energy have increased as a consequence of using advanced drilling methods to release natural gas and petroleum from shale. The changes suggest that future research will focus on both the conversion of conventional energy resources in a manner that result in their efficient use and on the discovery and development of conversion technologies for utilization of renewable energy resources.展开更多
Introductory Statistics is a course taught in various community colleges, state colleges, and universities. Implementation of projects in this course has been shown to enhance students’ learning;in addition to increa...Introductory Statistics is a course taught in various community colleges, state colleges, and universities. Implementation of projects in this course has been shown to enhance students’ learning;in addition to increasing the ability of educators to assess students’ learning outcomes in detail. These projects are often inquiry-based and require a balance between flexibility and efficiency. Maintaining balance has provided the students’ opportunities through exploration and learner autonomy. In exploration, a student seeks new methods and options through experimenting. In this paper, we will discuss the benefits of exploration required by projects given in an introductory statistics course. The details of five different projects discussed in this paper—illustrate the practical influence that they could have on higher statistics courses.展开更多
Mr. Chairman, Distinguished Members of the Committee, First of all, I would like to extend, on behalf of the Chinese delegation, our greetings and respects to all the distinguished members of the Committee. The Commit...Mr. Chairman, Distinguished Members of the Committee, First of all, I would like to extend, on behalf of the Chinese delegation, our greetings and respects to all the distinguished members of the Committee. The Committee has made enormous efforts and played an important role in promoting the purposes and principles of the Convention and reinforcing the global efforts to ban and prevent torture. The Chinese Government appreciates your endeavor and will continue to support the work of the Committee.展开更多
Madam Chairwoman, Mr. Rapporteur, Distinguished Members of the Committee, First of all, I would like to extend, on behalf of the Chinese delegation, our heartfelt greetings and respects to all the distinguished membe...Madam Chairwoman, Mr. Rapporteur, Distinguished Members of the Committee, First of all, I would like to extend, on behalf of the Chinese delegation, our heartfelt greetings and respects to all the distinguished members of the Committee. The Committee has made enormous efforts and played an important role in promoting the objectives and principles of the International Convention on Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. The Chinese Government appreciates your endeavour and will continue to support the work of the Committee.展开更多
Engaging non-science majors in a college-level science course can prove challenging. In turn, this can make it difficult to effectively teach science and math content. However, topics related to planetary exploration ...Engaging non-science majors in a college-level science course can prove challenging. In turn, this can make it difficult to effectively teach science and math content. However, topics related to planetary exploration have a unique way of capturing one’s imagination and may serve to robustly engage non-science majors. In this contribution, I 1) describe a model rocketry lab module,?I have created and implemented into an introductory-level planetary geology course and 2) quantify student learning gains as a result of this module. This module builds on model rocketry lesson plans for science and math coursework at the K-12 level (e.g., [1]?[2])?and involves students working in groups to 1) design and build model rockets to carry out a theoretical mission that addresses a science question the students have developed, 2) launch their rockets and collect related data, 3) synthesize and evaluate their data, and 4) report their results in both oral and written forms. The tasks of building and launching the model rocket serve as a vehicle that allows students to employ the scientific process while learning about planetary mission design and applying geologic and quantitative skills useful to answering a science-related question. Quantification of student learning gains shows that through this lab module, students significantly improved their quantitative and scientific reasoning skills. Results from student questionnaires showed a significant increase in student interest and confidence in addressing scientific questions as well as an understanding of how planetary missions are designed and conducted.展开更多
Concealed scene understanding(CSU)is a hot computer vision topic aiming to perceive objects exhibiting camouflage.The current boom in terms of techniques and applications warrants an up-to-date survey.This can help res...Concealed scene understanding(CSU)is a hot computer vision topic aiming to perceive objects exhibiting camouflage.The current boom in terms of techniques and applications warrants an up-to-date survey.This can help researchers better understand the global CSUfield,including both current achievements and remaining challenges.This paper makes four contributions:(1)For thefirst time,we present a comprehensive survey of deep learning techniques aimed at CSU,including a taxonomy,task-specific challenges,and ongoing developments.(2)To allow for an authoritative quantification of the state-of-the-art,we offer the largest and latest benchmark for concealed object segmentation(COS).(3)To evaluate the generalizability of deep CSU in practical scenarios,we collected the largest concealed defect segmentation dataset termed CDS2K with the hard cases from diversified industrial scenarios,on which we constructed a comprehensive benchmark.(4)We discuss open problems and potential research directions for CSU.展开更多
文摘Educational discourses,or to be more specific,universities’introductory discourses have not been studied from the contrastive perspective using critical genre analysis theories.This study uses Fairclough’s framework of discourse analysis to take a corpus-based contrastive study between the Chinese and global universities’introductory discourses from three aspects.Firstly,the textual dimension will be explored using the corpus-based approach.Secondly,it studies from the discursive dimension from intertextuality and interdiscursivity.Finally,the social cultural perspective study will be given about the corresponding social cultural interpretation on the differences between Chinese and global universities’introduction discourses.
文摘This paper takes the C-E translation of product introductory texts on official websites of three mobile phone makers as the study object under the Skopos theory, with an aim to identify and analyze the distinctive translation features of such special type of text. The exhausted parse and analysis bring out the findings that there exists a significant translation difference between the Chinese and English-version product introductory texts on official websites. It is found that Chinese introductory texts are more inclined to rely on exquisite words and redundant expressions to describe products’ features and functions, while switching to the corresponding English version, simple vocabularies and compact sentence structure are more frequent. Hereafter, this paper raises two practical guidelines to instruct translation activities in business contexts.
文摘<span style="font-family:Verdana;">Psychiatric day care plays an important role as transitional support after discharge in Japan. However, interruption rate of the day care treatment is high during the introductory period. The purpose of this study was to clarify the experiences of psychiatric day-care patients during the introductory period and find an approach to care. A qualitative study with thirteen patients at the </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">introductory period was designed to explore participant’s experiences through </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">semi-structured interviews. At first, patients were confused about their attitude because they paid attention to themselves, and consequently closed their </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">involvement with others. However, through therapeutic day care activities, they </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">attempted to adapt themselves and gradually turned their attention toward others and accumulated interpersonal experiences. As interactions with others became more frequent, they became conscious of themselves and others. </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Finally, while having worries about the future, they looked toward recovery and </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">became aware that they were changing. Experiences of patients during the introductory period were essential to their recovery and gave meaning to their day care usage. Nurses should collaborate with patients to determine whether day care would serve to open a patient’s life to new possibilities.</span>
文摘This study attempts to investigate if and how students＇ perceptions regarding the first accounting course related with the selection of accounting as a major. Moreover, it examines students＇ initial perceptions and course performance regarding the introductory accounting course. Participants in this study were 120 students from Technological Educational Institute of Kavala, School of Business and Economics （3 departments）, who were asked to complete a survey instrument. The instrument used eleven statements regarding students＇ perceptions （such as difficulty and motivation of the course） of the first accounting course. The main factors affect students＇ decisions to follow accounting and seem to be similar with other researchers＇ findings （Geiger ＆ Ogilby, 2000）. Future research could be used larger sample from different countries and the survey could also be used for a longer time period.
文摘The case describes the situation of a Brazilian accounting courses in undergraduate programmes middle-class family, as an alternative to teach introductory In its solution, it was used an accounting system, adapted to the needs of register, control, and information of the family equity, through the application of the content of introductory accounting. The authors aim to offer a didactic and playful alternative for the teaching of introductory accounting in undergraduation courses, such as business management, accountancy, economy, and others in which this course is offered. The aim is to show the integration of accounting contents offered in the course, applied to the most common and nearest experience of freshmen in their first year during the undergraduate program： the family. The case can be solved in two phases： In the first, during a class of up to 100 minutes, the professor develops six activities, culminating in the students answering up to four suggested questions; in the second, whose application is left to the professor, in another class further ahead, is numerical.
文摘Renaming of the Journal of Natural Gas Chemistry to the Journal of Energy Chemist~ is most timely and appropriate. The past decade has seen a rapid growth in research and technology devoted to the use of renewable energy resources, principally biomass and solar radiation, at the same time that reserves of fossil energy have increased as a consequence of using advanced drilling methods to release natural gas and petroleum from shale. The changes suggest that future research will focus on both the conversion of conventional energy resources in a manner that result in their efficient use and on the discovery and development of conversion technologies for utilization of renewable energy resources.
文摘Introductory Statistics is a course taught in various community colleges, state colleges, and universities. Implementation of projects in this course has been shown to enhance students’ learning;in addition to increasing the ability of educators to assess students’ learning outcomes in detail. These projects are often inquiry-based and require a balance between flexibility and efficiency. Maintaining balance has provided the students’ opportunities through exploration and learner autonomy. In exploration, a student seeks new methods and options through experimenting. In this paper, we will discuss the benefits of exploration required by projects given in an introductory statistics course. The details of five different projects discussed in this paper—illustrate the practical influence that they could have on higher statistics courses.
文摘Mr. Chairman, Distinguished Members of the Committee, First of all, I would like to extend, on behalf of the Chinese delegation, our greetings and respects to all the distinguished members of the Committee. The Committee has made enormous efforts and played an important role in promoting the purposes and principles of the Convention and reinforcing the global efforts to ban and prevent torture. The Chinese Government appreciates your endeavor and will continue to support the work of the Committee.
文摘Madam Chairwoman, Mr. Rapporteur, Distinguished Members of the Committee, First of all, I would like to extend, on behalf of the Chinese delegation, our heartfelt greetings and respects to all the distinguished members of the Committee. The Committee has made enormous efforts and played an important role in promoting the objectives and principles of the International Convention on Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. The Chinese Government appreciates your endeavour and will continue to support the work of the Committee.
文摘Engaging non-science majors in a college-level science course can prove challenging. In turn, this can make it difficult to effectively teach science and math content. However, topics related to planetary exploration have a unique way of capturing one’s imagination and may serve to robustly engage non-science majors. In this contribution, I 1) describe a model rocketry lab module,?I have created and implemented into an introductory-level planetary geology course and 2) quantify student learning gains as a result of this module. This module builds on model rocketry lesson plans for science and math coursework at the K-12 level (e.g., [1]?[2])?and involves students working in groups to 1) design and build model rockets to carry out a theoretical mission that addresses a science question the students have developed, 2) launch their rockets and collect related data, 3) synthesize and evaluate their data, and 4) report their results in both oral and written forms. The tasks of building and launching the model rocket serve as a vehicle that allows students to employ the scientific process while learning about planetary mission design and applying geologic and quantitative skills useful to answering a science-related question. Quantification of student learning gains shows that through this lab module, students significantly improved their quantitative and scientific reasoning skills. Results from student questionnaires showed a significant increase in student interest and confidence in addressing scientific questions as well as an understanding of how planetary missions are designed and conducted.
基金Deng-Ping Fan and Christos Sakaridis are funded by Toyota Motor Europe(research project TRACE-Zurich).
文摘Concealed scene understanding(CSU)is a hot computer vision topic aiming to perceive objects exhibiting camouflage.The current boom in terms of techniques and applications warrants an up-to-date survey.This can help researchers better understand the global CSUfield,including both current achievements and remaining challenges.This paper makes four contributions:(1)For thefirst time,we present a comprehensive survey of deep learning techniques aimed at CSU,including a taxonomy,task-specific challenges,and ongoing developments.(2)To allow for an authoritative quantification of the state-of-the-art,we offer the largest and latest benchmark for concealed object segmentation(COS).(3)To evaluate the generalizability of deep CSU in practical scenarios,we collected the largest concealed defect segmentation dataset termed CDS2K with the hard cases from diversified industrial scenarios,on which we constructed a comprehensive benchmark.(4)We discuss open problems and potential research directions for CSU.
