伪科学与传统文化——科学理念门外谈之一

自从科学的春天降临神州大地以来,科学技术在中国的社会进步中发挥了威力,与此同时,伪科学也在神州大地如野草丛生。科学技术不仅担负着发展和兴国的重任,而且义不容辞地同伪科学作不懈的斗争。起初,宣传部门以"三不政策"阻挠对     

Emerging technologies and corporate culture at Microsoft: a methodological note

This article explores factors important in the study and examination of corporate culture and change. The particular focus is on the technological methods used to conduct a study of accessible technology and corporate culture at Microsoft Corporation. Reasons for particular approaches are explained. Advantages and challenges of emerging technologies that store and retrieve information in the study of corporate culture are reviewed.     

风水--传统文化中的糟粕

当我们在创建和弘扬先进文化的时候,有些人总是坚持在把玩着传统文化。中华民族历史悠久,传统文化无疑丰富多彩。弘扬优秀的传统文化是理所当然的事。然而,不会有人敢站出来说,传统文化没有精华与糟粕之分。我们创建和弘扬先进文化是建立在继承传统文化的精华、扬弃其中的糟粕基础上的。那么什么是传统文化的糟粕呢?我以为,风水正是其中之一条潺潺的弱流。     

弘扬传统道教文化 为构建和谐社会服务

党的十六届四中全会《决定》,明确提出了要构建社会主义和谐社会,并将之作为提高党的执政能力建设的一个方面,强调要坚持最广泛、最充分地调动一切积极因素,这是我们党对中国特色社会主义事业认识的新发展,是我们从全面建设小康社会全局出发确定的一项重大战略任务。构建社会主     

优秀传统文化和科学精神是一致的

2007年2月4日,胡锦涛主席在看望出席全国政协十届五次会议委员时曾指出:创新型国家应该是科学精神蔚然成风的国家。科学精神是一个国家繁荣富强,一个民族进步兴盛必不可少的精神。     

Stopping nutrition and hydration technologies: a conflict between traditional Catholic ethics and church authority.

This article focuses on the troubling effects of the secular values of individual freedom and autonomy and their impact on laws regarding suicide and euthanasia. The author argues that in an increasingly secularized culture, death and dying are losing their meaning and are not thought of within a moral framework. The debate regarding the provision of artificial nutrition and hydration is critically considered in light of the history of Catholic morality as well as within the modern healthcare context, and finally with new insight from the recent statements made by the late pope. Drane argues that the pope's insistence on providing artificial nutrition and hydration despite irreversible persistent vegetative states in unconvincing.     

新形势下对传统文化中无神论思想的汲取与运用

中华民族拥有源远流长的文化传统,在新形势下以文化自觉的态度汲取其中的无神论思想,分析无神论思想发展的脉络,梳理无神论思想承前启后的发展历程。可以更好地借鉴古代先贤从朴素的唯物论、无神论高度来论证无神论思想,利用科学知识、倡导科学精神批判有神论观点的智慧。对当前践行科学发展观、倡导精神文明建设,推进社会和谐大有裨益。     

Effects of seat position on perception of power in Chinese traditional culture

In China, some rituals show that power is represented by seat positions. The current study empirically investigated the relationship between seat position and perception of power, and the cultural differences in this relationship. In Experiment 1, participants were asked to arrange seats for people with different power. The results showed that seats for high‐power people were placed facing the door while others’ seats were placed with their backs to the door. In Experiment 2, a priming task was employed to test the link between seat position and perception of power. Results revealed that after pictures of the seat facing the door were primed, judgments for high‐power words were more accurate and faster than for low‐power words, as compared to priming with the condition of the seat with its back to the door. A Stroop task was employed in Experiment 3 to explore cultural differences. Results showed that Chinese participants judged high‐power words faster in the congruent trials than in the incongruent trials, but no such difference was found in African participants. These findings suggest that the concept of power can be partly represented by seat position in China.     

Feminism and reproductive technologies

...Rowland is a social scientist and a radical feminist, and she has undertaken the task of making readers think twice about reproductive technologies. If a reader isn't thinking twice, it will not do to blame it on Rowland and the shortcomings of her book. She has a good deal to say that is extremely important and that needs to be considered by anyone who is interested in the moral issues, in general, and the issues for women and children, in particular, that are raised by the new and emerging reproductive technologies. Her book should be widely read. And it should generate the worries it is written to generate.     

Development and validation of the Dutch Questionnaire God Image : Effects of mental health and religious culture

This article presents the Dutch Questionnaire God Image (QGI), which has two theory-based dimensions: feelings towards God and perceptions of God's actions. This instrument was validated among a sample of 804 respondents, of which 244 persons received psychotherapy. Results showed relationships between the affective and cognitive aspect of the God image. The God image of psychiatric patients had a more negative and threatening nature than the God image of the non-psychiatric respondents. Also, religious culture appeared to affect the God image.     

Depression for college students in a traditional Christian culture context: the role of attachment,spirituality and social support

The role of attachment, perceived social support, and perceived discrepancy from spiritual ideal were assessed in their association with depression in college students in a Christian culture environment. Participants (N?=?155) at a small Christian university completed the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale, the Experiences in Close Relationships questionnaire, and questions about satisfaction with social support and discrepancy of their spiritual well-being to an ideal spiritual well-being. Results showed that social support, insecure attachment and discrepancy from spiritual ideal were all significant predictors of depression. Attachment was found to moderate the association between perceived spiritual well-being and depression, with insecurely attached individuals more at risk for depression if they evaluate their spiritual development as lacking. Implications are discussed.     

Fertility technologies and trans-kin altruism

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The dark side of technologies: Technostress among users of information and communication technologies

This paper tests the structure and the predictors of two psychological experiences of technostress associated with the use of information and communication technologies (ICT), i.e., technostrain (users report feelings of anxiety, fatigue, scepticism and inefficacy beliefs related to the use of technologies) and technoaddiction (users feel bad due to an excessive and compulsive use of these technologies). The study included a sample of 1072 ICT users (N = 675 nonintensive ICT users and N = 397 intensive ICT users). Results from multigroup confirmatory factor analyses among non‐intensive and intensive ICT users showed, as expected, the four‐factor structure of technostrain in both samples. Secondly, and also as expected, confirmatory factorial analyses revealed that technostress experiences are characterized not only by technostrain but also by an excessive and compulsive use of ICT. Moreover, multiple analyses of variance showed significant differences between non‐intensive and intensive ICT users (1) in the dimensions of technostress and (2) in specific job demands and job/personal resources. Finally, linear multiple regression analyses revealed that technostrain is positively predicted by work overload, role ambiguity, emotional overload, mobbing and obstacles hindering ICT use, as well as by lack of autonomy, transformational leadership, social support, ICT use facilitators and mental competences. Work overload, role ambiguity and mobbing, as well as the lack of emotional competences, positively predict technoaddiction. Theoretical and practical implications, in addition to future research, are discussed.     

镜文化与佛教文化之互动

四千年的中国镜文化蕴涵着浓郁的民族特色,昭示着中华民族的心灵历程.此间,佛教文化东传入华,对我国镜文化产生了巨大影响.季羡林先生说过"如果没有佛教的传入,从汉代、或者从魏晋开始,我们的历史、哲学、文学艺术就会是另一个样子,宗教就更不一样了."①的确,镜文化与佛教文化系统,一个基于物质载体而沿续并不断充入新的文化内涵,一个本于纯粹思想理念,需要通过物质生活中的事物强化其传播接受,二者因惊人相似的同构关系而形成互动.     

Partial assessment of technologies

Trade‐Offs: Imperatives of Choice in a High‐Tech World, by Ed Wenk, Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986, 238 pages, hb $20     

Lambda-calculus,combinators and applicative computational technologies

Applicative computing systems and technologies have taken a strong position in modern computing. In this paper, the basic applicative system, whether it is a lambda calculus or a system of combinators, is considered as a prototype concept system, using which it is possible to build individual systems that are practically significant for mathematics, computing, or programming. They are families of computational models that have both their own semantics and applied areas. This conceptualization/individualization technique is characteristic of the field of semantic studies. As it turns out, the applicative approach forms a metatheoretical framework that provides the basis for cognitive systems that consider abstract objects and interpret their properties and behavior in the environment of modern computing.