Slave,Sister, Sexborg,Sphinx: Feminine Figurations in Nick Land's Philosophy

Given that Nick Land is one of the central influences on certain strands of accelerationism, xenofeminism, and inhumanism, it is important to understand how he himself first developed and deployed the concepts of acceleration, the feminine, and the inhuman, which others would go on to appropriate for their own purposes. This article will trace the four feminine figures throughout Land's philosophical trajectory, which he sees as agents for accelerating the transcendental critique of both anthropocentrism and phallocentrism: the slave turned lesbian; the sister; the sexborg; and the Sphinx. Having elucidated the importance of these figures for Land's thought, this article will conclude by drawing upon the younger Land's feminist resources to immanently critique the disappearance of women from his more recent neoreactionary philosophy in favor of concessions to patriarchal traditionalists.     

A comparison of computer‐assisted and therapist‐led instruction for children with autism spectrum disorder

The current investigation applied a model of assessment‐based instruction to an evaluation of the efficacy and efficiency of computer‐assisted and therapist‐led instruction on skill acquisition for 3 participants with autism spectrum disorder. We also evaluated the participant's attending during instruction and the social validity of each format of instruction. The results showed that computer‐assisted instruction was most efficient for 2 of the 3 participants, although attending varied across instructional formats. In addition, the social validity of instructional formats varied across participants.     

What’s in a voice? Dolphins do not use voice cues for individual recognition

Most mammals can accomplish acoustic recognition of other individuals by means of “voice cues,” whereby characteristics of the vocal tract render vocalizations of an individual uniquely identifiable. However, sound production in dolphins takes place in gas-filled nasal sacs that are affected by pressure changes, potentially resulting in a lack of reliable voice cues. It is well known that bottlenose dolphins learn to produce individually distinctive signature whistles for individual recognition, but it is not known whether they may also use voice cues. To investigate this question, we played back non-signature whistles to wild dolphins during brief capture-release events in Sarasota Bay, Florida. We hypothesized that non-signature whistles, which have varied contours that can be shared among individuals, would be recognizable to dolphins only if they contained voice cues. Following established methodology used in two previous sets of playback experiments, we found that dolphins did not respond differentially to non-signature whistles of close relatives versus known unrelated individuals. In contrast, our previous studies showed that in an identical context, dolphins reacted strongly to hearing the signature whistle or even a synthetic version of the signature whistle of a close relative. Thus, we conclude that dolphins likely do not use voice cues to identify individuals. The low reliability of voice cues and the need for individual recognition were likely strong selective forces in the evolution of vocal learning in dolphins.     

现实及网络社会排斥与大学生抑郁的关系:自我控制的中介作用

对1077名大学生进行调查,探讨现实、网络社会排斥和自我控制与大学生抑郁的关系。结果显示:(1)现实社会排斥与网络社会排斥在发生频率上没有显著差异;网络社会排斥、现实社会排斥、自我控制以及抑郁两两之间均呈显著正相关关系;(2)现实社会排斥不仅能够对抑郁产生直接的预测作用,而且能够通过自我控制的中介作用对抑郁产生影响;(3)网络社会排斥对抑郁的直接预测作用不显著,只能够通过自我控制的中介作用对抑郁产生影响。     

Profiling Perceptual Learning Styles of Chinese as a Second Language Learners in University Settings

This study revisited Reid’s (1987) perceptual learning style preference questionnaire (PLSPQ) in an attempt to answer whether the PLSPQ fits in the Chinese-as-a-second-language (CSL) context. If not, what are CSL learners’ learning styles drawing on the PLSPQ? The PLSPQ was first re-examined through reliability analysis and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) with 224 CSL learners. The results showed that Reid’s six-factor PLSPQ could not satisfactorily explain the CSL learners’ learning styles. Exploratory factor analyses were, therefore, performed to explore the dimensionality of the PLSPQ in the CSL context. A four-factor PLSPQ was successfully constructed including auditory/visual, kinaesthetic/tactile, group, and individual styles. Such a measurement model was cross-validated through CFAs with 118 CSL learners. The study not only lends evidence to the literature that Reid’s PLSPQ lacks construct validity, but also provides CSL teachers and learners with insightful and practical guidance concerning learning styles. Implications and limitations of the present study are discussed.     

Engagement Attentional Bias toward Value-Associated Stimuli

Recent evidence has shown that learning to associate the value of behavioral outcomes with specific stimuli (i.e., value learning/association) can induce attentional capture in a subsequent visual search task. Here we investigated the component of attentional bias toward value-associated stimuli in the dot-probe paradigm. In the training phase, participants learned to associate nonsense shape outlines with monetary wins or losses. The shapes were then used as cues in an explicit no feedback dot-probe task. Probe appeared at either the salient (congruent trial) or nonsalient location (incongruent trial). Results indicate attentional bias toward value-associated stimuli, futher more this attentional bias is driven by an engagement bias.     

“道情”考释

一、“道情”的源起与体制“道情”作为一种道教声腔说唱艺术,起源于何时,有不同的说法。有人认为“道情”原为“道歌”,相传为东汉张道陵所创,用来宣传因果报应,劝善惩恶等宗教思想,南宋时,开始用渔鼓和简板伴奏,亦称渔鼓;有人认为道家的《步虚词》是“道情的先声”,《步虚词》由道家之徒所吟唱,未几便产生出了正式的“道情”;陈汝衡先生在其《说书史话》中引用《新唐书·礼乐志》“高宗调露二年命乐工作道调”的记载,欲从中寻绎出道情的起源①;郑振铎先生在其《中国俗文学史》中说:“道情之唱,由来甚久。元曲有仙佛科;元人散曲里复多闲适…     

论医院服务效益范畴及其评价

正确运用医院服务效益的评价指标,才能引导医院健康发展。在服务产品理论基础上,探讨医院服务的经济效益与社会效益范畴及其评价指标。通过分析两个效益的辩证关系认为,医院坚持社会效益首位原则与重视经济效益并行不悖。     

童年中期同伴关系与孤独感的中介变量检验

以571名小学三、四、五、六年级的儿童为被试,考察了儿童社会喜好、友谊质量、社交自我知觉与孤独感的关系,检验了社交自我知觉在同伴关系变量与孤独感间的中介作用。结果表明,社会喜好、友谊质量、社交自我知觉和孤独感间相关显著,并且存在显著的性别差异;社交自我知觉在同伴关系变量与孤独感间存在中介的作用;独立的中介效应检验中,社会喜好、友谊质量均通过社交自我知觉的中介作用与孤独感发生联系,同时,也存在直接的联系;综合模型中,社会喜好只通过社交自我知觉的中介作用与孤独感产生联系,不存在直接效应,而友谊质量与孤独感既存在中介的联系,同时也存在直接联系。     

世界逻辑元研究的进展--评《逻辑学思想史》

张家龙主编的<逻辑学思想史>(张家龙、刘培育、郑伟宏、邵强进合著)已由湖南教育出版社出版.我是该书审稿人和热心读者,多次阅读,反复体味,深感其多有堪向广大读者推介的特色和优点.