小学儿童对习俗时间的时距判断

本研究选取“星期”这种习俗时间系统作为实验材料,通过让被试完成范畴性的时距判断任务,即让被试判断某一给定的日期是否属于某一参照日期之后３天中的某一天,探讨了小学儿童对习俗时间的认知加工过程的发展。结果表明,小学儿童对习俗时间的认知加工成绩随年龄的增长而不断提高,在认知加工过程中,具有显著的“距离效应”和“边界效应”,随着两个日期之间时距的增加,反应时逐渐增大,正确率逐渐降低,当两个日期之间的时距为３天时,反应时最长,正确率最低。而且,儿童可以直接运用数字系统来解决习俗时间的问题,他们的认知加工策略包括数字计数、数字运算和表象判断。     

What If the Church Really is the Body of Christ?

Abstract : What does it mean to claim that the church is the body of Christ? Following the lead of the New Testament, Bonhoeffer, Jenson, and Hauerwas, this article articulates how the church becomes the body of Christ through the narrative of Scripture and the practices of worship. As Jesus Christ has a distinctive character, so also the body of Christ has a distinctive character. This character is described through the four classical marks of the church—one, holy, catholic, apostolic. These notae ecclesiae are to be interpreted not only in relation to the inner constitution of the church but ethically in relation to the church's calling to be “shalom church” for the life of the world in peacemaking, doing justice, caring for creation, and defending human dignity. Particular communal practices that embody this character are proposed for the life of the church.     

Digit ratio and celebrity worship

The current study tested the hypothesis that digit ratios would be associated with celebrity worship, especially among adolescents. Our sample consisted of 45 male and 61 female participants aged 12-14 years (M = 13.20, SD = 0.71). We measured the digit ratios on the participants’ right hands and used the 23 items of the revised Celebrity Attitude Scale (CAS) to explore the degree to which participants engaged in celebrity worship. The average digit ratio was 0.95 (SD = 0.04) among male participants and 0.97 (SD = 0.05) among female participants. The mean CAS scores were 50.06 (SD = 20.63) for male participants and 64.49 (SD = 18.04) for female participants. The digit ratios for the entire sample were positively correlated with CAS scores (r = 0.29, p < 0.005). However, the digit ratios were positively correlated with CAS scores among female (r = 0.51, p < 0.001) but not male (r = −0.13, p = .394) participants. Our research found evidence of a significant positive correlation between 2D:4D ratios and celebrity worship in females but not in males, which indicated that females with lower digit ratios were less likely to worship celebrities.     

Religious Identity-Inconsistent Attending: Its Correlates and Political Implications

The foundation of religious measurement in surveys presumes that individual religious affiliation (“What is your present religion, if any?”) accurately describes the religious community in which respondents are involved. But what if it doesn't? In a recent survey of 4,000 Americans, we asked whether their current congregation matches their religious identity and about a fifth of Americans indicated that it does not. We document the degree of this inconsistency, its correlates, and its implications, focusing primarily on the politics that congregants are exposed to from clergy and the attitudes they hold about salient political matters. The identity-inconsistent attenders often vary significantly from identity-consistent attenders, which serves to introduce considerable measurement error in the use of a religious tradition measure to depict American religion. The results suggest that salient disagreement induces a sizable population to migrate to a congregation outside their religious identity.     

鼻咽癌患者调强放疗与常规放疗毒副反应对比研究

探讨鼻咽癌患者常规放射治疗(CRT)与调强放射治疗(IMRT)的疗效和常见副反应,为鼻咽癌患者放疗方法选择提供科学依据.选取2010年11月至2013年5月行CRT和IMRT的初治鼻咽癌患者共56例,比较IMRT和CRT组的急性毒性反应和晚期放射性损伤.IMRT组和CRT组在局部复发和远处转移方面,两组差异无统计学意义(P＞0.05),常见急性毒性反应如:口干、吞咽疼痛、听力下降、皮肤和黏膜反应的发生率CRT组高于IMRT组,差异有统计学意义(P＜0.05);晚期损伤中口干、皮肤纤维化发生、吞咽困难等方面CRT组高于IMRT组,差异有统计学意义(P＜0.05),而在视力下降和脑损伤的发生等方面,两组差异无统计学意义(P＞0.05).与CRT技术相比较,IMRT技术能够有效减少急性毒副反应和晚期损伤的发生率,可提高患者生活质量(QOL).     

鼻咽癌患者调强放疗与常规放疗毒副反应对比研究

探讨鼻咽癌患者常规放射治疗（CRT）与调强放射治疗（IMRT）的疗效和常见副反应,为鼻咽癌患者放疗方法选择提供科学依据.选取2010年11月至2013年5月行CRT和IMRT的初治鼻咽癌患者共56例,比较IMRT和CRT组的急性毒性反应和晚期放射性损伤.IMRT组和CRT组在局部复发和远处转移方面,两组差异无统计学意义（P＞0.05）,常见急性毒性反应如：口干、吞咽疼痛、听力下降、皮肤和黏膜反应的发生率CRT组高于IMRT组,差异有统计学意义（P＜0.05）;晚期损伤中口干、皮肤纤维化发生、吞咽困难等方面CRT组高于IMRT组,差异有统计学意义（P＜0.05）,而在视力下降和脑损伤的发生等方面,两组差异无统计学意义（P＞0.05）.与CRT技术相比较,IMRT技术能够有效减少急性毒副反应和晚期损伤的发生率,可提高患者生活质量（QOL）.     

名人崇拜研究综述

名人崇拜的研究一般是从理论上对其成因的阐释、现象调查和影响因素分析。国内多为质性研究和现象调查,并将名人崇拜与榜样学习进行对比。国外多量化相关研究,创制了量表Celebrity Attitude Scale,并发现认知、依恋风格、人格等影响因素。但对名人崇拜的因果研究还很缺乏,实证研究缺乏,且现有研究未能关注名人崇拜的无意识或内隐因素。     

Integrating Ancestral Consciousness into Conventional Counselling

This article discusses concepts from traditional beliefs in ancestral spirits as therapeutic behavior change agents. Specifically, it examines ancestral consciousness in relation to attachment theory and its application in conventional counselling. A case illustration is discussed to show the potential incremental value of addressing ancestral consciousness in counselling people of African ancestry.     

The Renaissance Ethics of Music: Singing,Contemplation and Musica Humana

Abstract

This article considers Calvin's late work, the Harmony of the Pentateuch (1563). It takes account of previous attempts to illuminate Calvin's purpose in this production by De Boer, Blacketer, Thiel, Wright and Balserak. There follows a consideration of Calvin's view of the ceremonial law for Christians, and a distinction is drawn between the Old Testament cult and the Old Testament law concerning that cult. It finally takes soundings from the work itself to argue that for Calvin, the timeless spirit of worship could be understood behind its outward expression. What matters is that God is seen to call believers out of the flow of everyday occurrence into worship.     

Science and the Art of Healing: A Contribution to the History of Life Science

In conventional medicine, healing is effected mainly by treating the symptoms of the physical body disease, while in mind–body medicine the cure is performed by the mind itself (thoughts and emotions). In fact, the holographic mind theory claims that the mind could be either the healer or the slayer. Thus, this article is a contribution toward a more in-depth study of this theme of conventional medicine versus mind–body medicine, particularly to understand the gifts of quantum physics to life science and the art of healing, so that we might find an integrative medicine model (a holistic approach to health) that could explain some “incurable” diseases.