基于ASR的外语自主学习系统的研究与实现

网络环境下的自主学习平台是当下高职院校研究和实现的热潮。本文以扬州环境资源学院为例,在ASR和现代教育技术理论的基础上,合理利用网络相关的硬件和软件技术,构建了基于网络环境的自主学习平台,以期为自主学习的研究和实现提供指导。     

浅谈高职院校网络教学资源平台建设

随着网格技术的发展,网络教学已经成为部分高职院校教学体系的重要组成部分。利用现代网络技术进行教学资源平台建设,已成为高职教育重要的教学手段。本文结合网络教学资源平台的现状,介绍了网络教学资源平台的设计必要性和设计原则,网络教学资源平台技术支持,最后提出了网络教学资源平台的展望。     

小议利用网络环境培养高职学生自主学习能力途径

高职教育作为高等教育的一部分,与本科教育有着共性与个性的差别。在教学中应通过进行高职教学思想、内容、方法改苹,改进教学手段,完善教学评价体系,建立适应新世纪人才培养要求的高职教学体系,通过充分利用现代教育技术,建立以培养学生自主学习能力为中心的立体化、多样化、个性化的教学模式,实现高职教育"实用为主,够用为度"的教学要求。因此,研究如何在网络环境下对高职学生进行自主学习的指导尤为重要。本文分析高职学生自主学习的必要性和可能性,探讨高职学生在网络环境下自主学习能力的培养。本文分析高职学生自主学习的必要性和可能性,探讨高职学生在网络环境下自主学习能力的培养,以及探讨相应的途径。     

网络平台与高职学生英语自主学习能力提高的研究

随着网络信息技术的更新和广泛性应用,网络平台已经演化成为一种重要的大学英语学习平台和学习资源库。在大学英语改革的大背景下,如何进一步提高学生运用网络平台学习的效率,成为当前高职院校大学英语课程迫切需要解决的课题。本文依据昆明理工大学城市学院近年来在网络教学平台的实践应用,深入探讨如何加强网络平台运用,提升高职院校大学英语教学水平。     

网络环境下高职院校教学管理信息化研究

网络技术的迅猛发展和广泛应用给现代教育带来了强大的冲击。高职院校作为教育知识创新和高级技术人才培养的主体，如何在网络环境下实施教学管理信息化改革，已成为各高职院校需要深入探讨和解决的一个重要课题。     

信息化技术教学下新能源汽车驱动电机与控制技术课程的应用探讨

高职教育应用信息化技术教学模式主要通过构建专业教学资源库,网络教育平台、多媒体教学设备等方式,推动优质教学资源共享,转变高职院校教学理念、教学模式及学生的学习模式.以新能源汽车驱车点击与控制技术课程为例,本文分析了目前高职院校教学中存在的不足和典型问题,针对信息化技术的应用和实践提出行之有效的措施,为广大高职院校教学工...     

论新媒体技术支持的高职院校学生党员党性教育

本文从新媒体技术特点出发，结合高职院校学生党员党性教育工作实际，重点从建立网络教育和教学平台、考核和评价平台、活动和监督平台等方面阐述了以新媒体技术支持高职院校学生党员党性教育的方式方法。     

高职院校微课教学策略探究

高职院校的教育改革已成为趋势,教育的高度信息化和智能移动终端的逐渐普及,使学习方式也越来越灵活多样。怎样高效使用网络多媒体资源和手段,保证教高职院校教育教学环节的顺利进行,是广大教育研究者的研究重点,微课作为一种新型的教育手段应运而生本文就高职院校引入微课的现实意义进行了阐述,并对微课在高职院校教学中应用的原则及微课在高职院校教学中应用的策略进行初步探讨。     

高职院校微课教学策略探究

高职院校的教育改革已成为趋势,教育的高度信息化和智能移动终端的逐渐普及,使学习方式也越来越灵活多样。怎样高效使用网络多媒体资源和手段,保证教高职院校教育教学环节的顺利进行,是广大教育研究者的研究重点,微课作为一种新型的教育手段应运而生本文就高职院校引入微课的现实意义进行了阐述,并对微课在高职院校教学中应用的原则及微课在高职院校教学中应用的策略进行初步探讨。     

论新媒体技术支持的高职院校学生党员党性教育

本文从新媒体技术特点出发,结合高职院校学生党员党性教育工作实际,重点从建立网络教育和教学平台、考核和评价平台、活动和监督平台等方面阐述了以新媒体技术支持高职院校学生党员党性教育的方式方法。     

Development in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Statistics at the Australian Bureau of Statistics

This paper outlines the ICT statistical developments that the ABS has undertaken over recent years. These developments have been on both the supply side (ICT industry) and the demand side (use of IT by sector). The content of ABS ICT surveys has changed significantly over the last few years and are expected to develop further in line with industry changes and emerging policy needs.
Recent developments in household collections have been the inclusion of IT use questions in the 2001 Census of Population and Housing and in various ABS social surveys such as Children's Participation in Culture and Leisure Activities. Annual business IT use surveys are now conducted and include topics such as Internet commerce and IT security. Biennial ICT industry surveys are conducted to provide data on ICT production, imports and exports, ICT industry employment, performance and structure information. An Internet activity survey is run every six months and provides regional Internet access details and infrastructure details on Internet service providers.
A major development for 2002–03 will be the compilation of an ICT satellite account. ABS intends to produce an ICT Information Development Plan to guide its future statistical development work in the ICT field.     

Incumplimiento del salario mínimo en Europa central y oriental

En este estudio se analiza el incumplimiento del salario mínimo durante el periodo 2003–2012 en diez países de Europa central y oriental con salario mínimo obligatorio nacional. A partir de los datos de EU‐SILC y la metodología propuesta por Bhorat, Kanbur y Mayet (2013), se cuantifica la incidencia y magnitud del incumplimiento. Se realizan análisis de regresión sobre determinantes individuales, laborales y macroeconómicos. Aunque la incidencia permanece relativamente baja, los trabajadores a los que se dirigen las políticas de salario mínimo parecen los más expuestos a su incumplimiento. Con el tiempo, una mayor incidencia se asocia a una razón más alta entre salario mínimo y salario medio.     

Value at Risk in the Suburbs: Eminent Domain and the Geographical Politics of the US Foreclosure Crisis

Several US counties and local governments have recently considered a novel solution to the foreclosure crisis. They plan to use eminent domain to compel the owners of mortgage debt—and specifically of private‐label mortgage‐backed securities—to sell the debt to the government at a price reflecting the loan's market value. The government would then restructure the debt and resell it to new investors. The plans are striking because—in contrast to both development‐driven eminent domain and the federal subprime bank bailout—they would force investors to assume asset devaluation and increased long‐term risk. Notably, the plans have emerged as an instance of financialization‐focused politics in suburbs and suburban cities of color, specifically majority‐black and ‐Latino/a suburbs. Local support for the plans, we argue, is rooted in the long‐term disinvestment of these ‘suburbs of exception', which became targets of subprime lending and eventually sites where the ‘financial exception' has been localized. But these demographic shifts, fragmentation and fiscal pressures have at the same time created a suburban political terrain in which the plans have gained their strongest political support.     

Towards a Theory of Serendipity: A Systematic Review and Conceptualization

Serendipity – the notion of making surprising and valuable discoveries – plays a major role in the success of individuals and organizations alike. Previous research has established the importance of serendipity and identified important individual- and organizational-level antecedents. However, the literature has been dispersed and the boundaries of the concept have been blurry, leading to a lack of conceptual clarity and structure, and thus limiting validity and managerial actionability. Based on a systematic literature review, I synthesize existing management-related research on serendipity and explicate the emergence and composition of serendipity in the organizational context. I first identify three necessary conditions that differentiate serendipity from related concepts such as luck or targeted innovation: agency, surprise, and value. Then, I draw from the literature on sensemaking, event-based theorizing, and quantum-based approaches to management to conceptualize the process of cultivating serendipity in the organizational context as a process of enabling potentiality and materialization, and develop a multi-level theory of (cultivating) serendipity. This conceptualization contributes to our collective understanding of how, why, and when (i.e., under what conditions) organizations can leverage the value in the unexpected, which opens up fruitful avenues for further research.     

Accountability of NGOs in Bangladesh A critical overview

NGOs in Bangladesh have been recognized as effective change agents in the socio-economic arena throughout the world. Their contributions in micro credit, non-formal education and primary health care are widely known. NGOs play a significant role in society. NGO accountability, as a result, has become a critical issue. NGO accountability in Bangladesh has been examined here in relation to patrons, clients and themselves. Of the three relationships only accountability to patrons is in a near satisfactory state. Accountability to clients is handicapped by lack of opportunities of beneficiaries to participate meaningfully in NGO policy making. Accountability to themselves is adversely affected due to the adherence to a strictly hierarchical system and the influence of founding and charismatic NGO leaders.     

Towards an Asian model of human resource management? A comparative analysis of China,Japan and South Korea

There has been much discussion regarding the possible decline and weakening of national systems of human resource management (HRM). Yet, culture and institutions are often cited as the major stumbling blocks to this outcome. Such constraints may dissipate in the analysis, particularly if ‘regional clusters’ are considered where geographic and cultural closeness and ‘openness’ to similar economic pressures exist. In such cases, it might be postulated that convergence in HRM will occur. We argue that China, Japan and South Korea represent such a cluster. This article examines these countries, to see if a degree of convergence is taking place and if it is towards an identifiable ‘Asian’ model of HRM. A model of change is presented that distinguishes between levels of occurrence and acceptance. Details of the development and practice of HRM in each country are then set out. The article ends with a discussion and implications section and a brief conclusion.     

Cultural Economy Planning in Creative Cities: Discourse and Practice

While a growing body of research analyses the functional mechanisms of the cultural or creative economy, there has been little attention devoted to understanding how local governments translate this work into policy. Moreover, research in this vein focuses predominately on Richard Florida's creative class thesis rather than considering the wider body of work that may influence policy. This article seeks to develop a deeper understanding of how municipalities conceptualize and plan for the cultural economy through the lens of two cities held up as model ‘creative cities’ — Austin, Texas and Toronto, Ontario. The work pays particular attention to how the cities adopt and adapt leading theories, strategies and discourses of the cultural economy. While policy documents indicate that the cities embrace the creative city model, in practice agencies tend to adapt conventional economic development strategies for cultural economy activity and appropriate the language of the creative city for multiple purposes.     

Input/output ranges and performance: an examination of US machine tool producers

Despite the establishment of high-tech multinational enterprises (MNEs) in Ireland since the late 1950s, the country did not succeed in closing the technological gap with most of its EU counterparts. The weak National System of Innovation (NSI), and in particular low business and government R&D levels, combined with a lack of research and technology linkages between MNEs and indigenous firms, explain these poor results. However, the Shannon region in the West of the country presents some specific institutional characteristics that could theoretically make the region a strong technological enclave. The various actors in the region - i.e. the administrative, financial, political and research institutions, as well as the business organizations - have indeed infused a new type of economic development. After a brief review of the available concepts and models articulated around these actors and their interrelationships, the paper analyses whether the Shannon region, taken as an illustrative example, mirrors a specific economic and technological localized setting. The study is based on a survey of indigenous and foreign firms.     

Sixty years of discrimination and diversity research in human resource management: A review with suggestions for future research directions

This article reviews discrimination and diversity research published in Human Resource Management (HRM) over the past 60 years. While discrimination and diversity are very different constructs, it is often informative to study them together, because when people recognize each other's diversity, this can result in bias, stereotyping, and discrimination. We conducted bibliographic searches for terms related to discrimination and diversity as well as a manual search through every title and abstract published in HRM over the last 60 years to assess article relevance. The search resulted in 135 research articles with 136 unique studies (i.e., samples) which are reviewed in this article. Sex and race are the demographics that have been examined the most in HRM, while religion has been examined the least. Moreover, the number of studies examining lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) employees in the workplace in HRM has grown quickly within the past 10 years, culminating in a recent meta‐analysis. Our review looks at some of the earliest research published, the most recent research published, and the overall trends we identified in the research over the years for both discrimination and diversity articles. We then make future research suggestions and recommendations to advance the study of discrimination and diversity in the coming years.     

Multinomial distributions applied to random sampling of particulate materials

When sampling a batch consisting of particulate material, the distribution of a sample estimator can be characterized using knowledge about the sample drawing process. With Bernoulli sampling, the number of particles in the sample is binomially distributed. Because this is rarely realized in practice, we propose a sampling design in which the possible samples have a nearly equal mass. Expected values and variances of the sample estimator are calculated. It is shown that the sample estimator becomes identical to the Horvitz–Thompson estimator in the case of a large batch-to-sample mass ratio and a large sample mass. Simulations and experiments were performed to test the theory. Simulations confirm that the round-off error due to the discrete nature of particles is negligible for large sample sizes. Sampling experiments were carried out with a mixture of PolyPropylene (PP) and PolyTetraFluorEthylene (PTFE) spheres suspended in a viscous medium. The measured and theoretical variations are in good agreement.