基于实验人文地理学的旅游目的地选择行为研究

文章基于实验经济学和计算机实验人文地理学的方法思想,以旅游目的地选择行为研究为案例。首先设定研究目标,进而提出了实验的前提假设。采用地理信息科学和网络服务技术,构建旅游目的地选择行为实验平台,展开实例研究,研究结果表明:(1)进行大尺度旅游目的地选择时,被试者表现出不断追求旅游效益最大化这一目标,且与旅游目的地的资源类型无关。(2)被试者经过一定实验学习后,总体上呈现出不断追求个人收益最大化的趋势。然而,有些情况下,也可能出现决策失误。案例研究的成功进一步表明,实验人文地理学思想方法和研究手段对于典型人文地理学问题进行研究是可行的。文章为正在发展的实验人文地理学发展提供了案例指导。     

A probabilistic ghost in the experimental machine

This paper focuses on the opposition between two contemporary research programs in economics: behavioral economics (BE) and experimental market economics (EME). Our claim is that the arguments of this opposition can be clarified through the lens of another opposition in the philosophy of probability and in probability theory, between Bayesianism and frequentism. We show how this probabilistic opposition has indirectly shaped a controversy in psychology that opposes two research programs – Heuristics and Biases and Ecological Rationality – which play respective roles in the foundations of individual rationality in BE and EME. To understand these theoretical interrelationships, we investigate the 1996 controversy between Kahneman, Tversky, and Gigerenzer. Those psychologists held different views on how probabilistic representations influence the context-dependency of rationality. This provides a rationale to suggest that a probabilistic ghost may be haunting the experimental machine in economics, and explains how and why the oppositions between BE and EME are structured around the interplay between the norms of rationality and the context in which rationality is exercised.     

Warning labels on junk food: experimental evidence

Unhealthy food choice is one of the main causes of being overweight. Nutritionists blame a particular category of food: junk food. Several authors have proposed a fat tax for reducing the junk food demand, but others have demonstrated that these taxes must be very high in order to be effective. Therefore, a warning label about calorie content may be an alternative way to reduce the consumption of junk food. In this exploratory study, using students as respondents, a high‐calorie warning label is explored with an incentive compatible valuation method. The results indicate that a high‐calorie warning label has little effect on respondents’ choices, even when they have no prior familiarity with the food.     

Safety concerns related to modular/prefabricated building construction

The US construction industry annually experiences a relatively high rate of fatalities and injuries; therefore, improving safety practices should be considered a top priority for this industry. Modular/prefabricated building construction is a construction strategy that involves manufacturing of the whole building or some of its components off-site. This research focuses on the safety performance of the modular/prefabricated building construction sector during both manufacturing and on-site processes. This safety evaluation can serve as the starting point for improving the safety performance of this sector. Research was conducted based on Occupational Safety and Health Administration investigated accidents. The study found 125 accidents related to modular/prefabricated building construction. The details of each accident were closely examined to identify the types of injury and underlying causes. Out of 125 accidents, there were 48 fatalities (38.4%), 63 hospitalized injuries (50.4%), and 14 non-hospitalized injuries (11.2%). It was found that, the most common type of injury in modular/prefabricated construction was ‘fracture’, and the most common cause of accidents was ‘fall’. The most frequent cause of cause (underlying and root cause) was ‘unstable structure’. In this research, the accidents were also examined in terms of corresponding location, occupation, equipment as well as activities during which the accidents occurred. For improving safety records of the modular/prefabricated construction sector, this study recommends that future research be conducted on stabilizing structures during their lifting, storing, and permanent installation, securing fall protection systems during on-site assembly of components while working from heights, and developing training programmes and standards focused on modular/prefabricated construction.     

Promoting Persistent Strategic Reasoning Behavior: An Experimental Approach

The present research is aimed to apply experimental techniques to study strategic behavior in one-shot-hide-and-seek games as a frame to elicit more real and elaborated business situations. To promote strategic thinking and persistence, we conducted treatments with repeated matching games among strangers, and one of them with a fixed endowment (fixed initial payment that decreases each round an amount) with the possibility of abandon in any round, retaining the remaining of endowment. In fact, effortful strategic reasoning is found in deviation of subjects’ random choices along the repetitions and abandon, loss aversion, and cultural differences seem articulate a strategic behavior.     

浅议建筑给排水实验教学的研究意义

文章通过跟踪调查实际教学中的《建筑给排水》课程,研究和寻找建筑专业课程在探究型教学模式下的应用和效果,对教学中的问题进行分析,提出适合专业教学的方法,并就如何更加完善《建筑给排水》的教学模式进行讨论。     

宠物生理实验教学中增强学生实践能力和创新意识探讨

宠物生理实验教学是培养宠物专业学生实践动手能力和创新意识的重要教学环节。针对目前高职毕业生动手能力和创新意识很难满足社会需求的问题,本文就如何增加高职院校宠物专业生理学的实验教学,全面提高学生动手能力和创新意识进行了探讨,为高职院校宠物专业教学的进一步完善提供了一定的指导作用,并使其毕业后更能满足社会的需求。     

实验教学法在自动控制原理“校正原理”中的应用探讨

实验教学是自动控制原理课程的重要教学方法,是一个复杂的系统工程,教师需要在课前准备、课堂组织、课后总结等多个环节精心准备和设计。本文根据作者从事自动控制原理核心课程教学工作的实践,以自动控制原理这门课程中的校正原理为例,从实验的组织与实施、实验教学的总结与提升三个阶段出发,探讨了实验教学法在自动控制原理课程中的应用。     

基于网络的高等医学院校虚拟实验室的建设初探

本文从高等医学院校开展虚拟实验教学的必然性出发,在探讨基于网络的虚拟实验室的基本功能的基础上,对高等医学院校建设网络虚拟实验室的重要性和前景进行了分析和探讨。     

鄂西北某院患者输血知识认知情况及教育需求分析

目的:调查综合性医院患者对安全输血的认知情况,以便有针对性地开展培训,降低风险。方法:自行设计问卷,调查185名患者对安全输血的认知程度和需求。结果:患者对涉及输血不良反应、自体输血等内容的认知相当欠缺。结论:应当持续性的患者进行安全输血知识培训,切实保障输血安全。