Camber in bridges     

Alfred P. Boller 《Journal of The Franklin Institute》1866,81(5):289-292

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Slot leakage in A.C. generators     

Alfred Still 《Journal of The Franklin Institute》1930,210(4):437-454

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Bringing the State Back In: restoring the role of the State in Chinese higher education     

Ka Ho Mok 《European Journal of Education》2012,47(2):228-241

In the last few decades, in the wake of three major crises in political faith and the overall instability that followed the end of the Cultural Revolution, the post-Mao Chinese government has sought to improve the lives of its citizens and to restore political legitimacy through rapid economic growth that has focused almost exclusively on GDP. This strong focus has brought about rapid, widespread economic growth to China, and has, by classical market standards, been a success. At the same time, issues of social development and human well-being have received less attention. Before the Hu-Wen leadership's formal accession to power, the Jiang-Zhu administration sought to adopt neo-liberal ideas and practices to reform the delivery of social services and the implementation and funding of social policy. In this context, major fields of social policy such as health, education, and housing have been going through the processes of marketisation and privatisation, which have placed much of the financial burden of meeting these social welfare needs on China's citizens. After several decades of privatisation and marketisation in the educational system, the Chinese government has been the subject of repeated criticism for failing to tackle what is popularly known as the ‘new three mountains phenomenon’, namely, the rising cost of health, education, and housing in recent years. Against the wider policy context described above, this article examines the social and political consequences of the privatisation and marketisation of education. It also discusses the major policies and strategies recently adopted by the Chinese government to restore the role of the State in the education system in order to address the negative consequences of the privatisation of education. Finally, it critically examines the main implications of major reforms undertaken in higher education in Mainland China.  相似文献   

A conceptual change approach to staff development: A model for programme design     

Angela S P Ho 《International Journal for Academic Development》2013,18(1):30-41

With the rapid expansion in tertiary education in the past decade, coupled with the rising emphasis on accountability, teaching quality has become an important issue in higher education worldwide. The increasing emphasis on quality has placed new demands on staff development, in particular to find promising models and methodologies that will guide development approaches. The paper describes an innovative approach to staff development that was synthesized from four theories about conceptual change or change in general. This conceptual change approach is based on the hypothesis that changing teachers' conceptions of teaching towards more elaborated levels will bring about improvement in their teaching practices. A short course derived from this model is outlined.  相似文献   

Guest editorial: Why has the computer failed in schools and universities?     

Alfred Bork 《Journal of Science Education and Technology》1995,4(2):97-102

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Du bist wie dein Sport     

Reinhard Stelter  Alfred Richartz 《Sportwissenschaft》1998,28(3-4):456-462

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From the Henry Regnery Company to Regnery Publishing, Inc.: The first fifty years     

Alfred S. Regnery 《Publishing Research Quarterly》1998,14(4):70-90

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The little country theater     

Alfred G. Arvold 《Quarterly Journal of Speech》2013,99(1):65-73

The works of Kenneth Burke and Friedrich Nietzsche find common ground in a similar understanding of the hortatory nature of language‐using. This similarity gives rise to a measure of dissonance when weighed against their radically differing conceptions of the negative—Burke employing a “sacrificial,” dialectical negative and Nietzsche a “discriminative,” nondialectical negative. These differences in use of the negative allow a distinction between two genres of dramatism with important consequences identified in tragic drama, illustrating contrasting orientations toward symbolic activity in general.  相似文献   

Sag-temperature calculations of transmission lines on steep grades     

Alfred Still 《Journal of The Franklin Institute》1918,185(4):509-515

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Multivariate prediction of academic performance by Hong Kong University students     

David Y.F. Ho  John A. Spinks 《Contemporary educational psychology》1985,10(3):249-259

Verbal intelligence, English-language skills, personality, and attitude scales were used as predictors of academic performance in 230 male and female arts students at the University of Hong Kong. A series of bivariate, multiple, and canonical correlation analyses were performed. The results showed that verbal intelligence and attitudes, excepting study orientation, were not predictive of performance. English-language skills had the most predictive value, accounting for about 10% of the variance of performance measures. Personality variables failed to predict performance when composite criterion measures (GPAs) were used; however, they proved to be of predictive value when results of individual academic subjects were used as criterion measures. The study points to the importance of using noncomposite criterion measures in prediction and of considering the cultural context of achievement.  相似文献