‘This could be our reality in the next five to ten years’: a blogpost platform as an expectation generation device on the future of insurance markets     

Gert Meyers  Ine Van Hoyweghen 《Journal of Cultural Economy》2018,11(2):125-140

William James (1919) characterises hypotheses as either live or dead. A hypothesis is live when it is taken into account as a ‘real possibility’. We follow James’ suggestion to not attribute intrinsic properties to hypotheses, but rather investigate how they came into being and look at the effects they generate. Expectations of digital technologies are a topic of vivid debate in the insurance industry. Before these expectations can become ‘live’, they have, in the first place, to be generated by market devices. We investigate how the reinsurance blogpost platform Open Minds functions as an ‘expectation generation device’ on the future of insurance markets. Combining Beckert’s work on the role of fictional expectations with the pragmatist turn in sociology of markets, we propose to study ‘expectation generation devices’, provoking expectations on economic markets. In our empirical analysis, we demonstrate the explicit fictional character of the Open Minds contributions, and analyse how a contained space of openness is generated to provoke expectations. We demonstrate how Open Minds can become live through circulation to other expectation generation sites in the insurance industry and beyond. We conclude by reflecting on the importance of expectation generation devices as a particular type of market devices.  相似文献   

不同年龄性别学生健身运动参与动机的探讨     

尹章豹  李可可  任敏  黄江林  严五四 《安徽体育科技》2004,(Z1)

健身运动是促进人类健康的有效途径。通过采用文献资料、问卷调查等方法,以青少年学生为研究对象,调查学生对健身运动的认知、爱好以及参与程度,分析社会因素和心理中介与学生健身运动参与动机之间的关系,对青少年学生健身运动参与动机进行深一层次的探讨,旨在为学校体育教学提供理论参考依据。  相似文献   

Personal reactions to ‘strange’ situations: Attachment styles and acculturation attitudes of immigrants and majority members     

Jan Pieter Van Oudenhoven  Jacomijn Hofstra 《Int J Intercult Relat》2006,30(6):783

A growing number of studies examine the influence of individual factors on acculturation attitudes of immigrants, but few studies focus on majority members’ attitudes. In this paper, two studies are reported on the relation between attachment styles and acculturation attitudes of both immigrants (N=177) and majority members (N=243) in the Netherlands. Until now very few studies have associated cultural adjustment with attachment styles. This is remarkable, because attachment theory refers to interaction with others in new situations. Four different styles of attachment (the secure, dismissing, preoccupied and fearful attachment styles) are related to Berry's classification of acculturation attitudes. People, both immigrants and majority members, with a secure attachment style were positive towards integration, whereas people with a dismissing attachment style were not. Dismissing immigrants were more positive towards separation. Whereas both immigrants and majority members with a secure attachment style showed a similar pattern of correlations between attachment and acculturation, they seem to react quite differently, and even in opposite ways, when they have a preoccupied attachment style. Yet, the different reactions may be caused by the same psychological process: The existential ambivalence of preoccupied people may lead to diverse reactions.  相似文献   

Introduction: Scientific and Technological Textbooks in the European Periphery     

José Ramón Bertomeu-sánchez  Antonio García-Belmar  Anders Lundgren  Manolis Patiniotis 《Science & Education》2006,15(7-8):657-665

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三角形重心性质拾趣——兼谈类比方法在初等数学研究中的运用     

郭李芢 《钦州学院学报》2006,21(3):5-7

运用类比推理的方法,将经过三角形重心的直线的性质推广到三维空间,导出经过三角形重心的平面的若干性质.  相似文献   

运动员心脏功能典型指标的选择与评价   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

任建生 《武汉体育学院学报》1996,(1)

本研究运用相关检验和聚类分析法等对三十多个心脏形态、功能指标进行了筛选分析，选择出适合评定运动员心脏功能的典型指标，并对所选指标的应用进行了评价。  相似文献   

普通逻辑基本规律教学摭谈     

裴仁伟 《钦州学院学报》2001,16(1):54-57

在同一律教学中 ,要注意讲清什么是“同一思维过程”、什么是“A是A”以及“合理违反同一律”的特殊情况。在不矛盾律教学中 ,要注意讲清“看似矛盾 ,实质上并不矛盾”的概念或判断 ,注意分析具有隐蔽性的逻辑矛盾。在排中律教学中 ,对人们的某些思维或表述 ,要结合语言环境加以分析 ,不能生搬硬套  相似文献   

Rethinking Americanization Abroad: Toward a Critical Alternative to Prevailing Paradigms     

Mel Van Elteren 《Journal of American culture (Malden, Mass. : 2003)》2006,29(3):345-367

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The relationship between peak height velocity and physical performance in youth soccer players   总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0  

Philippaerts RM  Vaeyens R  Janssens M  Van Renterghem B  Matthys D  Craen R  Bourgois J  Vrijens J  Beunen G  Malina RM 《Journal of sports sciences》2006,24(3):221-230

Longitudinal changes in height, weight and physical performance were studied in 33 Flemish male youth soccer players from the Ghent Youth Soccer Project. The players' ages at the start of the study ranged from 10.4 to 13.7 years, with a mean age of 12.2 +/- 0.7 years. Longitudinal changes were studied over a 5 year period. Peak height velocity and peak weight velocity were determined using non-smoothed polynomials. The estimations of peak height velocity, peak weight velocity and age at peak height velocity were 9.7 +/- 1.5 cm x year-1, 8.4 +/- 3.0 kg x year-1 and 13.8 +/- 0.8 years, respectively. Peak weight velocity occurred, on average, at the same age as peak height velocity. Balance, speed of limb movement, trunk strength, upper-body muscular endurance, explosive strength, running speed and agility, cardiorespiratory endurance and anaerobic capacity showed peak development at peak height velocity. A plateau in the velocity curves was observed after peak height velocity for upper-body muscular endurance, explosive strength and running speed. Flexibility exhibited peak development during the tear after peak height velocity. Trainers and coaches should be aware of the individual characteristics of the adolescent growth spurt and the training load should also be individualized at this time.  相似文献   

试谈在大学体育课程中发挥学生的主体性作用   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

任振钢  游毓发 《体育科技》2004,25(3):84-86

在高校体育教学中应发挥学生的主体性作用 :学生自主选择课程内容、自主选择任课教师、自主选择上课时间 ;上课突出提高学生参与的积极性 ,最大限度地发挥学生的创造性。加强对学生学习方法和练习方法的指导 ,提高学生自学、自练的能力 ;考核要通过学生自评、互评和教师评定 ,实现三转变 :从终结评价向终结与过程评价结合转变 ;从内容单一评价向多元评价转变 ;从教师评价向师生评价转变 ;同时要发挥教师的主导作用  相似文献