Cultural values and attitudes toward immigrants and multiculturalism: The case of the Eurobarometer survey on racism and xenophobia     

Chan-Hoong Leong  Colleen Ward 《Int J Intercult Relat》2006,30(6):799

The current paper uses archival data to examine variations in Schwartz's and Hofstede's cultural value orientations and their relationship to attitudes toward immigration and multiculturalism reported in the Eurobarometer Survey [Attitudes towards minority groups in the European Union: a special analysis of the Eurobarometer 2000 opinion poll on behalf of the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia. Eurobarometer Opinion Poll. Retrieved September 1, 2003, from http://europa.eu.int/comm/public_opinion/index_en.htm] on racism and xenophobia. The results demonstrated that mastery, masculinity, power distance, uncertainty avoidance, and collectivism were associated with weaker support for policies that promote social co-existence. Masculinity and mastery were also linked to more pessimistic attitudes towards multiculturalism, and increased harmony was correlated with less desire for cultural assimilation. The results largely converge with research undertaken at the individual-level of analysis, and the data suggest four clusters of cultural values related to immigration attitudes: humanitarianism-egalitarianism, conservation, collectivism, and instrumentality.  相似文献   

Culture as an influence on sexting attitudes and behaviors: A differential analysis comparing adolescents from Spain and Colombia     

《Int J Intercult Relat》2020

This study analyses the prevalence of sexting and the reasons and attitudes associated with its practice in adolescents with different cultural backgrounds (Colombia and Spain). The sample is made up of 489 Spaniards and 510 Colombians aged between 13 and 18 years. The results show that sexting is strongly influenced by gender and the country, in favor of men and Colombians respectively. The interaction between gender and country establishes that in Spain women and men practice sexting equally, while in Colombia men practice much more sexting than women. Although the practice of sexting increases progressively with age, the levels are higher among Colombian adolescents, especially after 15 years. According to the results, although both groups present a high risk for sexting, socio-cultural aspects and gender constitute differential variables to be taken into consideration. Therefore, it is necessary to design preventive strategies including cultural differences in relation to the sexuality.  相似文献   

经济管理类专业统计学课程教学改革研究     

史文雷  徐蕾  彭学君  宋存米 《科教文汇》2011,(16):41-42

统计学是一门实践性和应用性很强的学科,是一门方法论科学,是高校经济管理类专业必修的专业基础课程。在新形势下,其教学面临着诸多挑战,因此对统计学教学进行改革极为迫切。本文分别从教师和学生角度,依据学生学习情况、教学内容、教学方法、教学手段、考核方式等方面对经济管理类专业统计学课程教学改革提出了思路和建议。  相似文献   

Authorship attribution based on a probabilistic topic model     

Jacques Savoy 《Information processing & management》2013

This paper describes, evaluates and compares the use of Latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) as an approach to authorship attribution. Based on this generative probabilistic topic model, we can model each document as a mixture of topic distributions with each topic specifying a distribution over words. Based on author profiles (aggregation of all texts written by the same writer) we suggest computing the distance with a disputed text to determine its possible writer. This distance is based on the difference between the two topic distributions. To evaluate different attribution schemes, we carried out an experiment based on 5408 newspaper articles (Glasgow Herald) written by 20 distinct authors. To complement this experiment, we used 4326 articles extracted from the Italian newspaper La Stampa and written by 20 journalists. This research demonstrates that the LDA-based classification scheme tends to outperform the Delta rule, and the χ² distance, two classical approaches in authorship attribution based on a restricted number of terms. Compared to the Kullback–Leibler divergence, the LDA-based scheme can provide better effectiveness when considering a larger number of terms.  相似文献   

概率论与数理统计课的教学改革及其应用能力的培养     

丛玉华  殷烁 《通化师范学院学报》2006,27(6):112-114

根据概率论与数理统计的教学内容、特点，从教学内容的实用性，设计实例及开展教学建模活动等三个方面阐述了如何进行教学改革，进而培养学生的学习兴趣和应用能力，促进了课堂教学质量的提高．  相似文献   

三代领导人对党的知识分子理论政策的发展     

刘金峰  王中明 《五邑大学学报(社会科学版)》2001,3(4):1-4

毛泽东对党的知识分子理论与政策的形成起了开拓作用，对小平对党的知识分子理论和政策进行了创新性探索，在此基础上，江泽民对党的知识分子理论和政策作了进一步发展，今后我党在制定知识分子理论与政策时还要注意几个重要问题。  相似文献   

排球比赛临场统计系统的研究与设计   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

孙健  陶利  卢朝霞  龚大力  宋昶  李新红  王娟  党立英  王庆华 《山东体育学院学报》2006,22(1):96-98

在排球比赛过程中，临场统计是一项非常重要的工作，它可以即时反映比赛双方的技战术变化以及临场发挥的优势和弱点。但长期以来这项工作一直是手工完成的。即使在现阶段，已有的统计程序也仅仅停留在单项技术的统计上，不能进行综合全面的统计与分析。在广泛调研临场统计工作现状的前提下，开发了排球比赛临场统计系统VolleyStal．0。实验证明，该系统不仅可以完全满足排球联赛的各种统计工作要求，而且具有操作简单、高效可靠的特点，是当前排球比赛临场统计的有力工具。  相似文献   

Considerations for the use of functional principal components analysis in sports biomechanics: examples from on-water rowing     

John Warmenhoven  Stephen Cobley  Conny Draper  Andrew Harrison  Norma Bargary  Richard Smith 《Sports biomechanics / International Society of Biomechanics in Sports》2019,18(3):317-341

The proliferation of new biomechanical technology in laboratory and field settings facilitates the capture of data-sets consisting of complex time-series. An understanding of the appropriate statistical approaches for analysing and interpreting these data-sets is required and the functional data analysis (FDA) family of statistical techniques has emerged in the biomechanical literature. Given the use of FDA is currently in its infancy with biomechanical data, this paper will form the first of a two part series aiming to address practical issues surrounding the application of FDA techniques in biomechanics. This work focuses on functional principal components analysis (fPCA), which is explored using existing literature and sample data from an on-water rowing database. In particular methodological considerations for the implementation of fPCA such as temporal normalisation of data, removal of unwanted forms of variation in a data-set and documented methods for preserving the original temporal properties within a set of curves are explored in detail as a part of this review. Limitations and strengths of the technique are outlined and recommendations are provided to encourage the appropriate use of fPCA within the field of applied sports biomechanics.  相似文献   

一种改进的基于峭度指标的FastICA算法     

孟令博  耿修瑞  杨炜暾 《中国科学院大学学报》2019,36(3):410-416

基于峭度指标的FastICA算法具有较快的收敛速度和较高的计算效率,被广泛应用于多光谱图像的特征提取。经典的FastICA算法基于固定点迭代法得到图像的各个独立成分,在迭代过程中,每一个独立成分的求解都需要所有像元的参与。因此,当数据量较大或图像中像元较多时,FastICA的计算量很大,此时它的速度优势就会大打折扣。遥感数据一般都具有较大的尺寸,因此如何将FastICA直接应用于遥感数据,是一个具有实际意义的问题。通过引入多光谱图像协峭度张量的概念,将FastICA的固定点迭代问题转化为代数形式的张量计算,避免每次迭代过程中需所有像元参与的缺陷,因而大大降低计算复杂度。多光谱图像实验结果表明,该算法明显快于传统的基于峭度指标的FastICA算法。  相似文献   

Three-Year Study of Students’ Attitudes Toward Physical Education: Grades 4–8     

Kevin Mercier  Corinne Donovan  Anne Gibbone  Kimberly Rozga 《Research quarterly for exercise and sport》2017,88(3):307-315

Purpose: A relationship exists between attitudes toward physical education and future physical activity. The purpose of this study was to examine changes in attitude toward physical education as students progressed from upper elementary school (Grade 4) through middle school (Grade 8). Method: Three cohorts of students (Cohort 1, Grades 4–6, n = 96; Cohort 2, Grades 5–7, n = 71; and Cohort 3, Grades 6–8, n = 73) were each followed for 3 years to examine changes in attitudes toward physical education. Results: After an initial increase from Grade 4 to Grade 5, a significant decrease was observed from Grades 5 to 8 in students’ positive attitudes toward physical education, with a faster rate of change for girls than boys. Conclusion: This longitudinal study provides further insights regarding the attitudes of students as they progress from Grade 4 to Grade 8 and expands on previous findings identifying decreasing positive attitudes toward physical education as students age, particularly for girls. The results provide evidence to support targeted interventions.  相似文献