‘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   

“计算法”教学在田径课中的应用研究     

苏平  杨亚红 《军事体育进修学院学报》2003,22(2):118-119

为探讨如何在体育技术课教学中培养学生的初步科研能力，设计了计算法教学试验。在教学中启发学生分析问题和解决问题的能力，使他们变被动学习为主动学习，在培养学生初步科研能力上，起到了有效的作用。  相似文献   

信息茧房视域下移动知识服务使用影响因素研究     

叶莎莎  杜婉鹏  杜杏叶 《图书情报工作》2022,66(16):117-124

［目的/意义］信息茧房现象的存在,对用户使用移动知识服务具有一定影响,不利于用户对知识的学习与汲取。为探究信息茧房对用户使用移动知识服务的影响,以高校师生为研究对象,研究信息茧房效应下影响移动知识服务的因素,并提出相关建议,旨在为突破信息茧房、完善现有移动知识服务提供参考。［方法/过程］以信息茧房的主要成因为研究变量,构建信息茧房效应下用户使用移动知识服务的影响因素初始模型;利用问卷调查法收集相关数据,对初始模型进行分析检验并建立回归方程。［结果/结论］研究发现,用户特质(如心理动因和个人素养)、服务平台(如算法推荐技术)、信息内容(如内容权威性和有用性)和移动环境这4个方面均对用户使用移动知识服务产生影响。其中,用户特质对移动知识服务使用的影响最大;服务平台对移动知识服务使用也产生较大影响;此外,信息内容与移动环境也对移动知识服务具有一定影响。  相似文献   

智慧图书馆建设思考与实践     

沈奎林 《大学图书情报学刊》2022,40(1):7-14

文章主要探讨了智慧图书馆建设方面的问题,包括智慧图书馆概念辨析、智慧图书馆支撑技术、智慧图书馆组成要素、智慧图书馆实践、智慧图书馆建设的三大板块、十四五规划中智慧图书馆的建设、智慧图书馆相关思考七个方面,从理论到实践总结了智慧图书馆建设中的方方面面。  相似文献   

大学生手机依赖与认知失败的关系:冗思和焦虑的作用     

李璇  梁祎明 《保定学院学报》2022,(1)

采用手机依赖指数量表、认知失败问卷、冗思反应量表和焦虑自评量表,通过网络平台以大学生群体为研究对象进行调查,旨在探讨大学生手机依赖、认知失败、冗思、焦虑之间的关系,共收回有效问卷327份。结果发现:(1)大学生手机依赖显著正向预测认知失败;(2)冗思在大学生手机依赖与认知失败之间起部分中介作用;(3)冗思和焦虑在大学生手机依赖与认知失败之间起链式中介作用。研究表明,手机依赖除了直接影响认知失败,还通过冗思的独立中介以及冗思和焦虑的链式中介效应间接影响认知失败。  相似文献   

宁波农村流动图书馆建设情况调研   总被引：5，自引：0，他引：5  

刘燕  谭龙敏 《图书馆学研究》2008,(3):50-54

文章通过分析宁波农村流动图书馆的建设现状,指出其中存在的一些主要问题,并提出巩固和发展流动图书馆的建议与对策.  相似文献   

Ipad远程开放教育教学初探     

王雁凌 《襄樊职业技术学院学报》2014,(1):127-130

目前国内许多学校都开始尝试采用Ipad进行教学,教育人士对其褒贬不一,作为一种新型的移动学习媒体,它有着自身的优势,但也有一定的弊端。Ipad在远程开放教育方面有着较为明显的优势,也符合成人学员移动学习的习惯。在具备了充分的硬件设施和完善的教学环节设计之后,Ipad会为远程开放教育揭开一个新篇章。  相似文献   

动态雾计算网络中基于在线学习的任务卸载算法     

谭友钰  陈蕾  周明拓  王昆仑  杨旸  张武雄 《中国科学院大学学报》2020,37(5):688-698

任务卸载是雾计算的主要技术之一，即计算能力不足的节点将任务卸载给具有富余资源的节点帮助计算。以优化任务平均卸载时延和提升卸载服务成功率为目标，利用多臂老虎机理论为动态雾计算网络提出一种基于在线学习的任务卸载算法，可实时做出最优卸载决策。将该算法扩展到非稳定网络状态，使之可以动态追踪网络中节点的资源与环境变化，实时调整卸载决策。详细分析所提出算法的性能、复杂度和存储占用情况。仿真结果表明，这两种算法可达到的长期平均任务卸载时延均十分接近理想算法下的最优时延，卸载服务成功率也得到显著提升。此外，所提算法在非稳定的网络状态下能够追踪到计算资源与环境的变化。  相似文献   

Culturalisation and devices: what is culture in cultural economy?     

Lizzie Richardson 《Journal of Cultural Economy》2019,12(3):228-241

Theorisation of culture is often absent from research on production in the creative and cultural sector. Further, cultural production has been largely untouched by the insights of the cultural economy approach. Culturalisation is a means of addressing the question of what constitutes culture and thus a cultural (economy) approach. It is the process by which culture and cultural production combine in the ‘operationalisation of the real.’ Culturalisation underpins much scholarship in this journal by posing the (economic) real as a problem of definition in order to illustrate the operations involved in its temporary resolution. The implications of this position need further addressing. There is a feedback between culture as a problem of definition and a cultural approach. Devices can interrogate the relationship between processes of cultural definition and the conceptual parameters of a cultural economy approach. Workshopping, projects and events are put forward as cultural devices emerging from a 10-month ethnography of literary performance in Bristol, England. This illustration shows firstly, how culturalisation occurs in a designated cultural sector to contingently realise culture; and secondly, the implicit logic of cultural economy as culturalisation, typified by the device as method, so as to open a debate concerning its implications.  相似文献   

Wearable skin-like optoelectronic systems with suppression of motion artifacts for cuff-less continuous blood pressure monitor     

Haicheng Li  Yinji Ma  Ziwei Liang  Zhouheng Wang  Yu Cao  Yuan Xu  Hua Zhou  Bingwei Lu  Ying Chen  Zhiyuan Han  Shisheng Cai  Xue Feng 《国家科学评论(英文版)》2020,7(5):849

According to the statistics of the World Health Organization, an estimated 17.9 million people die from cardiovascular diseases each year, representing 31% of all global deaths. Continuous non-invasive arterial pressure (CNAP) is essential for the management of cardiovascular diseases. However, it is difficult to achieve long-term CNAP monitoring with the daily use of current devices due to irritation of the skin as well as the lack of motion artifacts suppression. Here, we report a high-performance skin-like optoelectronic system integrated with ultra-thin flexible circuits to monitor CNAP. We introduce a theoretical model via the virtual work principle for predicting the precise blood pressure and suppressing motion artifacts, and propose optical difference in the frequency domain for stable optical measurements in terms of skin-like devices. We compare the results with the blood pressure acquired by invasive (intra-arterial) blood pressure monitoring for >1500 min in total on 44 subjects in an intensive care unit. The maximum absolute errors of diastolic and systolic blood pressure were ±7/±10 mm Hg, respectively, in immobilized, and ±10/±14 mm Hg, respectively, in walking scenarios. These strategies provide advanced blood pressure monitoring techniques, which would directly address an unmet clinical need or daily use for a highly vulnerable population.  相似文献