Traffic climate and driver behaviors: The moderating role of driving skills in Turkey and China

Introduction: While road traffic accidents and fatalities are a worldwide problem, the rates of road traffic accidents and fatalities show differences among countries. Similarly, driver behaviors, traffic climate, and their relationships also show differences among countries. The aim of the current study is to investigate the moderating effect of driving skills on the relationship between traffic climate and driver behaviors by country. (Turkey and China). Method: There were 294 Turkish drivers and 292 Chinese drivers, and they completed the Traffic Climate Scale, the Driving Skills Inventory, and the Driver Behavior Questionnaire. The moderated moderation analyses were conducted with Hayes PROCESS tool on SPSS. Results: The results showed that safety skills moderated the relationship between internal requirements and violations both in Turkey and China. Safety skills also moderated the relationship between internal requirements and errors only in China and the relationship between functionality and violations in Turkey. Perceptual-motor skills moderated the relationships between external affective demands and errors, and also the relationship between internal requirements and positive driver behaviors in Turkey. It can be inferred that driving skills has different influences on traffic climate-driver behaviors relationship in different cultures and there might be cultural differences in the evaluation of drivers’ own driving skills. Practical Applications: Among driving skills, safety skills have a more critical role to increase road safety by decreasing number of violations. Interventions to increase safety skills of drivers might be promising for road safety.     

浅谈高校办公室工作的基本规律与工作技巧

从明晰高校办公室工作职责、高校办公室主任应具备的能力、创新高校办公室管理模式三个方面,阐述了高校办公室工作的基本规律。通过在高校办公室多年的工作积累,总结出了高校办公室主任八方面的工作技巧。     

非英语专业学生写作中常见的问题与改进建议

针对学生提出的英语写作难这一问题进行了专项调查，发现他们在实践写作中存在语篇、语用、语义等较深层次的错误和句子结构、语法层次、汉式表达等基础层次的错误。因而，从师与生、教与学两个角度提出了相应的建议：明确教师与学生的职责，把听、说、读、写四项基本技能融为一体。     

A multilevel model of emotional skills,communication performance,and task performance in teams

There is increasing research regarding the influence of emotions on teamwork. In this study, we use a multilevel approach to examine how team members' use of emotion‐related skills affects team task performance and communication performance within the team. We measured individual self‐reported emotional skills prior to team formation and then collected peer‐rated individual communication performance and independently rated team task performance eight weeks later. Although there was no influence at the individual level between emotional skills and performance, team‐level emotional skills positively predicted team task performance scores. At the cross level, team‐level emotional skills predicted individual‐level communication performance. These findings emphasize the importance of distinct team emotional skills in shaping both team performance and individual team member performance. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

高职院校学生职业能力培养研究的意义

虽然教育部在中等职业教育的培养目标中就提出了“综合职业能力”这个概念,且各类职业学校对如何培养学生综合职业能力也做了一些探索,但由于综合职业能力培养毕竟是近几年世界职教界研究的新课题,对我国职业教育实践来说更是全新的理论,因而对其进行研究具有理论和实践上的意义.参7.     

六月雪及其桩景的制作技艺综述

从六月雪的品系、繁殖、加工制作技术、养护与管理、配盆与盆面装饰等5个方面,全面论述了当前加工制作过程的现状,提出一些值得关注的一些问题.     

建设工程项目安全管理概念技能探究

在建设工程项目中,为提高安全水平,需要营造良好的安全氛围。安全氛围是抽象化概念,这就要求项目管理团队首先对安全管理进行概念化。研究目的在于探索项目管理人员的概念技能构成维度,分析维度间关系以及对安全管理水平提升的作用机理。因此,运用问卷调查收集相关数据,然后对有效数据进行因子分析,得到概念技能对于建设工程项目安全至关重要的两个维度:项目愿景,项目范围与整合。基于两个重要维度,初步建立理论模型并采用SEM分析论证概念技能对建设工程安全管理的作用机理。研究结果表明,概念技能可以帮助项目管理人员实施安全管理工作,安全管理工作的顺利实施又会提升现场的安全氛围。     

Asian Americans and workplace discrimination: The interplay between sex of evaluators and the perception of social skills

In two role‐playing scenarios, we investigate how White male and female evaluators perceive an Asian American versus White job candidate on the dimensions of competence and social skills and how these perceptions affect evaluators' decisions in hiring and promotion. Specifically, Study 1 examines how the perceptions of competence and social skills affect Asian (versus White) college graduates' chance of obtaining a non‐technical (versus technical) position, and Study 2 tests how these perceptions affect Asians' probability of promotion relative to Whites'. Our findings suggest that female evaluators were less likely to select Asian than White candidates into positions involving social skills and were less likely to promote Asian than White candidates into these types of positions. Furthermore, female evaluators' perception that Asians were less socially skilled than Whites mediated both of these decisions. This paper contributes to the understanding of workplace discrimination of Asian Americans. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Education for sustainable development – an inter‐disciplinary pilot module for undergraduate engineers and scientists

The coming together of a number of initiatives provided a springboard for an innovative pilot programme in education for sustainable development. For some time problem‐based learning has gathered momentum as an approach to educating professionals. More recently, there has been a burgeoning interest in inter‐disciplinary approaches to the complex societal and environmental issues that face the world as a whole. At the same time, professional engineering institutions have been reflecting on appropriate approaches to the education and development of future engineers. Building on work already undertaken by some of the authors, the Royal Academy of Engineering sponsored an inter‐disciplinary pilot programme in sustainable development for undergraduate engineers and scientists in the University of Manchester. The pilot was innovative not only in its inter‐disciplinary approach to sustainable development but also in its approach to the development of the curriculum. Inter‐disciplinary exercises were designed that enabled a contextual, active, collaborative and cumulative approach to learning. The assessment was also designed to align to the learning approach. Evaluation of the pilot programme suggests that it was well received by the students, and the post‐doctoral researchers who acted as facilitators, and also that there were gains in both understanding of the issues and also in approaches to learning.     

对普通高校业余篮球裁判员能力的培养

提高普通高校业余篮球裁判员的裁判能力,必须加强篮球理论知识的学习,狠抓学生基本功,在懂得规则,熟悉规则的基础上,灵活运用规则,要认真研究当前篮球运动发展的新趋势、新特点,在实践中让普通高校业余篮球裁判员能够得到更多的锻炼.