The Conflict between Individuals and Society in Seize the Day

This paper explores the existential problem in Seize the Day-the conflict between individuals and society in modern society.With a brief introduction of Saul Bellow and the novel,the paper emphasizes the analysis of the conflict and the sources of the conflict.Besides,Saul Bellow uses many rhetorical devices to intensify the conflict.The analysis of these rhetorical devices is beneficial for us to interpret and understand the true meaning of the novel.Through the study of Bellow’s vision and the novel’s metaphorical meaning,we may find an effective solution to the conflict that our human being is involved in,and realize the social values of this novel.

The Paradox of Individuals in Society Reflected in The Great Gatsby and The Scarlet Letter

Individuals in society are subject to conflict between social influence and personal desires, which put people in tension and result in their paradoxical beings in society, as illustrated by characters in both The Great Gatsby and The Scarlet Letter. Both novels reflect that a human being is a complex result of the interaction between the social environment and human nature, and incessant and often contradictory desires, wants and needs.

Analyzing the Differences in the Concepts of Love Between Korean and American Women Using the Female Characters in Kim Ji-young,Born in 1982 and The Sun Also Rises as Examples

This paper scrutinizes the differences in the conceptualization of love between Korean and American women.Grounded in an analysis of literary figures,Brett and Kim Ji-young,the study unravels the intricate interplay of cultural,historical,and societal forces shaping these perspectives.The contrasting landscapes of the United States,driven by ideals of freedom and individualism,and Korea,entrenched in Confucian values and collectivism,serve as crucibles for forming women’s roles,self-perception,and societal expectations.The examination extends to communication styles,illuminating the directness of American expression versus Korea’s reliance on formalism.Through this exploration,the paper illustrates the profound impact of cultural contexts on the intricate tapestry of love,offering a nuanced understanding of divergent viewpoints within a global context.

Consular Notification Practice from the Perspective of International Human Rights Protection

The development of the humanization of international law has driven innovations in consular law.Consular treaties tra-ditionally governing consular relations among states have begun to incorporate provisions for the protection of individual rights.Article 36(1)of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations is seen as a“rights-empowering”clause,endowing consular notification with dual rights attributes and obligations and triggering consular assistance and protection mechanisms.Bilateral consular practices of states have also led to the customary implementation of mandatory notification duties,with consular notification evolving into a widespread state practice.Human rights documents,represented by the core United Nations human rights treaties,have gradually incorporated consular notification provisions,further reinforcing its procedural value in the human rights law implementation mechanism.In death penalty cases,international human rights bodies have promoted the human rights enhancement of“consular access”through consular notification,with specific recommendations and information-sharing mechanisms that will significantly advance the human rights enhancement process of consular notification.

Interpersonal Perception in Virtual Groups: Examining Homophily, Identification and Individual Attraction Using Social Relations Model in Network

With the penetration of the Internet, virtual groups have become more and more popular. The reliability and accuracy of interpersonal perception in the virtual environment is an intriguing issue. Using the Social relations model (SRM) [1], this paper investigates interpersonal perception in virtual groups from a multilevel perspective. In particular, it examines the following three areas: homophily, identification, and individual attraction, and explores how much of these directional and dyadic relational evaluations can be attributed to the effect of the actor, the partner, and the relationship.

On Individualism and Self-Reliance of Americans

The American self-concept is the integral assumption of the culture, and the best expression of it is the individualism and self-reliance. In social relations, individualism asserts its influence om many aspects such as morality, ethics, or financial matters. Also individualism reflects a continuous frontier between the individual and the cultural. For being self-reliance, Americans approve self-motivation,which in the sense of long-range goals, as well as for a specific and immediate task.

Future of Public Relations Curriculum： Searching for the Ideal Undergraduate Public Relations Curriculum

This study analyzes the public relations curricula of 44 American colleges that have a Public Relations （PR） Student Society of America （PRSSA） chapter. Through content analysis, this study examines general requirements, core public relations courses, requirements of public relations programs and strategic communication programs, and optional public relations courses offered by the colleges. The findings of this study reveal that very few public relations programs offer courses involving new media, crisis communication, and PR ethics. In order to keep in touch with the fast-changing public relations landscape, more PR programs should require and integrate new media, crisis communication and ethics courses.

Application of donor dendric cell mediated recipieut lymphocyte reaction after related kidney transplantation in individualized immunosuppressive therapy

Objective To explore the feasibility of mediating recipient lymphocyte reaction with donor dendritic cells ( Dcs) in renal allograft recipients to guide individualized immunosuppressive therapy. Methods From Jan. 2008 to Jan. 2010,30 recipients received living related kidney transplantation were successively and divided into

Risk of Hearing Loss Caused by Multiple Acoustic Impulses in the Framework of Biovariability

We consider the hearing loss injury among subjects in a crowd with a wide spectrum of individual intrinsic injury probabilities due to biovariability. For multiple acoustic impulses, the observed injury risk of a crowd vs the effective combined dose follows the logistic dose-response relation. The injury risk of a crowd is the average fraction of injured. The injury risk was measured in experiments as follows: each subject is individually exposed to a sequence of acoustic impulses of a given intensity and the injury is recorded;results of multiple individual subjects were assembled into data sets to mimic the response of a crowd. The effective combined dose was adjusted by varying the number of impulses in the sequence. The most prominent feature observed in experiments is that the injury risk of the crowd caused by multiple impulses is significantly less than the value predicted based on assumption that all impulses act independently in causing injury and all subjects in the crowd are statistically identical. Previously, in the case where all subjects are statistically identical (i.e., no biovariability), we interpreted the observed injury risk caused by multiple impulses in terms of the immunity effects of preceding impulses on subsequent impulses. In this study, we focus on the case where all sound exposure events act independently in causing injury regardless of whether one is preceded by another (i.e., no immunity effect). Instead, we explore the possibility of interpreting the observed logistic dose-response relation in the framework of biovariability of the crowd. Here biovariability means that subjects in the crowd have their own individual injury probabilities. That is, some subjects are biologically less or more susceptible to hearing loss injury than others. We derive analytically the distribution of individual injury probability that produces the observed logistic dose-response relation. For several parameter values, we prove that the derived distribution is mathematically a proper density function. We further study the asymptotic approximations for the density function and discuss their significance in practical numerical computation with finite precision arithmetic. Our mathematical analysis implies that the observed logistic dose-response relation can be theoretically explained in the framework of biovariability in the absence of immunity effect.

The Goals of Second Language Teaching

This paper aims to find out five major goals for second language teaching and discuss it from two aspects-individual and the society.

Who Should Bear the Blame for the Death of Tess

Tess is the heroine in Tess of the D'Urbervilles. She is a shining image in English literature. No people will not sigh and shed tears for her destiny when they read the novel. What causes her tragedy? Who should be answerable for her death? In this paper the author will analyze these from the perspective of the heroine herself and also from the perspective of the society.

Constructing a ＂Common Field＂ Across the Taiwan Strait via Environmentalism？ Case Studies of Cross-Strait Environment NGO Exchanges

This paper examines cases of exchange among environmental non-governmental organizations （ENGOs） between Taiwan and China. Based on interviews with three Taiwan Residents ENGOs and five Chinese ENGOs, this article has come up with the following preliminary observations. First, Chinese ENGOs have already built widespread connections with international community and developed good partner relationship within international groups. The exchange between the ENGOs across the Taiwan Strait is part of such a global network. Second, unlike other external or international actors, the Taiwan Residents ENGOs rarely provide direct financial support to the Chinese counterparts. Instead, the most important impact the Taiwan Residents ENGOs have brought to their Chinese counterparts are their accounts of ideas and their experiences of practices. Third, due to similar language and cultural backgrounds, Taiwan Residents ENGOs have a more important role in influencing their Chinese counterparts in comparison with other international connection. These direct contacts have contributed to form a ＂common identity＂ of environmentalism among the ENGOs across the strait, which actually is also part of a ＂global identity of environmentalism＂. Exchanges across the Taiwan Strait among ENGOs have provided a case in which cross-strait relations can be constructed and construed beyond nationalistic or economic context. ENGOs of Taiwan and China are developing a ＂common identity＂ as partners in a global community via ＂environmentalism＂.

Solitary Bodies and Emotions:Contemporary Plastic Art in the Context of Individualization Society

This article follows the trail of Weber’s comprehensive sociology and uses the hermeneutical method as well as the iconological applied to 11 contemporary works of plastic art which can be described as significant and representative of contemporary art.It pursues two specific objectives:(a)analyzing the construction of loneliness both in contemporary plastic art and within the society of individuality and separateness,through human bodies and emotions;and(b)attesting how this theme has evolved in artistic practices from simple to reflexive modernity.Artists have indeed placed solitary men and women in the geographical and symbolic center of their compositions,additionally providing a contrast with a spatial and temporal environment which marginalizes them.We conclude that,for contemporary art,subjects are neither fully fledged individuals nor citizens in their own right and that they do not voluntarily live in an individualized society,but rather in one defined by separateness.

利益相关者管理理论研究的主导逻辑与议题框架:基于Web of Science核心数据库的研究

企业竞争优势越来越依赖其所处的利益相关者之间的资源、权利及其关系,但现有的利益相关者管理理论研究视角各异,缺乏系统梳理。以文本分析方法为基础,基于Web of Science核心数据库的文献,系统论述了利益相关者研究的知识演进研究逻辑和主要议题框架。研究发现:从管理学视角看,利益相关者管理理论研究主要遵循"个体-关系-网络"的逻辑演进,并以相应的知识图谱聚类展开。利用重点文献对利益相关者研究的知识演进分析,进一步发现利益相关者管理理论的议题框架可分为利益相关者管理理论研究重要性、研究逻辑与主题、研究方法与机理研究;根据主体属性及个体、关系到网络的研究逻辑,需要分别从主体、关系和网络三个方面解决好利益相关者主体的个体属性、关系与网络的整体属性的割裂状态。

A study of the strong pulses detected from PSR B0656+14 using the Urumqi 25-m radio telescope at 1540 MHz

We report on the properties of strong pulses from PSR B0656＋14 by analyzing the data obtained using the Urumqi 25-m radio telescope at 1540 MHz from August 2007 to September 2010.In 44 h of observational data,a total of 67 pulses with signal-to-noise ratios above a 5σthreshold were detected.The peak flux densities of these pulses are 58 to 194 times that of the average profile,and their pulse energies are 3 to 68 times that of the average pulse.These pulses are clustered around phases about 5-ahead of the peak of the average profile.Compared with the width of the average profile,they are relatively narrow,with the full widths at half-maximum ranging from 0.28 ° to 1.78 °.The distribution of pulse-energies follows a lognormal distribution.These sporadic strong pulses detected from PSR B0656＋14 have different characteristics from both typical giant pulses and its regular pulses.

Corporate Cyber-Crisis： A Case Study of Omni Intemational Hospital in Indonesia

Today, Social Networking Sites （SNS）, online forum, and e-mail communication have become a daily phenomenon in Indonesia. Thousands and even millions of the people have been using Blog, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and others as a communication medium. Many of them are mobile connected and have made it a daily practices. Interestingly, all these changes are not followed by Onmi International Hospital which it ultimately in 2009 led to the crisis. This crisis was beginning from the customer, Prita Mulyasari, who felt disappointed at the hospital service, and wrote an e-mail to her friend. Suddenly, in a short time the e-mail was disseminated widely on the Internet and produced a lot of support and public humiliation to the Omni International Hospital. This paper aims at explaining the cybcr crisis experienced by Omni International Hospital and how to overcome the problem at corporate level.

空间视域下思想政治教育一体化的概念、内容及建设

社会发展和社会变迁深刻影响着空间格局,空间成为解析社会现象、反映社会思想观念变化的重要理论和实践场域。空间与社会的互动使人的发展、社会的发展空间趋向合理化,使空间变革愈加富有社会化特质。人的思想观念、情感体验、行为实践、社会关系在一定的空间当中被塑造和完善,空间在思想政治教育一体化的作用下逐渐具有思想政治教育意蕴。在阐释空间视域下思想政治教育一体化的概念、分析其内容的基础上提出空间视域下思想政治教育一体化建设思路和举措:实现社会主流意识形态的广泛传播,在对空间的占有当中筑牢思想政治教育一体化的基础;掌握变革社会的力量,通过对空间主体的培养塑造凝聚思想政治教育一体化的主体力量;促进人与社会关系的和谐,通过对空间关系的协调把握思想政治教育一体化的关键。

个体与集体时间自我评价:来自行为和ERP的证据

运用事件相关电位技术和时间自我参照任务,通过两个系列实验探讨了大学生的个体时间自我评价和集体时间自我评价。结果显示,被试采用更多积极词、更少消极词来评价过去、现在和未来的个体自我和集体自我,个体自我评价在过去、现在和未来维度上存在积极递增效应;个体自我和集体自我在过去和现在维度上的消极词比积极词诱发了更大LPC波幅,而未来维度上的积极词和消极词之间的LPC波幅无显著差异。这表明,中国大学生的个体时间自我评价和集体时间自我评价均具有跨时间的积极偏向。而且,个体与集体时间自我评价在神经生理水平上都存在负偏向效应。因此,中国大学生的集体时间自我评价与个体时间自我评价具有相似的认知神经特点,在一定程度上为依存型自我建构理论提供了支持证据。

社会组织:理解中国国家与社会关系的一个核心概念

社会组织是我国重要的社会主体。1978年改革开放以来,我国社会组织经历了恢复发展、快速发展和高质量发展三个阶段,实现了由逐渐恢复到数量增长再到高质量发展的转变。当前围绕国家与社会关系来理解社会组织的研究主要分为三类:一是我国社会组织与西方非营利组织的比较研究;二是政府与社会组织关系研究;三是市场与社会组织关系研究。在去行政化改革之后,社会组织如何更好地开展党建、实现社会化与市场化、拥抱数字技术?对此,社会组织未来研究议程可以围绕党建引领与社会组织自治、国家与社会关系模式对社会组织发展的影响、社会组织市场化对国家与社会关系的影响、社会组织与其他部门之间跨部门合作、数字技术对国家与社会关系的影响、社会组织国际化对国家与社会关系的影响等六个议题深入展开研讨。

算法政治:算法介入国家治理的耦合逻辑与政治效应

进入人工智能时代,算法介入国家治理成为国家治理变革的重要趋势,算法政治研究成为前沿议题。算法介入国家治理的动力包括功能主义、组织契合、社会工程、政企关系四种理论解释;算法通过赋能、赋权和赋智三种机制嵌入国家治理过程,进而形成了算法系统介入国家治理的三种耦合样态:政企合作、政府自建、政社共建。算法在重塑国家内部组织结构、官僚自主性与权力关系的同时,也通过算法中介作用对国家-社会关系的演变产生了巨大影响,这涉及国家-社会间权力配置、社会对国家的约束、国家对社会的干预三个维度。算法政治的未来研究,一方面要打开算法政治黑箱,考察算法政治的类型学及其成因;另一方面要深入探究算法政治在微观、中观和宏观层面的政治效应,以及智能社会中日益凸显的治理算法研究议题。