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fox0923 · 发表于 2011-7-21 06:44:36

速度2-14 1。50s 2。1行 65s 3。56s 4。60s 5。0.5行 62s 今天的速度阅读很有教育意义啊。。。顶一下。。 CNN的不错，以后我也去多淘淘宝。

clumsy123 · 发表于 2011-7-21 10:01:59

越障1-6  5min44s 大概都看明白了： 1、说目前年轻人从青少年时期到成年时期的转变会遇到很多的挑战 2、具有社会弱势、或者儿童福利的青少年通过过渡期，会比一般人有更加不好的后果 3、现在人们的过渡期比以前要更加的依赖家庭和社会的帮助 4、由于过渡期的存在，年轻人结婚、组建家庭也比较晚，如果结婚的早，那么离婚率也高，因为他们还没有足够的能力养活自己 速度1-12 计时1 差4行 计时2 差3行 计时3 差1行 计时4 58s 计时5 57s

shunwen · 发表于 2011-7-21 10:41:59

2-14      1,     2， 1，  53s， 0 障碍9min religion 可以帮助人们防止一些alduterate behavior。 研究人员做了一些实验。把一些正在谈恋爱的学生分成两组，一个是pray，另一不是。实验的分数分为九个等级，1-9.实验时间是4周，最后那些有pray的infidelity的分比那些没的高。 另外还有就是pray的内容不一样也有不一样的结果。实验组的人员发现有些pray raletionship 的什么，忘了。 实验的人还用vedio 记录那些做实验的人 最后说所有的生物界都是很怕对爱情的不忠诚，但是人比动物更多了一个工具，就是religion。religion比check the mobile bills 方式好多了

fox0923 · 发表于 2011-7-21 11:08:36

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【越障2-14】 1.几乎所有动物都有对爱情不忠的行为，人类也不例外。 2.研究人员发现，祈祷能降低不忠行为的概率，所以就进行了研究。 3.研究人员把调查人群分为两类，一类每天祈祷，一类不祈祷，并通过这些被调查者每天的记录，对他们对爱情的忠诚度进行评价。 4.结果发现，虽然，大家的开始时，忠诚的程度都差不多，但调查发现，祈祷的一组，明显对爱情忠诚度上升。 5.研究并非如此简单，研究人员还发现，祈祷的内容，对忠诚度也有影响。他们另外分出一组，让他们祈祷有新的伴侣，结果发现，这种间接的祈祷，对增加对爱情的忠诚，没有任何帮助。（不知道什么意思，等下再看看） 6.由于以上调查，都是被调查对象的自评，鉴于主观因素的影响，研究人员又进行了另一次调查。让这些情侣中的一部分，每天为对方祈祷，一段时间后，让他们各自描述爱情的未来，并录下video。然后，让一些“不明真相”的调查员，记录并评价情侣对爱情的忠诚度，发现，祈祷有利于增加对爱情的忠诚。 7.由此可见，宗教，有利于增加伴侣间对爱情的忠诚，这一点让人类拥有了普通动物没有的，维护爱情的武器。而且这一手段，远远比调查通讯记录之类的行为有效，因为它是增加伴侣间彼此的信任，而不是采取毁灭的方式。 <img src="/static/legacy-emoticon/0.gif" emoticon="[em:0]" alt="" />  看自己挑的文章，比较激动。  6分11秒。。。看意群挺有效的。keep moving .<div style="text-align:right;">-- by 会员 kidvii (2011/7/21 0:11:02)</div> 
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 弱问一下，啥叫意群？说的是杨鹏难句吗？

fox0923 · 发表于 2011-7-21 12:00:27

6'50" - 现实的欺骗存在于动物和人类之中，以人类为例，人们总是在怀疑自己的伴侣对自己有不忠的行为，一个调查显示信仰是可以将减少这种欺骗的。 - 佛罗里达大学的教授FF调查有共同信仰的伴侣比较不会怀疑对方对自己的忠诚。 - 于是研究院进行了一项对83个大学生所进行的试验调查，调查主要包括两个方面，一是关于这些人对他们伴侣以外的人最易受吸引的人群；二是这些人是否认为他们的伴侣很神圣。于是结论得出：虽然最初的分数都是相同的，但是到了四周的试验结束以后，为自己伴侣祈祷的人的分数要低于最初的分数，而对自己伴侣非常有自信的人的分数则要高于最初的分数。 - 但实际上事实并非如此，调查显示间接祈祷的人和直接祈祷的人相比较而言并无很大差别，分数显示了那些对于他们感情有着非常坚定信念的人分数要高于那些只是单纯为伴侣祈祷的人的分数。于是研究人员为了作进一步的调查而选取了23对有伴侣的大学生进行为期四周的调查，并且使用录音设置，最后得出结论:那些有对未来感情很好规划的人分数要高于只是单纯对伴侣有好的评价的人分数。于是得出结论：信仰的行为方式对于爱情的忠贞有着重要的作用。 - 因此共同的信仰对于维持感情的忠贞起到促进的作用。

抓抓sandra · 发表于 2011-7-21 13:08:54

整理速度和越障帖子链接中。。发现我发【越障2-7】的时候脑子又抽了。。又跳了2-4 2-5 2-6.。><

抓抓sandra · 发表于 2011-7-21 14:33:41

【速度2-14】 58s 60s 56s 45s 68s 突然好简单都不习惯了~hoho~说明每天海量轰炸后看简单的真的会感觉爽很多~【越障2-14】 7:44 不难啊，但是一开始读的时候脑子很难把pray和fidelity联系到一块。。囧。。 一、引子。说动物和人类一样tend to treat as much as possible..- -但是人类还是和动物不一样的，接下来就引出了文章的这项研究。 二、研究内容 1. 研究是如何开始的：数据显示经常去教堂祈祷的couples出轨的可能性较低，而且更倾向于觉得自己的relations is quite sacred。这些couples也说不出这是为什么。鉴于这些成功避免出轨的couples感情好不可能自己去探究为什么不会出轨，FF教授就组织了一群人开始了爱情忠贞度和宗教信仰的关系的研究。 2. 实验样本设置：实验的样本是一群恋爱中的大学生，平时都多多少少有进行祈祷。FF把他们分成了两组，一组让宗教人士传授给他们正式的祈祷的方法，另一组不给予正式指导，只让他们每天多想想男/女朋友的优点。 3. 研究指标设计：FF在实验前和实验后问这些大学生认为”自己将这段看的relationship有多神圣忠诚“，按照最高9分来评分。 4. 实验结果：实验前大家的平均分数都在3.2。实验后，有受到宗教祈祷指导的人平均分数2.9，而没有受到正式指导但每天都有想想伴侣优点的一组人平均分反而提高到了3.6.——说明正规宗教指导对于忠诚度没有太大的影响。 三、研究验证 FF等实验人员也想到了这个实验也许有受到所问的问题的局限，所以他又设计了另一个实验。在这个实验里头，他问的问题是”自己对partner说的对彼此感情忠贞的程度“，按照最高分7分来评价。这个实验最后的平均分数更高，达到了5点多。 四、总结 最后文章给出了结论，两个人多一起去教堂祈祷（不管是否正式）对于防止对方出轨比检查通话记录神马的有效果得多了~ 写回忆的时候每次打出轨都差点要打成出柜。。ORZ

ccmoom · 发表于 2011-7-21 18:52:52

我要和自己的懒惰做抗争。。。。今天把任务都赶完！  过会来贴完成情况~

抓抓sandra · 发表于 2011-7-21 21:27:03

Revving Up in Asia's Emerging Markets 计时1 The <a href="http://online.wsj.com/public/quotes/main.html?type=djn&symbol=HOG" target="_blank">Harley-Davidson</a> brand could make you think of '70s counterculture movie "Easy Rider," the bearded rock band ZZ Top, or the recent trend that has seen aging executives become the biggest buyers of the motorbikes. There is no doubt, though, that the brand is usually associated with long road trips on the wide open freeways of North America. <img src="http://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/AI-BL599_IN3_MI_DV_20110703154548.jpg" width="262" height="262" alt="" />Harley-Davidson Motor Co. David Foley David Foley, Harley-Davidson Motor Co.'s Asia-Pacific chief, faces some challenges bringing that taste of Americana to this region: Regulations can make it difficult to import the bikes, there's competition from local motorbike brands with loyal followings, safe roads suitable for long cruising rides can be tough to find, and securing a rider's license can be difficult too. Harley-Davidson has been selling motorbikes in the Asian-Pacific region since the early 20th century—the Milwaukee-based company began distributing its bikes in Japan in 1908 and in Australia in 1917. It only much more recently moved into China and India, opening dealerships in the two emerging Asian giants in 2005 and 2010, respectively. Mr. Foley opened a new regional headquarters in Singapore in May. He spoke to The Wall Street Journal's Jason Chow. The following interview has been edited. WSJ: Where is the growth in Asia? Mr. Foley: We're expecting sales outside of the U.S. to exceed 40% of the total by 2014 [compared with 35% last year]. Asia's a big market for us. In Asia-Pacific, we've a quarter-million of motorcycles in operation, which is approximately 9.6% of the global total. In 2007, it made up just about 7% of the global total. (263 words) 计时2 WSJ: Who's buying in Asia?Japan is one of our biggest markets outside of the U.S. It accounts for 5% of our volume. It's got a real established riding culture and motorcycle industry. Same with Australia. Leisure riding there is very well established. The rest of the markets [in Asia] vary. In many emerging markets, we're developing the market we're trying to capture. To many of them, the two-wheel [mode of transportation] is usually seen as utilitarian. Mr. Foley: It varies by market. In emerging markets, you have higher-net-worth individuals riding, and it skews younger than the U.S. But also, we're seeing a large increase in female riders there too. WSJ: How do you introduce the culture of leisure riding to new markets? Mr. Foley: We have active programs for demonstration rides. We also do "Garage Parties"—a women-only setting to learn about Harley products along with other women. We've also got new marketing tools like "Jumpstart," where potential customers can try riding a bike, revving the engine and changing gears, mounted on a stationary stand. It's a big part of the first-hand experience of the look and feel of the product without having to go into traffic. (197 words) 计时3 WSJ: How do the laws and regulations in Asia affect growth? Mr. Foley: First, it's importation, which deals with everything from trade rules to compliance. Another area is restriction on licensing. In Singapore, for example, it can take 3.5 years to operate a heavy-duty motorcycle. And thirdly, there are riding bans. In certain cities in China and other parts of Asia there are bans where they don't allow the use of motorcycles. We have worked directly with government officials on traffic management issues in the past. WSJ: Are there enough good roads for Harley-Davidson riders in Asia? Mr. Foley: It's certainly a factor. Road quality will vary. The company, through Harley owner's clubs, really makes an effort to find high-quality roads that are often scenic rides. Part of the culture among our customers is to find these roads and for riders to tell each other. WSJ: What has been your experience in India? Mr. Foley: India has a very large motorcycle industry. There's somewhat of a motorcycle culture that already exists there. We're trying to further develop the heavy-duty leisure segment. We've established five dealerships in the market and we're continuing to grow each month. Even though it has a large motorcycle market, the heavyweight market—bikes with engines over 500cc—is not very well established. But having a motorcycle culture is hugely important. A big part of motorcycling is being comfortable with the product and with riding. (238 words) 计时4 WSJ: The annual Harley-Davidson rally in Sturgis, S.D., attracts about half a million visitors every August. Will we see anything similar in Asia? Mr. Foley: In each of our markets, there are annual HOG [Harley Owner Group] rallies, and we sponsor or get involved with them. Is there a Sturgis? It's hard to say. We get riders from Asia who go to those events [in the U.S.] every year, but it's not the only thing they do. We just had a group from Malaysia that we took to Milwaukee and saw the factory and met some of the Davidson family. They really got involved with the brand in a unique way. （SOURCE：WSJ <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304450604576417172290719458.html" target="_blank">http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304450604576417172290719458.html</a> ） How Close Are We to 'Printing' New Organs? <img src="http://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/RV-AD585_RIDLEY_DV_20110715002741.jpg" width="262" height="262" alt="" />John S. Dykes Serendipity works in curious ways. Earlier this month, on the day before I read news of the successful implanting of a synthetic windpipe grown with a patient's own cells, I happened to have lunch with a civil engineer who told me about the first use of a 3-D printer to print structures in concrete. The two technologies are very different, but as I read more about each, I soon found an eerie convergence. Take the organ transplant first. The shape of the windpipe—or trachea—was molded, using a computer scan of the patient's own trachea, from a porous medical plastic called polyethylene glycol, then infused with cells from the patient in a bioreactor. (The story illustrates, incidentally, the astonishing interconnectedness of the modern world: The patient was an Eritrean student with tracheal cancer who was working in Iceland, the plastic mold was made in Britain, the cells were infused in a bioreactor developed in the U.S. and the operation was done in Sweden.) (278 words) <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303812104576440083708107542.html?mod=WSJ_Books_LS_Books_8#" target="_blank"><img src="http://m.wsj.net/video/20110715/0715113dprinterconcrete1/0715113dprinterconcrete1_512x288.jpg" width="272" height="153" alt="" /></a> A research group at Loughborough University has developed a 3-D printer that can produce architectural objects out of concrete. Prof. Simon Austin discusses how the printer works and how it may change the way architecture looks in the future. 计时5 This elegant procedure, though hardly commonplace, is starting to become well established for organs with a thin, two-dimensional structure—such as arteries, heart valves and bladders. The combination of flexible and porous new biocompatible materials with the ability to grow cells outside the body is new. The result is transplants that do not rely on donors and do not run into problems of rejection. For solid, three-dimensional organs a further hurdle is yet to be surmounted: the growth of blood vessels into the organ. Even this may soon be possible. By taking a human liver and dissolving away the cells, leaving only its "skeleton," scientists could then re-create the liver's blood vessels by infusing the structure with the patient's own blood-vessel cells. The trouble is, liver cells themselves cannot yet be cultured outside the body. <blockquote><div style="text-align:center;">“The 3-D printer is busy revolutionizing the design of small things like plastics. Printing organs could happen this decade or next.”</div> </blockquote>The biggest potential prize for this emerging technology is the kidney. Roughly 90% of the people waiting for an organ donation are waiting for a kidney. To be able to transplant autologous (self-derived) kidneys would save many lives and spare many people the tedium and expense of dialysis. This is where the 3-D printer comes in. Earlier this year, Dr. Anthony Atala of Wake Forest University "printed" a whole dummy kidney, made of biocompatible materials and cells, <a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/anthony_atala_printing_a_human_kidney.html" target="_blank">live on stage at the TED conference </a>in Long Beach, Calif., using a 3-D printer that had been fed with information from a layer-by-layer 360-degree scan of a real kidney. (263 words) 自由阅读~ Dr. Atala cautions that such organs are still years away from being able to work in the body—his printed "kidney" was structural but not functional, lacking blood vessels—but the rate of advance gives hope that the first autologous kidney transplant may happen this decade or next. <img src="http://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/RV-AD584_RIDLEY_DV_20110715002643.jpg" width="262" height="262" alt="" />John S. Dykes And concrete? The 3-D printer is busy revolutionizing the design of small things like jewelry and plastics, to the excitement of many designers, but I had never heard of a 3-D printer using concrete. My civil engineer friend, Sam Stacey, head of innovation at the construction company Skanska, sent me a<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfbhdZKPHro" target="_blank">video link </a>about a laboratory at Loughborough University in Britain which has now copied the idea of the 3-D printer on a grander, rougher scale. I watched as, fed with a virtual design by an architect, a 3-D printer extruded concrete from a nozzle to build up, layer by layer, an object about the size of a chair. Printed concrete structures are proving to be stronger than cast ones. As it happens, the object that the architect asked for in this case was roughly kidney shaped. Apparently its great advantage over cast structures is that it has a hollow interior through which the building's services—wires and pipes—can run. These ducts looked uncannily like blood vessels. Spooky, no? SOURCE: WSJ <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303812104576440083708107542.html?mod=WSJ_Books_LS_Books_8" target="_blank">http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303812104576440083708107542.html?mod=WSJ_Books_LS_Books_8</a>

抓抓sandra · 发表于 2011-7-21 22:37:57

Botanists shred paperwork in taxonomy reformsDescriptions of new plant species can now be published electronically. <a href="http://www.nature.com/news/author/Daniel+Cressey/index.html" target="_blank">Daniel Cressey</a> <img src="http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110720/images/news428-i1.0.jpg" alt="" />The requirement for new plant species to be described in print may soon be lifted.Images.com/Corbis Botanists will soon be able to name new plant species without ever physically printing a paper, as the code governing botanical taxonomy undergoes a major shake-up. At the ongoing International Botanical Congress (IBC) in Melbourne, Australia, researchers have agreed to drop the requirement for hard copies of papers describing new species. Also vanishing from the code is a requirement that species must come with a Latin description. Although the amendments voted through today by the IBC's nomenclature section will have to be ratified by the full congress on 30 July, this is expected to be a formality. The changes are likely to come into effect from 1 January next year, when the new International Code of Botanical Nomenclature (ICBN) is likely to come into force. "I would not necessarily describe the decision as a move away from hard copy except in so far as all scientific publication is moving away from hard copy," says John McNeill, a researcher at the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh, UK, in an e-mail to Nature. McNeill is attending the Melbourne meeting. "It is simply a recognition that electronic publication is now an important component of scientific communication and that that communication should include the publication of the names of new taxa (species etc.) and of other taxonomic and nomenclatural actions and changes." Under the existing ICBN, any description of a new species must be declared by "distribution of printed matter". This has long been a controversial issue, but an attempt to change the code at the last congress in Vienna six years ago floundered, mainly because of concerns that archiving of electronic documents would not necessarily be permanent. Although the use of an 'archival standard' PDF for electronic publication is not mandatory in the proposed code, progress in journal archiving has reduced concerns over the permanence issue, says McNeill. Short cut to a shake-upLast year, Sandra Knapp of London's Natural History Museum came up with a way around the existing rule on printed matter. She published descriptions of four new species in a paper in the online-only journal

LoS ONE and sent printouts to ten libraries around the world (see<a href="http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100505/full/news.2010.221.html" target="_blank">'Linnaeus meets the Internet'</a>). Mark Watson, also at Edinburgh's Royal Botanic Garden and secretary of the IBC special committee on electronic publication, says that Knapp's efforts really focused the community on the issue. If other botanists had followed suit, libraries might have ended up with many individual taxonomic papers to be archived. That might not have been the best result, but is well within the rules, he notes. Of the new rules, Watson says, "It will be far easier and quicker to publish things. It will also make a huge difference in availability of those things." The move away from Latin is also causing a buzz in the community. Species will still need a Latin name, but the requirement for a short description in Latin has now been dropped. "About time too," says Watson, who points out that translation into Latin is not necessarily easy for researchers in countries such as Nepal and China, where he does much of his work.

laying catch-upNow the pressure is on zoologists to catch up with their botanical brethren. Their equivalent of the ICBN — the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) — still demands paper publications. Proposals to amend the code were published in 2008 and have been widely discussed, but no firm action has been taken. Mike Taylor, a palaeontologist at the University of Bristol, UK, says that the ICZN code is hugely valuable and acknowledges that amending it is a difficult process. But, he notes, "The credibility of the whole code at the moment is called into question because people are ignoring [this rule]. The way it looks to me is the world has moved on and left the code behind."

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越障2-13

【速度2-15】贴上明天的，应该比较简单哈

【越障2-4】大家当做最新的做哦，编号只是补上之前漏掉的。。><

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