A Sophomore Questionnaire Research on the Innovation Learning Demands of “Principle” Course

The innovation learning demands of sophomore students taking “principle” course in China are explored through questionnaire. Descriptive statistics, independent sample T-test and comparing study, are used to verify demand-side opinions about innovation education in the “principle” course. Around 94% sophomore student want the courses reformed by innovation education, to improve the innovation spirit and enhance the innovation ability, without significant gender difference. The majority sophomore students demand specific teaching resources of communist innovative model and in the form of gameplay teaching. And the “principle” innovative model education applied in curriculum, can enhance the supply-side structural reform of ideological and political courses. The Findings can be applied in the curriculum design, by furthering the combination of “principle” innovative model teaching resources with gameplay teaching form

Modeling incompressible thermal flows using a central-moment-based lattice Boltzmann method

In this paper, a central-moment-based lattice Boltzmann (CLB) method for incompressible thermal flows is proposed. In the method, the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations and the convection-diffusion equation for the temperature field are sloved separately by two different CLB equations. Through the Chapman-Enskog analysis, the macroscopic governing equations for incompressible thermal flows can be reproduced. For the flow field, the tedious implementation for CLB method is simplified by using the shift matrix with a simplified central-moment set, and the consistent forcing scheme is adopted to incorporate forcing effects. Compared with several D2Q5 multiple-relaxation-time (MRT) lattice Boltzmann methods for the temperature equation, the proposed method is shown to be better Galilean invariant through measuring the thermal diffusivities on a moving reference frame. Thus a higher Mach number can be used for convection flows, which decreases the computational load significantly. Numerical simulations for several typical problems confirm the accuracy, efficiency, and stability of the present method. The grid convergence tests indicate that the proposed CLB method for incompressible thermal flows is of second-order accuracy in space

A Corporate Ethical Compass Tool to Measure Public Relations Decision Making

Corporate Public Relations (PR) Ethics is always a top research topic in theory and practice as PR practitioners often have numerous ethical choices to make when addressing controversial issues. However, how to quantify or measure the ethical alternatives of PR decision making and help public relations practitioners make more ethically correct decisions is an open problem. To address this problem, this thesis proposes the PR Ethical Compass as a measuring tool or technique to help corporations justify and evaluate the consequences of their ethical public relations decision making. To investigate the advantages and disadvantages of the Ethical Compass technique, qualitative research was used to first identify ten corporate public relation cases, then quantitative research was used to collect public opinions and corporate financial data to test each case against the EthCom Rating calculated by the tool. The Ethical Compass tool is directed towards PR practitioners and all those interested in public communication who seek an effective mechanism for measuring the projected outcome of corporate ethical decision-making