莆田妈祖文化网站的调查与思考

＂妈祖信俗＂申遗成功,标志着妈祖文化成为全人类共同的精神财富。妈祖文化的对外传播变得更加重要。在调查的基础上,介绍了莆田妈祖文化网络传播的现状,对相关网站进行了分类,分析了存在的问题,并从传播学角度提出了建议,期望莆田妈祖网站能越办越好,以便更好地传播妈祖文化、弘扬妈祖精神、增加文化认同、促进民族团结和国家统一。     

湄洲岛“闹妈祖”民俗舞蹈的社会功能探析

在妈祖故乡湄洲岛元宵＂闹妈祖＂习俗活动中,舞蹈活动颇具特色。它是古代信仰物化形态的一种遗留,也是一种逐渐形成的自我调整机制。这些传统习俗依旧存在于莆田湄洲岛民众生活之中,并且随着时代的发展,更加丰富多样,呈现出祭神谢恩、群聚交际、宣传教化、娱乐健身以及新时期增加的促进两岸及海内外文化交流等社会功能。     

基于BDI的Agent动态推理模型

本文基于慎思式Agem的理论,研究如何发展Agent的适应能力,对现有Agent的推理模型作了改进,提出了一个具有动态推理能力的Agem模型,在文章的最后用一个简单的事例验证了这种推理过程的合理性。     

Image segmentation based on hierarchical belief propagation with variable weighting parameters

The belief propagation (BP) algorithm is an efficient way to minimize the MRF energy for image segmentation. This paper proposes a hierarchical BP algorithm with variable weighting parameters (HBP-VW) to improve the segmentation accuracy of the BP-based algorithms. In the HBP-VW, two variable weighting parameters are introduced, the global parameter and the local parameter. The global parameter is used to overall adjust the influence of each part in the message update rule. The local parameter is designed to describe the local texture pattern for each site. Texture, remote sensing, and nature images are employed to test the proposed algorithm. Experimental results illustrate a better segmentation accuracy compared with other BP-based algorithms.     

妈祖文化传播中视觉符号的运用前景

论述视觉符号在＂读图时代＂具有很大的影响力,妈祖文化传播如何更好地应用视觉符号来扩大自身的影响,已经引起了政府和民间的重视。从视觉符号与文化传播的关系入手,进而分析视觉符号传播的优势,试图为妈祖文化传播找到更多的新途径、新方法。     

广东妈租信仰及其流变初探

指出广东是最早传播妈祖信仰的地区之一。通过考察闽人入粤与妈祖信仰传入的关系,综述粤地各区妈祖宫庙的分布概况,分析妈祖信仰与南粤文化的融合,探讨其在粤地“被创造”的嬗变过程及特色。     

Auditors’ evidence evaluation and aggregation using beliefs and probabilities

This paper examines possible differences in auditors’ performance when they make belief-based versus probability-based risk assessments by focusing on two phases of the financial statement audit process: the assessment of two attributes of audit evidence (‘strength’ and ‘direction’) and the aggregation of evidence. Based on an experiment in which 48 experienced auditors participated, three important findings were observed. First, there was no significant difference in the mean assessment of strength of evidence measured using the likelihood ratio. However, the difference in the assessed direction of evidence, that is whether the evidence is interpreted as being confirming or disconfirming, is significant for one of the cases examined. This result shows that auditors making belief-based assessments are able to assess the direction of the evidence more accurately than auditors making probability-based assessments. Third, the auditors’ aggregation of evidence was not in accordance with ‘AND’ logic for either auditors making belief-based or probability-based assessments. These empirical results raise issues which need to be addressed in practice and in future research.     

礼贤城隍庙：地方历史与区域文化的“记忆之所”

当传统在现代的冲击下与日常生活发生脱节时,人们往往通过保护一些过去留下的丈化遗产,试图留住传统,加固文化记忆。礼贤城隍庙原本是个民间宗教场所,但在它被列为当地的文物保护单位之后,这里也变成了一个当地人寄托怀古之情和确认文化身份的公共场所,也就是一个浓缩了当地历史和区域文化的“记忆之所”。复兴后的城隍庙会,也不再是纯粹的宗教性节日,而变成了一种带有象征性和表演性的当地文化资本。认识到城隍庙的这一功能演变,当事人及主管部门应抛开各种政治包袱,尽力去挖掘和恢复传统的民间信仰文化,让这些物质的和非物质的文化遗产能在新的文化语境中重放光彩。     

法律信仰论析

法治已成为现代社会文明的标志。而社会民众对法律的信仰是法治社会的基石。与西方发达国家相比,社会公众对法律信仰的缺乏,在一定程度上已经影响到了我国的法治化进程。究其原因主要是我国缺乏法律信仰的宗教土壤与法治的真正价值没有得以弘扬所致。因此,我们应当积极培育法律信仰的土壤,夯实法律信仰的根基,培养公众信仰法律的情感和信心。     

非物质文化遗产的生存机制——以广东汕尾妈祖信仰为例

非物质文化遗产的保护和利用,应该建立在对其生存机制充分理解的基础上的。已列入国家级非物质文化遗产名录的广东汕尾妈祖信仰的生存机制十分优越,进入到可持续的运作态势。其表现在既不断涌现妈祖显灵的辉煌事迹,又将妈祖信仰融入国家主流话语体系,民间信众和政府共同促进了妈祖信仰的传播与发展。