Rainbow over the Internet: How Internet use curtails homophobia in China

China, despite its rapid economic modernization and the lack of powerful conservative institutions, is not known for embracing diverse sexual orientation. The present study investigates whether and how Internet use, a increasingly important part of contemporary people's daily life, leads to changes in people's attitudes toward homosexuality in China, and relevant policy implications. Analyzing the Chinese General Social Survey data from 2010 to 2015, this paper develops an ordered probit model to quantify the influence of Internet use on homosexuality tolerance, adopts a substitution variable method to conduct the robustness check, and utilizes instrument variables to address the potential endogeneity in the regressions. The results show that Internet use has a significant positive impact on Chinese people's homosexuality tolerance. Further studies have found that the influence of Internet use on homosexuality tolerance is also heterogeneous to different populations. Besides, compared with traditional media, the Internet has a more significant impact on homosexuality tolerance. This paper provides some explanations for the rise in China's homosexuality tolerance from 2010 to 2015, and additional impetus for the international community to push for a liberal Internet policy in China.     

Sexual self-presentation on social network sites: Who does it and how is it perceived?

The aims of this study were to investigate (a) the role of peer factors in adolescents’ sexual self-presentation on social network sites, and (b) how adolescents who present themselves sexually online are evaluated by others. 238 high school students (aged 12–18) evaluated either a sexual or non-sexual online presentation of same-sex and opposite-sex peers. Moreover, they filled in a questionnaire about their own self-presentation behavior. Findings showed that peer norms played a crucial role in whether adolescents posted sexual pictures of themselves online. Moreover, need for popularity was a strong predictor for posting such pictures. Girls who presented themselves in sexual ways were evaluated more negatively by other girls but more positively by boys. Similarly, boys who presented themselves in sexual ways were evaluated more positively by girls but not by boys.     

Organizing Sexuality: Silencing and the Push–Pull Process of Co-sexuality in the Workplace

How human beings think about, talk about, and organize around sexuality is changing. Growing social legitimization for sexual minority relationships and a more fluid social understanding of sexual identities has shifted how we bound “normal” sexuality. In the workplace, these shifting norms affect employees of all sexual identities who must make sense of new policies and complex daily practices. This paper introduces the concept of co-sexuality, the push-and-pull process of communicatively organizing around sexuality. Using this concept, we take a grounded theory approach to exploring how employees of various sexualities and in different occupations understand “normal” sexuality and subsequently organize around it. Ultimately, participants described being silenced or silencing another to maintain sexual “norms” at work.     

Evolutionary cyber-psychology: Applying an evolutionary framework to Internet behavior

An evolutionary psychological perspective has much to offer the study of Internet behavior. However, cyber-psychologists have hitherto neglected this rich theoretical tradition and evolutionary psychologists have been slow to apply their perspective to computer-mediated behavior. This paper applies an evolutionary perspective to the study of Internet behavior in four relevant domains: (1) mating and sexual competition, (2) parenting and kinship, (3) trust and social exchange, and (4) personal information management. Both general and specific evolutionary theories are explored in relation to online behavior in each domain, with an emphasis on generating testable hypotheses for future research.     

各向异性薄煤层纵波AVAZ分析

通过建立HTI型薄煤层的传播矩阵,推导了水平界面情况下含各向异性薄煤层反射系数精确计算公式,并利用该公式对含有薄HTI型各向异性煤层进行了纵波AVAZ分析。经过研究发现,当HTI型煤层为薄层时(厚度小于地震波长的1/4时),其纵波反射系数与煤层为厚层时(厚度大于地震波长)顶板的纵波反射系数规律相似,但其值不仅与上下层介质物性参数有关,还与厚度有关,可见煤层为薄层时采用经典公式反演会带来误差;薄层厚度、Thomsen等效各向异性参数和裂缝密度对纵波反射系数有较大影响,裂缝纵横比对反射系数影响较小。入射波方位角为90°时,入射波在HTI介质各向同性面,此时各向异性参数对反射系数影响最小。     

基于Schur-Hadamard积波束域传播因子的分布式信源参数联合估计

针对分布式信源阵元域参数估计算法在低信噪比时性能下降、计算量大的问题,提出了基于Schur-Hadamard积波束域传播因子的分布式信源参数联合估计算法.根据角度信号密度对称的约束条件,将分布式信源方向向量化简为点信源方向向赶与实矩阵的Sehur-Hadamard积,使其两个子矩阵满足传播因子的线性变换,进而将波束域传播因子方法用于分布式信源参数联合估计,降低了计算量.仿真实验验证了所提算法的有效性,与阵元域DSPE算法相比,基于Schur-Had-amard积的波束域传播因子算法具有更好的信噪比性能.     

一种新的波达方向和多普勒频率估计算法

基于均匀圆形阵列，提出了一种同时估计空间非相干信号源方位角、仰角和多普勒频率的快速算法。该方法对均匀圆阵的输出信号进行模式空间转换，使得阵列流形具有类似于均匀线阵的形式，然后通过构造相应的数据矩阵得到传播算子的最小二乘（LS）估计，并由传播算子构造出一个特殊的低维矩阵，其特征值给出多普勒频率估计，特征向量舍有阵列流形的信息。结合模式空间阵列流形的性质，给出了一种DOA估计的总体最小二乘算法，在低信噪比条件下可提高测向精度。该方法不需要谱峰搜索和参数配对，具有运算量小的优点。计算机仿真验证了该方法的有效性。