宋代北江蛮彭氏及其族属考辨

宋代北江蛮是南方古代少数民族的重要一支.北江蛮彭氏为"蛮酋"大族历来是学界所热议的主题.北江蛮的族属源流问题虽在争论中出现"彭氏江西说""彭氏土著说"等诸多说法,但北江蛮彭氏应是"土著"与汉人等融合的结果.北江蛮彭氏在地理分布上为忠顺、龙赐、溶州、高州等十八处羁縻州,而非正史所载二十余处.同时,北江蛮彭氏世系记载存在诸多错误,例如自允殊至仕羲乃四世而非五世等谬讹.     

从背井离乡到创新创业 ——兼论互联网使用对创业的作用

文章利用2016年中国劳动力动态调查(CLDS)数据探讨了外出务工经历对农民创业的影响.实证分析表明,外出务工经历显著提高了农民创业概率1.67％.使用工具变量法和倾向得分匹配法对内生性进行弱化后,上述结果仍旧稳健.并且发现异质性外出务工经历中,企业务工经历对创业行为并无显著影响,而自由工作、个体工商户等非企业工作经历则显著提升了农民创业概率,这为不同类型的外出务工经历对创业的影响提供了新的经验证据,打开了外出务工经历的"黑匣子".对外出务工影响创业的机制进一步探讨发现,外出务工经历会通过社会资本、物质资本和人力资本三个渠道提高农户创业概率,而创业动机并非其影响机制.同时,文章发现,互联网使用在一定程度上与外出务工具有类似的功能,对外出务工经历存在一定的替代效应.最后,文章研究表明外出务工经历对本地创业具有显著影响,而对外地创业的影响则不显著;相较于雇主创业,外出务工经历对自雇创业具有显著的正向影响.     

论我国刑事诉讼中“非法证据”的界定标准

在刑事非法证据排除规则的具体运用中,"非法证据"的界定是当然前提。非法证据并非是任一证据合法性要件欠缺的广义非法证据,而专指取证主体通过严重非法的手段或者侵犯公民基本权利的方式所获取的证据材料。我国刑事非法证据包括非法言词证据和非法实物证据两类,两类非法证据在实际判断中虽存在差异,但都应围绕取证手段的非法性展开,分别考察取证手段是否违反法律规定以及违法的严重程度,以准确界定刑事非法证据的范围。     

20世纪二三十年代北平交际舞的散播与社会风尚嬗变

20世纪20年代,北平营业性舞场逐渐兴起,舞者队伍扩大,交际舞业"迅速极盛"。该行业在丰富城市娱乐生活的同时,却诱发了奢靡、享乐、纵欲等不良风气的蔓延,导致北平市政府一再禁舞。30年代初,北平舞业"盛极而衰"。北平的官方、民众、媒体在此间的诸般心态及举措反映了交际舞在该市散播历经波折,呈现出这一时期北平新旧观念并存、博弈的社会风貌,也说明北平的传统保守气质使其社会风尚的嬗变显现出相对迟缓的态势。从根本上说,该市的社会生态系统制约着其社会风尚变迁的深度与广度。     

医疗需求与中国医疗费用增长——基于城乡老年医疗支出差异的视角

在人口老龄化和老年医疗支出城乡差异凸显的背景下,中国医疗费用增长部分源于合理的健康需求。利用中国营养与健康调查1991—2011年的八轮数据,构造出生组跟踪样本,分别考察城乡居民医疗支出的年龄效应,估算城乡老年医疗需求导致的费用上涨,可以发现:城市居民的人均医疗支出随年龄显著增加,但农村居民的人均医疗支出随年龄增长的趋势并不明显。而忽略出生组效应,会低估城乡老年医疗支出的差距。城乡老年医疗支出差距缩小,将导致医疗费用在2010—2030年年均实际增长约5.2%。在控制医疗总费用上涨的同时,医疗保险制度需根据老年医疗需求,调整医疗资源配置结构。     

Testing equality of two normal covariance matrices with monotone missing data

Abstract

The problem of testing equality of two multivariate normal covariance matrices is considered. Assuming that the incomplete data are of monotone pattern, a quantity similar to the Likelihood Ratio Test Statistic is proposed. A satisfactory approximation to the distribution of the quantity is derived. Hypothesis testing based on the approximate distribution is outlined. The merits of the test are investigated using Monte Carlo simulation. Monte Carlo studies indicate that the test is very satisfactory even for moderately small samples. The proposed methods are illustrated using an example.     

基于评价理论的APEC领导人宣言分析

2005年到2014年的APEC领导人宣言中的评价资源以借言为主，正面评价突出，其中鉴赏资源丰富，语势较强，立场分明。这些既体现出对话的和谐，又表明了领导人的决心和信心。2014年的领导人宣言的特点是亚太国家成果众多且认可度更高，特别鼓励区域内，以及政府与私营企业的战略性合作。     

两汉孙吴会稽郡诸部都尉考

The commander was mainlu in charge of the army in the local administration system during the Han Dynasty to the Sunwu Period. As the border prefectures were important in military defense, the armies of these prefectures were commonly divided into parts. Therefore, the army of Kuaiji Prefecture were divided into West Section Duwei, East Section Duwei and South Section Duwei. The West and East Section Duweis were founded for the purpose of suppressing the adherents of Yuyue as well as the Minyue and Ouyue people in the southeast coastline. In demand of securing the safety of the ship routes alongside the southeast coastline, the East Section Duwei migrated frequently within the area. In the meantime, the foundation of South Section Duwei was the result of the Sunwu government suppressing the local force and pillaging the labor resources in a partition background     

Reducing sample size needed for cox-proportional hazards model analysis using more efficient sampling method

Abstract

In general, survival data are time-to-event data, such as time to death, time to appearance of a tumor, or time to recurrence of a disease. Models for survival data have frequently been based on the proportional hazards model, proposed by Cox. The Cox model has intensive application in the field of social, medical, behavioral and public health sciences. In this paper we propose a more efficient sampling method of recruiting subjects for survival analysis. We propose using a Moving Extreme Ranked Set Sampling (MERSS) scheme with ranking based on an easy-to-evaluate baseline auxiliary variable known to be associated with survival time. This paper demonstrates that this approach provides a more powerful testing procedure as well as a more efficient estimate of hazard ratio than that based on simple random sampling (SRS). Theoretical derivation and simulation studies are provided. The Iowa 65+ Rural study data are used to illustrate the methods developed in this paper.