The Robustness of Trend Stationarity: An Illustration with the Extended Nelson-Plosser Dataset

We re-evaluate Andreu and Spanos's findings in favour of trend stationarity by considering the extended Nelson-Plosser data set. This expanded (to 1988) data set includes a period of rather different behaviour compared with the original Nelson-Plosser data used by Andreou and Spanos. We find that Andreou and Spanos's models (with only minor adjustments) exhibit remarable stability over this extended period, and indicate that their conclusions are more robust than they have shown.     

鄂西土家族传统情歌创唱者心理状态特点及成因

土家族传统情歌创唱者的心理状态是土家族传统情歌的重要组成部分.通过对鄂西土家族传统情歌的总体梳理,发掘土家族传统情歌创唱者心理状态的嬗变性、交揉性、稳定性等特点.并从自然条件、人文因素、历史变迁、民族心理积淀等方面探寻了情歌创唱者产生诸种心理状态的原因.同时阐发了这种特点发掘与原因探寻的意义之所在.     

从《军队的女儿》看边疆文学创作的审美追求

该文重温20世纪50年代边疆文学的代表作《军队的女儿》,以此探讨50至60年代边疆文学对青年支边那段历史的时代书写与个性追求而呈现的审美特征。以此探讨文学与意识形态、文学与历史、个人与集体、宏大叙事与个性写作之间种种复杂关系,尤其是挖掘边疆文学因独特的政治背景、地域特色所蕴涵的人文精神与审美追求。     

Unresolved Conflicts in the Regional Security System: The Case of the South Caucasus

The collapse of the USSR was accompanied by transformation of the South Caucasian latent ethnopolitical conflicts into local wars. Today the situation in the area of the conflicts is “neither war, nor peace”. Three unresolved conflicts of the South Caucasus can be considered as one of the most serious obstacles for establishing a regional security system.The article gives the general characteristics of these conflicts, the trends of their development, taking into account the time factor, and analyzes the behavioral models of the main players – de jure recognized and unrecognized de facto states of the South Caucasus. The basic objective of the main players should be to keep the situation on a level preventing the resumption of the armed conflicts. The attempts of forced resolution of the conflicts are fraught with destabilization of the situation not only in the area of any of these conflicts but in the whole region.     

Generalized quasi-likelihood

The quasi-score function, as defined by Wedderburn (1974) and McCullagh (1983) and so on, is a linear function of observations. The generalized quasi-score function introduced in this paper is a linear function of some unbiased basis functions, where the unbiased basis functions may be some linear functions of the observations or not, and can be easily constructed by the meaning of the parameters such as mean and median and so on. The generalized quasi-likelihood estimate obtained by such a generalized quasi-score function is consistent and has an asymptotically normal distribution. As a result, the optimum generalized quasi-score is obtained and a method to construct the optimum unbiased basis function is introduced. In order to construct the potential function, a conservative generalized estimating function is defined. By conservative, a potential function for the projected score has many properties of a log-likelihood function. Finally, some examples are given to illustrate the theoretical results. This paper is supported by NNSF project (10371059) of China and Youth Teacher Foundation of Nankai University.     

Ideas versus ideology: The origins of modern labor economics

Starting with its early twentieth century origins, the development of Labor Economics is traced to the present. We describe an intellectual revolution in which an earlier tra-dition that focused primarily on the institution of the labor union has been replaced by a perspective that emphasizes the various roles played by labor markets in an eco-nomic system. That earlier tradition contained very significant ideological elements, whereas its successor deals much more with the world of ideas. In the course of the debate, which still continues, ideas triumphed over ideology and created modern Labor Economics.     

化学新课程改革与微型化学实验

新一轮基础教育改革中，化学新课程改革在理念和内容上都强调学习方式的转变，即倡导探究性学习．探究性学习的实质，是学生主动参与教学过程，积极从事各种探究活动，亲自发现科学概念和原理，掌握探究技能．事实表明微型化学实验是实现探究性学习的有效手段．