虚拟交易和消费文化——评德莱塞《欲望三部曲》的主题

中国学界对美国现代著名作家德莱塞的《美国悲剧》和《嘉莉妹妹》评介甚丰,但对他在长达半个世纪创作的、代表他一生创作思想和哲学思考转变的《欲望三部曲》———《金融家》、《巨人》和《禁欲者》却着墨不多。本文探讨三部曲中表现出来的消费主义主题,剖析作者在这个问题上的矛盾态度,指出他这种态度背后与主流意识形态间的协调和颠覆关系。     

"祝颂"言语行为的汉英对比

汉英“祝颂”言语行为及“祝颂语”在词汇、句法、语体、语境、话语结构和文化背景等方面均存在共性与差异。实施“祝颂”言语行为时常出现“语用语言失误”和“社交语用失误” ,其根源在于文化差异 ,即英美文化的基督教信仰、个体主义、自我价值和汉文化的贬己尊人等传统观念之间的差异。     

北仑区政协提案工作的新做法

文章从加大提案工作宣传力度、加大领导力度、加大督办力度三方面总结了近年北仑区政协提案工作的新做法、新举措     

关于"体育社会问题"的辨析

体育社会学作为一门新兴的学科，已日趋成熟．其主要内容之一，是研究和解决体育社会问题，然而什么是体育社会问题，目前理论界尚无定论．该通过分析，指出了体育社会问题的两重属性：通性——危害社会秩序；特性——影响体育发展．同时尝试给出体育社会问题的定义，以供参考讨论．     

浅议体育教学改革与我国体育发展战略

探讨了学校体育在我国体育建设中的战略地位 ,并结合实际分析了我国体育战略布局的现状 ,旨在为当前的体育教学改革理清思路以便及时发现改革中出现的问题     

汤普森“文化唯物主义”的理论与范式

作为理论的"文化唯物主义"是汤普森在探索马克思主义英国化过程中,基于自己对斯大林主义的批判反思和历史研究实践,形成的一种主要适用于自由资本主义时代的历史唯物主义学说。作为范式的"文化唯物主义"是奠基在"自下而上"的观察视角、"人民历史"观念和超越资本主义的乌托邦议程这三个支撑点上的,它具有两种基本作用:真实的经验整体的倾听和再创造;大众文化的社会功能的分析与评价。     

敦煌医药文献P．3596若干文字问题考证

敦煌医学卷P.3596,系法人伯希和氏(Pelliot)盗购的敦煌文献之一种,现藏法国巴黎国立图书馆,以伯希和之名编号为P.3596。该卷为一篇古代医方杂抄,原卷存240多行,200余方。马继兴先生在《敦煌医药文献辑校》(江苏古籍出版社1998年10月出版)等整理本中将其拟名为《不知名医方第九种残卷》。由于原卷抄录文字行草不一,正俗兼行,且有不少讹误字,因而原卷校录中较易发生释读差误。20世纪80年代以来出版的几种敦煌医药文献研究专著中,在该卷子的文本释读方面存留的错误较多。为了更准确地传承敦煌医学资料,现专门就该卷子中的文字释读问题展开讨论,根据语言文字基本理论并参以相关文献加以考订。     

Estimating ordered parameters by linear programming

There are many models that require the estimation of a set of ordered parameters. For example, multivariate analysis of variance often is formulated as testing for the equality of the parameters versus an ordered alternative. This problem, referred to as isotonic inference, constrained inference, or isotonic regression, has led to the development of general solutions, not often easy to apply in special models. In this expository paper, we study the special case of a separable convex quadratic programming problem for which the optimality conditions lead to a readily solved linear complementarity problem in the Lagrange multipliers, and subsequently to an equivalent linear programming problem, whose solution can be used to recover the solution of the original isotonic problem. The method can be applied to estimating ordered correlations, ordered binomial probabilities, ordered Poisson parameters, ordered exponential scale parameters, or ordered risk differences.     

A graphical summary of disparities in health care and related summary measures

In order to assess the effectiveness of government programs designed to reduce disparities in the health care minority groups receive relative to the majority white population, a proper statistical measure should be used. This article proposes a measure of and its accompanying graph, which is readily interpretable and is not affected by the number of minority subgroups examined.     

Almost Consistent Estimation of Panel Probit Models with “Small” Fixed Effects

We propose four different GMM estimators that allow almost consistent estimation of the structural parameters of panel probit models with fixed effects for the case of small Tand large N. The moments used are derived for each period from a first order approximation of the mean of the dependent variable conditional on explanatory variables and on the fixed effect. The estimators differ w.r.t. the choice of instruments and whether they use trimming to reduce the bias or not. In a Monte Carlo study, we compare these estimators with pooled probit and conditional logit estimators for different data generating processes. The results show that the proposed estimators outperform these competitors in several situations.