A new S2 control chart using repetitive sampling

A new S² control chart is presented for monitoring the process variance by utilizing a repetitive sampling scheme. The double control limits called inner and outer control limits are proposed, whose coefficients are determined by considering the average run length (ARL) and the average sample number when the process is in control. The proposed control chart is compared with the existing Shewhart S² control chart in terms of the ARLs. The result shows that the proposed control chart is more efficient than the existing control chart in detecting the process shift.     

风险规避与企业的产生和发展

本文沿阿尔钦的风险规避(risk aversion)思想继续深入,认为企业的产生和发展是根源于所有参与人的风险规避动机,修正了新古典经济学的关于企业、企业家和资本家的风险中性和风险偏好假设,使理性经济人假设保持一致,并证明风险规避动机促使企业产生和发展,最后还以企业产生的历史、今天的发展和企业的存在形式作为分析验证的佐证。其中关于风险的证明在金融经济学、资产定价模型理论中具有广泛的应用。     

数词非范畴化现象考察

通过句法分布、语义变化、语篇功能及范畴转移等方面考察,数词在非范畴化过程中主要有以下几种表现:句法分布特征的扩展;语义丧失、转指、抽象泛化;语义、语篇功能被强化.非范畴化的结果必然带来范畴转移,而以词汇化或语法化为手段在词汇层面所遗留的痕迹成了这种"转移"最有力的佐证.     

信用问题的制度基础分析

信用制度是指信用规范与规则的制度化,它是由社会认可的非正式约束、国家规定的正式约束和实施机制所构成的。尽管从各国的信用制度实践情况来看,诱致性制度变迁和强制性制度变迁似乎各有轨迹,但总体上,信用制度都遵循共同的变迁轨迹,只不过由于各国历史和经济基础的不同,在每个国家的不同历史阶段发展状况也就有所侧重。信用制度也有其供给和需求,并且在社会领域中也发挥着重要的作用,对其研究不仅在理论上极其必要,在我国实践领域也具有极强的现实意义。     

建构中国化马克思主义哲学新形态的再思考

当代中国哲学研究的一个显著趋势就是探讨建构中国哲学的新形态,它主要表现为中国化马克思主义哲学新形态的建构。建构中国化马克思主义哲学新形态的前提性问题是如何体现马克思主义哲学的“真精神”,应着眼于马克思恩格斯思想的“总体性特征”和马克思主义哲学所体现的思维方式与价值立场,去把握马克思主义哲学的真精神。在全球化日益发展的今天,建构中国化马克思主义哲学新形态必须凸现民族性。马克思主义哲学是与时俱进的、开放的理论,在建构中国化马克思主义哲学形态中,应当认真批判地吸收西方文化、准确地捕捉时代性问题并给出新的回答。     

Social relationships and shifting languages in Northern Thailand1

This paper explores how speakers’ understandings of the conduct of social relationships mediate changing and socially distinctive syncretic language practices in a Northern Thai community. Although a shift away from vernacular (Kam Muang) speech styles to Standard Thai was emblematically tied to young and urban speakers in nostalgic discourses, syncretic speech styles and metalinguistic discourses also reflected local and socially positioned understandings of institutional roles and social relationships. I argue that scholars of language change and shift should foreground the mediating role of social relationships in speakers’ uses and understandings of their communicative repertoires across multiple timescales.     

Two‐sample empirical likelihood ratio tests for medians in application to biomarker evaluations

The median is a commonly used parameter to characterize biomarker data. In particular, with two vastly different underlying distributions, comparing medians provides different information than comparing means; however, very few tests for medians are available. We propose a series of two‐sample median‐specific tests using empirical likelihood methodology and investigate their properties. We present the technical details of incorporating the relevant constraints into the empirical likelihood function for in‐depth median testing. An extensive Monte Carlo study shows that the proposed tests have excellent operating characteristics even under unfavourable occasions such as non‐exchangeability under the null hypothesis. We apply the proposed methods to analyze biomarker data from Western blot analysis to compare normal cells with bronchial epithelial cells from a case–control study. The Canadian Journal of Statistics 39: 671–689; 2011. © 2011 Statistical Society of Canada     

Attitude–behavior consistency in household water consumption

The purpose of this paper is to examine how environmental attitudes and concern about water scarcity translate into water conservation behavior. The study considers whether Oregonians environmental concern measured by the New Environmental Paradigm scale and sociodemographic characteristics influence personal water conservation activities. Using a survey conducted in the spring of 2010 of Oregon residents, the interaction of environmental concern and sociodemographics that predict identified water conservation behaviors are considered.     

近现代中国儒学地位与社会转型的思考

儒学,作为中国传统社会的主流文化,沿存于中国封建社会两千余年.自近代,由于西方强势文化的冲击及社会政治的变迁而退居边缘.但改革开放以后,儒学又重新复苏,不仅回到学术界、理论界,而且吸引着众多国家的学者和社会人士的目光.由此,儒学在当代中国及社会发展中的地位作用问题也愈加显得重要起来,诚然,这个问题更多的是社会实践层面的问题.但作为学者,从理性的角度回顾近代以来儒学在中国地位的变迁,参照东亚模式各国社会转型与儒学转型的关系,总结经验教训,对于增强自觉的文化意识大有益处.     

当代中国马克思主义大众化的人本范式阐析

推动当代中国马克思主义大众化,作为新时期中国共产党强本固基的伟大工程,要基于时代主题和实践主题的转换和发展,着眼于马克思主义理论的通俗化、普及化和群众化,着眼于指导实践和解决实际问题。在马克思主义大众化的过程中,其大众化的话语方式和实践方式的差别必然出现不同范式。所以,推动当代中国马克思主义大众化,必须确立人本范式取向,将马克思主义与人民群众结合起来,以提升人民群众的主体性,实现最广大人民群众的根本利益。这既体现了中国特色社会主义事业发展的内在要求,也彰显了当代中国马克思主义发展的本质属性。