比喻分类管见

本文针对大中学教坛上把比喻分为明喻、暗喻、借喻的“三分说”分类提出不同看法；认为应分为两大类：常式比喻和变式比喻，并着重分析了 常式比喻与变式比喻之间的联系及其“变”的规律     

Saving behaviour and earnings uncertainty: Evidence from the British Household Panel Survey

For the first time, this paper uses a panel data set, the British Household Panel Survey, to analyse saving behaviour in Britain. One objective is to test the precautionary saving hypothesis, according to which households save to self-insure against uncertainty. Our results show that in accordance with this hypothesis, various measures of uncertainty based on earnings variability have a statistically significant effect on households' saving decisions. Moreover, in accordance with the life cycle model, households save more if they expect their financial situation to deteriorate. Received: 15 June 1999/Accepted: 4 January 2001     

语句重音初探

一般认为汉语句重音分为两种：语法重音和逻辑重音,然而由于研究的目标和研究背景的不同,人们对于语句重音的认识和分类产生了不一样的看法。本文立足前人研究的基础上回顾了传统的重音分类方法,总结出本文的语句重音的分类及其关系。     

慈善捐赠的法律界定

慈善捐赠是多元化的民事法律行为,是自愿、无偿、单务和不可任意撤销的捐赠。慈善捐赠的标的物种类繁多,可为有形财产,可为无形财产。捐赠财产的归属并不单一,应根据捐赠行为属性等因素进行具体分析。受赠对象既可为组织,亦可为个人,但应以捐赠人对受赠人不负有法定救助义务为限,且必须用作有益于社会或个人的事情。慈善捐赠的外延极大,因此须要进行类型化的分析。     

The Good,the Bad and the Unhappy: The Cultural Meanings of Newspaper Reporting on Jackpot Winners

Accounts of jackpot winners and big gambling wins are common in Swedish newspapers. Analysis of over 2000 such newspaper articles reveals that their content is structured according to specific themes and cultural topics. Four such topics are identified: wealth as a test of morals and character, the social impact of wealth, the just and good world, and luck and the occult. Culturally structured narratives like these—which elaborate on mythological and moralistic schemes of good and evil, rewards and punishments, and which concern questions of human nature and social values—have a long history in folk tradition and in Christian moral teachings. Jackpot wins provide a discursive realm for moral and existential questions that, to some extent, fills a void left by the decline of traditional folklore and formal religion. Apparently, this discourse stimulates interest in games and constitutes one of the cultural roots of contemporary gambling.     

Intention to emigrate in transition countries: the case of Albania

We analyse the profile of potential emigrants from Albania using data from the Central and Eastern Europe Eurobarometer in 1992. Respondents were asked to rate on a four-point scale the likelihood that they would go to live in Western Europe. Our results show that intention to emigrate is correlated positively with males, education and certain occupations, and negatively with age. There is little relation between emigration and income. Those who support the introduction of a free market in Albania are also more likely to emigrate than those who do not. Received: 24 August 1998/Accepted: 17 April 2000     

Ecosystem resilience, specialized adaptation and population decline: A modern Malthusian theory

The purpose of this article is to construct a theoretical framework characterizing the interactions among economic development, ecosystem equilibrium and possible population decline, and to discuss the population dynamics in the very long run. In our framework, economic activities bridge population and environment. On the one hand, human beings reform the environment through economic activities; on the other hand, economic activities decrease environmental resilience and increase the possibility of an environmental change in a discontinuous and irreversible pattern, as described in Arrow et al. (1995). Furthermore, a highly developed economy also causes over-specialization of human adaptation, which tends to exaggerate the impact of an environmental change on human population size. Received: 19 January 1999/Accepted: 3 July 1999     

Bayesian classification with multivariate autoregressive sources that might have different orders

The main objective of this paper is to develop an exact Bayesian technique that can be used to assign a multivariate time series realization to one of several autoregressive sources, with unknown coefficients and precision, that might have different orders. The foundation of the proposed technique is to develop the posterior mass function of a classification vector, in an easy form, using the conditional likelihood function. A multivariate time series realization is assigned to the multivariate autoregressive source with the largest posterior probability. A simulation study, with uniform prior mass function, is carried out to demonstrate the performance of the proposed technique and to test its adequacy in handling the multivariate classification problems. The analysis of the numerical results supports the adequacy of the proposed technique in solving the classification problems with multivariate autoregressive sources.     

从《爬行纲分类》课件开发中探讨CAI课件的设计和创作策略

通过对MCAI课件《爬行纲分类》的制作，探讨了在设计MCAI课件时所需要注意的问题。     

双宾语动词的分类

综合语义、语法和语用三个平面对双宾语句进行重新定义,然后按照这个定义对古代汉语、现代汉语以及英语里的双宾语动词进行重新分类描写;同时进行汉语内部的历时比较,汉语和英语的共时对比,发现：古汉语中表＂为动＂服务义的双宾语句在现代汉语中已基本消失;现代汉语中比较常见的表＂获取＂义的双宾语句在英语中基本没有;而表＂制作＂服务义的双宾语句在英语中却很常见。