Consumption and poverty in the homes of the English poor,c. 1670–1834

The consumer behaviour of the poor in the long eighteenth century has attracted more historical attention in recent years. Yet, we have little understanding of whether regional factors affected consumption or how the poor’s ownership of household goods was influenced by level of poverty and the life-cycle. By focusing on Kent and drawing comparisons to other counties, this article argues that the material lives of the poor were improving by the late eighteenth century, but finds that there were distinct regional differences as the poor acquired more and better goods in London and the Home Counties than in relatively remote areas. Moreover, by using pauper inventories and labourers’ probate inventories, the research finds that the poor were not a homogeneous group with similar levels of material wealth, but should be considered in terms of different subgroups which often led very different material lives to one another due to life-cycle-related problems including sickness and old age. Labourers’ probate inventories are found to represent a minority of the poor who were materially richer than most, whilst pauper inventories appear to represent a more typical subgroup of the poor that struggled to make do and owned most types of goods in smaller numbers.     

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.     

融合内容分析和关联分析的短生命周期体验品需求特征模式挖掘方法研究

挖掘特定产品的需求模式无法从整体掌握该类产品的市场特征；短生命周期体验品因缺乏历史销售数据，并且销售总量波动性极大，尤其需要从整体掌握销售总量与产品属性间关系的需求特征规律，但又难以挖掘，亟待提出适用于该类产品的需求特征模式挖掘方法。基于按销售总量分区后各区的需求特征的规律性，提出了一种按销售总量分区、以已有产品介绍集和销售总量为源信息、适用于新产品开发前使用、融合内容分析和关联分析的短生命周期体验品需求特征模式挖掘方法。该方法包括基于内容分析法的产品属性挖掘方法和基于关联分析的产品属性关系模式挖掘方法。前者可以得到较全面的产品属性；后者能够构建不同销售总量区间内产品集的属性关系模式，得到各区间的产品属性关系网，获得高销售总量区间具备，但中、低区间不具备的属性关系模式，从而获得需求特征模式。通过不断更新产品介绍集和销售总量并迭代挖掘，该方法能够动态挖掘需求特征模式。最后利用2013至2016年国产犯罪和爱情类电影数据验证了该方法的可行性，并得到了这两类电影的产品属性及近年的需求特征模式，可用于指导这两类电影的创作。     

The 2015 welfare reform of the National Basic Livelihood Security System in South Korea: Effects on economic outcomes

In July 2015, South Korea’s National Basic Livelihood Security System (NBLSS) was reformed for the purposes of eliminating welfare blind spots and reducing poverty. The reform is expected to affect the recipients’ economic behaviours and choices. In this study, we used changes in benefits and eligibility for the NBLSS under the customised benefit system to identify the effects of the change in the NBLSS on a proposed set of economic outcomes – income, labour supply, consumption, savings, poverty reduction. To estimate the effects, we used data from the 10th–12th waves of the Korea Welfare Panel Study and employed a difference‐in‐differences framework integrated with the propensity scores. We found that the NBLSS helps the poor to reduce financial and material hardships through income and consumption increments, but that it does not provide disincentives to the recipients from participating in the labour market or from saving.     

广西沿边"适应-竞争-合作"式 城镇演化模式研究 ——以凭祥、东兴为例

新时代不充分不平衡发展问题突出，加大力度支持边疆民族地区加快发展的要求迫在眉睫。广西沿边民族地区发展总体滞后，城镇发展模式趋同；东兴和凭祥在沿边城镇发展模式趋同的情况下，在“适应-竞争-合作”式城镇演化过程中，充分利用国家政策、发挥比较优势、培育优势特色产业、深化内外合作，实现了城镇经济的跨越式发展。本文以生物学“趋同进化”理论为基础，结合新发展理念和东兴、凭祥的发展经验建议：广西沿边民族地区采取“适应-竞争-合作”式城镇发展模式，以创新增强各城镇内生动力，以互补合作促进协调发展，以绿色发展道路助推城镇发展的可持续性，以加强内外市场的联动性来深化城镇开放、合作式发展，以“省-市-县”、“县-镇-村”的互联互通推进共享发展。     

论新闻报道策划的实践意义

新闻报道策划 在近几年的新闻实践中应用非常广泛。就报道主题、整合信息、沟通受众和发挥媒体整体优 势等方面论述了新闻报道策划的实践意义。     

经理行为的激励方式与国有企业激励机制的改革

现代公司经理行为的激励方式包括来自所有者的协议性激励、来自经理市场的声誉和职业升迁激励、经理自我激励等三个方面。我国国有企业现行激励机制存在着弊端,主要表现为三个方面:第一,货币报酬偏低、在职消费模糊;第二,声誉、职业升迁激励异化;第三,经理自我激励泛滥。因此,国有企业激励机制需要进行如下改革:1.激励机制的建立要与国有企业的目标定位、分类改革相结合;2.完善协议性激励机制;3.加快经理市场的建设。     

科学思维类组的语言结构形式探讨

文章对随机抽取的被试在两难问题处理语境中问题解决方案提出的语言结构形式进行分析,结果显示:模态词、陈述句和名词可以成为实现科学思维训练的操作性目标。     

我国消费需求不足的深层次原因及政策取向

收入决定消费。20世纪90年代中期以后我国消费需求不足的根本原因在于长期以来居民收入增长速度低于GDP增长速度。低收入和高增长构成我国经济运行的典型特征。因此,应努力改变过去那种粗放型经济增长方式,并把提高居民收入作为拉动内需的一项长期发展战略。     

"V 什么V"式的句法、语义、语用分析

"V什么V"式是现代汉语中常用的表否定的句式。它形式上最大的特点是"什么"前后的词语相同,它的基本句法结构是主谓结构;"V什么V"式的基本语义特征是表否定,这是通过"什么"实现的;"V什么V"式的语用特点是表示强烈的否定、表达强烈的意志性及简略性。