Managing Risk as a Duality of Harm and Benefit: A Study of Organizational Risk Objects in the Global Insurance Industry

This study examines how organizations construct and manage risk objects as a duality of harm–benefit within their normal operations. It moves beyond the existing focus on accidents, disasters and crisis. We study the risk‐transfer processes of 35 insurers where they navigate the tension of retaining risk in their insurance portfolio to increase the benefit of making profit and transferring risk to reinsurance to reduce the harm of paying claims. We show that organizations’ constructions of risk are underpinned by everyday risk management practices of centralizing, calculating and diversifying. Through variation in these practices, not all organizations seek balance and we in turn uncover the sensemaking processes of abstracting and localizing that enable organizations to prioritize harm or benefit. This contributes to the risk literature by illuminating the co‐constitutive relationship between risk sensemaking processes and everyday risk management practices. Following the complex linkages involved in the construction of risk objects as sources of harm–benefit, our analysis also contributes to the literature on dualities. It shows that while immediate trade‐offs between harm–benefit occur, prioritizing one element of the duality is ultimately a means for attaining the other. Thus, while initial imbalance is evident, prioritization can be an enabling approach to navigating duality.     

理论之树也应常青——兼谈翻译理论的功能

文章从译界存在的对翻译理论认识上的误区出发,论述了翻译理论和实践的关系,提出新的翻译理论的定义,并详述了翻译理论的两大功能认识功能和解释功能.     

Scheduling Updates of Probabilistic Risk Assessments: The Arkansas Nuclear One-Unit 1 Experience

This paper presents the results of a study that identified how often a probabilistic risk assessment (PRA)should be updated to accommodate the changes that take place at nuclear power plants. Based on a 7-year analysis of design and procedural changes at one plant, we consider 5 years to be the maximum interval for updating PRAs. This conclusion is preliminary because it is based on the review of changes that occurred at a single plant, and it addresses only PRAs that involve a Level 1 analysis (i.e., a PRA including calculation of core damage frequency only). Nevertheless, this conclusion indicates that maintaining a useful PRA requires periodic updating efforts. However, the need for this periodic update stems only partly from the number of changes that can be expected to take place at nuclear power plants–changes that individually have only a moderate to minor impact on the PRA, but whose combined impact is substantial and necessitates a PRA update. Additionally, a comparison of two generations of PRAs performed about 5 years apart indicates that PRAs must be periodically updated to reflect the evolution of PRA methods. The most desirable updating interval depends on these two technical considerations as well as the cost of updating the PRA. (Cost considerations, however, were beyond the scope of this study.)     

面向大学生创新能力培养的创新项目设计

文章论述了面向大学一年级机械类新生开设创新项目课的好处和可行性,并设计了一个橡皮筋动力车制作项目,论述了项目的组织和实施方法,目的是培养学生的创新能力.     

浅议高校科研文化建设

文章简明地论述了关于高校科研文化建设的若干问题 :科研文化的内涵与表现层次、科研文化的社会背景、科研文化特征与功能、科研文化价值体系、科研文化构建原则以及科研文化建设等 ,旨在改变目前高校科研文化建设中的不自觉状态     

文化视角处理隐喻翻译的技巧

隐喻所包含的不同文化背景和文化内涵对翻译的影响不可以一言概括之,中西方学者在隐喻翻译方面的见解既有共识也有分歧,但既然翻译的初衷是交流不同文化中本来存在的东西,那么在隐喻翻译中还是提倡采用外国化的处理方式保留它本来文化中的内涵。本文从文化的视角分析隐喻的翻译技巧。     

La médiane simpliciale d'Oja: Existence,unicité et stabilité

Oja (1983) examined various ways of measuring location, scatter, skewness, and kurtosis for multivariate distributions. Among other measures of location, he introduced a generalised median known in this paper under the name of the Oja median. In our study of the existence of that median, we show that Oja's definition can only be applied to distributions having a mean. In dimension d θ 2, we establish that the usual method of extension breaks down, which raises the question of the validity of the concept as a notion of median. Two fundamental theoretical properties of that median are also considered: uniqueness and consistency.     

四级阅读测试题型与对策

分析了最近 1 3年 2 2套四级考试阅读理解部分全部问题 ,并以文字、图表数据说明五类题型的比例及测试特点。同时结合《大学英语教学大纲》,分析了师生在平常教与学的过程中可采取的对策。     

Clinical supervision: Its role in “Containing” countertransference responses to a filicidal patient

This paper illustrates the role of supervision in processing countertransference responses with might have disrupted the therapist's empathy with a patient who had killed her child. The clinical material demonstrates how the therapist's responses of initial denial and subsequent disgust and fear were dealt with in supervision. As a result, the treatment process led to genuine, albeit limited, therapeutic change in a patient with severe character pathology.This paper is developed from a presentation of the case of Mrs. Jay at Department of Psychiatry Grand Rounds, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, on May 2, 1989.