Depoliticising literature,politicising diversity: ethno-racial boundaries in Dutch literary professionals’ aesthetic repertoires

Although still a neglected area, over the years a growing body of sociological research on the position of ethno-racial minorities in Western artistic fields has emerged. With this article we aim to contribute to this research area by focusing on ethno-racial diversity in the Dutch literary field. Through in-depth interviews, we analyse how gatekeepers mobilise specific cultural repertoires and by doing so draw ethno-racial boundaries when discussing acquisition, assessing quality and positioning themselves in the literary field. We argue that literary publishers and other professionals (selectively) employ an ‘old school’ modernist repertoire that especially values the formal aspects of literary products, by which non-white writers and publishers concerned with diversity are often positioned in an identity politics framework. Their work is said to take in a less prestigious ‘political’/’subjective’ position rather than a ‘literary’/‘universal’ one. As such, this paper informs on how gatekeepers’ practices shape the position of non-white authors in the Dutch literary field.     

Linear scalar-on-surface random effects regression models

Many research fields increasingly involve analyzing data of a complex structure. Models investigating the dependence of a response on a predictor have moved beyond the ordinary scalar-on-vector regression. We propose a regression model for a scalar response and a surface (or a bivariate function) predictor. The predictor has a random component and the regression model falls in the framework of linear random effects models. We estimate the model parameters via maximizing the log-likelihood with the ECME (Expectation/Conditional Maximization Either) algorithm. We use the approach to analyze a data set where the response is the neuroticism score and the predictor is the resting-state brain function image. In the simulations we tried, the approach has better performance than two other approaches, a functional principal component regression approach and a smooth scalar-on-image regression approach.     

Uniform consistency rate of kNN regression estimation for functional time series data

In this paper, we investigate the k-nearest neighbours (kNN) estimation of nonparametric regression model for strong mixing functional time series data. More precisely, we establish the uniform almost complete convergence rate of the kNN estimator under some mild conditions. Furthermore, a simulation study and an empirical application to the real data analysis of sea surface temperature (SST) are carried out to illustrate the finite sample performances and the usefulness of the kNN approach.     

Investor response to appointment of female CEOs and CFOs

We study the impact of appointing women to top executive positions from an investor perspective. We analyze whether shareholders value announcement of appointment of women to top positions differently than they do appointment of men. This study uses an international sample of 100 announcements of top executive appointments of women who replace men and investigates how shareholders respond to such appointments. This research combines an event study with a matched pair analysis to compare the response from investors regarding appointment of female versus male CEOs and CFOs. We establish that investors do not seem to value appointment of women significantly differently from that of men. This finding suggests that, from the investor perspective, there appears to be no business case for a particular gender when it comes to appointing a CEO or CFO.     

JOURNAL OF UNIVERSITY OF SHANGHAI FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 2002 Vol.24 No.1～4 Total Contents

在学习英语时,中西文化背景的差异,往往会给我们的阅读带来很大的困难。本文拟从词汇的文化内涵、历史典故和西方现代历史文化等三个方面来论述中西文化差异对篇章阅读的影响。     

四级写作低分段评分样本的功能分析

为了客观、系统地研究大学英语四级低分段写作的基本语法和文体特点 ,有必要从系统功能语法的角度对评分样本进行统计分析。系统功能语法比传统语法具有诸多的优越性 ,能够全面细致地对语言现象进行分析。对评分样本的分析 ,有助于客观地研究克服经验主义倾向     

商业银行董事会治理的独立有效性研究

根据经济合作与发展组织、巴塞尔银行监管委员会和中国银行业监督管理委员会等组织关于公司治理的相关原则、指引和法律规定,对商业银行董事会的独立有效性进行了综合分析,得出商业银行董事会的独立有效性主要体现在独立董事的独立性,职能委员会的独立性以及独立董事占董事会成员的比例3个方面以及规范的独立董事、职能委员会的产生机制和明确的独立董事、职能委员会的责权利制度是确保商业银行董事会独立有效性基础的结论,并提出中国商业银行董事会的适度规模为11人,其中独立董事占董事会成员的合适比例为50％以上的建议。     

互联网与文化重构及社会分化

互联网的出现不仅丰富了文化的表现形式 ,而且丰富了文化的基础 ,丰富了人们对真理、理性、伦理等文化基本矛盾的认识。互联网作为一种新的文化形态主要不是依据理论的完整性 ,而是依靠它在传播过程中的文化张力来实现的。互联网的出现导致了文化的多元化 ,推动了个人主义 ,冲击了传统文化的主导地位 ,冲击了传统的主流媒体赖以存在的稳定的文化环境 ,冲击了主流文化推崇的文化价值和伦理价值体系。     

烟草硫氧还蛋白基因NtTRX-hl的克隆和功能分析

从烟草中克隆了硫氧还蛋白基因NtTRX-hl并推导出其氨基酸序列,系统进化关系分析表明,NtTRX-hl与小麦、大麦、拟南芥等多种植物的TRX蛋白有很高的同源性.构建高效表达载体,诱导表达重组菌得到分子大小为22.26 kD的融合蛋白,与推测的分子量一致.用胰岛素和二硫苏糖醇作底物进行酶活性测定表明,Nt-TRX-hl具有活性.采用生物信息学的方法和工具分析了NtTRX-hl蛋白的生化参数和亚细胞定位,预测了该蛋白的高级结构.     

农村互助合作金融模式绩效分析

互助合作金融是中国农村金融市场的一种创新融资模式，尽管其组织化、制度化经营时间短、经验少，融资能力还很微小，但已经表现出财务上可持续发展的能力，在满足农户小额贷款方面的补充作用十分显著。资金互助合作密切了社会成员的相互关系，改善着农村社会关系，社会整体信用水平、将为之提高。论题分析了《农村资金互助社管理暂行规定》颁布前后农村互助合作金融模式的制度绩效、功能绩效和社会绩效。