Eating Its Own: The Whistleblower's Organization in Vendetta Mode

This paper reports on Australia's largest whistleblower study. Specifically it focuses on the experiences of whistleblowers in the Queensland public sector during the Goss Labor government's first term. Rather than being affirmed as good citizen-workers when they took disclosures of wrongdoing to their supervisors within the units in which they worked, the whistleblowers encountered obstruction and vilification. Their experiences offer a rare check-up on the state of workplace dissent.     

On the Cycle-Transitivity of the Dice Model

We introduce the notion of a dice model as a framework for describing a class of probabilistic relations. We investigate the transitivity of the probabilistic relation generated by a dice model and prove that it is a special type of cycle-transitivity that is situated between moderate stochastic transitivity or product-transitivity on the one side, and ukasiewicz-transitivity on the other side. Finally, it is shown that any probabilistic relation with rational elements on a three-dimensional space of alternatives which possesses this particular type of cycle-transitivity, can be represented by a dice model. The same does not hold in higher dimensions.     

Can cities be held responsible for early school leaving? Evidence from the Netherlands

This paper examines if ‘naming and shaming’ is an effective tool to increase accountability in school dropout for cities with disadvantaged student populations. It argues that a comparison with other cities might be unfair if regional and population characteristics differ. It discusses the example of two Dutch new towns. The new town policy deliberately attracted low- and medium-income households in the past, such that today the population of those cities differs from other cities. We use a matching analysis to account for observed differences in population and regional characteristics. The results point out that ‘naming and shaming’ may be a dangerous policy to increase accountability: early school leaving differences are driven, to a large extent, by observed differences in population and regional characteristics.     

我国大学科技产业的发展与制度创新

大学科技企业的本质是大学衍生企业 ,其产生和发展的重要意义是制度创新 ,大学科技企业的发展必须以现代企业制度来规范校企关系 ,大学高技术公司上市是大学科技产业发展的历史性跨越。大学科技产业的发展需要建立产权激励机制     

Composite Indices of Development and Poverty: An Application to MDGs

The measurement of development or poverty as multidimensional phenomena is very difficult because there are several theoretical, methodological and empirical problems involved. The literature of composite indicators offers a wide variety of aggregation methods, all with their pros and cons. In this paper, we propose a new, alternative composite index denoted as MPI (Mazziotta-Pareto Index) which, starting from a linear aggregation, introduces penalties for the countries or geographical areas with ‘unbalanced’ values of the indicators. As an example of application of the MPI, we consider a set of indicators in order to measure the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and we present a comparison between HDI (Human Development Index) methodology, HPI (Human Poverty Index) methodology and MPI.     

科学价值创造的文化教育条件探析

科学创造活动作为一种特殊的价值创造活动,是一个复杂的社会互动过程,这一活动过程除了要受到科学活动自身发展的内在规律影响外,还与其他社会因素密切相关.文化和教育对科学价值的创造和实现具有重要的制约作用.普遍性原则、自主创造原则和现代的竞争、合作观念是科学价值创造的主要的文化环境,而现代科学教育的思想、手段、内容和结构则构成科学价值创造和实现的重要基础条件.     

按照先进生产力发展要求加快重庆传统产业改造升级

江泽民总书记“七一”重要讲话是我们各项工作的指针,也是加快重庆传统产业改造升级、实现重庆经济和社会全面发展进步的强大思想武器.因此,必须首先学习、领会和把握中国先进生产力的发展趋势和要求的深刻内涵,增强用高新技术改造提升传统产业的重要性和紧迫性的认识,并以此为基本思路和采取若干相应对策.     

高校教学工作自我监控和评估的思路和机制

高等学校内部教学质量评估及保障体系是促进和提高学校办学水平的重要机制之一。为了搞好教学工作的自我监控和评估 ,必须首先明确教学工作自我监控的基本目标。在此基础上 ,还要加强教学质量标准研究、教学质量改进和提高的关键因素研究、建立计算机网络环境下的教学信息系统研究等     

Regulation issues in the Italian local transport system: aligning transactions and governance structures

This paper refers to the concept of public governance in the light of Transaction Cost Economics (TCE). While TCE is well developed and widely applied in the private sector, only a few studies have adopted such framework to investigate the provision of public services. We aim at pointing out the coherence between peculiar typologies of transactions and a given set of governance structures, within Local Public Transport systems. The core of the analysis is the alignment between characteristics of transactions and governance structures. The empirical section addresses these issues referring to three case studies, pointing out an articulated organizational configuration in terms of actors involved and governance structures adopted. The analysis shows an alignment between the choices underlying the design of the local transport system and the outcomes expected in terms of TCE.     

A class of semiparametric transormation frailty models with application to estimating treatment effects and heterogenity in aids clinical traials

Muitivariate failure time data are common in medical research; com¬monly used statistical models for such correlated failure-time data include frailty and marginal models. Both types of models most often assume pro¬portional hazards (Cox, 1972); but the Cox model may not fit the data well This article presents a class of linear transformation frailty models that in¬cludes, as a special case, the proportional hazards model with frailty. We then propose approximate procedures to derive the best linear unbiased es¬timates and predictors of the regression parameters and frailties. We apply the proposed methods to analyze results of a clinical trial of different dose levels of didansine (ddl) among HIV-infected patients who were intolerant of zidovudine (ZDV). These methods yield estimates of treatment effects and of frailties corresponding to patient groups defined by clinical history prior to entry into the trial.