Telecommunications and the customer—Prospects for the 1980s

There will be major changes in the telecommunications system during the next decade and computing and broadcasting technologies will contribute to the advances in telecommunication. The author describes the prospects for the customer and the improved systems that will become available.     

The Shifting Sands of Open Access Publishing, a Publisher's View

This paper sets Open Access (OA) publishing in the context of today's scientific, technical, and medical (STM) publishing trends. Four areas are covered: (a) a brief overview of STM publishing and its value today; (b) OA's place in the industry; (c) the underlying economics of OA, particularly its author-pays model; and (d) directions in moving towards “universal access” to STM information, where both researchers and the public have access to the scientific information they need.     

Developing a data base for planning— A shipping industry case

The shipping industry comprises many discrete sectors, with such widely differing characteristics of markets and vessel design that they are in effect separate industries. Planning therefore requires a detailed knowledge of each industry's characteristics—a data base from which future projections and corporate strategy can be developed.

International bulk shipping is not yet rigorously confined by intergovernmental agreements, except for regulations covering safety and technical standards, and it is therefore a market open to the economic forces of supply and demand. The market for parcel tankers, which carry a wide range of liquid cargoes in small quantities, is the subject of this study of how the supply and demand balance in a typical shipping industry is assessed.     

成功老龄化研究--以北京老年人为例

本文利用北京老龄化多维纵向研究数据,对北京老年人的成功老龄化状况进行了分析.分析结果表明,年龄、性别、受教育程度和家庭经济状况等因素影响着成功老龄化.属于成功老龄化范畴的老年人主要是低年龄、男性、受教育时间长、拥有较多家庭财产或月收入的老年人.上述因素并不只对某一个年龄组产生影响,它们对老年的各个阶段都有影响.年龄的增长与老年人身体、心理和社会功能有着紧密的联系,在控制了年龄、性别、教育和收入变量之后,老年人之间的差异依然存在.     

引起中国出生性别比偏高的三要素

从“人群、技术和管理系统”三个要素分析造成中国出生性别比升高的原因 ,在出生性别比异常偏高的地方 ,首先 ,有一定规模的男孩偏好的人群 ;其次 ,有可以获得的性别选择信息和技术服务 ;同时 ,存在着对性别选择行为疏于管理的系统。这三要素是在中国社会经济、文化习俗和生育政策的大环境下发挥着作用 ,因此 ,出生性别比偏高的治理工作必须从这三要素入手 ,同时必须努力创造有利于出生性别比治理工作的社会、经济、文化和政策环境。     

农村大龄未婚男性的婚姻困境:基于性别不平等视角的认识

大龄未婚男性的婚姻困境是在中国农村普婚制社会下长期存在的现象。文章利用全国性的专项调查、主流媒体报道和实地调查数据,从婚姻市场上的性别不平等视角来研究农村大龄男性的婚姻困境。宏观数据分析显示,用性别结构失衡来解释农村大龄男性的婚姻剥夺显得原发性因果关系不强和实证性不足,而简单地以贫困概括农村大龄男性婚姻困境的主因并没有充分考虑婚姻的本质和功能。基于性别不平等的理论视角和实证研究,认为婚姻市场上性别不平等对贫困男性婚姻困境的影响远比人口性别结构失衡的影响更为直接和重要,农村大龄男性的婚姻困境具有独立于个体内因的社会经济结构性的成因。     

Corporate planning and management by objectives

Management by Objectives seeks to integrate the company's objectives for profit and growth with the personal goals and satisfaction of managers. The system requires a review of company objectives and an attempt to translate these into key objectives and performance standards to which individual managers are committed. MBO dependes for its success on the existence of a company environment in which the individual can grow and provides a basis for harnessing the human resources of the organization in the achievement of company objectives.