湘西王村古街——石板串联起来的街道空间

湖南省湘西土家族自治州永顺县王村是一个具有两千多年历史的古镇,是国家级风景名胜区猛洞河景区的核心景区之一,是位于湖南省黄金旅游线路--张家界-凤凰线上的重要景点.     

跳出地产看地产——试论滨海新区房地产的宏观走势

滨海新区的开发开放正式纳入国家战略已有一年,在此前后,滨海新区的房地产开发热已持续近两年.静观这两年的事态变化,开发者已由最初的喧嚣、癫狂而趋于理性,置业者和投资者浮躁的功利心态也逐步冷却.显然,坊间追捧和媒体热炒的房地产开发"盛世"并未如期而至;一些先行者创造的个案营销神话,似乎也未再现,惟一的奇迹,就是滨海的房价一再拉高,已经与中心城区比肩.滨海新区的房地产到底出现了什么问题?原因何在?需要有一个客观的诊断和解答.     

Assessing the effects of land use and land cover patterns on thermal conditions using landscape metrics in city of Indianapolis,United States

Direct applications of remote sensing thermal infrared (TIR) data in landscape ecological research are rare due to limitations in the sensors, calibration, and difficulty in interpretation. Currently there is a general lack of methodology for examining the relationship between land surface temperatures (LST) derived from TIR data and landscape patterns extracted from optical sensors. A separation of landscapes into values directly related to their scale and signature is a key step. In this study, a Landsat ETM+ image of Indianapolis, Unites States, acquired on June 22, 2000, was spectrally unmixed (using spectral mixture analysis, SMA) into fraction endmembers of green vegetation, soil, high albedo, and low albedo. Impervious surface was then computed from the high and low albedo images. A hybrid classification procedure was developed to classify the fraction images into seven land use and land cover (LULC) classes. Using the fractional images, the landscape composition and pattern were examined. Next, pixel-based LST measurements were correlated with the landscape fractional components to investigate LULC based relationships between LST and impervious surface and green vegetation fractions. An examination of the relationship between the LULC and LST maps with landscape metrics was finally conducted to deepen understanding of their interactions. Results indicate that SMA-derived fraction images were effective for quantifying the urban morphology and for providing reliable measurements of biophysical variables. LST was found to be positively correlated with impervious surface fraction but negatively correlated with green vegetation fraction. Each temperature zone was associated with a dominant LULC category. Further research should be directed to the theoretical and applied implications of describing such relationships between LULC patterns and urban thermal conditions.

制度变迁背景下的社区权力与秩序——基于广州市一个城中村的研究

渐进的市场化和突发的制度变迁导致了城中村的权力格局和社区秩序发生了种种变化,居委会—村公司构成的权力结构及其互动关系目前已经成为城中村特有的"双轨制"权力模式,本文以广州市J社区为例深入分析这种双轨制的内在机制,认为社区内存在两种基于资源依赖基础上的循环链,由此带来了社区秩序的双重规则。     

Bayesian t-tests for correlations and partial correlations

In this paper, we develop Bayes factor based testing procedures for the presence of a correlation or a partial correlation. The proposed Bayesian tests are obtained by restricting the class of the alternative hypotheses to maximize the probability of rejecting the null hypothesis when the Bayes factor is larger than a specified threshold. It turns out that they depend simply on the frequentist t-statistics with the associated critical values and can thus be easily calculated by using a spreadsheet in Excel and in fact by just adding one more step after one has performed the frequentist correlation tests. In addition, they are able to yield an identical decision with the frequentist paradigm, provided that the evidence threshold of the Bayesian tests is determined by the significance level of the frequentist paradigm. We illustrate the performance of the proposed procedures through simulated and real-data examples.     

完善我国个人所得税制的思考

个人所得税是调节国家与个人利益分配关系的重要杠杆,随着我国经济的快速发展、居民收入水平的大幅提高,个人所得税将是一项最有前途、最有发展潜力的税种。但我国个人所得税政策不尽人意,执行起来既失公平,又欠效率。文章分析了我国个人所得税制存在的问题,提出了相应的对策。     

由马克思的人学思想看现代人的和谐发展

如何促进人的和谐发展是当代的一大主题。马克思关于人的和谐发展思想主要体现在对以下几方面的论述中,即人的本质、人与自然的关系、人与社会的关系、人的个性全面发展。该思想的提出虽距今已有上百年的历史,但仍具有重要的现实意义。首先它给人们提供了一个重要的方法论前提,即人的和谐发展问题绝不是一个哲学问题,而是一个社会问题。其次,它指明了解决该问题的有效途径,要实现人的和谐发展就必须实现人与社会的统一。一是要大力发展生产力;二是进一步改善生产关系;三是加强社会主义精神文明建设促进人的个性健康发展。     

Opting out of workers’ compensation: Non-subscription in Texas and its effects

Journal of Risk and Uncertainty - Texas is the only state that does not mandate that employers carry workers’ compensation (WC) insurance coverage. In place of traditional WC, companies can...     

Transparency and Resource Allocation of Grassroots Nonprofits in China

VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations - Organizational transparency has become a prominent concern for the nonprofit sector as it expands globally. Transparency...     

ON EQUILIBRIUM PLAYER ORDERING IN DYNAMIC TEAM CONTESTS

We study equilibrium player ordering in a dynamic all-pay contest between two teams. The contest lasts two periods, and each team consists of two players who perform in different periods on behalf of their teams. The team with the higher aggregate output wins the prize, which is a public good to its players. Each team has one stronger player and one weaker player, and the two teams can differ in their values of the prize. The teams maximize their winning odds by strategically assigning their players to different periods. We find that when the intrateam heterogeneity in player ability is not excessive, the teams would allocate their stronger players to the late positions as the “anchormen.” When both the intrateam ability gap and interteam heterogeneity in teams' values become excessively large, the team with high value always places its stronger player in the early position, who will place a large bid to preempt late competition. (JEL C7, D7, D8)