《西游记》数理机制论要--从神秘数字出发的文学批评

《西游记》文本有典型的数理机制,框架取譬于"一元"之数,主体拟《老子》"道生一,一生二,二生三,三生万物"之序,表现为"一"以贯之,"二"以变之和"三"以成立、"七"以成之等等。进而深入看来,以《易经》"天地之数"为代表的我国古代神秘数字在《西游记》中几乎都有所运用,从而《西游记》的形象体系几乎是一种"数字化存在";数理的原则决定了《西游记》文本的秩序与比例等,配合并凸显了全书因道成佛,证"无"成"空"的基本倾向。     

《三国演义》成书年代新考

明初瞿佑《归田诗话》卷下《吊白门》一则引吕布语,与元人张思廉《玉笥集》中《南飞乌》诗用吕布事,在今存文献中只见于《三国志通俗演义》,表明元明之际的瞿佑与比他更早的元人张思廉,已经读过《三国志通俗演义》,并用为说诗的根据或诗料;而《三国演义》当成书更早,大约在“元泰定三年(1326)前后”。     

Assessing Changes Over Time in Inequality of Opportunity: The Case of Spain

The aim of this paper is to contribute both theoretically and empirically to the analysis of Inequality of Opportunity over time, providing some significant findings referred to the Spanish case. The analysis is carried out using microdata collected by the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC), which incorporate a wide variety of personal harmonised variables, allowing comparability with other countries. The availability of this database for the period 2004 and 2010 is particularly relevant for assessing changes over time in the main inequality indices and the contribution of circumstances to inequality of opportunity. We find that the effect of circumstances on income distribution has significantly intensified between the two years. To test the significance of the differences between years we perform bootstrap estimations.     

Bridging transformational leadership,transparent communication,and employee openness to change: The mediating role of trust

Based on a random sample of employees (n = 439) in the United States, this study examined the effect of transformational leadership and transparent organizational communication on cultivating employee organizational trust during an organizational change event. We also investigated the interplay between transformational leadership, transparent communication, and organizational trust, and their impact on employee openness to change. The findings suggested that transformational leadership and transparent communication were positively associated with employee organizational trust, which in turn, positively influenced employee openness to change. Theoretical and managerial contributions of the study were discussed.     

Walking the talk: An exploratory examination of executive leadership communication at startups in China

This study explored the under-researched topic of leadership communication in the context of startup companies in China. Specifically, this study examined the role of executive leadership in shaping corporate culture and leadership communication purposes, strategies, and channels in startups. Findings were derived through 25 in-depth interviews with entrepreneurs in China, and they suggested that 5 major corporate culture types are prevalent and can coexist at startups, including innovation/adventure, openness, inclusiveness/participation, supportiveness, and aggressiveness/competitiveness. The character and management style of startup leaders shape the culture of the organization. Leadership communication serves various internal and external purposes at the informational, motivational, and behavioral levels. Symmetrical, transparent, authentic, and visionary communications are found to be effective leadership communication strategies at startups. Startup leaders overall prefer using face-to-face communication and mobile social messengers (e.g., WeChat) to communicate with internal and external stakeholders, followed by email and phone. Implications of the findings are discussed.     

网络教育资源整合与学生创新能力的培养

学生创新能力的培养是当前教育改革关注的主要内容之一,网络教育资源建设和运用是教育信息化建设的重要组成部分。通过网络教育资源整合来培养学生的创新能力是当前基础教育中迫切需要解决的问题。本研究从目前中学生创新能力培养的现状切入,构建了有利于学生创新能力培养的网络教育资源整合模式,并将这一模式运用于中学网络教学实践之中,经过评价分析,验证了该模式的实践价值。     

Perceptual,Attitudinal, and Behavioral Outcomes of Organization–Public Engagement on Corporate Social Networking Sites

This study proposes and tests a conceptual model that not only measures public engagement with corporate pages on social networking sites, but also evaluates the influence of such engagement on important perceptual, relational, and behavioral outcomes. Study results provide empirical evidence of the positive effects of public engagement on perceived corporate authenticity, organizational transparency, organization–public relationships, and public advocacy. Findings underscore the importance of public engagement via social media on enhancing perceived corporate transparency and authenticity, and thereby cultivating strong relationships. Additionally, organization–public relationships emerged as a deciding factor driving the effects of public engagement on advocacy behaviors.     

Sampling-based Inference of Time Deformation Models with Heavy Tail Distributions

This article focuses on simulation-based inference for the time-deformation models directed by a duration process. In order to better capture the heavy tail property of the time series of financial asset returns, the innovation of the observation equation is subsequently assumed to have a Student-t distribution. Suitable Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms, which are hybrids of Gibbs and slice samplers, are proposed for estimation of the parameters of these models. In the algorithms, the parameters of the models can be sampled either directly from known distributions or through an efficient slice sampler. The states are simulated one at a time by using a Metropolis-Hastings method, where the proposal distributions are sampled through a slice sampler. Simulation studies conducted in this article suggest that our extended models and accompanying MCMC algorithms work well in terms of parameter estimation and volatility forecast.     

Large sample behavior of entropy measures when parameters are estimated

In this paper, we study the asymptotic behavior of (h,π)-entropy statistics when the parameters are replaced by some consistent and asymptotically normal (CAN) estimates. In the case of stratified sampling, asymptotic distribution is obtained and the optimum allocation is derived for a fixed cost and for a fixed variance. Some tests of hypotheses are constructed on the basis of these asymptotic distributions and a numerical example is presented.