白帝天王：传说与信仰

白帝天王或曰三王是湘西地区影响最大的本地神祇,在湘西流传着众多异文。用故事学的方法梳理这些异文可以发现：伴随本地区的社会变迁,白帝天王传说的核心母题由最初的“威慑”,后变为“忠顺”,至清后期转变为“三王之母”,同时,神祇的功能也出现相应变化,从早期的神判,中期的教化,发展到后期的赐福。在信仰流变的过程中,不同的群体都参与了神祗的构建。作为一地区重要的民间信仰,三王信仰中的人与神关系具有典型性。     

论集体腐败的经济学根源

集体腐败是当今社会中的一个严重问题,根据公共选择与集体行动理论,人们的利己主义动机与经济租金相结合,促使公共权力与经济财富之间互相交换,并通过小集体活动的方式表现出来,这是导致集体腐败的根本原因。因此,完善市场经济体制,加强各种监督机制,加快反集体腐败的立法,强化道德约束等等,是当前遏制集体腐败的有效对策举措。     

化学吸附制冷循环的热力学分析

在分析基本吸附制冷循环的基础上,建立了基本吸附制冷循环热力过程中的各个热量的计算表达式.针对氯化钙氨吸附制冷实验系统的两种典型工况(制冷工况和空调工况),就解吸终了温度和吸附终了温度对制冷性能的影响进行了热力计算和分析,明确了空调工况下制冷系统性能更好的原因,并对计算结果从热力学理论角度进行了分析验证.     

Inter‐country wage differences in the European Union

This article investigates the determinants of wage gaps between European Union countries along the wage distribution, applying the methodology proposed by Firpo, Fortin and Lemieux (2009) and Fortin, Lemieux and Firpo (2011). The authors conclude that both wage structure and composition effects contribute to explaining wage differentials, but that the wage structure effect is more important. This latter effect would appear to derive from differences between unknown factors, while the composition effect can largely be explained by differences in the following areas: education, proportion of workers with supervisory responsibilities, occupational structure, and, to a lesser extent, industrial structure.     

Keeping in Touch with Context: Non-verbal Behavior as a Manifestation of Communality and Dominance

This research investigated the influence of observed touch on the perceptions of communality and dominance in dyadic interactions. We manipulated four key situational features of haptic behavior in two experiments: the initiation, reciprocity, the degree of formality of touch (Studies 1 and 2), and the context of the interaction (Study 2). The results showed that the default perception of touch, irrespective of whether it is initiated or reciprocated, is the communal intention of the toucher. Furthermore, the initiation of touch was seen as an act of dominance, particularly, when the contact between the actors was primed as being hierarchical. Reciprocation neutralized the perceived asymmetry in dominance, but such inferences seemed to hinge on the fit of the touch with the context: reciprocation of formal touch reduced the asymmetry in the hierarchical context, whereas reciprocation of informal touch reduced the asymmetry in the non-hierarchical context.     

我国可再生能源发展的障碍分析与政策选择

发展可再生能源对保障能源安全、调整能源结构、保护生态环境、实现可持续发展具有重大意义。但我国在发展可再生能源过程中还存在着认识不足、成本太高、技术水平较低、市场不稳定和政策法律体系不完善等诸多障碍。本文对这些障碍进行了具体分析,并有针对性地提出了相应的政策建议。     

现代审美主义救赎刍议

现代工具理性文明对个体精神的物化作用催生了审美现代性,其思想的核心是,艺术对现实的否定与反抗作用能使个体产生一种内驱力,去质疑现代异化文明,寻得精神救赎并重新确立自我。然而,审美现代性把启蒙现代性置于绝对对立的位置,缺乏合理性;发轫于现代性中的审美主义却要消解现代性,否定了自身的存在;审美主义变成“精英”空谈,陷入固步自封、“自恋”的怪圈,丧失了对大众的救赎功能;艺术的泛生活化和货币化颠覆了审美主义艺术救赎的主旨。这就注定了审美主义无法实现救赎,现代人在寻求精神自由时无奈地陷入了绝望的境地。     

Another look at Huber's estimator: A new minimax estimator in regression with stochastically bounded noise

Huber's estimator has had a long lasting impact, particularly on robust statistics. It is well known that under certain conditions, Huber's estimator is asymptotically minimax. A moderate generalization in rederiving Huber's estimator shows that Huber's estimator is not the only choice. We develop an alternative asymptotic minimax estimator and name it regression with stochastically bounded noise (RSBN). Simulations demonstrate that RSBN is slightly better in performance, although it is unclear how to justify such an improvement theoretically. We propose two numerical solutions: an iterative numerical solution, which is extremely easy to implement and is based on the proximal point method; and a solution by applying state-of-the-art nonlinear optimization software packages, e.g., SNOPT. Contribution: the generalization of the variational approach is interesting and should be useful in deriving other asymptotic minimax estimators in other problems.     

Emplaced mobilities: Lisbon as a translocality in the migration journeys of Punjabi Sikhs to Europe

The arrival in Portugal of recent migrants from the Indian subcontinent is normally a secondary movement from within Europe tied to the search for a regular pathway into legal integration in the EU. However, as favourable migration policy is not paired with easy economic integration onward migration is common. We argue that such complex migration strategies cannot be amply explored through an origin–destination model; instead we suggest that a translocal perspective provides a framework to examine connections and experiences of emplacement in places of passage/reception like Lisbon. Through a qualitative study of the migration journeys and emplaced practices of Punjabi migrants in Lisbon, our findings highlight relationality between multiple scales, elucidating how agency and structure interact at micro and macro levels in shaping migration experiences and outcomes. We show how the materiality of local community structures ensures the navigation of daily life in the city and provides pathways toward legality contributing to wider mobility regimes. Moreover, we illustrate how onward migration represents an individual strategy to realise different aspects of integration in other EU destinations challenging nation-state-bound understandings of citizenship/settlement and integration.