论我国民族地区跨越式发展

加快少数民族和民族地区发展,是逐步缩小地区间差距,保持国民经济持续快速健康发展,实现我国现代化第三步战略目标,最终实现共同富裕的要求,是巩固和加强民族团结、保持社会稳定、维护祖国统一的要求,也是各族人民共同的迫切愿望。跨越式发展是少数民族和民族地区加快发展的必然选择。目前,民族地区实施跨越式发展的条件已经基本具备,我们只有高举邓小平理论伟大旗帜,坚决贯彻党的"十六大"精神,认真实践"三个代表"的重要思想,与时俱进,切实落实改革、开放、创新的一系列方针政策,才能全面推进民族地区经济和社会事业的跨越式发展。     

斯密悖论与“能人”现象

斯密以利己心为核心的经济观和以同情心为核心的伦理观,被称为斯密悖论.通过对斯密悖论的伦理解读可以发现企业家精神的伦理层面,既有助于人们认识伦理文化对经济发展的反作用,也有助于中国企业家素质的提高和完善.     

扫盲后继续教育的质量保障研究

历史和现实的经验表明 ,扫盲后续教育发展的速度、规模、质量与效益 ,主要取决于各种保障措施的完善、落实与否 ,为此 ,有必要从方针政策、组织管理、资源配置、教学监测诸方面 ,构建起促进我国扫盲后继续教育健康发展的质量保障系统。     

郑珍《说文逸字》论略

《说文》逸字的搜求和考订,是《说文》学研究中的一个重要方面。晚清贵州著名学者郑珍所著《说文逸字》,是逸字研究的一部重要著作。本文考察《说文逸字》一书的研究材料和研究方法,从内部求证和外部求证两个方面对郑书所以取得超越前人的成果的原因试作探讨。     

Redistribution Through Education and Other Mechanisms Under Capital‐Market Imperfections and Uncertainty: A Welfare Effect Analysis

Abstract. This paper considers a two‐period model of endogenous human capital formation under the credits‐market imperfection and uncertainty assumptions. We compare in the first part of the paper ex‐ante and ex‐post general‐equilibrium effects of the education subsidy policy to those of the negative income tax and the unskilled wage subsidy regimes. We show that the education subsidy policy raises an efficiency‐inequality trade‐off issue, and therefore it is optimal unless the degree of inequality aversion is relatively high and financing the subsidy is not too distorsive. Public loans are generally claimed to provide a solution for such issue. We explore the implications of implementing the public loan under several schemes in the second part of the paper. We show that combining between a pure public loan and education subsidies provides higher levels of welfare than these two policies taken separately provided that the inequality aversion degree is high. For low degrees of inequality aversion, the pure public loan is the optimal policy.     

Exploration of the Factorial Structure of the Revised Personal Functions of the Volunteerism Scale for Chinese Adolescents

Participation in volunteer services can be regarded as an indicator of quality of life among adolescents. The Volunteer Functions Inventory (VFI) has long been used to assess the underlying motives of volunteers. Owing to conceptual, methodological and empirical limitations, the VFI could not be fully endorsed to understand Chinese adolescent volunteerism. Another scale was devised, called the Revised Personal Functions of the Volunteerism Scale (R-PFVS). This study focused on the exploration of the factorial structure of the R-PFVS. The R-PFVS was administered to a large sample of Chinese adolescents (N = 5, 946). Data were split into two halves: one for exploratory factor analysis and the other for confirmatory factor analysis. The scale showed good factorial validity. Seven factors were revealed, namely, well-being, learning, socializing, pro-social competence, altruistic concern, future plan, and civic responsibility functions. The factors were highly correlated with each other. A second-order factor model was established, and all seven factors were loaded on this higher-order abstract factor. The R-PFVS subscales and the overall scale demonstrated good internal consistency. The findings were compared with the VFI. The R-PFVS can be used in assessing the underlying motives behind volunteerism among Chinese adolescents and in studies on the quality of life.     

Social constructions of reality and narratives of parental incapability in the process of adjudicating the adoption of minors in Israel

Compulsory adoption of a child constitutes the most extreme intervention of the state in family life. In Israel, this intervention relies mainly on the cause of parental incapability, which has not been clearly defined by the law and is left to the court's discretion. In this paper, the social construction of a reality paradigm and the narrative approach to the law are used as conceptual frameworks for analysing the concept of parental capability in court decisions favouring compulsory adoption. The analysis of case studies revealed six central narratives of parental incapability in court decisions and the judicial practices that constructed them. The compelling power of the parental incapability narrative leading almost conclusively to the closed adoption solution is discussed, and an alternative narrative of open adoption is put forward.     

On the diversity score: a copula approach

ABSTRACT

For the rating process of Collateralized Debt Obligations', Moody's suggests the Diversity Score as a measure of diversification in the collateral pool. This measure is used in Moody's Binomial Expansion Technique to infer the probability of default and thus the expected Loss in the portfolio. In this paper, we examine the appropriateness of this approach to assess the reality of defaults using a copula approach and lower tail dependence.     

Child involvement in treatment planning and assessment in Israel

What can facilitate at‐risk children's involvement in treatment planning and assessment? We examine this question by investigating the perceptions, attitudes, and characteristics of Israeli social workers. We examine whether their seniority, views on the importance of children's participation, and their attitudes toward parents are related to their report of at‐risk children's involvement in treatment planning and placement decisions. At‐risk children's involvement includes preparing them to appear before the committees that handle placement decisions for youth and the social workers' willingness to consider children's opinions. Eighty coordinators of these committees in social services departments in Israel participated. Our findings indicate that, based on the coordinators' answers, at‐risk children are more likely to be involved in treatment planning and assessment committees when the child protection officers prepare parents prior to participating in the committee meetings, and when the coordinators assigned the case are more senior. The influence of children's opinions on the decisions of the committees was predicted by the weight their parents' opinions carried and whether their parents received any relevant materials prior to the committee meetings. Our findings highlight the importance of involving parents in treatment planning and assessment committees' decision making.     

Adaptive Flood Risk Management Under Climate Change Uncertainty Using Real Options and Optimization

It is well recognized that adaptive and flexible flood risk strategies are required to account for future uncertainties. Development of such strategies is, however, a challenge. Climate change alone is a significant complication, but, in addition, complexities exist trying to identify the most appropriate set of mitigation measures, or interventions. There are a range of economic and environmental performance measures that require consideration, and the spatial and temporal aspects of evaluating the performance of these is complex. All these elements pose severe difficulties to decisionmakers. This article describes a decision support methodology that has the capability to assess the most appropriate set of interventions to make in a flood system and the opportune time to make these interventions, given the future uncertainties. The flood risk strategies have been explicitly designed to allow for flexible adaptive measures by capturing the concepts of real options and multiobjective optimization to evaluate potential flood risk management opportunities. A state‐of‐the‐art flood risk analysis tool is employed to evaluate the risk associated to each strategy over future points in time and a multiobjective genetic algorithm is utilized to search for the optimal adaptive strategies. The modeling system has been applied to a reach on the Thames Estuary (London, England), and initial results show the inclusion of flexibility is advantageous, while the outputs provide decisionmakers with supplementary knowledge that previously has not been considered.