祛弱权与生命伦理学“共识的崩溃”

当代生命伦理学的重要奠基人恩格尔哈特否定后现代伦理学境遇中的生命伦理学达成共识的可能性。我们认为,每一个人都不可避免地时刻处在脆弱性状态,脆弱性在人的状况的有限性或界限的意义上具有普遍一致性。从这个意义上讲,祛除普遍的脆弱性的价值诉求,在道德实践中就转化为具有规范性意义的作为人权的祛弱权。祛弱权不仅是生命伦理学的基础,也应当是生命法学的基础。     

智能控制系统研究现状与展望

控制理论的发展正面临着新的突破，智能控制将成为控制理论发展中的一个新阶段．本文以近年来智能控制领域的研究成果为基础，结合国际上一些比较值得注意的动向，分析了智能控制系统的结构特点，对其研究现状进行了综述，进一步探讨了相关问题，并提出了智能控制系统今后可能的发展方向．     

简析黑格尔的伦理有机体思想

黑格尔没有一本伦理学专著,他常常把伦理和伦理学都称为伦理,有时又把道德学说也叫做伦理学,这就增加了研究其伦理思想的难度。实际上,黑格尔关于伦理的思想是前后一贯的。在他那里,伦理学是客观伦理、主观伦理和绝对伦理构成的“一个伦理有机体”。黑格尔的伦理学决定了他在西方伦理史上的重要地位。     

The roles of human capital and social capital in the economic integration of new arrivals from Mainland China to Hong Kong

Although it has been hypothesized in the literature that both human capital and social capital are important for the economic performance of new immigrants, few studies have examined these relationships empirically, especially in understudied populations such as Chinese populations. This study simultaneously examines the roles of human capital and social capital in the economic integration of new arrivals from Mainland China to Hong Kong, using a random sample of immigrants. In the early stage of immigration (less than 6 months after arrival), we find little support for the presumed positive effects of both human capital and social capital on employment status among new arrivals in Hong Kong. Follow-up studies are underway to investigate the dynamic relationship between social capital and economic integration in this group of new arrivals, and whether social capital, especially friendship networks, plays a more important role in the economic integration of new immigrants 1 or 2 years after arrival.     

Decomposition of K m,n into 4-cycles and 2t-cycles

In this paper we show the sufficient conditions for the decomposition of the complete bipartite graphs K _2m,2n and K _2n+1,2n+1−F into cycles of two different lengths 4 and 2t, t>2, where F is a 1-factor of K _2n+1,2n+1. After that we prove that the results are true for t=5 and 6. Dedicated to Frank K. Hwang on the occasion of his 65th birthday. An erratum to this article can be found at     

Economic-statistical design of X ¥ charts for non-normal data by considering quality loss

When the X ¥ control chart is used to monitor a process, three parameters should be determined: the sample size, the sampling interval between successive samples, and the control limits of the chart. Duncan presented a cost model to determine the three parameters for an X ¥ chart. Alexander et al. combined Duncan's cost model with the Taguchi loss function to present a loss model for determining the three parameters. In this paper, the Burr distribution is employed to conduct the economic-statistical design of X ¥ charts for non-normal data. Alexander's loss model is used as the objective function, and the cumulative function of the Burr distribution is applied to derive the statistical constraints of the design. An example is presented to illustrate the solution procedure. From the results of the sensitivity analyses, we find that small values of the skewness coefficient have no significant effect on the optimal design; however, a larger value of skewness coefficient leads to a slightly larger sample size and sampling interval, as well as wider control limits. Meanwhile, an increase on the kurtosis coefficient results in an increase on the sample size and wider control limits.     

Critique on the notion of model minority: an alternative racism to Asian American?

This research note attempts to probe how contemporary racism has evolved to replace physical characteristics with cultural traits by examining the notion of model minority in America. The analysis begins by positing that this notion manifests a problematic deployment of cultural differences. A short historical review justifies that model minority is generated and maintained by a stereotyped understanding of Asian tradition, especially Confucianism. Racial antagonism and class consciousness are then invoked by fostering essentialist ideas of cultural traditions. While America advocates its democratic system of inclusion, the logic of ‘model minority’ suggests an ‘internal exclusion’. The implications of model minority are thus that: (1) ‘race’ is replaced by ‘cultural difference’ – when cultural racism replaces biological racism, race is subsumed into a pure realm of cultural difference and race as a sociohistorical category becomes obscured; (2) the deployment of cultural differences creates an illusion that US society has already reached ‘color-blind’, and therefore neglects the social oppression and inequality along racial lines; (3) in the transforming process from a biologistic conception of race to a culturalist one, cultural differences are deployed to differentiate Asia(n) from American(n). Cultural differences are by all means essentialized, and race is furthermore reduced to essentialized cultural differences.     

Design of a CSP-1 plan based on regret-balanced criterion

This article explores the problem of designing a CSP-1 plan with the specified average outgoing quality limit (AOQL), the acceptable quality level (AQL), and the limiting quality level (LQL) value. By adopting the regret-balanced criterion under the producer's and consumer's interests of quality, we can design the optimal CSP-1 plan.