道德个体与契约个体——中西思想比较视阈中的"儒家与自由主义"

中西思想如何看待"个体",是当前讨论"儒家与自由主义"话题的一个有内涵的切入点;儒家思想中的个体是关系式"道德个体",而西方思想自由主义思想中的个体则可概之为原子式"契约个体".儒家道德关系所建构的个体,其功能的发挥,必须置于关系构架的互动中才有可能.源于古希腊的原子主义传统的个体,则如单个的原子那样是一个完全独立的单位,能够发挥其独立自主的功能.儒家关系式道德个体立基于性善理念的正面价值,其所对应的个体进路及方法为"修身",其目标取向则为整体和谐.西方原子式契约个体则立基干人性的负面价值,其所对应的路径为"契约"方式,其目标取向则为个体的独立自由、正义平等.马克思自由观既立基于个体发展这一出发点,又将价值取向置于集体主义的、整体境界的终极目标;这和中国儒家的理念及思路有相合之处.这当然是一种富有启示的理想境界.     

Smoking risk factors and gender differences among Spanish high school students

The objectives of the present study were to analyze the pattern of tobacco use among Spanish adolescents, as well as to determine gender differences in specific risk factors of cigarette use. The study sample was made up of 1,483 boys and 1,358 girls, aged 12-16 (M = 14). Participants were asked to answer an ad-hoc instrument to evaluate the pattern of use, perceived availability, risk of harm, family- and peer-use, engagement in leisure activities, drive for thinness, and self-esteem. Results showed no gender differences in the pattern of use. With regard to risk and protector factors, a predictive analysis showed that peer-related variables were the most determinant for tobacco use both for boys and girls. Some gender differences were also detected: Playing sports was protective for boys only, and listening to music for girls only. Drive for thinness and self-esteem were not related to tobacco use for either boys or girls. These findings help increase our understanding of smoking risk factors in adolescence and to pay special attention to the group of friends when planning prevention programs to reduce risk factors.     

天津临港工业区雨水规划特点

一、天津临港工业区概况 天津临港工业区位于海河人海口南岸地区,大沽沙河道南侧,北部为天津港南疆港区,西北部为塘沽东大沽生活区,西部为天津港南疆散货物流中心,南部为规划海滨风景旅游区。临港工业区原状为滩涂,滩面宽广,地势平缓,标高较高,为-2．5米-4米（理论基准面高程）,围海造地条件良好,远期标高将深入至约-4米。     

Age of Onset in Pathological Gambling: Clinical,Therapeutic and Personality Correlates

We aimed to explore the association between age of onset of gambling problems and current psychopathological and clinical status, personality profile and therapeutic outcome in a sample of pathological gamblers. A total of 904 consecutive pathological gambling patients were administered several instruments about gambling behavior, psychopathology and personality. They received a 4-month cognitive-behavioral group treatment. Information of dropouts and relapses during treatment was registered. Older age of onset of gambling problems was associated with higher general psychopathology (SCL-90-R Paranoid Ideation, Psychoticism, Depression; P < 0.015). Younger age of onset was related to greater severity of pathological gambling (P < 0.015), higher novelty seeking, and lower self-directedness (P < 0.015). No statistically significant association was found between age of onset and relapse and dropouts during treatment. Age of onset of gambling problems seems to influence the clinical presentation of pathological gambling but not treatment outcome.     

A permutation test approach to the choice of size k for the nearest neighbors classifier

The k nearest neighbors (k-NN) classifier is one of the most popular methods for statistical pattern recognition and machine learning. In practice, the size k, the number of neighbors used for classification, is usually arbitrarily set to one or some other small numbers, or based on the cross-validation procedure. In this study, we propose a novel alternative approach to decide the size k. Based on a k-NN-based multivariate multi-sample test, we assign each k a permutation test based Z-score. The number of NN is set to the k with the highest Z-score. This approach is computationally efficient since we have derived the formulas for the mean and variance of the test statistic under permutation distribution for multiple sample groups. Several simulation and real-world data sets are analyzed to investigate the performance of our approach. The usefulness of our approach is demonstrated through the evaluation of prediction accuracies using Z-score as a criterion to select the size k. We also compare our approach to the widely used cross-validation approaches. The results show that the size k selected by our approach yields high prediction accuracies when informative features are used for classification, whereas the cross-validation approach may fail in some cases.     

Knowledge extraction from a large on-line survey: a case study for a higher education corporate marketing

For a higher education public institution, young in relative terms, featuring local competition with another private and both long-established and reputed one, it is of great importance to become a reference university institution to be better known and felt with identification in the society it belongs to and ultimately to reach a good position within the European Higher Education Area. These considerations have made the university governors setting up the objective of achieving an adequate management of the university institutional brand focused on its logo and on image promotion, leading to the establishment of a university shop as it is considered a highly adequate instrument for such promotion. In this context, an on-line survey is launched on three different kinds of members of the institution, resulting in a large data sample. Different kinds of variables are analysed through appropriate exploratory multivariate techniques (symmetrical methods) and regression-related techniques (non-symmetrical methods). An advocacy for such combination is given as a conclusion. The application of statistical techniques of data and text mining provides us with empirical insights about the institution members’ perceptions and helps us to extract some facts valuable to establish policies that would improve the corporate identity and the success of the corporate shop.     

中国钢铁产业关联效应及国际比较分析

 本文应用投入产出表计算了中国钢铁产业关联效应及其国际比较,并分析了各项最终需求对钢铁产业生产的诱发作用。研究结果显示,我国钢铁产业对黑色金属矿采选业后向直接关联效应明显高于其它七国;包括中国、巴西等在内的发展中国家和韩国等新兴工业化国家的钢铁产业对建筑业的前向关联效应远远高于发达国家;我国钢铁产业对国民经济的拉动效应低于其它七个产钢大国,且其对我国国民经济的推动作用呈降低趋势;投资需求仍然是诱发我国钢铁产业生产的最重要因素,明显高于日本、美国等钢铁强国,也高于印度和巴西等钢产量很大的发展中国家;出口需求对钢铁产业生产的拉动效应明显低于钢产量远小于中国的日本等OECD国家。     

Gambling and problem/pathological gambling among ex-offenders in Hong Kong

This paper considers the issue of ex-offenders who can be identified as having an addiction to gambling; one that has been long-neglected in Hong Kong. It reports on a study in which 378 ex-offenders were asked to assess their gambling involvement. The paper identifies the importance of social workers developing a better understanding of this issue in their work with ex-offenders and the findings suggest there is further scope for research and analysis about the extent of this problem and its management.     

An empirical comparison of Canonical Correspondence Analysis and STATICO in the identification of spatio-temporal ecological relationships

The wide-ranging and rapidly evolving nature of ecological studies mean that it is not possible to cover all existing and emerging techniques for analyzing multivariate data. However, two important methods enticed many followers: the Canonical Correspondence Analysis (CCA) and the STATICO analysis. Despite the particular characteristics of each, they have similarities and differences, which when analyzed properly, can, together, provide important complementary results to those that are usually exploited by researchers. If on one hand, the use of CCA is completely generalized and implemented, solving many problems formulated by ecologists, on the other hand, this method has some weaknesses mainly caused by the imposition of the number of variables that is required to be applied (much higher in comparison with samples). Also, the STATICO method has no such restrictions, but requires that the number of variables (species or environment) is the same in each time or space. Yet, the STATICO method presents information that can be more detailed since it allows visualizing the variability within groups (either in time or space). In this study, the data needed for implementing these methods are sketched, as well as the comparison is made showing the advantages and disadvantages of each method. The treated ecological data are a sequence of pairs of ecological tables, where species abundances and environmental variables are measured at different, specified locations, over the course of time.     

Sharing inventory risk in supply chain: The implication of financial constraint

A supply chain may operate under either preorder mode, consignment mode or the combination of these two modes. Under preorder, the retailer procures before the sale and takes full inventory risk during the sale, while under consignment, the retailer sells the product for the supplier with the supplier taking the inventory risk. The combination mode shares the risk in the supply chain. The existing research has examined the supply chain modes from various operational aspects. However, the impact of financial constraint is neglected. This paper examines the impact of financial constraint and investigates the supply chain efficiency under each mode. Based on a Stackelberg game with the supplier being the leader, we show that without financial constraint the supplier always prefers the consignment mode, taking full inventory risk. Whereas, in the presence of financial constraint, the supplier will sell part of the inventory to the retailer through preorder, which shares the inventory risk in the supply chain. We show that with financial constraint, the combination mode is the most efficient mode even if the retailer earns zero internal capital.