陕西关中地区金融发展与经济增长关系的实证分析

以陕西关中地区为研究对象,通过选取其1990~2003年金融发展和经济增长的相关数据,通过建立计量经济模型和葛兰杰因果关系检验,结果发现实际利率、金融相关比率与关中地区经济增长率之间有着较强的负相关性;金融发展与经济增长之间的因果关系是单向的,即表现为经济增长带动了金融发展,而金融发展对关中地区经济增长的推动作用并不显著,这说明关中地区还存在着较为严重的金融抑制现象。为此,提出必须从金融机构的数量扩张与结构优化两个方面强化金融对经济增长的支持作用。     

A cross-cultural examination of scientists' perceived importance of work characteristics

This study examines the attitudes of scientists of different sociocultural backgrounds to a set of work characteristics. Two samples of scientists who have recently immigrated to Israel—from the USSR and the United States—are investigated. Drawing on the idea that science is not culture-free or context-independent, it is proposed that the two groups will differ in their valuation of certain job characteristics. Application of the Facet Approach and Smallest Space Analysis show a marked structural similarity between the Soviet and the American scientists in reference to all job factors investigated except one. Namely, the “opportunity to contribute to society” is perceived as a social activity and goal by the Russians, whereas American scientists view this aspect as part of the professional attributes of their work.     

Reuniting Children with their Families: Reconsidering the Evidence on Timing, Contact and Outcomes

This paper discusses key issues emerging from a review of theliterature on reuniting children in public care with their families,examining the basis for common assumptions about reunification.It focuses on three important issues: the evidence on the timingof discharge, the evidence on parental contact and the viewthat reunion is necessarily a positive outcome for children.Reviewing the research on the links between time in care andthe probability of reunification, it argues that this researchevidence has sometimes been misinterpreted. This has also beenthe case in relation to studies of the links between contactand reunification. The paper then presents the limited evidenceon the outcomes of reunification, including evidence on re-entry,re-abuse and psychosocial outcomes, arguing that such evidenceas exists clearly indicates a need for caution when returningabused or neglected children to their families. It is arguedthat greater attention to assessment, planning and follow-upsupport is needed if children are to be successfully reunitedwith their families and that more research is needed into theoutcomes of reunification.     

“I Amn Not a Utistivc on Thje Typ” (“I'm Not Autistic on the Typewriter”)

Facilitated communication involves hand-over-hand or hand-on-forearm support of students as they communicate through pointing at pictures, letters or other objects. Over time, it is expected that the hand and arm support can be faded back. This observational study describes an effort to introduce facilitated communication to 22 students, ranging in age from 3 years 10 months to 21 years, in several US public schools. The students are all labeled autistic and do not speak or speak only with echolalic phrases. The findings include observations of the students communicating with facilitation, language samples, and conversations by the students. The students reveal unexpected literacy and numeracy skills. The appearance of these abilities raises a number of questions concerning prior assumptions about autism, communication, independence and interdependence, and the education of students with and without disabilities.     

经济法产生和本质的法经济学浅析

本文从法经济学的角度探讨了经济法产生的基础,以及经济法的本质和经济法的社会利益本位。     

R&D (Re)location and Offshore Outsourcing: A Management Perspective

The paper reviews and systematizes the management literature directly and indirectly related to (re)location of research and development (R&D), in the form of both insourcing and outsourcing. The focus in particular is on R&D offshore outsourcing and its main drivers, including locational constraints and opportunities, motives, strategic decisions and managerial challenges. The analysis synthesizes and links the main propositions and findings of the theoretical and empirical work to build an original management and strategy centred framework which looks at R&D (re)location from a client–vendor perspective. In this case, the client is the offshoring company, and the vendors are the firms located in the host country. The characteristics of the firms and locations considered vis‐à‐vis the offshoring firm's goals are examined, the strategies implemented, the management and organizational challenges that R&D offshore outsourcing entails, and the ways in which offshoring impacts on both home and host locations are investigated.     

Predicting Adolescents' Organized Activity Involvement: The Role of Maternal Depression History,Family Relationship Quality,and Adolescent Cognitions

Although the potential benefits of organized activity involvement during high school have been documented, little is known about what familial and individual characteristics are associated with higher levels of participation. Using structural equation modeling, this longitudinal study examined the extent to which maternal depression history (i.e., risk), family relationship quality, and adolescents' cognitions (i.e., self‐worth and attributional style), predicted organized activity involvement during high school among 145 adolescents, controlling for socioeconomic status and adolescent depressive symptoms. Results showed that risk predicted less adolescent high school activity involvement, and this relation was mediated by family relationship quality. Family relationship quality indirectly affected activity involvement through adolescent cognitions. The overall predictive model generally supported the importance of the interplay between family and individual factors in predicting activity involvement during high school.