Nonprofit-as-supplement: Examining the Link Between Nonprofit Financial Support and Public Service Quality

VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations - This paper explores the link between nonprofit financial support and the service quality of city park systems....     

Phusis与Natura的词源考察与词义分析

希腊词phusis与拉丁词natura都是西方的"自然"概念,是罗马人将phusis翻译作natura。通过对二者进行词源考察和词义分析可知,它们都具有本源、存在和性质等基本含义;但是二者的词根之间和词缀之间的差异使得phusis的词义比natura更具能动性,并且phusis更倾向于意指"创造"等动作的目的,而natura更倾向于意指这些动作的结果。     

An improved two-stage procedure to compare hazard curves

Qiu and Sheng has proposed a powerful and robust two-stage procedure to compare two hazard rate functions. In this paper we improve their method by using the Fisher test to combine the asymptotically independent p-values obtained from the two stages of their procedure. In addition, we extend the procedure to situations with multiple hazard rate functions. Our comprehensive simulation study shows that the proposed method has a good performance in terms of controlling the type I error rate and of detecting power. Three real data applications are considered for illustrating the use of the new method.     

法律变迁的结构性制约——国家、市场与社会互动中的中国律师职业

对改革开放以来中国法律体系变迁根源的探讨,通常遵循国家主义的认识论,即国家意志主导甚至决定了法律体系变迁的所有方面。这种认识论虽然能够较好说明改革开放初期法律体系在中国的再造,但是未能全面把握当前的复杂情况。以律师职业在改革开放时期的变迁为例,利用定量数据和实证方法说明国家、市场和社会对法律体系的多重动态影响,提出法律变迁的"结构性制约"理论框架。改革开放以来中国法律体系变迁已逐步由国家主导的格局,演变成国家、市场、社会和法律体系之间相互直接和间接影响的格局。     

从口误透视言语生成的心理机制

本文拟从心理语言学的理论出发,从认知的视角探索语言生成的心理机制。通过分析英语和汉语的言语失误语料来洞察语言生成过程中,不同语言单位在语言系统层面上的运作和处理方式,为了解心理机制的共性以便构建心理模式提供跨语言的参考依据。     

布朗功能学派理论对林耀华东南宗族研究的影响

通过比较林耀华早期的经验研究和1936年拉德克里夫-布朗（A .R .Radcliffe-Brown）在燕京大学的讲学课程，发现了二者在社区研究等理论方面的相通之处。林耀华通过在东南宗族乡村作出的实地调查，发现宗族的社会学特点：宗族的经济功能基于血亲间的分工合作，其情感结构面向祖先和国家，是开放而又复合的。在面对市场时，宗族作为整体积极参与其中。在面对国家时，宗族接纳了国家的权力系统。宗族即是布朗所讲的“活”的功能体，具备适应现代化的能力。因此，林耀华一直坚持用宗族作为中国社会现代化问题的研究单位。     

Assessments of provincial mortality in China’s 2010 population census based on the Developing Countries Mortality Database model life table

Journal of Population Research - The provincial mortality data of China’s 2010 population census sustains the study of regional mortality disparities, but the data suffer from the...     

Relational Management Mechanisms for Strategic Alliances Among Nonprofit Organizations

This study employs a qualitative multiple-case study to explore relational management mechanisms for strategic nonprofit alliances (NPAs) formed by at least 3 nonprofit organizations by examining collaborative relationships among farmers associations in Taiwan. We explore these mechanisms by analyzing case data from four strategic cooperation characteristics, which can best explain NPAs. To effectively sustain partnerships, our findings suggest that an NPA applies acceptable collaborative rules and regulations, common standard procedures, symmetric information and communication, and capability building and corrective measures when cooperation involves high input commonality. The results also suggest empowerment for partners with deeper input commitment to direct decisions on resource distribution and utilization when collaborative ties involve low input measurability. Regarding high output commonality, we advise NPAs to enforce common output quality control, efficient substandard-output treatment, and external incentives as mechanisms to encourage partners for continued commitment. If relationships involve low output measurability, our findings suggest that NPAs heighten partners’ voluntary motivation for the common good, with goal-achievement assessment measures, professional certification by external experts, and acceptable and reasonable benefit-sharing methods     

From the Digital Divide to the Connectivity Dividend Difference: A Connectivity Capital Perspective*

The access divide was once the basic form of the digital divide. The development of Internet infrastructure has narrowed the access divide and increased application coverage, but it has also touched off a connectivity dividend difference. Taking the online market as an example, we examine the sources of the dividend difference and the factors influencing it with in a connectivity framework. We found that the narrowing of the access divide has resulted in enhanced connectivity and platform development, giving people the chance to benefit from transforming the various assets in which they have previously invested into differentiated compound connectivity capital. In the course, the scale and rate of the conversion are affected by two multiplier effects and especially by online platforms. The process is ultimately expressed in the dividend difference.     

Strong convergence rates of probabilistic integrators for ordinary differential equations

Probabilistic integration of a continuous dynamical system is a way of systematically introducing discretisation error, at scales no larger than errors introduced by standard numerical discretisation, in order to enable thorough exploration of possible responses of the system to inputs. It is thus a potentially useful approach in a number of applications such as forward uncertainty quantification, inverse problems, and data assimilation. We extend the convergence analysis of probabilistic integrators for deterministic ordinary differential equations, as proposed by Conrad et al. (Stat Comput 27(4):1065–1082, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11222-016-9671-0), to establish mean-square convergence in the uniform norm on discrete- or continuous-time solutions under relaxed regularity assumptions on the driving vector fields and their induced flows. Specifically, we show that randomised high-order integrators for globally Lipschitz flows and randomised Euler integrators for dissipative vector fields with polynomially bounded local Lipschitz constants all have the same mean-square convergence rate as their deterministic counterparts, provided that the variance of the integration noise is not of higher order than the corresponding deterministic integrator. These and similar results are proven for probabilistic integrators where the random perturbations may be state-dependent, non-Gaussian, or non-centred random variables.