Being disabled,being a manager: ‘glass partitions’ and conditional identities in the contemporary workplace

This article critically explores the working lives and views of disabled senior staff working in UK organisations. The qualitative research at the core of the article establishes that some disabled people are confounding established notions of disabled people only working in peripheral employment roles by exploring the working lives and perceptions of disabled managers. The findings do, however, point to continued barriers to what disabled staff in senior positions can be seen to do and be organisationally. Here both practical and ontological risk inheres in organisationally induced change, openness about impairment and risky identities. Such ideas, it is argued, present limits to further promotion and workplace inclusion for some disabled managers.     

Being Judged,Being Assessed: Young People’s Perspective of Assessment in Youth Justice and Education

Research from the Economic and Social Research Council programme on Pathways Into and Out of Crime prioritised young people’s ‘voices’ in exploring experiences of crime and a range of intervention services. Drawing on data from interviews with 110 young people, this paper explores their perspectives of professional assessment. Embedded within neo‐liberal youth welfare policies are a number of contradictions. Policies encourage ‘individualisation’, ‘responsiblisation’ and ‘self‐realisation’ while also needing to maintain control and regulation of ‘risky’ populations. This paper explores the implication of these contradictions through examining the experiences of young people being assessed in youth justice and education. The impact on their identities as neo‐liberal citizens is discussed in the conclusion.     

论和谐政治生态系统与政治宽容调节机制的构建

和谐政治生态突破了传统社会仅从人与人、人与社会的关系角度去理解政治的理论局限,而把政治—社会—自然三者视为三位一体的大系统,把社会更把自然纳入政治视野,运用生态学的多元思维,调整人与人、政治与社会、社会与自然的关系。这是政治价值观的一种转变。理性而客观地分析政治生态系统的本质内蕴和系统结构,并努力寻求积极的、良性运行的和谐政治生态系统和政治宽容调节机制的建构,对和谐社会的践行无疑具有重要的现实意义和理论价值。     

A Comparative Study of Compromise and Toleration in the View of Political Civilization

Compromise and toleration as the positive results of human political knowledge and practice,are gradually confirmed and integrated into the realities of the social-political life,becoming the inherent requirements,measuring standards and explicit charaterizations of modern political civilization.Compromise and toleration commonly confirm and promote the progress and upgrade of human political civilization from different angles and levels.     

论人类对知识功能的认识

文章从历史的角度系统论述了人类对知识功能的认识 ,指出人类对知识功能的认识经历了一个从摒弃到逐步接受 ,最后全面、系统论述的过程 ,指出知识将在未来国际竞争中发挥巨大的作用。     

大型会展场馆建设的市场影响与管理对策研究——以上海两大会展中心为例

目前,我国许多城市正在或准备兴建大型(超大型)会展场馆。这是否会导致场馆闲置、影响各场馆的目标市场,以及现有场馆将如何应对都是值得研究的问题。上海会展业在国内居于领先地位,并且经历了多次大型场馆的建设。以上海新国际博览中心和国家会展中心(上海)两大场馆为典型,对其出现后的本地主要会展场馆举办的展览会进行对比分析,发现:(1)新建大型会展场馆的展览会主要来自本地,小部分来自其他城市;(2)较大规模的展览会将向更大规模的场馆转移;(3)各类场馆举办的展览会类型发生了变化;(4)场馆利用率高低取决于市场供给、需求情况和自身管理水平,中外合作的大型场馆利用率较高。由此,从供给侧提出了不同规模会展场馆的管理策略。     

Gibbs sampling for marginal posterior expectations

In earlier work (Gelfand and Smith, 1990 and Gelfand et al, 1990) a sampling based approach using the Gibbs sampler was offered as a means for developing marginal posterior densities for a wide range of Bayesian problems several of which were previously inaccessible. Our purpose here is two-fold. First we flesh out the implementation of this approach for calculation of arbitrary expectations of interest. Secondly we offer comparison with perhaps the most prominent approach for calculating posterior expectations, analytic approximation involving application of the LaPlace method. Several illustrative examples are discussed as well. Clear advantages for the sampling based approach emerge.     

Construction of Confidence Intervals for the IVIean of a Population Containing Many Zero Values

The likelihood ratio method is used to construct a confidence interval for a population mean when sampling from a population with certain characteristics found in many applications, such as auditing. Specifically, a sample taken from this type of population usually consists of a very large number of zero values, plus a small number of nonzero values that follow some continuous distribution. In this situation, the traditional confidence interval constructed for the population mean is known to be unreliable. This article derives confidence intervals based on the likelihood-ratio-test approach by assuming (1) a normal distribution (normal algorithm) and (2) an exponential distribution (exponential algorithm). Because the error population distribution is usually unknown, it is important to study the robustness of the proposed procedures. We perform an extensive simulation study to compare the percentage of confidence intervals containing the true population mean using the two proposed algorithms with the percentage obtained from the traditional method based on the central limit theorem. It is shown that the normal algorithm is the most robust procedure against many different distributional error assumptions.