Determinants of the Job Satisfaction of Public Officials: Testing the Mediation Effect of Organizational Commitment

Public Organization Review - Extant public management research investigated the determinants of public employees’ job satisfaction. However, most public management studies tested the...     

论搜寻品假冒伪劣的成因及其市场影响

搜寻品假冒伪劣是指消费者主动选择购买假冒伪劣产品。其形成原因是这类假冒伪劣产品相对于“正品”的巨大价格优势。它虽然对假冒伪劣产品的生产者、销售者和消费者有利 ,但不利于新产品的研发和生产 ,会妨碍产品质量的提高乃至造成市场上产品整体质量的降低 ,从而也损害消费者的长远利益。     

The discovery of participatory research as a new scientific paradigm: Personal and intellectual accounts

The article presents considerations for the placing of participatory research in the practice of sociology. The changing conditions in contemporary society have compelled social scientists to rethink the way social theory has been conceptualized and has been practiced in relation to social change. Modernist social theory, of which sociology is a prime example, has been imbued with the biases of the Enlightenment that privilege the essentialized male rational actor set above the ordinary people. As a consequence it has produced narratives and practices that are not in the interest of the people, especially those who have been dominated and oppressed. In order to live up to the potential of sociology as a vehicle for the improvement of social conditions, it must include the interest and the wisdom of the people in its researching and theorizing activities. It is argued that participatory research provides an opportunity to follow this course in sociology. Participatory research, it is contended, will lead to a paradigm shift in the social sciences because it is based on an expanded conception of knowledge and because it changes the relationship between the researcher and the researched and between theory and practice. Arguments are drawn from the history of science, critical theory, and postmodernist and feminist critiques. Peter Park is currently on the faculty of the Fielding Institute.     

Optimal lot sizing under continuous price decrease

An important characteristic of high-tech industries is decreasing component prices over time. In the personal computer industry, some component prices decline at a rate of 1% per week. This paper develops an inventory model for products experiencing continuous decrease in unit price. We develop an accurate closed-form approximate solution to the model. Our results indicate that declining prices lead to substantial decrease in the optimal cycle time and much frequent ordering. This explains the heavy emphasis on just-in-time inventory management practiced by successful companies in high-tech industries. While previous models attributed the success of just-in-time policies to reduced holding cost and improved quality, under declining prices a substantial source of savings becomes lower costs of raw materials which is significant part of cost in these industries. We illustrate the results of the model with a numerical example and perform sensitivity analysis.     

On calculating the fisher information in order statistics

This article gives a simple result for the expression of the Fisher information in order statistics. This result enables us to calculate easily the Fisher information in any set of order statistics whose details have been known to be messy and complicated. We consider here its application in the optimal spacing problem where the exact Fisher information in order statistics has been approximated with the asymptotic information or the reciprocal of the variance of a suitable estimator. This work was supported by Korea Research Foundation Grant(KRF-2000-015-DP0056)     

冷战后美国的“价值观输出”

“价值观输出”始终存在于美国的对外政策之中,冷战后,美国更加重视以“美国式的自由民主价值观”来整合社会主义国家和广大发展中国家,冷战后美国的价值观的输出主要围绕着“建立美国价值观主导下的世界新秩序”的战略目标,在实现手法上表现出由温和到强硬的发展态势,美国价值观输出的实质是美国当局追求国家利益的工具,美国政府对价值观输出的高度重视有其深刻的思想根源、经济动因和政治动因。     

平菇废料高产栽培鸡腿蘑(Coprinus comatus)技术研究

对平菇废料高产栽培鸡腿蘑技术进行了研究，结果表明，平菇废料经发酵后用于室外栽培鸡腿蘑是可行的，具有很好的经济效益、社会效益和生态效益．     

Housing affordability among elderly female heads of household in nonmetropolitan areas

This study investigates the extent and nature of housing affordability for elderly nonmetropolitan female heads of household using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. The results indicate that over one-third of elderly nonmetropolitan female heads of household experience housing poverty and that those who rent, who have fair to poor health, and who are minorities are particularly vulnerable. Housing affordability, measured by the concept of housing poverty, identifies households struggling to meet basic needs while the conventional 25% of income for housing expenditures ratio identifies a larger population. The findings suggest the need for multifaceted public policies to address the problem of housing poverty. Her research interests include housing affordability, housing and community vitality, and decision making. She received her Ph.D. from Purdue University. Sooyoun Park is in the same department as a Project Assistant on a USDA-funded research project entitled “Housing Affordability in Rural Areas,” which is a joint project between Nebraska and Wisconsin. Her research interests focus on housing management behavior in relation to housing expenditure burden. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.     

网络人肉搜索与侵犯个人隐私权问题研究

通过对一些有关于人肉搜索的典型案例分析的基础上，揭示了人肉搜索的运行机制。人肉搜索是一种特殊的信息搜索方式，同时也是一种新的信息生产方式。正确使用的话可以弥补机器搜索引擎的不足，但如果被滥用的话，则可能造成对个人隐私权的侵犯。     

A measure of slope-rotatability for second order response surface experimental designs

In the design of experiments for estimating the slope of a response surface, slope-rotatability is a desirable property. In this paper, a measure is introduced that enables us to assess the degree of slope-rotatability for a given response surface design. The measure takes the value zero if and only if the design is slope-rotatable, and becomes larger as the design deviates from a slope-rotatable design. Examples of applying this measure to some response surface designs are also given.