平行法则：早期上古汉语中“者”的出现

文章为覆盖前期上古汉语Pre—archaic Chinese（公元前14世纪至公元前11世纪）与早期上古汉语Early—archaic Chinese（公元前11世纪至公元前6世纪）的历时性研究，目的在于更好地揭示早期上古时代所出现的“者”之功用。研究表明，“者”的功能与前期上古所出现的“之”的功能间存在着“平行对应”关系，我们将此关系定义为“平行法”机制，此机制从属于“类比”。存在于“之”与“者”之间的“平行法”机制可能促使了“者”的功能的涌现。     

Family Control and Stock Market Reactions to Innovation Announcements

Although family firms are common around the world, studies on family‐controlled business are limited. Prior studies mainly focused on the influences of family ownership on overall firm performance, and the results were mixed. In this study we attempted to explore the impacts of family ownership on innovation by examining the association of family control and stock market reactions to innovation announcements. We found that firms with greater family control experienced significantly more negative stock market reactions to innovation announcements. The results further indicated that divergence of cash flow and voting rights was strongly and negatively correlated with announcement‐period abnormal returns. In addition, the findings suggested a significantly positive moderating effect of institutional ownership. The conclusions were robust under various measures of family control, and remained valid after controlling other influential factors for stock market reactions to innovation announcements.     

Exponential tilt models for two-group comparison with censored data

We study application of the Exponential Tilt Model (ETM) to compare survival distributions in two groups. The ETM assumes a parametric form for the density ratio of the two distributions. It accommodates a broad array of parametric models such as the log-normal and gamma models and can be sufficiently flexible to allow for crossing hazard and crossing survival functions. We develop a nonparametric likelihood approach to estimate ETM parameters in the presence of censoring and establish related asymptotic results. We compare the ETM to the Proportional Hazards Model (PHM) in simulation studies. When the proportional hazards assumption is not satisfied but the ETM assumption is, the ETM has better power for testing the hypothesis of no difference between the two groups. And, importantly, when the ETM relation is not satisfied but the PHM assumption is, the ETM can still have power reasonably close to that of the PHM. Application of the ETM is illustrated by a gastrointestinal tumor study.     

k-POD: A Method for k-Means Clustering of Missing Data

The k-means algorithm is often used in clustering applications but its usage requires a complete data matrix. Missing data, however, are common in many applications. Mainstream approaches to clustering missing data reduce the missing data problem to a complete data formulation through either deletion or imputation but these solutions may incur significant costs. Our k-POD method presents a simple extension of k-means clustering for missing data that works even when the missingness mechanism is unknown, when external information is unavailable, and when there is significant missingness in the data.

[Received November 2014. Revised August 2015.]     

宪政运行的成本结构

分析宪政运行的成本结构，对于宪法实施、宪政评价和宪政社会的构建都有重要的时代意义。宪政运行成本就是宪政运行过程中所产生和付出的代价和费用，具有交易费用的性质。宪政运行的成本结构包括立宪成本、行宪成本、守宪成本和违完成本等。     

基于加权群体AHP的企业资信评价方法

本文研究加权群体AHP方法及其在企件资信评价中的应用问题,建立了反映各专家或决策者优先权及各判断矩阵可信度的两种加权距离法,从主观和客观两方面切实有效地反映了各专家或决策者意见对最终评判结果的影响。企业资信评价是银行信贷风险管理的重要基础工作之一,各企业资信等级的正确评定取决于许多相关因素,需要各方面专家或决策者进行综合评判,合理的评判结果应反映各专家或决策者对各企业及信贷风险状况了解和认识的程度,同时应反映各专家或决策者对各企业评判所给出的判断矩阵的可信度,因此,本文建立以各专家或决策者优先权及各判断矩阵可信度为权系数的加权距离法,较好地解决了该问题。     

带有潜变量的结构方程模型在突发事件应急管理中的应用

如何使事件与机构挂钩是突发事件应急管理中的一个重要问题;通过带有潜变量的结构方程模型能够建立起事件与机构之间的定量联系,从而为进一步对机构作评价和制定考核标准提供依据。     

Reason's other: the emergence of the disabled subject in the Northern renaissance

By the late fifteenth century, the debate over the role of reason and the constitution of the human subject freed public discourse from its reliance on God and placed the rational individual at the centre of social and political thought. The emphasis on rationality necessitated a parallel discourse on its opposite—‘reason’s Other'. In this period, representations of disabled people change in response to this new paradigm. Late medieval cultural documents, such as those of Brant and Bosch, employ folly as a metaphorical device, associated with the qualities of Everyman. However, with the rise of renaissance humanism, the benign metaphors of folly associated with the abstract everyman quickly become inscribed on the bodies of those people who would be constructed as reason's ‘Other’—people with intellectual and physical disabilities—and the abstract discourse of folly is transformed into a much more direct representational association of disability with depravity.

What a piece of work is man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! … the paragon of animals! Hamlet II.ii     

议论的技巧--论证说

时下有关论证的说法很多 ,有过程论 ,层次论 ,方法论 ,结构论等 ,本文认为论证是技巧 ,是“统合技巧”。它统合了诸如句法、词法、语法、修辞法、逻辑法、章法等方法 ,构成篇章修辞方法 ,完成一篇议论文的表达。