江苏高等教育国际化战略探讨

基于战略管理理论,探讨了科学规划江苏高等教育国际化问题,具体包括规划的总体指导思想、规划内容、规划重点以及规划实施保障等方面,并提出了科学规划与促进高等教育国际化的特色发展策略、平台发展策略、信息化发展策略和资源发展策略。     

Sectoral Employment Shifts and Unemployment

ABSTRACT: This paper provides additional insight on the Lilien 1982 sectoral shift hypothesis (Lilien (1983),Abraham and Katz (1986),Samson (1986),Neelin (1987)) by applying it to Swedish data.Lilien claimed that part of the cyclical variation in unemployment is caused by structural shifts in sectoral employment demand. We find some evidence in favour of Lilien‘s notion. Greater sectoral shocks partly result in higher unemployment in Sweden. When extending the sectoral shift approach, controlling for labour market support, the evidence in favour of the sectoral shift hypothesis is weaker.     

The National Work–Life Balance Index©: The European Case

More than 5 years since the outbreak of the global financial crisis, a flurry of evidence is emerging on the effects of the ensuing economic downturn on unemployment and poverty rates in rich countries, but less is known about cross-country differences in subjective assessments of the crisis and whether adults in households with children were affected to a greater extent. This paper investigates differences in the perceived impact of the economic crisis between adults in households with and without children in 17 European countries, using data from the Life in Transition Survey 2010 in a multilevel modelling framework. It also explores differences in the coping strategies that households adopted to deal with the decline in income or economic activity. Everything else being equal, perceptions of the crisis were more widespread in countries with higher rates of child poverty, lower economic growth and lower GDP per capita. Across countries, perceptions of the crisis closely trailed subjective indicators of financial difficulties from other international surveys conducted in 2010. Adults in households with children were more likely to report an impact of the crisis, with larger differences in countries with higher rates of monetary child poverty. Adults in households with children also adopted a greater variety of coping strategies than the rest, prioritizing expenditure on basic necessities, while cutting back on luxuries and holidays. Nevertheless, many still reported reduced consumption of staple foods as a result of economic difficulties.     

社会科学研究中质与量的方法选择

质性研究和量化研究是社会科学研究中的两种重要方法。质性研究遵循人文一解释的基本逻辑．是用文字描述归纳社会现象;量化研究遵循科学一实证的基本逻辑,以数字符号诠释社会现象,具有继承自然科学研究方法的传统和社会科学研究方法的特点。在争论定量、定性二者的差异的进程中,不断实现优势互补则是社会科学研究方法发展的主流趋势。     

Can Health Care Reform End Stigma Toward Mental Illness?

This article addresses the destigmatization of mental health through health care reform by incorporating antistigma efforts—a destaining of mental illness—through prevention and early intervention in community-based programs that would be mandated and funded through the auspices of Patient Protection and the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Mental health care policies under the ACA and the Mental Health Parity Act are briefly described, following a definition of mental health stigma and its impacts. Recommendations for statutory mandates in stigma reduction at the community and federal levels and guidelines for mental health/behavioral health providers form the article’s conclusion.     

The Vanishing Military Veteran: A Postmodern Disappearance of the Hero

This article brings a postmodern philosophical perspective on the impact of U.S. media, cyber-technology, and the loss of the veteran hero in our current day American culture. Societal ambivalence, media depersonalization, and techno-war tactics along with the collusion of institutional under-responsiveness contribute to the metaphorical and real disappearance, or lack of recognition, and alienation of the veteran and his or her behavioral health needs. This phenomenon also speaks to the denial of community and governmental responsibility that in fact, we all as a society, share toward returning service members in helping them to reintegrate into civilian life with renewed sense of hope, health, dignity, and identity.     

The American Civil Rights Movement Reconsidered: Teaching the Role of Women

Abstract

This article examines coverage in social studies curriculum and U.S. history textbooks, specifically, of women in the American Civil Rights Movement (CRM) and considers how social studies teachers can broaden the narrative they teach to include more gender-related issues and the work of women activists. The author found that despite a rich body of scholarship focused on women in the CRM, textbooks, which still serve as the central curriculum documents in most secondary social studies classrooms, provide a relatively cursory treatment of women’s roles in the movement. The context of women’s activism and the intersections of race and gender, particularly around sexual violence and sexism within the movement, are rarely examined. To address this problem, the author provides examples of critical issues confronted by African American women in the era of the CRM as well as examples of activists that teachers could incorporate into their CRM units. In addition, the author argues that an inclusive study of the American CRM provides an excellent opportunity for students to develop an understanding of the many ways in which women and girls—often in the face of great personal danger—acted with courage and skill in the fight for racial justice.     

Fast regression surrogates for computer models with time-dependent outputs

The study of physical processes is often aided by computer models or codes. Computer models that simulate such processes are sometimes computationally intensive and therefore not very efficient exploratory tools. In this paper, we address computer models characterized by temporal dynamics and propose new statistical correlation structures aimed at modelling their time dependence. These correlations are embedded in regression models with input-dependent design matrix and input-correlated errors that act as fast statistical surrogates for the computationally intensive dynamical codes. The methods are illustrated with an automotive industry application involving a road load data acquisition computer model.     

Univariate and Multivariate Value-at-Risk: Application and Implication in Energy Markets

This study investigated the cross-markets price changes, volatility, and shock transmission mechanism among gasoline, crude oil, and diesel spot markets. An asymmetric time-varying volatility model is used to reveal the hidden dynamic shock transmission mechanism among the markets. An iterative optimization Newton–Raphson algorithm is used in the nonlinear estimation procedures by updating the outer product of the gradient vector. The estimated results are used in quantifying the cross-market risk, optimal portfolio holding, and hedging among the energy markets.     

Multivaritate two stage test based on ranks

A distribution free two stage test based on ranks for the multivariate two sample location problem is presented. The asymptotic distribution of the first and second stage test statistics is derived. Results of a Monte Carlo power study are used to compare the two stage test with the usual one stage test. A brief table of critical values is also presented. The test is illustrated by using data from an exercise study conducted by the Multipurpose Arthritis center.