Machine gaming in Sydney clubs: characteristics of the supporting resident populations

This research provided background for surveys and interviews in later stages of a 3 part project. It aimed to identify, from secondary research, sociodemographic characteristics which tend to support registered clubs and their machine gaming activities in the Sydney Statistical Division. Using multiple methods including Pearson's Product Moment correlation, Principal Components factor analysis, and stepwise regression, the study profiled Sydney populations which spend highly on gaming machines. The most important sociodemographic predictors of Sydney statistical local areas where per capita gaming machine expenditure is high are large proportions of the adult resident population who were born in Malta, Greece, Lebanon, China, Italy, Vietnam, Yugoslavia, India or the Philippines; have no vocational or tertiary qualifications; or are unemployed.     

话语基调在请求言语行为中的体现

话语基调为言语参与者提供说话的根基。在表达请求言语行为时,双方都要遵守与之相关的社会基调和交际风格的约定,求得请求言语的表达不会损伤别人的"面子"观。作者通过对话语基调和言语策略的研究和分析,进一步探讨了说话双方如何委婉、礼貌地表达自己的请求言语行为。     

De-aliasing effects using semifoldover techniques

Semifoldover designs, obtained by semifolding a regular two-level factorial design, have been discussed recently in the literature. In this article, with the use of indicator functions, we investigate various semifoldover designs that are obtained from a general two-level factorial design. We discuss when a main factor or a two-factor interaction can be de-aliased from their aliased two-factor interactions, and extend some of the existing results from regular designs to non-regular designs. Finally, we present some examples to illustrate the results developed here.     

A fleshpeddler at work: Power,pain, and profit in the prizefighting economy

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膨润土常用性能指标的测定分析方法

本文对膨润土常用性能指标的分析测试方法作了系统介绍,主要包括吸兰量、胶质价、活性度、游离酸、脱色率、水分、粒度等的测定方法。     

产业集群与城市化分析——基于外部性视角

外部性产生了产业集聚的主要向心力,技术外部性和货币外部性是产业集群形成的原因,又是产业集群的重要结果,外部性、产业集群从聚集生产要素与产业方面共同推动了城市化的进程。产业集群为城市化集聚生产要素与产业,通过提升城市竞争力促进和推动城市化进程;而城市化给产业集群带来巨大的社会需求,为产业集群带来不断的要素与产业转移。可以说,城市化的本质是产业集聚,城市化的发展主要是产业集群的发展。只有将产业集群纳入城市发展的总体框架,在空间上围绕城市或城区而展开,才能更有效地推动城市基础设施建设和社会事业发展,更多地以近域推进的方式加快城市的发育和城市化的进程。     

Structural reforms and labor markets in Argentina

Argentina is considered to be one of the most successful cases of structural reforms in Latin America, because of the extent and rapid pace of the reforms after the hyperinflationary process of 1989–1990. At the beginning of 1991, the convertible plan was launched and inflation fell sharply. However, even when the economy is growing fast, the problems in the labor market seem to worsen. Unemployment and underemployment have risen, and an increasing number of people have fallen out of normal work. The article analyzes how changes in labor markets are closely related to the transformation process in the economic system. After a summary of the situation before the crisis of the 1980s, the article analyzes the stabilization plans applied and then discusses the current dynamics of labor markets and the policies implemented to change labor regulations. Finally, some hypotheses about future scenarios are presented.     

论道教的劝善理论在构建和谐社会中的功能

道教是中国的本土宗教,道教的劝善理论,是道教主要的伦理道德观念,是社会伦理道德的重要组成部分。它对人们的精神生活、家庭道德、身心健康以及社会稳定等方面产生积极影响,对构建社会主义和谐社会具有积极意义。