Flexible modelling of simultaneously interval censored and truncated time‐to‐event data

This paper deals with the analysis of data from a HET‐CAM^VT experiment. From a statistical perspective, such data yield many challenges. First of all, the data are typically time‐to‐event like data, which are at the same time interval censored and right truncated. In addition, one has to cope with overdispersion as well as clustering. Traditional analysis approaches ignore overdispersion and clustering and summarize the data into a continuous score that can be analysed using simple linear models. In this paper, a novel combined frailty model is developed that simultaneously captures all of the aforementioned statistical challenges posed by the data. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

A Family System Approach to Investigate Family‐Based Pathways Between Financial Stress and Adolescent Problem Behavior

This article proposes a family system approach to improve our understanding on family stress processes. Examining effects within (actor) and between (partner) parents, we explored family‐based pathways through which financial stress is associated with adolescent externalizing problem behavior. Data from 340 families were analyzed, with both parents rating their financial stress and parenting stress, and parents as well as adolescents rating the parent–child communication and adolescent problem behavior. The results revealed that the association between financial stress and adolescent externalizing problem behaviors was mediated by parenting stress and parent–child communication. Although our results provided evidence for both actor and partner effects, actor effects were more prominent. No parent gender differences were found in the strength of the pathways.     

Data Dependent Cells Chi‐Square Test With Recurrent Events

We consider a recurrent event wherein the inter‐event times are independent and identically distributed with a common absolutely continuous distribution function F. In this article, interest is in the problem of testing the null hypothesis that F belongs to some parametric family where the q‐dimensional parameter is unknown. We propose a general Chi‐squared test in which cell boundaries are data dependent. An estimator of the parameter obtained by minimizing a quadratic form resulting from a properly scaled vector of differences between Observed and Expected frequencies is used to construct the test. This estimator is known as the minimum chi‐square estimator. Large sample properties of the proposed test statistic are established using empirical processes tools. A simulation study is conducted to assess the performance of the test under parameter misspecification, and our procedures are applied to a fleet of Boeing 720 jet planes' air conditioning system failures.     

季羡林的多元文化观和文化交流论

季羡林先生的义理之学集中在两个方面 ,其一是文化多元观 ,其二是文化交流论。文化的产生是多元的 ,不能说是一个地方产生文化 ,或者一个民族产生文化。民族不管大小 ,都对世界文化做出过贡献。文化一旦产生 ,就必然要发生交流。交流是双向的 ,而不是单向的。交流的双方都获益 ,并由此推动整个人类文化不断前进。鲁迅提倡的拿来主义已经证明不是全面的 ,应该既拿来 ,又送去。拿来主义与送去主义相结合 ,就会使我们的文化政策比较全面 ,也会使中国了解世界 ,世界了解中国     

略论原始民族在生育过程中的饮食禁忌

饮食是人类生存和繁衍的首要物质基础。饮食文化比起器物文化来,它的社会学和心理学的因 素更为显著。原始民族在生育过程中所施行的饮食禁忌,特别是父亲的饮食禁忌是原始民族利用交感巫术给 予妻子心理上的安慰和鼓励,籍巫术的感应力以求母婴的平安、种族的繁衍。     

Commons and the nature of modernity: towards a cosmopolitical view on craft guilds

Theory and Society - This paper argues that historical research on late medieval and early modern craft guilds fails to escape teleological and anachronistic views, including when they are...     

21世纪我国学校美育的操作设计

面向21世纪的学校美育课程应是一组课群,而不是一门课程.这些课群贯穿在学校教育的全过程(从小学至大学).它既包括学校教育的主渠道,又包括学校第二课堂;它既包括活动类课程、赏析类课程,又包括理论类课程和渗透类课程;它的内容既涉及到不同民族、不同文化、不同类型的人类艺术经典作品,涉及到青少年的艺术能力培养,又涉及到美学、美育、艺术史、艺术批评、审美文化等基本知识.小学阶段美育课群的目标设置为感性教育(敏锐感知,激发情感与想象);中学阶段美育课群的目标设置为趣味教育(在审美赏析中形成健康高尚的审美情趣);大学阶段美育课群的目标设置为人格教育(感性与理性的统一,塑造健康人格).     

A Gender Lens on Quality of Life: The Role of Sense of Community,Perceived Social Support,Self-Reported Health and Income

Quality of life (QoL) refers to a subjective evaluation that is embedded in a cultural, social and environmental context. It is a multidimensional concept and its assessment covers four domains: physical health, psychological health, social relationships, and environment. Although many studies report on QoL, literature rarely addressed the question of the QoL predictors from a gender perspective. Present study aimed at investigating gender differences in the determinants of QoL. Specifically, gender was considered as a moderator in the relationship between predictors of QoL (i.e. socio-demographic characteristics, perceived health, income, social support and sense of community) and each dimension of QoL. 654 Italian adults participated in the study. Results show that men outscore women on the physical, the psychological and the environmental domains of QoL. Considering determinants of QoL, sense of community and self-reported health operate in a similar fashion for both genders. On the contrary, social support is more predictive for women’s QoL, whereas the income level is more significant for men’s QoL. Implications are discussed.     

曹魏屯田经营思想及管理制度研究

屯田作为政治军事战略的重要组成部分 ,自秦汉以后不绝于世 ,成为农业生产上一种特殊组织形式。曹魏屯田规模大 ,成效显著 ,而且形成了一套比较完善的管理体制和管理制度 ,从中可以见其在屯田组织方式、管理体制、分配办法、生产方式等方面的思想及特点