论我国跨境远程教育的质量保障

随着国际教育贸易竞争的不断加剧,世界各国的跨境远程教育迅速发展,为维护我国在国际教育竞争中的地位,亟需从整体上建立健全我国跨境远程教育的质量保障体系.该体系既应包含外部质量保障和内部质量保障两个层面,更应体现其自身的独具特色,涵盖网络公开课和微课程、跨境学生学习支助服务、双向信息交互、国家安全、跨境远程教育项目的管理和评估等诸多方面的质量保障,唯有如此,才能推动我国的跨境远程教育持续健康快速发展.     

Using Distance Learning to Increase Literacy Among TANF Participants

Technology and Education for Career Heights (Project TECH) was designed to help Temporary Assistance to Needy Families participants enhance their literacy through distance learning as a means to promote job retention and career advancement. The evaluative research presented in this report was intended to gather information from the participants of Project TECH about their experience with distance learning training curriculum. The report describes Project TECH and what happens when participants who are low-income workers are given a computer, basic training software, Internet access, and training coupled with instruction form a instructor who met with them face to face weekly and provided daily online coaching and instruction. It highlights participants' experience with online instruction and the use of computers in their homes, and it concludes with lessons learned from the project. The information is useful for those wanting to design and develop a distance learning program to increase adult literacy for families that needs to comply with Temporary Assistance to Needy Families work requirements and other demands.     

Distance Education Alumni: How Far Have They Gone?

SUMMARY

This evaluation compared 34 distance education (DE) and 38 on-campus alumni regarding employment-related outcomes; professional activities; satisfaction with MSW program components; and development of knowledge, skills, and values. Findings showed equivalent outcomes in most respects. DE alumni were generally positive about the extent to which the program enabled them to develop professionally.     

Power distance and online organization–public relationship building: a comparative analysis of US and Chinese corporate websites

Informed by the dialogic perspective and Hofstede's power distance theory, this study examines mediated organization–public relationship building on corporate websites. The focus is on exploring how cultural differences influence American and Chinese businesses in addressing concerns and interests of a diverse set of publics. Findings show that corporate websites, whether American or Chinese, tend to converge on a global strategy. Business-oriented features tend to standardize, whereas business environment-oriented features are more likely to localize. Specifically, in relation to the former, we find that US and Chinese companies tend to target multiple audiences on their websites; the majority tailor their messages to customers, investors, employees, and the press simultaneously. Regarding the latter, we find that Chinese companies tend to target the government and US companies are more likely to address social corporate issues on their websites. These findings shed light on the longstanding issue in the literature of whether corporate websites should be culturally specific or universal. The managerial implications of the findings are discussed and recommendations for future research are given.     

商业银行全要素生产率增长的市场因素

运用投入定位距离函数将16家银行全要素生产率（TFP）增长率分解为技术进步、技术效率变化效应和规模效应,并对全要素生产率影响因素进行系统的研究,发现：技术进步对于全要素生产率增长贡献最大,技术效率和规模效应负相关;贷款市场上,相对市场势力,全要素生产率显著负相关;存款市场上,相对市场势力和全要素生产率不存在显著相关关系;存款市场,国有银行市场势力高于股份制银行,贷款市场刚好相反。     

Coparenting and Children’s Adjustment to Divorce: The Role of Geographical Distance from Fathers

After divorce, shorter distances between parents’ homes are often seen as facilitating nonresident fathers’ involvement with their children, good coparenting practices, and children’s well-being. However, few studies have explored how geographical distance relates to coparenting and children’s adjustment. Moreover, the direction of causality remains unclear, as uninvolved fathers due to paternal disinterest, maternal gatekeeping, or interparental conflict are more likely to move farther away from their children. Based on a probability sample of 144 divorced mothers of school-aged children living in Geneva, Switzerland, this study explores how the distance between parents’ homes relates to maternal promotion of the father–child relationship (cohesive coparenting) and children’s emotional and behavioral outcomes. Results show that cohesive coparenting relates more to frequent father–child contacts by phone or e-mails than to residential proximity. Both cohesive coparenting and fathers’ residential proximity have positive and independent effects on children’s adjustment. Children whose fathers live nearby exhibit fewer behavioral difficulties and more prosocial behavior than children whose fathers live far away. These findings suggest that frequent contacts by phone or e-mail can substitute for distance in coparenting, but geographical proximity still matters for fathers’ contribution to children’s well-being. Overall, this study recommends that spatial and mobility dimensions should receive more attention in divorce research.     

To ITV or Not to ITV: A Comparison of Hybrid and Web-enhanced Approaches to Teaching a Macro-course in Human Behavior in the Social Environment

Hybrid education includes an online component and interaction between students and teacher by televised sound and image. This approach contrasts dramatically with traditional face-to-face teaching and classroom teaching modalities enhanced by Web-based tools. Should educators in “human behavior and the social environment” (HBSE) use hybrid technologies? This study explores the differences and similarities in student satisfaction and learning outcomes between a hybrid and a face-to-face Web-enhanced macro-course in HBSE. Results suggest that hybrid and Web-enhanced course delivery methods do not differently impact student learning. Students did report greater satisfaction with some but not all aspects of the hybrid sections.     

全球化背景下调解制度法律文化研究

以和谐为特征的调解方式在中国长期运用,从法理角度不乏弊端,但却日益为西方所接受和发展。调解制度与诉讼在性质、程序和文化等方面存在着重大区别,但调解的社会和法律效果已得到证实,除法律制度因素以外,调解中的文化因素影响不容忽视,个人主义文化与集体主义文化,外向型文化与内生型文化,单一型文化与多重型文化,高权力距离指数文化与低权力距离指数文化都会对调解的效果产生重要影响。对跨国文化的了解、沟通和认同都是有效调解的因素。全球化背景下,以调解制度为代表的多元纠纷解决机制将会复兴。     

Supply Chain Management of Fresh Products with Producer Transportation*

This article considers a class of fresh‐product supply chains in which products need to be transported by the upstream producer from a production base to a distant retail market. Due to high perishablility a portion of the products being shipped may decay during transportation, and therefore, become unsaleable. We consider a supply chain consisting of a single producer and a single distributor, and investigate two commonly adopted business models: (i) In the “pull” model, the distributor places an order, then the producer determines the shipping quantity, taking into account potential product decay during transportation, and transports the products to the destination market of the distributor; (ii) In the “push” model, the producer ships a batch of products to a distant wholesale market, and then the distributor purchases and resells to end customers. By considering a price‐sensitive end‐customer demand, we investigate the optimal decisions for supply chain members, including order quantity, shipping quantity, and retail price. Our research shows that both the producer and distributor (and thus the supply chain) will perform better if the pull model is adopted. To improve the supply chain performance, we propose a fixed inventory‐plus factor (FIPF) strategy, in which the producer announces a pre‐determined inventory‐plus factor and the distributor compensates the producer for any surplus inventory that would otherwise be wasted. We show that this strategy is a Pareto improvement over the pull and push models for both parties. Finally, numerical experiments are conducted, which reveal some interesting managerial insights on the comparison between different business models.     

简单的非正交诱惑态量子密钥分配方案

基于预报单光子光源,提出了一种实现简单的非正交一诱惑态方案。由于非正交编码协议需要估计参量的项数是BB 84协议的两倍,所以无法完全采用被动诱惑态方案来降低实现的难度。并考虑到实际应用中,激光器不能做到完全消光而无法制备真正的真空态。因此,将主动诱惑态思想和被动诱惑态思想相结合,把所需诱惑态减少为一个弱光强态。数值仿真表明,由于被动诱惑态思想的加入,非正交一诱惑态方案可以获得较高的密钥生成效率,安全传输距离较理论极限安全传输距离只少2.2 km;且相比于已经提出的非正交诱惑态方案,因为诱惑态数量的减少而更容易实现。