"诗以言志"中的"行人"与"相"

作为通使之官的"行人"和诸侯襄助之官的"相",凭籍其对礼义的精通、对国内外事务的熟悉和形势的洞见及良好的语言表达能力,在诸侯聘礼宾主用诗言志的交流过程中,或代诸侯、或襄助诸侯赋诗言志,交流沟通,最终完成"诗以言志"这种独特的传播接受机制,达到出使和感情交流的目的.     

老子“治大国若烹小鲜”发微

老子"治大国若烹小鲜"一语,既寓治国不可扰民之义,也提示统治者要注意各种因素的相济互补、和谐统一,并把握好做好事之"度".而老子用鱼为喻来阐明其"道",更表现了老子之"道"的阴性特征.     

Bargaining With Time: An Interview With Helen Pavlin

Helen Pavlin is an accredited mental health social worker and family therapist and accredited family dispute resolution practitioner in private practice in Darwin. She has been involved in social work and family therapy since the early 1970s in Australia and internationally. In 1996 she received the 50th Anniversary Commemorative Medal from the Australian Association of Social Workers. She is one of the assessors and associate editors for the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy. In 2007 Helen received the Journal Award for her outstanding contribution to the family therapy field in Australia. She is an accomplished writer and a member of the Australian Society of Authors. Her poems and book reviews have been published frequently in ANZJFT.     

How trade/GNP ratio decreases with country size

The ratio of a country's foreign trade (i.e., exports plus imports) to its GNP has a known tendency to decrease with country size. Previous studies have used a single year's data; but trade fluctuates greatly from year to year. This paper makes available a compilation of 1953–1972 export/GNP and import/GNP figures for 110 countries. The average import/GNP figure is found to correlate strongly with population size; the simple expression, Imports/GNP = 40 $\text{P}{}^{\mathrm{<mtext>?1</mtext><mtext>3</mtext>}}$, applies, within a factor of 2, in 94% of cases. No correlation with development level can be seen. The United States data throughout its history (1799–1972) follow the same inverse cube root pattern, but with a constant of 20 instead of 40. Correlation is much poorer in the case of export/GNP ration. Export and import figures are only marginally correlated to each other.     

新世纪审美活动与艺术的走向

继往可以开来 ,探究 2 0世纪人类审美活动和艺术创作的得失 ,将使我们在新的世纪 ,获得更加辉煌的审美成果。东西方人文精神与审美观念的区别 ,主要在于西方大都突出个性的生理方面 ,而华夏文化则看重个性的社会价值 ,因而各有所长、所短 ,所有、所无。面向未来 ,人们在辩证地认识和把握世界的同时 ,必将在审美活动与艺术创造中更加宽容地对待种种不同的思潮、流派、风格与形式 ,从而使人类的审美更为多姿多彩     

西部大开发中的制度创新作用及培养途径

本文根据发展经济学理论,指出西部开发战略要取得成功的关键是构造创新制度,作者从培养创新实体、市场化激励方式及国家有效的扶持政策等方面探讨了培养创新制度的途径.     

The Value of Weather Information for E‐Commerce Operations

To be efficient, logistics operations in e‐commerce require warehousing and transportation resources to be aligned with sales. Customer orders must be fulfilled with short lead times to ensure high customer satisfaction, and the costly under‐utilization of workers must be avoided. To approach this ideal, forecasting order quantities with high accuracy is essential. Many drivers of online sales, including seasonality, special promotions and public holidays, are well known, and they have been frequently incorporated into forecasting approaches. However, the impact of weather on e‐commerce operations has not been rigorously analyzed. In this study, we integrate weather data into the sales forecasting of the largest European online fashion retailer. We find that sunshine, temperature, and rain have a significant impact on daily sales, particularly in the summer, on weekends, and on days with extreme weather. Using weather forecasts, we have significantly improved sales forecast accuracy. We find that including weather data in the sales forecast model can lead to fewer sales forecast errors, reducing them by, on average, 8.6% to 12.2% and up to 50.6% on summer weekends. In turn, the improvement in sales forecast accuracy has a measurable impact on logistics and warehousing operations. We quantify the value of incorporating weather forecasts in the planning process for the order fulfillment center workforce and show how their incorporation can be leveraged to reduce costs and increase performance. With a perfect information planning scenario, excess costs can be reduced by 11.6% compared with the cost reduction attainable with a baseline model that ignores weather information in workforce planning.     

Size and duration of empires: Systematics of size

Areas of the world's three largest empires or states at any given time are listed at 100- or 50-year intervals, from 3000 b.c. on. Area measurement definitions and techniques are described. Major empire size has tended to increase, approaching the world's dry earth area in an approximately logistic way. This pattern suggests that a world state is still many centuries away. Sudden increases in empire size have occurred around 2800 b.c. due to emergence of cities, around 600 b.c. due to a power delegation breakthrough, and around 1600 a.d. due to a communication speed revolution. A graph of the world's largest empire areas throughout times offers somewhat novel perspectives on world history, making one realize the Western bias of many “world history” texts. Areas of 20 largest states that ever existed are listed. Subsequent papers will deal with historical periods in more detail.     

论假释的副作用及其克服——以假释权利观为视角

假释制度符合行刑社会化的潮流和趋势,对实现刑罚的目的来说,它有积极的功能,也有副作用。传统的假释奖励观不利于假释制度应有功效的发挥,要从根本上克服假释的负作用,必须树立假释权利观。     

组织残疾人、儿童乞讨罪若干疑难问题研究

组织残疾人、儿童乞讨罪是《中华人民共和国刑法修正案(六)》第17条新增的一项侵犯公民人身权利的犯罪,在罪名、犯罪主体与犯罪对象、客观方面及罪数形态、罪的界限及与《治安管理处罚法》的衔接方面不仅在理论上存在争议,而且在司法层面上也未能澄清一些疑惑,对这些问题进行理论上的探讨,无疑对于打击利用他人进行乞讨等犯罪行为具有极为重要的意义。