澳大利亚体育智库建设及其对中国的启示

以澳大利亚体育学院发展概况及历史演进为切入点,运用网络调研和文献分析的方法,从资金筹集、组织架构、成果转化、传播手段等方面对其运作模式展开深入研究,指出澳大利亚体育智库建设在国际上所取得的成绩,比较而言我国体育智库发展尚存不足,应借鉴澳大利亚体育学院的运作经验,拓宽资金来源渠道、完善问责报告系统、注重成果转化、公开报告影响决策等,以构建中国特色的新型体育智库。     

东盟一体化的重要文化建树——“共享与关爱的大家庭”愿景

在东盟一体化进程中，以东盟安全共同体、经济共同体和社会文化共同体为三大支柱的“东盟共同体”，被描绘成一个充满激情与温馨的“共享和关爱的大家庭”。这是一个远大而美好的愿景，交集着东盟特有的战略与文化，蕴含着东盟丰富的共享价值和凝聚人心的文化力。     

“实现我自己的平静”——评澳大利亚女作家巴巴拉·汉拉汉

巴巴拉·汉拉汉(1939-1991)是澳大利亚著名女作家,她的小说分三类:自传体小说、幻想或哥特式小说和传记小说.要理解汉拉汉文学作品的重要性,需要对她的智慧和灵感的源泉、背景和教育以及她对自身才能的信心进行框定.本文探讨了其如下主要成就:艺术及女性情感、艺术和性、艺术家的精神生活、心中的孩子、善与恶的问题、无知与知识及对男女劳动生活的歌颂.     

Risk analysis of fast spreading species in a Kashmir Himalayan National Park (Dachigam) for better monitoring and management

Huge economic costs and ecological impacts of invasive alien species (IAS) in the protected areas (PAs) worldwide make their timely prediction and potential risk assessment of central importance for effective management. While the preborder weed risk assessment framework has been extensively evaluated and implemented, the postborder species risk assessment framework has not been subjected to the same degree of scrutiny. Here we used a rather more realistic modified version of the Australian Weed Risk framework (AWRM) for Dachigam National Park (DNP) in Kashmir Himalaya against 84 plant species, including 55 alien species and 29 fast spreading native species, for risk analysis. We found two very high-risk species, three high-risk species, 10 medium-risk species, 29 low-risk species, and 40 negligible-risk species in the DNP. The containment scores accordingly ranged from 14.4 to 293.5 comprising of 27 species that can be contained with very high feasibility, 23 species with high feasibility, 14 species with medium feasibility, and 12 species which cannot be contained easily thereby having low feasibility of containment (FOC) score. However, eight species which have a negligible FOC score are difficult to contain within their infestation sites. Our results demonstrate the merit of the AWRM with a caution that the necessary region-specific modifications may help in its better implementation. Overall, these results provide quite a promising tool in the hands of protected area managers to timely and effectively deal with the problem of plant invasions.     

The nature of learning being facilitated by frontline managers

This article, which is based on research conducted at five Australian organizations, explores the role frontline managers play in promoting and facilitating learning at work, an area in the field of workplace learning and human resource development that has not been extensively researched. This article provides a brief review of the literature, outlines the theoretical framework and research methodology and design utilized and presents the research findings and a brief discussion. The results of this study suggest that frontline managers, who were considered leaders of learning within their respective organizations, take an instrumental approach to leading employee learning, that is, learning is seen largely as a mechanism for getting work done. Additional evidence suggests that some frontline managers provide a more expansive learning environment through the purposeful creation of conditions for learning for their employees, beyond the immediate focus on learning, simply for the purpose of getting the work done. A further finding is that much of what frontline managers do in the promotion and facilitation of employee learning is deeply embedded in the idea and practice of being an effective manager. It is hoped that the findings will provide guidance to human resource development and frontline managers in shaping learning at work.     

History effaced: the International Defence and Aid Letters

The International Defence and Aid Letters, now in the Mayibuye Archives at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa, contain the responses of many South Africans, mainly women, who during the apartheid period and immediately afterwards received funds from the International Defence and Aid Fund via a large number of intermediaries in Europe and Canada. The letters were written to these intermediaries as receipts for funds sent to them. Partly for security reasons and partly because the recipients were often lonely as well as poor, they tended to send news of themselves and their families as well as thanks for the money which they needed. The letters now function as pieces of history of the private and domestic sufferings of families whose breadwinners were imprisoned or exiled, and who had been forced to leave wives and children without support. They are unique in that the writers would not under any other circumstances have written to describe their plight, and there is no other collection of letters which offers such an authentic picture of domestic heroism.     

Aboriginal card gamblers and non-card gamblers: do they differ?

Many Indigenous populations engage in traditional gambling games, but little is known about their contemporary usage or the characteristics of people who participate. This paper presents the first quantitative study of traditional Indigenous Australian card gambling. The aim of this research was to compare Indigenous Australian card gamblers with non-card gamblers in terms of socio-demographic characteristics, gambling behaviour and motivations, gambling cognitions, gambling consequences, substance use while gambling and problem gambling severity. A gambling survey was conducted at Indigenous festivals, in several communities and online. Within a sample of 1001 gamblers, 414 people had gambled on traditional card games in the previous 12 months. Many card gamblers commenced gambling while young, were highly involved in both cards and commercial gambling and gambled because most of their family and friends also gamble. An important difference revealed here is that card gamblers gamble on more forms of commercial gambling than non-card gamblers. Gambling appears as a deep-seated habit in some participants' lives and although the proportion classified as problem gamblers is high in this sample the card gamblers held more realistic cognitions about chances of winning than did the non-card gamblers.     

Book reviews

ABSTRACT

Why do some towns become focal points for anti-minority activism at particular moments in time, when other towns with similar socio-economic conditions do not? While policy practitioners charged with responding to such activity frequently ask this question, it has received less academic attention. Consequently, an adequate response falls between different strands of the academic literature on anti-minority politics.

We explore this question through a comparative analysis of how and why Luton, a Bedfordshire town, became a focal point for the latest wave of organised anti-minority activism in the UK, centred around the English Defence League (EDL), while Blackburn with Darwen, a local authority in Lancashire with a history of extreme right political ‘successes’, did not.

We develop the concept of situated credibility contests to help us articulate the contingent relationships between potential explanatory variables and political outcomes, and describe how ‘demand-side’ and ‘supply-side’ variables interact through the strategic actions of anti-minority activists and their opponents.     

解放思想与马克思主义中国化

解放思想是马克思主义的精髓，贯穿于马克思主义中国化的过程中。解放思想是推进马克思主义中国化的一大利器，只有解放思想才能形成新思路、拿出新办法，去解决马克思主义中国化面临的新问题。继续推进马克思主义中国化，必须坚持解放思想，排除各种干扰。     

AIFRS国际会计制度对澳大利亚会计报表的影响(英文)

自财政年度2005年,澳大利亚开始采用IFRS国际会计制度,这是通向国际会计规则一体化的重要一步,并且此一体化进程已经涉及到除澳大利亚外的世界很多国家。然而,至今在学术界仍有关于此国际会计制度引进的优缺点的激烈的争论。此论文将要通过实证的方法对这一从早前的AGAAP到AIFRS的转变对澳大利亚公司的影响进行研究。所用会计数据来自随机选择的澳大利亚金融行业的30个上市公司。此论文的研究结果表明此国际会计制度引进总体而言并未对澳大利亚公司的会计报表数据有显著的影响。