关联理论与修辞格话语含义的推导

应用关联理论 ,根据最佳关联原则 ,对隐喻、反语、夸张、弱言等间接语言现象的话语意义进行明示推理 ,以期得出上述修辞格话语的最佳语境含义     

Test-Retest Reliability of the End-User Computing Satisfaction Instrument

The development of reliable and valid measures of user-information satisfaction is becoming increasingly important to both practitioners and researchers. Measures of reliability include internal consistency and stability. Recent research has raised concerns about the stability of user information satisfaction measures. Using the test-retest correlation method, this article assesses short- and long-range stability of a 12-item scale for measuring end-user computing satisfaction. It examines the stability of individual items and subscales as well as the 12-item instrument. The results suggest that the instrument is internally consistent and stable.     

Optimal Acquisition of FMS Technology Subject to Technological Progress*

In order to gain competitive advantage, a firm must link its technology choice to its total manufacturing strategy and business unit's goals. A dynamic model is presented to examine the strategic decision concerning the acquisition of flexible manufacturing systems (FMS) technology. A major contribution of this model is its ability to capture the strategic benefits of FMS with respect to economies of scope and technological progress. Decisions such as the timing and size of new technology acquisition and the scrapping of conventional capacity are explored as a firm plans for the upgrading of its facility to meet future dynamic strategic goals. This model may be used to assist with strategic planning because it identifies the critical relationships and trade-offs between various exogenous forces (such as market growth or decay, the cost of acquiring flexible manufacturing systems, and the rate of technological progress) and the decision variables considered.     

关联理论对方言翻译方法的启示——以陕西方言为例

关联理论认为,翻译是一个认知推理的交际过程,因此译者的任务就是:力求在分析选择语境的过程中找到最佳关联,创造足够合适的关联效果,以使原文作者的意图与译语读者的企盼相吻合.关联理论翻译观强调语境对认知的作用,这为方言的翻译研究提供了认知层面的理论依据.本文试分析关联理论翻译观对方言翻译的指导作用,探讨关联理论翻译观指导下的方言翻译方法,认为方言的翻译应该要根据语境分析交际意图、寻找最佳关联,才能收到方言翻译的最佳效果     

Exploring global recognition of quality midwifery education: Vision or fiction?

Background

Midwifery education is the foundation for preparing competent midwives to provide a high standard of safe, evidence-based care for women and their newborns. Global competencies and standards for midwifery education have been defined as benchmarks for establishing quality midwifery education and practice worldwide. However, wide variations in type and nature of midwifery education programs exist.

Nearly optimal covariate designs—Part II

This is a continuation to Part I toward our efforts for providing illustrative examples in the context of analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) models and related analyses of data. We discuss four more examples here, and these are derived from standard textbooks. We re-visit these examples with a view to suggest optimal/nearly optimal designs for estimation of the covariate parameter(s).     

Alternative GMM estimators for first-order autoregressive panel model: An improving efficiency approach

This article considers first-order autoregressive panel model that is a simple model for dynamic panel data (DPD) models. The generalized method of moments (GMM) gives efficient estimators for these models. This efficiency is affected by the choice of the weighting matrix that has been used in GMM estimation. The non-optimal weighting matrices have been used in the conventional GMM estimators. This led to a loss of efficiency. Therefore, we present new GMM estimators based on optimal or suboptimal weighting matrices. Monte Carlo study indicates that the bias and efficiency of the new estimators are more reliable than the conventional estimators.     

Sharp bounds on the expectations of L-statistics expressed in the Gini mean difference units

We describe a method of calculating sharp lower and upper bounds on the expectations of arbitrary, properly centered L-statistics expressed in the Gini mean difference units of the original i.i.d. observations. Precise values of bounds are derived for the single-order statistics, their differences, and some examples of L-estimators. We also present the families of discrete distributions which attain the bounds, possibly in the limit.     

Planning life tests with progressively Type-I interval censored data from the lognormal distribution

In this paper, we determine optimally spaced inspection times for the two-parameter lognormal distribution for any given progressive interval censoring plan. We investigate the effect of the number of inspections and the choice of those optimally spaced inspection times based on the asymptotic relative efficiencies of the maximum likelihood estimates of the parameters. We also discuss the optimal progressive Type-I interval censoring plan when the inspection times and the expected proportions of total failures in the experiment are pre-fixed.     

Applications and Implementation DETERMINING THE REWARDS SALESPEOPLE VALUE: A COMPARISON OF METHODS*

Although salesmanagers can attempt to motivate salespeople by manipulating their rewards, these manipulations will fail if salespeople do not value the rewards and their levels. Methods for determining valued rewards can therefore be important to those charged with their determination. This study compares three measurement schemes for assessing salespeople's valences for various rewards: functional measurement, conjoint analysis, and thermometer scaling. All three schemes produce similar conclusions as to how rewards are valued and the acceptable tradeoffs among them. Thermometer scaling outperformed the others with respect to the time it took to secure the judgments and the palatability of the task, while conjoint measurement performed least well in these respects.