Social identities and political cleavages: the role of political context

Summary. Using a novel method, the paper investigates the influence of social group identities on attitudes and on voting in a variety of political contexts. Examining the major regions of Britain, Canada and the USA, we find considerable national and regional diversity in the nature of social cleavages. For example, social class and race had widely different effects across societies, but within societies their effects on attitudes and on voting were very similar. However, despite that, age and religion had a similar effect on attitudes across societies; the effects on voting varied considerably. The significant within-country differences underline the importance of using region, rather than country, as the unit of analysis. More importantly, these results highlight the role of political context, especially competing cleavages and the structure of party competition, in the establishment of politically relevant social cleavages.     

Towards Enhancement of the Economy of a Thermal Power Generating System through Prediction of Plant Efficiency

The plant ‘Heat Rate’ (HR) is a measure of overall efficiency of a thermal power generating system. It depends on a large number of factors, some of which are non-measurable, while data relating to others are seldom available and recorded. However, coal quality (expressed in terms of ‘effective heat value’ (EHV) as kcal/kg) transpires to be one of the important factors that influences HR values and data on EHV are available in any thermal power generating system. In the present work, we propose a prediction interval of the HR values on the basis of only EHV, keeping in mind that coal quality is one of the important (but not the only) factors that have a pronounced effect on the combustion process and hence on HR. The underlying theory borrows the idea of providing simultaneous confidence interval (SCI) to the coefficients of a p-th p(≥1) order autoregressive model (AR(p)). The theory has been substantiated with the help of real life data from a power utility (after suitable base and scale transformation of the data to maintain the confidentiality of the classified document). Scope for formulating strategies to enhance the economy of a thermal power generating system has also been explored.     

论袁枚诗歌的民主意识

袁枚生活的乾嘉时期 ,民主意识随着资本主义因素的增长而有所发展 ,袁枚在他的诗歌理论和创作中突出地表现了这种可贵的民主意识。这主要体现在五个方面 :对儒学及其传统的叛逆 ;反对等级特权 ,提倡平等 ,尊重女性 ;批判封建礼教 ,大胆表现男女之情 ;“唯我是适” ,追求精神自由与个性解放 ;“不讳好财” ,“九州添设富民侯”的金钱观念。它们代表着袁枚“性灵”诗歌所独有的思想价值。     

论公司价值的创造

公司价值最大化已经成为公司管理的终极目标,如何实现价值创造便成为公司管理的现实目标。公司战略、公司治理和公司理财对公司价值的三个价值推动要素都有很大的影响,因此,需要融合公司战略、公司治理和公司理财来实现价值创造。     

在交融与对抗中发展——加入WTO中国高等教育面临的机遇和挑战

中国入世造就了庞大的教育消费市场,为我国高等教育的发展带来无限的机遇。我国高等教育只有改革体制,转变传统观念,融入世界,才能抓住机遇,在国际化竞争的交融与对抗中实现突破与超越。     

上市公司并购重组与企业整体资产评估

随着我国证券市场的日益发展和完善,上市公司间的兼并、收购和资产重组等经济活动日趋频繁,企业整体资产评估是并购重组过程中资产业务的基础,是资产或产权交易的前提条件。尽管实践中可以通过多种估价方法来估测企业整体资产的价值,但由于我国资产评估市场尚不成熟,企业整体资产评估缺乏科学、可行的评估体系,评估结果难以真正地反映企业整体资产的内在价值。因此,必须采取有效措施规范资产评估市场,提高整体资产评估的质量,为证券市场的健康发展打下良好的基础。     

增权：受虐待老人社会工作新理念

针对不断增加的虐待老年人这一社会问题,将增权理论及理念运用于老年人社会工作中,结合对老年人受虐待现状和困境的考察与分析,探讨了帮助受虐待老年人维护自身合法权益的有效工作方法。     

我国市场经济的价值取向--思想政治教育内容探讨之二

文章根据我国市场经济的性质以及市场经济在发展过程中对社会生活各方面所产生的不同影响,分析论证了我国市场经济的价值取向是经济价值、政治价值和思想文化价值三者的统一.     

Herd behavior and the quality of opinions

This paper analyzes a decentralized decision model by adding some inertia in the social leaning process. Before making a decision, an agent can observe the group opinion in a society. Social learning can result in a variety of equilibrium behavioral patterns. For insufficient ranges of quality (precision) of opinions, the chosen stationary state is unique and globally accessible, in which all agents adopt the superior action. Sufficient quality of opinions gives rise to multiple stationary states. One of them will be characterized by inefficient herding. The confidence in the majority opinion then has serious welfare consequences.     

现代企业制度下的公司成长分析

公司的成长性是公司的管理者、投资者等相关利益者所共同关心的问题,也是公司未来价值之所在。通过对公司成长的定义、特征、分类、影响因素及反映指标等方面的讨论对该问题作了较为全面的阐述。