中国海岸城市带形成与新世纪地缘政治研究

中国历史上的中心城市多分布于大陆内地,但自19世纪以来的两百年间,在海岸线上出现了众多的中、大及特大城市,构成为一条蔓延1.8万公里的海岸城市集合群。中国海岸城市带的形成,不仅带来了国内社会经济文化全方位的深刻变化,刷新了中华传统文明中的海洋篇章,也将对于21世纪的东亚地缘政治以及全球化国际关系诸方面,发挥出越来越巨大的影响,值得从多重角度加以研究。     

Regional Religions?: Extending the “Semi-involuntary” Thesis of African-American Religious Participation

This research examines religious affiliation and church attendance among African-Americans in three different regions of the United States to evaluate the thesis that the Black church represents a semi-involuntary institution shaped by historical dynamics of segregation in the rural South. We extend the analyses of others who have found the rural South to have distinctive church participation patterns by examining two nationally representative data sets (the 1972–1996 General Social Surveys and the 1984 National Alcohol Study). We explore both level and type of church attendance of African-Americans, and how patterns differ by region. Further, we refine prior analyses by (1) differentiating between members of historically White and conservative churches from those in the black mainline, (2) examining racial segregation, and (3) focusing on the type of church attendance (rather than just overall level). Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) and logistic regression models support the thesis that the rural South exhibits some distinctive patterns that make the semi-involuntary institution notion a useful concept, although patterns not predicted by the thesis are also found. The semi-involuntary thesis is also used to illuminate some church attendance patterns observed outside the rural South.     

完善西部房地产市场的对策思考

对阻碍西部房地产市场发展的相关因素进行了具体分析 ,在此基础上提出了搞好房地产市场发展规划、调整房地产投资结构、搞好物业管理、完善房地产市场中介体系、健全相关法规的几点建议。     

武汉与京津沪经济实力的对比分析

文章通过GDP总量、GDP增长速度、产业结构、人均GDP、人均可支配收入以及恩格尔系数等几项经济指标对武汉和北京、天津、上海1997年～2002年的经济实力进行比较研究,指出了武汉在经济实力上存在的优势、差距和对策。     

关于西部地区研究生教育发展战略的思考

西部大开发战略为西部地区研究生教育提供了新的发展机遇与挑战 ,目前该地区研究生教育存在着学位授权单位和授权点少 ,分布不均匀 ,发展不平衡 ,教育质量不高 ,导师队伍较弱 ,经费投入不足等现状 ;为此应坚持规模、质量、结构、效益协调发展和发展的超前性、区域协调性 ,完善教育法规、依法治教 ,提高研究生质量的发展方针 ;应把调整学科结构、构建完整的学科体系 ,建设现代化研究生培养基地和重点学科 ,提高师资水平作为发展目标 ,可采取三个不同的发展阶段 :在高校办学自主权 ,研究生教育质量保证体系 ,教育投入 ,培养基地和导师队伍建设 ,东西部高校合作等方面采取积极策略。     

四川藏区小学教育办学模式选择

四川藏区自然环境恶劣 ,经济落后 ,社会分工不发达 ,文化以传统为主。小学教育以走读制为主。长期的办学经验表明 :走读制不适应四川藏区的特殊情况。因为走读制在四川藏区的实施产生出大量师生极少的单班学校。单班学校对四川藏区现代教育造成四个方面的消极影响 :(1)教育经费更加紧张 ;(2 )人才流失 ,师资质量下降 ;(3)未能形成基于班级授课制的规模化学校 ;(4)社会教育环节薄弱。若能实施以寄宿制为主的办学模式 ,则可解决走读制产生的问题     

西部教育发展的现状与对策研究

西部教育事业发展在全国处于比较落后的水平上。西部应加快实施素质教育,建立适应培育创造型人才的教育体制,重视提高少数民族适龄儿童的入学率、巩固率,提高教育教学质量,大力发展职业教育,加快教育信息化建设,给予特殊政策扶持,推进高等教育快速发展,使之适应新的国际环境。     

A graphical method for evaluating mixture designs with respect to the slope

Good estimation of the slopes of the mixture response function may be important as well as estimation of mean mixture response. It is possible to evaluate and compare several mixture designs with respect to the slope. A graphical method is proposed that allows us to evaluate a given design's support for the fitted model in terms of slope variance. We can plot variances of slopes along Cox direction or axial direction according to existence of restriction of simplex region or not when comparing several different mixture designs.     

Counter-geographies: The campaign against rationalisation of agricultural research stations in New South Wales, Australia

This paper discusses an example of community action mounted in a rural region of New South Wales, Australia, in response to proposals by the State Government to rationalise agricultural research stations operated by the Department of Primary Industries. Informed by a Foucaultian understanding of power and the concept of governmentality, neoliberalism is theorised as being the broad governmental context in which rationalisation proposals were put forward. Recent literature drawing on this theoretical perspective has emphasised that neoliberalism is enacted through a relationship of power, and is not monolithic or inevitable. Neoliberalism is always negotiated by those seeking to govern and those who are the object of such governmental actions. This paper analyses how plans to rationalise publicly funded agricultural research stations were opposed by those seeking to keep research facilities open in the case study area. The paper discusses the methods and scope of community action and, drawing on interviews, identifies a series of discourses articulated by campaigners. Non-local actors were depicted as uncaring and insensitive. In contrast, campaigners discussed the emergence of a ‘city-country divide’ in domestic politics; the need for specialist agricultural knowledge given the region's unique geographical location; and local impacts of an economic, social and emotional nature. Central were discourses of maintaining community, tradition, and continuity in unique local places defined by their climate, biophysical environment and economy. These were ‘counter-geographies’ that sought (successfully, it would transpire) to disrupt the state's imagined geography of a homogenous and flexible administrative space in which research services could be relocated wherever most efficient. Important too were embodied resistances to the way rural industries and people were subjected. Campaigners refused to accept preferred codes of neoliberal behaviour (particularly mobility and rationality) and instead demanded respect for their careers, families and communities. Important considerations are suggested for further research on impacts and negotiations of neoliberalism. This study particularly highlights the successes—as well as contradictions and limitations—of arguments that construct rural places as socialised, unique and unfairly treated (by governments), in opposition to metropolitan dominance and ‘placeless’ neoliberalism.