Morality and Nuclear Energy: Perceptions of Risks and Benefits,Personal Norms,and Willingness to Take Action Related to Nuclear Energy

We examined factors underlying people's willingness to take action in favor of or against nuclear energy from a moral perspective. We conducted a questionnaire study among a sample of the Dutch population (N = 123). As expected, perceptions of risks and benefits were related to personal norms (PN), that is, feelings of moral obligation toward taking action in favor of or against nuclear energy. In turn, PN predicted willingness to take action. Furthermore, PN mediated the relationships between perceptions of risk and benefits and willingness to take action. In line with our hypothesis, beliefs about the risks and benefits of nuclear energy were less powerful in explaining PN for supporters compared to PN of opponents. Also, beliefs on risks and benefits and PN explained significantly more variance in willingness to take action of opponents than of supporters. Our results suggest that a moral framework is useful to explain willingness to take action in favor of and against nuclear energy, and that people are more likely to protest in favor of or against nuclear energy when PN are strong.     

Tolerance‐based error reduction in multi‐agent bioassays

Some degree of error is inevitable in multi‐agent bioassays regardless of design or measurement technology. Estimation error can be reduced post facto by exploiting the matrix partial ordering of the bioassay survival estimates. The standard method for this is order‐restricted regression (ORR). If the joint action of the bioassay agents admits a tolerance‐based interpretation, additional structure beyond matrix partial ordering is available, leading to a new method of error reduction. This tolerance‐based error reduction (TBER) procedure almost always outperforms ORR. Like ORR, TBER applies to complete factorial bioassay designs and, using weighting, to incomplete designs.     

Framing Emerging Environmental Movement Tactics: Mobilizing Consensus,Demobilizing Conflict

This paper is a study of an emerging environmental decision-making model that attempts to move beyond traditionally adversarial approaches toward consensus building. Consensus-based decision making ostensibly allows activists equal power with industrialists and state actors in environmental policy-making. This research builds upon the growing literature on frame-analysis by demonstrating that there are instances when challengers actually engage in collaborative framing with their adversaries. This does not presume that activists reject oppositional framing altogether. In these cases, environmentalists actually draw on a mixture of confrontation and negotiation in this innovative form of collective action that positions them in contexts most environmentalists never experience—a place at the decision-making table with elites. This study reveals that environmentalists are becoming more sophisticated in their efforts to protect local communities and natural resources.     

陈淳哲学知行论研究

知行问题是理学尤其是朱子学研究的重要课题之一,讨论的问题涉及知行关系、致知与涵养、致知与主敬等方面。作为朱子重要门人和传人的陈淳,在知行关系上继承和发扬了朱熹“知行相须”的观点,提出了致知力行“随时更迭,交进互发”的思想,而对“知先行后”论有所修正,同时,对“行重于知”则以“以行为主,知行一事”作了新的概括和拓展。在主体修养上,陈淳把主敬仍看作是与致知力行相始终的修养的重要内容。陈淳还对凸现儒学工夫与境界的“下学上达”作出了新的探索。     

行动研究--欺负干预的适宜运作模式

行动研究是一种新的研究思路.与传统的科学研究不同,行动研究集行动和研究于一体.在行动研究中,实际工作者是研究的主体,他们通过对自己实际工作情境的研究以达到解决实际问题和促进个人成长的目的.     

超越“集体行动困境”——埃莉诺·奥斯特罗姆的自主组织理论述评

自主组织理论是在对传统集体理论的批判分析中形成的,它集中探讨了一群相互依赖的个体怎样自己组织起来,进行自主治理,从而在一定程度上超越"集体行动困境".自主组织理论可为我国治道变革中面临的公共资源可持续利用、基层民主建设和非营利组织发展等问题提供一些借鉴,但必须考虑我国政治、文化传统等方面的自身特点与影响.     

论纳尔苏行动对曹家的作用及影响

雍正十年十一月至雍正十一年四月 ,早被革爵圈禁的纳尔苏 ,派嫡幼子福静向隋赫德索银三千八百两。事前有“曹家人”到平郡王府“行走” ,事后有雍正帝及宝亲王弘历为之开脱。曹家得银后可摆脱困境 ,捐纳州同。因此 ,对曹兆页家的穷困问题 ,有必要作通盘的思考 ;对“曹雪芹从乾隆九年开始创作《石头记》”的定论 ,大可怀疑。应大破“自传说” ,大立“他传说”。     

加快科技奥运建设,促进首都实现跨越式发展

科技奥运是中国申奥成功的重要理念 ,也将成为北京举办奥运会的重要保障条件。加快科技奥运建设对于实现奥运承诺 ,促进首都乃至全国经济、科技的发展都具有深远的意义。“以科技助奥运 ,以奥运促科技”是科技奥运建设的重要内容。本文从科技奥运提出的背景、含义、建设目标、主要任务、实施一年多来取得的进展等方面进行了比较全面的描述。     

美国国会议员政治行为的特点及其对中美关系的影响

美国国会议员的政治行为具有独立性、不确定性和可塑性,进而影响着美国总统制定对华政策的权威性、连贯性和统一性,使中美关系的发展增加了很多不确定因素,但同时也为我国把握中美关系的主动权提供了有利"平台"。当前我们应重视对美国国会议员政治行为的对策性研究,建立美国国会议员数据库和议员行为反应预警机制,探讨影响美国国会议员行为的最佳途径,以加强我国外交决策的主动性。