Asymptotic posterior normality for multiparameter problems

For asymptotic posterior normality in the one-parameter cases, Weng [2003. On Stein's identity for posterior normality. Statist. Sinica 13, 495–506] proposed to use a version of Stein's Identity to write the posterior expectations for functions of a normalized quantity in a form that is more transparent and can be easily analyzed. In the present paper we extend this approach to the multi-parameter cases and compare our conditions with earlier work. Three examples are used to illustrate the application of this method.     

论中国二十年代的性教育思想

性教育是二十年代思想界教育界热门话题之一.当时一些知识分子破除传统的性卑污、性忌讳、性神秘心态,积极倡吁性教育,他们对性教育的必要性与迫切性、任务与宗旨、方式与内容等方面进行了较为深入的探讨,形成了比较完整的性教育思想.这一思想不仅有其形成的历史必然性,而且在近现代性教育思想史上具有不可抹杀的地位,对当代中国性教育的理论和实践也不失其价值.     

南高史地学派引论（上）

南高史地研究会是南京高等师范学校的一个以在校学生为主体的学术社团,实行导师制,主要的导师为柳诒徵和竺可桢;会员中的骨干为陈训慈、张其昀、缪凤林、郑鹤声、向达和刘扌炎藜等人。上述诸人因为学术旨趣相近,在史地研究会及其会刊《史地学报》停止活动后,另行活动,最终形成了现代学术史上与学衡派有紧密关系的南高史地学派。     

自贡市盐业职业技术教育发展历程简论

自贡市盐业职业技术教育的发展经历了三个阶段：“文革”前、“文革”期间和“文革”后。各阶段均产生了一批不同形式的盐业职业学校；受国家政治、经济形势和教育政策的影响,各阶段的盐业职业技术教育在办学主体、办学层次、学校性质、办学规模与效益等方面呈现出不同的特点。     

狂气、病迹学与文学创作——兼论日本文学病迹学研究

病迹学是19世纪末发展起来的以精神医学为基础的一门边缘性学科。它以杰出人物(特别是艺术家)为对象,从精神医学的角度分析探究他们的异常性格、内心纠葛、病理过程和艺术创作之间的互动关系,揭示出这种关系在他们的个人生活、创作活动和作品中的作用和意义。以往的病迹学文学研究过多拘泥于精神医学的范畴对作家的疾病史作资料性的分析,实际上它更需带有文学批评的自觉,运用其独特的视角更积极地参与对作品的审美和对作家全方位的解读。     

四川话形容词的结构类型及其语法意义

四川话形容词是四川方言中最能体现四川方言特点的语言成分。其结构形式的丰富多彩,体现了造词者对表达效果的刻意追求。这些表达效果主要包括:生动形象的表现力量,好恶分明的感情色彩,铿锵和谐的节奏美感,诙谐幽默的语言风格。     

《青龙潭》:三十年代中国农村的镜像写照

作为洪深代表作《农村三部曲》之一的《青龙潭》,由于极左思想的影响长久以来一直处于被贬抑的地位,不能和前两部相提并论。但实际上《青龙潭》深刻揭示了中国农村落后的根源,是三十年代中国农村的镜像写照。     

香港高等教育社会适应性办学模式的质量问题及其启示

香港高等教育进入普及教育阶段后,学校的发展采用社会适应性办学模式,其模式在处理数量与质量上有顾此失彼,转型初期出现了诸如生源、师资、素质教育等质量问题。在实施社会适应性办学模式过程中(尤其九七年香港回归后),政府各界与学校一道推进了改革,从教育目标、课程建设、合作交流等方向可窥视他们的大胆尝试。     

The failure of meta-analytic asymptotics for the seemingly efficient estimator of the common risk difference

We consider the case of a multicenter trial in which the center specific sample sizes are potentially small. Under homogeneity, the conventional procedure is to pool information using a weighted estimator where the weights used are inverse estimated center-specific variances. Whereas this procedure is efficient for conventional asymptotics (e. g. center-specific sample sizes become large, number of center fixed), it is commonly believed that the efficiency of this estimator holds true also for meta-analytic asymptotics (e.g. center-specific sample size bounded, potentially small, and number of centers large). In this contribution we demonstrate that this estimator fails to be efficient. In fact, it shows a persistent bias with increasing number of centers showing that it isnot meta-consistent. In addition, we show that the Cochran and Mantel-Haenszel weighted estimators are meta-consistent and, in more generality, provide conditions on the weights such that the associated weighted estimator is meta-consistent.     

Women's Work,Dirty Work: The Gynaecology Nurse as ‘Other’

This article seeks to explore the world of the gynaecology nurse. This world defines the gendered experience of nursing; that is, women in a women's job carrying out ‘women's work’. It is also a world that receives scant public recognition due to its association with the private domain of women's reproductive health. Many issues dealt with on a daily basis by gynaecology nurses are socially ‘difficult’: cancer, infertility, miscarriage and foetal abnormalities; or socially ‘distasteful’: termination of pregnancy, urinary incontinence, menstruation and sexually transmitted disease. The ‘tainted’ nature of gynaecology nursing gives it the social distinction of ‘dirty work’ but does not deter the gynaecology nurse from declaring her work as ‘special’, requiring distinctive knowledge and skills. Qualitative data collected from a group of gynaecology nurses in a North West National Health Service hospital displays how they actively celebrate their status as women carrying out ‘dirty work’. Through the use of ceremonial work that continually re‐affirms their ‘womanly’ qualities the gynaecology nurses establish themselves as ‘different’, as ‘special’, as the ‘other’.