New ways of believing or belonging: is religion giving way to spirituality?1

In this article, the presence of alternative spirituality and practices within the general culture and their relationship to institutional religion are examined using national survey data collected as part of the 2001 Scottish Social Attitudes Survey. Alternative practices are found to divide into two groups of interests: concerns with personal well-being and interest in divination. Better-educated women are much more likely to engage with holistic practices associated with well-being; a minority of younger, less well-educated women are more likely to have found horoscopes, astrology, fortune-telling and tarot 'important in their lives'. Churchgoers find divination antithetical to religion while the use and salience of a range of holistic practices is as acceptable among churchgoers as it is among non-attenders and the secular (once allowance has been made for the connections between putatively alternative practices, gender, age and education). This underscores a focus on personal well-being rather than alternative spirituality in the consumption of holistic products and practices within the general culture. The study findings are used to assess claims for a spiritual revolution in modern Britain.     

家长式领导和组织价值观对成员知识活动的影响机理

根据知识基础的组织理论,从微观层面探索家长式领导和组织价值观对个体知识活动的影响机理。在理论上构建中介、交互和附加3种竞争性模型,提出家长式领导、组织价值观和个体知识活动三者之间的假设关系;采用问卷方式对191名医生进行调查,并采用层级回归分析对以上假设进行检验。实证结果表明,家长式领导和组织价值观对个体知识活动均产生影响,但二者地位取决于知识活动类型。对个体的知识创造活动,领导行为与价值观的影响是替代关系;对个体知识回避活动,二者是互补关系;对个体知识挪用活动,则相互独立。此外,家长式领导的威权领导与组织价值观的成员成长对知识活动同时存在消极和积极影响的悖论效应。     

基于OWG算子的不同形式偏好信息 的群决策方法

具有不同形式偏好信息的群决策是决策分析及群决策支持系统研究的一个新课题,它对 于进一步提高群决策支持系统的实用性和灵活性方面具有重要意义. 针对这类群决策分析,提 出了一种具有效用值、序关系值、模糊互补判断矩阵、互反判断矩阵等4 种形式偏好信息的群 决策方法. 在该方法中,首先给出了将不同形式的偏好信息均转化为互反判断矩阵形式的计算 公式;然后基于OWG算子将各决策者的偏好信息集结为群的偏好并进行方案的优选;最后给 出了一个算例.     

我国食品安全监管的新趋势：无缝隙监管

我国当前食品安全监管中存在的条块分割、职能交叉、立法滞后以及由此带来的一系列问题使得我国食品安全红灯频闪。合理汲取无缝隙理论的精髓,重建我国食品安全监管体制,实施食品安全无缝隙监管制度,已经成为我国的必然选择。     

Šidák-type tests for the two-sample problem based on precedence and exceedance statistics

This paper deals with a class of nonparametric two-sample tests for ordered alternatives. The test statistics proposed are based on the number of observations from one sample that precede or exceed a threshold specified by the other sample, and they are extensions of ?idák's test. We derive their exact null distributions and also discuss a large-sample approximation. We then study their power properties exactly against the Lehmann alternative and make some comparative comments. Finally, we present an example to illustrate the proposed tests.     

Communication and medial frontier crossings in the Jewish underground culture

ABSTRACT

In this essay, the author examines Jewish art and literature in the context of the unofficial public sphere in the late Soviet Union. This Jewish cultural underground emerged within a specific communicative niche, which was the result of intensive private exchange, limited knowledge, and collectively discovered sources. The space in which artists and authors shared both their “work surface” and their coffee table, and in which the cultural production coincided with its own reception and analysis, constituted the cradle of very specific aesthetic features: particular forms of intertextual and intermedial links, self-reference, as well as a blend of the alternative lifeworld and art. Moreover, the close contact with “non-Jewish” artists in the same creative and often physical space brought about a synthetic form of culture. However, unlike with the Jewish vanguard artists of the first third of the twentieth century (such as the famous Kultur-lige), this synthesis was also caused by the largely non-Jewish socialization of “new Jews” in the late Soviet Union. This paper will focus on the following questions: How did the communicative context – the partial ban on Jewish topics and the alternative, semi-private public sphere of the Jewish unofficial culture in the late Soviet era – come about, and how did these aspects influence its artifacts?     

Effects of placentophagy on maternal salivary hormones: A pilot trial,part 1

Background

Recent studies show that human placenta, processed and encapsulated for postpartum consumption, contains a host of trace minerals and hormones that could conceivably affect maternal physiology. Our objective was to investigate whether salivary hormone concentrations of women ingesting their own encapsulated placenta during the early postpartum differed from those of women consuming a placebo.

Claudia Jones speaks to “half the world”: gendering Cold War politics in the Daily Worker, 1950–1953

As feminist scholarship has illustrated, historical resurgences of global migration raise questions about the intersections between war politics, persecution of activists, and its gendered implications. Informed by a new historicist approach, this article seeks to contextualize contemporary scholarly conversations on journalism, migration, and feminist studies by conducting a historical analysis of a bi-weekly column entitled “Half the World.” This column was published in the Daily Worker and was written by little-known Caribbean activist and journalist Claudia Jones. A close reading of all printed columns between 1950 and 1953 illustrate that despite Jones’ tendency to reinforce gendered dichotomies of war discourse, where women represented peace and men violence, she also placed women as the creators of a national and transnational movement against US intervention in Korea. Jones’ story, therefore, contributes to previous feminist histories on the role female journalists and activists have played in shaping the relationship between gender, nation, and war politics.     

西方生命虚构叙事创作新趋势——以《马洛与莎士比亚秘史》为例

西方生命虚构叙事是一种以历史人物的生命因子为叙事驱策,通过虚构化策略再现历史人物人生的创作体裁,马洛与莎士比亚作为“作者之争”的主角经常出现在近期的 西方传记研究和生命虚构创作中。达甘在《马洛与莎士比亚秘史》中将学术元素与侦探元素交融在一起,以生命虚构文本而非学术论著的形式再现《哈姆雷特》的创作过程,藉此 创设一种另类的“共谋理论”,这在某种程度上代表着后现代语境下西方生命虚构叙事的学术化、另类化和不自然叙事化的创作新趋势。     

中国道路运输碳足迹研究

分析了影响中国道路运输碳足迹的道路因素、车辆因素、人为因素及运输组织方式,提出了“自下而上”的过程分析法和“自上而下”投入产出法两种道路运输碳足迹核算方法,从政策、组织方式、技术等角度给出了道路运输减排措施; 制定和完善道路运输能减排的税收、财政政策及车辆退出制度; 优化道路运输组织方式; 加强替代能源技术、车辆技术及车联网技术研发和应用; 建立并推广道路运输行业碳排放交易试点。