路振《九国志》述评

北宋的路振是湖南永州祁阳县人。他撰写的《九国志》是一本有关五代时南方九国的总体史书,学术价值极大。     

The relationship between socioeconomic status and infant mortality in a metropolitan aggregate, 1989–1991

This paper presents the results of an ecological analysis of the relationship between infant mortality and economic status in a metropolitan aggregate comprised of seven of the larger cities in Ohio during the three years centering on the 1990 census. Using a summary income score derived for the census tract of mother's usual residence, the census tracts in the seven metropolitan centers were divided into broad income groupings and three-year average infant mortality rates were computed for each area, by age, sex, race, and selected causes of death. The most important conclusion to be drawn from the data is that in spite of some remarkable declines in overall levels of infant mortality during the past few decades, there continues to be a very clear and pronounced inverse association between income status and infant mortality. The general inverse association is observed for both sexes, for whites and nonwhites, and for all major causes of infant death. At the same time, the data reveal notable differences in the magnitude of the relationship by sex, and especially by age at death, race, and cause of death. Explanations of these differences are suggested, and a conclusion notes some of the difficulties encountered in developing programs aimed at closing the infant mortality gap between the richest and poorest segments of the society.This is an expanded version of a paper presented at the annual meetings of the Eastern Sociological Society in Baltimore, Maryland (March 17–20, 1994).     

王寂二行部志中佛教史料举隅

王寂《辽东行部志》和《鸭江行部志》记述了大量寺庙、僧侣和佛事,对宝严、崇寿、灵岩三寺和辽僧海山、金僧渊唯识、金尼智相的描述尤详,特别值得注意的是叙及炽盛光佛信仰和禅宗渗透、流传辽东的史实,还保存了许多作者考订佛籍真伪和寺院始末盛衰以及即事诗文。其内容使不少当时辽东一带佛教存在和活动的踪迹得以流传后世,为佛教史研究提供了宝贵的学术资源。     

The German Administrative Record Census – An object identification problem

Summary: The next German census will be an Administrative Record Census. Data from several administrative registers about persons will be merged. Object identification has to be applied, since no unique identification number exists in the registers. We present a two–step procedure. We briefly discuss questions like correctness and completeness of the Administrative Record Census. Then we focus on the object identification problem, that can be perceived as a special classification problem. Pairs of records are to be classified as matched or not matched. To achieve computational efficiency a preselection technique of pairs is applied. Our approach is illustrated with a database containing a large set of consumer addresses.*This work was partially supported by the Berlin–Brandenburg Graduate School in Distributed Information Systems (DFG grant no. GRK 316). The authors thank Michael Fürnrohr for previewing the paper. We would like to thank also for the helpful comments of an anonymous reviewer.     

土家族“犀牛”图腾崇拜体现的生命意识与儒家伦理思想研究——以渝东南湘鄂渝黔边区酉水流域为例

土家族犀牛图腾崇拜体现了儒家伦理思想的生命意识、和谐思想、厚生意蕴、佑民情怀,这在湘鄂渝黔交界处的渝东南土家族文化、文学、田野材料及《同治增修酉阳直隶州总志》、《白民族谱》等史志文献都有表现.土家族地区如渝东南酉水流域广布"犀牛"图腾崇拜、神秘葬俗,犀牛望月、犀牛潭、犀牛洞土司坟、犀牛救民,犀牛地葬母佑子孙等民俗事象,大量出现在民间文学中,世代相传,值得深究.     

现存志料、采访册、调查记等文献概述

志料、采访册、调查记等文献大多是在实地征访、调查基础之上,为他日编修方志保存资料而作,具有方志初稿性质。其在编纂方式上不拘泥于方志体例,采用多样记录形式;在内容上跳脱旧方志类目框架,紧跟时代潮流;在作者群体上不局限于地方士绅,多由专业人员参与编写。这些文献保留了许多正式方志舍弃的一手资料,因此,应该受到足够重视。     

人口普查覆盖误差估计方法综述

人口普查工作的质量主要体现在覆盖误差的规模上.人口统计学家创建了估计人口普查覆盖误差的方法.有些方法利用独立于人口普查本身的信息,另外一些方法则利用人口行政记录的信息.由于每种方法都有其特定的形成背景和适用范围,因而没有适合于所有国家和地区的通用方法.通过对美国、新西兰、澳大利亚、英国和中国的人口普查覆盖误差估计方法进行了较为详细的介绍,说明了这些方法的使用情况.研究表明,任何一种估计方法都有其局限性,需要不断改进与完善.     

Inequalities for Expected Current Record Statistics

In this article, we obtain sharp distribution-free bounds for the expected value of the gap between the current records and record values as well as upper sharp bounds for the spacings between any two upper current records. We also present two-sided bounds on the errors in approximating the means of current records by inverse hazard functions.     

Contributors

Abstract

The authors respond to an article on the role of the International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) as a manifestation (format) identifier of serials. They discuss some of the challenges that multiple manifestations present for the ISSN Network, some proposed solutions to this problem, and invite further input and dialogue on the topic. Serials Review 2003; 29:97–99.