Statistical inference based on generalized Lindley record values

This paper addresses the problems of frequentist and Bayesian estimation for the unknown parameters of generalized Lindley distribution based on lower record values. We first derive the exact explicit expressions for the single and product moments of lower record values, and then use these results to compute the means, variances and covariance between two lower record values. We next obtain the maximum likelihood estimators and associated asymptotic confidence intervals. Furthermore, we obtain Bayes estimators under the assumption of gamma priors on both the shape and the scale parameters of the generalized Lindley distribution, and associated the highest posterior density interval estimates. The Bayesian estimation is studied with respect to both symmetric (squared error) and asymmetric (linear-exponential (LINEX)) loss functions. Finally, we compute Bayesian predictive estimates and predictive interval estimates for the future record values. To illustrate the findings, one real data set is analyzed, and Monte Carlo simulations are performed to compare the performances of the proposed methods of estimation and prediction.     

人文关怀与构建"和谐河北"的价值取向--关于河北当代人文精神的社会化实践问题

本组专题文章继续从不同角度对河北人文精神进行深入解析.方伟对河北当代人文精神的社会化实践问题进行了探讨,认为,燕赵文化人文精神是悲情情结、英雄意识、兼纳包容、变异情势和保守朴实所集合同构而成的,河北当代人文精神建设需要在对之现代性的梳理与阐释的基础上进行其自身的置换和构建.方伟还认为,在河北经济文化与社会不断发展中的"和谐河北"建设,欲实现这种精神价值理念上的社会化转换,通过物质发展、经济生活本身去间接地感知、传达,当会起到直接地以精神思想和文化活动去宣传、灌输所不能起到的也不可被替代的实际作用.张川平认为,自古以来在河北人文精神的生成、传承过程中,战争起了潜移默化的作用,正是战争的磨炼才使得燕赵人养成了独特的民风民俗和精神气质.黄建生认为,人文精神是文学艺术的灵魂,文学艺术总是充溢着人文精神,因此,作为一种审美的意识形态和人类美好的精神创造,文学艺术在培育新的河北人文精神过程中的作用不可低估.马春香认为,河北人文精神的内涵可以概括为奉献进取、创新发展、诚实守信、质朴务实等四个方面,这一精神在河北努力建设文化大省及和谐社会的过程中将日益显示其作用.     

在无意义的世界中寻求意义——论《太阳照常升起》的存在主义主题

《太阳照常升起》是享誉世界的美国当代小说家欧内斯特.海明威(Earnest Hemingway)的第一部长篇小说。文章从战后的荒原和寻求精神家园两方面,探讨和研究了该小说中的存在主义思想和人生哲学,强调了海明威为在无意义世界中生活的人寻找了一种新的生存方式,即保持“重压下的优雅。”     

从颠覆童话创作传统到批判西方现代文明病——艾克絮佩里在《小王子》中的文体创新及思想

法国作家艾克絮佩里的《小王子》成为半个多世纪畅销书,其成功首先在于文体上大胆创新,颠覆了童话创作的传统,变写给儿童的童话为写给成人的童话;其次是它的两个思想内涵:一方面超前地批判了当时西方刚刚萌芽的现代文明病;一方面在古老而永恒的爱情主题中,倡导了新的生活艺术。作者是以赤子和童子的诚挚与清纯之心构建他的作品,字里行间浸透着作者的心路历程。     

Parenting Style,Child Emotion Regulation and Behavioral Problems: The Moderating Role of Cultural Values in Australia and Indonesia

Abstract

Research has shown that the congruence of parenting styles with cultural values, rather than parenting styles alone, impacts child adjustment. This study examined if parents’ cultural values moderate the relationships between parenting styles and child outcomes across both an individualist culture (Australia) and a collectivist culture (Indonesia). Three hundred and eighty-seven parents of 2–10-year-old children from both countries reported their parenting styles, the importance of the collectivistic values (security, conformity, and tradition), and their child's emotion regulation and behavioral problems. In both countries, authoritative parenting was associated with higher child emotion regulation and lower levels of behavioral problems, and authoritarian parenting was associated with lower child emotion regulation and higher levels of behavioral problems. Although cultural values did not moderate the relationship between authoritarian parenting and child adjustment, in both countries greater importance placed on tradition attenuated the positive effect of authoritative parenting on child outcomes.     

Values and happiness among Asian adolescents: a cross-national study

Despite policy efforts to increase adolescent happiness, their impact has been unsatisfactory. Their limited impact may be rooted from a discrepancy between values that adolescents pursued and those that the policies were based on. To provide policy implications, our study aims to identify prevailing values for South Korean, Japanese, and Chinese adolescents and to examine the relationship between the values and self-rated happiness (SRH). A cross-sectional study was conducted using survey data collected on approximately 2000 middle and high school students (7th to 12th school grade) from each country in 2008. Firstly, an explanatory factor analysis was conducted to identify salient adolescent values from each country. Subsequently, a multiple logistic regression analysis was conducted for each population group to examine the relationship between the identified values and adolescent SRH after controlling for sociodemographic characteristics. We found that benevolence and altruism were positively associated with adolescent SRH in all three population groups. Patriarchy was associated with SRH positively in Chinese yet inversely in Japanese. Success pursuit was inversely associated with SRH in Korean. Policy efforts based on values of communities or social harmony may benefit adolescents’ SRH in these three countries.     

Interactive profit-planning systems and market turbulence: A dynamic capabilities perspective

This article describes, theorizes and empirically investigates the concept of interactive profit-planning systems (PPS) through the lens of the dynamic capabilities logic. With this conceptualization: interactive PPS capabilities comprise budgeting, forecasting and results-reporting routines, in which top and middle managers interact to create knowledge for sensing, seizing, and business model reconfiguring (to manage strategic business change). Survey data from 331 Australian firms is analyzed employing partial least squares structural equation modeling. The data provides support for two hypotheses: (1) greater market turbulence strengthens the positive effect of interactive PPS capabilities on business unit performance; and (2) greater market turbulence strengthens the positive effect of flexibility values (of organizational culture) on interactive PPS capabilities. Our findings show that interactive PPS capabilities function according to the salient tenets of the dynamic capabilities logic, and clarify the beneficial roles of formal cybernetic control systems and the intertwined involvement of top and middle managers in using dynamic capabilities.     

让大学成为学生的精神家园——刍议大学人文教育

目前,中国学者关于大学人文教育现状及后果的研究与思考方兴未艾。大学人文教育是对一种全面发展的理想人格的肯定和塑造。大学培养人才应该关注其在学识、道德和美感的全面实现。完善大学人文教育是高校教育体制改革的一个标本兼治的方向,具有现实的针对性和迫切性。应使大学生"精神成人",让大学成为学生的精神家园。     

社会主义核心价值观视域下大学生社会责任感培育研究

习近平总书记2018年5月2日在北京大学师生座谈会上指出,当代青年是同新时代共同前进的一代,承载着祖国的希 望、民族的未来,寄希望每一个青年都成为社会主义建设者和接班人,不辱时代使命,不负人民期望。青年大学生社会责任感 的高低对新时代我国社会主义建设至关重要。社会主义核心价值观是社会主义核心价值体系的集中表达,以社会主义核心价 值观作为新的切入点,对新时代青年大学生社会责任感培育进行研究,提出必须以社会主义核心价值观引领大学生社会责任 感的培育。努力深化社会责任感教育内容,创新教育方法,坚持主流意识形态,抢占高校思想阵地,有利于提升大学生综合素 质,创建和谐的社会氛围,推动新时代社会主义事业的建设。     

王夫之的理欲思想及其现代价值

天理与人欲的思想是我国传统伦理思想中的重要内容。王夫之批判并继承了前人的学术思想,提出了崭新的理欲观。其主要观点是理欲合一、理寓欲中和导欲于理。王夫之的理欲思想尖锐地批判了佛教、道教和宋明理学的禁欲主义,深刻地阐明了人的物质欲望的合理性,提出了导欲于理、以理制欲的主张。它具有重要的历史地位和现代价值。