基因工程技术的伦理沉思

以科学技术应用的两重性为基点,在肯定基因工程技术对人类生命和健康产生的积极意义的同时,分析了基因工程技术在安全性方面的不确定性可能给人类带来滞后效应的损害;指出了基因资源、基因歧视等一系列伦理问题为基因工程技术发展提出的伦理挑战,并从社会建构的角度提出了保证和促进基因工程技术健康发展的举措。     

评价产业技术发展的社会福利标准

对"技术造福人类"的命题进行了结构分析,指出产业技术给一部分人群带来利益的同时,也使一部分人群沦为弱势群体,他们忍受着环境问题、失业问题、贫困和生活问题的折磨。认为应站在弱势群体立场上评价产业技术的发展,在制定产业技术政策中引入社会福利标准,控制、减少和避免产业技术发展给人类带来的恶果。     

高校图书馆应对大学生加强信息素质教育

论述了高校图书馆对大学生加强信息素质教育的意义和作用 ,提出了加强信息素质教育的主要途径和方法     

Early Intervention and Prevention of Psychopathology: The Potential Role of Affect

This paper attempts to integrate early intervention and prevention concepts with various aspects of affect theory. First, early intervention and prevention of psychopathology in high-risk infants and children are discussed. Second, affect theory and affective interactions between infants and caregivers are presented. Third, an effort is made to integrate affect theory with concepts of prevention, with a focus on the potential role of affect theory to further inform early intervention and prevention. Fourth, a variety of related clinical, theoretical, and research issues are reviewed.     

Corrigendum for: The Distribution of Family Sizes Under a Time-Homogeneous Birth and Death Process

Regretably, there are a number of significant errors in Moschopoulos and Shpak, (2010). Communications in Statistics—Theory and Methods 39:1761–1775. Most are typographic errors that have the potential to cause confusion, and in some instances, have carried through to several equations.     

The minimum discrimination information approach in analyzing categorical data

A brief review of the minimum discrimination information (MDI) approach in analyzing categorical data is presented in a question -answer format, An example is given to bring out situations in which the MDI approach is more useful. No new results are proved.     

Algorithms for restricted least absolute value estimation

We present a concise summary of recent progress in developing algorithms for restricted least absolute value (LAV) estimation (i. e. ?₁ approximation subject to linear constraints). The emphasis is on our own new algorithm, and we provide some numerical results obtained with it.     

Risk as Analysis and Risk as Feelings: Some Thoughts about Affect, Reason, Risk, and Rationality

Modern theories in cognitive psychology and neuroscience indicate that there are two fundamental ways in which human beings comprehend risk. The “analytic system” uses algorithms and normative rules, such as probability calculus, formal logic, and risk assessment. It is relatively slow, effortful, and requires conscious control. The “experiential system” is intuitive, fast, mostly automatic, and not very accessible to conscious awareness. The experiential system enabled human beings to survive during their long period of evolution and remains today the most natural and most common way to respond to risk. It relies on images and associations, linked by experience to emotion and affect (a feeling that something is good or bad). This system represents risk as a feeling that tells us whether it is safe to walk down this dark street or drink this strange‐smelling water. Proponents of formal risk analysis tend to view affective responses to risk as irrational. Current wisdom disputes this view. The rational and the experiential systems operate in parallel and each seems to depend on the other for guidance. Studies have demonstrated that analytic reasoning cannot be effective unless it is guided by emotion and affect. Rational decision making requires proper integration of both modes of thought. Both systems have their advantages, biases, and limitations. Now that we are beginning to understand the complex interplay between emotion and reason that is essential to rational behavior, the challenge before us is to think creatively about what this means for managing risk. On the one hand, how do we apply reason to temper the strong emotions engendered by some risk events? On the other hand, how do we infuse needed “doses of feeling” into circumstances where lack of experience may otherwise leave us too “coldly rational”? This article addresses these important questions.     

An empirical study on the relationship between consumption emotions and brand loyalty

Consumption emotions play a crucial role in consumers’ post-purchase behaviors. Evoked by potentially controllable factors related to marketers, consumption emotions fall into a two-by-two matrix: attribute-level emotions (ALE) and beyond attribute-level emotions (BALE) with positive or negative latencies. ALE is related to product, and BALE is related to marketing communication. The authors hypothesized a model of consumption emotions in relation to brand trust, brand affect, and brand loyalty in product consumption. The study tested the model by using a sample of 398 college students and applying structural equation modeling. The results supported most the hypotheses, suggesting indirect effects of the four major types of consumption emotions on brand loyalty via brand affect. Furthermore, the study revealed the direct effects of positive or negative emotions at the attribute level. The positive emotions on brand trust were induced by marketing communication, which in turn led to higher levels of brand loyalty. Nevertheless, the effect of negative emotions on brand trust was non-significant.     

混合经济结构是国企制度创新的必然选择--昆明制药股份有限公司案例分析

企业持续发展的根本在于持续地创新,而在企业创新这一系统工程中,前提是制度创新.本文通过昆明制药股份有限公司制度创新成功案例的分析,提出制度决定机制,机制决定动力,动力决定效益;国有企业制度创新的根本途径是进行规范的公司制改革;规范的公司制改革必须以产权主体多元化的混合经济结构作为基础,并且,在一般竞争性领域,不仅要实现产权主体的多元化,而且国有股一般不要控股.