The Pacific Rim Library: A Surprising Pearl

The Pacific Rim Library (PRL) is an initiative of the Pacific Rim Digital Library Association (PRDLA). The project began in 2006 using the OAI-PMH paradigm and now holds over 300,000 records harvested from OAI data provider libraries around the Pacific. PRL's goal is to enable the sharing of digital collections amongst PRDLA members and the world, but greater unexpected benefits have been discovered. Through mirroring their metadata, PRL increases the chance that their data will be discovered in Google and other general search engines. With its many disparate collections, PRL is not a repository for traditional information discovery and retrieval. Initially users will bounce from a Google hit to the PRL metadata record in Hong Kong and then begin an intensive search on the original site which hosts the full digital object, in Vancouver, Honolulu, Wuhan, Singapore, or other PRDLA member location.     

杭州银行公会组织运营研究（1945年～1949年）

杭州银行公会是民国时期杭州地区重要的金融业同业组织之一,以维护银行业利益、推动银行业发展为基本宗旨。杭州银行公会所具有的基本原则、制度、权力分配、内部关系等各种关系和方式是发挥公会各项职能的组织保障。组织制度是在工作中形成的一套制度化的关系、结构方式和责权分配,包括会员制度、权力机构设置制度、选举制度、奖惩制度。经费是杭州银行公会开展活动的重要经济支柱。杭州银行公会采取各种方式,千方百计扩大经费来源,来加强自身的活动能力。杭州银行公会整理后,非常重视同业交流,研究行业业务,扩大行业影响,其中最具代表性的是建立杭州银行公会同人业余进修服务社和杭州银钱业联合准备会。     

Causes of Increasing Ages at Marriage: An International Regression Study

Abstract

The mean age at marriage is increasing in nearly all regions of the world, with the gender age difference at marriage tending to decrease. Five hypotheses for these trends (economic modernization, supply and demand, social/cultural/religious influences, healthcare quality, and longevity risk sharing) are tested through cross-country regression analyses of the timing and prevalence of marriage, using 40 explanatory variables from 156 countries. The dependent variables are female mean age at marriage, gender age difference, and proportion of females married by age 20-24. Ample evidence of the impact of economic modernization and education is found. The influence of cultural beliefs is evidenced by the presence of religious variables in several selected regression equations.     

《天路历程》与《圣经》平行翻译进程研究

《天路历程》是一部英国古典文学作品,也是一部充满基督教(新教)教义的属灵著作,至今重印不断,成为《圣经》以外翻译语种最多的文学作品。通过《天路历程》和《圣经》两部作品的翻译史可以考察两者在中国的平行翻译进程及平行发展模式。     

用联想法进行英语词汇教学

联想法在教学中可以以多种形式呈现出来,在词汇教学中的运用有助于提高学生的学习效率,扩大学生的词汇广度,增强学生的词汇学习能力。     

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东汉至宋代汉语相似比类形比句句式研究

形比句是比较句的一个类别，指谓语是形容词及形容词性成分的比较句。从调查的语料来看，东汉至宋这一阶段，相似比类形比句句式的肯定形式主要有九种类型：X与YA、X如YA、X似YA、X似Y样A、XA如Y、XA若Y、XA似Y、XA如似Y、X比YA，否定形式主要有两种类型：X不与YA、X与Y不A，否定形式的用量要远远小于肯定形式。肯定形式中，XA如Y型句式的用量和使用比例最大，其他几种多见于唐宋时期。     

基于顾客的品牌权益测评:品牌联想结构分析法

品牌建设的核心是创建品牌权益.通过分析顾客的品牌联想结构,有助于考察品牌建设的效果,揭示品牌对顾客的影响.本文分析了基于顾客的品牌权益概念的科学内涵,详细阐述了品牌联想的构造,并对若干中外品牌的品牌联想结构进行了实证分析.     

Health Risk Assessment of a Modern Municipal Waste Incinerator

During the modernization of the municipal waste incinerator (MWI, maximum capacity of 180,000 tons per year) of Metropolitan Grenoble (405,000 inhabitants), in France, a risk assessment was conducted, based on four tracer pollutants: two volatile organic compounds (benzene and 1, 1, 1 trichloroethane) and two heavy metals (nickel and cadmium, measured in particles). A Gaussian plume dispersion model, applied to maximum emissions measured at the MWI stacks, was used to estimate the distribution of these pollutants in the atmosphere throughout the metropolitan area. A random sample telephone survey (570 subjects) gathered data on time-activity patterns, according to demographic characteristics of the population. Life-long exposure was assessed as a time-weighted average of ambient air concentrations. Inhalation alone was considered because, in the Grenoble urban setting, other routes of exposure are not likely. A Monte Carlo simulation was used to describe probability distributions of exposures and risks. The median of the life-long personal exposures distribution to MWI benzene was 3.2·10^–5 g/m³ (20th and 80th percentiles = 1.5·10^–5 and 6.5·10^–5 g/m³), yielding a 2.6·10^–10 carcinogenic risk (1.2·10^–10–5.4·10^–10). For nickel, the corresponding life-time exposure and cancer risk were 1.8·10^–4 g/m³ (0.9.10^–4 – 3.6·10^–4 g/m³) and 8.6·10^–8 (4.3·10^–8–17.3·10^–8); for cadmium they were respectively 8.3·10^–6 g/m³ (4.0·10^–6–17.6·10^–6) and 1.5·10^–8 (7.2·10^–9–3.1·10^–8). Inhalation exposure to cadmium emitted by the MWI represented less than 1% of the WHO Air Quality Guideline (5 ng/m³), while there was a margin of exposure of more than 10⁹ between the NOAEL (150 ppm) and exposure estimates to trichloroethane. Neither dioxins nor mercury, a volatile metal, were measured. This could lessen the attributable life-long risks estimated. The minute (VOCs and cadmium) to moderate (nickel) exposure and risk estimates are in accord with other studies on modern MWIs meeting recent emission regulations, however.