Consortium for Atlantic Regional Assessment: Information Tools for Community Adaptation to Changes in Climate or Land Use

To inform local and regional decisions about protecting short-term and long-term quality of life, the Consortium for Atlantic Regional Assessment (CARA) provides data and tools (for the northeastern United States) that can help decision makers understand how outcomes of their decisions could be affected by potential changes in both climate and land use. On an interactive, user-friendly website, CARA has amassed data on climate (historical records and future projections for seven global climate models), land cover, and socioeconomic and environmental variables, along with tools to help decision makers tailor the data for their own decision types and locations. CARA Advisory Council stakeholders help identify what information and tools stakeholders would find most useful and how to present these; they also provide in-depth feedback for subregion case studies. General lessons include: (1) decision makers want detailed local projections for periods short enough to account for extreme events, in contrast to the broader spatial and temporal observations and projections that are available or consistent at a regional level; (2) stakeholders will not use such a website unless it is visually appealing and easy to find the information they want; (3) some stakeholders need background while others want to go immediately to data, and some want maps while others want text or tables. This article also compares what has been learned across case studies of Cape May County, New Jersey, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and Hampton Roads, Virginia, relating specifically to sea-level rise. Lessons include: (1) groups can be affected differently by physical dangers compared with economic dangers; (2) decisions will differ according to decision makers' preferences about waiting and risk tolerance; (3) future scenarios and maps can help assess the impacts of dangers to emergency evacuation routes, homes, and infrastructure, and the natural environment; (4) residents' and decision makers' perceptions are affected by information about potential local impacts from global climate change.     

Professional Perspectives on Decision Making about the Long-term Care of Older People

With the increasing pressure on social and health care resources,professionals have to be more explicit in their decision makingregarding the long-term care of older people. This groundedtheory study used 19 focus groups and nine semi-structured interviews(99 staff in total) to explore professional perspectives onthis decision making. Focus group participants and intervieweescomprised care managers, social workers, consultant geriatricians,general medical practitioners, community nurses, home care managers,occupational therapists and hospital discharge support staff.The emerging themes spanned context, clients, families and services.Decisions were often prompted by a crisis, hindering professionalsseeking to make a measured assessment. Fear of burglary andassault, and the willingness and availability of family to helpwere major factors in decisions about living at home. Serviceavailability in terms of public funding for community care,the availability of home care workers and workload pressureson primary care services influenced decision ‘thresholds’regarding admission to institutional care. Assessment toolsdesigned to assist decision making about the long-term careof older people need to take into account the critical aspectsof individual fears and motivation, family support and the availabilityof publicly funded services as well as functional and medicalneeds.     

高技术园区技术效率与规模指数——基于DEA的实证研究

文章运用数据包络分析法评价了53个国家级开发区的投入产出效率、投入剩余和产出亏空状况,同时以超效率DEA模型为基础对这些开发区的生产效率进行综合排名,最后通过线性回归探讨影响投入产出的纯技术效率和规模指数的外部因素。结果发现:(1)在众多的开发区中真正处于有效率生产状态的地区并不多,占20.75%,处于纯技术有效的开发区占39.62%;(2)导致大部分开发区无法处于有效的生产前沿面上进行生产的最直接的原因是规模过小;(3)开发区的投入产出纯技术效率受地区的开放程度、集聚程度和气候环境的影响较大,而规模指数则受开放程度、地区经济实力和政府政策的影响较为明显。     

博士研究生创新能力培养模式的研究

博士研究生教育是国家最高学历教育,直接关系着“人才强国”战略的实施。为提高博士研究生教育培养质量,反思了多年培养实践,提出了创新思维与创新能力的培养模式。模式是由思想品德、业务理论、实践能力三个方面组成。通过本模式的方式方法教育培养博士研究生可能达到提高质量之目的。     

建设社会主义政治文明，发展多党合作制度的哲学思考

发展社会主义民主政治,建设社会主义政治文明是全面建设小康社会的重要目标;完善和发展多党合作制度是社会主义政治文明建设的重要内容。文章运用唯物辩证法与系统论对社会主义政治文明与物质文明、精神文明之间的辩证关系,社会主义政治文明与多党合作制度的科学内涵和发展方向等问题进行了理论探讨和哲学思考。     

高师英语教学法课程建设新思路

在21世纪的知识经济时代,英语教学法课程建设必须树立新思路,应当根据"一切为了学生的发展"的新理念确立新的课程观、时空观、主体观、评价观,以推进课程建设的深入发展,并将课程建设理论研究的新成果尽快转为应用性实践形态.     

基础产业集团企业在投资决策中的博弈分析

我国基础产业具有明显寡头垄断的行业特点,这些产业中的集团企业在投资决策中的一些行为可以博弈论的观点进行合理解释。本文在分析这些特点的基础上,建立了一个数学模型,对我国基础产业集团企业决策的博弈过程进行了描述,并利用该模型分析了集团企业的投资行为。分析结果表明,该模型较好地反映了我国基础产业集团企业投资决策过程中的一些现象,并使这些现象得到了经济学意义上的合理解释。     

设计素描的四种基本功

设计素描作为学习设计的一门基础课程,通过观察方法、思维方式、表现形式、立体观念和细节刻画四个方面的介绍说明设计素描对于学习产品设计的重要性.     

Interpersonal dependency of preferences

Standard decision theoretic models disregard the phenomenon of interpersonal dependency of preferences. In this paper it is argued that interpersonal dependency of preferences is a serious challenge for standard utility theory. First we sketch the more philosophical aspects of the problem and then, using a simple, formal model for the two-person case, we show that interpersonal dependency of preferences generally results in indeterminacy of preferences (resp. of subjective utility).     

在线评论的行为影响与价值应用研究综述

随着社交网络的发展,大量用户生成的在线评论影响着消费者的行为,同时被应用于企业的经营管理活动,引起市场营销、信息系统、产品开发等领域学者们的广泛关注,取得很大的研究进展。但是在线评论的研究范围广泛,目前并没有系统性的概念框架,缺乏对在线评论的全局认识。因此,本文尝试从行为影响和价值应用两个层面对在线评论研究文献进行全面总结,并结合当前的技术发展和市场环境,探讨在线评论研究的未来趋势。