A note on stable limit theory for the OLSE with non usual rates and the heteroskedasticity robust Wald test

We are occupied with an example concerning the limit theory of the ordinary least squares estimator (OLSE) when the innovation process of the regression has the form of a martingale transform the iid part of which lies in the domain of attraction of an α-stable distribution, the scaling sequence has a potentially diverging truncated α-moment, and the regressor process has a potentially divergent truncated second moment. We obtain matrix rates that reflect the stability parameter as well as the slow variations present in the aforementioned sequences, and stable limits. We also derive asymptotic exactness, consistency, and local asymptotic unbiasedness under appropriate local alternatives for a heteroskedasticity robust Wald test based on subsampling. The results could be useful for inference on the factor loadings in an instance of the APT model.     

Parametric Inference in Stationary Time Series Models with Dependent Errors

This article is concerned with inference for the parameter vector in stationary time series models based on the frequency domain maximum likelihood estimator. The traditional method consistently estimates the asymptotic covariance matrix of the parameter estimator and usually assumes the independence of the innovation process. For dependent innovations, the asymptotic covariance matrix of the estimator depends on the fourth‐order cumulants of the unobserved innovation process, a consistent estimation of which is a difficult task. In this article, we propose a novel self‐normalization‐based approach to constructing a confidence region for the parameter vector in such models. The proposed procedure involves no smoothing parameter, and is widely applicable to a large class of long/short memory time series models with weakly dependent innovations. In simulation studies, we demonstrate favourable finite sample performance of our method in comparison with the traditional method and a residual block bootstrap approach.     

网上银行发展中的相关因素分析——基于TAM理论

基于技术接受理论(TAM)构建了网上银行客户采纳模型,运用问卷调查的数据对此模型进行了验证。结果表明:网上银行的技术接受模型得到了验证;个人创新特质和感知安全性对网上银行使用意向有显著的影响;将个人创新特质、感知安全性与TAM理论结合起来,在一定程度上可以更好地解释客户网上银行的使用行为。     

PRIMITIVE ACCUMULATION,EMINENT DOMAIN,AND THE CONTRADICTIONS OF NEO-LIBERALISM

Abstract

This essay addresses the institutional conditions of cultural studies, especially those bearing on cultural studies teaching. It does so by reviewing the history of the Open University Popular Culture course from an insider's perspective. Whereas most published accounts of this course have related it closely to the concerns of the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, this essay suggests that the two projects — while overlapping in certain respects — are more usefully thought of as distinct. Having disentangled the history of the Open University course from that of the Birmingham Centre, the author goes on to advance a more general argument concerning the politics and practice of cultural studies pedagogy. The essay's main contention in this regard is that a conception of cultural studies teaching which connects it to the cultivation of resistive practices in the classroom is incoherent. It is suggested that this now influential current of thought is best assessed as a negative outcome of the encounter between the projects of cultural studies and US liberationist philosophy.     

Boholano Olfaction

ABSTRACT

This article explores the domain of odors and olfaction on the island of Bohol, The Philippines. It recounts how my research interests were drawn to this domain by local preoccupations with smell as an aspect of everyday sociality, expressed in speech, modes of interaction and evaluation, and the discursive construction of ethnicities and other social kinds. Bohol's long and complex history and its place in the contemporary world entail a complex, differentiated sociocultural present, which is also reflected in the domain of odors and Boholanos' experiences thereof. Accordingly, the article makes a case for an approach to this domain that flexibly deploys basic ethnographic procedures and more formal techniques, specifically, domain and cultural consensus analysis. This dual methodology, it is argued, is sensitive to the differences between differentially positioned agents, but also demonstrates the degree of sharedness—of experience, categorical schemes, and historicity—that jointly characterize this domain. I use a partial set of results, pertaining to human body odors, to exemplify the approach and to depict a key dimension of Boholano social experience; one that speaks to the place of individuals in the local setting and to the position of the population generally in the commodified world of cosmetics.     

Counter-Examples about Lower- and Upper-Bounded Population Growth

ABSTRACT

For a unimodal growth function f having its maximum at a critical state x _c , the interval bounding the population size asymptotically is usually presented as being equal to [f ^○2(x _c ), f(x _c )]. This interval however does not represent the maximum range within which the population size can vary, even asymptotically. The actual invariant interval containing the population size is equal to: [min(x*, f ^○2(x _c )), f(x _c )], where x* denotes the non-zero fixed point, assumed to be unique, of the iteration of f.     

影视之镜下的人类之像——人类学纪录片在影视媒介中的“视像”呈现

影视媒介从一开始就与人类学结下了不解之缘,并催生了人类学纪录片和影视人类学。采用影像文本分析的方法,从人类学纪录片的视角、视点、视域三个方面,探讨了纪录片在影像人类学透镜下展现人之类像的镜像机制。     

乾隆《贵州通志·列女传》考论

乾隆《贵州通志.列女传》记载了贵州自宋至清初14府11州31县600余名贞节列女,这些贞节列女大体可分为节女、烈女、孝女与义女四种类型。其中节女最多,是我们关注的重点。分析节女的守节,可知其面临父母、翁姑、外族及天灾等阻力。但节女多数仍摆脱了各种阻力,从而为夫家养老抚幼,为国家育人讽教。因此,国家采取了各种旌表措施来表彰这些列女,如旌表门闾、建坊立祠等。不过,由于各种原因,也有不少列女未得到旌表。     

论公共领域与私人领域的均衡态势

在现代政治理论的论述中,公共与私人既是政治空间的概念,又是政治价值的辞藻。在公共领域与私人领域的划分中,人们常常看重公共领域的结构与功能。其实,维持公共领域与私人领域巧妙的均势状态,才是现代政治社会支撑起公共空间最重要的事务。公共化的危险在于,私密空间的彻底公共化,将公共的价值作为侵入私人生活的理由,从而使公共变异为专制的手段;私密化的危害在于,沉浸在私密空间中的人,彻底拒绝担当公共责任,从而使政治社会丧失了存在依据,也会因此有利于个人专断。只有维护公共领域与私人领域的均衡态势,才足以有效捍卫公正公平的民主宪政状态,进而有力地保护公共利益和私人生活。