全球化与中华文化新境界

经济全球化为中国的发展和思考中华文化的新境界提供了难得的机遇.根据中国经济和社会发展已有的经验,应是作为拓展中华文化新境界的基本指导思想,一种理想主义的改良精神其要点为:理想主义是中西文明所昭示的普遍价值,而改良精神也被人类的经验证明为社会进步成本最低的实现方式.这两方面的结合既能够促进中国传统的仁道思想向现代社会中博爱和可持续发展价值观的转化,同时又将这种转化所可能带来的破坏性降到最低程度.     

非法证据排除规则的比较与完善

非法证据排除规则的概念及其意义,在于协调惩罚犯罪与保护人权之间的冲突,使诉讼制度文明、民主、科学化。比较西方资本主义普通法系、大陆法系两大类型典型国家在设置非法证据排除规则的异同,可以发现这一诉讼制度有不断走向国际融合的趋势。因此,我国有进一步完善非法证据排除规则的必要。     

美国加州学前教育QRIS：内涵、挑战及策略

美国加州所采用的质量评估与改进系统（QRIS）在促进学前教育质量提升的同时,也面临着诸多挑战,例如发展速度缓慢、评估衡量标准不一、数据分析困难等。为此,加州要求所有学前教育项目都必须参与教育质量评估与改进系统、增强质量评估与改进系统的灵活性和有效性,并对质量评估与改进系统的评估员进行专门培训。加州的QRIS改革举措可为我国学前教育质量监测体系的构建提供借鉴,例如建立全覆盖的学前教育质量评估与改进体系,丰富学前教育质量评估与改进体系的内涵,以及提出针对学前教育质量评估结果的改进措施等。     

民族自治地方经济发展与公民收入改善的制度约束研究

尽管,近年来民族自治地方公民的实际支付能力得到了极大提升,但与全国平均水平相比还明显偏低。其中,第一产业的产值结构与就业结构、家庭联产承包责任制与农业产业化规模化经营、生态保护与农民增收的关系没有得到妥善处理是差距过大的根本原因;在自然地理环境、历史发展水平约束下,民族自治地方政府没有切实履行其承担的促进区域经济平衡发展的职责是差距过大的主要根源;合理分配制度的缺乏、国家针对特定群体的福利政策和行业垂直管理体制下不同工资制度的实施是差距过大的主要原因。针对上述原因,采取针对性对策措施可以有效促进民族自治地方公民收入的改善。     

环巢湖国家旅游休闲区游客满意度评价研究

以环巢湖国家旅游休闲区为研究对象,采用因子分析法提取影响游客满意度的主要因子,并通过回归分析法对游客满意度评价因子与游客游后行为意向之间的关系进行探索。结果表明:旅游基础设施、历史文化、自然环境、旅游服务质量和旅游产品是影响游客满意度的主要因子;游客对环巢湖国家旅游休闲区总体满意度评价不高;游客满意度5个评价因子皆显著正向影响游客的重游意向和推荐意向。基于此,旅游目的地应该针对游客满意度的影响因子,发挥优势,弥补短板,以提升游客游览质量和满意度。     

农村体育公共服务供给困境及改善策略

社会主义新农村建设背景下,发展农村体育公共服务不仅是实现全民健身国家战略的一项重要内容,也是推进和谐社会建设,实现伟大中国梦的必然要求。但是就目前来看,受多种因素影响,农村体育公共服务面临着供给困境,影响了体育文化在农村地区的发展和普及。从农村地区体育公共服务的意义着眼,分析了农村体育公共服务供给的现实困境,并提出了相应的改善策略,以便进一步加强农村体育公共服务供给力度,满足广大农民群众的健身需求。     

VARIATION REDUCTION AND ROBUST DESIGNS

In this paper we consider two strategies for variation reduction. One of them is the exploitation of interactions. We also discuss the role of experiments in discovering interactions and in particular the use of robust designs to obtain the interaction between control and noise factors. Then we attempt to reduce the variation in a measurement system using a robust design.     

A Review of Laura S. Young's Bookbinding & Conservation by Hand: A Working Guide

Abstract

University librarians in China face many of the same challenges related to serials management that confront librarians in the United States. The authors discuss the importance for librarians in the United States, especially those working with serials, to establish and build ties with librarians in other countries, such as China. Benefits of an exchange could include sharing information about best practices, exchange of serial materials, and working together on mutually advantageous projects. Acknowledging the growing interest in international library exchange programs, the authors relate their own institution's efforts to build international ties with Fudan University in Shanghai, China, and Shaanxi Normal University in Xi'an, China. In establishing these ties, the authors have traveled to China and interviewed librarians about serials acquisition, processing, and management.     

Empowering leadership and contextual ambidexterity – The mediating role of committed leadership for continuous improvement

Organisations nowadays try to be ambidextrous, that is, to balance exploitation and exploration, at the level of the organisational unit, or even at the individual level. Recent studies found that important drivers for contextual ambidexterity are a high level of empowerment and an orientation towards continuous improvement (CI) and innovation. It is, therefore, to be expected that empowering leadership and leader commitment to CI are associated with contextual ambidexterity. However, literature about the relationships between empowering leadership, committed leadership for CI and contextual ambidexterity is scant. Based on two separate survey studies, we validated both the relationship between empowering leadership and contextual ambidexterity, and the mediating effect of committed leadership for CI in the organisational unit level and the individual level. The managerial implications of this research is that organisations that want to facilitate contextual ambidexterity should not only empower employees so that they can decide more independently on how to organise their time and make choices when they conduct exploratory activities and when they perform exploitative activities. Management must also act as committed ambassadors for CI, as CI functions as an integration mechanism to create both alignment and adaptability, and hence contextual ambidexterity.     

A novel approach for evaluating programs designed to serve military veterans: Using an adapted common components analysis

Evaluators are challenged to keep pace with the vast array of Veteran support programs operating in the United States, resulting in a situation in which many programs lack any evidence of impact. Due to this lack of evidence, there is no efficient way to suggest which programs are most effective in helping Veterans in need of support. One potential solution to this dilemma is to reconceptualize program evaluation, by moving away from evaluating programs individually to evaluating what is common across programs. The Common Components Analysis (CCA) is one such technique that aggregates findings from programs that have undergone rigorous evaluation at the level of program components (e.g., content, process, barrier reduction). Given that many Veteran programs lack outcome evidence from rigorous studies, an adaptation to CCA is needed. This report examines cross-sectional data from a pilot study using an adapted CCA across five domains of well-being (i.e., employment, education, legal/financial/housing, mental/physical health, and social/personal relationships). The purpose of this preliminary study is to determine the feasibility of eliciting program nominations and program components from Veterans via an online survey. When coupled with a longitudinal research design, this adaptation to CCA will allow for stronger causal claims about the expected impact of different program components within and across a variety of domains.