A rank test for stochastically ordered alternatives

A rank test based on the number of ‘near-matches’ among within-block rankings is proposed for stochastically ordered alternatives in a randomized block design with t treatments and b blocks. The asymptotic relative efficiency of this test with respect to the Page test is computed as number of blocks increases to infinity. A sequential analog of the above test procedure is also considered. A repeated significance test procedure is developed and average sample number is computed asymptotically under the null hypothesis as well as under a sequence of contiguous alternatives.     

Group sequential x2 statistic for testing the difference of two mean vectors in clinical trials

In this study we discuss the group sequential procedures for comparing two treatments based on multivariate observations in clinical trials. Also we suppose that a response vector on each of two treatments has a multivariate normal distribution with unknown covariance matrix. Then we propose a group sequential x² statistic in order to carry out repeated significance test for hypothesis of no difference between two population mean vectors. In order to realize the group sequential test where average sample number is reduced, we propose another modified group sequential x² statistic by extension of Jennison and Turnbull ( 1991 ). After construction of repeated confidence boundaries for making the repeated significance test, we compare two group sequential procedures based on two statistics regarding the average sample number and the power of the test in the simulations.     

Environmental affects: NASCAR,place and white American cultural citizenship

Attempts to grapple with the complicated tangle of race and memory are more prominent than ever in the public discourse of the United States. In 2006, public intellectual Henry Louis Gates sought to popularize the search for roots and meaning with his project African American Lives, and in 2007 the black and white descendants of the landmark Plessy v. Ferguson case met in New Orleans to discuss the past and present significance of their ancestors’ lives. As the crafting of identities around increasingly fluid notions of ‘race’ proceeds apace, the activities of family historians provide a useful entrée into struggles over race, identity, and collective memory in the United States. The research reported here illustrates how the shared history of the multi-racial descendants of eighteenth and nineteenth century St Domingue/Haiti in Louisiana is encountered in racially distinct ways. Participant observation is used to examine how race is dealt with in the activities of two groups: 1) a mainly European American genealogical society, called the St Domingue Special Interest Group; and 2) the LA Creole cultural and genealogy group, made up primarily of Louisiana creoles of color. Preliminary findings indicate that while the process of engaging in family history research provides an opening for some participants to better understand others across racial and ethnic divides, this kind of cross-racial dialogue was limited by the organization of family history activities into racially distinct social networks. As the popularity of genealogy increases, the findings here point to the need to recognize the public significance of these private histories.     

Living in a nation,a state or a place? The Protestant gentry of County Cork

The communal narrative of the Irish state defined the criteria for membership of the nation in opposition to the characteristics of the Irish gentry class, whether in their Protestantism, Anglicised lifestyles or external focus on Britain and its empire. The result ensured that while all Protestants engaged with the institutions of state, their inclusion in the nation proved much more difficult to negotiate, and for those with a gentry background, it would appear an impossibility. This article argues, in contrast, that the remnants of the Protestant gentry class successfully insert themselves into an alternative conception of the Irish nation that draws directly upon the longevity of their family association with specific localities in the Irish landscape.     

大学生数学成绩影响因素的实证分析

伴随着近几年高校的扩大招生,部分大学生的数学成绩显著下降。用统计学软件SPSS 13.0对哈尔滨工程大学部分学生的高等数学成绩及其相关因素进行统计分析,考察学生的高考数学成绩、性别、生源所在地等因素对其大学数学成绩的影响。在给出了一些切实可行的对策和建议的同时,指出培养大学生学习的主动性和研究探索精神,已经成为当今高校教师和教育工作者培养高素质人才和提高教学水平的关键。     

性骚扰行为的侵权责任三题

性骚扰行为侵害的权益具有侵权法上的可救济性。侵权责任法确立的雇主责任和违反安全保障义务的责任,可以适用于职场性骚扰和公共场所性骚扰;但该法难以涵盖这些性骚扰行为的全部类型,需要与其他法律一起共同实现对性骚扰行为的规莉。     

汽车驾驶模拟器在机动车驾驶技能培训中的应用

在介绍汽车驾驶模拟器基本原理基础上,着重分析了将驾驶模拟器应用于机动车驾驶培训,具有增强驾驶训练的安全性、提高训练效果、缓解道路交通拥挤、减少车辆废气排放、降低训练成本等多方面的价值;在驾驶培训的初级和中级阶段用驾驶模拟器部分替代实车训练可有效弥补实车训练之不足。     

对高校哲学社会科学教学科研工作的若干思考

哲学社会科学具有资政育人的特殊功能。高校应以中国特色社会主义理论体系为指导,加强哲学社会科学的教学科研工作,积极宣传我们党的科学理论和反映当代社会发展进步的哲学社会科学知识,提高人们对社会的认识,增强对社会发展的信心。同时哲学社会科学还要积极为地方经济社会发展做好统一思想、凝聚人心工作。     

试论建设节约型社会的重要意义

建设节约型社会,可以使我们正确认识我国现阶段的发展水平,避免盲目的高消费;有利于提高我国的科学技术水平和生产力;有利于进一步加强政治体制改革、反腐防腐;有利于我国社会的可持续发展和建设和谐社会;有利于教育广大人民群众、尤其是年青一代形成良好的社会风气,使我国勤俭节约、艰苦朴素的光荣传统得到发扬光大。     

意义、原则与路径——关于社会主义核心价值体系建设的思考

在建设社会主义核心价值体系实践中,应当坚持核心价值体系建设与尊重差异、包容多样的有机统一,坚持追求理想目标与从现实出发的有机统一,坚持共同价值目标与个体价值目标的有机统一,坚持继承与发展、借鉴与创新的有机统一。要把社会主义核心价值体系融入思想教育活动之中,融入舆论宣传之中,融入文化活动和文化产品消费过程之中,融入群众性精神文明创建活动之中,融入党的执政能力和先进性建设之中。