Separating Spheres? Diverging Trends in Youth's Gender Attitudes About Work and Family

The authors investigated whether trends in attitudes about gender were consistent with the gender stall primarily occurring in the family domain and examined potential mechanisms associated with changing gender norms. Using data from Monitoring the Future surveys (1976–2015), the authors assessed three components of trends in youth's beliefs about gender: the marketplace, the family, and mothers' employment. Findings showed continued increases in egalitarianism from 1976 through the mid‐1990s across all three dimensions. Thereafter, support for egalitarianism in the public sphere plateaued at high levels, rising support for mothers' employment persisted at a slower pace, and conventional ideology about gender in families returned. The changing demographic composition of American high school students did not account for the gender attitude trends. Youth's mothers' employment and increased education were related to increased egalitarianism. Changes in population averages of mothers' employment and educational attainment were only weakly associated with increases in egalitarian attitudes.     

Another economy: towards a cultural dialectics between energy and society

The looming oil crisis, pollution, and climate change have pushed governments, corporations, and individuals to think of new policies, new objects/products and new manners to market them – usually under the label of “green economy” (or the shifting towards a sustainable economy).

The changes that are on the way as a result of the envisaged “green revolution” need a broad vision that couples the economy of energetic techniques with the related socio-cultural economy that is induced by, and at the same time reciprocally influences, the mere technical transformations.

Based on previous analysis of theories of socio-technological change and putting at its center the concept of subjectivation in social sciences, this article proposes a theoretical understanding of cultural shifts and their relationship with changes in the practices of production, transfer and use of energy.

First part presents a schema of subjectivation in triangulation, that links the biological level with the material culture and with the representational realm of normativities in our society. It will be developed through the example of electric vehicle as metaphor of the energetic transition. Through this understanding, second part deals with the modeling of the three items as a processual energetic system by using the concepts of surplus and expenditure. Within this frame, we show how disruptions in one of the poles of this model influences the others and bring about changes in the entire Anthropo-Social level. Third part proposes possible types of emerging subjectivities and advances the idea of extending the realm of consciousness to the energetic transfers and their potentiality.     

The relationship between the community participation of disabled youth and socioeconomic factors: mixed-methods approach in rural Sri Lanka

Mixed methods were applied to examine the association of community participation by disabled youth with socioeconomic factors in rural Sri Lanka. There was a significant association between community participation and socioeconomic factors in the quantitative survey (n = 116): participants living in socioeconomically disadvantaged conditions had lower levels of community participation than those living without these disadvantages. Consistent with the findings of the survey, previous educational experiences, household economic conditions, and perceived resource information were common themes in the qualitative study (n = 26). The dynamics of these factors, including marginalisation of disabled youth within the household, were also observed.     

车辆路径问题的模型及算法研究综述

本文在文献[1,2,3,4]的基础上,首先,介绍了车辆路径问题的分类和限制条件;然后,全面综述了国内外关于车辆路径问题的模型及算法研究现状,重点探讨了车辆路径问题的模型构造、求解算法及其适用范围;最后,展望了其研究的前景。     

模糊车辆路径问题的一种混合遗传算法

在对模糊车辆路径问题进行简单描述的基础上,通过引入决策者主观偏好值的概念,给出了解决该问题的基本思路,建立了具有模糊特征的车辆路径问题的模糊机会规划模型,提出了求解该问题的一种基于模糊模拟的混合遗传算法。同时,在最小化总行驶距离的目标下,通过随机模拟方法研究了决策者主观偏好值的选择对最终决策目标的影响作用,并给出了其最佳取值范围。     

基于进化博弈的专利联盟形成研究

专利联盟作为高新技术产业发展的主导范式,对技术标准的建立有重要的作用。但是多数情况下提高社会福利的联盟却难以形成,这就是所谓专利联盟的形成困境问题。从专利权人的有限理性和重复博弈角度分析专利联盟的形成,分别建立对称和非对称专利联盟形成的进化博弈模型,得到不同条件下的进化稳定策略,并探讨影响联盟形成的条件和因素。研究结果表明,专利联盟更容易在弹性高、竞争激烈的市场环境中形成;与事实标准建立以后相比,在事前组建的专利联盟形成可能性更大;通过多方途径保护和提高加入联盟的专利权人的利润,同时抑制阻碍联盟的专利权人的利润,是促进联盟形成的关键;与专业R&D企业相比,纵向一体化企业有更强的动机加入联盟。健全和完善相关法规及配套服务对联盟形成也是有益的。     

运力受扰的多车场车辆调度干扰管理问题研究

为解决物流配送系统中因运输车辆毁坏而产生的干扰问题,基于干扰管理思想提出了解决问题的扰动恢复策略与实施方案。在扰动度量的基础上,设计了多车场车辆调度扰动恢复策略,建立相应的干扰管理模型。针对多车场车辆调度干扰管理问题的特有属性,设计了一系列求解简化策略,有效简化了问题的求解空间。结合干扰管理模型的特点,使用改进的遗传算法进行求解。最后给出了一个算例,其结果证明了干扰管理模型与算法的有效性。