21世纪中小学校长素质浅谈

中小学校长是完成我国“十五”教育发展重点这一历史任务的中坚力量,他们的整体素质与工作状态直接影响我国基础教育的改革与发展。因此应当围绕新世纪中小学校长应具备的素质提出构想。     

“东边不亮,西边亮”——“11·21”包头空难在美国

2004年11月21日,东方航空公司一架从包头直飞上海的客机距机场不远的南海公园发生空难。部分遇难者家属不满东航公司提出的赔偿标准,历经波折在美国提起诉讼,继而又转回国内。＂11.21＂包头空难的遇难者家属在不能得到满意的赔偿情况下,和律师团达成风险代理协议,从而减轻了家属们的诉讼负担。这给我们以启示,应更多地了解外面的法律制度,借鉴以完善我国的立法之外,还要利用外国司法资源为我国受害者提供救济。     

瞻望21世纪中国的社会转型和道德发展

社会转型包括经济转型、政治转型和文化转型,三者相互作用、依次推进、螺旋上升。改革开放是中国历史上最新一轮的社会转型,它意味着经济上由计划经济转向市场经济,政治上由人治社会转向法治社会,文化上由封闭状态转向开放状态。社会转型期存在诸多道德问题,"道德滑坡"和"道德爬坡"都是道德转型和重建的必然表现。瞻望未来,我国伦理道德的发展趋向将显示出三个特征:发展模式将是民族开放型的,发展速度将是渐进型的,发展途径将是综合创新型的。     

Measures of individual risk attitudes and portfolio choice: Evidence from pension participants

We use a large non-student sample to test how distinct measures of risk-attitudes relate to each other, to demographic characteristics and to real-life risk taking in the financial domain. These measures, namely the Bomb Risk Elicitation Task (BRET), self-reported willingness to take risks in general, the choice in a hypothetical lottery, the score in the Domain Specific Risk-Taking (DOSPERT) scale, appear to be positively correlated and exhibit a certain degree of consistency. Furthermore, a subset of these measures is driven by similar demographic characteristics as such that males are more risk seeking and risk-aversion increases with age. Using extensive data on the retirement portfolios of the participants during the years 2008–2014, we find that all of these measures are positively correlated with the riskiness of individual portfolios. The self-reported willingness to take risks in general appears to be the most relevant measure in predicting actual risk-taking behavior.     

晚清民国报人陈景韩救国理念初探——围绕袁世凯时期"二十一条"交涉之初步反应

1915年，日本对华提出旨在灭亡中国之“二十一条”要求，中国人民作出了广泛深入的反应。陈景韩作为晚清民国名报人，是新型知识分子的代表。这期间其围绕“二十一条”交涉在《申报》上刊载近140篇时评文章，倡扬其救国理念及目标。其救国理念虽有朦胧不清晰之特点，但偏向理性，启蒙意义不可低估。     

世纪之交的拉美左派评析

世纪之交,拉美左派运动正在走向一个新的发展阶段,这不仅有利于拉美地区政治经济的发展,而且对整个国际关系会产生深远的影响。因此,要在新的时代背景下,从历史的角度,客观地认识拉美左翼的崛起和它进一步发展的必然性。     

Serials Clutter in Online Catalogs

Abstract

Finding and deciphering serials records in online catalogs is a challenge to many library users. To understand and analyze these challenges, the author conducted searches for scientific journal titles in the online catalogs of Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) libraries. The first part of the study measures the difficulty of retrieving serial records from online catalogs comparing one-word versus multiple-word titles. The second part analyzes displays for complexity by measuring the length of the complete record and the length of the holdings statements. These data show the complexity of displays and indicate the potential confusion that these displays may induce in library users.     

Global imbalances and household savings: The role of wealth

Many claim that fluctuations in U.S. private savings help to create and to sustain global imbalances because of their influence on the current account deficit. To test this claim, this paper investigates the determinants of aggregate household savings using a panel of 18 developed countries for the period 1980–2005. We weave two strands of literature: the first strand from consumer theory, considering specifically the ‘wealth effect’, the second strand from aggregate private savings theory. The original contribution of this paper derives from the main explanatory variables of the household savings function: two measures of household wealth, the first a financial variable and the second a variable for tangible/housing stock. The salience of these variables has not been tested before. The model is then enriched with variables taken from the private savings literature. To find the best technique to estimate the long run savings function, unit root and cointegration tests are carried out, from which evidence of a cointegrating relationship is found. The group means FMOLS is used to estimate the model. The empirical evidence suggests effects consistent with theory: an increase in wealth negatively affects household savings. Furthermore, when important explanatory variables, such as government savings and population dependency ratios, are included in the model, tangible wealth becomes the only kind of wealth to (weakly and negatively) influence household savings in developed countries. In the U.S. however, wealth does not seem to affect household savings negatively, it seems instead that government savings and population changes better explain the decline of savings during the past two decades. This finding provides additional evidence on the issue of global imbalances, and suggests that the recent booms of the stock and the real estate markets should not be blamed for the decline in U.S. household and private savings.     

加强和改进思想政治工作

思想政治工作是我们党的一大优势。认真探索在新形势下加强和改进党的思想政治工作 ,是摆在我们面前的一项十分重要的任务。新时期加强和改进党的思想政治工作 ,必须坚持江泽民同志“七一”讲话的精神 ;坚持把继承性与创新性、系统性与开放性、全局性与重点性、前瞻性与现实性等方面有机地结合起来 ,思想政治工作才能具有更多的主动性和方向性     

新世纪新成果--评《赛珍珠纪念文集》

<赛珍珠纪念文集>收录了2002年中国镇江赛珍珠学术研讨会的论文及文章,它的出版,标志着新世纪中国的赛珍珠研究正向纵深推进.该文集主要具有三方面的价值,即资料性、学术性和方法论意义.