构建铁路“车站信号自动控制“课程新体系思考

"车站信号自动控制"这一传统的铁路特色专业课程,其课程体系日显陈旧,在教学中存在的问题越来越突出。构建新的课程体系,要重组传统内容、加强新技术内容、拓宽应用。新体系实现途径是:提高理论层次,拓宽知识面,突出主干内容教学、改革教学手段和方法。     

宗教信仰、民族传统与金融发展——基于中国西部地区的研究视角

制度作为影响金融发展的重要动因受到广泛关注,但众多资料集中在正式制度（法律、政治、产权）方面,鲜有从宗教学、民族学、社会学、人类学的非正式制度视角综合论述其与金融发展的关系。本文在梳理总结国内外文献的基础上,创新性地从多学科交叉的角度出发,以我国西部普遍存在的多元化宗教信仰和多样化民族传统为研究对象,试图阐明其对金融发展的作用机制,并在此基础上指出重视宗教信仰、民族传统对于我国经济金融协调发展,对于维护民族团结和社会稳定的重大意义。     

二十世纪日本学者对云南少数民族历史文化的研究

介绍和评析了鸟居龙藏等日本学者对云南的田野调查、华南民族史、傣族史、南诏和大理国史、倭族之源、照叶树林文化、神话、民间故事、民间信仰和民间祭祀等方面的研究成果,并系统地分析了日本学者对云南少数民族历史文化研究的全貌、学术研究的轨迹及新动向。     

Whom should we believe? Aggregation of heterogeneous beliefs

We examine the collective risk attitude of a group with heterogeneous beliefs. We prove that the wealth-dependent probability distribution used by the representative agent is biased in favor of the beliefs of the more risk tolerant consumers. Moreover, increasing disagreement on the state probability raises the state probability of the representative agent. It implies that when most disagreements are concentrated in the tails of the distribution, the perceived collective risk is magnified. This can help to solve the equity premium puzzle. We show that the trade volume and the equity premium are positively correlated.

“红色经典”现象与大众文化认同危机

出现在中国当代文化转型进程中的"红色经典"改编热,除折射出了国人对信仰缺失、人心不古、道德淡化的消费主义时代的失望和不满,以及为解除精神困顿和信仰焦虑而产生的对英雄、崇高、理想的精神需求外,更重要的是,透过政治话语的参与和大众审美文化对红色改编的关注,发现国人在全球化进程中日益显现出的民族文化认同危机意识。     

Joint Beliefs in Conflictual Coordination Games

The traditional solution concept for noncooperative game theory is the Nash equilibrium, which contains an implicit assumption that players probability distributions satisfy t probabilistic independence. However, in games with more than two players, relaxing this assumption results in a more general equilibrium concept based on joint beliefs (Vanderschraaf, 1995). This article explores the implications of this joint-beliefs equilibrium concept for two kinds of conflictual coordination games: crisis bargaining and public goods provision. We find that, using updating consistent with Bayes rule, players beliefs converge to equilibria in joint beliefs which do not satisfy probabilistic independence. In addition, joint beliefs greatly expand the set of mixed equilibria. On the face of it, allowing for joint beliefs might be expected to increase the prospects for coordination. However, we show that if players use joint beliefs, which may be more likely as the number of players increases, then the prospects for coordination in these games declines vis-à-vis independent beliefs.     

Confidence Intervals for a Binomial Parameter after Observing No Successes

The easily computed, one-sided confidence interval for the binomial parameter provides the basis for an interesting classroom example of scientific thinking and its relationship to confidence intervals. The upper limit can be represented as the sample proportion from a number of “successes” in a future experiment of the same sample size. The upper limit reported by most people corresponds closely to that producing a 95 percent classical confidence interval and has a Bayesian interpretation.     

外语课堂互动中的修正性反馈：教师信念与课堂教学行为关系研究

运用个案研究法，聚焦于三位英语专业精读课教师的修正性反馈教学信念和课堂行为，结果发现：不同教师所持的教学信念互不相同。他们的课堂教学行为也存在巨大差异；同一教师持有内部相矛盾的信念；由于教学环境和教师所调用的知识类型的不同。同一教师的教学信念和教学行为之间虽具有一定的联系，但二者差异很大。     

Problem gambling and property offences: an analysis of court files

This article outlines some of the major findings regarding criminogenic problem gambling in Crofts' (2002) analysis of New South Wales Local and District Court files. The article details firstly the advantages and disadvantages of relying upon court files as a source of information on gambling related crime. The article then outlines the personal characteristics of the subjects in the study, the relationship of gambling to the commission of their offences and judicial responses. The study provided qualitative information on when people are likely to seek treatment for problem gambling and also highlighted problem gambling as a significant motivation for employee theft. The study also suggests that the reasons for problem gambling may impact upon offending patterns.     

Blessed assurance: Religion, anxiety, and tranquility among US adults

A growing body of research investigates the possible relationships between religion and mental health. After developing a series of arguments linking various aspects of religion with anxiety and tranquility, we test relevant hypotheses using data from the 1996 General Social Survey. Results show that frequency of religious attendance and the belief in an afterlife are inversely associated with feelings of anxiety and positively associated with feelings of tranquility. However, frequency of prayer has no direct association with either outcome. Strong beliefs in the pervasiveness of sin are positively linked with anxiety but unrelated to tranquility. Finally, belief in an afterlife and frequency of prayer buffer the adverse effects of poor health and financial decline on anxiety. Implications of these findings are discussed along with study limitations and promising directions for future research.