Fratricide identities: the land conflict between indigenous Leco and peasant unions in Apolo,Bolivia

This article explores processes of identity-building and claims-making by rural social groups in the context of recent multicultural and plurinational reforms in Bolivia, focusing on an analysis of the narrative apparatus that underpins a paradigmatic land conflict between an indigenous organization and a peasant union in the Bolivian Amazon. The institutional shift that characterized the country after Evo Morales’ election has been reflected and absorbed at the local level. Here, however, the new claims for recognition cannot be understood only through the –often abused – lenses of ‘resistance struggle’, ‘cultural oppression’ and ‘political discrimination of minorities’. In fact, these claims are the result of a complex interaction between institutional changes, and social actors’ ability to respond to them, proposing powerful narratives that provide society and individuals with new shared meanings and mechanisms of self-identification.     

Nationalism versus civilisations: an assessment of alternate theories on the future of ethnic identity and conflict

The end of the Cold War has caused a reassessment of the future basis for conflict and identity. While Samuel Huntington predicts that super-national ‘civilisations’ are becoming the basis for identity and conflict, many dispute this arguing that either past ethnic and national bases for identity and conflict will remain the norm or that world integration and interdependence will cause the world to unite. This article examines an aspect of this debate using data on ethnic conflict from the Minorities at Risk data set, as well as data collected independently. Specifically, it assesses whether post-Cold War ethnic conflict, and by inference ethnic identity, is more influenced by civilisational or ethnic variables. The analysis shows that separatism, a nationalist variable, is considerably more strongly associated with ethnic rebellion than are civilisational differences. Furthermore, in the multi-variate analysis civilisational differences are, if anything, associated with less ethnic rebellion. Also, separatism and various political variables more strongly influence ethnic rebellion than do civilisational differences. Thus, this study strongly supports the contention that, at least as of the late 1990s, identity continues to be based on national end ethnic factors rather than civilisational ones.     

Multiple-arm superiority and non-inferiority designs with various endpoints

Multiple-arm dose-response superiority trials are widely studied for continuous and binary endpoints, while non-inferiority designs have been studied recently in two-arm trials. In this paper, a unified asymptotic formulation of a sample size calculation for k-arm (k>0) trials with different endpoints (continuous, binary and survival endpoints) is derived for both superiority and non-inferiority designs. The proposed method covers the sample size calculation for single-arm and k-arm (k> or =2) designs with survival endpoints, which has not been covered in the statistic literature. A simple, closed form for power and sample size calculations is derived from a contrast test. Application examples are provided. The effect of the contrasts on the power is discussed, and a SAS program for sample size calculation is provided and ready to use.     

信用风险中回收率分布的双Beta模型

本文研究了随机回收率的分布,建立了回收率的双Beta分布密度模型,它具有双峰分布的特点,这与Moody公司的最新研究相吻合,弥补了现有回收率分布模型均为单峰的不足。利用基于数论网格的序贯优化算法对所建模型的参数做出了估计,借助于核密度估计的工具,进行了实证分析,结果表明双Beta模型的拟合误差很小,远小于Beta模型的误差,它是表示回收率理想的模型。最后给出了抽取双Beta分布随机数的方法。     

宗教杀戮与文学拯救——论迈克·朗利诗歌中的民族文化情愫

作为第四任“爱尔兰诗人之椅”的荣誉持有者,诗人迈克·朗利在众多当代爱尔兰诗人中独树一帜。通过糅杂于诗歌中的各种民族文化情愫,朗利用细致深沉的笔触表达了对北爱尔兰宗派冲突的批判以及对和平的殷切向往。他一方面痛心于同胞间的冷漠、隔阂、杀戮,另一方面在自身诗歌写作中积极关注家园和时事,以文学参与当代北爱尔兰的民族文化重建,凸显了高度的文学伦理使命感。     

社会转型期农村邻里冲突的解构分析

社会转型期农村邻里冲突增多,影响了农村社会秩序的稳定。探究起来,这些冲突源于农民生活、生产方式和场域的变化,价值观与追求的变化,社会分层的发生与部分人在较前陡增的社会压力下产生的心理畸变。     

选好课题选准人—企业博士后成功的基础

企业博士后制度是贯彻产学研结合 ,促进科技向生产力转化的新生事物 ,而企业博士后工作站能否成功 ,关键在于博士后工作站科研项目的选题以及博士后人选的选择。结合华中电力集团公司博士后工作站的工作实践 ,对此作了有益的探索     

印刷车间再热的热回收节能策略

针对夏季印刷车间空气处理过程中,由于控制室内温湿度波动而采取再热措施造成冷热抵消的能源浪费现象, 根据空气处理过程焓湿图分析了西安某印刷车间夏季空气处理产生再热的原因,并在对印刷产生有机废气采用局部排 风进行有效收集处理的基础上,针对性地提出了利用热回收以补偿再热负荷的思路。比较了几种常见热回收装置的特 点,根据对印刷有机废气催化处理后排放尾气的温度,选择了热管式显热回收方式,进而分析了其传热量及显热回收效 率的计算过程,突出了其节能优势,最终达到充分利用废热节能的目的。     

斯里兰卡民族冲突析论

绵延不绝的斯里兰卡民族冲突在很大程度上是西方殖民统治的产物。１９世纪英国殖民者逐步确立的单一制的中央集权体制深深地埋下了民族冲突的根源。独立后民族问题因成为政党竞争的政治筹码而日益复杂化。一直由僧伽罗族控制的中央政府在巩固单一制政体的过程中,采取了一系列针对泰米尔人的民族歧视政策,长久的民族积怨导致斯里兰卡的民族冲突愈演愈烈,旷日持久。