“I've been independent for so damn long!”: Independence, masculinity and aging in a help seeking context

This paper draws on semi-structured interviews conducted with 36 older men to examine how older men's understandings of independence relate to their help seeking behaviours and health service use. We argue that discourses of masculinity and successful aging are both represented in men's talk about independence. Recognising that these discourses are intertwined is important for understanding how older men seek help and use health services. We outline the practice and policy implications of viewing older men's help seeking behaviours in this way, and how it might be useful for promoting older men's health.     

卢沟桥事变后日本转变对蒙政策原因探析

九.一八事变后,关东军将其侵略矛头又指向华北和西部内蒙古。先以支持“蒙古独立”为诱饵,笼络当时提倡蒙古高度自治的德王,终将其拉入自己怀抱。卢沟桥事变爆发,日本占领了西部内蒙古,为了更加有效地统治这一新占领区,由煽动“蒙古独立”开始转向提倡“民族协和”。政策转变的原因首先是为了稳固新占领地区的统治;其次是防止已实行“自治”的伪满洲国“兴安蒙古”出现离心倾向;第三是优先考虑维护与汪精卫伪政权的关系。     

先验主义:美国十九世纪的语文经验

本文探讨了19世纪先验主义思潮在美国民族文化独立运动中所起到的作用和贡献。通过对这个时期的语文经验讨论和研究,作者认为美利坚民族利用先验主义的思潮进一步推动了美利坚民族走向文化独立的步伐,从而使这个民族具有了不同于其它民族的识别特征。     

Substitution of indifferent options at choice nodes and admissibility: a reply to Rabinowicz

Tiebreak rules are necessary for revealing indifference in non- sequential decisions. I focus on a preference relation that satisfies Ordering and fails Independence in the following way. Lotteries a and b are indifferent but the compound lottery 0.5f, 0.5b is strictly preferred to the compound lottery 0.5f, 0.5a. Using tiebreak rules the following is shown here: In sequential decisions when backward induction is applied, a preference like the one just described must alter the preference relation between a and b at certain choice nodes, i.e., indifference between a and b is not stable. Using this result, I answer a question posed by Rabinowicz (1997) concerning admissibility in sequential decisions when indifferent options are substituted at choice nodes.     

甲骨文编码的线性结构

编码是解决甲骨文与计算机"对接"之间矛盾的惟一可行的方法.但目前汉字的编码方式、传统的以部首为主的汉字结构模式和甲骨文"象形"的思维定势难以适应甲骨文编码特点,为此笔者提出甲骨文编码"线性结构"的观点.以甲骨文最小的构形单位"线"以及线与线之间的关系解析甲骨文结构,归纳出独立性、相触性、交叉性和对称性四个甲骨文线性结构特征,作为提取码元之基础,在此基础上形成甲骨文编码方案,码元和键符使用很少,但却能全面涵盖甲骨文字,检索应用起来简单方便.     

On the sample characterization criterion for normal distributions

Conventionally, it was shown that the underlying distribution is normal if and only if the sample mean and sample variance from a random sample are independent. This paper focusses on the normal population characterization theorem by showing that, if the joint distribution of a skew normal sample follows certain multivariate skew normal distribution, the sample mean and sample variance are still independent.     

Measuring non-linear dependence for two random variables distributed along a curve

We propose new dependence measures for two real random variables not necessarily linearly related. Covariance and linear correlation are expressed in terms of principal components and are generalized for variables distributed along a curve. Properties of these measures are discussed. The new measures are estimated using principal curves and are computed for simulated and real data sets. Finally, we present several statistical applications for the new dependence measures.     

国家自主与中国发展道路

在全球化的进程中要实现社会的发展,必须在维护国家主权的基础上,有效发挥国家的自主性。在全球化的背景下,中国的发展道路实际上是一个有效发挥国家自主性,协调和利用国家——社会关系、国家——政党关系、中央——地方关系以及国家——国际体系的过程。目前改革的重点应该是通过国家自身的改革来推动其他方面的改革,进一步提升自主性和国家能力。     

法人独立、公司价值分离与大股东隧道挖掘

法律赋予公司法人以独立地位,独立于投资者即股东和债权人,法人财产与投资者财产相分离,从而公司法人的价值也应该独立于股东和债权人价值。但传统公司价值的MM模型、FCF模型、NPV模型、EVA模型都只考虑股东和债权人的价值。本文基于法人独立的视角所提出的公司价值修正模型能满足公司法人与投资者的财产分离原则,反映留存收益的持续投资和持续获利所导致的公司增长,区分公司法人折现率和股东折现率,并体现股东和公司法人之间的利益冲突,大股东的隧道挖掘行为可通过该修正模型加以解释。     

Nonparametric Entropy-Based Tests of Independence Between Stochastic Processes

This article develops nonparametric tests of independence between two stochastic processes satisfying β-mixing conditions. The testing strategy boils down to gauging the closeness between the joint and the product of the marginal stationary densities. For that purpose, we take advantage of a generalized entropic measure so as to build a whole family of nonparametric tests of independence. We derive asymptotic normality and local power using the functional delta method for kernels. As a corollary, we also develop a class of entropy-based tests for serial independence. The latter are nuisance parameter free, and hence also qualify for dynamic misspecification analyses. We then investigate the finite-sample properties of our serial independence tests through Monte Carlo simulations. They perform quite well, entailing more power against some nonlinear AR alternatives than two popular nonparametric serial-independence tests.