Repurposing Materials and Waste through Online Exchanges: Overcoming the Last Hurdle

Online material and waste exchanges (OMWEs) provide online channels to repurpose by‐products, unused materials and waste from industrial and commercial facilities. Unfortunately, OMWE's also have challenges. First, sellers may have access to other disposal options and, as a result, may not fully commit to the exchange. Second, buyers can face high uncertainty about the product exchanged and the transaction being undertaken. Overcoming these challenges is the “last hurdle” to making OMWEs successful. This study investigates the factors that reduce the buyers' uncertainty and increase the sellers' commitment to the OMWE. We analyze novel transaction‐level data from an online exchange (MNExchange.org) combined with other archival public records on county‐level repurposing and disposal statistics. First, we find that regional repurposing policies and alternatives have a complementary effect on sellers' commitment toward OMWEs, resulting in increased OMWE exchanges. However, regional disposal policies and alternatives have a substitution effect on sellers' commitment, resulting in reduced exchange success. Further, greater product and transaction information reduce the buyer's uncertainty and increase exchange success. Finally, the analysis shows that users' (buyers and sellers) heavily rely on their prior experience with OMWEs. Specifically, higher familiarity between the buyer–seller pair and familiarity with the OMWE system leads to higher likelihood of exchange success. This study lays the foundation for understanding OMWEs and has important implications for developing policies and operations to increase online transactions of by‐products, materials and wastes.     

Implementing Monte Carlo tests with p-value buckets

Software packages usually report the results of statistical tests using p-values. Users often interpret these values by comparing them with standard thresholds, for example, 0.1, 1, and 5%, which is sometimes reinforced by a star rating (***, **, and *, respectively). We consider an arbitrary statistical test whose p-value p is not available explicitly, but can be approximated by Monte Carlo samples, for example, by bootstrap or permutation tests. The standard implementation of such tests usually draws a fixed number of samples to approximate p. However, the probability that the exact and the approximated p-value lie on different sides of a threshold (the resampling risk) can be high, particularly for p-values close to a threshold. We present a method to overcome this. We consider a finite set of user-specified intervals that cover [0, 1] and that can be overlapping. We call these p-value buckets. We present algorithms that, with arbitrarily high probability, return a p-value bucket containing p. We prove that for both a bounded resampling risk and a finite runtime, overlapping buckets need to be employed, and that our methods both bound the resampling risk and guarantee a finite runtime for such overlapping buckets. To interpret decisions with overlapping buckets, we propose an extension of the star rating system. We demonstrate that our methods are suitable for use in standard software, including for low p-value thresholds occurring in multiple testing settings, and that they can be computationally more efficient than standard implementations.     

行政赔偿制度缺陷及完善——以归责原则和赔偿程序为切入点

2012年最新修订的《国家赔偿法》在诸多制度构建上向前迈进了一大步,但是关于行政赔偿制度采用的归责原则仍有争议,对行政赔偿程序的规定仍存在不明确处,导致实践中行政赔偿漏洞百出。完善行政赔偿制度,应从以下问题入手:明确行政赔偿法律规定中“违法”的本意,并以过错责任原则替代违法责任原则,修正行政赔偿程序规定,包括行政赔偿程序的启动、行政赔偿决定的效力两个方面。     

民事诉讼行政介入的程序规制研究

规制行政介入司法尤其是民事司法,除了深化司法体制改革的体制规制路径,将行政机关意见表达纳入民事诉讼程序是其另一程序规制路径.程序规制具有公正审判权请求权、论辩式民事诉讼对话逻辑、诉权制约行政权、民事审判实质公开的“武器支撑”.“法庭之友”制度对民事诉讼行政介入具有程序规制作用,中国行政机关可以“法庭之友”身份参与民事诉讼、进行意见表达.行政机关担当“法庭之友”不会损害独立审判,相反有利于司法公正公开.行政机关担当“法庭之友”以维护公共利益为限,是新型诉讼参与人,应明确其诉讼权利义务,构建行政机关作为“法庭之友”参诉的具体程序.     

刑事审级制度的现实挑战与应对转型——基于当下刑事司法改革的思考

中国实行四级两审终审的审级制度,这种审级制度设置源于法律移植、历史传统、地缘环境以及认知理念等因素的考量。但是当下正在积极推行试点的刑事案件速裁程序改革、人民陪审员制度改革,强烈冲击了司法裁判生效过程的一元化特征,并对各级刑事审判机关的职能划分提出了挑战,进而影响刑事审级制度的设置。为了更好地适应社会结构的转型和司法改革的推进,中国刑事审级制度的设置应当进行调整,实现司法裁判生效过程的多元化,并重塑各级刑事审判机关的职能划分。     

政府性基金征收的正当程序研究 ——基于民航发展基金的个案分析

政府性基金的设立,为解决改革开放初期基础设施投上发挥了政策性作用。然而,随着时代的变迁与市场经济模式的完善,作为时代产物的政府性基金,其合法性、合理性与透明度均存在着质疑。选择以民航发展基金为个案,对民航发展基金的由来与发展、征收的使用和制度规范以及设立程序进行阐述与分析不难发现,民航发展基金在前置程序、立法程序、征收标准法律依据、实施程序等方面存在着正当法律程序的偏差,致使其合法性受到质疑。因此,政府性基金的设立,应该在前置程序、程序立法、实施程序、纠纷解决正当程序诸方面做出制度性安排。     

食品检测咀嚼机器人工作空间研究

为了提高食品检测效率,改善食品检测精度,增加食品检测的客观性,文章介绍了一种基于6-UPS机构的咀嚼机器人,介绍了咀嚼机器人的结构原理,求解了机构的运动学逆解,分析了机构的工作空间影响因素,利用MATLAB编程求得机构在定姿态下的工作空间。空间轮廓图表明,该机构在定姿态下能到达人类全部真实咀嚼空间,机构设计可靠,能够模拟人类咀嚼行为对食品进行检测。     

A Rejection Principle for Sequential Tests of Multiple Hypotheses Controlling Familywise Error Rates

We present a unifying approach to multiple testing procedures for sequential (or streaming) data by giving sufficient conditions for a sequential multiple testing procedure to control the familywise error rate (FWER). Together, we call these conditions a ‘rejection principle for sequential tests’, which we then apply to some existing sequential multiple testing procedures to give simplified understanding of their FWER control. Next, the principle is applied to derive two new sequential multiple testing procedures with provable FWER control, one for testing hypotheses in order and another for closed testing. Examples of these new procedures are given by applying them to a chromosome aberration data set and finding the maximum safe dose of a treatment.     

An F-type test for detecting departure from monotonicity in a functional linear model

When studying associations between a functional covariate and scalar response using a functional linear model (FLM), scientific knowledge may indicate possible monotonicity of the unknown parameter curve. In this context, we propose an F-type test of monotonicity, based on a full versus reduced nested model structure, where the reduced model with monotonically constrained parameter curve is nested within an unconstrained FLM. For estimation under the unconstrained FLM, we consider two approaches: penalised least-squares and linear mixed model effects estimation. We use a smooth then monotonise approach to estimate the reduced model, within the null space of monotone parameter curves. A bootstrap procedure is used to simulate the null distribution of the test statistic. We present a simulation study of the power of the proposed test, and illustrate the test using data from a head and neck cancer study.     

论被追诉者的知情权

被追诉者的知情权是指被追诉者对公安司法机关的诉讼活动,依法享有的了解案件有关情况及法律依据的权利。被追诉者的知情权是其行使其他诉讼权利的基础,体现了被追诉者的诉讼主体地位。充分保障被追诉者的知情权,有利于实现程序公正和诉讼民主。