Ethics and Choosing Appropriate Means to an End: Problems with Coal Mine and Nuclear Workplace Safety

A common problem in ethics is that people often desire an end but fail to take the means necessary to achieve it. Employers and employees may desire the safety end mandated by performance standards for pollution control, but they may fail to employ the means, specification standards, necessary to achieve this end. This article argues that current (de jure) performance standards, for lowering employee exposures to ionizing radiation, fail to promote de facto worker welfare, in part because employers and employees do not follow the necessary means (practices known as specification standards) to achieve the end (performance standards) of workplace safety. To support this conclusion, the article argues that (1) safety requires attention to specification, as well as performance, standards; (2) coal-mine specification standards may fail to promote performance standards; (3) nuclear workplace standards may do the same; (4) choosing appropriate means to the end of safety requires attention to the ways uncertainties and variations in exposure may mask violations of standards; and (5) correcting regulatory inattention to differences between de jure and de facto is necessary for achievement of ethical goals for safety.     

模态系统T的Herbrand定理

模态Herbrand定理研究是模态逻辑领域的重要开放问题.不含Barcan公式的模态系统T的Herbrand定理的获得必须完成两个方向的证明工作:首先是证明相对简单的从右到左方向;而对于相对复杂的从左到右方向,则可以通过在加标公式表列系统K的基础上增加特殊规则获得加标公式表列系统T,证明T的可靠性和完全性,并在此基础上完成从左到右方向的证明.同样的方法还可以用来证明模态系统D、K4、s4的Herbrand定理.     

基于繁殖规律的生猪市场供应模型

生猪生产具有发散性蛛网效应的特点,目前市场的波动正在加剧之中。基于生猪繁殖的自然规律特点,构建了一个易于分析与预测的生猪生产模型。分析显示,目前的生猪市场正在酝酿一场新的危机。导致市场波动的根源在于及时、准确信息的缺失,致使养殖者对母猪盲目的补栏。     

巴赫金对话理论中的“盲视”——一种保罗·德曼式阅读

“对话”是巴赫金理论体系中的核心概念,它体现了他的认识论、存在论和价值论等多方面的重要思想。然而,美国著名解构主义思想家保罗·德曼却以语言的修辞性为基本立场,把对话看作是解构巴赫金思想体系的重要的“墙角石”：第一,对话作为理论术语和巴赫金现实生活的潜意识对应,在某种程度上会影响其理论体系向艺术创作的辐射力度,造成阅读过程中的盲视;第二,对话作为文艺研究方法,忽视了虚构与现实之间的关系,否认文本语言的转义性,造成了阅读过程中诗学话语和阐释话语两种阅读模式之间的不确定性。     

修辞学是否属于言语的语言学讨论述评

围绕修辞学是否属于言语的语言学,语言学界讨论了近半个世纪,迄今分歧依旧。肯定派和否定派的观点都有道理。之所以产生分歧,原因有三:(1)索绪尔《教程》本身不统一、不严密;(2)语言和言语的划分存在多种方案;(3)研究者考虑问题的侧重点有所不同。     

Le télétravail des cadres : entre suractivité et apprentissage de nouvelles temporalités

Telework is often considered to be a means for making life at work and at home more compatible. Why do some wage-earners, in particular white-collar employees, choose it? Do they actually make a choice or simply adopt a solution “for want of anything better” in an organizational context with its limitations? In this case, what factors do they weigh against each other? Once they have opted for telework, how do these white collars manage to adjust their occupational and family lives? Is their aspiration to improve the balance between the two satisfied? Or do they run up against unexpected difficulties? Answers to these questions come out of two studies conducted among white-collar employees in different sorts of telework. Given the absence of institutional regulations governing the relation between life at home and at work, telework, far from leading to a more balanced life, jeopardizes the organization’s collective efficiency.     

阶乘幂多项式及其基本恒等式

考虑两类阶乘幂多项式，由向前或向后差分公式，得到两个同类阶乘幂多项式等价的充分必要条件．给出并证明了阶乘幂代数系统的两类基本恒等式，一类是阶乘幂的二项式定理；另一类是同阶阶乘幂之差的因式分解定理(乘方差定理)．     

L’adaptation des modèles de production dans les pays émergents L’exemple de l’industrie automobile en Argentine

How to test for the existence of a new model of production based on the firm lending an ear to customer demands and valuing the individual and collective intelligence of its work force? The facts for putting this model to the test of reality come from an analysis of two Argentinean automobile-makers, subsidiaries of Toyota and Volkswagen. Various aspects of their organization policy provide evidence of their capacity for making adaptations by “hybridizing” the parent firm’s model with the rationales inherent in the network of local actors (suppliers and labor unions, in particular). These firms are open systems with a narrow margin of maneuver. — Special issue: Latin America.     

广义导数及其应用

文章提出了一种广义导数的概念,得到了广义导数的运算法则,以及连续函数的中值定理。     

Carrières et contradictions en sciences de la vie : réponses du corps académique aux transformations de la connaissance et de ses utilisations

Drawing on interviews with more than 80 scientists on two university campuses, we create a typology that offers insights into how transformations in the nature and locus of life science innovation influence academic careers and work practices. Our analyses suggest that a strong outcome of increased academic concern with research commercialization is the appearance of new fault lines among faculty, between faculty and students, and even between scientists' interests and those of their institutions. We argue that life science commercialization is driven by a mix of new funding opportunities, changing institutional mandates for universities, and novel research technologies that bring basic research and product development into much closer contact. The rise of patenting and commercially motivated technology transfer on U.S. campuses is altering faculty work practices and relationships, while transforming the criteria by which success is determined and rewards are allocated. Through close analysis of interviews with four researchers who typify a range of academic responses to commercialism, we demonstrate emerging patterns of conflict and agreement in faculty responses to commercial opportunities in the life sciences.