实验经济学的兴起、发展及其在中国的应用前景

实验经济学是过去三十年中经济学发展最快的分支领域之一,近年来,田野实验的快速发展进一步加快了经济学的实验化进程。可以说,经济学家已经越来越依赖于实验来理解和解释经济现象与行为。不过这一状态来之不易。实验经济学一直是在驳斥与怀疑之中成长的,直到现在,围绕实验经济学的方法论而展开的争论也还在继续。本次访谈邀请了当前国际实验经济学的领军人物丹尼 尔.豪瑟（Daniel Houser）教授和在方法论上造诣颇深的罗卫东教授就实验经济学方法上的一些关键问题进行阐述,内容涉及实验经济学为什么会兴起并获得发展,实验室实验所面临的人工性、外部有效性方面的质疑,实验室实验、田野实验以及自然实验之间的关系,行为经济学和实验经济学之间的关系等核心问题,两位教授还对未来实验经济学在中国的发展提出了建设性意见。     

博客——公共领域的建构契机

博客赋予了普通大众信息组织的权利,体现了多数人传播权、知情权和话语权的统一,是真正属于大众自己的传播形式。博客的传播模式、特点、诉求目标和价值观均与哈贝马斯提出的"公共领域"概念不谋而合,博客的诸多特点为我国"公共领域"的建构提供了借鉴点和生长点。     

教育领域职务犯罪及权力制约机制的构建

论题对教育领域职务犯罪问题进行了分析研究,认为我国教育领域在监督机制上存在着重大的缺陷——即权力制约的失控,导致了在学校图书教材、设备采购,基建工程和招生录取等方面屡屡出现了贪污贿赂、渎职失职、滥用职权等违法犯罪。论题提出了在教育系统应建立独立监察员制度和独立监察员责任追究制,实行监督机制的改革创新,使我国教育事业向着健康、有序、廉洁、高效的方向发展。     

高校网络思想政治教育发展探讨

本文主要针对网络领域出现的新情况,就网络思想政治教育所涉及的模式、方法和手段、内容、环境、教育对象和教师队伍等要素的变革和发展进行分析探讨。     

职业院校思想政治教育应重视“五结合”

论述了职业教育在经济社会发展中具有不可替代的重要作用。指出我国职业教育在实施中存在更多地关注了学生专业能力和技术的培养,相对忽视了一些非智力、非技术性的品质、素养的塑造与提高等问题。针对职业院校学生的实际情况,提出了结合学生心理、结合学生专业、结合顶岗实习、结合社会实践、结合学生就业等加强学生思想政治教育的措施,以增强德育教育的科学性、针对性、实效性,全面提升学生的综合素质。     

比较视野的中国职务发明专利授权的分类统计与政策含义

职务发明专利授权意味着企事业单位或机关团体作为专利权人取得其雇员所发明技术的专利权。职务发明专利授权量可反映一个国家企事业单位或机关团体在其发明专利申请受理国运用专利制度获取技术竞争力的水平。根据世界知识产权组织的《国际专利分类号与技术领域对照表》,对我国1986—2006年发明专利授权按技术领域进行分类统计;从静态和动态比较的角度,对我国国内和国外发明专利授权格局及其演变进行分析;并对上述分析结果的公共政策含义进行探讨。     

Two-dimensional generalisations of dynamic programming for image analysis

Dynamic programming (DP) is a fast, elegant method for solving many one-dimensional optimisation problems but, unfortunately, most problems in image analysis, such as restoration and warping, are two-dimensional. We consider three generalisations of DP. The first is iterated dynamic programming (IDP), where DP is used to recursively solve each of a sequence of one-dimensional problems in turn, to find a local optimum. A second algorithm is an empirical, stochastic optimiser, which is implemented by adding progressively less noise to IDP. The final approach replaces DP by a more computationally intensive Forward-Backward Gibbs Sampler, and uses a simulated annealing cooling schedule. Results are compared with existing pixel-by-pixel methods of iterated conditional modes (ICM) and simulated annealing in two applications: to restore a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image, and to warp a pulsed-field electrophoresis gel into alignment with a reference image. We find that IDP and its stochastic variant outperform the remaining algorithms.     

元代食盐产地研究

元代大约有173个海盐盐场．池盐产地5处,四川茶盐转运司所辖井盐盐场12个、官府所控制的大井95口（邛州、绍熙府等地私井尚未计算在内）,云南有井盐产地4处,土盐产地有太原1处。与宋、金相比,腹里、江浙沿海地区海盐生产得到一定的发展,其他地区盐业生产都遭到严重破坏。     

非物质文化遗产与学术创新

对非物质文化遗产的研究是从活态历史观的角度认识和研究传统文化,这不仅是一种文化考察和遗产保护的方法,同时也为传统人文学术研究的创新提供了新的思路和研究视野。对非物质文化遗产的研究首先是田野工作方法,即把研究工作从文本扩展到文化活动空间,进行文化活动过程的研究;其次是在田野工作基础上的体验,以"了解之同情"的态度深入探索研究对象的精神内蕴。     

Active‐controlled,non‐inferiority trials in oncology: arbitrary limits,infeasible sample sizes and uninformative data analysis. Is there another way?

In oncology, it may not always be possible to evaluate the efficacy of new medicines in placebo-controlled trials. Furthermore, while some newer, biologically targeted anti-cancer treatments may be expected to deliver therapeutic benefit in terms of better tolerability or improved symptom control, they may not always be expected to provide increased efficacy relative to existing therapies. This naturally leads to the use of active-control, non-inferiority trials to evaluate such treatments. In recent evaluations of anti-cancer treatments, the non-inferiority margin has often been defined in terms of demonstrating that at least 50% of the active control effect has been retained by the new drug using methods such as those described by Rothmann et al., Statistics in Medicine 2003; 22:239-264 and Wang and Hung Controlled Clinical Trials 2003; 24:147-155. However, this approach can lead to prohibitively large clinical trials and results in a tendency to dichotomize trial outcome as either 'success' or 'failure' and thus oversimplifies interpretation. With relatively modest modification, these methods can be used to define a stepwise approach to design and analysis. In the first design step, the trial is sized to show indirectly that the new drug would have beaten placebo; in the second analysis step, the probability that the new drug is superior to placebo is assessed and, if sufficiently high in the third and final step, the relative efficacy of the new drug to control is assessed on a continuum of effect retention via an 'effect retention likelihood plot'. This stepwise approach is likely to provide a more complete assessment of relative efficacy so that the value of new treatments can be better judged.