Connecting the gendered door: women, violence and doorwork

This paper explores the emerging role of women who work as 'bouncers', or doorstaff, in the night-time economy and examines how the cultural capital of the female bouncer is connected to the methods utilized to control licensed premises. It is drawn from a study that combined ethnographic observations and interviews in five major UK cities which explored a diverse range of issues such as gendered bodies, femininities and violence; the changing needs of the night-time economy in the UK and the experiences of women engaged in 'non-traditional' occupations. In this paper, we draw on interview data with one particular category of female door staff; women who share similar histories of exposure to violence and violent cultures, and we examine how their experiential knowledge of violence equips them with the resources to 'work the doors'. Our attention focuses on this group of women, who we refer to as 'The Connected', and examine how they are 'doing gender' when they negotiate violence 'on the door'     

The changing practice of eating: evidence from UK time diaries, 1975 and 2000

This paper examines some central themes about change in consumption behaviour through an empirical investigation of the practice of eating. It analyses patterns of food consumption in the UK using time diary data from 1975 and 2000. The practice of eating is decomposed into four component activities which are used to explore systematically the inter-relationships between social processes - such as commodification and temporal fragmentation - and ways of providing and consuming food. It charts the expansion of eating out, the degree to which it substitutes for other eating activities, and the implications of its development for social relations and the temporal organization of daily life. Analysis reveals that food consumption continues to be differentiated along established lines of social division, although the content of those divisions has changed and varies across components of the practice. Increasing commodification of the food chain is documented, but without appearing to have a corrosive impact on household organization or social relationships. While tendencies indicative of temporal fragmentation are revealed, counter-tendencies exist which suggest that the practice of eating is resilient to many forms of external pressure. Finally, the application of a practice-based analytical approach permits critical evaluation of theories of social transformation.     

How Satisfied are Spouses with their Leisure Time? Evidence from Europe

This paper first identifies the determinants of spouses’ satisfaction levels within the household with respect to their leisure time and, secondly, characterizes whether their preferences have some degree of altruistic or egoistic character in regard to this particular satisfaction. To that end, it formulates a theoretical framework from the collective family model whose stochastic formulations are estimated for 14 EU countries. The general empirical results first reveal that the presence of children has a significantly negative impact on the leisure satisfaction of both spouses. Then, increases in individual incomes lead to lower own leisure satisfaction levels. Both husbands and wives show egoistic behavior with respect to the labor and non-labor incomes (wage rate) of their respective spouses’ satisfaction levels.

独立学院师资队伍建设与发展浅探

随着我国高等教育进入大众化发展阶段,既要扩大高等教育规模,又要保证教学质量,已成为我国高等教育面临的突出问题,针对解决这一问题而言,师资队伍建设是独立学院可持续健康发展的关键.师资队伍建设是一个长期的积累过程,针对不同的发展阶段要找准建设的重点,采取不同的措施并进行灵活的管理,始终坚持以"引进 培养"为指导思想,采取"专、兼"相结合的方法,充分利用民办和公办二者的优势,走一条从依靠到独立和特色发展的道路,建立一支独立自主的高素质师资队伍,才能从根本上保障办学质量和提高办学效益.     

基于EMD与DVG的非线性时间序列预测模型及其应用研究

针对具有非线性和不稳定性的时间序列,提出一种结合经验模态分解(EMD)、有向可见图(DVG)网络的动态预测模型。利用经验模态分解将原时间序列分解为多个固有模态函数(IMF),然后对分解后的高频和低频IMF利用快速傅里叶变换得到各自的周期;依据每个周期,从原时间序列的尾部截取长短不一的子序列,然后采用有向可见图算法转换为多个有向网络,利用随机游走在每个有向网络中寻找与时间序列最后一个节点相似的节点;最后,依据平行线法,预测时间序列的下一个数值。原油价格的时间序列是一类典型的具有非线性和不稳定性的序列,利用此模型对WTI原油每日价格进行实证分析。研究结果表明,此模型不但可以有效地预测时间序列的变化趋势,而且具有较高的预测精度。     

后战国时期自然合理性观念研究

所谓"自然合理性",主要就是指"天时","天时"是一个时间秩序问题.时间秩序就是用时间来控制和安排政治事务的制度.自然合理性就是考虑如何通过时间的调节来使政治运作吻合于自然规则.在后战国时期,时间与权力的制度性结合和观念性渗透呈现出某种转折性态势,从而在政治思想史上构成一个特殊的重要时期.因为一种前所未有的超级权力体系的出现,将时间引入政治实践才有了稳定的制度基础.     

程序优位:遏制违反法定期限行为之关键

司法机关案件无期限拖结,虽属程序违法,但却使当事人合法的人身自由权、财产权受到严重侵犯。我国已有的三大诉讼法就期限问题了详尽的规定,仍无法杜绝。要依法规制,首先从观念上应加强执法者程序优位观念,其次,从制度上在程序规则中引入法律后果、法律责任规定,从程序法治整体上进行救济性立法设计,把违反法定期限行为纳入司法审查制度中国家赔偿的范畴,通过救济途径对该行为予以必要制约。     

A class of weighted dependence measures for bivariate failure time data

This paper considers a class of summary measures of the dependence between a pair of failure time variables over a finite follow-up region. The class consists of measures that are weighted averages of local dependence measures, and includes the cross-ratio-measure and finite region version of Kendall's τ; recently proposed by the authors. Two new special cases are identified that can avoid the need to estimate the bivariate survivor function and that admit explicit variance estimators. Nonparametric estimators of such dependence measures are proposed and are shown to be consistent and asymptotically normal with variances that can be consistently estimated. Properties of selected estimators are evaluated in a simulation study, and the method is illustrated through an analysis of Australian Twin Study data.     

Time‐change models for asymmetric processes

Many records in environmental sciences exhibit asymmetric trajectories. The physical mechanisms behind these records may lead for example to sample paths with different characteristics at high and low levels (up–down asymmetries) or in the ascending and descending phases leading to time irreversibility (front–back asymmetries). Such features are important for many applications, and there is a need for simple and tractable models that can reproduce them. In this paper, we explore original time‐change models where the clock is a stochastic process that depends on the observed trajectory. The ergodicity of the proposed model is established under general conditions, and this result is used to develop nonparametric estimation procedures based on the joint distribution of the process and its derivative. The methodology is illustrated on meteorological and oceanographic data sets. We show that, combined with a marginal transformation, the proposed methodology is able to reproduce important characteristics of the data set such as marginal distributions, up‐crossing intensity, and up–down and front–back asymmetries.     

Using Lean Six Sigma to improve mobile order fulfilment process in a telecom service sector

This study proposes and follows a specific and systematic framework for implementing Lean Six Sigma (LSS) methodology in a telecom company in order to improve customer satisfaction by minimizing the company’s response time to customer requirements. The goal of this study was achieved by utilizing several LSS tools under five phases of the DMAIC methodology. Unlike previous studies in the telecom sector that used only qualitative method, in this study, both qualitative and quantitative methods were utilized to draw meaningful conclusions. As a result of the implementation of the LSS methodology, the average order fulfilment lead time for sales orders (SO) and value-added service (VAS) orders was reduced from 10.3 to 5.9 days and from 1.5 to 0.5 days, respectively. The reduction in lead time resulted in an increase in the sigma level for SO and VAS orders from 0.44 to 1.26 and from 0.73 to 2.66, respectively. These improvements were expected to lead to a financial benefit in savings of over $600,000 per year in operational costs, enhancements to customer experience and an increase in revenue generating opportunities. Moreover, this article enriches the existing literature on the application of LSS concept in the service industry, and helps the company to speed up the response to customer requirements.