居民生活能耗增长的分解与影响因素研究——基于习惯形成视角

伴随环境问题的日益紧迫,居民家庭生活中的能耗与碳排放问题逐渐成为今后社会关注的重要方面,通过将居民消费研究领域的习惯形成模型引入到居民生活能耗的分析框架中,计算中国居民生活能耗中的习惯量,研究中国居民生活能耗增长的影响因素。研究结果显示,中国居民生活能耗中存在较大的习惯性成分。通过将居民生活能耗中的习惯因素扣除后,基于协整方程,发现生活能耗中非习惯性成分与中国经济增长和城市化之间是同向变动关系,与工业化是反向变动关系。从降低生活能耗的角度提出了节能减排的相关政策建议,认为:居民的节能消费行为习惯的形成以及节能技术推广应用,在抑制居民生活能耗过快增长中的地位至关重要。     

《唐·新罗·日本政治制度比较研究》刍议

《唐·新罗·日本政治制度比较研究》一书中对“突厥”、“琉球”、新罗统一“三国”、唐太宗征高句丽的战争胜利与失败、新罗与中国的交往、百济两个国王的名字等问题的认识与提法值得再探讨     

The relationship between sex guilt and sexual desire in a community sample of Chinese and Euro-Canadian women

Many studies have documented significant differences in sexual desire between individuals of European and Chinese descent, but few have examined the mechanisms that underlie these differences. A recent study of university students found that sex guilt is one mechanism by which culture influences sexual desire among Chinese and Euro-Canadian women. The goal of this study was to examine whether sex guilt also mediates the relationship between ethnicity and sexual desire in a sample that is more representative of women in the general population. Euro-Canadian (n = 78; mean age = 42.1 years) and Chinese (n = 87; mean age = 42.8 years) women were recruited from the community. Euro-Canadian women reported greater sexual desire and less sex guilt. In the entire sample, sex guilt mediated the relationship between ethnicity and sexual desire such that the Chinese women reported greater sex guilt, which, in turn, was associated with lower sexual desire. Among the Chinese women, sex guilt mediated the relationship between mainstream acculturation (degree of Westernization) and sexual desire such that more Westernized Chinese women reported less sex guilt, which, in turn, was associated with greater sexual desire. These results support recent findings and further suggest that sex guilt may be one mechanism by which ethnicity affects sexual desire.     

The "Special Path" and the Social Order in Today's Russia

Research data show that Russians still strongly adhere to the notion of a uniquely Russian path as a source of identity, but that this sense of uniqueness is based more on a negative view of the other than a positive view of the contents of Russian uniqueness. This view reinforces a degree of Russian isolation from the outside world, a sense of being surrounded by hostile forces, and a rejection of the West.     

On Robust Analysis of a Normal Location Parameter

Pericchi and Smith considered a normal location parameter problem with double-exponential and Student t prior distributions. These two prior distributions both belong to the class of scale mixtures of normal distributions and are useful in providing a robust analysis of the normal location parameter problem. In this paper we extend the analysis to other scale mixtures of normal distributions, such as the exponential power and the symmetric stable distributions.     

The Myth of a Systemic Crisis in Russia After the Great Reforms of the 1860s-1870s

The material situation of Russia's population measurably improved between 1861 and 1913.