Behavioral responses of rural and urban greater white-toothed shrews (Crocidura russula) to sound disturbance

Urban Ecosystems - The development of urban areas imposes challenges that wildlife must adapt to in order to persist in these new habitats. One of the greatest changes brought by urbanization has...     

What is educational entrepreneurship? Strategic action,temporality, and the expansion of US higher education

Theory and Society - The massive expansion of US higher education after World War II is a sociological puzzle: a spectacular feat of state capacity-building in a highly federated polity. Prior...     

Philippine NGOs and Multistakeholder Partnerships: Three Case Studies

This paper discusses an emerging role for Philippine NGOs—building and maintaining intersectoral cooperation among various sectors of society to tackle key issues like agricultural development, HIV/AIDS, and agrarian reform. The three case studies elaborated in the paper show that Philippine NGOs play important intermediary and bridging functions crucial for the success of multistakeholder partnerships. NGOs are well equipped for this because of their middle-class and professional nature and because of various characteristics like autonomy, flexibility, and the ability to mobilize resources.     

A class of symmetric bivariate uniform distributions

A class of symmetric bivariate uniform distributions is proposed for use in statistical modeling. The distributions may be constructed to be absolutely continuous with correlations as close to±1 as desired. Expressions for the correlations, regressions and copulas are found. An extension to three dimensions is proposed.     

Career Self‐Efficacy and Perceptions of Parent Support in Adolescent Career Development

The authors examined the relative contributions of both proximal and distal supports to the career interests and vocational self‐efficacy in a multiethnic sample (N = 139) of middle school adolescents. Consistent with Social Cognitive Career Theory, it was found that (a) vocational self‐efficacy and career planning/exploration efficacy consistently predicted young adolescents' career interests across Holland (J. L. Holland, D. R. Whitney, N. S. Cole, & J. M. Richards, 1969) themes; (b) gender and career gender‐typing predicted interests in Realistic, Investigative, and Social careers; and (c) perceived parent support accounted for 29% to 43% of the total unique variance in vocational self‐efficacy for all Holland theme careers.     

论我国陪审制度及其完善--兼与西方两大法系比较

在我国当前司法改革进程中 ,陪审制度的健全与完善应该提上议事日程。本文在对西方两大法系陪审制度及我国陪审制现状考察的基础上 ,提出了几点关于完善我国陪审制度的建议。     

在生物进化与人类进化之间

由于人类的进化已日益集中反映在文化的进化上 ,从而使得它与生物之间表现出不同的性质和方式。对于属人世界的生物进化来说 ,既存在自然选择式的客体中介 ,又存在社会选择式的主体中介 ,在当今世界所普遍存在的“生态危机”和各种“人类危机”面前 ,我们更需要确立和谐型的社会选择     

入世对中国商业银行业的影响及对策

剖析了国有商业银行目前存在的问题 ,阐述了入世后外资银行所带来的冲击与挑战 ,提出了国有商业银行在激烈竞争中立于不败之地的对策及措施 :一、深化国有商业银行改革 ,加强风险控制 ,提高资产质量 ;二、支持鼓励国有商业银行的业务创新 ,广辟服务渠道 ,提高服务水平和效率 ;三、积极发展国内外商业银行间的良好合作关系 ,促进金融资源的合理流动 ;四、树立新的经营理念 ,加强员工的科学管理 ;五、加强和改进金融监管 ,提高金融监管绩效。     

对分部信息披露制度的认识

为了规范分部信息的披露行为 ,各国会计准则制定机构、证券管理部门以及有关国际组织 ,纷纷发布准则或制度 ,对分部信息披露的要求作出规定 ,形成了各自的分部信息披露制度。本文在借鉴了各国分部信息披露制度的基础上 ,指出了我国分部信息披露制度存在的问题 ,并提出了一些改进建议。