The Robustness of Trend Stationarity: An Illustration with the Extended Nelson-Plosser Dataset

We re-evaluate Andreu and Spanos's findings in favour of trend stationarity by considering the extended Nelson-Plosser data set. This expanded (to 1988) data set includes a period of rather different behaviour compared with the original Nelson-Plosser data used by Andreou and Spanos. We find that Andreou and Spanos's models (with only minor adjustments) exhibit remarable stability over this extended period, and indicate that their conclusions are more robust than they have shown.     

近现代中国人观念现代化的历史进程与启示

近现代中国,观念现代化经历了鸦片战争以后的三次思想解放和启蒙阶段,五四运动以后马克思主义广泛传播和新民主主义革命时期的深化阶段。它给我们留下了深刻的启示。     

Consumer trust repair: A critical literature review

Consumers are fundamental to organisational functioning and survival. Their loyalty, commitment, product acceptance and good long-term relationships with firms and brands are underpinned by their trust. Unfortunately, over the last decade or so, we have witnessed some of the more spectacular violations of consumer trust in the history of business. This has led to negative consequences, such as loss of competitive advantage, rage, lack of commitment and decrease in turnover. Consequently, study of trust repair has become an important theoretical concern for a growing number of trust scholars. This article reviews and synthesises existing theory and research on the topic. It first sketches general characteristics of the consumer trust repair literature, including its meta-theoretical underpinning. It then identifies specific strategies associated with consumer trust repair and synthesises them into five categories of trust repair strategies. In addition, this paper highlights theoretical processes that explain why/how trust repair strategies work. Third, the paper proposes six fruitful avenues for future research. This study contributes to the field of consumer trust repair research by critically reviewing and synthesising emerging theory and research on strategies associated with consumer trust repair, by showing why and how these strategies work and by identifying most fruitful research areas.     

Precise large deviations for the difference of two sums of END random variables with heavy tails

Assume that there are two types of insurance contracts in an insurance company, and the ith related claims are denoted by {X_ij, j ? 1}, i = 1, 2. In this article, the asymptotic behaviors of precise large deviations for non random difference ∑^n₁(t)_{j = 1}X_1j ? ∑^n₂(t)_{j = 1}X_2j and random difference ∑^N₁(t)_{j = 1}X_1j ? ∑^N₂(t)_{j = 1}X_2j are investigated, and under several assumptions, some corresponding asymptotic formulas are obtained.     

中国雇员群体状况分析

随着社会经济的发展及人口老龄化程度的不断加深，劳动力状况作为影响经济增长的重要因素引起社会各界的关注。然而，基于劳动力就业身份的雇员群体的描述性分析非常少。因此，本文利用2012年中国劳动力态调查（CLDS）数据，详细描述了他们受雇条件、受雇情况、劳动收益、工作状况及劳动侵权状况、工作评价及工作价值观；同时，分析了不同性别、年龄层及不同地区雇员群体在上述方面存在的差异，并对这些差异进行了一定的讨论，希望对相关劳动政策的制定有所启发。     

浅析汉日[主题]和[主语]对照

关于[主题]和[主语]这两个词,对于日语学习者来说一点都不陌生。很多讲授者在回答这两个词的区分问题时,都会以「は」和「が」的区分作为分析的论点。「は」是表示主题,而「が」则表示主语。表面上看已经解决了关于主题和主语的区分,但实不则然。本文将从汉日互译的角度出发,基于「は」和「が」的基本含义之上,分析[主题]和[主语]的汉日对照。     

中国农村少数民族与汉族居民住房实证分析

本文结合中国2000年人口普查家庭住房资料,采用定量指标体系,从数量(人均建筑面积)和质量(住房结构、建筑材料及配套设施),对我国农村的少数民族和汉族住房进行了对比分析.同时利用Logistic回归模型,从农村家庭户主的民族成分、受教育程度、家庭规模、居住的地域差异等方面进行了微观研究,探讨了影响住房差距的因素,并提出了相应政策建议.     

基于概念隐喻理论的二语词汇自主学习研究?

隐喻作为一种思维方式被广泛接受,这种思维方式正逐渐被应用在语言教学领域。本文从概念隐喻理论出发,探索在二语中如何充分利用隐喻,将词义从“具体”到“抽象”、从“中心义”向“相关义”投射来自主习得词汇,倡导在概念隐喻理论的框架下结合显性和隐性的教学实践手段,通过培养隐喻能力和文化意识全面帮助学习者提高自主学习二语词汇的能力。     

社会融合中的性别差异:流动人口工作搜寻时间的实证分析

文章以扩展传统的流动人口社会融合的静态研究视角,使用国家人口计生委2010年上半年流动人口动态监测调查数据,从男女农村流动人口工作搜寻时间的角度进一步比较农村流动人口融入流入地劳动力市场过程的性别差异及影响因素。文章采用持续时间模型,通过研究农村流动人口在流入地城市找工作所花费时间的影响因素,发现虽然在给定时间内,女性流动人口在流入地找到工作所花费的时间比男性要短,但女性找到高收入工作的概率要低于男性,而接受低收入工作的概率要大于男性,从而导致性别区隔的流动人口社会融入模式。     

Jia’s The Chinese Version

Abstract

The Chinese Character Simplification Programme of 1955–1957 that remains a national standard by force of law in the People’s Republic of China, not only degraded the aesthetic properties of the Chinese written character, but also hindered literacy by means of a haphazard formal reduction of the number of strokes, and by eliminating two-thirds of characters from the lexicon of those allowed for publication. In The Chinese Version painting series by Jia (b.1979), the artist arranges Chinese characters according to formal rather than semantic criteria, in order to generate by means of their juxtaposition, abstract or figurative patterns. Each character may retain its individual meaning, but not its function as a sequential syntagm. This strategy invests the characters with a formal aspect to ‘return’ that which was mutilated by the Simplification Programme. As the Simplification Programme’s formal changes ended characters’ role as image-signs, the artist’s choice to present each work as a painting alludes to their lost image capacity while appearing to imitate the outward aspect of printed characters, thereby implicitly turning against itself the pretext of character simplification for the sake of efficiency.