Presidential Address: Heroes,Warriors, and Burqas: A Feminist Sociologist's Reflections on September 11

My presidential address looked back at the gendered imagery of American heroes and warriors, Muslim terrorists, and oppressed Islamic women as they appeared in comparatively sophisticated media sources in the first 6 months after September 11. The imagery was conventionally gendered, but the actions of women and men reported in the same sources showed multiple gendering—heterogeneity within homogeneity. Making this multiplicity of gendering visible blurs and undermines gender lines and the inequities built on them. The social constructions of heroism, masculinity, and Islamic womanhood are core parts of the gender politics of September 11, a politics deeply embedded in the current debates over the causes and consequences of terrorism and war.     

Two-stage Huber estimation

In this paper we propose a new robust estimator in the context of two-stage estimation methods directed towards the correction of endogeneity problems in linear models. Our estimator is a combination of Huber estimators for each of the two stages, with scale corrections implemented using preliminary median absolute deviation estimators. In this way we obtain a two-stage estimation procedure that is an interesting compromise between concerns of simplicity of calculation, robustness and efficiency. This method compares well with other possible estimators such as two-stage least-squares (2SLS) and two-stage least-absolute-deviations (2SLAD), asymptotically and in finite samples. It is notably interesting to deal with contamination affecting more heavily the distribution tails than a few outliers and not losing as much efficiency as other popular estimators in that case, e.g. under normality. An additional originality resides in the fact that we deal with random regressors and asymmetric errors, which is not often the case in the literature on robust estimators.     

Generalized Laplacian approximations in Bayesian inference

This paper presents a new Laplacian approximation to the posterior density of η = g(θ). It has a simpler analytical form than that described by Leonard et al. (1989). The approximation derived by Leonard et al. requires a conditional information matrix R_η to be positive definite for every fixed η. However, in many cases, not all R_η are positive definite. In such cases, the computations of their approximations fail, since the approximation cannot be normalized. However, the new approximation may be modified so that the corresponding conditional information matrix can be made positive definite for every fixed η. In addition, a Bayesian procedure for contingency-table model checking is provided. An example of cross-classification between the educational level of a wife and fertility-planning status of couples is used for explanation. Various Laplacian approximations are computed and compared in this example and in an example of public school expenditures in the context of Bayesian analysis of the multiparameter Fisher-Behrens problem.     

RuCl2[P(C6H5)3]2(NH2CH2CH2NH2)催化苯乙酮加氢反应的研究

优化了以RuCl2[P(C6H5)3]2(NH2CH2CH2NH2)作催化剂催化苯乙酮加氢制备α-苯乙醇的反应条件,考察了反应温度、反应压力、碱的用量及不同的碱对反应的影响,得出了一个较好的反应条件.     

同工异曲的悲歌--《菊花的幽香》与《薄奠》之比较

英国小说大师劳伦斯创作的<菊花的幽香>和中国著名小说家郁达夫创作的<薄奠>具有异曲同工之处,他们分别以象征和写实的笔法描写了一个以男主人公的死亡为结局的家庭悲剧,并对各自社会的罪恶进行了揭露,因而具有进步意义,成为中英文学史上不可多得的佳作.     

对张学良联共抗日思想形成的几点思考

指出中华民族的千古功臣张学良将军,是中国共产党人的一位真正朋友。论述了张学良联共抗日的思想基础、形成及其实现联共抗日的途径。同时,对张学良联共抗日思想与行动进行了评析,从而为学术界进一步研究和评价张学良将军与中国共产党人的关系提供了借鉴。     

新硼试剂3—甲氧基—甲亚胺H与硼显色反应的研究

对新硼试剂3-甲氧基-甲亚胺H与硼显色反应体系研究结果表明,在pH=5的醋酸-醋酸铵缓冲体系中,硼与3-甲氧基-甲亚胺H在常温下形成2:3的黄绿色配合物,配合物稳定24h以上,λmax=410nm,ε550=6.82×104cm·mol-1·L-1,硼含量在0～2.5μg/25mL范围符合比耳定律.     

当前国际形势和世界战略格局

“9·1 1”事件和“打恐”战争爆发后 ,国际形势发生了深刻变化。大国关系基本稳定 ,并趋于改善和发展。大国安全观念发生重大变化 ,集体安全和南北问题开始受到西方国家的重视。和平、缓和、发展和稳定的国际形势遇到了极大挑战。美国的单边主义和全球战略攻势阻止不了世界多极化进程和世界和平与发展的总趋势     

产出资源的新经济分析与"十一五"规划

本文证明在定位资源的产出必须超过定额的约束下,最优产出模型的均衡条件是:资源资本(或劳动)的货币边际转换率e>1,而不是e=1。因此政府应实行资源定额与价格的管理政策,才会使中国“十一五”规划中的GDP年增7.5%、单位GDP资耗下降20%、居民年增收5%三者协同实现。     

On the asymptotic normality of the L1- and L2-errors in histogram density estimation

The L₁ and L₂-errors of the histogram estimate of a density f from a sample X₁,X₂,…,Xn using a cubic partition are shown to be asymptotically normal without any unnecessary conditions imposed on the density f. The asymptotic variances are shown to depend on f only through the corresponding norm of f. From this follows the asymptotic null distribution of a goodness-of-fit test based on the total variation distance, introduced by Györfi and van der Meulen (1991). This note uses the idea of partial inversion for obtaining characteristic functions of conditional distributions, which goes back at least to Bartlett (1938).