Squashed dreams and rare breeds: ableism and the arbiters of life and death

The week beginning 29 June 2015 is not just historic for the closure of the Independent Living Fund in the United Kingdom, but for me was the week they decided that my life is not worth investing in; they being NHS England, NICE and, with them, the Department of Health. They chose not to support the enzyme replacement therapy that has been not only keeping me alive, but giving me a quality of life – enabling me to return to finish my Disability Studies PhD exploring how Christian leaders explain disability, where ethics have become the main topic, and to rebuild my career – or so I thought.     

Testing equality of two normal covariance matrices with monotone missing data

Abstract

The problem of testing equality of two multivariate normal covariance matrices is considered. Assuming that the incomplete data are of monotone pattern, a quantity similar to the Likelihood Ratio Test Statistic is proposed. A satisfactory approximation to the distribution of the quantity is derived. Hypothesis testing based on the approximate distribution is outlined. The merits of the test are investigated using Monte Carlo simulation. Monte Carlo studies indicate that the test is very satisfactory even for moderately small samples. The proposed methods are illustrated using an example.     

The context of employment discrimination: interpreting the findings of a field experiment

Although field experiments have documented the contemporary relevance of discrimination in employment, theories developed to explain the dynamics of differential treatment cannot account for differences across organizational and institutional contexts. In this article, I address this shortcoming by presenting the main empirical findings from a multi‐method research project, in which a field experiment of ethnic discrimination in the Norwegian labour market was complemented with forty‐two in‐depth interviews with employers who were observed in the first stage of the study. While the experimental data support earlier findings in documenting that ethnic discrimination indeed takes place, the qualitative material suggests that theorizing in the field experiment literature have been too concerned with individual and intra‐psychic explanations. Discriminatory outcomes in employment processes seems to be more dependent on contextual factors such as the number of applications received, whether requirements are specified, and the degree to which recruitment procedures are formalized. I argue that different contexts of employment provide different opportunity structures for discrimination, a finding with important theoretical and methodological implications.     

论新闻报道策划的实践意义

新闻报道策划 在近几年的新闻实践中应用非常广泛。就报道主题、整合信息、沟通受众和发挥媒体整体优 势等方面论述了新闻报道策划的实践意义。     

"V 什么V"式的句法、语义、语用分析

"V什么V"式是现代汉语中常用的表否定的句式。它形式上最大的特点是"什么"前后的词语相同,它的基本句法结构是主谓结构;"V什么V"式的基本语义特征是表否定,这是通过"什么"实现的;"V什么V"式的语用特点是表示强烈的否定、表达强烈的意志性及简略性。     

社会转型与党建模式之纵向考察

建设一个什么样的党和怎样建设党的问题 ,是一个历史性的老课题。纵观历史 ,世界上近代政党的出现是由古代社会向近代社会转型所决定的 ;近代社会的发展及各国国情的差别 ,决定了不同时代世界各国工人阶级政党类型的不同。中国共产党也有自己的建党模式 ,这种模式必须随中国社会的转型而修正。今天的中国已开始步入工业———信息社会 ,所以今天中国共产党又必须严肃思考和切实解决党建模式的问题。     

论中国人社会化与心理咨询本土化

不同民族的人具有显著的心理差异。西方心理咨询模式与中国人社会化特点存在显著的矛盾冲突 ,其核心是个人取向与社会取向的矛盾。由此决定了心理咨询在中国的发展必须经历一个本土化过程。     

分形理论在计算机辅助图案造型中的应用研究

本文简单介绍了分形理论的概念和特征，着重阐述了分形理论在图案艺术设计方面的应用和方法。研究设计了计算机辅助图案艺术设计系统的功能和构成。     

关于硕士研究生培养“两年制”的思考

我国硕士研究生教育的培养目标一直定位在学术型人才的培养上,但随着国际化进程的发展以及国内现实的需要,硕士研究生的培养模式发生了转变。改革硕士生的培养学制被提上了日程,在国内某些重点高校也进行了试点。然而“两年制”的学制改革也引发了社会各阶层的争议,学制改革是否可行成为争论的焦点。两年制的改革不仅影响到硕士研究生教育未来的发展道路,而且也成为关系教育能否高效、高质的为国家经济、社会建设输送高级人才的重要课题。     

A Bayesian method for classification and discrimination

We discuss Bayesian analyses of traditional normal-mixture models for classification and discrimination. The development involves application of an iterative resampling approach to Monte Carlo inference, commonly called Gibbs sampling, and demonstrates routine application. We stress the benefits of exact analyses over traditional classification and discrimination techniques, including the ease with which such analyses may be performed in a quite general setting, with possibly several normal-mixture components having different covariance matrices, the computation of exact posterior classification probabilities for observed data and for future cases to be classified, and posterior distributions for these probabilities that allow for assessment of second-level uncertainties in classification.