论彼得·圣吉的管理哲学

彼得·圣吉是美国著名的管理学家。他的管理哲学从管理理论与管理实践、管理主体与管理客体、管理手段与管理目的、管理组织系统与管理环境之间的关系等四个维度全面揭示了管理科学的发展取向 ,深邃而富有内涵 ,值得我们研究和探讨     

AN ALGORITHM FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF OPTIMAL OR NEAR-OPTIMAL CHANGE-OVER DESIGNS

This paper presents an algorithm for the construction of optimal or near optimal change-over designs for arbitrary numbers of treatments, periods and units. Previous research on optimality has been either theoretical or has resulted in limited tabulations of small optimal designs. The algorithm consists of a number of steps:first find an optimal direct treatment effects design, ignoring residual effects, and then optimise this class of designs with respect to residual effects. Poor designs are avoided by judicious application of the (M, S)-optimality criterion, and modifications of it, to appropriate matrices. The performance of the algorithm is illustrated by examples.     

天才的萨克雷与永恒的《名利场》

从介绍英国19世纪批判现实主义小说家萨克雷的生平入手,通过对其代表作《名利场》所完成“描写真实”、“宣扬仁爱”两大任务的深刻揭示,就这位“天才”所显示出来的一系列艺术创新手法进行了评析,并对其存在的历史局限性进行了披露,高度评价了其在英国现实主义小说发展史上坚持真实性原则、不落窠臼而独树一帜的艺术成就。     

一类特殊模的自同态环

本文讨论了相对投射模的自同态环,得出了M一投射模P的Jacobson根为其小子模且P直不可分解时,其自同态环是局部环.     

Evaluating employee assistance programs. A review of methods, outcomes, and future directions

Renewed interest in assisting troubled employees has led to an upsurge in the development of employee assistance programs, coupled with demands for demonstrable effectiveness. This review examines the nature and scope of these programs, their administrative and methodological context, and the types and outcomes of evaluation studies conducted thus far. Proposals for improving future investigations through a number of different approaches and strategies are then made.     

伦敦语言学派的兴起及其流变

从理论语言学史看,伦敦学派经历了从马林诺夫斯基人类语言学到弗斯语境语言学,再到韩礼德系统功能语言学的发展。后现代哲学使哲学的终极性基础,亦即使认识主客观对象的途径和方法得到根本的转换(转换成符号),是西方哲学中最重要的思想事件,即所谓"语言学转向",我们无妨说,韩礼德80年代后对他的系统功能语言学的推进,是以符号中介论为其深层理论背景的,或者说与"语言学转向"是一致的。     

On the mode of administering a questionnaire and responses to open-ended items

Concurrently administered personal and telephone surveys are compared to measure differences between the modes for identical questions. Speed of questioning is found to be greater in telephone interviews than personal interviews. The faster pace of telephone interviews is linked to shorter answers to open-ended items on the telephone. The tendency to reduce such responses is disproportionately exhibited by younger, affluent respondents who tend to provide detailed responses in personal interviews.     

THE INEFFICIENCY OF WORKER TIME USE

Much work is carried out in short, interrupted segments. This phenomenon, which we label task juggling, has been overlooked by economists. We study the work schedules of some judges in Italy documenting that they do juggle tasks and that juggling causally lowers their productivity substantially. To measure the size of this effect, we show that although all these judges receive the same workload, those who juggle more trials at once instead of working sequentially on few of them at each unit of time, take longer to complete their portfolios of cases. Task juggling seems to have no adverse effect on the quality of the judges' decisions, as measured by the percent of decisions appealed. To identify these causal effects we estimate models with judge fixed effects and we exploit the lottery assigning cases to judges. We discuss whether task juggling can be viewed as inefficient, and provide a back‐of‐the‐envelope calculation of the social cost of longer trials due to task juggling.     

A new look at Markov processes of G/M/1-type

We present a new method for deriving the stationary distribution of an ergodic Markov process of G/M/1-type in continuous-time, by deriving and making use of a new representation for each element of the rate matrices contained in these distributions. This method can also be modified to derive the Laplace transform of each transition function associated with Markov processes of G/M/1-type.     

中国宏观经济波动源的识别与原因分析

为了识别驱动中国宏观经济周期波动性的影响因素,依据中国经济的特殊性,基于1978-2014年42个宏观经济变量的样本数据集构建动态因子模型进行实证分析。研究发现,驱动中国宏观经济波动主要因素有5个潜在宏观因子,其中前四个主要因子分别揭示了驱动中国经济周期波动的主要波动源,它们分别为工业产出因子、外商直接投资(FDI)因子、设备利用率因子和全要素生产率因子。另外,讨论了熨平经济周期性波动的经济政策选择。