青年路——整合的希望

青年路原为明清时期昆明城的东城墙，因1958年昆明青年义务劳动修建而得名。     

自贡灯会,上元梦华录

元宵灯节,是遍及中国汉民族居住地区的重大年节活动,已有两千年历史,被称为华夏民族的狂欢节。四川自贡地区早在唐宋年间就有了新年赏灯的习俗,明清时期更进一步发展为各种会节。清中叶即有“狮灯场市”“灯杆节”“提灯会”“瞒天过海”等灯会活动。     

略论明清时期长江流域商品经济发展的区域性特点

<正> 在长江流域经济变迁的历程中,由于地理环境不同,以及生产力水平、资源状况、历史文化传承等诸方面的差异,明清时期长江流域的经济变迁也呈现出明显的地域性特点,不同地区之间,同一地区的不同部分之间,在经济变迁过程中存在着不同程度的差异。本文试图揭示明清时期长江上中下游商品经济发展总体趋势和共同特征背后的差异和特色,以期对今天长江流     

水库坝基防渗漏施工措施

随着水利水电建设事业的发展,国内修建的大坝愈来愈多,地质条件良好的坝址也越来越少。目前,许多大坝修建在岩溶发育的地区,在此筑坝,其基础处理、水库周边和库区渗漏通道的防渗处理极为重要,同时处理的施工技术也比较复杂。文章介绍了岩溶地区水库的防渗措施,并提出了几点建议。     

清镇暗流河水电站工程地质条件综述

清镇暗流河水电站是修建在岩溶地区的一个小型水利枢纽,经过多年的勘察论证,其工程地质条件已基本查明,目前正处于建设之中。文章通过对坝址区工程地质、水文地质条件的综合分析与论述,简要概括了电站存在的主要工程地质问题。     

FAST工程台址洼地形成机制探讨

计算了洼地演化的开始时间。通过台址所在地区的气候与水文条件、地下河条件及重力崩塌作用分析了洼地形成机制,对站址的稳定性分析,站址修建完成后的排水设计有一定的参考意义。     

水库坝基防渗漏施工措施

随着水利水电建设事业的发展,国内修建的大坝愈来愈多,地质条件良好的坝址也越来越少.目前,许多大坝修建在岩溶发育的地区,在此筑坝,其基础处理、水库周边和库区渗漏通道的防渗处理极为重要,同时处理的施工技术也比较复杂.文章介绍了岩溶地区水库的防渗措施,并提出了几点建议.     

北京还剩多少条胡同

说北京还剩多少条胡同,“剩”字显得有点刺眼,其实十分准确。按照《新华字典》的解释,剩的意思是“多余,余留下来”。那么,在开发商的小算盘里,就是在算计现在还有那些多余的胡同可以下手。而文物专家、文化学者、老百姓,则在感叹今天北京还余留下来了那些胡同。这里说的北京,指的是旧城,或古城,也就是明清时的内城和外城。标准的解释是:“旧城的范围为明清时期北京护城河及其遗址以内(含护城河及其遗址)的城市区域。”(见《北京城市总体规划2004年——2020年》)通俗的说法,就是今天的二环路以内的地区。明清北京城是在辽、金、元时期北京城…     

白族盐村--云南省大理白族自治州云龙县诺邓村

云南省大理白族自治州云龙县诺邓镇诺邓村，自唐代南诏时期以来近1300年，村名一直没有改变，是滇西北地区年代最久远的村落。作为现存的云南最古老的村、白族最早的经济重镇、滇西最集中的明清建筑群和明清文化的遗踪，源远流长的历史底蕴决定了千年白族村深厚的文化内涵。     

远去的老行当之剪纸

据考证,我国的民间剪纸起源于西汉,发展于南北朝,繁盛于明清时期。按地域特征可分为三大流派,即南派、北派和江浙派;又可细分为河北、山西、山东、陕西、江浙、福建和广东地区为代表的七大主要流派。各流派艺术表现手法各异。如果说以王老赏为创始人的河北蔚县戏曲人物剪纸,在全国的剪纸流派中独一无二,那么初唐诗人李商隐的“镂金作胜传荆俗,剪彩为人起晋风”,就是对当时山西广灵剪纸的真实写照;如果说产生于唐代,形成于宋代,成熟于明清时期的山东民间剪纸,以     

Development in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Statistics at the Australian Bureau of Statistics

This paper outlines the ICT statistical developments that the ABS has undertaken over recent years. These developments have been on both the supply side (ICT industry) and the demand side (use of IT by sector). The content of ABS ICT surveys has changed significantly over the last few years and are expected to develop further in line with industry changes and emerging policy needs.
Recent developments in household collections have been the inclusion of IT use questions in the 2001 Census of Population and Housing and in various ABS social surveys such as Children's Participation in Culture and Leisure Activities. Annual business IT use surveys are now conducted and include topics such as Internet commerce and IT security. Biennial ICT industry surveys are conducted to provide data on ICT production, imports and exports, ICT industry employment, performance and structure information. An Internet activity survey is run every six months and provides regional Internet access details and infrastructure details on Internet service providers.
A major development for 2002–03 will be the compilation of an ICT satellite account. ABS intends to produce an ICT Information Development Plan to guide its future statistical development work in the ICT field.     

Incumplimiento del salario mínimo en Europa central y oriental

En este estudio se analiza el incumplimiento del salario mínimo durante el periodo 2003–2012 en diez países de Europa central y oriental con salario mínimo obligatorio nacional. A partir de los datos de EU‐SILC y la metodología propuesta por Bhorat, Kanbur y Mayet (2013), se cuantifica la incidencia y magnitud del incumplimiento. Se realizan análisis de regresión sobre determinantes individuales, laborales y macroeconómicos. Aunque la incidencia permanece relativamente baja, los trabajadores a los que se dirigen las políticas de salario mínimo parecen los más expuestos a su incumplimiento. Con el tiempo, una mayor incidencia se asocia a una razón más alta entre salario mínimo y salario medio.     

Value at Risk in the Suburbs: Eminent Domain and the Geographical Politics of the US Foreclosure Crisis

Several US counties and local governments have recently considered a novel solution to the foreclosure crisis. They plan to use eminent domain to compel the owners of mortgage debt—and specifically of private‐label mortgage‐backed securities—to sell the debt to the government at a price reflecting the loan's market value. The government would then restructure the debt and resell it to new investors. The plans are striking because—in contrast to both development‐driven eminent domain and the federal subprime bank bailout—they would force investors to assume asset devaluation and increased long‐term risk. Notably, the plans have emerged as an instance of financialization‐focused politics in suburbs and suburban cities of color, specifically majority‐black and ‐Latino/a suburbs. Local support for the plans, we argue, is rooted in the long‐term disinvestment of these ‘suburbs of exception', which became targets of subprime lending and eventually sites where the ‘financial exception' has been localized. But these demographic shifts, fragmentation and fiscal pressures have at the same time created a suburban political terrain in which the plans have gained their strongest political support.     

Towards a Theory of Serendipity: A Systematic Review and Conceptualization

Serendipity – the notion of making surprising and valuable discoveries – plays a major role in the success of individuals and organizations alike. Previous research has established the importance of serendipity and identified important individual- and organizational-level antecedents. However, the literature has been dispersed and the boundaries of the concept have been blurry, leading to a lack of conceptual clarity and structure, and thus limiting validity and managerial actionability. Based on a systematic literature review, I synthesize existing management-related research on serendipity and explicate the emergence and composition of serendipity in the organizational context. I first identify three necessary conditions that differentiate serendipity from related concepts such as luck or targeted innovation: agency, surprise, and value. Then, I draw from the literature on sensemaking, event-based theorizing, and quantum-based approaches to management to conceptualize the process of cultivating serendipity in the organizational context as a process of enabling potentiality and materialization, and develop a multi-level theory of (cultivating) serendipity. This conceptualization contributes to our collective understanding of how, why, and when (i.e., under what conditions) organizations can leverage the value in the unexpected, which opens up fruitful avenues for further research.     

Accountability of NGOs in Bangladesh A critical overview

NGOs in Bangladesh have been recognized as effective change agents in the socio-economic arena throughout the world. Their contributions in micro credit, non-formal education and primary health care are widely known. NGOs play a significant role in society. NGO accountability, as a result, has become a critical issue. NGO accountability in Bangladesh has been examined here in relation to patrons, clients and themselves. Of the three relationships only accountability to patrons is in a near satisfactory state. Accountability to clients is handicapped by lack of opportunities of beneficiaries to participate meaningfully in NGO policy making. Accountability to themselves is adversely affected due to the adherence to a strictly hierarchical system and the influence of founding and charismatic NGO leaders.     

Cultural Economy Planning in Creative Cities: Discourse and Practice

While a growing body of research analyses the functional mechanisms of the cultural or creative economy, there has been little attention devoted to understanding how local governments translate this work into policy. Moreover, research in this vein focuses predominately on Richard Florida's creative class thesis rather than considering the wider body of work that may influence policy. This article seeks to develop a deeper understanding of how municipalities conceptualize and plan for the cultural economy through the lens of two cities held up as model ‘creative cities’ — Austin, Texas and Toronto, Ontario. The work pays particular attention to how the cities adopt and adapt leading theories, strategies and discourses of the cultural economy. While policy documents indicate that the cities embrace the creative city model, in practice agencies tend to adapt conventional economic development strategies for cultural economy activity and appropriate the language of the creative city for multiple purposes.     

Input/output ranges and performance: an examination of US machine tool producers

Despite the establishment of high-tech multinational enterprises (MNEs) in Ireland since the late 1950s, the country did not succeed in closing the technological gap with most of its EU counterparts. The weak National System of Innovation (NSI), and in particular low business and government R&D levels, combined with a lack of research and technology linkages between MNEs and indigenous firms, explain these poor results. However, the Shannon region in the West of the country presents some specific institutional characteristics that could theoretically make the region a strong technological enclave. The various actors in the region - i.e. the administrative, financial, political and research institutions, as well as the business organizations - have indeed infused a new type of economic development. After a brief review of the available concepts and models articulated around these actors and their interrelationships, the paper analyses whether the Shannon region, taken as an illustrative example, mirrors a specific economic and technological localized setting. The study is based on a survey of indigenous and foreign firms.     

Sixty years of discrimination and diversity research in human resource management: A review with suggestions for future research directions

This article reviews discrimination and diversity research published in Human Resource Management (HRM) over the past 60 years. While discrimination and diversity are very different constructs, it is often informative to study them together, because when people recognize each other's diversity, this can result in bias, stereotyping, and discrimination. We conducted bibliographic searches for terms related to discrimination and diversity as well as a manual search through every title and abstract published in HRM over the last 60 years to assess article relevance. The search resulted in 135 research articles with 136 unique studies (i.e., samples) which are reviewed in this article. Sex and race are the demographics that have been examined the most in HRM, while religion has been examined the least. Moreover, the number of studies examining lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) employees in the workplace in HRM has grown quickly within the past 10 years, culminating in a recent meta‐analysis. Our review looks at some of the earliest research published, the most recent research published, and the overall trends we identified in the research over the years for both discrimination and diversity articles. We then make future research suggestions and recommendations to advance the study of discrimination and diversity in the coming years.     

Towards an Asian model of human resource management? A comparative analysis of China,Japan and South Korea

There has been much discussion regarding the possible decline and weakening of national systems of human resource management (HRM). Yet, culture and institutions are often cited as the major stumbling blocks to this outcome. Such constraints may dissipate in the analysis, particularly if ‘regional clusters’ are considered where geographic and cultural closeness and ‘openness’ to similar economic pressures exist. In such cases, it might be postulated that convergence in HRM will occur. We argue that China, Japan and South Korea represent such a cluster. This article examines these countries, to see if a degree of convergence is taking place and if it is towards an identifiable ‘Asian’ model of HRM. A model of change is presented that distinguishes between levels of occurrence and acceptance. Details of the development and practice of HRM in each country are then set out. The article ends with a discussion and implications section and a brief conclusion.     

The Early History of the Cumulants and the Gram-Charlier Series

The early history of the Gram-Charlier series is discussed from three points of view: (1) a generalization of Laplace's central limit theorem, (2) a least squares approximation to a continuous function by means of Chebyshev-Hermite polynomials, (3) a generalization of Gauss's normal distribution to a system of skew distributions. Thiele defined the cumulants in terms of the moments, first by a recursion formula and later by an expansion of the logarithm of the moment generating function. He devised a differential operator which adjusts any cumulant to a desired value. His little known 1899 paper in Danish on the properties of the cumulants is translated into English in the Appendix.