关于机械制造装备设计课程教学的改革研讨

本文在分析当前机械制造装备设计课程教学现状的基础上,根据该课程的教学特点,对机械制造装备设计的教学改革进行了探讨,以期促进机械制造装备设计课程教学质量的提高,为今后机械制造装备设计课程教学改革提供一些思路。     

车辆装备保障信息化课程教学研究

本文介绍了车辆装备保障信息化课程建设目标,分析了车辆装备保障指挥专业车辆装备保障信息化课程教学过程中普遍存在的一些问题,从完善授课内容与方法、提高信息化教学条件、加强实践教学环节等方面提出了解决问题的方法。     

电子类课程实践教学的探析

电子类课程是电子及通信类专业的重要专业基础课,此类课程要求学生具备很强的实践能力。本文针对电子类课程的实践教学改革进行了研究和探索,从理论教学与实践教学相结合、利用电路仿真设计平台、改革课程设计模式等方面进行了分析,并提出了关于实践教学改革的几点建议。     

新规则下装饰工程造价课程改革探析

本文分析了当前装饰工程造价课程存在的问题,并从课程定位、教材建设、实践教学、师资队伍建设和教学方法运用等方面提出改革措施和建议,旨在探索提高高职工程造价专业学生的实践能力途径。     

“课证融合”在课程建设与改革中的实践

文章分析了《机械制图与计算机绘图》课程教学中存在的问题,从选择职业资格证书、课程整体设计、双师素质教师队伍建设、一体化实践教学场所建设四个方面阐述了该课程建设与改革的措施。对专业基础课程改革进行了有益的探索。     

高职骨干院校机械制造技术课程改革的研究与分析

高职骨干院校机械制造专业建设要结合社会对高职生技能的要求,教学要突出实践教学,要培养技术应用型人才,以培养学生实践技能能力为教学目标。结合骨干校的建设分析高职《机械制造技术》课程教学改革的设想和思路,给出该课程教学改革的具体操作方案,提出在教学内容、教学方法上要进行合理调整,加大实践技能教学的力度,并采取合理的考核指标体系,培养出符合社会要求的高职生。     

高职机械制造专业英语特点与教学改革

机械制造专业英语课程是21世纪复合型高端技能人才的必备知识之一。本文分析了高职机械制造专业英语教学中,学生、教师、教材和教学方式等层面存在的问题;并以“工作过程为导向”的项目教学模式为指导,总结了针对每个任务进行的教学模式改革实践。     

机械制造装备课程教学改革探讨

机械制造装备课程是机械专业一门重要的课程。为适应现代教育改革,本文从教学观念、课程内容、教学手段、实际应用等角度出发,对课程进行优化整合,进一步增强教学效果。     

高等院校电子实习课程教学改革思路的探讨

高等院校电子实习中心作为实践教学基地之一，担负着电子类专业学生实习的重要任务。电子实习的基本理念是培养学生的实践动手能力、设计和创新综合能力。本文从高等院校电子实习课程教学过程中亟待解决的普遍性问题出发，从规范教学硬件环境、细化完善教学内容、加强电子实习教学团队建设和改进教学模式等方面进行了阐述，提出了不断深化教学改革的思路。     

高职院校会计信息系统课程整体设计探讨

本文通过对会计信息系统课程的地位、教学总目标、人才培养模式的进一步分析，提出了课程整体设计的思想．从整改教学大纲、理论教学设计、实践教学环节设计、教学设施及实训环境、职业能力培训等5个方面，阐明了课程整体设计的框架．探讨了高职院校会计信息系统课程理论与实践教学体系改革的内容和基本思路。     

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.     

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.     

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.     

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.     

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.     

Ansätze und Ergebnisse anglo-amerikanischer M&A-Forschung

Based on a review of established U.S. management journals (1995–2003), six schools of thought are identified within the Anglo-American M&;A research: “Capital Market”, “Principal/Agent”, “Industrial Organization”, “Organizational Behavior”, “Human Resources” and “Strategic Management”. The literature review shows that the definition of M&;A success, the methods applied, and insights from empirical research differ according to the respective school of thought. Empirical studies focus on the resource combinations of merger partners, the specific circumstances of merger negotiations, and on integration management as antecedents of merger performance. Unfortunately, empirical findings have not yet provided reliable explanations for M&;A success. Based on the current state of Anglo-American M&;A research, the authors discuss implications for business practice, identify research gaps, and propose areas for future research.     

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.     

Introduction of New Technology with a Sound Transition of the Input-Output Structure

We examine the general equilibrium repercussions associated with the introduction of new technologies, using the generalized Leontief system that allows technological substitutions. We show that an untested introduction of cost-increasing technologies in any industry may result in creating a non-productive technological structure that does not satisfy the Hawkins-Simon condition, following the autonomous dynamic adjustment process with structural transitions in the economic system. Therefore, we propose a practicable control scheme of introducing cost-increasing technologies that strictly avoids the creation of non-productive structures in all periods of structural transition, using the available information on the ex ante technological structure.     

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.