物流高技能人才“学赛一体化”教学的研究与实践

通过调查问卷以及文献资料对当前高职教育技能大赛现状进行分析,提出以技能大赛为切入点,以企业实际任务为载体,构建以赛促教、以赛促学、以赛促改的“学赛一体化”物流高技能人才培养模式,进而改革课程体系、优化教学模式、发展教师团队、强化实训效果,提升高职物流教学水平。     

职业技能大赛助力物流管理专业建设研究

本文以物流管理专业相关技能大赛进行分析,阐述了广州华商职业学院以技能大赛为抓手,实施以赛促建、以赛促改、以赛促学,推动物流管理专业建设的具体做法,并针对职业技能竞赛与常规教学融合提出了建议。     

基于职业技能大赛的高职英语口语考试改革探索

职业教育技能大赛已成为职教行业和社会的共识。作为全国职业院校技能大赛项目之一的英语口语技能大赛,势必指导和影响着高职英语教学。本文针对英语口语技能大赛的参赛情况及目前高职英语教学的现状,提出了推动高职英语教学改革的策略,做到"以赛促练、以练促改"。     

物流技能竞赛对高职物流专业建设的影响

介绍了江苏省高职院校技能大赛物流赛项的目的和内容,以无锡职业技术学院物流专业为例,分析了江苏省赛对高职物流教育及物流专业建设的影响。     

物流技能竞赛对高职物流专业建设的影响

介绍了江苏省高职院校技能大赛物流赛项的目的和内容,以无锡职业技术学院物流专业为例,分析了江苏省赛对高职物流教育及物流专业建设的影响。     

高职教育“以赛促学、以赛促教”教学模式改革探析

本文通过解读"以赛促学、以赛促教"的内涵,分析技能大赛在我国高等职业院校的发展现状,找到"以赛促学、以赛促教"教学模式实施的正确道路,从而促进我国高职教育的发展。     

职业技能大赛视阙下的高职综合英语教学模式探究

对英语口语大赛和英语写作大赛的题型进行了分析并给出了教学过程中所采取的对策。综合英语教学要与技能竞赛统一起来,充分体现"以赛促学、以赛促教"的高职综合英语教学模式,以应对大赛和未来就业市场的需求。     

浅析高职土建类学生职业素养养成与技能大赛相融合

分析高职土建类学生职业技能竞赛的现状,探讨如何实现"以赛促学,以赛促教"的人才培养模式,指出技能大赛对学生的职业素养有影响和促进作用。     

管理会计"课训赛"一体化教学模式探索

管理会计作为高职院校会计技能竞赛的一个重要环节,与教学实践相融合,可以大幅提升教学效果.文章分析了目前我国职业院校会计技能大赛改革背景下,管理会计课程教学、备赛训练和比赛中存在的现实问题,结合云南农业职业技术学院实际,对如何构建管理会计"课训赛"一体化教学模式提出了建议,以期达到以赛促教、以赛促学、以赛促改的目的,最终提升高职院校财会类专业人才培养水平.     

全国职业院校技能大赛高职组会计技能赛项举行

<正>以赛促教、以赛促学、以赛促改、以赛促建。2013年全国职业院校技能大赛高职组会计技能赛项于6月1日在山西省财政税务专科学校举行。财政部人事教育司张猛副司长,财政部干部教育中心王庆阁副主任,财政部会计司欧阳宗书副司长,教育部职业教育与成人教育司葛道凯司长,山西省教育厅张文栋厅长,山西省财政厅常国华副厅长,山西省财政税务专科学校贾明建书记     

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.     

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.     

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.     

Capturing the Implications of Services Trade Liberalization

This paper evaluates the impact of service sector trade liberalization on the world economy by a ten-region, eleven-sector CGE model with import embodied technology transfer from developed countries to developing countries. Simulation results show that service sector trade liberalization not only directly affects world service production and trade, but also has significant implications for other sectors in the economy. The major channel of the impact is through inter-industry input-output relations and TFP growth induced from services imported by developing countries from developed countries, which may be embodied with new information and advanced technology.     

City Children and Genderfied Neighbourhoods: The New Generation as Urban Regeneration Strategy

Former industrial cities in the West are employing gentrification as urban policy. In these policies, women and families currently play an important role as gentrification pioneers. In my analysis of Rotterdam in the Netherlands, I propose the term genderfication to understand the gender dimensions of this process. Genderfication refers to the production of space for different gender relations. I analyse Rotterdam's urban planning program for becoming a ‘child‐friendly city’, which entails replacing existing urban dwellings with new, larger and more expensive ‘family‐friendly homes’ as a strategy for urban re‐generation. Urban re‐generation supplements regeneration in the form of material and economic restructuring, and refers to the replacement of part of the current population by a new and better suited generation. The ‘child‐friendly city program’ is considered in tandem with punitive ‘youth policies’.     

Hierarchical Models in Environmental Science

Environmental systems are complicated. They include very intricate spatio-temporal processes, interacting on a wide variety of scales. There is increasingly vast amounts of data for such processes from geographical information systems, remote sensing platforms, monitoring networks, and computer models. In addition, often there is a great variety of scientific knowledge available for such systems, from partial differential equations based on first principles to panel surveys. It is argued that it is not generally adequate to consider such processes from a joint perspective. Instead, the processes often must be considered as a coherently linked system of conditional models. This paper provides a brief overview of hierarchical approaches applied to environmental processes. The key elements of such models can be considered in three general stages, the data stage, process stage, and parameter stage. In each stage, complicated dependence structure is mitigated by conditioning. For example, the data stage can incorporate measurement errors as well as multiple datasets with varying supports. The process and parameter stages can allow spatial and spatio-temporal processes as well as the direct inclusion of scientific knowledge. The paper concludes with a discussion of some outstanding problems in hierarchical modelling of environmental systems, including the need for new collaboration approaches.     

Multinomial distributions applied to random sampling of particulate materials

When sampling a batch consisting of particulate material, the distribution of a sample estimator can be characterized using knowledge about the sample drawing process. With Bernoulli sampling, the number of particles in the sample is binomially distributed. Because this is rarely realized in practice, we propose a sampling design in which the possible samples have a nearly equal mass. Expected values and variances of the sample estimator are calculated. It is shown that the sample estimator becomes identical to the Horvitz–Thompson estimator in the case of a large batch-to-sample mass ratio and a large sample mass. Simulations and experiments were performed to test the theory. Simulations confirm that the round-off error due to the discrete nature of particles is negligible for large sample sizes. Sampling experiments were carried out with a mixture of PolyPropylene (PP) and PolyTetraFluorEthylene (PTFE) spheres suspended in a viscous medium. The measured and theoretical variations are in good agreement.