The Case of the Baltic Region： The History of the Faculty of Trade and Commerce

In the anticipation of the 150th anniversary of the Riga Technical University （Latvia）, some questions have become the objects of historical research. This article is devoted to the beginnings of the Faculty of Trade and Commerce in Latvia. The article reviews the historical situation and documents characterising the establishment of the faculty of the new educational institution; attention has been mostly paid to the history up to 1896 when the school underwent reorganisation.     

新课改指导下的课堂教学四个“更”

课堂教学改革是提高课堂教学质量的关键,要使课堂教学改革落实到实处,教师要在四个方面有所突破:一、更注重口语质量。二、更注重学生自主学习能力培养。三、更注重多媒体的应用。四、更注意评价手段灵活运用。     

基于政府利益要求及其实现方式的非财务指标关注程度实证研究

从政府角度出发,对政府所关注的反映其利益要求和实现方式信息的非财务指标进行了排序研究和分组研究。研究得出结论:政府对不同类的反映其利益要求和实现方式信息的非财务指标的关注程度存在显著的差异;越是反映政府排列在前的利益要求和实现方式信息的非财务指标越受政府关注。企业对政府相关信息的充分沟通更易取得政府对企业的理解和支持。企业除应按相关法律法规的规定进行规定信息的披露外,还应当根据本企业利益相关者政府对非财务指标关注的需要以及关注程度的差异对政府所关注的非财务指标信息对政府进行充分信息沟通,以满足政府关注相关信息的需要。     

Can China Help Lower World Inflation?: A Panel Study

In this paper, the effect of China's imports on importing countries' inflation is examined. Using data from 1994 to 2003, it is argued that China's export surge is an important contributor to lowering inflation in importing countries. Using fixed and random effect models, we identify a statistically significant negative correlation between the share of a country's imports from China and its rate of inflation.     

Evidence of the impacts of public e-procurement: The Portuguese experience

This paper analyses public e-procurement implementation and emphasizes its main difficulties and impacts in relation to the type of public organizations. The primary impacts and changes in the Portuguese public sector are analyzed within the new legal framework, which adopts mandatory e-procurement for any open, restricted or negotiated procedure. In this sense, two surveys carried out in consecutive years were conducted to assess the implementation difficulties and impact of e-procurement in the Portuguese public sector.The major value of this research is that it presents and discusses, for the first time, evidences about difficulties and impacts on the mandatory adoption of public e-procurement, based on the case of Portugal. The results show that the entities’ administrative level influences the e-procurement implementation, which is influenced by the innovation adoption process.     

高职院校学生学习动机现状的调查与分析

调查结果发现,高职学生的成就动机不足,学习动机的社会取向偏低,现实性较强,自我效能感较弱。多元与变革的社会环境和文化场域,直接影响着高职学生的学习价值取向,进而对高职学生的学习动机产生重要的影响;无法获得积极的学习体验是影响高职学生内在学习动力的直接因素。     

积极拓展结合第二课堂 推动高职院校学风建设

针对目前高职院校学生存在的学风问题,将第二课堂与学风建设结合起来,开拓以学科竞赛、艺体活动、荣誉表彰为主要内容的第二课堂可以提高大学生自主学习意识进而有利于学风建设。     

Emerging Interaction of Political Processes

Abstract

The emerging interaction of political processes sets the stage for the level of macro uncertainty and specific risk events that may occur in an international relationship. Strongly defined social control in Cuba, formal and informal, dominates the dynamics of the relationship, while simultaneously government, formal, action in the U.S. dominates the ability of American individuals to further the relationship. This study examines the development of a long-term relationship between two universities from the U.S. and Cuba. Over a period of eight years the relationship changes considerably as events on the macro stage play out and the environment for détente shifts. The key focus of this relationship lies with developing the study abroad program, taking students from the U.S. to Cuba.     

Sustaining urban place-making

Educational travel, a neglected area of study in sustainable tourism, has grown substantially over the last 20 years in part as a response to institutional missions to promote international education, but also as a result of the USA's national security concerns to nurture a global citizenry. Considerable future growth is predicted following the bipartisan Lincoln Commission report and under the pending new legislation in the USA. Our pre-test/post-test study of almost 5% (n = 651 US students) of the entire short-term, US educational travel market to Australia and New Zealand between 2008 and 2009 revealed significant differences between the cohorts of the two programs, both of which focused on sustainable development. The Australia program not only produced significant increases in global citizenship (as measured by scores on consumer behaviors, support for environmental policies, and environmental citizenship) beyond that of the New Zealand program, but any initial differences between the programs were erased following participation. Reasons for the differences in attitude change are discussed. Analysis also noted key differences between students with different political orientations, but no gender differences. Implications for managing educational travel, marketing Australia's and New Zealand's tourism, sustainable tourism planning, and theory advancements are discussed.     

马克思主义经济学与西方经济学关于公共物品的思想体系比较

逐步实现基本公共服务均等化已经成为我国新时期落实科学发展观的重要任务和战略主题。西方经济学学者研究公共物品理论以唯心主义"理性人"为假设前提,马克思主义经济学则以唯物主义的"社会人"假定展开分析。对公共物品的这两种思想体系进行比较分析,有助于把握公共物品思想的发展脉络和社会主义市场经济条件下公共物品的内涵、特征和本质,明确其范围和供给方式,进一步转变政府职能,促进我国基本公共服务均等化,构建社会主义和谐社会,实现社会公平。