Exit from the high street: an exploratory study of sustainable fashion consumption pioneers

In today's fashion system, dominated by business models predicated on continual consumption and globalized production systems that have major environmental and social impacts, the consumption of ‘sustainable fashion’ takes on an almost paradoxical quality. This paper explores this paradox by focusing on a previously under‐researched group of consumers – ‘sustainable fashion consumption pioneers’ who actively engage and shape their own discourse around the notion of sustainable fashion consumption. These pioneers actively create and communicate strategies for sustainable fashion behaviour that can overcome the nebulous and somewhat paradoxical reality that sustainable development in the fashion industry presents. Specifically, we use passive netnography and semi‐structured interviews to illuminate the role of motivational and contextual factors that help shape these consumers' definitions of sustainable fashion including such key behaviours as purchasing fewer garments of higher quality, exiting the retail market, purchasing only second‐hand fashion goods and sewing or upgrading their own clothing. Central to much of these behaviours is the notion that personal style, rather than fashion, can bridge the potential disconnect between sustainability and fashion while also facilitating a sense of well‐being not found in traditional fashion consumption. As such, our research suggests that for these consumers sustainability is as much about reducing measurable environmental or social impacts as it is about incorporating broader concepts through which to achieve goals beyond the pro‐environmental or ethical.     

对普通高校学风建设的思考

高等教育大众化使普通高校的学风建设更显重要。高校必须营建一个有利于学生学习和成长的环境氛围 ,主要的是要加强教师教风的建设、学生学风的建设和学术气氛的创建 ,努力培养出适应社会发展和需要的高质量人才。     

基于识别度与传播能力的品牌竞争力评价

品牌识别度与品牌传播能力两项指标,表现了品牌和消费者心理、行为之间的互动、多变的关系。基于这种认识,本文构建了品牌识别度与品牌传播能力的评价指标体系,用层次分析法来计算影响品牌识别度与传播能力的指标的权重,再用模糊综合评价法来进行具体评价,并借助于德尔菲打分法,设计了一个基于品牌识别度与品牌传播能力的品牌竞争力二维评价模型,在此基础上,以"苏宁电器"为例进行具体的案例分析。     

国外中国旅游研究进展：学术贡献视角的述评

文章分析了国外中国旅游研究的总体情况,对其主要进展进行了基于学术贡献视角的阐述和评价。研究指出,国外中国旅游研究主要的学术贡献集中在引介、应用和理论检验方面,而扎根于中国旅游发展实践的理论建构尚不多见。研究认为,国内外旅游学界存在的信息不对称,国外学界和业界了解中国旅游发展迫切的刚性需求,以及研究可进入性和调研深度的缺失,是导致目前国外中国旅游研究领域理论贡献成果较为欠缺的主要原因。深入中国旅游发展实践进行理论提升,并实现同西方现有理论的对话乃至超越,将是中国本土的旅游研究走向世界的关键。     

陕西省高等院校第二课堂教育探析

本文从陕西省高校第二课堂建设的实际情况出发,高校第二课堂建设对培养学生创新精神和实践能力及对与实践教学如何有机结合,促进人才培养质量的提高进行了初步探讨。第二课堂教育对陕西省乃至全国高等教育中的现实意义。     

封建帝王“德主刑辅”观探视

"德主刑辅"作为一种治国理念、治国思想,是封建士大夫探索的理论结晶。但在现实生活中,封建帝王并非按其行事,而是因地制宜地实施其统治。实践证明,凡当帝王因地制宜实施统治时,便会国泰民安、国祚长久;反之,则会社会混乱、国祚短暂。     

金刚石纳米粉引晶方法制备金刚石薄膜方法

利用金刚石纳米粉引晶法和常规研磨方法分别在单晶硅衬底上制备金刚石薄膜,并采用扫描电镜、激光拉曼方法对所制备样品进行表征,通过SEM和拉曼谱分析,与研磨法生长金刚石薄膜相比,利用金刚石纳米粉引晶方法可以大大提高金刚石薄膜的成核速度,生长速率达到2μm/h以上。对相同碳源浓度下生长的金刚石薄膜样品的SEM和拉曼谱分析,采用引晶法生长的金刚石薄膜质量明显高于研磨法。     

贪心算法求解最少资源问题的探讨

面对资源的日益紧缺,如何有效合理的利用资源一直是专家学者研究和探讨的热点问题。最少资源问题是对初步资源规划问题的探讨,可以为多个资源组合规划问题的基础研究提供有效的参考作用。传统的回溯法穷举虽然能找到最少资源问题的最优解但其时间复杂度会高于o(n!),往往耗时太多,不能满足问题的及时性。提出了一种以最早开始时间为贪心策略的求解最少资源问题的贪心算法,不仅能够找到最优解,而且其时间复杂度仅为o(n2),极大提高了算法的效率。     

NO MARGINAL ARBITRAGE OF THE SECOND KIND FOR HIGH PRODUCTION REGIMES IN DISCRETE TIME PRODUCTION–INVESTMENT MODELS WITH PROPORTIONAL TRANSACTION COSTS

We consider a class of production–investment models in discrete time with proportional transaction costs. For linear production functions, we study a natural extension of the no‐arbitrage of the second kind condition introduced by Rásonyi. We show that this condition implies the closedness of the set of attainable claims and is equivalent to the existence of a strictly consistent price system under which the evaluation of future production profits is strictly negative. This allows us to discuss the closedness of the set of terminal wealth in models with nonlinear production, functions which may admit arbitrages of the second kind for low production regimes but not marginally for high production regimes.     

The Emergence of Second‐Tier Auditors in the US: Evidence from Investor Perceptions of Financial Reporting Credibility

We examine changes in the association between auditor type (Big 4, Second‐Tier, and Other non‐Big 4) and perceived financial reporting credibility in the wake of events (e.g., Andersen's failure, the implementation of SOX, creation of the PCAOB, etc.) which led to significant growth in Second‐Tier client portfolios and increased scrutiny of Second‐Tier audit practices. Our results reveal that financial reporting credibility of Second‐Tier clients was lower than that of Big 4 clients and was indistinguishable from that of Other non‐Big 4 clients pre‐Andersen. However, post‐Andersen, we find that financial reporting credibility of Second‐Tier clients is higher than that of Other non‐Big 4 clients and is indistinguishable from that of Big 4 clients. We expect that our results will be of interest to regulators, both in the United States and in the European Union, who have expressed concerns about the current state of competition in the audit market, management and boards of directors that are contemplating switching to a Second‐Tier audit firm, and academics investigating quality differences among audit firm types.