The role of family decision makers in festival tourism

This study assessed the role of family decision makers in participating in a festival according to five stages of festival participation. A survey process was conducted using two sampling groups: the sample for families with children and the sample for families without children. According to the results of the study, a number of marketing implications were generated. For example, the husband was revealed to more actively join transportation-related activities including driving, deciding travel routes, automobile safety checks, and filling up with gasoline. The wife was a strong decision maker in selecting restaurants or menus in the festival tourism management process. Likewise, the role of the wife is very significant, from suggesting the festival participation at the first stage to determining a revisit to the festival at the last stage. However, the children or joint decision-making patterns were not distinctive as they are said to be in other tourism literature. Findings of the study are expected to offer valuable insights for all festival stakeholders including festival vendors, local government, local residents, and festival organizers.     

农地养护法律制度研究

本文旨在通过研究农地养护的法律制度,为维护和改善我国农地质量、确保粮食安全提供强有力的法制保障。主要运用实证研究方法和规范研究方法。研究认为法律制度对农地质量保护有着重要意义,但我国关于农地养护的现行立法在组织制度、经济激励制度、法律责任制度等方面还存在一些许多问题,影响了我国农地养护的实施效果。文章认为应进一步加强对相关制度的研究并提出了一些立法完善的思路。     

基于车辆数据的k近邻联合概率数据关联算法

在交通场景中采用一些预警措施能够有效地减少交通事故发生。例如,对车辆轨迹进行跟踪并预测车辆的驾驶行为,就是一个常用的预警方法。在对车辆进行跟踪的过程中,数据关联是很重要的部分,它可以对车辆的观测点和轨迹进行关联,从而更新车辆的轨迹,完成跟踪过程。在此背景下,提出了一种新的数据关联算法,即k近邻联合概率数据关联算法(k Nearest Neighbor-Joint Probability Data Association,kNN-JPDA)。实验结果表明,该算法能够较好地解决在交通场景下车辆数据的数据关联问题,在精度以及运行效率方面都有所提高。     

信用评估研究综述与演化分析

信用评估研究是信用应用市场面临的最具挑战性的问题之一,了解信用评估研究的发展现状,厘清评估方法的演化过程,是进行信用评估的研究基础.以Web of Science Core Collection中的SCI-Expended数据库和SSCI数据库为数据源,分级多次采集了与信用评级、信用评分有关的文章进行文献计量分析.分析...     

股东、政府及管理层之间的委托代理分析

传统意义上的委托代理理论是指单重委托代理理论,主要用来分析以私有产权和私有制为基础的公司制企业在经营权和所有权分离的背景下产生的公司治理问题。但在我国,国有企业从初始委托人（全体人民）到最终代理人（管理层）存在着多层的委托代理关系,企业内所有者缺位,所有权的监督比较薄弱,因此单重委托代理理论不适合用来分析我国的国有企业。运用双重委托代理理论对我国国有企业中的股东（全体人民）、政府及管理层之间的委托代理关系进行了分析而得到双重委托代理理论比单重委托代理理论更具解释力的结论。对委托代理模型的主要变量进行了讨论,并给出全民和政府分别作为委托人时的最优激励合同、政府侵占全民的租金及双重委托代理的总代理成本。     

Neighbour-Immiserizing Growth: The Asian Crisis

This paper investigates the effects of population growth and China's entry into the world trading regime on the North and the South. In the absence of the terms of trade effect, population growth reduces the standard of living and causes a decline in welfare. Unilateral trade liberalization of China will worsen the terms of trade for other countries in the South, but will improve those for the North. Thus, population control is an important means to close the gap in per capita income between developing and developed economies. Trade liberalization by developing countries may not necessarily induce income convergence. JEL Classification Number: F1.     

Corporate Risk Management under Information Asymmetry

This paper examines the financial and operational hedging activities of US pharmaceutical and biotech firms that are subject to a high level of information asymmetry stemming from R&D investments during 2001–2006. We find evidence in support of the information asymmetry hypothesis à la Froot, Scharfstein and Stein (1993) that hedging helps mitigate the under‐investment problem. Specifically, we find that the use of financial derivatives is associated with greater firm value and that the value enhancement is larger for firms subject to greater information asymmetry and better growth opportunities. There is a synergy between financial hedging and operational hedging where the latter is used to counter product development risk. The results are robust with respect to alternative performance measures, industry‐specific growth measures, and the endogeneity problem. Our work is differentiated from existing studies that examined commodity‐based industries without addressing information asymmetry.     

Sorting it out: pile sorting as a mixed methodology for exploring barriers to cancer screening

We discuss a mixed methodology for analyzing pile sorting data. We created a list of 14 barriers to colon cancer screening and recruited 18, 13, and 14 participants from three American Indian (AI) communities to perform pile sorting. Quantitative data were analyzed by cluster analysis and multidimensional scaling. Differences across sites were compared using permutation bootstrapping. Qualitative data collected during sorting were compiled by AI staff members who determined names for the clusters found in quantitative analysis. Results showed five clusters of barriers in each site although barriers in the clusters varied slightly across sites. Simulation demonstrated type I error rates around the nominal 0.05 level whereas power depended on the numbers of clusters, and between and within cluster variability.     

以人为本理念在妇产科护理管理的应用效果分析

目的分析以人为本的护理理念在妇产科护理管理中的具体应用效果。方法随机选取了2012年1月至12月在我院接受治疗的妇产科患者202例作为研究对象，随机分为两组，其中对照组患者采取常规护理方法，而实验组患者则采取的是以人为本的护理措施，采取科学的评价方法，对两组患者的护理效果进行比较分析。结果实验组患者在经过护理干预后，患者疾病的不确定感下降，患者自身的满意度提升，与对照组患者比较差异具有显著的统计学意义，P＜0.05。结论采取以人为本的护理理念在妇产科的护理中有比较好的应用价值，能够收到比较好的护理效果，所以值得在临床上进行应用推广。     

An acceptance model for an Internet protocol television service in Korea with prior experience as a moderator

This study examines the effect of users' prior experience on the adoption behaviour in the Internet protocol television (IP TV) service domains. This article proposes a new acceptance model for an IP TV service considering the moderating effect of experience and verifies the model with an empirical study. Respondents are classified into either experienced or inexperienced groups according to their prior experience with the IP TV service. The results indicate that motivational factors used in our study affect behavioural intention. In addition, this study shows that the influence of extrinsic motivational factors on the behavioural intention are stronger for the experienced group than the inexperienced group and the influence of intrinsic motivational factors on the behavioural intention are stronger for the inexperienced group than the experienced group. This article concludes with study implications, as well as limitations and future research directions.