Affective learning in short-term educational travel abroad: An exploratory mixed-method study

Employing an exploratory mixed-method approach, this research explores young adults' affective learning outcomes derived from their short-term educational travel abroad experiences. Different from previous travel research mostly focusing on the educational benefits of cognitive knowledge and technical skills, the current research highlights the prominent effect of educational travel on young adults' personal growth and attitudinal/emotional development by investigating the understudied domain of affective learning and how it manifests among college students having short-term study abroad experiences. Through a systematic review and a follow-up survey-based comparison study, five salient affective learning variables were identified—perspectives on global interdependence, intercultural attitudes, openness to diversity and challenge, environmental attitudes, and general self-efficacy. Furthermore, this research found that travelers’ lower-order affective learning shows significant progress after the short-term educational overseas travel. This study contributes to a niche topic in tourism research and provides implications to promote educational travel as an effective transformative learning approach.     

贸易措施的效果分析与政策取向——以关税、配额与补贴为例

关税、配额与补贴是一个国家用来保护国内市场、帮助国内厂商抵御国外对手竞争的常用措施。由于保护机制不同 ,关税、配额与补贴对不同利益主体的利益再分配会产生不同的影响 :关税措施有利于生产者和政府 ,不利于消费者 ;配额措施有利于生产者 ,不利于消费者 ,政府利益不受影响 ;补贴措施有利于生产者和消费者 ,不利于政府。一个国家可以根据其要保护的利益主体不同采取相应的保护措施     

中国零关税机制的现状与发展

随着世界贸易自由化进程的发展,关税减让,尤其是零关税协议成为世界各国关注的焦点.中国加入世贸组织后,利用五年的时间已基本实现了其"入世"承诺;非但如此,中国还与某些贸易伙伴签订了零关税协议,进一步降低了其平均关税水平.目前,中国的零关税机制仍处于发展初期,产生了一定的贸易创造效应,但中国仍需更合理、更策略和更有效地发展零关税机制,从而在全球经济一体化和贸易自由化的进程中获取更大的经济利益.     

服务外包研究：国外的视角及评价

作为经济全球化的产物,以资源的全球有效配置为导向,伴随跨国公司新一轮的产业结构调整,服务外包尤其是离岸外包近年来发展迅猛,特别是本轮经济危机所导致的降低成本与降低风险的要求使得离岸外包成为逆势飘扬的产业。服务外包的理论研究在我国还处于起步阶段,主要集中在对国外理论的学习吸收和部分创新阶段。文章从多个视角对国外相关理论进行了梳理与评价,归纳其研究特点,并指出研究的不足之处即研究领域。     

国外中小企业信用担保经验借鉴及应用分析

自1998年开始中小企业信用担保试点以来,我国信用担保机构获得了高速发展。但由于我国的信用担保制度正处在一个初建阶段,许多制度仍很不完善,出现了一些问题。本文试图对国外同行业制度及经验进行分析,并结合我国担保行业的实际情况作出简要的应用归纳。     

Similarities and Differences of the Effect of Country Images on Tourist and Study Destinations

ABSTRACT

The present study attempts to determine whether students hold similar or different country images when they are “buying” study abroad programs and tourism destinations. This article also tries to investigate similarities and differences in the brand personality perceptions of countries when they are considered as tourism and as study abroad destinations through the application of the brand personality characteristics model developed by Aaker (1997 Aaker, J. L. 1997. Dimensions of brand personality. Journal of Marketing Research, 34(3): 347–356. [Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]). A convenience sample of 360 students was split into two groups based on the motivation for visiting a specific country, whether for tourism or to participate in a study abroad program. The t test was used to calculate the significance of differences in country images between the two groups—those considering study abroad programs and those considering tourism destinations. The study concludes that the knowledge developed within the tourism context regarding images of countries may be applied to the context of study abroad programs.     

碳关税对我国产业国际竞争力的影响及对策分析

近年来,随着经济的发展,也出现了越来越多的气候变化问题,一些发达国家以应对此问题为理由提出对本国进口的碳排放量较大的产品征收一种特别的关税——二氧化碳排放关税,即碳关税。虽然我国现在反对征收碳关税,但是考虑到发达国家在国际经济秩序中所处的主导地位,掌控着绝对的话语权,而我们发展中国家之间对碳关税又缺乏统一协调的立场和一致的观点,因此发达国家极有可能在未来单方面实施征收碳关税的政策。碳关税的开征将毋庸置疑的对我国的出口产业造成严重冲击,因此,我国应当未雨绸缪,积极应对碳关税。总体上看,我国在国内征收碳税可能是一种比较有效的应对发达国家碳关税的方法。     

国内外油气管道完整性管理技术比对研究

基于大量国内外文献资料信息,通过对管道完整性管理技术的发展背景、国外的最新研究动态和技术成果,以及国内技术发展现状的概括分析和比对研究．深入分析了我国当前在管道完整性管理技术领域相对发达国家的技术水平所存在的明显差距。在此研究基础上,提出几点有助于加快我国油气管道完整性管理技术发展步伐的建议。     

美国电网投资情况分析及其启示

电网是重要的国民经济基础设施,电网投资对保证电网适度超前发展、拉动经济增长有重要作用。介绍了美国电网投资的现状,分析了美国电网投资增长的推动因素及今后的发展趋势,提出了对我国电网建设的相关启示。     

抽水蓄能电力产品的分类、社会属性与成本分摊

抽水蓄能电站的产品基本上可分成高峰电能和辅助服务两大类。高峰电能相当于电力系统内的私人产品,可以直接卖给电力消费者,当具备相关条件时,其价格可由市场竞争决定。辅助服务相当于电力系统内的公共产品,不能直接卖给电力消费者,只能由系统操作机构（相当于电力系统的管理者）统一收购;其购买成本,也只能通过向电网用户的普遍加价（相当于电力系统的消费税征收）予以收回。