Assessment of the Partnership Quality between Travel Agencies and Health Care Organizations on the International Medical Tourism Market in Taiwan

The medical tourism literature lacks insight into related issues of these types of partnerships. Those that integrate multiple perspectives into one research framework are especially rare. This study evaluated and compared the influence of external environment uncertainty, trust, and resource dependence perspectives on the quality of interorganizational partnerships in the international medical tourism market and quantified these elements using external environment uncertainty assessment on the international medical tourism development. The research sample was based on a survey from 161 travel agency managers in Taiwan. This study found that external environment uncertainty has direct negative impact on trust and resource dependence has a positive influence on interorganizational partnership. Moreover, trust has a significant impact on partnership quality while resource dependence does not. Therefore, medical travel agents should extend their network of trustworthy health care organization partners in order to improve performance, decrease their self-risk, collect information, and avoid missed opportunities.     

资源环境强约束下工业发展路径选择

中国工业发展所面临的资源环境约束日益突出。资源危机对工业发展的制约主要体现在资源短缺、资源浪费及对外依存度过高等方面,其根源在于价格机制问题,产业结构、经济法律制度缺陷也是其主要原因。环境问题对工业发展的制约主要体现在环境污染大大降低了工业发展的效率,其根源是能源结构对环境不利、能源利用效率低、扭曲的政绩考核标准及环境资源成本的高度外部化。工业发展与资源环境问题对立统一。粗放型的工业发展模式造成资源与环境危机,反过来工业发展又受到资源与环境的强烈制约。因此,必须遵循科学发展观,改变靠过度消耗资源发展工业的模式,以可持续发展思想为战略指导,建立新型工业发展模式：     

Unemployment in Greece: Evidence from Greek regions using panel unit root tests

The purpose of the paper is to examine the nature of Greek regional unemployment. The paper contributes to the literature assessing the stochastic properties of Greek unemployment rate in the context of the Greek regions by relying on various univariate and panel unit root tests. In particular, recently developed and more powerful panel unit-root tests that control for structural breaks, heterogeneity and cross-sectional dependence in the panel are employed. The results show that in all cases, after taking into account the fact that regional unemployment rates in Greece are subject to a structural break, the null hypothesis of a unit root is not rejected, indicating that the Greek regional unemployment series are non-stationary with the presence of a structural break.     

科教兴镇战略与科技进步 --以辽宁省建平县哈拉道口镇为例

辽西资源重镇-哈拉道口镇继科技兴国战略之后,提出科教兴镇战略.本文阐述了该镇科教兴镇的现状及存在的问题,大胆提出了在乡镇科技进步中建立科技园区、引进优秀科技人才等对策建议.     

网络辅导——信息媒体环境下新的辅导手段

辅导是教师授课的延伸和补充,网络可以实现辅导的无时限性和学生学习的无时限性,学生可在课后浏览、学习、提问、讨论和自测。同时利用建立的辅助教学站点与学生进行随时的交流,实现了个别化教学与整体化教学的高度统一,充分提高了教师的辅导质量和学生的学习质量。     

遗产旅游的概念与内涵初探

近年来遗产旅游已成为旅游研究领域的热点,这与遗产旅游业的快速发展和我国世界遗产地出现的资源破坏、环境污染事件有关;遗产旅游研究滞后于遗产旅游业的发展,目前亟需加强对遗产旅游概念与内涵的深入探讨;在广泛借鉴国内外遗产旅游研究的基础上,对遗产旅游的概念与内涵进行初步讨论。另外,对"遗产"和"旅游"的关系提出了见解。     

Asset‐based poverty transition and persistence in rural China

This article tests empirically for transition and persistence of poverty in rural China based on the theory of asset‐based poverty traps. It proposes an analytical framework mitigating the problem of endogenous switching between accumulation regimes and disentangling the true state‐dependence of poverty. Specifically, a dynamic asset threshold separating households into downward and upward mobility regimes is identified after taking households’ unobserved characteristics and observed regime‐differentiated accumulation strategies into account. The static analysis identifies causality running from settling into a downward mobility regime to the probability of poverty measured by consumption. Furthermore, allowing for endogenous initial poverty status, the dynamic analysis finds strong true state‐dependence in poverty. Households with the same characteristics are nearly twice as likely to be poor as if they had not previously switched to the accumulation regime. Assets below the dynamic threshold serve as a conduit through which poverty propagates itself. Factors that help to break this vicious circle are identified.     

农业废弃物在矿山生态恢复中的应用

矿山废弃地多为裸露岩面,需要大量的土壤用于植被的恢复与重建。同时,我国农业废弃物数量巨大且逐年增多,其合理利用与管理也成为一个难题。将矿山生态恢复与农业废弃物有机结合,是寻找矿山生态恢复治理和农业废弃物资源合理利用的新思路。本文阐述了我国矿山废弃地的治理现状、农业废弃物的特点,探讨了可用于矿山生态恢复的农业废弃物的基质类型及其应用前景。     

论我国环境保护中的路径依赖与超越

我国环境保护中存在着严重的路径依赖现象,且更多地表现为路径依赖Ⅱ.形成这种状况的主要原因是传统的发展模式、既得利益集团的压力和巨大的沉没成本等.要超越路径依赖,必须进行相应的技术和制度创新.     

Innovation forecast: Un-avoidable and context dependent

In order to mobilize the necessary resources for innovation forecasts are unavoidable. However, a forecast is never a neutral or objective assessment. Given an interdependent business landscape, there are at least two major context-related aspects that affect an innovation forecast. First, the actor that makes the forecast is embedded into a specific context. Secondly, the potential innovation stems from a specific environment, and will during the innovation journey be related to other environments in a producing and a using setting, and thus to other investments in place. In this paper we examine the development of one innovation and the forecasts made by three different economic actors. There is an interesting variation in the forecasts that can be explained as a variation of contexts of the actors. The contexts influence the way that the forecasts are done and especially in terms of what the context of the innovation is assumed to be. The empirical findings suggest that the results of the innovation forecast are highly dependent on the actors' abstraction of the business landscape which in turn is affected by the contexts of the actors.