Barriers to employee rights: Gender,selection, and the labor process

This article applies a labor process analysis to the issue of employment rights in the particular context of gender inequality and unlawful discrimination in the recruitment process. It criticizes conventional perspectives on employee rights for their failure to examine critically managerial power and prerogative and its implications for gender inequality. The article outlines two particular labor process theories of gender divisions and inequality. In exploring the strengths and weaknesses of these more critical perspectives, the article highlights the analytical significance that they ascribe to power asymmetries in the labor process and labor market. Building on this perspective, the analysis then presents empirical data on gender discrimination in the selection practices of contemporary UK organizations. The research material reveals how gender discrimination can be reproduced, rationalized, and resisted. These empirical findings are theorized through a combined labor process analysis of power, knowledge, and identity in recruitment practices. We conclude that labor process analysis facilitates our understanding of the deep-seated barriers that continue to impede the protection of employee rights in workplace practices.     

完善海军航材采购制度的对策和建议

海军航空兵部队的建设和发展对海军航材采购提出了新的要求。本文就如何完善海军航材采购制度提出以下对策和建议:加强采购人才培养,建立健全航材采购法规制度,降低航材采购成本,加强对航材采购的监督。     

农业技术扩散的时间过程及空间特征分析——以陕西省苹果种植技术为例

农业科学技术只有被广大农民掌握和应用,才能转化为现实生产力,促进农业生产的发展。以陕西省苹果种植技术为例,借助"S型曲线模型"及"重力学模型"对陕西省苹果种植的时空规律进行了研究,发现陕西省苹果种植在时间序列上,其种植面积呈现在波动中上升的趋势,而在空间上,存在等级扩散与渐进扩散相结合的扩散模式,即随着空间尺度的缩减,技术扩散由明显的规模等级扩散向随距离增加扩散强度减弱的渐进式扩散转化。     

基于KIFA的物流外包服务商选择机制研究

本文主要研究昆明国际花卉拍卖交易中心(KIFA)物流外包服务商的选择机制,从KIFA拍卖交易完成后到最终的鲜花零售店的各个物流环节。本文提出了基于招投标的配送服务商的初选方法,再用AHP方法[1]最终确定最佳配送服务商。从而提高了昆明国际花卉拍卖交易中心的花卉物流服务、降低了成本、提高了客户满意度,同时,为同类花卉拍卖交易中心物流服务商的选择提供参考依据。     

旅游策划创新中存在的问题及对策探讨

随着我国旅游产业的迅猛发展,各级政府和有关部门对策划与规划也日益重视,因而策划、规划从业人员越来越多,影响越来越大,竞争也日趋激烈。于是"创新"往往成为吸引眼球、击败对手、争取项目的制胜"法宝",创新的成败往往也决定着一个地区旅游业的兴衰和景区的生死存亡。不过,在创新策划与规划的过程中确实出现了不少问题,如:有关部门对策划与规划资质把关不严;盲目求大求洋;策划或规划项目与景区主题及文化内涵不协调;严重破坏资源和环境;评审流于形式等。针对这些问题,应相应地采取一些对策,如:严把资质关;严格遵守有关的法律法规;高度重视对策划从业者的培养和管理工作;严格遵循科学策划、科学规划的程序和原则;建立并严格执行全程监督和终身责任追究制度;严把评审关等。     

RANDOM COEFFICIENT MODELS: THEORY AND APPLICATIONS

Abstract. This paper provides an overview of the rationale behind, and the implementation, and uses of, the random coefficient approach to econometric modelling. A simple random coefficient model is presented, and methods for estimating, testing, and validating such a model are described. A more general model is then presented. The general model is shown to include several fixed-coefficient models as special cases and can be estimated incorporating a variety of judgements concerning simplification. Finally, the paper reviews recent applications of random coefficient estimation.     

Defying gravity: The determinants of China's outbound mergers and acquisitions

We find that the determinants of China's outbound M&As depart dramatically from the literature. First, China's M&A volume with a target country is not affected by geographic distance, currency appreciation, or stock market return. Second, Chinese acquirers pick an unconventional uphill battle by primarily targeting countries with greater cultural distance, stronger investor protection laws, and higher per capita income. We also document that China's outbound M&As have a higher than normal percentage of deals being partial acquisitions. We argue that emerging markets can differ remarkably from developed countries in the considerations and modes of outbound M&As.     

Mixture representations for discrete Linnik laws

In this paper we give mixture representations for the discrete Mittag–Leffler and Linnik laws. Our results form the discrete analogues of the mixture representations for the generalized symmetric Linnik distribution obtained by P AKES (1998). As an application, we derive the infinite divisibility of mixtures of Mittag–Leffler distributions. Alternative mixture representations in terms of discrete stable distributions are also presented.     

Applying free random variables to random matrix analysis of financial data. Part I: The Gaussian case

We apply the concept of free random variables to doubly correlated (Gaussian) Wishart random matrix models, appearing, for example, in a multivariate analysis of financial time series, and displaying both inter-asset cross-covariances and temporal auto-covariances. We give a comprehensive introduction to the rich financial reality behind such models. We explain in an elementary way the main techniques of free random variables calculus, with a view to promoting them in the quantitative finance community. We apply our findings to tackle several financially relevant problems, such as a universe of assets displaying exponentially decaying temporal covariances, or the exponentially weighted moving average, both with an arbitrary structure of cross-covariances.     

如何保障食品安全

食品质量安全是一个国家经济发展水平和人民生活质量的重要标志。近年来,由于人们生活水平的提高,科技的进步,人们积累的生活、生命与营养方面的知识更加丰富,质量安全意识更强。当前,我国的食品安全状况不容乐观,其原臣是多方面的,最主要的一点就是我国的食品安全法律法规体系不完善,与发达国家相比还存在不小的差距,迫切需要与国际接轨,逐步加以完善,而只有这样,才能保证我国人民身体健康和促进对外贸易的发展。