Determinants of Residential Land-Use Conversion and Sprawl at the Rural-Urban Fringe

We estimate a probit model of residential land conversion using parcel-level data from a rural-urban county in Ohio. Spatial landscape pattern metrics are used to quantify land-use patterns and to link patterns of residential sprawl with factors estimated to influence parcel-level land conversion. Findings indicate that the location of new residential development is influenced by preferences for lower density areas that nonetheless are close to existing urban development. Combined, these forces have generated a moderated pattern of residential sprawl. Spatial error autocorrelation is controlled using a spatial sampling technique that enables consistent estimation of the probit model.     

Dynamic yardstick mechanisms

This paper shows that the inability of principals to commit to long-term contracts is irrelevant when dealing with several agents whose private information is correlated. This sharply contrasts with the dynamics of contracting without such correlation. The paper also explores what limitations on yardstick mechanisms can justify the use of long-term contracts. We found that the inability of a principal to commit not to renegotiate long-term contracts is without consequence even if there is a bound on transfers that an agent can be asked to pay. In contrast, short-term contracting fails to implement the commitment solution with constraints on transfers. Second, absent current yardstick, the possibility of using correlated mechanisms in the future allows the principal to implement the first-best with a renegotiation-proof long-term contract whereas this cannot be achieved with short-term contracting.     

大学生英语写作错误归因

写作一直是大学英语教学中的一个难点,也是学生学习英语时最头疼的问题。文章分析了大学英语写作中的典型错误,对其成因进行了初步探究,并提出了一些提高英语写作水平的几点建议。     

Globalization, Financial Volatility and Monetary Policy

Recently it has often been claimed that globalization eases the job of central banks as it helps to tame inflation. This is used to argue that central banks (particularly the ECB, referring to the objectives as laid down in the EU Treaty) could or should reduce their efforts in the fight against inflation in favor of supporting the general economic policies of the governments. This paper takes a critical look at this argument, pointing to the structural changes associated with globalization and to the corresponding increase in uncertainty by which the central banks are affected. As an example of this, the increase in financial volatility is analyzed and explained as the result of optimal portfolio allocation, and its implications for monetary policy are discussed.     

鄱阳湖区农业自然资源利用演变机制研究

鄱阳湖区农业自然资源利用演变的基本动因，是具有增长型机制并对自然资源需求无限的社会经济子系统，与具有稳定型机制的，自然资源供给有限的自然生态子系统之间的对立统一。其演变过程实质上是一个螺旋式上升的发展过程，是社会经济子系统需求与自然生态子系统供给之间动态平衡过程。1949年～1950年代中期低水平相对平衡；1960年代～1980年代社会经济迅速发展而自然生态明显失衡；1990年代尤其是1998年特大洪涝灾害后朝遵从自然力进而有效利用自然力的可持续方向发展。     

Do Vietnamese upland farmers benefit from high world market prices for maize?

For rural households in the north of Vietnam, maize cropping is the main source of income. In the face of the world market price increases of the recent past, we analyze the regional marketing chain of this commodity qualitatively and econometrically investigating to what extent smallholder farmers in developing countries are affected by international price movements. Vietnamese maize markets are found to be well integrated. Recent price hikes have fully transmitted along the regional supply chain so that farmers profited. Nevertheless, adverse factors such as increasing input prices have neutralized these benefits resulting in a decline in real income of smallholders.     

The use of management control mechanisms by public organizations with a network coordination role: A case study in the port industry

Our paper addresses two gaps in the literature on management control mechanisms in the context of inter-organizational relationships. Firstly, several studies have focused on one-to-one relationships, but few take a network perspective which analyses the deployment of management control mechanisms in the context of networks involving multiple interactions between organizations. Secondly, even fewer studies have specifically tackled the use of these mechanisms in the context of mixed-type networks, where a public organization acts as the network coordinator responsible for key governance activities. This is the position in Ports, which are collectives of several related organizations and in which one organization – the “port authority” – assumes the role of network coordinator. In this paper we report the results of a case study, the aims of which were: to identify the management control mechanisms deployed, or relied upon, by the Portuguese Port Authority in the Port of Aveiro in the exercise of its coordinating role; and to discern – on the basis of theoretical reasoning and empirical evidence – the factors explaining the nature and use of these mechanisms.Several conclusions emerged from the study. A general conclusion was that our prior literature-based theorization is generally consistent with the case observations. That is, in mixed-type networks, the nature and use of management control mechanisms by the public organization acting as a network coordinator seems to be shaped by its assessment of motivations to cooperate and of the contribution to network performance of the various organizations involved in the network. Other more specific conclusions are encapsulated in a “coordination framework”, which relates those assessments to specific features of the management control mechanisms. Crucially, our results provide insights into the roles of public organizations acting as network coordinators in the context of mixed-type networks, and, in general, on the nature of the numerous such public organizations in today's economy and society.     

基于电缆网时域反射信号检测与预处理技术研究

运行电缆网时域反射信号检测与预处理技术研究。应用小波分析变换电缆网时域反射信号的奇异点进行检测与预处理误差较大,采用小波分析的反射波消噪技术提出一种小波分析最优分解层数的自适应确定函数算法。     

提高发动机曲轴主轴颈维修质量的几点看法

文章就曲轴修理后常见的质量问题进行了分析,并在实践中进行工艺的改进,以期获得较好的使用效果。     

实验教学法在自动控制原理“校正原理”中的应用探讨

实验教学是自动控制原理课程的重要教学方法,是一个复杂的系统工程,教师需要在课前准备、课堂组织、课后总结等多个环节精心准备和设计。本文根据作者从事自动控制原理核心课程教学工作的实践,以自动控制原理这门课程中的校正原理为例,从实验的组织与实施、实验教学的总结与提升三个阶段出发,探讨了实验教学法在自动控制原理课程中的应用。