Sequential point estimation of the powers of a normal scale parameter

We consider the sequential point estimation problem of the powers of a normal scale parameter σ^r with r≠ 0 when the loss function is squared error plus linear cost. It is shown that the regret due to using our fully sequential procedure in ignorance of σ is asymptotically minimized for estimating σ⁻². We also propose a bias-corrected procedure to reduce the risk and show that the larger the distance between r and −2 is, the more effective our bias-corrected procedure is. Received August 2000     

Marketing retirement—or staying on the job

Financial packages provide the most common incentive to meet the legal requirement that retirement be voluntary. However, managers have other tools to encourage retirement or encourage staying on the job—within legal constraints and consistent with current health insurance changes that may make pre-65 retirement more desirable. In using these tools, managers must consider demographic realities that offer a large cohort available to replace retirees. To assist managers, a qualitative study among human resource experts probed how companies decide between encouraging retirement and encouraging staying on the job and also how each is accomplished to maintain a workforce best matched to job requirements. Suggestions for marketing retirement include starting early to encourage saving so that employees can afford to retire and improving the retirement ‘product’ by flexible alternatives to full-time work, including self-employment. Suggestions for keeping employees on the job include tailoring schedules and rewards to the preferences and needs of individuals who might otherwise retire.     

Second‐hand clothing consumption: a cross‐cultural comparison between American and Chinese young consumers

There has been an enormous increase in the economic power and global scope of the second‐hand clothing trade since the early 1990s. Young consumers are a major driver behind the growth of the second‐hand clothing industry in the US. While the stigma of buying second‐hand clothing is fading in the western countries, little is known about second‐hand clothing consumption in the Asian countries. The purpose of this study is to empirically investigate young consumers' behaviours towards second‐hand clothing from a cross‐cultural perspective in the US and Chinese contexts. Results of this study indicated significant differences in young consumers' second‐hand clothing consumption behaviour between the two countries in the following aspects: past purchase experience, perceived values and concerns, perceived subjective norm and future purchase intention.     

河南省南水北调沿线旅游资源统筹发展研究

目前,旅游资源的统筹发展已成为各旅游景区生存、发展的重要举措。随着南水北调中线工程的建立,如何合理、可持续的统筹规划河南省南水北调沿线的旅游资源,增强旅游竞争力,已成为人们密切关注的问题。本文通过对河南省南水北调沿线旅游发展的SWOT分析,提出了该沿线未来旅游资源统筹发展的方向、途径以及实现资源统筹发展的对策等构想。     

民用建筑电气消防设计常见问题研究

根据现行的有关强制性国家标准、规范的规定,建筑电气消防设计中常见的几个问题,诸如:有关规范、标准不会应用,概念模糊、条理不清,消防规范中有许多条款规定得不详细,在执行规范时有许多的疑惑,系统图与平面图不一致,有漏项,设计很不完善等等。必须寻求解决办法,才能有效地保证建筑物和人民生命财产安全。     

中巴经济走廊铁路通道ML-1线哈维连陆港方案研究

中巴经济走廊是一条北起中国喀什、南至巴基斯坦瓜达尔港的经济大动脉,是中巴两国加强交通基础设施、能源、港口等多方面互联互通和共同发展的重要途径。结合中巴经济走廊铁路通道ML-1线哈维连陆港改造方案,在分析中巴经济走廊铁路通道ML-1线哈维连支线和哈维连陆港现状的基础上,提出哈维连陆港在既有站站址改扩建和新建站址选址方案,经比选推荐采用哈维连陆港新建哈塔站址方案。在此基础上,对哈维连陆港总平面布置方案进行比选,推荐采用既有哈维连正线西侧方案,实现中巴经济走廊的便捷性服务。     

Militarisation and Urbanisation: The Second World War,Public Housing,and the Shaping of Metropolitan Adelaide

Adelaide entered the Second World War with an industrial urban axis extending north-west from the city to its port, and emerged from the War re-aligned to the north. This article asks why the re-alignment occurred. It argues that previous explanations for Adelaide's north–south alignment are inadequate, and concludes that the orientation is the result of Commonwealth Government investment in military–industrial development and accompanying urbanisation on a remote rural site to the north of Adelaide's metropolitan area. These explanations are now hidden in the landscape and almost forgotten in historical accounts.     

践行校训精神 构筑校园文化——探索地方新建本科院校校园文化建设

新建本科院校大多数是从专科学校升格或者是办学力量较弱的几所学校合并而成,除了面对师资、实验设备、本科办学经验、文化积淀薄弱的问题,同时还面临着多校合并带来的文化冲突。一般来说,构筑新建本科院校校园文化应以校训精神为中心,从文化理念、文化活动、文化景观和文化媒体四个角度入手:以校训精神构筑校园文化理念、以校训精神引领校院文化活动、以校训精神美化校院文化景观、以校训精神指导校院文化媒体。     

改革期间中国国家财政能力和金融能力的变化

中国在经济和社会转型条件下,保持并强化国家能力十分必要.为了保持国家能力,改革开放以来,中国政府加强了对金融业的控制,促使其行使财政职能.这体现为:在动员资源过程中,金融业替代税收功能;在资源配置过程中,金融业替代财政功能.由此,导致了金融资源被异化为中央和地方政府的财政资金,金融业异化为"第二财政".这种替代既有逻辑上的必然性--渐进改革的必然要求,也有其现实上的不合理性--财政功能和金融功能错位.中央政府和地方政府主导下的金融分割,造成了这一错位,只有进行金融制度建设,促进财政到位,才能使得金融归位.     

二代海外特征对家族企业组合创业的影响：代际冲突视角

基于代际冲突视角,结合烙印理论,以2000—2017年297家二代介入企业高层的家族企业为样本,探讨二代海外特征对家族企业组合创业的影响。研究发现,当家族二代介入企业高层后,二代具有海外经历的家族企业更倾向于选择组合创业;随着二代海外时间的增加,企业组合创业意愿随之增强,且这种影响在二代家族企业内任职时间更短、父辈行业地位更高的企业中更加显著。相比海外教育时长,二代海外工作时长更能促进家族企业组合创业;二代海外国家或地区为非亚洲区域的家族企业更倾向于组合创业。该结论可丰富传承情景下家族企业组合创业影响因素研究,为中国情景下企业高层管理者海外特征对企业战略行为的影响提供借鉴。