Evaluating a method of integrating generic skills with accounting content based on a functional theory of meaning

This paper documents and evaluates an intervention designed to integrate the learning of selected generic skills, particularly analytical thinking and written communication skills, with the learning of accounting content. The method used was to scaffold practice in analytical thinking skills through specially designed writing activities. Content‐focused learning materials adapted from task‐types currently used to teach language skills were used to facilitate the analysis and interrelation of accounting concepts, principles and problems in interpersonal communicative contexts typical of actual accounting practice. The materials, in three assignments, were designed to incorporate: (i) selected generic skills, taken from those listed by the professional accounting bodies; (ii) writing, both as communication and as an instrument for analytical thinking and learning; (iii) knowledge of accounting concepts and principles; and (iv) awareness of the interpersonal dimensions of professional communication. Overall, students showed improved learning outcomes, with improvements of 19 percentage points for non‐Australian students over the three assignments. We were also able to show significant positive relationships between the assessments of assignments 2 and 3 and performance in the knowledge‐based final examination. Improvements in the quality of learning were shown in students’ improved ability to assess their own work.     

推动人民币国际化的策略分析——由中韩货币互换说起

文章以金融危机为背景,以2008年12月12日中韩两国签订的货币互换协议对人民币国际化的推动作用为起点,分析推动人民币逐步走向国际化所应当采取的策略。作者认为,中韩货币互换是东亚金融合作的深化,只是在金融危机的背景下才格外引人注目,而且这次货币互换还引起了人们对人民币国际化问题的极大兴趣。作者分析了人民币国际化的有利条件,并借鉴国际上一国货币国际化的理论和模式总结,探讨性地提出了实现人民币国际化的对策建议,同时指出人民币要成为国际货币仍然只能是处于起步阶段。     

整区域推进高标准农田建设的基本逻辑、实践困境与实现路径

目的 文章阐释整区域推进高标准农田建设的基本逻辑，剖析实践困境，探明实现路径，以期为整区域推进高标准农田建设的理论研究和实践探索提供参考依据。方法 运用理论分析和实地调研相结合的方法进行分析。结果 （1）整区域推进高标准农田建设的基本逻辑主要包括要素整合、空间优化和价值增值三个方面；（2）当前整区域推进高标准农田建设主要面临资金来源、动力差异、组织效率、实施阻碍、管护效能等五大困境；（3）为扎实推进整区域推进高标准农田建设，应积极引导金融社会资本投入，积极引导新型经营主体参与、因地制宜推进多目标协同建设、完善全过程组织协调机制、系统优化建后管护。结论 整区域推进高标准农田建设的内涵更丰富、目标更多元、内容更广泛、实施更复杂，从基本逻辑、实践困境和实现路径进行全面解析，有利于系统理解整区域推进高标准农田建设，提升理论研究对建设实践的指导作用。     

在推进新型城市化发展中提升广州城市形象

当今城市发展的关键在于城市是否具有自己的特色与个性，对此，广州提出了新型城市化发展战略。新型城市化发展要求突出城市的鲜明特色，展示城市独特的形象。广州的城市形象，既有历史积淀的一面，又具有不断演进的特征。在推进新型城市化发展中，广州必须着力增强国际影响力，进一步提升城市形象。     

三维联动模式下的医学院附属医院英语文化建设

三维联动(医学院附属医院、翻译研究方向教师和医学英语方向本科生)医学英语翻译模式下的医院英语文化建设能够进一步推介医院核心价值观和医德文化、凸显人才培养服务社会性和在全球化浪潮中医院与国际文化接轨与对话的战略意识。     

构建珍惜地球资源的机制,促进发展方式转变

珍惜地球资源是缓解我国资源环境约束的根本出路.我国节约集约利用地球资源的潜力很大,应积极构建珍惜地球资源的机制,健全节约集约利用地球资源和保护环境的政策法规体系、责任机制、定价机制,加强生态文明建设.以提高能源资源利用效率,培育新的经济增长点,走产业多元化的发展道路,大力发展循环经济为抓手,促进发展方式的转变.     

Generic determinacy of Nash equilibrium in network-formation games

This paper proves the generic determinacy of Nash equilibrium in network-formation games: for a generic assignment of utilities to networks, the set of probability distributions on networks induced by Nash equilibria is finite.     

Bank generic strategies: does Porter's theory apply in an international banking center

This study examines banks' competitive strategies and their relationship with performance in a highly internationalized banking center, Hong Kong. The factor analysis results have, by and large, provided support to Porter's three strategy typology. Nevertheless, the empirical findings from the cluster analysis and the subsequent inter-group comparison of performances have cast doubt on Porter's stuck-in-the-middle proposition by demonstrating that banks adopting a multi-strategic approach did outperform other strategically monotonous rivals. While the stuck-in-the-middle proposition is grounded in the premise of inherent inconsistencies for pursuing more than one generic strategy simultaneously, the resource-based view and the present empirical findings hint at the feasibility for well-resourced banks to combine apparently incompatible value creating activities in a synergistic way to achieve integrated flexibility and consequently, a sustainable multi-strategic position. It is suggested that this feasibility very much depends on a bank's organizing and coordinating capabilities that are developed and refined through managerial commitment, learning and experience, as well as a careful assessment of various organizational activities and its inter-relationships within the entire business system.     

高职院校国际合作办学转型提升的思考

从我国高等教育的可持续发展角度提出了高职院校国际合作办学转型发展的工作思路,介绍和分析了高职院校国际合作办学的现状,对高职院校国际合作办学中存在的问题进行了详细的分析,并提出了相应的对策和建议。     

China-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city Becomes First National Green Development Demonstration Area

【正】"China-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city National Green Development Demonstration Execution Plan"has been officially approved to make it the first national green de...