浅议电力企业安全文化建设的重要性

文章从安全文化建设是电力企业安全生产的灵魂出发,分析了电力企业安全文化的内涵、培育方法;阐明了电力企业安全与效益的关系以及安全文化在电力生产中的重要性。     

浅议大坝土体抗剪强度安全复核建议值的取法

土体抗剪强度是大坝安全复核中最重要的参数之一,将直接影响坝体变形和坝坡稳定的分析复核,但如何取值目前尚无统一规定,文章讨论了两种取值方法,并提出了建议。     

制造商公平关切行为对绿色供应链生态标签策略的影响研究

考虑制造商存在公平关切行为,构建基于制造商为主导的Stackelberg绿色供应链博弈模型,研究自贴与行业认证生态标签策略下,制造商不同公平关切程度对绿色供应链各成员最优均衡决策的影响。结果表明：当制造商公平中性时,自贴和行业认证生态标签策略下,制造商利润均大于零售商。当制造商存在公平关切时,相较于自贴策略,行业认证策略下伴随制造商公平关切程度的增加,单位产品绿色度、零售商单位批零差价及绿色推广努力水平均较高,且呈现递增趋势;制造商成本与批发价的中间盈利也略高,但呈现下降趋势。同时,行业认证策略下零售商最优效用更高,制造商最优效用相对略低;但绿色供应链系统总效用均伴随制造商公平关切程度的增加而持续上升。     

Reassurance or reason for concern: Security forces as a crisis management strategy

This paper examines effects of the deployment of security forces to a popular winter migrant destination faced with a unique humanitarian crisis situation. The study surveyed past winter migrants to the region to evaluate their perceptions regarding sociocultural, economic, and psychological impacts of security forces deployed to the region. In addition, this study evaluates the deployment's impact on satisfaction with life in the region, return intention and likelihood of recommending the region to others to find that perceived safety from the security forces significantly affected community factors and that satisfaction with life fully mediated community factor effects on destination loyalty. These finding significantly add to the limited research in crisis management response effects and substantiates the use of signaling and signal crimes perspective in managing crises.     

试论如何有效控制食品添加剂的安全问题

随着食品行业的逐渐发展,食品添加剂的安全性成为人们重点关注的话题,食品添加剂是食物的重要组成部分。近年来,食品添加剂中毒事件频频发生,在食品生产中非法应用食品添加剂会对人民群众的健康造成危害。相关部门应在正确认识食品添加剂的基础上,积极采取措施,减少食品添加剂的安全问题。     

Environmental concern and environmental behaviour among the Norwegian public

Current studies indicate that the most accurate predictor of actual buying behaviour is consumer attitudes (Glendon and McKenna, Human Safety and Risk Management , London: Chapman and Hall, 1995). This study seeks to investigate questions relating to the extent to which attitudes on safety and risk issues are critical to safety-related behaviour. The dispositional view of human behaviour implies behavioural consistency across different behaviours performed in different situations, as long as the behaviours are instances of the same underlying disposition. The present study tests this hypothesis in relation to health and environmental behaviour. Both direct and indirect effects are investigated. An additional aim was to test for gender differences as well as differences due to age and educational level. The results are based on survey data of a representative sample of the Norwegian population given self-completion questionnaires during the period 1997-98. A total of 1450 respondents replied to the questionnaire. Health attitudes and the Health Value Scale correlated strongly with health behaviour and environmental concern with environmental behaviour. Attitude towards illness prevention was important for both behavioural dimensions. Health behaviour influenced environmental behaviour in an indirect way, through health attitudes. The results imply that it can be useful to study dispositional concepts. When appropriately applied, they yield useful information. It is important to focus on specific attitudes and related specific behaviours in order to change behavioural practices. In addition, it seems possible to change environmental and consumer behaviour through changing health     

A review on research in transportation of hazardous materials

Incidents that involve transportation have the potential of causing significant damages to the affected communities due to the release of hazardous substances. Therefore, it is important to reduce their impact as well as the risk of their occurrence. In this paper we review recent research in the field of transportation of hazardous materials. Our work extends a previous review from 2007. Based on our analysis, we identify current trends and research gaps as well as relevant future research directions.     

Sustainable development and research and development intensity in U.S. manufacturing firms

Across manufacturing sectors, mounting regulatory pressures motivate the adoption of innovative sustainable practices to help address and improve environmental performance. Sustainable practices, however, face many challenges to minimize negative environmental impacts while conserving energy and natural resources. This study seeks to understand the effect of research and development intensity on dimensions of environmental performance in manufacturing firms. Using data from U.S. corporations over the period from 1991 through 2015, we find that sustainable practices are associated with a higher level of negative environmental ratings. In addition, the level of environmental concerns tends to decrease with firm investments in research and development intensity over time. These findings suggest that bigger firms are likely to report a higher level of environmental concerns due to their experimentation with sustainable practices. These firms are also likely to reduce negative environmental ratings over time and realize economies of scale with sustainable manufacturing.     

The national security argument for protection of domestic industries

ABSTRACT

Tracing the origin of the national security argument for protection of domestic industries to Adam Smith, Alexander Hamilton, and Friedrich List, we study its post-GATT applications with reference to Article XXI of the WTO and highlight some recent abuses. We compare the use of tariff, production/input subsidy, and government procurement as alternative instruments of protection from the perspective of economic efficiency and study the disapproval of inward FDI to gain insights into the underlying national security concerns. The case studies of a) the US tariffs on aluminum and steel, b) German disapproval of the acquisition of a technology firm Leifeld Metal Spinning by a Chinese firm, and c) US’ all out global effort to cripple China’s telecom equipment giant Huawei are presented for illustration.     

Young adults' perceptions of product placement in films: An exploratory comparison between the United Kingdom and Hong Kong

Even though young adults are a major audience of films and the main target group for product placement, very few studies explore how youngsters across cultures perceive and interpret this marketing communication tool. This study explores this issue through thirty-two in-depth interviews conducted in the United Kingdom and Hong Kong. The comparative analysis focused on four aspects: (1) young consumers' movie consumption habits and their exposure to product placement; (2) their general views towards product placement and advertising; (3) their perception of different execution styles of product placement and its impact and (4) the regulatory and ethical concerns of product placement. Results indicate that the young generation actively engages in interpreting brand integration in films and they were generally positive about it. Although interpretations of product placement are reported on an individual basis, this study suggests that culture may also affect how individuals perceive product placement. This exploratory study raises important issues about cultural differences in the perception of brands placed in films and provides insights for further research in the area of product placement.