核电发展趋势和我国核电产业化

该文回顾了本世纪核电发展的三个时期取得的成就和教训 ;展望了新世纪核电的机遇和挑战 ;分析了两种核电技术路线的技术特征及发达国家和发展中国家的市场前景 ;提出了对我国核电产业化的一些看法     

Strategies to detect and reduce counterfeiting activity

While at one time counterfeit products were largely restricted to watches, designer apparel, and movies, today counterfeiting is a major problem in such diverse product categories as pharmaceuticals, automotive parts, and computer software. There are four distinct types of counterfeits: knockoffs, counterfeits that are reverse engineered from genuine goods, goods produced by outsourced suppliers on “third shifts,” and goods that do not meet a manufacturer's standards but are not properly labeled as seconds or destroyed. The quality of some counterfeits is so good that some major retailers have unknowingly purchased counterfeits. But while there are new forms of counterfeit goods, there are also new strategies for combating counterfeiting. This article describes how to detect and reduce counterfeiting activity, via a plan which consists of four steps: (1) developing early warning signals of counterfeiting; (2) budgeting to monitor, deter, and remove counterfeits; (3) using demand-side strategies to deter counterfeiting; and (4) using supply-side strategies to deter counterfeiting.     

Wealth concerns and equilibrium

Most properties of the classical general equilibrium model without externalities fail to extend to the wildest forms of consumption externalities. The recent interest for wealth concerns, a kind of externality associated with herding behavior and other-regarding preferences, motivates a study of the general equilibrium exchange model with those externalities. The diffeomorphism of the equilibrium manifold with a Euclidean space, the smoothness and properness of the natural projection and its non-zero degrees are shown to hold true for endowment spaces with variable total resources. Other properties of the classical exchange model without externalities are fragile in the sense that they do not resist the introduction of wealth concerns even in models where consumers preferences are represented by the simplest forms of utility functions like the log-linear (or Cobb–Douglas) functions. The most notable fragile properties are the uniqueness and regularity of equilibrium at equilibrium allocations and the stability of no-trade equilibria.     

安全人机工程学教学改革的探索与研究

安全人机工程学的教学内容要切合教学对象的培养目标,展现学科发展前沿,适当增加煤矿安全人机工程学案例与实践,提高学生的实践能力。教学方法应多样化,多种教学方法有机结合,充分发挥学生的积极性、主动性,实现课堂教学的高效开展。课程考核力求公开、公平、公正,并适当加大课堂综合表现的比重,为良好的课堂教学的实施保驾护航。     

Extending the theory of planned behaviour: testing the effects of authentic perception and environmental concerns on the slow-tourist decision-making process

Despite the importance of slow tourism, studies on slow tourists' decision-making processes are rare. The current study extends the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) by including authentic perception (AP) and environmental concerns (ECs) to explain the formation of behavioural intentions. The study also contributes by comparing its extended model with the original TPB and identifying salient belief items through a focus group and literature review. The results of a structural equation analysis revealed that the data fitted the extended model well and that the inclusion of the critical new constructs in a slow-tourism context significantly enhanced the prediction of behaviour intentions. The results also indicated that attitude, subjective norms, perceived behaviour control, and AP significantly contributed to forming the intention to participate in slow tourism. However, the influence from ECs to behavioural intentions was demonstrated to be insignificant. This study advances our understanding of tourists' decision-making processes in that these slow tourists are more likely to choose an “authentic”, rather than “environmental”, destination.     

The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on customer experience design: The hotel managers’ perspective

This research responds to calls for research on the devastating impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the hospitality industry by investigating how hotel managers are designing safe customer experiences. Specifically, this study examines the measures adopted in high-end and luxury hotels and identifies the effects of such measures on the intended (or planned) experience. Based on thematic analysis of interviews with hotel managers, this study identifies seven safety measures: hygiene and protection, internal work reorganization, servicescape reorganization, investments in technology and digital innovations, customer wait time reorganization, staff training, and updated communication. These measures are expected to affect the intended experience in terms of reassurance, quickness, intimacy, and proximity, as emerged from correspondence factor analysis. Based on these results, this research proposes a model for safe customer experience design and suggests practical implications to help hotel managers formulate strategies aimed at customer experience creation under safe conditions.     

Attitude towards immigrants and security: Effects on destination-loyal tourists

This study was conducted in the midst of a surge of undocumented immigrants into a popular seasonal migrant destination in the U.S. and the subsequent state response of adding security forces. Factors examined include the effects of the role of media in shaping perceptions about security forces, perceptions about security force effectiveness, perceptions of undocumented immigrants and political orientation. The study of 413 respondents found that attitudes toward undocumented immigrants affect felt safety in the region, likelihood of recommending and returning to the region. Perceptions of the effectiveness of the security forces were important in affecting likelihood of recommending the region to others but not return intention. These and other findings contribute significantly to the scant research on both effectiveness of crises management responses and on effects of perceptions of undocumented immigrants on traveler behavior.     

Order Flows and Stock Returns: Compensation for Market Makers with Inventory Concerns

We investigate whether market makers with inventory concerns are compensated with subsequent monthly returns in the cross‐section. We find a significant negative relation between order flows and monthly returns, “the order flow effect,” suggesting that market makers lower prices for stocks with sell order flows and demand a reward in the form of higher expected returns. Further, the order flow effect is stronger for high‐volatility or high‐volume stocks for which market makers have serious inventory concerns. Funding liquidity of market makers also affects the order flow effect. Finally, our finding is independent of existing regularities and robust to the decimalization.     

惩罚性赔偿导向的生命全价值评估研究

基于寿命周期各阶段生命价值的特点,综合运用成本法、收益法、市场法,从生命物质价值、生命精神价值、惩罚性赔偿的生命基础价值与生命保障价值四个方面分项评估生命全价值。选择各阶段有代表性的生命全价值,同时提取惩罚性的安全公益基金作为预防性安全投入,实现既可维护受害者的生命价值,又能促进可持续的安全投入。     

Irish consumer perceptions of meat hazards and use of extrinsic information cues

The purpose of this research was to examine the factors that underpin risk perceptions for meat hazards and assess the degree to which these perceptions reflect overall concern. It also sought to identify any differences that exist in information use. A total of 238 meat customers were surveyed in Cork, Ireland. An analysis of consumer perceptions revealed a two-factor structure, 'dread' and 'unknown', similar to Slovic (1992). A perceptual map of the various hazards associated with meat clearly highlighted different groups of hazards and the differing perceptions associated with them. There were groupings between BSE, E-coli and Salmonella, antibiotics, growth hormones and genetic modifications, and saturated fats and cholesterol. Cluster analysis highlighted the differences in attitudes towards meat hazards across the sample population. However, an analysis of the demographic and behavioural variables found no distinguishable features across the identified segments, except in their use of written information. The butcher, quality assurance (QA) marks, country of origin and labelling were identified as the most helpful risk relievers. However, no significant differences were identified between perceived helpfulness and level of perceived 'dread' and 'unknown'. Use of written information by consumers (labels, quality marks and information brochures) was significantly related to their overall concern about hazards.