Institutional design and the closure of public facilities in transition economies

As part of the reforms of their systems for financing and delivering health care, many transition economies, particularly in central and eastern Europe, have adopted national insurance funds that are institutionally separate from ministries of health. Most of these countries have also grappled with the problem of restructuring the delivery system, especially the need to reduce hospital capacity. Although improving the performance of medical care providers through a shift from passive budgeting to explicitly incentive mechanisms is important, why this change in financial relations between the government and providers could not be implemented simply by reforming the role of health ministries is not obvious. This paper presents an explicit rationale for the separation of powers between the regulator (the ministry of health) and the financing body (the insurance fund), based on the inability of a single agency to commit to closing hospitals. JEL classification: L51, P20, P35, I18.     

Optimising a Probabilistic Model of the Development of Play in Soccer

We present a probabilistic model based on the one developed by Hernández Mendo and Anguera (Revista de Psicologíca Social, 16(1), 71–93, 2001). Here we have tried to break down the interaction contexts that the opposing teams are able to generate and transform during the game. We are aware that a given player or team does not produce consistent behaviour in similar situations. However, a degree of uncertainty is assumed to exist regarding whether the results obtained are a specific function of the analysis used. In order to carry out this research a category system which optimized that used in the previous model was developed. This system should enable the interaction between teams to be observed within the actual play of a soccer game. A lag sequential analysis was performed on the basis of a coding of the behavioural flow. After describing the behavioural patterns obtained a probabilistic model of the development of play in soccer is proposed.     

Associations Between Epistemological Beliefs and Moral Reasoning: Evidence from Accounting

We investigated associations between moral reasoning and epistemological beliefs in an accounting context using the sample of 140 senior accounting students from a public university in Midwestern U.S. We found no significant correlations between accounting students’ principled reasoning about Thorne’s ethical dilemmas and their beliefs about knowledge measured by administering Schommer epistemological questionnaire. We conducted post-hoc power analysis and present the evidence that the lack of associations should not be attributed to the lack of power. Overall, our results suggest that reflective thinking and moral reasoning represent separate dimensions of cognitive process which develop at a different pace. Thus, a stand-alone course of ethics in accounting education is warranted since higher moral reasoning does not automatically follow from extended technical education and improved critical thinking skills.     

高职高专院校内部教学质量监控体系的构建——以工学结合模式为视角

高职高专院校内部教学质量监控存在监控目的不明确、监控主体单一、监控视角片面、质量指标体系不科学、缺乏操作性等弊端。在分析工学结合模式下高职高专院校内部教学质量监控特点的基础上,提出了教学质量监控过程中的基本要求,以及构建教学质量监控体系的设想。     

消防工程学课程教学资源利用研究

消防工程学是安全工程专业一门重要的专业基础课程。在教学中,应充分利用校内外有关教学资源,以提高课程的教学质量。     

提问建构式篇章分析法与英语专业基础英语课教学

提问建构式篇章分析法是针对传统的精读、精讲式方法提出的新的英语专业基础课教学方法，笔者通过实证对比研究，得出其有利于提高学生各项技能的结论，它在专业基础英语课堂上的应用较之精读、精讲式教学法有明显的优越性。     

谈计算机语言课程教学改革

计算机语言课程改革要把握教学基本要求,精选教学内容;要选好教学方法,抓好教学过程;要注重知识应用和基本技能的培养;改进教学手段,以达到提高教学质量的目的。     

对学生评教活动的利弊探析

该文对学生评教这一教学评价方式的利弊进行了分析,它指出一方面能够促进教学工作,另一方面,受一些主客观因素的影响可能产生某些异化现象.最后提出了完善这一工作的建议.     

浅论大学物理实验教学改革

为了更好地体现大学物理实验课程与时俱进的特点,本文认为应针对学生的具体情况,从大学物理实验的教学体系、教学内容、教学安排、教学手段和考核方法等五方面进行一些改革,以便形成新的课程运行机制,从而更好地提高学生的积极性和主动性。     

论“饭店管理学”的教学体系

以教学体系设计为导向,将有关饭店管理的基本内容划分为服务管理、功能管理、发展与战略管理和行业管理四个层面,并以功能管理层面为重点,具体阐述了以管理理念为核心的饭店管理方案的设计思路。目的是探索具有中国特色的饭店管理高层次人才的培训内容体系。