Advancing environmental productivity: Organizational mindfulness and strategies

This study investigates the importance of mindfulness‐based organization systems and policies on the organization's continuous efforts to become a greener company. The study is devised as a pooled cross‐sectional time series analysis of productivity in energy consumption, water utilization, and waste generation and recycling of U.S. companies. The data set taken from U.S. Newsweek 500 recorded 600 companies dispersed into 63 industries during the period of 2012–2014 and provided 1,498 company–industry–year observations. The study found that systems and policies (e.g., deployment of third‐party auditors for its environmental metrics report; linkage of the remuneration of company's senior executive team with the achievement of environmental performance targets; and establishment of a committee at the Board of Directors' level whose mandate includes sustainability of the company in environment‐ and resource‐related matters) connect the company's mindfulness to its effort in improving the environmental quality through the company's productivity in energy consumption, water utilization, and waste generation and recycling. The relationships are positive and significant. Also, systems and policies serve as a motivator for the firm to continue to improve upon the current achievements. The study emphasizes the importance of translating organizational and individual mindfulness into organization policies and systems in order to motivate the organization to continuously improve its productivity in energy consumption, water utilization, and waste generation and recycling leading to improvements in environmental quality.     

延迟退休年龄下隔代抚育与劳动参与的抉择*——基于工资收入随机性假定的研究

隔代抚育会对延迟退休年龄政策在促进劳动力供给上产生挤出效应。为了对此进行验证，本文在工资收入随机性的假定及延迟退休5年的情景下，模拟了面临孙辈照护需求的女性临近退休者提前退休所产生的福利变化。进一步，本文采用CHIP和CHARLS的微观调查数据，对不同群组的收入增长率和收入风险进行了估计，继而分析了当面临孙辈照护需求时这些收入特征对退休决策者制度退休和退休后劳动参与抉择产生的影响。总体上，在延迟退休年龄政策下，隔代抚育将对女性劳动力供给产生挤出效应。当面临孙辈照护需求时，女性临近退休者的制度退休抉择主要受自身收入增长率和收入风险的影响，收入增长率越低，或收入风险越高，她们提前退休的意愿就越强烈；制度退休后的劳动参与则更多地受子女收入增长率的影响，子女收入增长率越高，劳动参与的概率越低。     

Research on Generation Mechanism of Technical Innovation

Technical advancement includes technology generation, diffusion and aggregation. This paper focuses on researching the mechanism of technology generation from the viewpoint of technology cycle, and the source spring of the generation of the innovation based on technology is scientific discovery. The technical perfection and secondary innovation are determined by the pulling force of demand, unbalanced inducement mechanism and profit. Standardized innovation is the sign of technology mature stage, the limit in demand and supply of technology drives the technical innovation into lag phase.     

氢化物发生-原子荧光光谱法测定痕量硒

研究了氢化物发生-原子荧光光谱法测定土壤和水样品中的痕量硒,系统地考察了HCl浓度、KBH4浓度的影响;确定了最佳测定条件;共存元素的影响及干扰的消除,硒的回收率为95%～102%,硒的检出限为0.18ng/mL,RSD小于4%。本法用于测定标准土壤和水样品中的硒,结果与标准值吻合。     

The Effect of Risk Characteristics on the Willingness to Pay for Mortality Risk Reductions from Electric Power Generation

The objective of this study is to estimate willingness to pay (WTP) for the reduction of mortality risks caused by fossil fuel (natural gas, coal and oil) versus nuclear electric power generation systems and to examine the influence of risk characteristics involved with electric power generation on WTP. A choice experiment was conducted to achieve these objectives. The attributes for nuclear risks in the experiment included the probability of disasters and the expected losses if a disaster occurs. We find evidence of (i) a baseline effect (where WTP is sensitive to hypothetical versus actual baseline expected mortality); (ii) a ‘labeling effect,’ where, surprisingly, the term ‘nuclear’ has no effect on WTP, but the term ‘fossil-fueled power generation’ results in lower WTP; and (iii) disaster aversion, meaning that people focus on the conditional loss from a nuclear disaster, not the probability. We also find that the WTP for reducing deaths from a nuclear disaster is about 60 times the WTP for routine reducing fossil-fuel generation-related deaths.     

平价上网光伏发电项目经济性评价、影响因素及对策

太阳能光伏发电在我国经历了快速的推广应用,虽因享受高额财政补贴而备受争议,但太阳能光伏发电逐步摆脱对财政补贴的依赖,已经达到了平价上网的条件。本文回顾了我国光伏发电上网电价下降的历程,探讨了促进上网电价逐步下降的驱动力。建立以内部收益率(IRR)为平价上网光伏发电项目经济性评价的模型,分析了影响平价上网太阳能光伏发电项目经济性评价的“弃光”严重、非技术成本高企、补贴拖欠等因素,通过算例分析计算了其影响程度,并对解决这些障碍因素从政府和企业两方面提出了对策与建议。     

节能减排下热电联产燃机项目电价政策的思考

随着天然气价格上涨,燃机发电上网电价政策成为热电联产燃机项目生存的重要条件之一.通过理论分析和实证检验,就当前热电联产燃机发电上网的＂高电价＂对燃机项目运营的影响进行了探讨,结果表明：相对于热价,偏高的上网电价易导致电厂愿意多发电,少供热,结果降低了全厂的热效率,不利于全社会的节能降耗.     

太阳能热发电的应用前景及槽式集热器实验研究

太阳能热发电是解决未来我国能源供应的主要途径,槽式太阳能热发电技术是经济可行、技术可靠,并经过30年商业化验证的。槽式太阳能聚光集热器是槽式太阳能热发电系统的核心部件,建立了用于槽式太阳能聚光集热器光热性能研究的实验台,对所设计的大型槽式太阳能聚光集热器的光热性能进行了实验研究。结果表明：聚光器与全新集热管组成的槽式太阳能聚光集热器的光热转化率达70％左右;部分集热管经过320℃的导热油后材质老化,影响聚光集热器的光热性能。     

农民工市民化进程中的社会保障问题研究——以黑龙江省新生代农民工为例

黑龙江省新生代农民工社会保障存在的问题严重,主要表现为农民工参加社会保险比率较低,农民工劳动保障机制不健全。解决新生代农民工社会保障问题,应建立适合新生代农民工牧点的各项保险制度,积极发挥政府的主导作用,提高新生代农民工的整体素质,构建社会支持网络。     

The trade-off between fixed vehicle costs and time-dependent arrival penalties in a routing problem

This paper introduces the vehicle routing problem with soft time windows (VRPSTW) in which problem definition differs from ones previously defined in literature. Branch-and-price approach is employed, resulting in a set partitioning master problem and its new subproblem. Novel techniques are consequently developed to solve this new subproblem. Experimental results report the comparisons of these solution techniques under the branch-and-price framework. The VRPSTW solutions have further been compared to the state-of-the-art literature, signifying the superiority of the VRPSTW on this issue.