一类离散时间复杂网络系统的输出同步

利用线性稳定性理论和Lyapunov函数方法,研究了一类离散时间复杂网络系统的输出同步问题,得到了系统输出指数同步的充分性条件,数值算例表明了方法的有效性.     

考虑标度的加型一致性模糊判断矩阵的排序方法

通过实例说明相关文献中加型一致性模糊判断矩阵排序方法的参数取值存在的问题,分析出该问题是由于其公式证明中没有区分标度导致的,指出其结论适用于0～1标度的加型一致性模糊判断矩阵.然后,重新证明了0.1～0.9标度下的加型一致性模糊判决矩阵的排序方法和相关结论.最后,定义了广义模糊标度,并给出广义模糊标度下加型一致性模糊判断矩阵的排序方法和相关结论,使得相关文献中排序方法和相关结论实现形式上的统一.     

高职院校工程造价专业课程评价探讨

课程评价是高职院校课程实践和课程改革中不可忽视的环节。目前高职院校课程理论研究远远落后于课程实践,课程评价研究尤为滞后,因此,开展课程评价研究对于指导高职课程建设、提高课程建设质量十分必要。该文通过对课程评价含义、评价原则、评价主体、评价方法、评价手段等几个侧面问题的探讨,结合该研究者所在学校开展的项目化课程改革研究成果,提出了构建高职院校工程造价专业课程评价体系的思路,以期为高职工程造价专业课程评价改革提供实践依据。     

Promoting Entrepreneurship through a Community Learning Model – Case Study: Green Businesses

This article presents a community learning model formulated by Engineers Without Borders Colombia with the aim of providing communities with tools to create sustainable productive solutions which have relevancy for members and for potential customers. The goal of this formulation is to promote learning processes that are guided by decisions made by community members to propose sustainable and replicable initiatives. The model applicability is evidenced through a case study devoted to strengthening community-led green businesses in the Guavio Province, Colombia by collecting lessons and conclusions. Ultimately, this collection will prove useful in replicating the learning model in other similar rural communities.

     

Forecasting economic indicators using a consumer sentiment index: Survey‐based versus text‐based data

Given the confirmed effectiveness of the survey‐based consumer sentiment index (CSI) as a leading indicator of real economic conditions, the CSI is actively used in making policy judgments and decisions in many countries. However, although the CSI offers qualitative information for presenting current conditions and predicting a household's future economic activity, the survey‐based method has several limitations. In this context, we extracted sentiment information from online economic news articles and demonstrated that the Korean cases are a good illustration of applying a text mining technique when generating a CSI using sentiment analysis. By applying a simple sentiment analysis based on the lexicon approach, this paper confirmed that news articles can be an effective source for generating an economic indicator in Korea. Even though cross‐national comparative research results are suited better than national‐level data to generalize and verify the method used in this study, international comparisons are quite challenging to draw due to the necessary linguistic preprocessing. We hope to encourage further cross‐national comparative research to apply the approach proposed in this study.     

谈家庭害虫的危害及防治

家庭是人们生活居住的重要场所，伴人而居的害虫影响到人们的生活质量。因此，采用环境卫生防治、保管技术防治、化学防治、物理与机械防治、人工捕杀害虫等措施，能够有效地改善家庭生活环境。     

Robustness of alternative non‐linearity tests for SETAR models

In recent years there has been a growing interest in exploiting potential forecast gains from the non‐linear structure of self‐exciting threshold autoregressive (SETAR) models. Statistical tests have been proposed in the literature to help analysts check for the presence of SETAR‐type non‐linearities in an observed time series. It is important to study the power and robustness properties of these tests since erroneous test results might lead to misspecified prediction problems. In this paper we investigate the robustness properties of several commonly used non‐linearity tests. Both the robustness with respect to outlying observations and the robustness with respect to model specification are considered. The power comparison of these testing procedures is carried out using Monte Carlo simulation. The results indicate that all of the existing tests are not robust to outliers and model misspecification. Finally, an empirical application applies the statistical tests to stock market returns of the four little dragons (Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan) in East Asia. The non‐linearity tests fail to provide consistent conclusions most of the time. The results in this article stress the need for a more robust test for SETAR‐type non‐linearity in time series analysis and forecasting. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.