Participatory Design for Democracy and Wellbeing: Narrowing the Gap Between Service Outcomes and Perceived Needs

This paper explains how narratives told by Aboriginal service users and Aboriginal service providers form the basis for redesigning the approach to complex interrelated problems associated with unemployment, alcohol, domestic violence and homelessness. On the basis of the case study it develops an argument for how it is possible to mainstream the matching of services to meet perceived needs. It makes the case that (1) it is possible for democracy to be re-worked in such a way that (a) collective needs (and steering for the common good) can be married to (2) decentralized policy making (and steering from below). Sustainable participatory policy based on user perceptions of what works why and how could be the basis for enabling people to set aside narrow difference and to consider different ways to govern democratically. We conclude that bureaucratic and compartmentalized responses are inadequate to address complex multifaceted problems and that the process of engagement is in itself important for democracy and wellbeing. The area of concern is to address identity and social inclusion. The research explores convergent user-centric design. The criteria for UCD are: Improving wellbeing, Enhancing participation in thinking through if-then scenarios, Matching services to perceived need, Enhancing rational decisions, Generating evidence based policy based on mapping and modeling, Attaining sustainability, Fostering creativity and innovation, Building communities, Expanding opportunity. A dedicated website describes the work of the ARC team http://www.socsci.flinders.edu.au/av/pathways/binder.php.     

Conclusion: New Directions Through Extending Deliberative Democracy to Enhance Representation and Accountability

Two way, systemic dialogue enables new ideas to emerge. Rorty (1989) in ‘Contingency, irony and solidarity’ argues that we need to ask questions that acknowledge solidarity with other human beings who suffer. He asks us to consider the consequences for humanity by widening our sense of solidarity or links with others. Considering their pain should be our starting point for drawing ever widening circles of solidarity. The issue is not idealism versus pragmatism as Rorty argues; it is about widening our understanding of the consequences of our thinking and our practice. We need to understand that the environment of which we are part has been shaped by our social, cultural, political and economic decisions and that it will in turn shape our thinking and practice. This is the principle of co-determination that has been developed by systems thinkers such as Maturana and Varela and understood by recent thinkers such as Tim Flannery (2007) and Ulrich Beck (1992, 1997).

公司治理水平与信息披露质量的关系

公司信息披露质量是公司内外部治理综合作用的结果,它们之间存在一定的因果关系。因此,非常有必要在一个综合集成的框架模型下,分析公司内外部治理各要素的关系及其对公司信息披露质量的影响力。运用路径分析方法发现公司治理提高信息披露质量的途径,为相关部门制定政策提高上市公司信息披露质量提供一定的理论依据。根据南开大学公司治理研究中心课题组设计的中国上市公司治理评价指标体系,论文构建了公司内外部治理相互关系及其对公司信息披露质量作用的假设模型,并利用二手数据对其进行检验与分析。     

Improvements in Introductory Programming Course: Action Research Insights and Outcomes

Programming is a rewarding and yet demanding field in the ICT labormarket, but it is considered a challenging and difficult area of learning for significant numbers of novice programmers. As a result, high attrition rates from introductory programming (IP) courses are reported despite extensive research which attempts to address the issue. In this research, an action research methodology was used with three cycles to investigate and improve the teaching and learning process of the IP course. There were nine activities performed during the span of these three cycles. All three entities of the didactic triangle (student, instructor, and content) together with learning context were incorporated into the research design to understand the problem better and execute the proposed solution. The result shows that three cycles of the action research methodology helps in understanding and improving the students learning outcomes in the IP course. Moreover, the attrition rate was also reduced in the IP course.     

Systemic Analysis of the Brazilian Production Chain of Semiconductors: Graphic Representation and Leverage Points

The purpose of this article is to analyze systemically the Brazilian production chain of semiconductors. The specific objectives of this article are to represent the chain systemically and to identify key variables and leverage points that can increase the overall performance of the semiconductor industry. The research method is qualitative modelling. Eleven practitioners of the industry answered a questionnaire approaching various aspects of the semiconductor industry in Brazil. By a systemic approach, the complex behavior present in the industry was considered. By content analysis, we identified patterns in the speech of the respondents. Texts fragments allowed the identification of key themes and variables present in the system. The association among key variables and complex behavior helped to build a systemic structure, aimed at representing the main relationships in the system. From the systemic structure, eight leverage points were identified and discussed. The key implications of the findings are the damage that cheap imports make in the local market; the need of strong public policies that include more than tax reduction, but also local conditions, like clusters or technological parks, for the high-tech manufacture; and the promotion of conditions that stimulate private investment in the industry.     

中国经济发展与城市土地集约利用的协调发展评价研究

在构建经济发展与城市土地集约利用的协调发展评价模型基础上,分析了31个省市区经济发展与城市土地集约利用的协调发展程度。结果表明：①各省市区协调度与协调发展度都存在着明显的区域差异,协调发展水平整体上表现出东部地区大部分省份高于中西部地区的规律,而且与区域经济发展水平具有较强的相关关系;②各省市区经济发展与城市土地集约利用的协调度与协调发展度在空间上分布具有一定的对应性;③按照协调度和协调发展度将31个省市区分为7类,分别体现经济发展、自然条件和政策因素等差异。     

咸阳市生态环境与城市化协调发展定量评价

针对成阳市的具体情况,构建了成阳市生态环境和城市化协调发展指标体系,在此基础上运用主成分分析法对生态环境和城市化进行综合评价,通过构建协调发展模型定量分析生态环境与城市化的静态、动态协调发展程度.结果显示:1990～2004年成阳市生态环境和城市化总体上处于基本协调发展状态,但发展状况并不均衡,生态环境与城市化并不是总处在协调发展之中的.因此,在今后城市化发展过程中,政府应加大环境保护力度,制定严格的环境保护政策,促进产业结构、能源结构、经济结构的调整,以达到生态环境和城市化的协调发展,从而实现成阳市城市化的可持续发展.表6,参14.     

三江平原粮食生产与沼泽湿地协调发展水平动态分析与评价

为了寻求三江平原农作物播种面积和沼泽湿地面积两者间的合理比例,使之既能保证粮食生产,又能维持沼泽湿地的重要功能,有必要对三江平原粮食生产与沼泽湿地协调发展水平进行动态分析与评价。在获取过去50多年三江平原沼泽湿地面积和农作物播种面积数据的基础上,通过选取表征粮食生产效益和沼泽湿地效益的评价指标,应用模糊数学中的隶属度函数对评价指标进行量化,建立协调发展水平评价模型,对两者协调发展程度进行了动态分析与评价。评价结果显示,20世纪60年代中期的农业生产和沼泽湿地环境是比较协调的。该时期三江平原农作物播种面积为158万hm^2,沼泽湿地面积为282万hm^2。此结果可以作为三江平原沼泽湿地恢复程度的一个参考标准。按高产水平计算,三江平原可提供111077t粮食,而三江平原的生物种类可以恢复到建国初期的95％。图8,参25。     

中国服务贸易与服务业发展互动关系——基于三维向量自回归模型的实证分析

把服务贸易进口与出口两个方面结合起来,构建VAR模型的基础上,运用现代协整理论与冲击分解等计量方法,对我国服务贸易出口、服务贸易进口、服务业发展之间的长期和短期互动关系进行实证研究。结果表明:从长期看,三者之间存在稳定的均衡关系,服务业发展是服务贸易出口增长的Granger原因。从短期看,服务业发展的短期波动受服务贸易进口和服务贸易出口短期变化的影响,其中,服务贸易出口的短期均衡调整力度更为显著。同时,冲击分解结果表明,来自服务业发展的冲击对服务贸易进口和服务贸易出口变化的贡献率都较大。     

仿真技术的发展及其在无人飞行器效能分析中的应用

本文讨论了仿真技术发展的特点及其应用,介绍了仿真与人工智能、计算机图形学以及面向对象技术的联系。文中的三个示例用来说明仿真技术在无人飞行器效能分析中的应用。     

从系统观看重庆统筹城乡教育发展

重庆统筹城乡教育发展对促进统筹城乡综合发展有重要意义。本文利用乌杰系统辩证学中的系统观和系统分析法,对重庆统筹城乡教育发展中的问题进行了系统深入的分析,提出了合理化建议和意见。     

黄河流域金融发展与能源消费:节能效应与空间溢出

立足黄河流域高质量发展的现实要求,本文就黄河流域低碳建设和区域协同减排背景下的金融发展对能源消费水平的影响机制和传导路径进行系统考察.基于包含知识产出的内生增长Romer模型,构建金融发展与能源消费的理论模型;进而通过选取2000-2017年黄河流域省际面板数据构造动态空间杜宾模型,对金融发展驱动能源消费的空间效应展开...     

Dependence between stock returns and investor sentiment in Chinese markets: A copula approach

Using data of newly opened stock trading accounts in China as a proxy of investor sentiment index,the authors employ the time-varying copula-GARCH model with Hansen’s skewed Student-t innovations to investigate the dynamic dependence between investor sentiment and stock returns.The empirical findings show that shifts in investor sentiment are asymptotically positively correlated to stock returns in extreme value situations in both A shares market and B shares market in China,that is to say,stock prices will increase(decrease) more when investors become more bullish(bearish).Also, results show that the dependence between investor sentiment and stock returns is time-varying,which means that the traditional Pearson’s correlation based on normal distribution is not enough to describe the relationship between stock market behavior and investor behavior.     

Analysis of the Relation between Interest Rate Policy and the Stock Market in China

1　IntroductionThegrowthofsocialeconomyisbasedontheflowofcapitalsfromtheinvestorstotheen-terprises,fromtheloweffectivedepartmentstothehighereffectivedepartments,fromtheconservativedepartmentstotheinnovativedepartments.Inordertoensurethenormalflowofth...     

Student Engineers as Agents of Change: Combining Social Inclusion in the Professional Development of Electrical and Computer Engineering Students

Community-based action research helps students link subject matter to everyday life and developing sense of responsibility to their community. While combining research and a development into teaching engineering software which has been vastly conducted in engineering disciplines such as Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and Computer Science (CS), including inclusive participatory research is yet to be fully developed. We participated in the NGO by providing information technology (IT) and/or assistive technology (AT). This paper examines the practice of action research in service-learning projects that aim to introduce more socially responsible studies in the context of engineering education. It begins by exploring different forms of action research that may benefit engineering disciplines with a focus on action engagement to improve students’ involvement in marginalized communities. The article provides field-based reflections of the action research project and suggests ways in which practice of action research may increase socially responsive value in the professional development of student engineers.     

仿真技术在中国电力工业中的发展及应用

对现代化大型火电机组仿真系统的硬件组成和软件结构作了简要介绍,着重介绍了我国火电机组仿真技术从科研起步到火电仿真机数量上跃居世界第一位和质量达到世界先进水平的进展过程,给出了我国电力仿真机在国内外的分布情况。     

电力消费与中国经济增长的关系分析

随着经济水平的提高，生产和生活对电力的依赖程度愈来愈大，电力工业的作用也愈加突出，电力工业成为国民经济的重要基础工业。电力消费与国民经济增长关系的研究，对我国经济、电力等政策的制定、电力建设提供了可靠的依据。为避免因果分析滞后阶数选取的随意性，运用Hsiao版的格兰杰因果关系检验，分析电力消费与经济增长之问的关系。在此研究基础上，结合预测方差分解技术，就以上变量问因果关系的强弱程度做了进一步的分析。     

The Influencing Factors of sCER Price Dynamics Under the Clean Development Mechanism: Theory and Econometric Analysis

In order to explore the factors and their complex mechanism affecting the price dynamics under the clean development mechanism(CDM), this article employs the secondary Certified Emission Reduction(sCER) carbon price as the study object, and analyzes its influencing factors from aspects of the international carbon-reduction policies, macroeconomic fluctuations, energy and similar carbon products prices. The innovation of this paper lies in: Introducing necessary factor(the developing countries pricing power) and the application of several international representative indicators to underline the world nature of CDM; utilizing different econometric models to obtain noteworthy and more robust results. The authors test the theoretical findings with multiple stationary time series from the launch of CDM to present(2008–2016). The results reveal that s CER price fluctuation shows the characteristic of asymmetry and substantial persistence. There is a strong statistically significant relationship between macroeconomic conditions, coal and oil prices, with the price of s CER. The authors discover that the pricing power of developing countries indeed has a clear but small impact on the s CER price changes, whereas the price elasticity of supply under CDM is so weak. The interaction between EU emission allowances(EUAs) and s CER presents a shift from dependency to substitution.     

Participative Methodology for Local Development: The Contribution of Engineers Without Borders from Italy and Colombia: Towards the Improvement of Water Quality in Vulnerable Communities

This paper presents a systemic methodology by which engineering is put to use in vulnerable communities through applied technological research and the main results of its application. The methodology presented corresponds to one implemented and designed by two groups of Engineers without Borders in Europe and Latin America, to integrate technical know-how with local context in communities with water problems in Colombia and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The main results of this methodology are related to the improvement of the living conditions of vulnerable groups thanks to the integration of the communities?? knowledge with engineering know-how, leading to autonomous communities and engineering professors and students learning from real life problems to enrich applied sciences.     

长株潭产业一体化发展研究

在长株潭产业一体化的基础条件已经具备的条件下，产业一体化对长株潭经济一体化有着重要的意义与作用。产业一体化是长株潭经济一体化的内在要求，为了推动长株潭经济一体化，三市在改造和提升传统工业，培育壮大高新技术产业和发展第三产业上应协调发展，努力实现三市产业一体化。