Business Process Reengineering (BPR) Versus Outsourcing—Critical Perspectives

This article presents a case example involving the renaming of an organizational change process from BPR to outsourcing. The paper discusses the important ramifications of such a name change in that the recognition of outsourcing allowed an organizational commitment to counseling and termination advice. The paper discusses two ways of looking at the name change, one from a critical theory perspective and one from a realist perspective. It demonstrates how theory can provide useful yet markedly different interpretations of such organizational events. Critical theory operates from within what can be termed the transitive epistemological dimension, whereas critical realism tends to emphasize the importance of ontological issues. Each has important things to say about the situation and improves our understanding overall.     

Subset threshold autoregression

We develop in this paper an efficient way to select the best subset threshold autoregressive model. The proposed method uses a stochastic search idea. Differing from most conventional approaches, our method does not require us to fix the delay or the threshold parameters in advance. By adopting the Markov chain Monte Carlo techniques, we can identify the best subset model from a very large of number of possible models, and at the same time estimate the unknown parameters. A simulation experiment shows that the method is very effective. In its application to the US unemployment rate, the stochastic search method successfully selects lag one as the time delay and five best models from more than 4000 choices. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

"以夷制夷"与"以倭攻胡"--壬辰战争期间明朝与朝鲜对女真政策的比较研究

壬辰战争期间,围绕女真问题,明朝和朝鲜采取了不同的政策和措施。明朝政府扶植个别强酋,以夷制夷的政策,客观上加速了女真统一趋势的发展;朝鲜王朝虽然预见到了建州女真的威胁,并采“取以倭攻胡”的政策,但并不能阻止女真势力的发展。壬辰战争后,建州女真成为朝鲜和明帝国的新的威胁。     

应用统计预测理论研究吉林省海外游客消费结构

在旅游经济学研究与实践中应用统计预测理论,以定量的研究方法代替以往定性的方法,以吉林省入境旅游流为切入点,综合运用主成份分析及回归分析等数理统计分析方法,结合大量的市场调研收集到的相关数据资料,研究了吉林省海外游客消费结构问题.     

直线同步电机特性与仿真分析

依据直线同步电机的运行特点,通过合理假设,推导了直线同步电机悬浮力与驱动力的表达式,通过对磁场和力的分析,找出了它们与功角δ之间的关系表达式,并利用ANSYS软件对磁场和力进行了仿真,在功角δ从0°到360°的变化周期内,得出驱动力和法向力的变化趋势.仿真结果与数值计算结果相吻合.     

关于“流体静力学矛盾”作用机制的定量分析

在充满液体的等底等高的各种异型容器内,液体对容器底部压力相等,但对支承容器的面的压力(不计容器质量)并不相等。这是著名的“流体静力学矛盾”。对其作用机制作了具体的定量分析,得出了比较令人满意的解释。     

Genetic and photoperiodic control of an avian reproductive cycle

European blackcaps,Sylvia atricapilla, with one breeding season per year, have a single-peaked annual testes cycle. However, African conspecifics from the Cape Verde Islands with two breeding seasons per annum demonstrate a two-peaked cycle. Both population-specific cycles reflect differences in the respective endogenous circannual rhythms. Experimental hybridization of birds of the two populations resulted in an intermediate pattern of testes cycle, thus demonstrating that there are genetic components for some temporal aspects in an avian reproductive cycle. Another characteristic of the African birds, their extremely rapid juvenile development and early sexual maturity (at an age of 5–6 months) proved largely to be a photoperiodic (short-day) effect in birds hatched in autumn. The same effect could also be induced in European conspecifics exposed to correspondingly short day-lengths.     

软骨组织工程新进展

软骨组织工程技术为治疗骨、软骨疾病提供了一种新的方法，其主要技术路线是，通过种子细胞和生物活性支架的体外共培养实现软骨组织的再生，并最终完成组织的修复与重建。种子细胞的选择、支架的构建，培养条件的优化对软骨再生有重要作用，从而成为目前软骨工程领域的研究重点。     

Cartesian causation: body–body interaction, motion, and eternal truths

There is considerable debate among scholars over whether Descartes allowed for genuine body–body interaction. I begin by considering Michael Della Rocca’s recent claim that Descartes accepted such interaction, and that his doctrine of the creation of the eternal truths indicates how this interaction could be acceptable to him. Though I agree that Descartes was inclined to accept real bodily causes of motion, I differ from Della Rocca in emphasizing that his ontology ultimately does not allow for them. This is not the end of the story however, since two of Descartes’s successors offered incompatible ways of developing his conflicted account of motion. I contrast the occasionalist view of Nicolas Malebranche that changes in motion derive directly from divine volitions with the non-occasionalist claim of Pierre-Sylvain Regis that such changes derive from a nature distinct from God. In light of Della Rocca’s interpretation, it is noteworthy that the issue of eternal truths is relevant to both alternative accounts. Indeed, Regis took the doctrine that such truths are created to provide crucial support for his alternative to an occasionalist account of body–body interaction. What does not help Della Rocca, however, is that Regis’s view of motion requires a fundamental revision of Descartes’s ontology.     

Lindelff空间和可分空间的讨论

对Lindel ff空间的闭子空间做了进一步的讨论,并从中给出Lindel ff空间与可分空间之间的关系,指出可分空间不一定是Lindel ff空间.