自然文化遗产的价值与利益

自然文化遗产的多价值性是其相关的利益结构与制度设计的根本原因。它的存在价值,潜在经济价值与短期直接开发价值分别对应于全社会成员,区域内人民和商业公司这三个利益集团。国家公署制度在中国的蜕变的实质,是少数人的利益,通过破坏自然文化遗产地的存在价值和潜在经济价值而侵害多数人的利益。     

Interest rate spreads and output: A time scale decomposition analysis using wavelets

The information content of several interest rate spreads for future output growth is analyzed using wavelet analysis. The “scale-by-scale” regression analysis shows that standard indicators of the stance of monetary policy, such as the shape of the yield curve, the real federal funds rate, and the credit spread have different information content for future output at different time frames. This is consistent with the idea that allowing for different time scales of variation in the data can provide a deeper understanding of the complex dynamics between real and financial variables, certainly richer than those obtainable using standard aggregate regression methods.     

不同付息方式的债券估价模型

从投资者角度论述了债券估价原理,详细描述了不同付息方式的债券做人模型的构建，最后，本文总结出一个通用模型。     

Interesting faces: A graph-based approach for finding people in news

In this study, we propose a method for finding people in large news photograph and video collections. Our method exploits the multi-modal nature of these data sets to recognize people and does not require any supervisory input. It first uses the name of the person to populate an initial set of candidate faces. From this set, which is likely to include the faces of other people, it selects the group of most similar faces corresponding to the queried person in a variety of conditions. Our main contribution is to transform the problem of recognizing the faces of the queried person in a set of candidate faces to the problem of finding the highly connected sub-graph (the densest component) in a graph representing the similarities of faces. We also propose a novel technique for finding the similarities of faces by matching interest points extracted from the faces. The proposed method further allows the classification of new faces without needing to re-build the graph. The experiments are performed on two data sets: thousands of news photographs from Yahoo! news and over 200 news videos from TRECVid2004. The results show that the proposed method provides significant improvements over text-based methods.     

2008 award winners: Distinguished contributions to the public interest.

The Awards for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest recognize persons who have advanced psychology as a science and/or profession by a single extraordinary achievement or a lifetime of outstanding contributions in the public interest. Two awards are given: one to a psychologist who has made a significant contribution to the public interest in the early stages of his or her career, and the second to a senior psychologist. This journal article recognizes the 2008 recipients: Rebecca Campbell and Philip G. Zimbardo. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Gold medal award for life achievement in psychology in the public interest.

The American Psychological Foundation (APF) Gold Medal Awards recognize distinguished and enduring records of accomplishment in four areas of psychology: the application of psychology, the practice of psychology, psychology in the public interest, and the science of psychology. The 2009 recipient of the Gold Medal Award for Life Achievement in Psychology in the Public Interest is E. Scott Geller. Dorothy W. Cantor, president of the APF, will present the APF Gold Medal Awards at the 117th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association on August 7, 2009, at 4:00 p.m. Members of the 2009 APF Board of Trustees are Dorothy W. Cantor, president; William Howell, vice president/secretary; Archie L. Turner, treasurer; Elisabeth R. Straus, executive vice president/executive director; Norman Anderson; David H. Barlow; Camilla Benbow; Sharon Stephens Brehm; Charles L. Brewer; Anthony Jackson; Steven E. James; Ronald F. Levant; Gerald Koocher; Sandra Shullman; and Rosie Phillips Bingham, APA Board of Directors liaison. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

掌纹识别研究进展综述

掌纹图像蕴含丰富特征,容易与手背静脉、指节纹及手形特征进行多模态融合,因此成为生物特征识别领域的热点.文中主要从掌纹的采集、感兴趣区域的检测、特征提取与匹配3方面介绍掌纹识别的基本流程.探讨基于不同特征融合的多模态识别策略.根据特征提取方法的不同,掌纹识别算法可分为基于手工设计的算法(如编码特征、结构特征、统计特征、子空间特征)和基于特征学习的算法(如机器学习和深度学习),文中对上述算法进行详细对比和分析.最后讨论未来掌纹识别面临的挑战和发展,特别是复杂场景下跨平台的掌纹识别系统.     

Correlating the chemical engineering plant cost index with macro-economic indicators

The chemical engineering plant cost index (CEPCI) is widely used for updating the capital costs of process engineering projects. Typically, forecasting it requires twenty or so parameters. As an alternative, we suggest a correlation for predicting the index as a function of readily available and forecast macro-economic indicators:     

Awards for distinguished contributions to psychology in the public interest.

The American Psychological Association 2010 Awards for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest recognize persons who have advanced psychology as a science and/or profession by a single extraordinary achievement or a lifetime of outstanding contributions in the public interest. Two awards are given: one to a psychologist who has made a significant contribution to the public interest in the early stages of his or her career, and the second to a senior psychologist. The winners for 2010 are Perry Halkitis and Norman Abeles. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

政府与世族利益博弈下的南北朝盐业政策变迁

在商品经济不发达的南北朝时期,食盐更突显出其在国家财政与社会经济中的重要地位与突出作用。但由于中央专制集权与世族利益的博弈,南北朝时期各时段的盐业政策不尽相同。南朝由于世族集团的强大和商品经济相对发展,政府实行食盐放任政策;北朝商品经济落后与中央权力相对强大,各朝以实行盐业专卖为主,但由于世族集团对盐业利益的争夺,盐业放任政策时有行之,因此北朝的盐业政策在时收时放中徘徊。南北朝盐业政策的变化与调整,反映出政府与世族在盐业中利益的博弈与双方力量的消长。