Hydrology,topography and demography matter: Why care needs to be exercised when assessing water prices and regulation and the extent to which they conform with best practice

Water tariffs frequently seek to achieve multiple objectives, some of which may conflict. However, the nature and rationale for those conflicts is not always understood or appreciated. This paper consider how localised natural and human phenomena can shape the extent to which so-called ‘best practice’ economic regulation and pricing can be expected to take hold in Victoria and South Australia. Overall, we find that there is room for improvement in the institutional arrangements that circumscribe water pricing in some cases, but direct comparisons are not always helpful, especially when the underlying hydrology, topography and demography of states differs markedly.     

Stratified institutions and elementary homomorphisms

For conventional logic institutions, when one extends the sentences to contain open sentences, their satisfaction is then parameterized. For instance, in the first-order logic, the satisfaction is parameterized by the valuation of unbound variables, while in modal logics it is further by possible worlds. This paper proposes a uniform treatment of such parameterization of the satisfaction relation within the abstract setting of logics as institutions, by defining the new notion of stratified institutions. In this new framework, the notion of elementary model homomorphisms is defined independently of an internal stratification or elementary diagrams. At this level of abstraction, a general Tarski style study of connectives is developed. This is an abstract unified approach to the usual Boolean connectives, to quantifiers, and to modal connectives. A general theorem subsuming Tarski's elementary chain theorem is then proved for stratified institutions with this new notion of connectives.     

对坪北无职党员发挥先进性作用情况的调查与思考

从现实情况来看,影响无职党员发挥作用的原因有四点:1、少数干部把无职党员的作用看得无足轻重,挫伤了他们的积极性。2、少数单位忽视了理想和奉献精神教育,部分无职党员的先锋队意识下降。3、少数支部对如何发挥无职党员的作用缺乏具体要求和引导。4、少数无职党员自身素质不高,无能力发挥作用。针对这种情况特提出具体的工作对策:1、下功夫为无职党员发挥作用创造良好的外部条件。2、想办法激发无职党员发挥作用的内在动力。3、明确无职党员在哪些方面发挥作用。4、建立考核、约束机制,敦促无职党员发挥作用。5、保证无职党员的权利和义务相统一。     

普通本科院校信息与计算科学专业实习实训方案设计

分析当前普通高校信息与计算科学专业学生实习实训模式存在的主要问题,并针对这些问题提出一些解决方案;探讨适合学生实习实训要求的企业实训模式,以安庆师范学院信息与计算科学专业学生实习实训模式为例,对学生实习实训的计划和实施过程进行了阐述。实践表明,新的实训模式能够使学生取得良好的实习实训效果。     

应用型高等院校网络实验室建设探讨

从对网络实验需求的分析入手,找出应用型高等院校网络实验室的工作重点;总结出网络实验室建设所应严格遵循的几条原则及应妥善解决的问题。     

Obliging Institutions and Industry Evolution: A Comparative Study of the German and UK Wind Energy Industries

This paper firstly examines the relationship between state coordination and wind energy growth by comparing the differences between UK and German institutional configurations and state involvements in the 1990s. While the EU was calling for a unified regulatory framework for its member states, the UK and Germany adopted very different renewable energy policies. The evidence of the early 1990s shows that the British government employed “deregulation” with so limited state involvement that wind energy project developers faced thorny development problems, while the German government tried to require the electricity supply industry to purchase expensive wind power by “regulation” but encountered formidable resistance. Nevertheless, both the British and German administrations later could resolve these problems through new forms of state power. This suggests that, firstly, neither “deregulation” nor “regulation” is an effective means to develop wind power with increasing electricity liberalization and regionalization. Secondly, “obliging” regulations and state powers are vital to the policy outcome by harnessing the state's institutional capacity to smooth out technology innovation and diffusion.     

创新教学管理 提高教学质量

创新教学管理,提高教学质量,需要树立全新的教学管理理念,创新教学管理的运行机制,建立一支能够适应现代大学发展要求的高素质教学管理队伍。     

关于学生工作的思考

本文从应用型人才培养的角度,分析了我院学生思想工作面临的新问题,结合工作实际对高校学生思想政治工作从理论和实践方面进行了论述,以期为探索应用型本科学生工作的运行模式提供一些参考。     

What matters the most for economic development? Evidence from the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund

Governments use incentive programmes to attract new businesses. Due to limited resources, there are questions about which incentives are most effective. Using establishment data from California, and data on the location of disbursements through two federal programmes, we consider the effectiveness of different programmes in attracting new businesses. We find that the amount of funding through the New Markets Tax Credit programme has a significant impact on business activity but find no evidence of an effect from the Community Development Financial Institutions programme. Our results suggest that the effectiveness of these programmes depends on how they provide assistance.