A model of fads,fashions, and group formation

I develop a model of consumer behavior where agents purchase goods in order to signify personal characteristics. Agents purchase goods in order to imitate agents similar to them and agents they want to emulate. Depending on parameter values of consumer preferences the model generates stable groups, fads, and fashion cycles, or a mixture of both. The model is unique to the economic literature on fads in that the extinction of fads occurs endogenously in the model. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Complexity 9: 51–61, 2004     

Networks, Fields and Organizations: Micro-Dynamics, Scale and Cohesive Embeddings

Social action is situated in fields that are simultaneously composed of interpersonal ties and relations among organizations, which are both usefully characterized as social networks. We introduce a novel approach to distinguishing different network macro-structures in terms of cohesive subsets and their overlaps. We develop a vocabulary that relates different forms of network cohesion to field properties as opposed to organizational constraints on ties and structures. We illustrate differences in probabilistic attachment processes in network evolution that link on the one hand to organizational constraints versus field properties and to cohesive network topologies on the other. This allows us to identify a set of important new micro-macro linkages between local behavior in networks and global network properties. The analytic strategy thus puts in place a methodology for Predictive Social Cohesion theory to be developed and tested in the context of informal and formal organizations and organizational fields. We also show how organizations and fields combine at different scales of cohesive depth and cohesive breadth. Operational measures and results are illustrated for three organizational examples, and analysis of these cases suggests that different structures of cohesive subsets and overlaps may be predictive in organizational contexts and similarly for the larger fields in which they are embedded. Useful predictions may also be based on feedback from level of cohesion in the larger field back to organizations, conditioned on the level of multiconnectivity to the field.     

中外低保管理面面观

目前我国城市居民最低生活保障制度的执行情况进展良好。低保政策的执行在保障下岗和失业人员基本生活及促进就业和再就业等方面发挥了明显的作用。但贫困问题是一个世界性问题 ,我们应借鉴各国在缓解贫困方面的作法 ,促进我国城市扶贫工作的顺利进行     

上天入地：思想史的边界与方法

思想史的研究方法与研究对象有十分密切的关系。通常情况下,研究对象多少已经决定了合宜的方法。甚至可以说,合宜的方法内在于对象,至少是内在于主体和对象的关系。思想史的研究有两条边界,一条是向上的通向哲学、形而上精神的世界;另一条是向下深挖的通向社会的、形而下生活的世界。思想史的这两条边界决定了思想史研究的主要方法取向。     

Scale-free behavior of the Internet global performance

Measurements and data analysis have proved very effective in the study of the Internet's physical fabric and have shown heterogeneities and statistical fluctuations extending over several orders of magnitude. Here we focus on the relationship between the Round-Trip-Time (RTT) and the geographical distance. We define dimensionless variables that contain information on the quality of Internet connections finding that their probability distributions are characterized by a slow power-law decay signalling the presence of scale-free features. These results point out the extreme heterogeneity of Internet delay since the transmission speed between different points of the network exhibits very large fluctuations. The associated scaling exponents appear to have fairly stable values in different data sets and thus define an invariant characteristic of the Internet that might be used in the future as a benchmark of the overall state of “health” of the Internet. Received 25 January 2003 Published online 7 May 2003     

移民村落的权力博弈与移民的适应——以广东三峡移民村落白村为例

通过对一个安置在广东的三峡移民村落白村首任村长上任、下台的调查与分析,探究了移民村落的乡村权力“博弈”过程,以及这种乡村权力与移民适应的关系,指出帮助移民获得适当的社会资本是帮助移民更好地适应的策略之一。     

Covariant Newtonian and relativistic dynamics of (magneto)-elastic solid model for neutron star crust

This work develops the dynamics of a perfectly elastic solid model for application to the outer crust of a magnetised neutron star. Particular attention is given to the Noether identities responsible for energy-momentum conservation, using a formulation that is fully covariant, not only (as is usual) in a fully relativistic treatment but also (sacrificing accuracy and elegance for economy of degrees of gravitational freedom) in the technically more complicated case of the Newtonian limit. The results are used to obtain explicit (relativistic and Newtonian) formulae for the propagation speeds of generalised (Alfven type) magneto-elastic perturbation modes.     

我国当前社会保险面临的问题及对策

从制度设计方面、资金供求方面、管理体制方面分析了社会保险面临的困难和问题，提出了完善社会保险体系的思路与对策，即依法扩大社会保险覆盖面。扩大基金筹措渠道，切实加强基金支出管理，加快社会化管理服务步伐。     

一个二阶方程的振动性质及其应用

本文研究了一个二阶微分方程的解及其振动性质,利用它获得了一般二阶自共轭方程的振动性判别准则,特别对其中一类二阶微分方程的振动性给出了定量的判别方法.推广了E.Hille的工作,使E.Hille的研究结论成为本文结果的极特殊的情形,同时对一类具有“积分小”系数或可化为具有“积分小”系数的二阶微分方程的振动性与非振动性给出了简便、精确的判别方法.     

On the Finite Base Property for Semigroup Varieties

No algorithm determines from an arbitrary recursive system of semigroup identities whether the variety defined by this system is finitely based.