Centering labor in the land grab debate

Placing labor at the center of the global ‘land-grab’ debate helps sharpen critical insights at two scales. At the scale of agricultural enterprises, a labor perspective highlights the jobs generated, and the rewards received, by people who work in and around large farms. This approach guides my critical reading of the report prepared by a World Bank team that argues for large-scale land acquisition as a way to reduce poverty. Using data from within the report itself, I show why poverty reduction is a very unlikely result. I develop the argument further by drawing on research in colonial and contemporary Indonesia, where large-scale plantations and associated smallholder contract schemes have a long history. A labor perspective is also relevant at the national and transnational scale, where it highlights the predicament of people whose labor is not needed by the global capitalist system. In much of the global South, the anticipated transition from the farm to factory has not taken place and education offers no solution, as vast numbers of educated people are unemployed. Unless vast numbers of jobs are created, or a global basic income grant is devised to redistribute the wealth generated in highly productive but labor-displacing ventures, any program that robs rural people of their foothold on the land must be firmly rejected.     

The China Model

The return of the Middle Kingdom to the center stage of history is the most significant geo‐civilizaitonal development of the 21st Century. China's rise raises anew the great question, thought settled after the Cold War, of what system of governance will stand on the right or wrong side of history. In this section the leading ideologists of the China model and its “peaceful rise” appear alongside the fiercest critics of China's way.     

Interrelations of Behavioral, Emotional, and Cognitive School Engagement in High School Students

School engagement, or the extent to which students are involved in, attached and committed to the academic and social activities in school, plays a prominent role in preventing academic failure, promoting competence, and influencing a wide range of adolescent outcomes. Although the multidimensional nature of school engagement is well-recognized, how the three purported parts of the construct work together is largely unknown. By using data from the longitudinal, 4-H study of Positive Youth Development, involving a sample of 1,029 adolescents (67.7 % female; mean age at Grade 9 = 14.92 years; 74.4 % of participants were European American, 5.2 % were Latino/a, 7.3 % were African American), the current study examined the interrelationships of behavioral, emotional, and cognitive aspects of school engagement over three years in adolescence (Grades 9–11). We used autoregressive lagged effects models to assess the relationships among the three engagement constructs. Results indicated that behavioral and emotional engagement were related bidirectionally (each variable was a basis and an outcome of the other). In addition, behavioral engagement influenced cognitive engagement (but the reverse of this relation was not found). Implications for future research are discussed.     

基于心理契约理论构建和谐劳动关系评价指标体系

和谐劳动关系是雇佣双方在劳动关系过程中通过有效的机制实现双方权利、义务的平衡,达到协调和平衡的状态,其特征是规范有序、公平合理、互利共赢,因此评价企业劳动关系的和谐程度需要关注雇佣双方利益满足程度.心理契约作为劳动关系的基础和框架,描述了雇佣双方对彼此应履行责任的主观理解,雇佣双方感知到的心理契约履行程度描述了其利益满足程度.本文尝试从雇佣双方心理契约内容及其感知到的心理契约履行程度的理论视角,运用探索性和验证性因子分析构建包含管理者评价和员工评价的和谐劳动关系评价指标体系,并确定管理者和员工评价得分均为4分以上的企业为劳动关系和谐企业.最后对评价指标体系的实践应用进行探讨.     

交通事故的灰色预测模型及其实证研究

灰色系统理论中的灰色预测模型,论述了交通事故系统的灰色性,并采用GM（1,1）灰色预测模型对交通事故进行实证研究。根据某地区交通事故的统计数据建立灰色动态数列预测模型。灰色预测模型是一个微分方程,称为GM模型（GREY MODEL）。GM（1,1）则是1阶的,1个变量的微分方程型模型,这种模型与数理统计的方法比较,求解较易,计算量小,精度较高。     

从对立到妥协:民主社会主义和新保守主义福利思想的演进

本文分别考察了位于政治谱系两端的民主社会主义和新保守主义的福利思想演变进程,认为在目前形势下,极端的福利思想很难迎合大众的需要,第三条道路在西方国家的兴起便是明证。但第三条道路并没有超越“左”、“右”,而是不同政治派别的相互妥协的产物。     

在新的历史起点上做好党校科研工作

在新的历史起点上做好党校科研工作,要从十七大精神中进一步理解和把握党校的地位和作用,理解和把握党校科研工作的重要性,增强做好工作的责任感.当前党校行政学院系统科研工作着重应该抓什么,围绕什么去做?其实应该突出中国特色社会主义理论体系解读和关注各级党委政府工作中心、工作大局两个重点.党校行政学院的领导要更加重视科研工作,要使科研工作在整个校院工作大格局中有地位.     

机械手RBF神经网络滑模迭代学习控制

在机械手的轨迹控制的迭代学习控制中,迭代学习的学习律难以选择.本文结合RBF神经网络滑模变结构控制和遮代学习控制的基本思想,提出采用RBF神经网络滑模变结构控制确定学习律的方法.并运用Matlab软件Simulink对该方法应用于机械手轨迹跟踪控制的情况进行了仿真研究,结果表明该方法具有学习速度快、跟踪精度高、鲁棒性强等优点.     

《政府信息公开条例》的民本思想探微

中国《政府信息公开条例》以法规的形式给予政府信息公开以强制性的规定,并作出了严格的制度安排。浏览其中条款处处彰显民本行政的思想,具体体现在法为民所立、权为民所用、利为民所谋、信为民所取、责为民所负五个方面,本文从以上方面入手探索其精神实质。     

资源贫乏的少数民族山区建立扶贫新机制的思路

资源贫乏的少数民族山区,经济基础设施简陋,经济实力单薄,扶贫的任务非常艰巨.为实现2000年农村人口基本解决温饱的目标,必须采用非常措施,因为传统的扶贫措施,已被证明对最低层的贫困人口的脱贫效果甚微.因此,要充分利用西部大开发的有利时机,启动新的扶贫机制.