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Based on bibliometrics and using the methods of form evaluation, content evaluation and utility evaluation, this paper carried out a statistical analysis and research on the quality of master's thesis in Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology, in terms of the number of thesis, disciplines, core tutors, research topics, research hotspots, citations, funds, confidentiality, research methods, downloads, citations, etc. Based on the research results, this paper put forward suggestions to improve the quality of graduate education from the perspective of discipline construction, tutor team, industry-university-research cooperation, academic innovation, information literacy and academic norms, and process management, aiming to contribute to the transformation and development of the university to an art university. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Waldorf education is a relatively widespread form of experimental education. It has reached 67 countries worldwide and has been widely recognized and valued by Taiwanese education circles, ranging from early childhood education to compulsory education at all levels. This paper focused on Waldorf education in Taiwan, where the aim of such education is the holistic development of the student throughout their academic journey. Following a search with "Waldorf" or "Anthroposophy" as the keyword for the paper title, 94 empirical studies were analyzed, comprising 16 empirical journal articles and 78 Ph.D. dissertations. The literature analysis method was used, and the literature was analyzed from five perspectives: research time, research methods, educational stages of research objects, research themes, and research results. The results indicated the following. First, the development of Taiwan's Waldorf schools is consistent with the core values of the philosophy of Waldorf education in terms of curricular development, teaching, school organization, school development, and parental participation. Second, several difficulties, such as those in curriculum development, teaching, school organization, and parental participation, in the empirical study of Waldorf education in Taiwan were noted. Anthroposophy has undergone development in Taiwan for less than 30 years, which is too short for it to have any noticeable contribution. In addition, other aspects of education require greater social support. Third, according to the empirical research on Waldorf education in Taiwan, teaching, learning, and parental participation are the three key factors influencing Waldorf education. Fourth, the empirical research on future improvements suggests that Waldorf education should be adapted to local characteristics but that these adaptations should adhere to the essence of Waldorf education. Furthermore, the development of Waldorf-based schools should be more open and inclusive, with more connections with stakeholders outside the school. The study identified several gaps in the literature that future empirical research on Waldorf education in Taiwan should meet. 1. Research scope: future studies should focus on glocalization and praxis in Waldorf education. 2. Research sample: future studies should focus on extending Waldorf education to the university context and to middle school students and above. 3. Research methods: future studies should conduct mixed-methods research and compare between countries, between schools, or between mainstream and experimental education. 4. Research topics: future studies conduct empirical research on Waldorf education using academic research as a communication tool; focus on reality, addressing today's most relevant challenges, and transform Waldorf education empirical research; enrich and conduct empirical research on learning, learning outcomes, and monitor Waldorf graduates. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Aiming at the problems of high dimension, large scale and many redundant features of bank customer data, this paper proposes a comprehensive feature selection method based on multi-modal fusion, which can select redundant features by calculating and comparing the comprehensive contribution of each feature in the data set. Firstly, based on the characteristics of real bank customer data, this paper presents a data preprocessing scheme including type conversion and discretization, missing value filling and standardization, and preprocesses the real bank customer data. Secondly, it uses Pearson correlation coefficient, random forest, quantitative prior cognition and the multimodal comprehensive feature selection method proposed in this paper to filter the redundant features in the preprocessed dataset, and 14, 8, 15 and 11 features are extracted respectively. Finally, according to the experimental results, the feature selection effects of the four feature selection methods are fully compared from the qualitative and quantitative levels. The experimental results show that a comprehensive feature selection method based on multimodal fusion can effectively make up for the defects of different feature selection methods, reduce the data dimension, and improve the performance of bank customer classification model. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The impact of environmental pollution on human physical and mental health has been widely discussed. However, the effect of environmental pollution on social morality has been largely overlooked in research. From the perspective of embodied cognition theory, this paper explores the impact of regional environmental pollution on the evaluation of residents' moral anomie based on the 3 703 sample data of "Chinese General Social Survey", and uses the propensity score matching method for empirical test It is found as follows. ➀ Regional environmental pollution has a significant positive impact on residents' public morality, professional ethics and family virtue anomie, but has no significant impact on media moral anomie. ➁ The impact of regional environmental pollution on residents moral anomie appraisal is essentially a concrete manifestation of the impact of geographical environment on human cognition in the human-land relationship system. The research results can provide empirical evidence for the study of the adverse effects of environmental pollution on social morality, and to a certain extent confirm the important strategic significance of the current ecological civilization construction and environmental protection governance advocated by China. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Currency mismatch has drawn attention of the scholars in the recent 20 years. Scholars have proposed lots of empirical measures of currency mismatch of bank that only focus on stock currency mismatch, which leads to some limitations in the conclusion. Based on this fact, this paper comes up with a new indicator of flow currency mismatch, which can be used to analyzing the cause of currency mismatch of bank deeply and dynamically. Then this paper gives an empirical analysis of the relationship between the currency mismatch and some economic variables using ADL model. The study shows that the proper depreciation of domestic currencies, appropriately expanding imports to reduce the trade surplus can effectively reduce the currency mismatch in China from the perspective of stock and the promotion of RMB internationalization can effectively reduce the currency mismatch in China from the perspective of flow. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Due to the diversified behavioral characteristics and regular pattern of moving objects, the trajectory data generated by these objects shows obvious uneven distribution feature in time and space, which may lead to worse performance for trajectory data indexing and querying. However, the existing trajectory data indexing methods rarely consider this problem. In this paper, a temporal-spatial distribution based indexing and querying method is proposed. In the method, Geohash code is introduced and pre-partitioned spatially by utilizing the temporal-spatial similarity of the trajectory data distribution. Then, we use the pre-partitioned Geohash code, partition number and the trajectory data timestamp to compose the index structure. With this index structure, a storage model based on HBase and a query algorithm based on Geohash partition are designed respectively. The empirical study using real trajectory dataset shows that the method improves the spatiotemporal query performance of trajectory data by comparing with the Extend_HGrid and ST-hash methods, and effectively reduces the number of sub-queries during query. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

[Purpose/Significance] The targets and tasks for poverty alleviation in the new era have been met as scheduled, and all rural residents living under the current poverty line have been lifted out of poverty. However, information dissemination remains a weak spot. Therefore, this study explores the influencing factors of information poverty in rural areas of Guizhou Province to provide a basis for promoting the coordinated development of urban and rural information communication. [Method/Process] Based on the in-depth interviews of 87 farmers in poor rural areas in five years, this paper sorted out the interview data based on NVIVO11 software according to the grounded theory principle in qualitative research. This paper makes a qualitative analysis on the influencing factors of rural information poverty from three aspects: farmers' self-factors, information infrastructure construction factors and information acquisition content factors. [Results/Conclusions] Influencing factors lead to the farmers' weak awareness of information, information dissemination is not smooth and the content of dissemination is not complete and accurate, and the information utility is unsatisfactory.

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In order to survive and develop in the fierce global competition, firms are supposed to e both efficiently responding to the demands of the short-term market and innovatively adapting o the long-term market, which requires organizational ambidexterity. The "structure" within the existing researches on the impact on organizational ambidexterity refers to the organizational structure rather than the governance structure. There are mainly two conflicting ways towards he understanding of the relationship between exploration and exploitation, i. e., trade-off or orthogonality, and until now researchers have not arrived at any consensus. Since previous studies on organizational ambidexterity have ignored the importance of corporate governance and he ambiguity of the relationship between exploration and exploitation, this study tries to explore he relationship between governance structure and corporate performance from the perspective of he effect of the trade-off and orthogonal relationship between exploration and exploitation, thus revealing the mechanism of corporate governance impact on both short- and long-term performances through the balancing effect and combined effect of exploration and exploitation. n this paper, the panel data of US and China listed companies cover the years 2006-2011. The FLGS is adopted to avoid the bias of autocorrelation and heteroscedasticity. The following findings indicate that in the US samples, both monitoring and incentive alignment of corporate governance have positive effects on the balancing effect of exploration and exploitation while in he Chinese samples, incentive alignment has positive effects on the balancing effect of exploration and exploitation but monitoring a negative impact, that is, the higher the monitoring, he less balance between exploration and exploitation. This may be due to the relatively low level of exploratory behavior in China, which is difficult to increase at present. As a result, with the high level of monitoring, the agent has to increase exploitation to cope with the increased use of strict monitoring without much improvement of the exploration level, thus leading to the larger gap between them. Neither monitoring nor incentive alignment has an evident effect on the combined effect in both American and Chinese samples, which demonstrates that the combined effect is far more difficult to achieve than the balancing effect. In the American samples, the balancing effect and the combined effect of exploration and exploitation positively influence both long-term and short-term performances, while in the Chinese samples, it is only the balancing effect that plays a positive role in both long- and short-term performances but the combined effect s evident only on short-term rather than on long-term performance, which seems to show that he balancing effect instead of the combined effect is suitable for China at present. The mediation ole of the balancing effect between corporate governance and the long- and short-term performances has been partially proved, but the mediation role of combined effects has not been found. This study is an extension of the existing research about organizational ambidexterity, and provides a comparison of corporate behavior differences between US and China listed companies. Owing to the limited data availability, one shortage of this paper is that there is only one variable o represent incentive alignment. Future research may use more variables to test the hypothesis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The consumption function is a single mathematical function used to express consumer spending. Much research has been done in recent years on the consumption function of China using the theory of modern economic theory. However, research on the consumption function of tourism is rare. The writer focuses on the significance of studying the consumption function of tourism in this paper, and analyzes empirically a Chinese tourism consumption model. Study on the tourism consumption function of this paper starts with a western classic consumption function because of the lack of a relevant theory in China. Domestic tourism consumer behavior of urban and rural residents is found to be beyond application of the classic western consumption function, but it passes the empirical test of permanent income hypothesis, rational expectation dynamic consumption function and the dynamic consumption function of lagged adjustment. According to the permanent income hypothesis of rural residents' tourism consumption, each one yuan increase in rural residents' permanent income brings a 0.22 yuan increase in tourism consumption. Based on rational expectation of consumption function, each one yuan increase in rural residents' permanent income brings a 0.13 yuan tourism consumption. Likewise, in comparison of average propensity of tourism consumption of rural residents, it is safe to draw the conclusion that expected income of rural residents is lower than the current income. In another aspect, based on consumption function of lagged adjustment, each one yuan increase brings a 0.13 yuan increase in expected tourism consumption. The reason that actual tourism consumption is lower than the expected value indicates tourism consumption of rural residents is restrained by other conditions and thus cannot be totally released. Actually, these consumption functions have internal consistency: permanent income of rural residents determines the tourism consumption decision, meaning that if rural residents have a rising expectancy about future income, so does their permanent income; on the contrary, if future income expectancy of rural residents falls, so does their permanent income. Chinese rural residents hold low income expectancy because of the unsettled issue of medical, educational and retirement problems. They spend a large proportion of their income in a solving the above problems, which largely restrains the tourism consumption. In this sense, a feasible solution to rural residents' reluctance to consume is to increase their income. One of the reasons that urban residents' domestic tourism consumption doesn't fit the classic western consumption function model is that tourism consumption relies on leisure time, which is strictly restrained by the system and depends largely on public holidays when a paid vacation system is not effectively applied. Further study should include leisure time in the tourism consumption model. Based on a auto-regressive distributed lag model, we draw the conclusion that each one yuan increase brings a 0.089 yuan increase in expected tourism consumption, and each one hour increase brings a 2.28 yuan increase in expected tourism consumption. In summary, on the subject of tourism consumption function, the writer believes that in one aspect, it is necessary to deepen relevant theories, including studying more consumption function theories and using them for reference. It is also essential to combine the theories with characteristics of tourism consumption and to deduce the theories. In the other aspect, it is important to carry on empirical research, meaning that empirical analysis and tests should be applied onto the deduced theories to obtain proof that can stand the test. Therefore, to build up a tourism consumption function theory suitable for China carries both the oretical and practical significance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Whether the "validity" of a model can be validated is necessary to promote the development of computational organization theory, but is also a major bottleneck. Based on the forward position of computational organization theory, this paper reviewed and discussed the validation difficulties and validation method of computational organization model. First, validation of computational organization model is different from validation of natural engineering model and is also beyond the traditional empirical method, and faces many subjective and objective difficulties in the validation process; secondly, developing a validation scenario which is based on the internal relation of problem domain, modeling purpose, reference, and considering model validity from "degree" aspect is the essence of computable model validity; thirdly, (i) constructing a validation method which is different from VV&A validation method of natural engineering system, (ii) focusing on the validation of concepts validity, operation validity and data validity, and (iii) following iterative validation principle, are the research trends in the future. This paper also lists some related validation cases; finally, validation of computational organization model should be a process which increases model confidence, and calls for cross-domain experts to insist on the research interest of the field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper constructed two kinds of competitive relationship, namely, Boolean and weighted networks, between logistics enterprises, based on the factors such as the network characteristics of logistics enterprise, the market size and type of business by the method complex network, breaking through the traditional administrative division limit. This paper analyzed network properties of the topology structure, and discussed the economics explanation by using empirical data for enterprises from 2006 to 2009 in Dongguan. The results show that the proposed model is effective and practical, provide a new exploration and attempt for the study of logistics enterprises competitive relationship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The external factor plays an important role in affecting user's collective behaviors. However, the external factor from the viewpoint of theoretical model to analyze user's collective behaviors is missing. Thus this paper analyzed the structural property of user-object bipartite networks from a theoretical model. By taking into account the external factors and intrinsic attributes, with the help of generation function, it developed a theoretical model to derivate both the degree distributions of the user and object as well as their unipartite projections. Further, this paper gave an example and numerical simulations. The results show that the results of numerical simulation are consistent with the empirical ones very well, which suggests that it is feasible to analyze structural property of bipartite networks in terms of external factors and intrinsic attributes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper empirically tested the existence of the waiting option of the local government under the institutional background of urban land supply and management in China. Under the analysis frame of duration model, the paper constructed a Weibull-distribution based maximum likelihood empirical model, according to the exercise principle of the waiting option and the general testing methodology. Based on the sample of residential-used land transfer and housing market movement in Beijing, the empirical results reveal that every unit marginal increase of the standard deviation of the housing risk will significantly reduce the hazard rate of land transfer of local government by at least 20%, which strongly supports the hypothesis that the local government owns the waiting option in the land transfer process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objectives: An appeal to fear may attract an audience's attention to anti-smoking advertisements that reveal tobacco to be harmful and lead to Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. Two empirical studies investigated the persuasive effects of advertisements with appeals to fear and the moderating effect of a self-regulatory focus. Methods: In Study 1, a paper-andpencil questionnaire survey of 172 subjects was used to compare the persuasive effects of antitobacco ads with and without appeals to fear, and to examine the moderating effect of a selfregulatory focus. In Study 2, a 2 (fear /non-fear) by 2 (positive /negative framed message) experimental design with 185 subjects was used to examine the moderating effect of message framing on the persuasive effect of an appeal to fear. Results: Audiences' perceived efficacy and behavioral intent were greater when the ad contains appeals to fear. Both a self-regulatory focus and message framing moderated the impact of appeals to fear on the attitudes toward ads and behavioral intent. Conclusions: According to these empirical studies, we found that an appeal to fear could enhance the persuasive effect; however, a self-regulatory focus might moderate the impact of appeals to fear on attitudes toward anti-tobacco advertisements and behavioral intent. Message framing might also moderate the persuasive effect of appeals to fear. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]