Higher Education Reform in China

This report is the result of visits to Chinese university campuses in Spring 2003. As a Fulbright scholar I became interested in proposals for reform of Hong Kong higher education; that interest expanded to mainland universities as well. My focus was on key comprehensive universities, the best institutions in the country and ones under the direct control of the national Ministry of Education. I visited ten mainland universities, almost all of them are in the large urban centers of the east coast of China, government offices, and several education research institutes. I also interviewed individuals at several Hong Kong institutions

Orbital transfer vehicle concept definition and system analysis study, 1985. Volume 3: System and program trades

The key system and program trade studies performed to arrive at a preferred Orbital Transfer Vehicle (OTV) system concept and evolutionary approach to the acquisition of the requisite capabilites is documented. These efforts were expanded to encompass a Space Transportation Architecture Study (STAS) mission model and recommended unmanned cargo vehicle. The most important factors affecting the results presented are the mission model requirements and selection criteria. The reason for conducting the OTV concept definition and system analyses study is to select a concept and acquisition approach that meets a delivery requirement reflected by the mission model

Police Power, Gifts, and the Washington Constitution: A Framework for Determining the Validity of Property Rights Legislation

In November 1995, Washington voters rejected Initiative 164, a revolutionary property rights law that would have required governmental entities to compensate landowners for any loss in property value due to regulations on land use, unless those regulations were designed to prevent a public nuisance. Despite the initiative\u27s defeat at the polls, a strong property rights movement is likely to prompt legislators to consider implementing a percentage-loss formula for determining when regulators owe compensation to property owners. This Comment discusses the inherent police power of the state to regulate property use in the public interest and argues that percentage-loss laws would violate article 8, sections 5 and 7 of the Washington Constitution, which prohibit the state and municipal corporations from giving gifts to private entities

School-Based Management: Promise and Process

This issue of CPRE Finance Briefs summarizes research that investigated how school-based management can be implemented so that it is more than just a catch-phrase. Making the transition to SBM is neither simple nor quick. Neither is it possible for SBM to succeed simply by giving schools more power over such things as budgets, personnel and curriculum. In addition to power, schools need hefty portions of three other commodities that private sector research has found to be essential for making good and productive decisions: Knowledge of the organization so that employees can improve it. Teachers and other stakeholders need technical knowledge, such as how to employ new approaches to teaching, business knowledge, sch as how to develop a budget, and knowledge of interpersonal and problem-solving skills so they can apply what they know to achieving school goals. Information about student performance and comparisons with other schools about whether parents and community leaders are satisfied with the school, and the resources available, either monetary or other. and Rewards to acknowledge the extra effort SBM requires as well as to recognize improvements

Managing the Global knowledge-creation Network: A Sense Making Perspective

We have entered the era of the knowledge economy, a period when knowledge has replaced natural resources and capital as the most important economic resource. Increasingly, corporations are reaching out globally to secure the best talent available at the most reasonable cost to serve world-wide markets

YSF talk: Search for new physics in top quark production with additional leptons using the framework of effective field theory

This analysis presents a search for new physics impacting associated top quark production within the context of effective field theory (EFT). Making use of 138 fb−1 of proton-proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV collected by the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC during 2016-2018, the analysis selects events with multiple jets, b-tagged jets, and two same-sign leptons or three or more leptons. The data are further binned according to kinematical distributions associated with the transverse momentum of the objects in the event. The effects of 26 dimensionsix EFT operators are incorporated into the simulation, allowing for the predicted yields in each observable bin to be parameterized in terms of the strengths of the 26 EFT operators. A simultaneous fit of the 26 EFT parameters to the observed data is performed, and confidence intervals are extracted. The results are consistent with the standard model prediction

Effects of Naloxone on Muscle Blood Flow During Low Intensity Exercise in Rats

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