Canadian Social Science

Realized Volatility and Stylized Facts of Chinese Treasury Bond Market/La Volatilité Réalisée Et Les Faits Stylisés Du Marché de Bon Du Trésor Chinois

Based on high frequency data, this paper studies the volatility stylized facts of Chinese Treasury bond market (CTBM) in detail, including the best sampling frequency selected to compute the realized volatility, the conditional and unconditional distribution of the returns, the long memory property, the intraday, inter-day pattern of the returns and volatility, the asymmetry of volatility, and so on. The main conclusions about CTBM volatility are provided. 15 minute is best sampling frequency...

Cross-Cultural Understandings in the Language and Politics of Friendship1/Compréhension Transculturelle Dans Le Langage Et La Politique D'amitié

Friendship is a frequently-used word but it is difficult to define it clearly. Friendship in its various configurations links people and communities together in some sort of reciprocally beneficial association that forms societies. Thus friendship is a concept that deserves attention. This paper examines some of the similarities and differences about understandings of friendship which both support and challenge traditional western perspectives. The article argues that an exploration of the ex...

The Panorama of Ceo Turnover: An Empirical Study On Chinese Listed Companies/Panorama Du Roulement de Ceo : Une Étude Empirique Des Sociétés Cotées Chinoises

In this paper, we present a panorama of the Chinese listed companies' CEO turnover. We can see that from 2001 to 2004, the top three industries about the number of CEO turnover are Manufacturing, Mixed and Telecommunications industries; the top three industries about relative turnover rate are Media and culture, Telecommunications and Mixed industries; job re-arrangement, resignation and expiry of tenure are three mainly publish reasons; the difference between inside and outside succession is...

Preliminary Study On Development of Industry Tour in Liaoning Province1/Etude Préliminaire Du Développement de L'industrie de Tourisme Dans La Province Du Liaoning

Industry tour in our country is a newborn newborn product.. But, it hasvery strong practical significiance in the process of reforming and reconstruct of Northeast Old Industry. This article starts from the definition of industry tour, demonstrate the function of Industry tour, then combines the real situation of Liaoning Province to analyze the advantages, disadvantages , challenges and opportunities by using SWOT method and puts forward the development pattern of Liaoning Industry tour.

Competence Set Expansion Decision-Making Analysis Based On Important Degree Coefficient1/Analyse de La Prise de Décision Sur L'expansion de L'ensemble de Compétence Basée Sur Le Coefficient de Degré Important

The talented person competence is cultivated and expanded to the actual requisite competence set that has many competence subsets, then carrying on the arrangement of these many competences subset according to its important degree coefficient for providing powerful basis to get the optimal expansion process of expanding from the obtained competence set Sk(E) to the actual requisite competence set Tr(E). This article uses the fuzzy thought to get various competences subset important degree coe...

Describing the Information Seeking Behavior: An Investigation On Comparing Learning Models Using Experimental Data Sets/Description Du Comportement de La Recherche D'information : Une Investigation Sur La Comparaison Des Modèles D'apprentissage En Utilisant L'ensemble de Données Expérimentales

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the rule and characteristics of ACADEMIC users' information seeking behavior, as well as primary factors which influencing satisfaction and behavior outcomes as consequences of the value of information seeking. To examine the users' behavior, several learning models were adopted, such as Bush-Mosteller model, Bayesian model,, fictitious play and EWA model. Here we employ both qualitative and quantitative approaches to examine the phenomenon of infor...

Reflection On Construction of Scientific Research Management Team in Colleges/Réflexion Sur La Construction de L'équipe de Management de La Recherche Scientifique Dans Les Universités

Scientific research level is closely related to scientific research management in colleges and one of the most important factors, which is used to measure the scientific research level of a college, is the quality of the scientific research management personnel in it. The lag in the construction of scientific research management team in colleges is severe, which limits the innovation of scientific research management system in colleges. In this paper, the author holds the point that the scien...

Innovations of Human Resource Management in Lodging Industry/Innovation Du Management Des Ressources Humaines Dans L'industrie D'hôtellerie

The role of the Human Resource Manager is evolving with the change in competitive market environment and it must be realized that that Human Resource Management must play a more strategic role in the success of an organization. A combined approach of literature review, periodical browsing, the application of Databases was used in this paper in order to analyze the changes of HRM in hotel industry. Firstly, the paper the challenges that hotel industry faced with and then, innovations related t...

Establishing Efficient Social Credit System in China From American Experience of Social Credit System1/Etablissement D'un Système Efficace de Crédit Social En Chine D'après Les Expériences Américaines

This paper analyses American social credit system. Social credit is defined as the belief that the provisioning capabilities of a nation are a result of collective effort and should be used in a democracy way as a fund from which each citizen receives an equal share in the form of a basic income. Many difficulties would be faced without a sound social credit system, so the establishment of a nationwide social credit system should be sped up to improve the development of social credit. The pap...

Sister Carrie in Consumer Society As Seen From Deception Within Non-Verbal and Verbal Framework and the Fulfillment of Desires/Sister Carrie Dans La Société de Consommation Vue Sous L'angle de La Tromperie Dans Le Cadre Non-Verbal Et Verbal Et de La Satisfaction de Désirs

This essay attempts to analyze the theme of deception which is presented by two forms, one is silence, the other is lie, which are known as the deception within the non-verbal and verbal framework respectively. Widely employed in Sister Carrie, the theme of deception reveals the conflicts between feminine and masculine power through the utterances. In addition, the materialization in the relationship between man and woman especially Carrier and her two lovers is presented in the consumer soci...

On the Chinese Piano Music 'Three Variations On the Yang Pass' (Yangguan San Die)/de La Musique de Piano Chinoise « Trois Variations Sur La Passe Yang » (Yangguan San Die)

This paper introduces the produing backguround of the chinese piano music "Three Variations on the Yang Pass"(yangguan San Die), intending to help the player understand the deep meaning and emotion of this ancient chinese classic music.

Belgian Economy Characteristics and Its Experiences1/Les Caractéristiques de L'économie Belge Et Ses Expériences

Belgium ranks middle in EU countries with highly specified economy, clear property system, efficient and healthy legal as well as financial institutions. It encourages thrifty and diligence which have been a representative sample of high efficiency economy since 12th century. Its success has provided beneficial experiences for China's economy transformation.

Research of Imitating the Thinking Orbit and Revolutionizing China's English Education1/Recherche de L'orbite de Mode de Pensee Simule Et de La Revolution de L'enseignement de L'anglais En Chine

This essay has done research into some natural rules existing in the human brains ,especially the 0101...rule used as the principle of the computers and existing in the universe .The essay has discussed speech sound and written languge and their relationships with the purpose of choosing the correct orbit to imitae thinking.The essay has concluded that by means of imitating the thinking orbit we can bring about a revolution in studying and teaching English.Finally the essay sincerely suggests...

Christianity to Me: Approaching God in Love/Christianisme Pour Moi : S'approcher de Dieu Dans L'amour

In the history of humanity, numerous kings and emperors founded their empires upon force, which caused untold human disasters, but Jesus Christ, who lived in poverty and was reared in obscurity, founded his empire upon love, which brings people hope, peace, and joy. Jesus Christ is the founder of Christianity. Jesus Christ, the Lord and savior of humanity, is the greatest central fact in the world's history. As we all know, the whole world uses the birth year of Jesus Christ as a standard for...

A Research On Sexual Difference in the Resident Space/a Research On Sexual Difference in the Resident Space

Being the existence of human' life and activities; Space has been in close relationship between the gender and the society classes based on it. After the thoughts of feminism being introduced to the research on urban space in 1970s for the first time, gender difference in space environment is widely focused on and the research extends to the field of architecture. The establishment of "the Lab on the sexuality and space" indicates that there is more foucus on the subject. The present study is...

Sociolinguistic Study On the Address Term 'Meinü' in Present-Day China/Etude Pragmatique Du Mot D'appellation Chinois « Belle »

Nowadays, "meinü" ('beautiful ladies') has become a popular address term to females in China. It is no longer a privilege term used to refer to beautiful young ladies, but a pan-honorific term for the females. Based on a combination of quantitative and qualitative approaches, this study examines the usage of address term "meinü" across four cities by analyzing their sociolinguistic functions in communication. The information about the addresser and the addressee, such as age and gender, as we...

From a Flower Girl to a Lady: The Change of Discourse and Power/D'une Jeune Fille a Une Dame : Changement de Discours Et Pouvoir

The theory of discourse and power, which was put forward by the French philosophy Michel Foucault, is more and more frequently employed in literary criticism. As one kind of discourse, conversation plays an essential role in understanding drama, Pygmalion is no exception. Applying the method of stylistic analysis, this paper aims at analyzing the change of power relationships through examining the discourses in Act I and Act V of Pygmalion, and then presents how Eliza changes from a flower gi...

A Comparison Between the Christian and Confucian Major Doctrines: A Survey/La Comparaison de Doctrines Majeures Christianistes Et Confuscianistes : Une Enquete

Many people wonder about the differences between Chinese people and the Westerners especially in their thinking patterns. As a matter of fact, the influence of Confucianism and Christianity has played a very important role in cultivating the people's ideas. Although Christian doctrines share a lot of common cores with Confucian theories, a great many differences still exist particularly in beliefs, human nature and life. This paper is aimed to make a comparison between the two systems.