Economic sanctions and official ethnic discrimination in target countries, 1950–2003

Conventional studies on the consequences of sanctions tend to focus on the target society as a whole without specifying how foreign economic pressures might affect the well-being of vulnerable groups within target countries – the same groups who often disproportionately bear the burden of sanctions. This study explores the extent to which sanctions increase the likelihood of discriminatory government practices against one of the globally most vulnerable groups, ethnic groups. It is argued that sanctions contribute to the rise of official ethnic-based economic and political discrimination through contracting the economy and creating incentives for the target government to employ ethnic-based discriminatory policies. Using data on over 900 ethnic groups from 1950 to 2003, the results lend support for the theoretical claim that sanctions prompt the government to pursue ethnic-based discriminatory economic and political practices in multiethnic countries. The findings also indicate that multilateral sanctions are likely to be more harmful to the well-being of ethnic groups than sanctions levied by individual countries. Further, the negative effect of comprehensive sanctions appears to be greater than that of sanctions with moderate and limited impact on the target economy. The regime type of the target state, on the other hand, appears to have a significant role only in conditioning the hypothesized effect of sanctions on economic discrimination. Overall, this study’s focus on a vulnerable segment of the target society – ethnic groups – offers a greater understanding of the consequences of sanctions. It also provides additional insight as to how, in multiethnic countries, political elites might domestically respond to external pressures to retain power.     

提高大学英语精读课教学质量的思考与实践

论述了在英语精读课教学中应发挥教师的主导作用、调动学员的积极性和参与性,并就实践语篇教学、适当采用双语教学、鼓励学生背诵等问题进行了分析讨论．     

民汉大学生自主性学习对比研究——以新疆财经大学民汉学生为例

自主学习是大学生除课堂学习之外最主要的学习形式,也是提高大学生自身素质的重要手段。新疆是多民族聚居地区,民汉大学生学习融合成为新疆教育的一大特色。在学习融合的过程中,民汉学生的自主性学习是否存在差异,成为关注的内容。本文通过调查问卷的形式,对民汉大学生的自主性学习的现状与影响因素进行了对比研究,发现民汉大学生自主学习差异不大,根据问卷调查的情况,提出了加强民汉大学生自主学习的建议。     

新疆中小学少数民族双语教师组织承诺的现状研究

本研究通过问卷调查了新疆地区252名中小学少数民族双语教师的组织承诺现状。研究结果显示,新疆少数民族中小学双语教师的组织承诺总体较高,其中感情承诺、规范承诺、理想承诺和民族认同承诺均高于一般水平,而经济承诺和机会承诺均低于一般水平。在人口变量上表现如下特点：（1）男性的经济承诺显著高于女性,其他维度及总分上男女无显著差异;（2）不同民族的双语教师的组织承诺总分及各维度均无显著差异;（3）中专学历的双语教师的理想承诺显著高于大专及本科学历的双语教师,组织承诺总分及其他维度上均无学历上的显著差异;（4）重点学校双语教师的民族认同承诺及组织承诺总分均显著高于一般学校的双语教师;其他维度上无显著差异。     

基于句子级BLEU指标挑选数据的半监督神经机器翻译

在单语语料的使用上,统计机器翻译可通过利用语言模型提高性能,而神经机器翻译很难通过这种方法有效利用单语语料.针对此问题,文中提出基于句子级双语评估替补(BLEU)指标挑选数据的半监督神经网络翻译模型.分别利用统计机器翻译和神经机器翻译模型对无标注数据生成候选翻译,然后通过句子级BLEU指标挑选单语候选翻译,加入到有标注的数据集中进行半监督联合训练.实验表明,文中方法能高效利用无标注的单语语料,在NIST汉英翻译任务上,相比仅使用精标的有标注数据单系统,文中方法BLEU值有所提升.     

论高校教师如何处理好教学与科研的关系

教学与科研是相互联系、相互影响的，如何同时处理好二者之间的关系是当前高等院校教师比较困惑的问题。本文分别从教学和科研的角度出发，阐述了二者之间的辩证关系，并提出了实现教学与科研之间良性互动的相关性建议。     

论少数民族地区高校学报的发展之路

少数民族地区高校一般地处边远地区 ,因地域等因素的影响 ,学报的发展受到了制约。在市场经济大潮中 ,学报要发挥文化知识、科技文化信息的传承作用 ,适应时代的变革 ,与时代俱进 ,努力为少数民族地区的科技教育文化的发展服务。树立新的发展理念 ,拓宽发展思路 ,积极实践 ,走出一条有民族特色的可持续发展之路     

新疆边远贫困地区双语教育调查研究

少数民族地区的双语教育对于提高少数民族教育质量,促进各民族大团结,保持社会稳定、经济发展等方面具有重大意义。本文通过对新疆喀什地区疏附县的双语教育现状进行实地调研,找出存在的问题,并针对问题提出建议。     

新疆塔吉克族非物质文化遗产保护研究

塔吉克族是新疆的世居民族之一,新疆塔吉克族的国家级、自治区级和地区级非物质文化遗产项目类型丰富,具有民族性、地域性、综合性和独特性的特征。塔什库尔干塔吉克自治县在塔吉克族非物质文化遗产保护方面,采取了多种措施,取得了丰硕的成果,但是依然存在着一系列的问题。本文力求通过加强塔吉克族非物质文化遗产的挖掘、整理和申报、加大对国家级和自治区级的非物质文化遗产的保护、在合理保护的前提下加大非物质文化遗产的产品化进程、建设文化生态保护区等措施,探讨新疆塔吉克族非物质文化遗产保护的基本思路。     

Spatial Distribution of Minority Communities and Terrorism: Domestic Concentration versus Transnational Dispersion

Qualitative studies of terrorist movements frequently highlight the importance of diaspora communities as important factors in producing and sustaining terrorist activity in countries. The underlying theoretical argument is that bifurcation of tight-knit minority communities between countries nurtures separatist or irredentist sentiments among affected community members, thus prompting terrorist activity, while minority community members in other countries might mobilize financial and political resources to support terrorist activity among their compatriots. In this study, we empirically test whether transnational dispersion, versus domestic concentration, of minority communities in countries produces higher incidents of terrorism. Conducting a series of negative binomial estimations on a reshaped database of around 170 countries from 1981 to 2006, derived from the Minorities at Risk database and the Global Terrorism Database, we determine that both transnational dispersion of kin minority communities and domestic concentration of minorities within countries increase terrorism and that transnational dispersion is a particularly robust predictor of terrorist attacks.