Despite the increasing attention paid to developing intercultural communicative competence (ICC) of foreign language learners in recent years among linguistic scholars and practitioners, few studies could be found concerning ICC assessment, especially ways in which different dimensions of ICC should be assessed. The present study aims to explore the status quo of ICC assessment in English progr...

This paper explores the implications for labor market outcomes of systematic testing of applicants in the hiring process. A matching model in which productivity is a worker’s private information is used. Both wages and hiring rates are endogenous. A minority is defined as a group for whom the test is less precise in identifying individual productivity. Welfare and employment outcomes across var...

This paper builds a two-country (North, South), two-sector (polluting, nonpolluting) trade model with directed technical change, examining whether unilateral environmental policies can ensure sustainable growth. The polluting good is produced with a clean and a dirty input. A temporary Northern policy combining clean research subsidies and a trade tax can ensure sustainable growth but Northern ...

An analysis of four regions in four countries suggests that the best way to mitigate disruption of the pharmaceutical industry is not to ignore or stem it but to sponsor initiatives that keep scientists engaged.

Résumé Une architecture logicielle décrit la structure d’un système informatique en spécifiant ses composants et leurs interactions. Projeter une architecture logicielle sur une implémentation est une tâche reconnue difficile. Un élément crucial de cette projection est la description architecturale des interactions entre les composants. La caractérisation de ces interactions peut être plutôt ab...

Educational change is a fact of life for teachers across the world, as schools are subjected to constant and ubiquitous pressures to innovate. And yet many school practices remain remarkably persistent in the face of such innovation. This paradox of innovation without change is perplexing for policymakers and practitioners alike. This paper investigates the gap between policy and practice, betw...

RÉSUMÉ. Nous proposons de réviser le codage de l’égyptien ancien qui repose sur un standard nommé « Manuel de Codage » (1988) ne répondant pas aux besoins actuels dans la création de corpus hiéroglyphiques. Une analyse des 60 000 graphies du corpus Ramsès nous permet de faire deux propositions concrètes concernant, d’une part, les principes présidant à l’encodage des graphies hiéroglyphiques da...

Formaldehyde-Assisted Isolation of Regulatory Elements (FAIRE) is based on locus-specific variations in the ability of protein components of chromatin to trap genomic DNA following formaldehyde treatment. This variation is mostly due to uneven nucleosome distribution since histones are the most abundant and highly crosslinkable components of chromatin. The method can identify and enrich for phy...

This paper brings the differentiation perspective of human resource management (HRM) to China's context of economic transition, and constructs a hybridism rationale to explain the distinctive characteristics of Chinese HRM. We respectively discuss the effect mechanisms of commitment-based, control-based, collaboration-based, and contract-based HRM archetypes in China. Then, by comparing the pat...