Purpose： This paper proposes an expert assignment method for scientific project review that considers both accuracy and impartiality. As impartial and accurate peer review is extremely important to ensure the quality...Purpose： This paper proposes an expert assignment method for scientific project review that considers both accuracy and impartiality. As impartial and accurate peer review is extremely important to ensure the quality and feasibility of scientific projects, enhanced methods for managing the process are needed. Design/methodology/approach： To ensure both accuracy and impartiality, we design four criteria, the reviewers＇fitness degree, research intensity, academic association, and potential conflict of interest, to express the characteristics of an appropriate peer review expert. We first formalize the expert assignment problem as an optimization problem based on the designed criteria, and then propose a randomized algorithm to solve the expert assignment problem of identifying reviewer adequacy. Findings： Simulation results show that the proposed method is quite accurate and impartial during expert assignment. Research limitations： Although the criteria used in this paper can properly show the characteristics of a good and appropriate peer review expert, more criteria/conditions can be included in the proposed scheme to further enhance accuracy and impartiality of the expert assignment. Practical implications： The proposed method can help project funding agencies （e.g. the National Natural Science Foundation of China） find better experts for project peer review. OriginaUty/value： To the authors＇ knowledge, this is the first publication that proposes an algorithm that applies an impartial approach to the project review expert assignment process. The simulation results show the effectiveness of the proposed method.展开更多
In today's complex and more interdependent world,countries struggle to maintain the balance between their national interests and stable international relations.Therefore,third-party mediation becomes a popular met...In today's complex and more interdependent world,countries struggle to maintain the balance between their national interests and stable international relations.Therefore,third-party mediation becomes a popular method in resolving on-going or even historical conflicts between nations.How the mediation process is being adopted is quite important,and there are number of elements that determine the achievement of mediation in the conflict resolution,such as role of mediator,mediation impartiality,and the techniques of mediation.Eventually,third-party mediation help to facilitate the contradiction yet cannot remove the ultimate discord among nations,in which it will take a long way to go in the international political arena.展开更多
Ecological footprint theory and its application achievements in global and regional sustainable development systems are studied by consulting the published literature, which finds that the application of ecological fo...Ecological footprint theory and its application achievements in global and regional sustainable development systems are studied by consulting the published literature, which finds that the application of ecological footprint theory to regional sustainability evaluation has leaded to a perplexity that the indicated result was inconsistent with the philosophy of sustainable development theory. Illuminated by the mechanical system of the movement of matters, it comes up that ecological footprint based on consumption of biologic production could not tell whether the ecological pressure acts on the specified region, and the original ecological footprint theory also undervalued the development impartiality of a region. A modification on this theory is made by introducing consumptive ecological footprint and productive ecological footprint, in which the latter is taken as the indicator of regional sustainability. The development impartiality can be demonstrated by comparison between the global ecological deficit per capita and regional consumptive ecological deficit per capita.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under the grant (No.7160325)the Young Talent-Field Frontier Project of Wuhan Documentation and Information Center,Chinese Academy of Sciences
文摘Purpose： This paper proposes an expert assignment method for scientific project review that considers both accuracy and impartiality. As impartial and accurate peer review is extremely important to ensure the quality and feasibility of scientific projects, enhanced methods for managing the process are needed. Design/methodology/approach： To ensure both accuracy and impartiality, we design four criteria, the reviewers＇fitness degree, research intensity, academic association, and potential conflict of interest, to express the characteristics of an appropriate peer review expert. We first formalize the expert assignment problem as an optimization problem based on the designed criteria, and then propose a randomized algorithm to solve the expert assignment problem of identifying reviewer adequacy. Findings： Simulation results show that the proposed method is quite accurate and impartial during expert assignment. Research limitations： Although the criteria used in this paper can properly show the characteristics of a good and appropriate peer review expert, more criteria/conditions can be included in the proposed scheme to further enhance accuracy and impartiality of the expert assignment. Practical implications： The proposed method can help project funding agencies （e.g. the National Natural Science Foundation of China） find better experts for project peer review. OriginaUty/value： To the authors＇ knowledge, this is the first publication that proposes an algorithm that applies an impartial approach to the project review expert assignment process. The simulation results show the effectiveness of the proposed method.
文摘In today's complex and more interdependent world,countries struggle to maintain the balance between their national interests and stable international relations.Therefore,third-party mediation becomes a popular method in resolving on-going or even historical conflicts between nations.How the mediation process is being adopted is quite important,and there are number of elements that determine the achievement of mediation in the conflict resolution,such as role of mediator,mediation impartiality,and the techniques of mediation.Eventually,third-party mediation help to facilitate the contradiction yet cannot remove the ultimate discord among nations,in which it will take a long way to go in the international political arena.
文摘Ecological footprint theory and its application achievements in global and regional sustainable development systems are studied by consulting the published literature, which finds that the application of ecological footprint theory to regional sustainability evaluation has leaded to a perplexity that the indicated result was inconsistent with the philosophy of sustainable development theory. Illuminated by the mechanical system of the movement of matters, it comes up that ecological footprint based on consumption of biologic production could not tell whether the ecological pressure acts on the specified region, and the original ecological footprint theory also undervalued the development impartiality of a region. A modification on this theory is made by introducing consumptive ecological footprint and productive ecological footprint, in which the latter is taken as the indicator of regional sustainability. The development impartiality can be demonstrated by comparison between the global ecological deficit per capita and regional consumptive ecological deficit per capita.
