Awareness of Distributed Denial of Service Attacks' Dangers: Role of Internet Pricing Mechanisms

Denial of Service (DoS) attacks consist of overwhelming a server, a network or a Web site in order to paralyze its normal activity. The additional parameter in Distributed Denial of Service (DdoS) attacks is the distributing strategy. It means that DDoS attacks do not come from a single computer but stem from all accessible channels and servers. Consequences are multiple, ranging from system errors, temporary inability to access the Web site for normal users to challenging the actual reliability of the Internet. Despite this, Internet users show carelessness. The explanation lies in the specificities of DDoS attacks. We explore possibilities to raise users' awareness about the actual amplitude of problems caused by DDoS attacks. We suggest a careful examination of Internet pricing mechanisms and switching from flat to usage-constraining pricing schemes.     

Evaluating FOMC forecasts

Monetary policy outcomes have improved since the early 1980s. One factor contributing to the improvement is that Federal Reserve policymakers began reporting economic forecasts to Congress in 1979. These forecasts indicate what the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) members think will be the likely consequence of their policies. We evaluate the accuracy of the FOMC forecasts relative to private sector forecasts, the forecasts of the Research Staff at the Board of Governors, and a naïve alternative. We find that the FOMC output forecasts were better than the naïve model and at least as good as those of the private sector and the Fed staff. The FOMC inflation forecasts were more accurate than the private sector forecasts and the naïve model; for the period ending in 1996, however, they were not as accurate as Fed staff inflation forecasts.     

China＇s Social Security： Case Studies of the Interest Groups and Policy Monopoly

This section introduces an asymmetric information model to analyze the interest groups and policy monopoly in social security management, mainly focusing on the relation between the interest groups in the social security products market and the social security government institutions at the central level, namely the major social security policy makers.     

我国石油安全战略体系的构建

目前，我国石油供需缺口加大，供需矛盾日益突出。为了弥补石油缺口以满足经济发展的需要，我国实施了石油进口战略。近年来，石油进口的增长导致了我国石油依存度上升。过度集中的进口来源、较小的优质原油进口国选择空间、石油资源后劲不足使我国的石油安全面临着严峻的挑战。本文从重视石油储备、加强油气勘探开发、提高能源利用效率、积极利用国际石油资源等方面提出了构建我国石油安全战略体系的思路框架。     

湿地公园规划的生态服务功能影响预评价

鉴于湿地生态系统的特殊性和敏感性,科学地保护和利用湿地资源、合理地进行湿地利用规划,一直是相关学者所关注的问题;以安徽省北部淮河三汊河湿地为例,从水文调节、大气调节、水体净化、物质生产、文化功能、提供生境和生物多样性价值等方面采用替代成本法、恢复成本法、市场价格法和影子工程法对湿地生态服务价值进行经济核算;分别以生态服务功能价值的理论值(2152.9万元)和现状值(1982.7万元)为参考标准,进行湿地公园规划对湿地生态影响的比较分析,预评价湿地公园规划后的生态服务功能价值为2447.2万元,较理论值和现状值都高;在各项服务功能中,除物质生产功能影响为负值外,其它各项值均为正值,在水文调节、水体净化和文化功能方面变化值较大,因而,从生态服务功能角度考虑,可以认为公园规划具备合理性和可行性。     

国有资产管理及营运模式研究

加入WTO ,中国企业与全球经济融会一体 ,企业人才国际化势在必然。为此 ,必须树立企业人才国际化战略的紧迫感 ,明确企业人才国际化的深层内涵 ,致力营造企业人才国际化的生态环境。     

Application of multi-factor hierarchical fuzzy comprehensive evaluation model in risk assessment of gas exploration

This article classified gas exploration risk on the basis of the characteristics of oil-gas exploration investment projects, which are internal systems risk and external non-systemic risk. It described each classification specifically and introduced the basic principles and mathematical model of the multi-factor hierarchical fuzzy comprehensive judgment in detail, and then researched the conducts the risk of the gas exploration with examples.     

英国养老保险制度浅析

英国是世界上最早建立社会保障制度的国家之一。英国建立的多层次养老体系以及一直贯彻的“普遍性”原则、“最低”原则和“个人责任”原则，值得我们这样一个发展中的经济转型国家研究和借鉴。     

试论我国湿地生态效益补偿制度框架构建

湿地是物种多样、资源丰富的生态系统,同时兼具经济、生态和社会三大价值。湿地生态效益补偿制度的建立,是稳定湿地周边经济,保障湿地有效保护和可持续发展的重要制度。在分析阐述我国湿地生态效益补偿制度建立的目的、原则的基础上,进一步确立了我国湿地生态效益补偿制度涉及的相关利益者和主客体,探讨了建立湿地生态效益补偿制度的补偿标准、补偿手段,初步构建了我国湿地生态效益补偿制度的补偿框架。     

辽宁东部水源涵养林计量指标体系及其效益评估

对辽东山区水源涵养林产生的各种效益进行计量评价研究,制定了水源涵养林计量效益评价指标体系,包括3级结构、16项指标、49项因子;依各功能因子的重要性并经测算,对各项指标赋予权重和排序,森林的蓄水、减少径流、改善水质功能的权重值较高;采用条件价值法,估算辽东山区水源涵养林的各种功能价值,森林的林副产品和木材收益的功能价值较高。辽东山区水源涵养林按整体处在一般经营状态下计算,年均创造功能价值约为30.2亿元。