感戴与内化问题及学业成绩的关系

目的:分析中学生感戴、内化问题和学业成绩的关系。方法采用感戴量表、内化问题量表和学业成绩量表对985名中学生进行调查。结果:中学生感戴与学业成绩之间存在显著正相关,感戴与内化问题显著负相关。结论:感戴是中学生内化问题的抑制性因素,是学业成绩的促进性因素。     

大学新生社会支持与自尊、自我效能感的关系

大学新生在自尊、自我效能感、社会支持上高分组与低分组存在着显著差异,高社会支持组与低社会支持组在自尊水平上存在显著差异,社会支持对自尊预测性显著,主观支持对自我效能有一定预测性。提高大学新生社会支持水平,有助于提高自尊、自我效能感。     

大一新生自尊、应对方式与学校适应状况的关系研究

目的:探讨应对方式在自尊与大学生学校适应之间的作用机制。方法:采用自尊问卷(SES),简明应对方式量表(SCSQ)和中国大学生适应量表(CCSAS),对重庆高校1176名大一新生进行抽样调查。结果:自尊和积极应对方式与学校适应各维度呈显著正相关,消极应对方式与学校适应各维度呈显著负相关,积极应对方式和自尊呈显著正相关,消极应对方式和自尊呈显著负相关。自尊和应对方式对学校适应起到共同的预测作用,除消极应对方式在自尊和满意度的回归分析中不存在显著的中介作用外,其他情况下,积极应对方式和消极应对方式在自尊和满意度的回归分析中均存在部分中介效应显著。结论:应对方式在自尊和大一新生学校适应之间起部分中介作用,即大学生的自尊可以通过应对方式对大一新生的学校适应产生影响。     

农村留守儿童存在的问题及对策

农村留守儿童作为一个不断扩大的特殊群体,日益受到社会的关注。目前我国农村的留守儿童成长中存在的主问题有：缺乏完整的家庭教育,导致留守儿童的心态堪忧;,gs时监护人对留守儿童学习介入过少,导致学习状况不容乐观：缺乏亲情关爱导致的生活问题等。解决农村留守儿童成长中存在的问题．必须充分发挥学校在关爱农村留守儿童中的积极作用,充分发挥家庭的监护引导作用,加大政府和社会各界的支持力度。     

海外留守儿童的归因倾向特点研究——关注海外留守儿童构建社会主义和谐社会

本文采用问卷对海外留守儿童进行抽样测查,以了解海外留守儿童的归因倾向状况的现状;并通过海外留守儿童与非留守儿童的对比中了解形成不同归因倾向特点的原因。这不但有利于帮助海外留守儿童摆脱留守带来的困扰,而且有利于为和谐社会主义的构建提供理论支持。     

河南省郏县某村留守儿童情况调查研究

留守儿童即农村家庭中父母一方或双方常年在外地打工,孩子留在家中成长而产生的社会群体.本文采用自己设计的的留守儿童调查问卷对河南省郏县白庙村进行了实地调查.并运用SPSS软件对调查数据进行了初步统计分析.结果显示:农村留守儿童存在多方面的问题,如留守儿童的亲情缺失、学习成绩大多数中等下、心理健康问题较突出等.这些问题如果没有及时得到解决,会对这些留守儿童的健康成长不利,对家庭发展、对社会发展造成较大的影响,因此笔者从家庭、学校、社会等多方面来提出对策和建议改善留守儿童的现状.     

关爱留守儿童

留守儿童问题是近年来一个突出的社会问题。目前,全国农村留守儿童约5800万人,平均每四个农村儿童中就有一个留守儿童。这样一个庞大的数字再次提醒我们,关爱留守儿童、解决留守儿童引起的社会问题已刻不容缓。温家宝总理近日在山西考察期间指出：党和政府要关心留守儿童,体贴他们的困难、照顾他们的生活;这个特殊的群体,应该得到特殊的关爱和照顾。     

农村留守儿童社会支持网络建设——以M市Q村为例

21世纪以来,中国的城市不断发展,农村发展则相对滞后,使得城乡差距不断拉大.大量的农村剩余劳动力进入城市,越来越多的儿童被留在家中,留守儿童群体逐年形成.本文以访谈法和参与观察为研究方法,对Q村中的留守儿童存在的问题进行了总结,得出农村留守儿童在生存权、受保护权、发展权方面存在的问题,并从社会支持网络视角进行了分析与提出了自己的建议.     

对农村留守儿童教育现状的思考

留守儿童,需要得到社会的关注和呵护。据调查研究,我们发现农村"留守儿童"在成长中面临一些突出问题,如生活学习、道德行为、身心健康等方面。本文结合社会实际情况,针对留守儿童的发展现状,分析留守儿童存在的原因,并提出了相应的教育措施。     

我国农村留守儿童问题与对策研究

近年来,农村留守儿童问题成为一个越来越突出的社会问题。教育问题、心理问题和安全问题是当前农村留守儿童普遍面临的三大问题。农村留守儿童问题的妥善解决需要政府、学校、家庭和社会各方面共同的努力。     

Incumplimiento del salario mínimo en Europa central y oriental

En este estudio se analiza el incumplimiento del salario mínimo durante el periodo 2003–2012 en diez países de Europa central y oriental con salario mínimo obligatorio nacional. A partir de los datos de EU‐SILC y la metodología propuesta por Bhorat, Kanbur y Mayet (2013), se cuantifica la incidencia y magnitud del incumplimiento. Se realizan análisis de regresión sobre determinantes individuales, laborales y macroeconómicos. Aunque la incidencia permanece relativamente baja, los trabajadores a los que se dirigen las políticas de salario mínimo parecen los más expuestos a su incumplimiento. Con el tiempo, una mayor incidencia se asocia a una razón más alta entre salario mínimo y salario medio.     

Cultural Economy Planning in Creative Cities: Discourse and Practice

While a growing body of research analyses the functional mechanisms of the cultural or creative economy, there has been little attention devoted to understanding how local governments translate this work into policy. Moreover, research in this vein focuses predominately on Richard Florida's creative class thesis rather than considering the wider body of work that may influence policy. This article seeks to develop a deeper understanding of how municipalities conceptualize and plan for the cultural economy through the lens of two cities held up as model ‘creative cities’ — Austin, Texas and Toronto, Ontario. The work pays particular attention to how the cities adopt and adapt leading theories, strategies and discourses of the cultural economy. While policy documents indicate that the cities embrace the creative city model, in practice agencies tend to adapt conventional economic development strategies for cultural economy activity and appropriate the language of the creative city for multiple purposes.     

Input/output ranges and performance: an examination of US machine tool producers

Despite the establishment of high-tech multinational enterprises (MNEs) in Ireland since the late 1950s, the country did not succeed in closing the technological gap with most of its EU counterparts. The weak National System of Innovation (NSI), and in particular low business and government R&D levels, combined with a lack of research and technology linkages between MNEs and indigenous firms, explain these poor results. However, the Shannon region in the West of the country presents some specific institutional characteristics that could theoretically make the region a strong technological enclave. The various actors in the region - i.e. the administrative, financial, political and research institutions, as well as the business organizations - have indeed infused a new type of economic development. After a brief review of the available concepts and models articulated around these actors and their interrelationships, the paper analyses whether the Shannon region, taken as an illustrative example, mirrors a specific economic and technological localized setting. The study is based on a survey of indigenous and foreign firms.     

Sixty years of discrimination and diversity research in human resource management: A review with suggestions for future research directions

This article reviews discrimination and diversity research published in Human Resource Management (HRM) over the past 60 years. While discrimination and diversity are very different constructs, it is often informative to study them together, because when people recognize each other's diversity, this can result in bias, stereotyping, and discrimination. We conducted bibliographic searches for terms related to discrimination and diversity as well as a manual search through every title and abstract published in HRM over the last 60 years to assess article relevance. The search resulted in 135 research articles with 136 unique studies (i.e., samples) which are reviewed in this article. Sex and race are the demographics that have been examined the most in HRM, while religion has been examined the least. Moreover, the number of studies examining lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) employees in the workplace in HRM has grown quickly within the past 10 years, culminating in a recent meta‐analysis. Our review looks at some of the earliest research published, the most recent research published, and the overall trends we identified in the research over the years for both discrimination and diversity articles. We then make future research suggestions and recommendations to advance the study of discrimination and diversity in the coming years.     

The Early History of the Cumulants and the Gram-Charlier Series

The early history of the Gram-Charlier series is discussed from three points of view: (1) a generalization of Laplace's central limit theorem, (2) a least squares approximation to a continuous function by means of Chebyshev-Hermite polynomials, (3) a generalization of Gauss's normal distribution to a system of skew distributions. Thiele defined the cumulants in terms of the moments, first by a recursion formula and later by an expansion of the logarithm of the moment generating function. He devised a differential operator which adjusts any cumulant to a desired value. His little known 1899 paper in Danish on the properties of the cumulants is translated into English in the Appendix.     

Capturing the Implications of Services Trade Liberalization

This paper evaluates the impact of service sector trade liberalization on the world economy by a ten-region, eleven-sector CGE model with import embodied technology transfer from developed countries to developing countries. Simulation results show that service sector trade liberalization not only directly affects world service production and trade, but also has significant implications for other sectors in the economy. The major channel of the impact is through inter-industry input-output relations and TFP growth induced from services imported by developing countries from developed countries, which may be embodied with new information and advanced technology.     

City Children and Genderfied Neighbourhoods: The New Generation as Urban Regeneration Strategy

Former industrial cities in the West are employing gentrification as urban policy. In these policies, women and families currently play an important role as gentrification pioneers. In my analysis of Rotterdam in the Netherlands, I propose the term genderfication to understand the gender dimensions of this process. Genderfication refers to the production of space for different gender relations. I analyse Rotterdam's urban planning program for becoming a ‘child‐friendly city’, which entails replacing existing urban dwellings with new, larger and more expensive ‘family‐friendly homes’ as a strategy for urban re‐generation. Urban re‐generation supplements regeneration in the form of material and economic restructuring, and refers to the replacement of part of the current population by a new and better suited generation. The ‘child‐friendly city program’ is considered in tandem with punitive ‘youth policies’.     

Hierarchical Models in Environmental Science

Environmental systems are complicated. They include very intricate spatio-temporal processes, interacting on a wide variety of scales. There is increasingly vast amounts of data for such processes from geographical information systems, remote sensing platforms, monitoring networks, and computer models. In addition, often there is a great variety of scientific knowledge available for such systems, from partial differential equations based on first principles to panel surveys. It is argued that it is not generally adequate to consider such processes from a joint perspective. Instead, the processes often must be considered as a coherently linked system of conditional models. This paper provides a brief overview of hierarchical approaches applied to environmental processes. The key elements of such models can be considered in three general stages, the data stage, process stage, and parameter stage. In each stage, complicated dependence structure is mitigated by conditioning. For example, the data stage can incorporate measurement errors as well as multiple datasets with varying supports. The process and parameter stages can allow spatial and spatio-temporal processes as well as the direct inclusion of scientific knowledge. The paper concludes with a discussion of some outstanding problems in hierarchical modelling of environmental systems, including the need for new collaboration approaches.     

Multinomial distributions applied to random sampling of particulate materials

When sampling a batch consisting of particulate material, the distribution of a sample estimator can be characterized using knowledge about the sample drawing process. With Bernoulli sampling, the number of particles in the sample is binomially distributed. Because this is rarely realized in practice, we propose a sampling design in which the possible samples have a nearly equal mass. Expected values and variances of the sample estimator are calculated. It is shown that the sample estimator becomes identical to the Horvitz–Thompson estimator in the case of a large batch-to-sample mass ratio and a large sample mass. Simulations and experiments were performed to test the theory. Simulations confirm that the round-off error due to the discrete nature of particles is negligible for large sample sizes. Sampling experiments were carried out with a mixture of PolyPropylene (PP) and PolyTetraFluorEthylene (PTFE) spheres suspended in a viscous medium. The measured and theoretical variations are in good agreement.