Hong Kong parents' perceptions of the transference of food preparation skills

Food preparation skills among young adults are associated with healthy food choices, better diets and a greater likelihood of an independent, healthy adult life. This study conducted in Hong Kong aimed to investigate parents' perceptions of cooking skills; to explore the transference of cooking skills in the home setting; to identify parents' expectations regarding the transference of cooking skills; and to inform the development of educational initiatives for developing healthy eating habits. A questionnaire survey was conducted to collect information of the subjects' cooking experience, attitudes about cooking skills, cooking habits at home, family meal habits, transference of cooking culture in the family and the factors influencing the choice of ingredients and cooking. It was administered to 1009 Hong Kong parents (of students aged between 11 and 18, studying in 15 secondary schools). The collected data were analysed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (version 12.0, SPSS, Inc., Chicago, IL, USA) and cross‐tabulation analyses were used to compare the responses of the parents by gender, employment status and income. The results show that parents valued cooking as important life skills for both boys and girls. Parents generally perceived their cooking skills either good (41.9%) or mediocre (54.5%), yet children are rarely taught these skills in the home. Family meals prepared primarily with fresh ingredients are still an important part of the daily routine, and mothers are dominating the roles in food choice decision, cooking and buying the ingredients for family meals. Mothers and schools are expected to be the major channel to teach children cooking skills. Findings suggest that parents are well‐disposed towards providing food and nutrition education at home, but need more support (50% reported that home should be a primary support for learning cooking skills; 36% indicated that the school should have a responsibility to teach children to cook starting in elementary school). Schools may do well to collaborate with families in food literacy education initiatives. Developing individuals' cooking skills paves the way for long‐term health benefits and the well‐being of the local population.     

Advertising Decision Makers' and Consumers' Perceptions of Media Substitutability

The purpose of this article is to assess the perceptions of advertising media substitutability among consumers, media planners, and media providers. Data were collected from three different samples using structured questionnaires and CATI interviewing. The results suggest that some degree of substitution does indeed exist in all three groups. This means that if first media choices are unavailable all groups are likely to consider others as possibly providing the best buying information. This study adds to the scarce literature that focuses on perceptions of media substitutability and provides results for both demand and supply side of the media market. It also suggests that such perceptual studies may be helpful in a re-examination of current policy and advertising management decisions.     

英语里非真实移动中的移动知觉

英语里非真实移动中的移动知觉表现在相对移动、闪动、观察格局的移动及其产生的视角变化、观察角度转换、语言概念等级变化、诱动、观察者与观察对象之间的距离变化、语义及概念的复现等方面,这些知觉产生了相应的语义结构和语言活动,反映了认知中的变化、发展、矛盾,融合了不同个体在认知心理和客体的客观真实性。对其探讨有助于揭示认知发展和语言发展轨迹。     

创新运用标准化理念 优化社会经济管理水平——刚性法律模式下柔性管理手段的实践与思考

本文从加强社会主义法制、完善市场经济秩序、构建和谐社会这三个角度对标准化工作进行了审视,并以上海实施标准化战略的实践为切入点,运用标准化工作＂规范性、有效性、科学性＂的三大核心理念,就如何创新管理理念,形成符合社会经济发展规划和需求的标准化管理模式进行了深入剖析,希望引起共鸣和思索。在深入剖析的基础上,笔者从如何全面推进标准化管理这一视角出发,有针对性地提出了创新工作体制、设立奖励制度、完善服务体系和加强队伍建设等意见与建议,以期达到引起全社会对标准化这一柔性管理手段重要性的认识,进而促进政府职能管理部门积极运用标准化手段来管理社会,推动产业发展,提升综合竞争力,为上海国际化大都市的建设和发展做出应有的贡献。     

在线旅行预订感知风险的实证研究

以旅游者在线旅行预订酒店为例,研究旅游者对在线旅行预订的感知风险。在对22个原始变量进行因子分析后,得出6个主要的影响因子：经济风险、功能风险、时间风险、隐私风险、社会风险、服务风险,同时根据其重要性对各因子进行了排序。然后将人口统计变量和在线旅行预订经验分别与6个主因子进行相关分析,研究发现,上述变量与感知风险的部分维度有着不同方向的显著影响。     

Risk management strategies - before Hominization and after

Selected examples, ranging from birds to pastoralistic nomads and subsisting peasants, indicate that the higher animals adopt foraging strategies similar to individual decision makers in economies without market (subsistence economies): in contrast to actors in (ideal neoclassical) market economies, maximizing expected utility, they operate in such way as to optimize long-term survival of genetically related groups. This can be seen as a strategy of (maximum) ruin avoidance, played by 'selfish genes'. In the sense of conjectural history the parallelism between risk behaviour of animals and early men may be regarded as the continued existence of principles of natural evolution beyond hominization up to the historical emergence of complex societies where pursuit of surplus production replaced ruin avoidance as the primary orientation in the older subsistence economies.     

我国大城市80后生育观的调查研究——基于杭州市的数据

调整人口政策,平衡人口结构对于现阶段全面做好人口工作具有十分重要的意义。文章首先简要的对生育观文献进行了述评,进而在此基础上运用问卷调查的方法分析了杭州市80后的生育观现象,主要表现为杭州市80后都有生儿育女的观念、孩子的数量为一至两个、女性偏好略大于男性、生育的动机主要为满足亲子感情及家庭完整等高层次的精神需要、晚婚晚育普遍等方面。最后上升到更宏观的角度,从整个国家的视角为我国经济发达的大城市的生育政策调整提出政策建议,主要有继续坚持实行计划生育基本国策不动摇;从人们的经济条件和生活质量方面影响人们的生育行为;鼓励大城市推行适度的"开放二胎"政策;完善并加大对计划生育家庭的扶助制度,以期能为政府相关部门建言献策。     

经济型酒店感知服务质量分析与品牌差异比较

关注顾客是企业提升服务质量和塑造品牌的基础。经济型酒店通过对顾客感知进行深入分析,可更好地理解该行业的服务质量和不同服务质量因子的地位,并有针对性地进行改善。同时,通过对服务质量的深入定量分析,经济型酒店也可有效避免定位模糊而产生的同质化,确定并强化自身品牌的定位和特色。