Dimensions of self-selected leisure activities,trait coping and their relationships with sleep quality and depressive symptoms

Although leisure is presumed to be beneficial, certain profiles of leisure may be especially good. This paper tests whether dimensions of self-selected leisure activities (SSLAs) differentially relate to depressive symptoms and poor sleep quality, including (a) positivity (SSLA-PO), (b) difficulty (SSLA-DF), (c) distraction (SSLA-DI) and (d) thinking about negative events (SSLA-TN). Furthermore, it tests whether those low in perseverative cognitions (PCs) and high in ‘John Henryism’ active coping are equally likely to benefit from leisure. Participants (n = 362, 76% female) at a large university in Wisconsin rated two SSLAs on the dimensions above and completed measures of depression, sleep quality, PCs and active coping. Regression analyses showed that SSLA-TN predicted greater depression and poor sleep quality. For the moderators, more SSLA-DI and SSLA-TN each predicted greater depression for those more prone to PCs, and more SSLA-DI predicted more depression and worse sleep quality at lower active coping levels. Results suggest that not all leisure is equally beneficial, and have implications for the design of leisure-based interventions.     

Clinical and economic evaluation of olanzapine-fluoxetine HCl combination in the treatment of bipolar depression: a managed care approach

Summary

This study was aimed to provide a clinical and economic assessmentfor health care organisations to make formulary decisions on Symbyax? (olanzapine-fluoxetine HCl combination). The combination drug was shown to be efficacious in treating bipolar depression. However, more compelling evidence is needed for the long-term effect, the effect in a more general population, its comparative advantage over other treatments, its adverse effects, and its efficacy and safety in sub-populations. Results of the budget impact analysis indicated that adding the drug to the formulary would increase medication cost per member per month (PMPM) from $1.150 to $1.172 in the base case scenario. One-way sensitivity analysis showed a rough band of a $0.21 decrease to a $0.26 increase in PMPM cost, by varying one factor at a time while holding all others at base-case levels. Further research is needed for the formulary decision of adding olanzapine-fluoxetine HCI combination drug.     

论马尔库塞的总体性批判社会理论

马尔库塞从“对立的总体性”来理解和批判资本主义社会现实,认为资本主义社会是一个整体,它对人民群众的专政不仅仅表现在政治和经济领域,而且渗透到了日常生活的各个方面和环节,包括思想、文化、道德、信仰、消费方式,甚至包括了社会和个体的心理。既然资本主义的专政是一种渗透到各个领域的总体专政,那么要推翻资本主义社会也就不能是单纯的政治和经济斗争,而必须是一种“总体的革命”,即一种贯穿于社会的政治、经济、思想、文化、道德和日常生活等各个领域里的革命。     

Professor Fisher and the quantity theory – a significant encounter

Abstract

Irving Fisher's encounter with the Quantity Theory of Money began in the 1890s, during the debate about bimetallism, and reached its high point in 1911 with the publication of The Purchasing Power of Money. His most important refinement of the theory, derived from his recognition of bank deposits as means of exchange, was to treat their out of equilibrium recursive interaction with inflation as integral to it. This treatment underlay both his 1920s work on the business cycle as a “dance of the dollar” and his advocacy of subjecting monetary policy to a legislated price stability rule, initially to be based on his “compensated dollar” scheme. Fisher's failure to recognise the onset of the Great Depression even as it was happening was directly related to his faith in the quantity theory's seeming implication that price level stability in and of itself guaranteed the continuation of prosperity, while his subsequent work on the debt deflation theory of great depressions initially failed to repair the damage that this failure did to his reputation, and to that of the quantity theory. In the 1930s Fisher nevertheless remained an active supporter of various schemes to reflate and then stabilise the price level. His subsequent influence on the quantity theory based Monetarist counter-revolution that began in the 1950s lay, directly, in its deployment of his analysis of expected inflation on nominal interest rates, and, indirectly, in its espousal of the case for subjecting monetary policy to a legislated rule.     

Economic depression in the world

We create a dataset of country experience with economic depression around the world. We define a depression episode as a period of cumulative decline in per capita output of 20% or more lasting at least four years. We find depressions are surprisingly common. We describe their incidence and onset over decades, regions, and levels of development. We identify economic, political, financial, and cultural variables that are associated with depressions. Probit analysis reveals that the probability of entering or exiting a depression is influenced by domestic and international shocks.     

产妇产后抑郁症病因分析及预防措施初探

本文通过分析产后抑郁的形成原因,采取营造舒适修养环境、疏导产妇心理、调整生活习惯等措施,能够较好地预防产后抑郁症的发生。     

全球金融危机对我国入境旅游的影响及对策

由美国次贷危机引发的全球金融危机及其所带来的经济衰退对我国入境旅游产生了巨大的负面影响,港澳台、韩国、日本、俄罗斯和美国等我国主要客源地区及国家入境旅游人数及外汇收入出现严重下滑。为应对和降低金融危机对我国入境旅游的影响,我们必须采取积极的旅游复苏计划与措施来度过难关。     

贝尔凹陷霍12区块南屯组一段沉积体系特征及演化规律研究

应用沉积学的理论和方法,通过岩性描述、测井和地震资料的分析,对贝尔凹陷霍12区块南屯组一段沉积体系的类型、特征进行分析。结果表明,南屯组一段发育的沉积体系主要有扇三角洲和湖泊相。研究贝尔凹陷霍12区块沉积体系,对预测油藏分布具有重要意义。