Reducing Consumer Disadvantage: Reassessing Access in the Retail Environment

Abstract

Extensive interviews about the food shopping experiences of one disadvantaged group—wheelchair users in South Wales—enables a reassessment of the access dimension of consumer disadvantage following a period of pronounced retail changes and improvements associated with the Disability Discrimination Act. Although a slim majority of wheelchair users felt that they had proper choice over their shopping locations, many expressed continuing experiences of consumer disadvantage. Residual consumer disadvantage remains particularly in older, more traditional shopping locations, while the large supermarkets offer advantages because of their dedicated car parking spaces, their spacious aisles, special facilities and staff training. For the wheelchair user, superstore growth has had a beneficial effect on accessibility, reducing consumer disadvantage.     

海洋灾害应急管理的国际经验及对我国的启示

我国是海洋灾害频发的国家,海洋灾害对沿海地区经济发展和社会稳定造成很大影响.从海洋灾害应急管理体制、机制、法制和预案体系等方面以及存在的问题,对我国海洋灾害应急管理现状进行分析.基于对适应问题的探讨,并借鉴美日等国在海洋灾害应急管理方面的有益经验,提出了适应海洋灾害的三类措施,即制度性适应措施、工程性适应措施和技术性适应措施.     

Children's engagement in leisure time physical activity: exploring family structure as a determinant

This paper draws on Bourdieu's key concepts in an effort to understand particular social practices and the effect of family as a social environment and determinant for participation in leisure time physical activity. As an exploratory study, the aim was to elicit children's subjective views of their engagement in leisure time physical activity settings. Adopting an interpretive perspective, six 11‐ to 14‐year‐old children from intact couple families and single parent families were interviewed in small groups, exploring lived experiences of their participation in physical activity in relation to their family structure. The study suggests that family structure plays a vital role in helping to shape children's dispositions towards physical activity. All children were subject to the transmission of parental beliefs and values towards physical activity though this was further reinforced in intact couple families through joint participation. Moreover, children from single parent families were seen to exhibit more sedentary dispositions that reflected the environment in which they reside. We argue that children's individual habitus, as bearing the experiences of their familial backgrounds, provided them with certain desires to participate in physical activity which are mediated by their family circumstance. The study suggests that family structure is becoming a more prominent issue within society, and thus, children's leisure activity from this perspective requires further research that explores this phenomenon in greater detail.     

论陕甘宁边区农村文化建设的基本经验

陕甘宁边区的农村文化建设取得了巨大的成效,积累了丰富的经验。这些经验主要体现在:农村文化建设必须在内容上贴近农村生产生活,将政治动员与农民需求相结合;在形式上迎合农民喜好,充分利用民间传统文艺形式;在建设的方式方法上采取自上而下宣传与本土培植相结合的方法。     

当前社会主义新农村建设的经验、问题与对策——龙居镇社会主义新农村建设实证研究

文章以中国石油大学(华东)人文社科学院赴龙居镇新农村建设服务与调研队对山东省龙居镇社会主义新农村建设情况的调研资料为依据,系统地分析了当前社会主义新农村建设积累的经验和存在的问题,并有针对性地提出了对策建议。     

公共财政农业支出政策的国际经验与启示

在WTO《农业协议》允许的框架内，各国公共财政农业支出政策可分为政府一般性服务、农产品价格保护和直接补贴等。通过研究美国、欧盟、日本等发达国家和地区财政支农政策的经验与做法，可以为我国的政策选择提供一个较好的参照系。     

航道工程建设中的测量监理工作探讨

文章简单介绍了航道工程建设中的主要测量工作及所使用的仪器设备,并从实际出发探讨了航道工程建设中测量监理工作的主要方面,简述了作者对测量监理工作的体会。     

An analysis of interrelationships between project management and student‐experience constructs

This article seeks to explore, through the utilization of correlational analysis, how the parameters that impact the student experience may be interrelated. We found that the experiences of students studying project management appear to be heavily influenced by e‐resource provisions and the actual experiences that the students are subjected to when using virtual learning environments (VLEs). These findings support previous research acknowledging that information and communications technology (ICT) plays an important role in teaching and learning project management. Students' experience of interpersonal skills also correlated uniquely and significantly with other constructs, supporting the premise that learning is integral to the development of interpersonal skills. Discussion surrounds the interdependency of student experiences adding to their learning and how future research should consider larger and more diverse samples to establish exactly what constructs detract and/or add to their learning in project management, which could then contribute to pedagogical discourse in other disciplines.     

统筹城乡居民基本养老保险制度研究——以河南省郑州市为例

构建城乡一体化的基本养老保险制度是我国统筹城乡居民社会养老保险体系的关键步骤。郑州市作为全国建立城乡一体化养老保险制度的少数地市之一,其在基本养老保险制度方面城乡一体化的积极探索和创新在全国具有一定的示范性、前瞻性、可行性和推广价值。本文通过对郑州市城乡居民基本养老保险的发展历程、制度特征、实践情况的系统分析,总结出其对我国构建城乡一体化基本养老保险制度的启示,以期为政府构建统筹城乡居民的社会养老保险体系提供理论参考。