Golden South Africa,Great Development

On the occasion of the 10th panniversary of diplomatic relations between China and South Africa in 2008, China is celebrating ＂South Africa Week＂ to commemorate. H.E. Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, the minister of South Africa,     

加强和改进养老机构消防安全工作的思考

养老机构的管理和安全越来越受到人们的关注。对于养老机构存在的消防安全问题,需要全社会动员,统筹协调,标本兼治。     

Understanding responses to posted restaurant food safety scores: An information processing and regulatory focus perspective

Ensuring the safety of food served in restaurants continues to be an essential issue in the hospitality industry. An important part of the efforts to stem the outbreak of foodborne illnesses are the mandatory inspections of any entity that serves food to the public. Unfortunately, while posting food safety scores is intended to help consumers make better dining choices, interpreting these scores can often be difficult and confusing. The purpose of this study is to use information processing theory as a framework to investigate how consumers evaluate food safety inspection scores. To achieve this goal, this research provides an account of the effect of food safety concern on consumers’ attitudes toward restaurants under conditions of both positive and negative health inspection results. The results identify a moderating effect of health score in the formation of consumers’ attitudes toward restaurants. The downstream effects on expected satisfaction and behaviors are also established.     

Releasing Control: Parents on Vacation

The paper examines the family vacation phenomenon by comparing parents on vacation (n = 203) with parents during daily life (n = 246) in terms of two psychological constructs: regulatory focus and parenting style. Results revealed that parents in both samples were similar in their ‘regulatory focus of promotion’ (need for challenges) and ‘parenting styles’ (permissive and authoritarian), but parents on vacation scored lower on both need for security (‘regulatory focus of prevention’) and authoritative ‘parenting style’. The findings suggest that parents, especially mothers, view family vacation as an opportunity to relax and release parental control. The findings' theoretical and practical implications are discussed. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

叙述心灵深处的火焰——意识流小说《到灯塔去》的叙事特色分析

作为现代先锋女作家和反传统作家,弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫在小说的创作技巧和创作主题方面都有突破.她的意识流小说《到灯塔去》的叙事突破就是把人物内心真实感情叙述对象,采用间接内心独白和多重不定聚焦,侧重叙事的心理时间和音乐特质,而这些叙事特色的根源就是伍尔夫心理现实主义的创作理念.     

面向“十二五”时期的海洋经济地理研究

海洋经济地理研究尚处于形成发展阶段,尚未形成较为清晰的理论框架与研究脉络。基于目前相关研究成果与学科进展,对多年来海洋经济地理研究的主要领域进行梳理,系统总结海洋经济地理研究的相关进展及其国内外研究动态,并结合我国"十二五"时期的发展要求,提出未来学科研究重点。     

国内基本医疗保险关系转移接续研究综述

基本医疗保险关系转移接续不畅已成为目前医疗保险制度发展的重要瓶颈,相关研究也逐渐成为热门话题。从内容上讲,目前国内学者关于基本医疗保险关系转移接续问题的研究主要集中在三个方面,第一,基本医疗保险关系转移接续的必要性和重要意义;第二,基本医疗保险关系转移接续的利益冲突阻碍因素;第三,基本医疗保险关系转移接续的完善策略。从人群上讲,以农民工为代表的流动就业群体成为关注的主要对象。在研究数量与研究深度方面,目前国内关于基本医疗保险关系转移接续的研究仍较为薄弱。通过对国内关于基本医疗保险关系转移接续既有文献的概括与总结,以期有一个清晰分明的梳理。     

山西省直林区现代林业建设问题探讨

介绍了山西省直林区60年发展历程和取得的成果,积极探索新林区建设,实施以改善民生为重点的林区基础设施建设工程,遵循保资源、保吃饭、保稳定的过度性指导思想,积极开展二次创业,有针对性地提出努力构建富裕和谐生态文明新林区的总体构想。指出山西省直林区要把握三个重点,在森林生态体系建设上巩固提质,在产业建设体系上扩张增效,在森林文化体系建设上继承挖掘;探讨了当前要着力解决好5个方面的问题。     

Research note: work to leave,leave to work: motivations of the Jobbymoon takers: evidence from focus group interviews

ABSTRACT

This research note examines the factors driving the phenomenon of the ‘jobbymoon’, the practice of undertaking travel between jobs, which has become increasingly popular in recent years. Spawned by the growing transience of job stability, particularly among the millennium generation, the jobbymoon pertinently embodies the blurred if not entangled lines between work and leisure, and therefore is rich in its research implications. Focus group interviews were conducted to identify and evaluate the factors motivating peoples to take jobbymoons. Interviews from focus groups yielded six main categories of motivators, thereby preliminarily revealing the unique relationship between work and leisure as embodied in the jobbymoon. This note claims its research significance in identifying and investigating a special emerging byproduct of work-leisure interactions in the contemporary society, and its findings of the key motivators of the jobbymoon can serve as practical references for product development and marketing efforts for this niche leisure segment.     

Research and Development Towards Sustainable Agriculture by Resource-Poor Farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa: Some Strategic and Organisational Considerations in Linking Farmer Practical Needs with Policies and Scientific Theories

Sustainable agricultural development is presented as a diverse and dynamic process through which it copes with agro-ecological and socio-economic diversity at field level and with ever-changing needs and opportunities of (smallholder) farmers. In support, agricultural research—aimed at locally appropriate and environmentally friendly technologies—should contribute to bridging the currently increasing gaps between scientific theories and government agricultural policies as opposed to the practical field realities that farmers are facing.

These gaps are best illustrated by—what in the West is often presumed to be—a stagnant African agricultural (in reality it is not!) in spite of many ambitious policies and projects by national governments and international donors for several decades. Disappointing adoption rates by resource-poor smallholders of the proposed ‘modern’ agricultural technologies have often been blamed. However, the actual local systems are primarily based on ‘ecological’ and ‘organic’ concepts. Localised intensification through recycling of organic by-products is an integral part of such systems. Consequently, these systems are uniquely adapted to the diverse framer needs resulting from widespread variations in soil, climate and socio-economic conditions. By contrast most international R&D support for the African agricultural sector is aimed implicitly at creating a modern conventional system of farming based on external inputs and along a Western industrial model.

To cope with diverse and complex, location specific problems inherent in development, sustainability and poverty alleviation, requires strong national research and development (R&D) institutions that adopt comprehensive, people-centred approaches as opposed to the technocratic nature of most formal international development assistance. The development debate therefore should be turned around. The ‘existing’ smallholder farming systems and their needs should be a point of departure, while the various development initiatives and policies should be handled by including the related institutional aspects.