Contractual audit and mental health rehabilitation: a study of formulating effectiveness in a Finnish supported housing unit

Saario S, Raitakari S. Contractual audit and mental health rehabilitation: a study of formulating effectiveness in a Finnish supported housing unit Int J Soc Welfare 2010: 19: 321–329 © 2010 The Author(s), Journal compilation © 2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd and International Journal of Social Welfare. Mental health NGOs in Western Europe are increasingly managed by contractual audit procedures. This article concerns how contractual audit and its emphasis on effectiveness of care impact on the practices of long‐term mental health rehabilitation. To demonstrate this, a case study of a Finnish NGO that provides supported housing is presented. The study looks at how service purchasing practices, as stated in the contract between the municipality and the NGO, are reflected in the meetings among practitioners. Documentary and meeting data were utilised together with Mitchell Dean's notion of technologies of agency. It was found that practitioners actively sought to show the effectiveness of their everyday work in terms of contractual audit by demonstrating both the economic and progressive aspects of care. Thus, professional competency in mental health rehabilitation appears to entail both the skills of care interventions and the ability to perform these interventions as efficient and financially accountable activities.     

Perceptions concerning research integrity and the practice of data audit in the biotechnology industry

A survey was conducted in order to evaluate the responses of biotechnology executives concerning their perceptions of the frequency of questionable R & D studies performed in their companies and to assess the extent to which their companies voluntarily conducted data audits. Data audit was found to be commonly practiced on a voluntary basis by biotechnology companies, in contrast to its almost lack of practice by universities. However, public companies were more likely to practice data auditing than privately held companies. Moreover, the likelihood that managers suspected or detected questionable studies in their companies was significantly increased if the company practiced data auditing.     

Modeling Imbalanced Economic Recovery Following a Natural Disaster Using Input‐Output Analysis

Input‐output analysis is frequently used in studies of large‐scale weather‐related (e.g., Hurricanes and flooding) disruption of a regional economy. The economy after a sudden catastrophe shows a multitude of imbalances with respect to demand and production and may take months or years to recover. However, there is no consensus about how the economy recovers. This article presents a theoretical route map for imbalanced economic recovery called dynamic inequalities. Subsequently, it is applied to a hypothetical postdisaster economic scenario of flooding in London around the year 2020 to assess the influence of future shocks to a regional economy and suggest adaptation measures. Economic projections are produced by a macro econometric model and used as baseline conditions. The results suggest that London's economy would recover over approximately 70 months by applying a proportional rationing scheme under the assumption of initial 50% labor loss (with full recovery in six months), 40% initial loss to service sectors, and 10–30% initial loss to other sectors. The results also suggest that imbalance will be the norm during the postdisaster period of economic recovery even though balance may occur temporarily. Model sensitivity analysis suggests that a proportional rationing scheme may be an effective strategy to apply during postdisaster economic reconstruction, and that policies in transportation recovery and in health care are essential for effective postdisaster economic recovery.     

图书馆效益取向研究

社会主义市场经济体制的建立和完善，使图书馆原有的效益观经受着前所未有的挑战。本文通过对图书馆工作评价标准的回顾，探讨了效益标准确立的意义，分析了图书馆投入产出的特征，指出整体效益即“社会经济效益”是市场经济条件下图书馆效益的价值取向     

我国上市公司审计风险分析

文章就审计风险防范的重要性、上市公司审计风险的成因以及如何防范审计风险进行了阐述，认为审计风险形成的原因既有外部环境和上市公司因素，也有审计部门和审计师、注册会计师方面的因素，而加强审计风险的防范必须改善审计的外部环境和加强执业规范，加强对上市公司的规范与治理，提高审计主体的质量和审计人员的素质。     

扶贫陷阱与扶贫资金政府管理效率

始于上世纪80年代中期的中国政府扶贫战略是在农村土地制度改革的边际效应降低时推出的一项公共政策。长期以来,中国扶贫开发成效主要以年均贫困人口减少和扶贫投入的关系为评价指标。通过扶贫资金性质、管理及其在贫困村的实际运作,贫困人口数量和扶贫资金投入量之间的相关性等的实证研究,分析政府扶贫资金管理机制的不足,提出扶贫陷阱的概念以及跳出扶贫陷阱的几个选择。     

中国信息产业发展的投入产出分析——以福建省为例

信息技术及其产业的发展已经成为世界经济新的增长点和国际竞争新的制高点，其作用越来越重要。依据最新权威分类，通过编制福建省信息产业投入产出表，计算出信息产业与其它产业之间的经济依存系数、产业关联系数和波及效果系数，可以看出福建省信息产业的发展取得了一定的成绩，但在国民经济中的地位仍不高，提出需进一步以信息化带动工业化，以工业化促进信息化，努力提升信息产业的地位，正确引导信息产业的集群化发展。     

融英语写作于精读课教学探析

写作是大学英语学习中必不可少的一部分，同时也是大学生英语学习中较为薄弱的一个环节，忽视写作训练是导致学生英语写作能力较差的原因之一。本文针目前英语教学现状及学生在写作中常出现的问题，探讨如何结合精渎课教学，抓好基本功，掌握写作技巧，通过形式多样的写作训练，提高学生的写作水平。     

试论如何完善企业内部控制

本文从内部控制的基本理论出发,在对内部控制作了多层面理解的基础上,从控制环境、会计责权控制及内部审计等三个方面对我国企业现阶段内部控制存在的问题进行了分析,并探究其原因。最后提出只有在采取规范法人治理结构、建立适当的内部激励机制、提高内部审计的独立性与权威性等措施之下,我国企业内部控制才能达到一个新的高度,才能真正意义上发挥作用。     

LDPC编码自适应加载MIMO-OFDM系统性能分析

介绍了LDPC校验阵的构造及编译码算法,采用了随机法构造LDPC校验阵,编码基于高斯消去直接进行译码采用无穷阶量化时的置信传播算法;讨论了OFDM自适应加载技术与多输入多输出技术,结合自适应比特功率分配算法与基于多载波调制的比特分配方案实现了该加载分配技术;给出了LDPC编码的自适应加载MIMO-OFDM系统的模型。经仿真分析得出,二元域上非规则LDPC编码的系统性能优于多元域上的,自适应加载MIMO-OFDM技术大大提高了系统传输速率,有效增强了系统抗衰落性。