Gender Role Orientation of Divorced Women as Related to Body Satisfaction and Interest in Work Clothing

Abstract

This study examined whether divorced women's gender role orientation is related to interest in work clothing and satisfaction with physical appearance. Extremely non-traditional divorced women showed greater concerns about modesty and less interest in looking sexually attractive in their work dress. Divorced women's marital experience was found to be related to body satisfaction and interest in work clothing. The relationships among marital experience, body satisfaction, and interest in work clothing deserve further research to better understand the impact of divorce on one's perception of the self and appearance management behavior. Suggestions are made for practitioner application of the findings.     

Defining a threshold of harm from gambling for population health surveillance research

The measurement of harm in the context of non-problem gambling has received little attention from researchers in the field. Using the combined data from six provincial gambling surveys conducted in Canada between 2001 and 2005 (N = 12,285), we compared how different thresholds of defining gambling-related harm impacts prevalence, the relationship with indicators of gambling intensity and the characteristics of non-pathological gamblers who report experiencing below threshold symptoms of problem gambling. Survey items defining harm were drawn from the Problem Gambling Severity Index (PGSI) of the Canadian Problem Gambling Index. Three definitions of harm – reporting one or more problem gambling symptoms, reporting two or more problem gambling symptoms and having a PGSI score ≥ 3 – demonstrated a strong relationship with indicators of gambling intensity, and reliably differentiated low-threshold and zero symptom problem gamblers in terms of gambling characteristics and other risk factors.     

Comfortable and leisurely: Old women on style and dress

Abstract

This article uses wardrobe interviews with women in the ages of 62–94 to explore transitions and continuities during the life course. During interviews the women have defined their style preferences. One categorization favored by several of them was comfortable. Different meanings were attached to this concept. Practical and convenient outfits were described as increasingly important when aging. Garments that did not expose the body—and its changes with aging—were preferred. The informants talked about the importance of feeling at ease, appropriately dressed for the occasion and situation. They were concerned with feeling nice in their outfits but also stressed becoming more laid-back and prioritizing convenience in their later years. All of these examples had to do with comfort and being comfortable. Uncomfortable clothes were too tight, deemed wrong for the occasion, and unwanted sources of self-consciousness and visibility. Transitions in their style of dress had been gradual, slowly adapting to changes in everyday life as well as in their bodies.     

排舞服饰中民族服饰艺术的传承与应用

以排舞运动中的排舞服饰为研究对象,运用了文献资料法、录像分析法、访谈法等研究和分析了近3年来全国排舞大赛中具有民族特色的比赛服饰。民族服饰的款式、色彩、材质和特色图案的元素在排舞比赛服饰中的运用,不仅推动了排舞运动的发展,同时使得民族艺术得到更好的传承与应用。     

非线性单主元企业组织规模发展的突变点判定

本文简要阐述了突变现象的研究,探讨了突变的形式和突变点寻找所涉及的问题。通过对影响企业组织规模因素的讨论,给出了非线性企业组织规模的一般函数。探讨了非线性单主元企业组织规模函数的近似问题。结合例子,应用突变理论,就其折叠型、尖点型的突变判定进行了研究,并就突变点寻找的方法作了小结。     

基于岗位能力的高职服装专业实践教学研究

根据我国高职服装专业的实践教学特点与现状,从服装专业实践教学的特征、方法、模式及软硬件建设出发,分析了高职服装专业实践教学存在的问题,对岗位能力与实践教学的结合进行了探索,指出只有以岗位能力为导向,不断对高职服装专业实践教学进行改革,才能真正达到培育高素质应用型人才的目标。     

太原多福寺明代壁画贵妇服饰元素的借鉴与运用

根据对太原多福寺明代壁画贵妇服饰中的传统元素加以提炼,通过对其造型、图案、色彩、面料等元素进行改良创新及运用,反映了现代服装设计中明代服饰元素的款式造型异化性、图案装饰时尚性、色彩对比和谐性、面料运用综合性的特点,以期加深对明代服饰的多元性、民族性及艺术性的理解,获得现代服装设计与中国传统服饰元素之间存在的契合点。     

Assessing the prediction accuracy of cure in the Cox proportional hazards cure model: an application to breast cancer data

A cure rate model is a survival model incorporating the cure rate with the assumption that the population contains both uncured and cured individuals. It is a powerful statistical tool for prognostic studies, especially in cancer. The cure rate is important for making treatment decisions in clinical practice. The proportional hazards (PH) cure model can predict the cure rate for each patient. This contains a logistic regression component for the cure rate and a Cox regression component to estimate the hazard for uncured patients. A measure for quantifying the predictive accuracy of the cure rate estimated by the Cox PH cure model is required, as there has been a lack of previous research in this area. We used the Cox PH cure model for the breast cancer data; however, the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) could not be estimated because many patients were censored. In this study, we used imputation‐based AUCs to assess the predictive accuracy of the cure rate from the PH cure model. We examined the precision of these AUCs using simulation studies. The results demonstrated that the imputation‐based AUCs were estimable and their biases were negligibly small in many cases, although ordinary AUC could not be estimated. Additionally, we introduced the bias‐correction method of imputation‐based AUCs and found that the bias‐corrected estimate successfully compensated the overestimation in the simulation studies. We also illustrated the estimation of the imputation‐based AUCs using breast cancer data. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

安徽省服饰传播媒介的发展现状及建议

文章从媒介对服饰文化传播影响的两面性入手,对我省服饰媒介发展的现状及产生的原因进行分析,提出适应我省服饰传播媒介发展的意见和建议。     

人类学视阈下的瑶族服饰文化——以广西贺州瑶族为例

瑶族服饰是在长期的生产生活中形成的物质与精神的产物,是瑶族传统文化的表现形式,也是识别其族群的最直观的符号标志;瑶族服饰刺绣挑花,花纹多彩,图案丰富,不仅蕴涵着朴素的生态意识,而且意蕴着丰富的人文景观;作为一个特有的文化事象,发掘其服饰表征的文化内涵,以期在当下力主文化多样化的审美语境中,使其服饰文化得到阐扬和赓延。