Toward a Concept of a Migrant Personality

In this article we argue that individuals who want to emigrate possess a syndrome of personality characteristics that differentiates them from those who want to stay in their country of origin. Based on our own research, as well as other research findings, we show that those who want to resettle in another country tend to be more work-oriented and to have higher achievement and power motivation, but lower affiliation motivation and family centrality, than those who do not want to leave their country of origin. This migrant personality syndrome is seen as only one of the variety of factors that determine migratory behavior. We further discuss some of the possible implications of our findings for the receiving and the sending countries and possible psychological interventions that can ease the acculturation of immigrants.     

Collaboration: a study of a children's initiative

In times of shrinking resources within the social services, collaboration is being promoted as a more efficient way of meeting the needs of children and families. A study of a children's initiative collaborative developed to address the problems of children is reported. The authors present and use an evaluation framework which incorporated the dimensions of context, process, and outcomes of collaboration. The findings, based on the initial two years of collaborative effort, suggested the membership of the group and the process and structure governing the group's operations impacted the process and outcomes of the collaboration.     

Existence of a utility on a topological semigroup

This paper presents a comprehensive mathematical framework in which a unified treatment of additive and expected utility can be given. For achieving this, elaborate structural assumptions, characterizing a simply ordered, topological semigroup, have to be established in order to construct an isomorphism with the additive group of real numbers. This construction establishes a link between additive and expected utility theory to the extent that the same mathematical considerations leading to the derivation of an additive representation are also valid for proving the expected utility theorem.     

Inferring a linear ordering over a power set

An observer attempts to infer the unobserved ranking of two ideal objects, A and B, from observed rankings in which these objects are `accompanied' by `noise' components, C and D. In the first ranking, A is accompanied by C and B is accompanied by D, while in the second ranking, A is accompanied by D and B is accompanied by C. In both rankings, noisy-A is ranked above noisy-B. The observer infers that ideal-A is ranked above ideal-B. This commonly used inference rule is formalized for the case in which A,B,C,D are sets. Let X be a finite set and let be a linear ordering on 2^X. The following condition is imposed on . For every quadruple (A,B,C,D)Y, where Y is some domain in (2^X)⁴, if and , then . The implications and interpretation of this condition for various domains Y are discussed.     

Positive Connections: a programme for children who have a parent with a mental illness

Mental health professionals working with parents who suffer from a mental illness often overlook the children within the family. Children whose parents are mentally ill face numerous obstacles to their own emotional development and these children are at higher risk for developing mental illnesses than other children. These risks can be decreased if protective or positive interventions are available for the children. This article will describe the development and implementation of Positive Connections, an effective intervention programme specifically designed for children whose parents have been diagnosed with a mental disorder. The effectiveness of this programme has been evaluated using both qualitative and quantitative research strategies, and the results are presented.     

The epistemic structure of a theory of a game

This paper is a contribution to the systematic study of alternative axiom-sets for theories of (normal-form, complete-information) games. It provides an introduction to epistemic logic, describes a formulation in epistemic logic of the structure of a theory of a game (the broad theory of that game), and applies methods of epistemic logic to define strategies for dealing with two disturbing features of game theory, its hyperrationality assumptions and its indeterminacy. The analysis of these problems is conducted in terms of two principles which impregnate much game theory, Cleverness and Cloisteredness (the principles that players know respectively all, and only, the logical consequences of their assumed knowledge). Broad theories allow us to formulate and revise these principles despite their metatheoretical character. It is shown how Cleverness may be weakened by using logics which restrict the Rule of Epistemization, and Cloisteredness by using default logic or autoepistemic logic; the latter is used to characterize Nash equilibrium beliefs as parts of certain autoepistemic extensions of players' knowledge bases, but these particular extensions are rejected as ungrounded.I am grateful for most helpful comments to Robin Cubitt, Joe Halpern, Ernest Geffner, Philippe Mongin, David Squires, Elias Thijsse and Tim Williamson.     

革命家与学者--陈翰笙先生

下面是翰老3月13日逝世后我写的一篇悼念文章。4月13日在中国太平洋学会召开的追思会上,我又加了这样的几句话:我是翰老的晚辈、后辈,缅怀他得回溯百年来的中国历史。在这百年里,作为“欧美派”的知识分子,在学成回国后,能立即投入中国共产党领导的革命洪流中的,翰老是第一人;具有像他那样的学术地位,作为共产党员长期从事艰苦的地下工作的,翰老是第一人;在这种工作中能把革命活动和学术研究完满地结合起来,并取得卓越成就的,翰老是第一人;在中国知识分子不幸受难的时代,能坚持学者革命气节,拒不随波逐流的,翰老是第一人;同样,在国际反法西…     

教师本色 学者风范——忆恩师杨德泉先生

杨德泉先生生前系中国宋史研究会理事、陕西师范大学历史系教授、陕西历史博物馆筹建处主任兼党组书记。他一生热爱党的教育事业,钟情教师职业,在长期的教学实践中形成了富有自己鲜明特色的教学艺术与风格,深受学生爱戴。他献身史学研究,学识渊博,功底深厚,严谨勤奋,在唐宋史、陕西地方史等研究方面成绩卓著,创获颇丰。     

Ask a Silly Question,Get a Silly Answer

ABSTRACT

Careful attention is required to one's entry into community development work. The formation and continued support of genuinely participatory working relationships are essential. These must be given the time and creation of trust to establish and be tested. This requires making sure that the needs of the community (as they see them) are sensitively regarded and integrated within the action plan that they have helped to create, along with the skills and whatever the person(s) bringing development assistance services can realistically contribute. This ought to be obvious, but in practice many things frequently seem to be missed and can go wrong, especially when people cross cultures from the West and enter a Third World situation to “help.” This article identifies and gives illustrations (some of which engage children) of some important fine points of the participatory process, providing some flesh to the bones of our social work development values and theory.     

Exploitation of a crisp relation in a ranking problem

The outranking methods usually contain two main steps: determination of a (sometimes valued) relation which aggregates the preferences and exploitation of this relation in order to choose, sort or rank the actions. In a ranking problem, the second step is the construction of a (complete or partial) preorder from a (valued) relation. We have considered it was interesting to list the good properties such a construction should verify and to analyze some procedures in this context. We present here the first results of this study, which concern the construction of a complete preorder from a non valued relation.     

Care of the Elderly—A Project,a Protest,a Survey and a Plan

Rehousing of elderly people in Australia has generally not been preceded by research into the kind of assistance that is necessary. An example is given of how an attempt was made to discover the needs of the elderly disabled in a small country community. Assessment by observation of people at home revealed the need for assistance for them to stay where they were. Home Care organized from the district hospital is often a more appropriate answer to this problem than the building of expensive and unnecessary institutions.     

Goal setting in recovery: families where a parent has a mental illness or a dual diagnosis

Goal setting is an important element within mental health recovery models; however, parenting and children are rarely recognized in such approaches. This study outlines a family recovery planning model where a parent has a mental health or dual substance and mental health problem. The differences between family types (parent with a mental illness or parent with dual diagnosis) and family members (parent and children) are illustrated in terms of goals across 11 domains. There were a total of 33 parents and 50 children from 10 mental illness and 10 dual diagnosis families. Education and specifically mental health knowledge are important goals across all families and appear especially important for children whose parent has a dual diagnosis. Specific goals and achievement levels for each type of family and parents and children are also outlined. Clear areas for action by clinicians and family members are indicated by this study.     

对一个公共图书馆阅览室的制度研究

这是一个公共图书馆的中文工具书参考阅览室,室内存有各种法律、法规汇编、统计年鉴等工具书,供开架阅览。由于工具书利用 率不高,又因其它地方专设的自修室座位紧张,图书馆就在该室开辟了自修座位,但这样一来,也增加了该室内制度运行的复杂性。 中文工具书参考阅览室室内平面图:     

东庠,1600年前的大学

慕容主政时期,发现平原刘赞精通儒学,遂任为祭酒,以教授世子和其他鲜卑贵族子弟。有余暇时,慕容还常常亲临太学听刘赞授业,以示重视儒学。于是“路有颂声,礼让兴矣。”慕容称王后,在龙城新建和龙宫,为发展教育,把自己的旧宫改称“东庠     

从战争文化走向和平文化

随着和平文化运动的开展，铲除战争和暴力文化、建设和平文化已成为和平文化运动的两个基本目标。悄然兴起的和平文化研究，以联合国大会宣布的“２０００ 年——国际和平文化年”为标志，正在进入新的历史阶段。它的发展不仅对未来的和平文化建设实践具有指导意义，而且对人文社会科学和其他科学领域将产生不可低估的影响