Adaptation and Coping in Childhood and Adolescence for those at Risk for Depression in Emerging Adulthood

Emerging adulthood is a time of great possibility and of considerable risk. This qualitative study explored the adaptation and coping strategies used over time by twenty-five emerging adults. Respondents were selected from a longitudinal community study cohort of 26-year-olds and had experienced adversity in early life. Participants mentioned using a variety of strategies, such as active evasion, seeking support, and “letting go,” in order to cope with difficulties. These strategies varied by context and according to respondents’ developmental level at the time of the adversity. Flexibility in understanding life circumstances and in choosing coping strategies to deal with specific adversities was noted as beneficial through childhood, adolescence, and emerging adulthood.     

Women for Ending Israeli Occupation in Palestine and for Building Peace

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Governance for reconstruction in Africa: challenges for policy communities and coalitions

This article seeks to advance analyses and responses to conflict prevention and reconstruction in Africa that go beyond state‐centric perspectives to include a range of non‐state players. Drawing on examples from both Uganda and Canada, it focuses on the activities of NGOs that have ‘partnered’ with state‐based actors in various peacekeeping and peace‐building operations as well as on the increasingly important role played by think‐tanks. The latter have emerged in Africa as major contributors to the proliferating literature on the political economy of violence, an approach that recognizes that African conflict reflects imperatives of production and consumption in relations that juxtapose Africa’s political institutions and cultures with international and global political economies. The article argues that novel forms of ‘security communities’ are emerging from the non‐state/state/international partnerships and coalitions that have developed around contemporary issues like ‘blood’ diamonds, small arms, debt and HIV/AIDS, thus drawing attention to connections between conflict and development.     

建立和完善我国上市公司ESG信息披露制度的实践及对策

ESG信息披露制度建设是促进我国ESG体系发展的核心问题.建立完善的ESG信息披露制度将促使上市公司高质量地公开ESG信息,帮助国内ESG评级机构更准确地进行评级,推动ESG投资在我国的发展.中国正在大力推动经济社会发展绿色转型,2021年可称为中国碳中和元年,因此ESG的发展正面临重大机遇.应坚持"世界智慧、中国模式"的发展理念,建立具有中国特色的上市公司ESG信息披露制度,构建符合中国国情的ESG体系发展模式.     

Memory for Visual-Spoken Language in Children and Adults

Two experiments examined how developmental changes in processing speed, reliance on visual articulatory cues, memory retrieval, and the ability to interpret representational gestures influence memory for spoken language presented with a view of the speaker (visual-spoken language). Experiment 1 compared 16 children (M = 9.5 yrs.) and 16 young adults, using an immediate recall procedure. Experiment 2 replicated the methods with new speakers, stimuli, and participants. Results showed that both children's and adults' memory for sentences was aided by the presence of visual articulatory information and gestures. Children's slower processing speeds did not adversely affect their ability to process visual-spoken language. However, children's ability to retrieve the words from memory was poorer than adults'. Children's memory was also more influenced by representational gestures that appeared along with predicate terms than by gestures that co-occurred with nouns.     

Requirements for Efficiency and Responsiveness in Government Services

Book reviewed in this article: Managing Organizations in Developing Countries: An Operational and Strategic Perspective. By Moses N. Kiggundu Administering Management Development Institutions in Africa. By Kami Rwegasira Transforming a Bureaucracy: The Experience of the Philippine National Irrigation Administration. Edited by Frances F. Korten and Robert Y. Siy, Jr. Local Organizations for Social Development: Concepts and Cases of Irrigation Organization. By David M. Freeman with Vrinda Bhandarkar, Edwin Shinn, John Wilkins-Wells, and Patricia Wilkins-Wells Local Institutional Development: An Analytical Sourcebook with Cases. By Norman Uphoff     

Trends and needs in programming for independent living

This report, from a national survey, pictures what presently exists on this important part of the foster care continuum, and sets forth the specifics of policy and practice that should characterize preparation for independent living.     

金融危机背景下广州外企经营环境分析及对策研究

本文比较金融危机爆发前后广州引进外商直接投资情况和广州市外资企业盈亏情况，分析金融危机中广州外资企业遇到的困难与问题。在此基础上，提出广州外资企业应对金融危机的对策建议和政府部门帮助广州外资企业应对金融危机、进一步招商引资的政策建议。     

对天津市住宅交易情况的剖析与展望

在全国房地产市场不断走弱的大背景下．本文从天津市2006年-2008年住宅交易的情况，分析天津市住宅交易的特点。     

关于开发区规划管理思路的探索

北京经济技术开发区是北京市惟一的国家级经济技术开发区,经过10年的开发建设,招商引资和城市建设已取得令人瞩目的成绩。截至2002年8月底,累计入区企业1071家,吸引投资40.2亿美元,三资企业289家,投资29.79亿美元,世界500强企业有38家,跨国公司80家,世界十大品牌生产企业有6个在开发区:可口可乐、诺基亚、GE、ATδT、IBM、麦当劳。2001年实现国内生产总值73亿元人民币,产品出口总额13亿美元,财政收入26.8亿元人民币。2002年6月,笔者作为北京经济技术开发区政府考察团成员前往新加坡考察学习,在新加坡考察了建屋发展局、陆路交通局、生产…     

Precaution and liquidity in the demand for housing

We exploit cross-sectional mortgage data to investigate the importance of liquidity constraints and a precautionary motive in the demand for housing. Households that are not liquidity constrained consume housing services essentially as the life cycle hypothesis suggests but with a significant precautionary component. Households that are liquidity constrained, in terms of not meeting standard loan-to-value or payments-to-income constraints, are similar to unconstrained households in most respects, including the precautionary motive, but they respond somewhat less to fluctuations in their lifetime income - suggesting some influence of bank-induced liquidity constraints. We additionally find, however, that banks enforce liquidity constraints only weakly.     

Bibliotherapy for children in foster care and adoption

The bibliotherapeutic technique can help children adjust to the foster care and adoption experience. Appropriate children's books are described and the application and limitations of bibliotherapy are discussed.     

Certainty and overconfidence in future preferences for food

We examine consumer certainty of future preferences and overconfidence in predicting future preferences. We explore how preference certainty and overconfidence impact the option value to revise today’s decisions in the future. We design a laboratory experiment that creates a controlled choice environment, in which a subject’s choice set (over food snacks) is known and constant over time, and the time frame is short – subjects make choices for themselves today, and for one to two weeks ahead. Our results suggest that even for such a seemingly straightforward choice task, only 45% of subjects can predict future choices accurately, while stated certainty of future preferences (one and two weeks ahead) is around 80%. We define overconfidence in predicting future preferences as: the difference between actual accuracy at predicting future choices and stated certainty of future preferences. Our results suggest strong evidence of overconfidence. We find that overconfidence increases with the level of stated certainty of future preferences. Finally, we observe that the option value people attach to future choice flexibility decreases with overconfidence. Overconfidence in future preferences affects economic welfare because it says people have too much incentive to lock themselves into future suboptimal decisions.     

Mediators and moderators in the evaluation of programs for children. Current practice and agenda for improvement

The author examines the role of mediators and moderators in the evaluation of programs for children. The terms are defined and examples of each are presented. Using bibliometric analysis, the author examines how evaluators use mediators and moderators in treatment studies in education, juvenile justice, health care, child protection, and mental health. The use of mediators and moderators is sporadic and vague at best. An agenda for improvement is outlined that includes greater use of program theory and intensive case studies to find out why researchers in prevention and health promotion incorporate mediators and moderators more effectively in their evaluations.     

Developments in China's Provisions for Postdivorce Relief in the 21st Century and Suggestions for Their Improvement

Since entering the 21st century, China's divorce provisions for postdivorce relief have been substantially modified. Provisions for financial assistance and damages after divorce have been added. Since the 2001 amendments to the Marriage Law of the People's Republic of China, the changes to postdivorce relief show three characteristics: First, a wider range of relief is provided; second, housework is recognized and the homeless after divorce are protected; and third, loyalty to marriage is advocated and the party who commits statutory gross wrongs is obliged to make compensation. We think that some statutory requirements of the current divorce relief measures are so strict that few divorcees, especially women, are relieved with the system. Thus, the legislature should learn from foreign legislative experiences and relax the statutory conditions in accordance with the social reality in China.