Performance-based contracting and the moderating influence of caseworker role overload on service provision in child welfare

Although performance-based contracts have become increasingly popular in child welfare, administrators are developing these contracts with little empirically guided information about how internal work conditions may influence the services families receive. This study examines how child welfare caseworker role overload moderates associations between child welfare agencies' use of performance-based contracting and services provided to families. Analyses using data from the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being suggest that when caseworkers experience high role overload, use of performance-based contracts may decrease caregivers' likelihood of receiving necessary social and behavioral health services. These findings and their implications are discussed.     

科研管理中政策导向的两个误区

我国的科研管理工作中存在着两个政策导向的误区 :对于科研基金中标 ,过分地强调获得项目的地位和影响 ;在科研论文评价时 ,过分强调SCI刊物的影响     

关于与国际惯例接轨的法律思考

中国在对外开放中提出要与国际接轨 ,法律制度是其中一部分。但在认识上人们还有不清晰的地方 ,本文澄清了经常提及的国际惯例的含义 ,论述它的法律性质与作用 ,以及与国际惯例接轨的标准和如何处理好国际惯例与国内法的关系。     

集群企业成长中的阶段性与信任机制变迁假说

自20世纪80年代以来,以民营企业为主体的中国企业集群的出现,为研究集群演进与信任机制变迁之间的互动提供了机会.基于"人情"扩散而形成的关系型信任,促进企业集群迅速形成的同时也阻碍着集群的健康成长.本文致力于通过分析交易成本和社会嵌入对信任机制变迁的影响,揭示在集群成长的阶段性和网络化背景下,集群企业信任机制变迁的一般性轨迹.分析认为关系型信任机制与集群的发育期相适应,集群的演进更加需要计算型信任机制和制度型信任机制发挥主导作用.     

Educational attainment and transitions in functional status among older Taiwanese

Despite considerable research examining the influence of socioeconomic status on health, few studies have considered this relationship as it pertains to older adults in non-Western societies. We attempt to ascertain the influence of education on changes in physical functioning in a rapidly developing country. Data come from the 1989 Survey of Health and Living Status of the Elderly in Taiwan and a follow-up interview in 1993 (N = 4,049, age = 60+). Individuals are conceptualized to be in a state of functional independence or functional limitation at the time of origin, based on their ability to perform three physical functioning tasks. The outcome at the follow-up interview is categorized as functionally independent, limited, or dead, allowing for six probabilities, one from each state of origin to each outcome. These are calculated using a multinomial logit model, controlling for other factors often thought to be associated with health transitions. High levels of educational attainment result in a decreased incidence of functional limitation for those originating in a state of independence. Contrary to expectations, however, education has little influence on those who originate functionally limited. Thus, higher education plays a substantial role in primary prevention of morbidity, delaying the onset of disability, but other factors are more important once limitations begin. We speculate on the reasons behind these findings, including that the results may be culturally dependent.     

马克思恩格斯生态思想及其现实意义

马克思恩格斯从人、自然和社会三者关系的角度论证了社会主义和共产主义代替资本主义的客观规律,这是对马克思恩格斯从社会基本矛盾的角度论证两个必然的补充。马克思恩格斯首先论述了人与自然二者之间不可分割的联系。马克思恩格斯关于人、自然和社会三者关系的论述就是在此基础上展开的。当前,我国社会的发展正在向践行科学发展观、构建资源节约型环境友好型社会的方向转变,对此,我们运用马恩生态思想为指导来建立与资源节约型社会相适应的生态伦理价值体系。     

The shrinking or disappearing observed treatment effect

It is frequently noted that an initial clinical trial finding was not reproduced in a later trial. This is often met with some surprise. Yet, there is a relatively straightforward reason partially responsible for this observation. In this article, we examine this reason by first reviewing some findings in a recent publication in the Journal of the American Medical Association. To help explain the non‐negligible chance of failing to reproduce a previous positive finding, we compare a series of trials to successive diagnostic tests used for identifying a condition. To help explain the suspicion that the treatment effect, when observed in a subsequent trial, seems to have decreased in magnitude, we draw a conceptual analogy between phases II–III development stages and interim analyses of a trial with a group sequential design. Both analogies remind us that what we observed in an early trial could be a false positive or a random high. We discuss statistical sources for these occurrences and discuss why it is important for statisticians to take these into consideration when designing and interpreting trial results. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

大学生时政信息来源选择与利用研究

大学生置身信息全球化、信息网络化时代,渠道多元、信息多样的舆论环境使大学生获得信息的途径与方式呈现出新的情况、新的特点与倾向。在此背景下,大学生如何选择时政信息,如何利用这些信息,以及他们对这些信息所持态度如何,都必然对大学生的政治观取向产生影响,是事关国家政治稳定和大学生健康成长的大事。文章就当代大学生时政信息来源选择的新特点和倾向进行了分析,并就如何通过提高内容教育特别是方法论教育,提高传统媒体引领作用,提高利用网络等新兴媒体引导性,把握传播规律,强化信息公开,拓展大学生时政信息的获取途径等具体措施,加强和引导大学生时政信息教育工作提出了具体的思路。     

中国共产党知识分子政策的历史考察

中国共产党的知识分子政策,从萌动到提出,从比较正确到发生偏差、乃至严重失误,继而又拨乱反正,不断丰富和发展的历程,表明了中共在实践中不断地深化了自己对中国革命、建设和改革的特点、规律的认识,科学地总结在此问题上的经验教训,对建设中国特色社会主义是极富理论意义与现实意义的。     

论职业道德建设的政治功能

职业道德不仅是社会道德系统中的一个有特色的、起中坚作用的道德层面 ,而且是最能够与文化建设、经济体制、法制建设直接联系、相互配套的一个层面。研究职业道德的政治功能 ,有助于更好地发挥职业道德的作用