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Multiple intervention analysis with application to sales promotion data

The sales promotion data resulting from multiple marketing strategies are usually autocorrelated. Consequently, the characteristics of those data sets can be analyzed using time-series and/or intervention analysis. Traditional time-series intervention analysis focuses on the effects of single or few interventions, and forecasts may be obtained as long as the future interventions can be assured. This study is different from traditional approaches, and considers the cases in which multiple interventions and the uncertainty of future interventions exist in the system. In addition, this study utilizes a set of real sales promotion data to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.     

Enhancing the Social Relevance of Evaluation Practice

We argue that the social relevance of evaluation research is dependent upon two issues: the extent which evaluation practice reflects the values underlying social policies and the political reality of the policy implementation process. The evaluation of community based residential services should, therefore, reflect those values implicit in the formulation and implementation of the policy of 'deinstitutionalisation'.

Evaluation strategies are outlined that focus upon: (1) evaluating the extent to which the residential environment reflects the values of the surrounding culture, (2) quantifying the extent to which service users are actually living in the 'community', and (3) assessing outcomes significant to the quality of life of service users.     

Child sexual abuse programs: Recommendation for refinement and study

Child assault prevention programs have increasingly been instituted in school systems throughout the country. this paper reviews and summarizes research findings on child abuse, child abuse prevention programs, and evaluations of child abuse prevention programs. In addition, the author presents issues for program developers to consider as they re-examine and refine existing child abuse prevention programs.     

Pharmacological treatments of pathological gambling

Medication treatment studies have demonstrated short-term efficacy of various SRIs, opioid antagonists, and mood stabilizers in sub-samples of adult treatment seeking pathological gamblers. Pathological gambling is frequently comorbid with bipolar spectrum disorders, substance abuse/dependence, and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and comorbidity may influence treatment response in pathological gambling. This review focuses on recent research examining the treatment of pathological gambling and highlights methodological challenges for future studies.     

The road to Q-infinity

For those of us who live in the more industrialized areas of the world—particularly in the United States—it is difficult to appreciate the unique character of the industrial and social evolution in which we are participating... Out of this experience it is not surprising that we have come to regard continual growth and increase as being the normal order of things.An understanding of these processes is essential if we are to appreciate the significance of energy resources in determining what is possible and what is impossible in human affairs.     

The lives and voices of highly sexual women

American women who experience very strong and frequent sexual desire have often been either ignored or stigmatized. This exploratory study of 44 highly sexual women ages 20 to 82, which used a convenience sample and a semi-structured in-depth interview method, allowed participants to describe their lives and how their sexuality has affected them. Highly sexual women reported that their lives have been strongly affected by their sexuality. First, the participants internally sensed demand for sexual excitement and satisfaction is too intense to be ignored. For some it was a major organizing principle of their time and energy. Second, their lives are lived in a society that often defines highly sexual women in pejorative ways. Women reported experiencing struggles and challenges in almost every area of their lives because of their sexuality, including feelings about themselves and their relationships with partners, female friends, and acquaintances.