Risky alcohol use, peer and family relationships and legal involvement in adolescents with antisocial problems

The aim of the study was to examine risk and vulnerability factors contributing to problems with alcohol use in adolescence. Data relating to seven life areas (medical status, school status, social relationships, family background and relationships, psychological functioning, legal involvement, and alcohol use) was gathered using the ADAD (Adolescent Drug Abuse Diagnosis) interview. A total of 1163 Swedish adolescents (809 boys and 354 girls) between the ages of 12 and 20 years old were interviewed. All had antisocial problems and were detained at special youth homes. It was found that for those aged between 12 and 18 years, the general risk factors for alcohol use were leisure and peer problems, problems associated with family background and relationships, and criminal behavior. These results suggest that drug abuse treatment planning should focus on altering the predisposing factors that exist in these domains. It was also found that the ADAD problem areas seem to be most useful as prognostic indicators of treatment outcome for adolescents with antisocial problems who are under 18 years of age.     

论德里达对胡塞尔的批判

目前值得注意的是,有关德里达的众多文献都集中在他的著作上,很少有人论及他的哲学的基本内核和问津他评论其他哲学家时的哲学内含。肯定地说,德里达的信徒们总是无条件地接受随后又极力用同样的术语去重复德里达说过和解释过的东西。无论在英美分析哲学方面还是在现象学方面,严肃的哲学评论很少见,只有约翰·瑟尔例外,他是分析哲学家中唯一全面注意德里达的人。     

概念的真理与美学的真理

一、哲学与诗的冲突非理性认识与理性认识之间对立的传统和哲学本身一样地久远,甚至在柏拉图那里就曾谈及过诗与哲学之间的古老冲突,但是柏拉图始终蔑视非理性知识,常常把艺术视为诡辩。在现代,关于非理性认识的思想在德国和法国19世纪末和20世纪的哲学中相当突出,这主要是由于在存在主义以及解释学     

科技革命时代:变化的规模

整个文明时代发生了变化对每个社会中所发生的社会财富积累过程的特点进行客观分析乃是科学评价每个社会的状况和前景的标准。是谁,是哪些社会阶层以什么形式来实现这种积累,这个过程在基本居民群众的发展上是怎样反映出来的?这个过程在家庭(消费领域)的状况上,在大多数工作人员(在生产中)的状况上是怎样反映出来的?这种积累是否符合某个社会人们的主要的和决定性的需要?     

有限度的乐观:澳大利亚与中国的崛起

近年来,中国的经济增长状况以及对其未来的展望对于澳大利亚来说是非常有利的.如果像一些人预计的那样,中国在未来25年中保持强劲的增长,那么它将改变澳大利亚的经济前景,取代日本成为国家繁荣的主要推动力.中国也将改变亚洲地区:中国增长的引力作用已经使东亚经济日益整合为地区经济,而这也为更紧密的政治一体化提供了基础.     

至关重要的创造力:国家的视角

许多人从学生、教师和教育机构的角度来看待创造力的重要性,我的兴趣却在于创造力与国家繁荣之间的联系.为了在今后数十年内保持我们的生活水平,我们需要一些新的职业,而产生这些新职业离不开创造力和创新.由于创新过程本身涉及并需要新的技能,我们的大专院校必须努力在学生、教师和更广泛的社会中促进创造力的形成.     

Combined survival analysis of cardiac patients by a Cox PH model and a Markov chain

The control and treatment of dyslipidemia is a major public health challenge, particularly for patients with coronary heart diseases. In this paper we propose a framework for survival analysis of patients who had a major cardiac event, focusing on assessment of the effect of changing LDL-cholesterol level and statins consumption on survival. This framework includes a Cox PH model and a Markov chain, and combines their results into reinforced conclusions regarding the factors that affect survival time. We prospectively studied 2,277 cardiac patients, and the results show high congruence between the Markov model and the PH model; both evidence that diabetes, history of stroke, peripheral vascular disease and smoking significantly increase hazard rate and reduce survival time. On the other hand, statin consumption is correlated with a lower hazard rate and longer survival time in both models. The role of such a framework in understanding the therapeutic behavior of patients and implementing effective secondary and primary prevention of heart diseases is discussed here.     

Semi-parametric hybrid empirical likelihood inference for two-sample comparison with censored data

Two-sample comparison problems are often encountered in practical projects and have widely been studied in literature. Owing to practical demands, the research for this topic under special settings such as a semiparametric framework have also attracted great attentions. Zhou and Liang (Biometrika 92:271–282, 2005) proposed an empirical likelihood-based semi-parametric inference for the comparison of treatment effects in a two-sample problem with censored data. However, their approach is actually a pseudo-empirical likelihood and the method may not be fully efficient. In this study, we develop a new empirical likelihood-based inference under more general framework by using the hazard formulation of censored data for two sample semi-parametric hybrid models. We demonstrate that our empirical likelihood statistic converges to a standard chi-squared distribution under the null hypothesis. We further illustrate the use of the proposed test by testing the ROC curve with censored data, among others. Numerical performance of the proposed method is also examined.