Male Adolescents: Sexual Victimization and Subsequent Sexual Abuse

Veneziano, Veneziano and LeGrand (2000) found support for the victim to victimizer hypothesis of sexual aggression with 74 sexually abusive youth. This project, a further step in examining this theory (Burton, 2000, Burton, Miller, & Shill, 2002) builds on their ideas with data from 179 adolescent sexual abusers, and supports their findings. In an examination of relationships, gender, modus operandi, and acts, the sexually abused youth were likely to repeat what was done to them. This project also offers a further analysis of how victimization accounts for a significant portion of the variance in perpetration by these youth. Implications for research and practice are offered.     

What Do Grandmothers Think about Self‐esteem? American and Taiwanese Folk Theories Revisited

The study investigates European American and Taiwanese grandmothers’ folk theories of childrearing and self‐esteem, building on an earlier comparison of mothers from the same families. Adopting methods that privilege local meanings, we bring grandmothers’ voices into the conversation about childrearing, thereby contributing to a deeper understanding of intergenerational nuances in folk theories. In each cultural case, 16 grandmothers of 3‐year‐olds participated in in‐depth interviews that were customized according to local communicative norms. Although self‐esteem emerged as a central organizing concept in the folk theories of European American mothers, grandmothers spoke in two voices, either echoing their daughters or invoking a counter‐discourse of wariness towards self‐esteem. By contrast, Taiwanese mothers and grandmothers resembled one another—but differed from their American counterparts—in treating self‐esteem as peripheral in childrearing. Results contribute to the growing consensus that self‐esteem is a culture‐specific childrearing goal and suggest that the European American tendency to valorize self‐esteem varies by generation.     

论中西大航海的差异及其影响

本文运用历史比较的方法,揭示了15、16世纪中西大航海在背景、动因、组织形式、目的、性质等方面的差异,分析了大航海对中西社会历史发展的不同影响。     

绿党对宪法基本原则的挑战

绿党是西方兴起的一种新的政治力量,其哲学观是把生态环境利益上升为人类最高利益,并以自然生态环境为国家社会中心的生态中心主义,它的出现带来的是对传统价值观念、经济发展模式的变革性的挑战,对宪法基本原则的挑战也不容忽视。其生态权利之上的价值观对宪法基本原则的挑战表现为人民主权原则的动摇、基本人权原则的错位、权力制约原则的变异和法治原则的化。     

Uncertainty Analysis for Computer Model Projections of Hurricane Losses

Projecting losses associated with hurricanes is a complex and difficult undertaking that is wrought with uncertainties. Hurricane Charley, which struck southwest Florida on August 13, 2004, illustrates the uncertainty of forecasting damages from these storms. Due to shifts in the track and the rapid intensification of the storm, real-time estimates grew from 2 to 3 billion dollars in losses late on August 12 to a peak of 50 billion dollars for a brief time as the storm appeared to be headed for the Tampa Bay area. The storm hit the resort areas of Charlotte Harbor near Punta Gorda and then went on to Orlando in the central part of the state, with early poststorm estimates converging on a damage estimate in the 28 to 31 billion dollars range. Comparable damage to central Florida had not been seen since Hurricane Donna in 1960. The Florida Commission on Hurricane Loss Projection Methodology (FCHLPM) has recognized the role of computer models in projecting losses from hurricanes. The FCHLPM established a professional team to perform onsite (confidential) audits of computer models developed by several different companies in the United States that seek to have their models approved for use in insurance rate filings in Florida. The team's members represent the fields of actuarial science, computer science, meteorology, statistics, and wind and structural engineering. An important part of the auditing process requires uncertainty and sensitivity analyses to be performed with the applicant's proprietary model. To influence future such analyses, an uncertainty and sensitivity analysis has been completed for loss projections arising from use of a Holland B parameter hurricane wind field model. Uncertainty analysis quantifies the expected percentage reduction in the uncertainty of wind speed and loss that is attributable to each of the input variables.     

利用氨氮平板测定法初筛优势微生物菌株

介绍以纳氏试剂比色法原理设计的一种适用于初筛的氨氮平板测定方法。该方法能快速而简便地筛选出不同去除氨氮能力的微生物茵株,也可作为氨氮的测定分析方法。     

商业银行中间业务及风险管理的几点思考

我国商业银行在中间业务发展上与外资银行相比存在较大的差距。面对外资银行进军中国市场的事实,我国商业银行只有大力发展中间业务才能抵抗外资银行的冲击。发展中间业务必定伴随着风险的出现,特别是与业务发展相关的风险巨大,银行自身必须从内部做好相关的风险防范与管理;同时,银行监督管理部门也要从外部做好相关的风险管理工作,来保障和促进商业银行中间业务的发展。     

近代留美学生与中美教育交流研究

近代留美学生既是中美教育交流的产物,也是学习与回报美国教育、有组织交流的主要动力与媒介。他们推动的交流在实践中虽有种种局限,但在双向、平等、立体的进行中仍不失灵活、深刻而日趋完整。     

加入WTO后我国建立健全农村社会保障体制条件与机制研究

我国加入WTO后,为促进和确保我国广大农村的社会稳定和社会发展,维护广大农民的利益,全国上下都应高度重视我国加入WTO后农村社会保障体制的尽快建立与健全,并对加入WTO后我国建立健全农村社会保障体制的条件与机制的研究分析。加入WTO,对我国农村社会、经济的发展,对广大农村社会保障体制的建立和健全是挑战与机遇同在,如能尽快化挑战为机遇,就能尽快掌握主动权,化被动为主动,并夺取胜利。因此,认真总结、吸纳数千年来社会保障事业在我国形成与发展的成功经验,积极吸收近几百年来西方一些国家在其工业化过程中建立社会保障体制的积极成果,从我国国情特别是我国广大农村社会的实情出发,来着手建立健全农村社会保障体制这一工程,我们认为并建议,应采取十大方略与对策。