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This research describes how enrolling students in an afterschool Geography Club affects their perception of the discipline and their geographic literacy. The creation of the afterschool club at this particular school came out of the recognition of the need to increase students’ exposure to geographical content. The results of this study show the following improvements in students’ geographic literacy when they experience an increased exposure to geographic content: place recognition, application of geographic theory, establishment of connections between geographic facts and the students’ daily lives, and awareness of other cultures. The emergence of such patterns confirms the benefits that can be derived from enhancing students’ geographic literacy.     

舍勒的质料价值伦理与文化范式现象学

舍勒及其追随者哈特曼提出了质料价值伦理学说.该理论立足于现象学对西方伦理的形式主义、功利主义进行了深刻批判,主张对德性之立足根基的价值本身进行探察.价值的认知与价值的功能化滞后于价值洞见,而正是后者为前者提供了内容,或"质料".价值洞见从根本上发端于情感的家园--心灵,这一过程可以通过情感现象学得到理解.立足于情感现象学,舍勒提出了不同文化背景的人能够探察异质文化价值之根基,从而同情、容忍直至接受异己文化范式,最终实现世界文化与文明的"谐调".舍勒的思想能够在佛教学说中得到回应.     

The Psychological Well‐Being of Unaccompanied Minors: A Longitudinal Study of Adolescents Immigrating From Russia and Ukraine to Israel Without Parents

This paper examines the psychological well‐being of high school adolescents immigrating from Russia and Ukraine to Israel without parents. Data were collected in a 3‐year longitudinal study that covered the premigration through postmigration periods. Immigrant adolescents were compared with nonemigrating adolescents in Russia and Ukraine. Psychological well‐being of immigrants was highest in the premigration period. During the process of immigration, general self‐esteem, body image, social competence, school competence, and loneliness followed a U‐curve: they declined in the 1st year after immigration and improved in the 3rd year after immigration. Emotional and behavioral problems of immigrants increased in the 1st year after immigration and did not change in subsequent years. At the end of the 3‐year period, self‐esteem exceeded the premigration level, emotional and behavioral problems and loneliness remained below the premigration level, while body image, social competence, and school competence returned to the premigration level. Throughout the entire immigration period, the psychological well‐being of immigrants was higher than that of nonemigrating adolescents. Premigration psychological well‐being as well as perceived social conditions in the host country (discrimination and social support) predicted postmigration psychological well‐being. The results obtained are discussed in light of the stress‐coping model of immigration and ecological systems theory.     

Entrepreneurial Cognition,Entrepreneurial Orientation and Firm Capability in the Creative Industries

Creative industries are firms which are characterized largely by the labour inputs of creative individuals, and surrounded by a degree of rhetoric as to their significance, but are a comparatively under‐researched sector. In this study we developed a research framework which integrated entrepreneurial cognition, entrepreneurial orientation and firm capabilities and explored the relationships between these variables, market conditions and the performance of small creative industry enterprises. The data suggest that high growth small firms are characterized by well‐developed internal capabilities allied to an entrepreneurial orientation and that the combination of the various sub‐attributes associated with each of these appear to be especially salient under conditions of intense competition. The policies, managerial and educational implications of the findings are discussed.     

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Comparison of Prediction Capabilities of Partially Replicated Central Composite Designs in Cuboidal Region

Three variations of partially replicated central composite designs have been compared. Their prediction capabilities with respect to their prediction variances are assessed using variance dispersion graphs in cuboidal region when the axial distance is α = 1. The results show that for n₀ = 1, 2, and 3 center points, the replicated star designs have better prediction potentials than the replicated cube designs when interest is in predicting responses in the face-centered cube. The face-centered cube is the second-order central composite design with axial distance, α = 1.     

Unique decomposition of low-order time series

ABSTRACT

We give necessary and sufficient conditions on the parameters of processes ARMA(1, 1) and ARMA(2, 1) for representation of each as unique sums of independent simpler ARMA processes, including deduction from the sum process of the innovation variances of these summands. This work on inversion is motivated by examples in the article of Granger and Morris (1976 Granger, C.W.J., Morris, M.J. (1976). Time series modelling and interpretation. J. Roy. Statist. Soc., Ser. A 139:246–257.[Crossref] , [Google Scholar]) and by our earlier article (Ku and Seneta, 1998 Ku, S., Seneta, E. (1998). Practical estimation from the sum of AR(1) processes. Commun. Statist. Simul. Computat. 27:981–998.[Taylor & Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]), to which the present article is a self-contained sequel. The theory is illustrated by the analysis of tree ring data.     

Factors Mediating the Effects of Others' Responses on the Self*

Either positive or negative feedback was given to seventy-two college students about performance on an ability test. As is usually found, feedback was highly related to students' subsequent self-assessments. Positive and negative feedback were of roughly equal importance when the source of feedback is ignored. However, considering source, negative feedback had greater impact when coming from peers; positive feedback was stronger when coming from a person of higher status.     

HIV and family therapists' duty to warn: a legal and ethical analysis

In the absence of definitive legal precedents, family therapists must decide whether to warn sexual partners of HIV-positive clients when clients themselves refuse to do so. Deciding whether to break confidentiality reaises both legal and ethical issues. Legally, the Tarasoff ruling requires therapists to warn potential victims of illegal dangers posed by clients but does not require therapists to warn potential victims of dangers posed by their clients' legally permissible actions. unless the behavior of the seropositive client is proscribed by state law, warning the clients' partners does not fall within the scope of the Tarasoff ruling. Ethically, therapists must negotiate and adhere to a disclosure policy that balances considerations of respecting autonomy, maintaining integrity (avoiding fraud and betrayal), benefiting clients, and fostering responsibility. Some therapeutic and ethical aspects of these considerations are discussed.