From concerned citizens to activists: a case study of 2015 South Korean MERS outbreak and the role of dialogic government communication and citizens’ emotions on public activism

ABSTRACT

This study investigated the cognitive-affective-behavioral sequence of public activism by examining the role of citizens’ perception of government dialogic communication during a national pandemic crisis. Through a case study of the 2015 Middle-East respiratory syndrome (MERS) outbreak in South Korea, the results of a survey of 400 South Korean citizens showed that distrust in government and a high level of situational uncertainty were significantly mitigated by citizens’ perceptions of government efforts for dialogic communication during the crisis. Conversely, when the perception of dialogic government communication was low, high distrust in government increased cynicism, anger, and anxiety among citizens; high situational uncertainty led to higher levels of anger and anxiety, but not cynicism. Consequently, the findings showed that anger, anxiety, and cynicism significantly motivated citizens’ intentions to take actions against the government. Direct and positive effects of anger, anxiety, and cynicism on activism participation were not found and were mediated by the citizens’ activism intentions.     

王鸿一的"村本政治"思想及其对梁漱溟的影响

王鸿一依据古代"乡治"提出了"村本政治"思想,以农村为基本单位进行政治、经济、文化建设,再由"村治"逐级达到"国治".他的这一思想及其为倡导"村本政治"而进行的社会活动影响了梁漱溟走上乡村建设道路.王鸿一从宣传、人力、物力、财力等方面给予了梁漱溟帮助.在20世纪30年代初形成了一场在全国颇有影响的乡村建设运动.     

A note on ‘curable’ shock processes

In most conventional shock models, the events caused by an external shock are initiated at the moments of its occurrence. Recently, Cha and Finkelstein (2012) had considered the case when each shock from a nonhomogeneous Poisson processes can trigger a failure of a system not immediately, as in the classical shock models, but with delay of some random time. In this paper, we suggest the new type of shock models, where each delayed failure can be cured (repaired) with certain probabilities. These shock processes have not been considered in the literature before. We derive and analyze the corresponding survival and failure rate functions and consider a meaningful reliability example of the stress–strength model.     

Some results on discrete mixture failure rates

Some properties of the discrete mixture failure rates are studied. Specifically, similar to the continuous case, it is shown that the population mixture failure rate is always smaller than the unconditional expectation in the family of subpopulations failure rates. The analog of the multiplicative and the additive frailty models is introduced via the corresponding survival function. Another approach via the alternative discrete failure rate is also discussed. Stochastic comparisons for two mixed distributions with equal and different mixing distributions are studied.     

The relationship between serum total testosterone and free testosterone levels with serum hemoglobin and hematocrit levels: a study in 1221 men

Objective: To investigate the relationship between serum total testosterone (TT) and free testosterone (FT) levels in men with anemia.

Methods: We reviewed the records of 1221 subjects between March 2009 and December 2014. All the subjects’ blood samples were drawn for TT and FT assays. Their serum hemoglobin (Hb) and serum hematocrit (Hct) levels were measured. The primary objective of our study was to investigate the association between TT and FT levels with Hb and Hct levels.

Results: The mean age was 59.82?±?12.71 years. The mean TT and FT levels were 4.54?±?2.02?ng/mL and 10.63?±?3.69?pg/mL, respectively. The mean Hb and Hct levels were 14.72?±?1.34?g/dL and 43.11?±?3.75%, respectively. Subjects with low TT (<2.35?ng/mL) had low Hb and Hct levels (p?p?Conclusions: Subjects with low TT and FT levels had low Hb and Hct levels. This suggests that TT and FT play a significant role in erythropoiesis. Testosterone replacement therapy may be effective in men with hypogonadism to reduce the incidence of anemia.     

Variables acceptance reliability sampling plan for items subject to inverse Gaussian degradation process

Until now, in the literature, a variety of acceptance reliability sampling plans have been developed based on different life test plans. In most of the reliability sampling plans, the decision procedures to accept or reject the corresponding lot are developed based on the lifetimes of the items observed on tests, or the number of failures observed during a pre-specified testing time. However, frequently, the items are subject to degradation phenomena and, in these cases, the observed degradation level of the item can be used as a decision statistic. In this paper, we develop a variables acceptance sampling plan based on the information on the degradation process of the items, assuming that the degradation process follows the inverse Gaussian process. It is shown that the developed sampling plan improves the reliability performance of the items conditional on the acceptance in the test and that the lifetimes of items after the reliability sampling test are stochastically larger than those before the test. A study comparing the proposed degradation-based sampling plan with the conventional sampling plan which is based on a life test is also performed.KEYWORDS: Variables sampling plan, degradation test, inverse Gaussian process, mixture distribution, stochastic ordering     

Differences in the relationship between depression and self-rated life satisfaction in older Korean and Chinese immigrants

This study aims to examine self-rated life satisfaction and describe its relationship with depression and socioeconomic status among older Chinese and Korean immigrants. A cross-sectional study of 175 older Chinese immigrants and 205 older Korean immigrants was conducted in Los Angeles County. The study found that depression was negatively associated with self-rated life satisfaction for both the Chinese and Korean groups. For older Chinese immigrants, depression was the only significant factor related to self-rated life satisfaction. However, for older Korean immigrants, age, education, and depression were significantly associated with self-rated life satisfaction. This study suggests empirical strategies to reduce depression among these populations, such as the importance of culturally-tailored programs.     

先进制造业的三维理论模型及其特征

根据当代国际制造业发展的新特点和新趋势,从超微观、微观和中观三维视角进行综合概括,先进制造业是广泛应用先进制造技术、采用先进制造模式、拥有先进市场网络组织的工业生产系统.先进制造业本质上是一种先进的生产方式.发展先进制造业,不仅仅是一个技术进步问题,也不仅仅是一个产业结构转型升级和产业发展问题.而是一场生产方式的深刻变革.     

Racial Segregation and School Poverty in the United States, 1999–2016

Race and Social Problems - Research over the past decade suggests that racial segregation appears to have the largest implications for students’ achievement when linked to racial differences...