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.     

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...     

研究工业化进程中农业发展问题的一部力作--《工业化进程中的农业》评价

<工业化进程中的农业>一书,继承和运用我国著名经济学家张培刚教授的农业国工业化理论,对发达国家和发展中国家工业化进程中的农业发展问题的普遍性和特殊性进行了富有创新意义的探讨.     

Developing a Crisis Management Index: Applications in South Korea

The purpose of this study is to develop a crisis management index that can gauge a corporation's integrated crisis management capabilities. Although most crisis management models have been devised in Western countries, no full-scale crisis management index has been developed outside the Western hemisphere. This study deploys multiple research stages that reflect the characteristics of crisis management. First, the study validates index items through an extensive literature review, in-depth interviews, and professional audits. The dimensions of the index items are evaluated through an exploratory factor analysis and verified with construct validity through a confirmatory factor analysis. The final index dimensions—the organizational strategy, the organization system and culture, and the execution and communication—were applied to the case of South Korean corporations, and the implications based on their index scores are discussed.     

Stochastic comparison of generalized combined risk processes

Usually, two different types of shock models (extreme and cumulative shock models) are employed to model the dynamic risk processes. In extreme shock models, only the impact of the current fatal shock is usually taken into account, whereas, in cumulative shock models, the impact of the preceding shocks is accumulated as well. However, in practice, the effect of the corresponding shock can be realized in those two ways in one model (i.e., it can be fatal or, otherwise it is accumulated). This observation justifies the consideration of a ‘combined shock model’ in the risk modeling and analysis. In this paper, we generalize the study of the dynamic risk processes that were previously considered in the literature. The main theme of this paper is to find the optimal allocation policies for the generalized combined risk processes via the stochastic comparisons of survival functions. It will be seen that the obtained results hold for ‘general counting processes’ of shocks. In addition, we consider the problem of maximizing a gain function under certain risks and obtain reasonable decisions based on a variability measure. Furthermore, the meaningful explanations for the results on the policy ordering will be provided.     

Understanding Employment Discrimination: A Multilevel Approach

This paper reviews recent research on employment discrimination on the basis of sex, race, and ethnicity in US work establishments. Unlike blatant discrimination of the past, contemporary discrimination is typically more subtle, often unintentional, and develops in relationship to the social context in which it is embedded. Focusing on this covert and dynamic nature of discrimination, we review recent research that identifies factors at the individual, workplace, and societal level that contribute to variation in sex and race discrimination across employment contexts. At each level, we conceptually distinguish between factors that influence employers’ sex and race biases and factors that affect potential victims’ capacity to identify discriminatory experiences at work.     

《水浒传》和《罗宾汉传奇》中的英雄人物比较研究

<水浒传>和<罗宾汉传奇>显著的共性是以英雄人物为主角.这些英雄人物虽生活于不同的时代和国度,但在他们身上却有着许多相似之处.不过,由于文化背景、社会环境等不同,在他们表面的相似之下却还掩藏着一些差异.本文从中英两国社会文化背景出发,对这些异中之同和同中之异作了较为详尽的比较研究.     

Dynamic mixing probability measures of mixtures

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Lifetime of heterogeneous population can be modeled as mixture of a family of lifetime distributions according to a mixing probability measure. With the help of dynamic mixing measure, the hazard rate of the mixture can also be expressed as the mixture of the hazard rates of the lifetime distributions. Various local stochastic orderings are defined in this article. Applying these local stochastic orderings, we can explore the behavior of the dynamic mixing measures locally and then compare the hazard rates of two heterogeneous populations in both the local and global ways.     

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.