“Smuggled Refugees”: The Social Construction of North Korean Migration

In this paper, I demonstrate the identity transformation of North Korean women in interaction with state and non-state actors and domestic and regional structures, which I formulate for the purposes of this paper. From a state-centric social constructivist perspective in politics and international relations, I examine how the identities and interests of North Korean women are constituted and reconstituted in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the People's Republic of China and five South-East Asian countries along their migration routes before they reach the Republic of Korea – the so-called “Seoul Train in the Underground Railway”. Back in their country of origin, North Korean women are socially constructed as Confucian communist mothers. In China, the most frequently depicted images of North Korean women are trafficked wives. By paying for smugglers to cross borders to neighbouring South-East Asian countries, North Korean women finally become the agents of their own destiny, refugees in waiting to be transferred to South Korea.     

Motivational Interviewing Intervention With College Student Tobacco Users: Providers' Beliefs and Behaviors

Abstract

Objective: This study assessed college student health providers' use of Motivational Interviewing (MI) with tobacco users, as well as their beliefs about the use of brief interventions to help college student tobacco users quit. MI is recommended by the United States Public Health Service to increase tobacco users' willingness to quit. Participants: Participants included 83 clinicians from health clinics at 7 different universities in North Carolina. Methods: Paper-and-pencil baseline survey from a cluster randomized trial of college student health clinicians. Results: Twenty-two percent of respondents reported always or usually using MI during the past month for tobacco-using patients not ready to make a quit attempt. Student health providers also reported information with regards to their beliefs about tobacco cessation treatment, barriers to intervening with patients, and confidence in motivating students to consider quitting. Conclusions: Results highlight the need to encourage clinicians' use of motivationally focused interventions with student tobacco users.

Motivational Interviewing Intervention With College Student Tobacco Users: Providers' Beliefs and Behaviors

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Robert S. McNamara PhD, Eunyoung Y. Song PhD, Beth A. Reboussin PhD, John Spangler MD, Jessica R. Pockey MPH, Caroline Kimes BS, Kristie L. Foley PhD & Erin L. Sutfin PhD

https://doi.org/10.1080/07448481.2014.1003376

Published online:

11 May 2015

TABLE 1. Providers' Beliefs About Patient Tobacco Intervention and Cessation (N = 83)

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革命悲剧及其局限——论雷蒙·威廉斯的悲剧观念

威廉斯将悲剧定义为一种关于人类失序状态痛苦经验表现的特殊文本形式。他将近现代以来的悲剧定义为"自由主义悲剧":一种对资本主义"自由秩序"造成的失序状态的体验。由于资本主义制度自身的活力已达到了尽头,有关自由主义的各种悲剧体验也必然趋于枯竭,人们在当前需要一种能够表现新的失序经验的悲剧形式即革命悲剧来取代自由主义悲剧。但威廉斯关于革命悲剧到来的历史必然性及其实践可能性的讨论,均存在某些明显的理论疏失。     

超越斯宾诺莎的斯宾诺莎——奈格里解读斯宾诺莎的理论逻辑

奈格里解读斯宾诺莎的路径基本遵循了德勒兹的内在性线索。他基于超验性调解权力和内在性创构力量的对抗语境,将"实体—属性—样态"的形而上学构架转变为纯粹内在性,并以创构性力量和集体性人类行动的动力体系为根基,把绝对民主揭示为集体的力量创构过程,把创构性本体论当做反乌托邦反现代性的未来哲学。从本质上看,被重置的斯宾诺莎已经成为无产阶级的同路人、开放的历史创构机制和激进的政治模式。     

以简驭繁 返本开新——潘新和《中国写作教育思想论纲》浅析

潘新和的中国写作教育史、写作教育思想史研究,不仅具有写作学研究的拓荒意义,更具有学术研究导向意义。他在许多人忙于横向引入,忙于建构新体系的大背景下,站在现代写作学的制高点上审视梳理传统,以期返本开新。他的《中国写作教育思想论纲》,挟发出历史悠久、卷秩浩繁的中国写作教育思想史中“三对矛盾”,以简要清通的文字,疏通中国写作教育思想内在脉络,勾勒其演化轨迹,收到了以简驭繁之效。作为第一部“中国写作教育思想史”,具有不可低估的学术价值和现实意义。     

中东国际体系的宗教因素——以中国在中东的维和与护航行动为考察重点

当前,威斯特伐利亚体系、伊斯兰体系、部族体系这三种国际体系在中东地区处于并行交错的局面,伊斯兰国际体系从中东的崛起和扩张与伊斯兰复兴思潮有着密切联系.进入21世纪,中国在中东的维和与护航行动中,越来越多的因伊斯兰国际体系之故而遭遇到宗教信仰问题.中国在中东军事活动中的涉教方面,主要包括对宗教和信仰的准确认识、中国军人与宗教信仰的关系、国内穆斯林因素和海外军事活动的涉教立法等领域,这些对于中国未来的发展前景至关重要.     

天水地区伏羲文化研究

8000年前,伏羲氏部落不断壮大,为寻求更大更好的生存空间,开始由原生地成纪(即今甘肃省天水地区)向其周边慢慢迁徙、繁衍.近年来,随着大地湾遗址的挖掘发现,学界对佚羲文化的研究不断深入,天水逐渐成为海内外学者研究伏羲文化的重要基地,是海内外华人的精神寄托和寻根祭祖的圣地.     

论我国职业教育立法的完善

职业教育和培训对于一国劳动者就业能力的提高以及提升整个国家的竞争力至关重要,各国都制定了完备的法律体系加以规范.我国的《职业教育法》存在诸多缺陷和问题,亟需修订.我国职业教育立法应当从改革职业教育模式、明确职业教育法律主体、重建管理体制、保障弱势群体利益、激励社会广泛参与以及完备法律责任等方面加以完善.     

Regression analysis of current status data with latent variables

Lifetime Data Analysis - Current status data occur in many fields including demographical, epidemiological, financial, medical, and sociological studies. We consider the regression analysis of...