社会变迁中的已婚东乡族女教师工作家庭冲突研究

本文通过对四位不同年龄、教龄、学校类型的东乡族女教师的田野调查,呈现了她们在面对急剧的社会转型与文化变迁,面对历经传统积淀、伊斯兰文化氛围浓厚、封闭性较强的社会环境时,在职业与家庭角色转换中所遇到的冲突、压力及应对策略.     

Gambling-related embezzlement in the workplace: a qualitative study

People with severe gambling problems typically first spend all their available money on gambling and then resort to borrowing, selling personal property and other ways of procuring more money for gambling. Some problem gamblers commit economic crimes. This investigation examined gambling-related embezzlement in the workplace, an aspect of problem gambling that may severely harm the gambler, significant others and the employer. The methods used are the study of newspaper articles and qualitative interviews with 18 informants, including professionals in workplace security and drug-use prevention, therapists specializing in problem gambling treatment, counsellors from mutual support societies, and recovered problem gamblers who had embezzled. Gambling-related embezzlement often progresses in a characteristic sequence shaped by specific processes in which the gambler’s thoughts and emotions interact systemically with the monetary losses caused by participating in commercial gambling and the opportunity to embezzle money in the workplace. In this study, criminological theory of white collar crime usefully complemented psychological theories of problem gambling. It is concluded that a processual perspective, in addition to consideration of psychological and environmental factors, is valuable for understanding the progression to severe problem gambling.     

文学生产-消费问题中的问题

文学生产-消费是文艺学中的一个或者一对重要问题,而它作为问题并不是因为它的现象层面的存在,而是这种存在在文学中产生了新的阐释的需求。作为社会分工之后的文学,它有生产-消费的问题本来应该是理所当然,而之所以在古代不这样看待,往往有着伦理因素,人们需要有一爿脱离世俗生活指标的净土,而从社会统治角度看,回避或淡化文学的生产-消费特性有利于文化管制。文学的生产-消费特性不只是文学现实的一种功能的体现,而且它也是文化的再生产的一种属性。文学生产-消费是一个连续的相互作用的过程,其中每一个环节都可能产生持续性的影响,它对文学研究提出了新的要求。     

城市低保制度的研究现状、问题与对策

通过梳理近年来国内学者对城市最低生活保障制度研究的主要论点可知:目前有关低保的研究虽然取得了丰硕的研究成果,但在一定程度上存在理论研究与实际工作脱节的问题,自说自话的现象比较普遍.当前城市低保制度在核定家庭经济状况、形成有效的动态调整机制、维护救助者的尊严和自由、低保工作人员队伍建设等方面还存在着明显的不足.为此,应当规范以家庭经济状况调查为核心的审核制度、建立与促进与就业相关联的动态调整机制、强化以法制为基础的惩戒规范、完善以社会救助体系为目标的配套制度.     

阜阳农村公共服务建设的现状、问题及建议

近年来,阜阳市积极推动政府职能转型,以＂民生工程＂为抓手,积极推进农村公共服务体系建设,农村公共服务有了较大改善;但作为欠发达地区,与城市、发达地区农村相比仍存在一定的距离。主要表现在：农村公共服务投入不足,农村公共服务主体单一,农村公共服务供给效率有待提高等。其原因是多方面的,既有体制机制原因,也有经济、社会发展因素。这需要进一步改善农村公共服务建设的制度环境,构建以公共财政为基础、以农民需求为导向、以提高效率为目标、以多元供给为集合的农村公共服务体制机制。     

后现代化与全球化

后现代主义理论作为解读各种社会现象的基本框架,是20世纪后期人文与社会科学领域的支配性范式。后现代理论具备以下两个特征:首先,试图将当代社会的"现代性变迁"置于时间的脉络中加以理解;其次,后现代理论是一个根植于欧美等发达国家经验的变迁图式,是欧美人针对自身的一种自我理解的尝试。全球化理论形成于20世纪90年代,是一个从全球视角理解资本主义的形成与发展的理论。全球化理论同样具有两大特征:第一,擅长将某一社会的"外部"变量放在"全球"范围内加以考察;第二,着重关注西欧圈与非西欧圈合为一体的"地球",是一个主要用来解释非西欧圈问题的范式。     

The loss-averse newsvendor problem

Newsvendor models are widely used in the literature, and usually based upon the assumption of risk neutrality. This paper uses loss aversion to model manager's decision-making behavior in the single-period newsvendor problem. We find that if shortage cost is not negligible, then a loss-averse newsvendor may order more than a risk-neutral newsvendor. We also find that the loss-averse newsvendor's optimal order quantity may increase in wholesale price and decrease in retail price, which can never occur in the risk-neutral newsvendor model.     

Does gambling type moderate the links between problem gambling,emotion regulation,anxiety, depression and gambling motives

The aim of this study is to assess the link between emotion regulation, depression, anxiety and gambling motives among a population of regular gamblers, distinguishing between strategic and chance game players. We recruited 287 regular gamblers online, including both problem (PG) and non-problem gamblers (NPG). All participants completed online questionnaires to screen for problem gambling (SOGS) and to assess emotion regulation (ERQ), anxiety and depression (HADS) and gambling motives (GMQ-F). In this sample, 33.4% of participants were PG. PG scored significantly higher than NPG on the GMQ-F (except for the social subscale) and HADS, but not in ERQ. Gamblers who played both strategic and chance games displayed more frequent and severe gambling problems and had higher depression and anxiety scores than those playing only strategic games. Overall, enhancement and financial motives and depression significantly predicted PG. Finally, the study found that gambling type moderates the relationship between problem gambling and expressive suppression, depression and gambling motives. The results show the intricate relationship between gambling motives and psychiatric symptoms (in particular, depression) in PG. Mixed and strategic gamblers share common motives, but coping, financial and enhancement were stronger among PG. Finally, they emphasize the differences between different types of gamblers.     

Election of New Fellows

This paper proposes a framework for the development of instruments to measure content learning and problem-solving skills for the introductory statistics course. This framework is based upon a model of the problem-solving process central to statistical reasoning. The framework defines and interrelates six measurement tasks: (1) subjective reports; (2) reports concerning truth, falsity, or equivalence; (3) supply the appropriate missing information in a message; (4) answer a question based upon a specific message; (S) reproduce a message; and (6) carry out a procedure.     

A zero frequency alternative method to the moment method of estimation in finite poisson mixtures

The method of moments (MM) has been widely used for parametric estimation, as it is often computationally simple. Our interest focuses on the case of finite Poisson mixtures. The inefficiency of the method of moments relative to the Maximum Likelihood (ML) method is studied. Both the asymptotic efficiency as well as the small sample efficiency is examined. The case of samples that fail to lead to MM estimates is also considered. The results discourage the use of the MM estimators for two reasons; the first is that they are inefficient relative to the ML estimators and the second is the high probability of failing to lead to valid estimates. Another method, which considers replacing the third'moment by the zero frequency, is examined. This method turns out to be more efficient than the moment method and not very demanding computationally.