The experience of open access youth work: the voice of young people

This research explores young people’s experiences of open access youth work and identifies what they consider to be its value. The detailed analysis of the data, achieved through focus groups, revealed that ‘association’ was a key driver of engagement. It also highlighted the support system the youth club creates amongst the peers. The young people also valued the relationships they form with youth workers and acknowledge the support and guidance offered to them which better enables them to reflect on and navigate their complex lives. Young people also valued the acceptance they feel from the community developed in the youth space. It provided comfort and reassurance when at times they do not feel like they fit in anywhere else. This research offers a significant counter to the tide of current targeted youth work policy which is resulting in the demise of a provision which, judged by the findings from this research, appears to be highly valued by, and beneficial to, young people.     

The Open Government Partnership: Mere Smokescreen or New Paradigm?

In 2011, on the initiative of US President Barack Obama 8 governments and 9 civil society organizations (CSOs) came together to create the Open Government Partnership (OGP). The OGP was proclaimed as a new paradigm in promoting open government and democratic principles through the creation of participatory mechanisms involving governments and CSOs. This article aims to examine in more detail if the OGP, after 5 years in existence, has lived up to the initial proclamations as a new model of democracy-promotion at the global level. Departing from theoretical considerations on the potential of participatory mechanisms for the promotion of democratic processes, the article analyzes the OGP processes of 3 founding members, Brazil, the US, and the UK. Although the structure of the OGP is highly innovative in many respects, the findings suggest that the governments of the 3 countries examined have used the OGP as a smokescreen to distract from on-going corruption, lacking transparency, and government secrecy. This article contributes to research on the possibilities and challenges of effectively democratizing global governance mechanisms through the involvement of governments and civil society actors.     

The Psychiatrist's Role in Implementing an Open Dialogue Model of Care

The Open Dialogue approach is a family‐oriented early intervention model for mental health problems developed in the health district of Western Lapland, Finland. Since the 1990s the psychiatric service system in Western Lapland Health Care District has been organised according to Open Dialogue principles and applied to the treatment of any mental health concerns. The Open Dialogue approach considers the client and their family as active participants rather than as objects of treatment in its planning and implementation with a psychotherapeutic focus. In daily work, the responsibility for the treatment process is shared with the case‐specific team. The model of care requires a dialogical orientation from all staff members, psychiatrists included, to interact with the team and the client's network. In this article I describe the role of the psychiatrist in implementing an Open Dialogue model of care in psychiatric services leaning on my experiences of clinical work in the adolescent psychiatric team in Western Lapland.     

Exploring environmental scanning for China's government information: A government official's perspective

This study examined strategic government-information scanning in China from the perspective of government officials by a survey. TV, government officials/party members, newspapers, and government websites were the most important sources. Information from individual sources was perceived differently in six quality aspects. Structural Equation Modeling results revealed that source importance was significantly predicted by information quality in TV and government websites but not in the other two sources.     

A Modular Bayesian Salmonella Source Attribution Model for Sparse Data

Several statistical models for salmonella source attribution have been presented in the literature. However, these models have often been found to be sensitive to the model parameterization, as well as the specifics of the data set used. The Bayesian salmonella source attribution model presented here was developed to be generally applicable with small and sparse annual data sets obtained over several years. The full Bayesian model was modularized into three parts (an exposure model, a subtype distribution model, and an epidemiological model) in order to separately estimate unknown parameters in each module. The proposed model takes advantage of the consumption and overall salmonella prevalence of the studied sources, as well as bacteria typing results from adjacent years. The latter were used for a smoothed estimation of the annual relative proportions of different salmonella subtypes in each of the sources. The source‐specific effects and the salmonella subtype‐specific effects were included in the epidemiological model to describe the differences between sources and between subtypes in their ability to infect humans. The estimation of these parameters was based on data from multiple years. Finally, the model combines the total evidence from different modules to proportion human salmonellosis cases according to their sources. The model was applied to allocate reported human salmonellosis cases from the years 2008 to 2015 to eight food sources.     

Dual strategy process in open strategizing

This paper inductively unravels the dual process of open strategy by delving into the relationships between transparency and inclusion from a longitudinal case study. Drawing on these data, we theorize that strategy transparency affects inclusion instead of shaping the success of platform match-making services directly. By disentangling transparency into transparency of procedures and of the participants' assets/resources, and inclusion into the range of participants, participant entitlement and participant commitment, we map how sub-dimensions of open strategy influences one another. Specifically, procedural transparency influences the range of participants and participant entitlement, while transparency of the participants' assets/resources affects participant commitment. In return, inclusion influences the development of three attributes of participants' assets/resources: variety, density and usability, which are key to platform match-making success. Our findings also suggest that open strategy does not exert a one-way influence on the development of participants' assets/resources. Instead, strategy and the attributes of participants’ assets/resources are both the medium and the outcome of recursive interactions, suggesting that experimentation and reflective learning help refine open strategizing.     

北高洛“音乐会”初探

“音乐会”是冀中乡村的民间音乐组织，从“音乐会”本体的角度对北高洛“音乐会”的自然环境、行政区划以及经济文化系统，历史源流与文化背景，乐队编制、结构、乐器、演奏形式、乐谱、曲目、调高、调式以及在民俗活动中的作用等作了初步研究。     

《威兰》的矛盾意识及布朗对美国小说的贡献

在美国小说史上,查尔斯.布罗可登.布朗是一个里程碑式的人物,他力图使美国小说摆脱简单说教的模式,给予小说更开阔的释义空间。他的小说深深地根植于美国文化的土壤之中,主题思想含蓄、开放,较多地关照个体人物的命运与矛盾的内心世界,作品极富自由想象的张力。这一特征在《威兰》一书中得以充分展现。小说《威兰》中的人物都有难以确定的自我,充满矛盾,对峙的思想经常会同时左右他们的行为,指令他们向相反的方向行进,使他们无休无止地处于一种犹疑不定的精神状态之中。威兰的个性冲突最具有戏剧性,也最能反映政治潜意识的社会成因。     

规则的心理学基础

对于规则的来源问题,历来是哲学讨论的一个主题,神意、理性、政治权威、民族精神、习俗等等都成为规则不同时期的一个来源。但规则是用于调整人的行为的,而讨论人的最高学术成就来源于心理学领域,因此,从心理学角度讨论人的规则的来源就成为当今哲学的必然要求。     

从南方方言的形成看“有＋VP”结构的来源

南方方言中都存在"有 VP"结构,而普通话中没有此结构.这个区别关涉到该结构的来源.本文从南方方言的形成来探讨"有 VP"结构的来源,认为"有 VP"结构来源于南方方言的共同底层--古越语.