Using the Eco-Map and Ecosystems Perspective to Guide Skilled Nursing Facility Discharge Planning

Growing numbers of seniors across the United States require skilled nursing facility care after an inpatient hospital stay. Previous studies indicate that roughly 20 percent of all hospitalized Medicare beneficiaries are admitted to a skilled nursing facility following a qualifying hospital stay. Social workers address psychosocial problems, social support, networks, and healthcare needs during transitions in care, particularly discharge planning. Ecosystems perspective and the eco-map as a discharge planning tool is presented. Social workers can use these tools to examine the patient with respect to their transactional relationships with systems. This will further will facilitate provision of wrap-around services upon discharge.     

项目教学法在《环境生态学》课程建设中的应用

总结设计专业课程特点,在专业理论课《环境生态学》教学中引用项目教学法,以改变课堂教学学生被动学习理论的枯燥窘境。细分课程章节任务,借室外实践教学方法去转变室内传输式的理论教学模式,以自由开放,学生为主的实践环境来激发他们学习兴趣,培养他们理论转变实践的能力,从而提高专业理论课的教学效率。     

上海自贸试验区建设与票据业务创新发展

促进贸易和投资便利是上海自贸试验区金融服务创新的重要内容。其中,票据业务创新发展可增强票据业务金融服务功能。从发展前景看,票据便利有利于满足自贸试验区内结算需求的增长,实现跨境人民币便捷支付以及改善金融机构融资需求。为完善票据业务发展和服务上海自贸试验区建设,建议修改完善票据业务法规制度,加快纸质票据电子化和电子票据业务发展,推动境外人民币参加银行运用电子商业汇票和商业承兑汇票业务的发展,在上海自贸试验区内先行先试融资性票据业务,试点电子票据交易平台建设并逐步在全国推广应用。     

中外合作办学高校的体育师资建设

通过文献资料法、问卷调查法及实地考察等方法,以全国中外合作办学高校体育师资现状为研究对象进行调查研究,认为中外合作办学高校体育教师队伍的建设尚属初步发展阶段,有许多不完善因素影响体育教学与体育科研的发展。提出了做好中外合作办学高校体育教师的职后培训,中外合作办学特色体育教师的培养,减少体育教师教学任务以提高科研水平,完善体育教学监管机制,提高体育教师福利待遇稳定教师团队建设等建议。     

浅析我国高等教育的质量观

在高等教育迅速发展的今天,人才培养的质量成为人们普遍关注的问题,质量是教育的生命线,如何在扩大规模的基础上,确保高等教育的质量,笔者从教学条件,教师队伍,人才培养,教学评估等几个方面进行了详尽的论述。     

基于大工程观的地方高校工科人才素质培养研究

大工程观包括工程经济观、工程价值观、工程系统观、工程生态观和工程社会观;高等工程教育必须应对工程全球化、工程社会性和工程复杂性的挑战,开展“大工程”观引领下的工科人才素质培养研究,实施“大工程”观指导下的人才培养模式改革。     

A Probabilistic Analysis of the Capacitated Facility Location Problem

The solution value of a stochastic version of the capacitated facility location problem is studied. It is shown that, for large numbers of customers n, the value of can be closely approximated by , where the constant is identified as a function of the parameters of the underlying stochastic model. Furthermore, an extensive probabilistic analysis is performed on the difference that includes an exponential inequality on the tail distribution, a classification of the speed of convergence and a central limit theorem.     

Social Optimal Location of Facilities with Fixed Servers,Stochastic Demand,and Congestion

We consider two capacity choice scenarios for the optimal location of facilities with fixed servers, stochastic demand, and congestion. Motivating applications include virtual call centers, consisting of geographically dispersed centers, walk‐in health clinics, motor vehicle inspection stations, automobile emissions testing stations, and internal service systems. The choice of locations for such facilities influences both the travel cost and waiting times of users. In contrast to most previous research, we explicitly embed both customer travel/connection and delay costs in the objective function and solve the location–allocation problem and choose facility capacities simultaneously. The choice of capacity for a facility that is viewed as a queueing system with Poisson arrivals and exponential service times could mean choosing a service rate for the servers (Scenario 1) or choosing the number of servers (Scenario 2). We express the optimal service rate in closed form in Scenario 1 and the (asymptotically) optimal number of servers in closed form in Scenario 2. This allows us to eliminate both the number of servers and the service rates from the optimization problems, leading to tractable mixed‐integer nonlinear programs. Our computational results show that both problems can be solved efficiently using a Lagrangian relaxation optimization procedure.     

Emissions from Mass Burn Resource Recovery Facilities

Recent resource recovery facility stack tests have increased the available pool of data on emissions from these facilities. This has led to more accurate predictions of emissions from proposed facilities. The source, type, and rate of emissions presented are based upon a review of the literature, theoretical approaches, stack test data from existing facilities, permit levels of other facilities, and discussions with equipment manufacturers. The pollutants selected for study are those regulated by United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) regulations and other pollutants of concern. The pollutants studied are particulate matter, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, nonmethane hydrocarbons, hydrogen sulfide, reduced sulfide, reduced sulfur compounds, total reduced sulfur, lead, mercury, beryllium, arsenic, cadmium, chromium, chromium +6, copper, manganese, nickel, vanadium, zinc, hydrogen chloride, fluorides, sulfuric acid mist, polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons, polychlorinated biphenyls, vinyl chloride, dioxins, furans, formaldehyde, and asbestos.     

产品语意学在高校校园环境设施设计中的应用

目前我国有的高校校园环境设施存在雷同现象,不能反映学校的特色、精神和文化,不能满足高校发展的需要。以产品语意学理论为研究基础,结合高校环境特点总结出了高校校园环境设施语意的影响因素,并在此基础上,从隐喻修辞的角度总结出了高校校园环境设施语意的表现方法。在研究过程中,结合石家庄铁道大学校园环境设施设计实例,对提出的理论和方法进行检验和补充,明确了产品语意学在体现高校校园环境设施的精神功能和文化内涵方面的应用价值。