“We thought it would be easy”: recruitment challenges,successes and best practices for low-income couple populations

Recruitment challenges present ongoing struggles for social science professionals. Especially problematic are recruiting endeavors when target populations are highly stressed, highly mobile, and are comprised of couples rather than individuals. Included in this study is a rationale supporting the need to study recruitment challenges coupled with a literature review discussing recent recruitment research summaries. Based upon a Delphi-type discussion with couples relationship education (CRE) experts, our team constructed a qualitative study to examine recruitment challenges in low-income CRE programs. Fourteen interviews were conducted with “successful” program leaders identified by federal regional managers within the Administration for Children and Families (ACF). Data were analyzed, and results detailing four main “challenge” themes, four “success” themes, and a seven-step best practice model are presented.     

Personally affected,politically disaffected? How experiences with public employment services impact young people's political efficacy

Unemployment experiences can have consequences for how people think about democracy and where they stand vis‐à‐vis the state. We investigate how young people's experiences with public employment services can shape levels of external political efficacy—the feeling that decision‐makers are responsive to citizen needs. The personal and direct experiences one gathers at this pivotal time in life can also leave their mark on political attitudes. We analyze an original dataset on German youth to test how encounters with such agencies affect young people's political efficacy, finding that perceptions of helpfulness and being treated fairly and with respect increase the likelihood of being politically efficacious. The findings highlight the importance of personal experiences and bureaucratic interactions for vulnerable young people's democratic attitudes.     

Housing satisfaction in medium- and high-cost housing: The case of Greater Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Housing policies and programs have long been implemented to ensure that all will have access to adequate housing in Malaysia. In order to achieve sustainability in the housing industry, housing providers should regulate their housing activities to suit households’ needs and wants by examining factors which account for housing satisfaction or dissatisfaction. Results showed that the degree of housing satisfaction may depend on the types of homeownership externalities that households are expected to receive, as defined by local amenities and social capital investment, and neighborhood stability of homeownership. Housing and socio-economic and demographic determinants are also found to be significant in the study. Additionally, households are generally satisfied if they are given an opportunity to purchase their homes using the Build-then-Sell 10:90 system.     

Developing a digital toolkit for adoptive parents

In this article, the development of a digital ‘toolkit’ for adoptive parents in the children’s social care service of a single local authority is described. A work in progress, the toolkit is to be accessed by parents online and involves a series of videos around parenting topics and the post-adoption therapeutic work undertaken in the service, as well as links to other parenting information and resources. The article combines accounts of the toolkit’s development in the authority and a piece of ‘practice research’ being carried out that makes use of a DVD version.     

裁量基准司法审查的区分技术

真实文本中的裁量基准具有双重性格,它既可能会通过格次划分技术触及法律效果问题,从而呈现出行政裁量细化的角色;同时也可能会通过行政解释技术涉及法律要件问题,从而呈现出不确定法律概念具体化的秉性.由于传统上法院对不确定法律概念和行政裁量的司法审查强度强弱有别,因此对裁量基准的司法审查也应采取两元区分的方式逐一展开,即法院应根据基准文本所对应的客体究竟是“不确定法律概念”还是“行政裁量”,分别奉行严格与宽松的不同审查立场.在本质上,这是一种更为贴近文本的司法区分技术,可以在最大程度上平衡裁量基准规则主义与行政自制之间的紧张关系.     

Information quality deficiencies in delivery schedules and their impact on production scheduling

The purpose of this paper is to explore how different delivery schedule characteristics affect the quality of shared delivery schedule information and, in turn, how deficiencies in quality affect a supplier’s production scheduling process. It describes a case study conducted in the Swedish automotive industry involving a supplier that operates as the first-, second- and third-tier supplier to an original equipment manufacturer. The study reveals how four delivery schedule characteristics – namely, receiving frequency, planning period, frozen period and demand variation – create information quality (IQ) deficiencies in five dimensions of IQ: completeness, conciseness, reliability, timeliness and credibility. At the same time, it demonstrates how such deficiencies affect the supplier’s production scheduling process by requiring additional rescheduling, reworking and follow-up activities as well as additional capacity problems, safety time, safety stock and backlogs. In effect, the paper extends previous IQ-related research by considering IQ in delivery schedules.     

秦司法文书“当腾腾”用语释义

湖北云梦睡虎地秦简、湖南龙山里耶秦简木牍司法文书中出现的"当腾腾"用语,学界以往的理解均未达诂.本文从秦法律制度、公文要素及文字训诂三方面考察,指出"当腾腾"应做"当传(zhuàn)传(chuán)"理解.它是秦过县长途公文传送中,公文发文方告知接收方文书传送方式的交代语,意思说文书由驿传传送;"当腾腾"所反映的公文驿传传送方式,在一定条件下,秦人又表述为"以次传"、"以县次传".     

试论档案信息的有效传递

档案信息的有效传递是档案信息化进程中的重要问题,是使档案信息得以充分利用,使档案事业向更高层次发展的重要保证。本文认为档案信息的有效传递就是要加快档案信息的公布;传递方式要便于用户利用;档案信息的传递内容要深层次揭示;档案信息的传递行为要增强主动性;档案信息传递面向正确的服务对象。     

国际贸易惯例的最新发展及其应用——《2000年国际贸易术语解释通则》探讨

国际贸易惯例在国际贸易实务中具有重要的作用。文章分析了国际贸易惯例的类型 ,阐述了国际贸易惯例的重要性 ,剖析了《2 0 0 0年国际贸易术语解释通则》中 4组 13种术语的主要特点及内容 ,提出在使用中应注意的一些问题     

Dynamic Pricing in e‐Services under Demand Uncertainty

High volatility of the e‐services market, due to increasing competition, low life cycle of products, and easy availability of information about competing service offerings to customers, makes the demand for service offerings quite uncertain. Revenue management in such markets calls for real‐time techniques to learn the demand and its dependence on both the price and the service level associated with the service offering. We assume firms reply on exploratory approaches for demand estimation, in which firms experiment with different service offerings in order to simultaneously learn the demand while doing business. Such exploration and learning process can be costly without supervision. As reported by Rothschild (Journal of Economic Theory, 9 185‐202, 1974), traditional Bayesian dynamic control approaches may conclude with suboptimal offerings. We propose a novel demand learning approach that is guaranteed to converge to the optimal offering. The approach combines simulated annealing algorithm with Bayesian learning. We further present intelligent techniques that adaptively reduce the effort of exploration on suboptimal service offerings so as to improve the long‐run average profit.