Health-Related Quality of Life Among Abused Women One Year After Leaving a Violent Partner

This is the first follow up study measuring quality of life among abused women who have left their abusive partner. The women (n = 22) answered a questionnaire while staying at women’s shelter and one year later. The aim was to examine long-term effects of intimate partner violence against women on health-related quality of life. Health-related quality of life was measured using the SF-36 Health Survey and the WHOQOL-BREF. The meantime for living in a violent partnership was 11 years, most of the women had children under 10 years living with them, low income and were on sickness absence or disability pension. About half of the women had experienced threats of violence and 6 had experienced violent acts after leaving their partner. SF-36 scores after one year were significantly better in vitality (t-test, P < 0.001), mental health (t-test P < 0.001) and social domains (t-test, P < 0.04). WHOQOL-BREF scores did not change significantly from baseline, showing that the SF-36 showed more responsiveness in this population. Regression analysis showed that serious physical violence reported at baseline predicted significantly less improvement in physical and mental health and role-emotional in the SF-36 and in social relationships and environmental health in the WHOQOL-BREF. High psychological violence at baseline predicted significantly less improvement in mental health in the SF-36 and in social relationships and environmental health in the WHOQOL-BREF.     

Adapting an evidence-based model to retain adolescent study participants in longitudinal research

Maintaining contact with and collecting outcome data from adolescent study participants can present a significant challenge for researchers conducting longitudinal studies. Establishing an organized and effective protocol for participant follow-up is crucial to reduce attrition and maintain high retention rates. This paper describes our methods in using and adapting the evidence-based Engagement, Verification, Maintenance, and Confirmation (EVMC) model to follow up with adolescents 6 and 12 months after implementation of a health program. It extends previous research by focusing on two key modifications to the model: (1) the central role of cell phones and texting to maintain contact with study participants throughout the EVMC process and, (2) use of responsive two-way communication between staff and participants and flexible administration modes and methods in the confirmation phase to ensure that busy teens not only respond to contacts, but also complete data collection. These strategies have resulted in high overall retention rates (87–91%) with adolescent study participants at each follow-up data collection point without the utilization of other, more involved tracking measures. The methods and findings presented may be valuable for other researchers with limited resources planning for or engaged in collecting follow-up outcome data from adolescents enrolled in longitudinal studies.     

八百年词学接受视野中的秦观词

本文从接受史的视角,考察和寻绎秦观词自其当时直到近代近千年的接受历程.透过秦观在不同时代词史地位的升降,既动态地展示了秦词的历史意义、审美价值及恒久的艺术魅力,同时也借此探究秦词接受史中所反映的文化意识和审美情趣:北宋时期.于酒肆青楼中广被传播,旨在秦词抒情的感染力度;南宋时期,由于尚雅的词学情趣,秦词开始遭遇冷落而光辉顿减.秦词仍未进入主流行列;元明时期,伴随词学理论的发展,秦词的正宗地位逐渐得到确立;清及近代,伴随有清词坛旷日持久的正、变之争,秦词的艺术价值和词史地位得到进一步提升和广泛认同.     

竖立人情与腐败之间的法律界碑——以官员“礼上往来”的法律规制为例

“礼尚往来”是我国的民间习俗和传统美德,而我国诸多贪官常借人情往来之名而行腐败交易之实.为此有必要引入“礼上往来”的概念予以辨析与矫正,在解析官员礼上往来行为走向性质的基础上,梳理和借鉴美国规制官员收送礼品行为的法律经验,完善我国对官员礼上往来行为的法律规制,竖立人情与腐败之间的法律界碑以厘清人情与腐败的界线,从而达致更为有效治理腐败的目的.     

长短结合,扶优扶强“稳”增长——2012上半年上海产业结构调整跟踪分析

当前,世界经济结构的深度失衡并未简单地消除,世界经济和中国经济都进入深度调整周期。从产业跟踪分析来看,上海工业总体增长乏力,强未很强,弱未很弱,这是导致上海经济增长和结构调整均在低位徘徊的重要原因,政策面临既要稳增长,又要调结构的双重压力。上海不能将有限的资源平均使用,需要根据产业发展的规律,结合经济周期阶段和产业的实际情况,集中资源发展优势产业,培育强势企业,长线促升级、短线稳增长,长短线结合,才能获得最佳的资源配置效果,提高上海的产业竞争力。     

Tactics to Ensure Durability of Behavior Change Following the Removal of an Intervention Specialist: A Review of Temporal Generality Within Organizational Behavior Management

The endurance of behavior change over time, including the time period after a behavior specialist has ceased to offer direct services, is an important consideration for both organizational behavior management and behavior analysis in general. This article considers a dozen strategies labelled temporal generality tactics that may foster the maintenance and institutionalization of intervention efforts in organizational settings. The use of such tactics was examined by conducting a comprehensive review of articles published between 1977 and 2014 in the Journal of Organizational Behavior Management. The results of this review suggest that although follow-up measures are frequently collected, explicit and proactive strategies to systematically increase the success of long-term behavior change are rarely used or researched.     

My Home is Not My Castle: Follow-Up of Residents of Shelters for Homeless Youth

The paper presents a follow-up evaluation of Israel’s first two shelters for homeless youth. The main research questions were: (a) Did the youngsters achieve the shelters’ main goal of reaching a normative and suitable post-shelter residence? (b) How do the youngsters evaluate their stay at the shelter and its impact on them? (c) Is there a relationship between youngsters’ post-shelter residence and their evaluation of the shelter stay? Data on 345 youngsters were collected through follow-up telephone interviews with the youngsters, their parents, and community social workers. The findings indicate that the majority of these youngsters left the shelter to living arrangements that were normative but not necessarily fitting with their wishes and needs. Most of the youngsters were satisfied with the shelter, but no relationship was found between general satisfaction and achievement of the shelters’ declared goal. The discussion focuses on the significance of the findings with regard to the declared and operative goals of shelters.     

中国古代和亲的文化影响

本文根据各种文献资料 ,讨论了和亲中不同文化碰撞与交融的基本情况 ,从礼仪、服饰、建筑、音乐、宗教及文化知识传播等方面 ,论述了和亲对边疆少数民族文化及中原文化的影响 ,探讨了和亲文化影响的特点 ,分析了和亲在文化方面能够产生影响的条件及原因。     

A Class of Two-Sample Nonparametric Tests for Panel Count Data

Panel count data frequently occur in many situations including medical follow-up studies and reliability experiments. For two-sample comparison based on panel count data, several procedures have been proposed including Thall and Lachin (1988 Thall , P. F. , Lachin , J. M. ( 1988 ). Analysis of recurrent events: nonparametric methods for random-interval count data . J. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 83 : 339 – 347 .[Taylor & Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]) and Sun and Fang (2003 Sun , J. , Fang , H. B. ( 2003 ). A nonparametric test for panel count data . Biometrika 90 : 199 – 208 .[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]). In this article, a new class of nonparametric test procedures are presented. The test is a generalization of that for the same problem for failure time data and overcomes some shortcomings of the existing methods. Monte Carlo simulation studies are conducted to evaluate the presented approach and suggest that it works well. An illustrative example is discussed.