Therapeutic Process as a Means to Navigate Impasse? Reflections on a Complex Case of Crosscultural Adolescent Family Therapy

This article explores the process of family therapy with a Turkish‐speaking single‐parent family with four children in which suicidal behaviour and family violence have become the norm. The following example describes a pivotal experience early within my career as a family therapist. The universality of first, being a beginner family therapist, and second, receiving a referral of a daunting, difficult case has led me to share my experience here. Central to this article is the focus on therapeutic process as a means to navigate beyond impasse. It is my hope that those who read this article will consider taking the risk to prioritise the therapeutic relationship, even when anxiety about ‘doing something’ to fix the problems is high.     

Risk‐Based Approach for Microbiological Food Safety Management in the Dairy Industry: The Case of Listeria monocytogenes in Soft Cheese Made from Pasteurized Milk

According to Codex Alimentarius Commission recommendations, management options applied at the process production level should be based on good hygiene practices, HACCP system, and new risk management metrics such as the food safety objective. To follow this last recommendation, the use of quantitative microbiological risk assessment is an appealing approach to link new risk‐based metrics to management options that may be applied by food operators. Through a specific case study, Listeria monocytogenes in soft cheese made from pasteurized milk, the objective of the present article is to practically show how quantitative risk assessment could be used to direct potential intervention strategies at different food processing steps. Based on many assumptions, the model developed estimates the risk of listeriosis at the moment of consumption taking into account the entire manufacturing process and potential sources of contamination. From pasteurization to consumption, the amplification of a primo‐contamination event of the milk, the fresh cheese or the process environment is simulated, over time, space, and between products, accounting for the impact of management options, such as hygienic operations and sampling plans. A sensitivity analysis of the model will help orientating data to be collected prioritarily for the improvement and the validation of the model. What‐if scenarios were simulated and allowed for the identification of major parameters contributing to the risk of listeriosis and the optimization of preventive and corrective measures.     

A critical appraisal of participatory methods in development research

Anthropologists and others working in the field of development are making increasing use of participatory research methods. While aware of the value of such methods, this paper outlines a number of methodological issues that need to be carefully considered. Such issues, when taken together with the problem of combining participatory with other forms of qualitative and quantitative research, argue strongly not only for caution but the need to undertake basic research on the participatory methods themselves. This paper looks at the development of participatory rural appraisal (PRA) in development research, and critically examines three methods/techniques--interviewing, visualization and ranking/scoring--in terms of their relation to qualitative research. Finally, the issue of the validity of PRA is discussed in relation to arguments about the role of sequencing/triangulating research techniques that are shown to be as problematic as the unexamined use of PRA methods.     

Prediction under uncertainty of degree of polynomial in growth curve models

Random coefficient polynomial regression model has been considered for prediction purpose when there is uncertainty about the degree of the polynomialo Expressions for mean square errors of two predictors based on simple estimators have been derived and their perfomaiices have been compared when parameters are estimated from the sample. A modified predictor has also been suggested when parameters in the predicting equations are to be estimated from the sample. Perform-ance ofseveral predictors haife been compared by cross validation technique from a real set of data.     

比较文化语境中的图像翻译批评

文章以比较文化的视域对当代美术理论中的图像翻译进行探讨,从后现代文化理论基本范畴的理解失误、文化语境的差异所形成的阻隔、专业话语的失语现象与跨文化对话的必要性等方面,提出了图像翻译者不仅应该具备雄厚的双语能力和丰富的专业知识,而且应该具备较强的跨文化沟通能力的观点,并且结合文本实践进行了理论梳理。     

建设性后现代主义视域下的跨学科研究

从建设性后现代主义立场出发，认真分析现代社会中学科独立界限森严、STEM学科垄断一切、知识分类与标准绝对化等现象的形成原因、局限性及因此而带来的危害性，认为没有一种学科可以垄断一切。为了寻求真正的智慧，为了知识理解本身，为了更好地解决人类与生态福祉等综合性实际问题，我们必须超越传统的学科独立观念，走向现代社会更迫切需要的交叉学科和跨学科思维。     

International Migration and Religious Participation: The Mediating Impact of Individual and Contextual Effects1

Supported by previous empirical work, theory from sociology of religion and migration provide testable hypotheses in predicting changes in immigrant religious participation surrounding the migratory event. Due to data constraints, however, these hypotheses have escaped broad‐based analysis. Using the New Immigrant Survey (NIS), religious participation from pre‐ to postmigration time periods is found to decrease among recent immigrants to the United States. Individual‐level characteristics (i.e., gender, familial conditions, employment) do not substantially explain this decline; alternatively, contextual‐level factors (i.e., religious pluralism and religious concentration) partially mediate this drop in immigrant religiosity.     

优化算法在手征媒质中的应用研究

由于手征媒质的手征参数可调性,使它成为一种新型的吸波材料,在减缩目标雷达散射截面方面有巨大的应用前景.文中运用传输线法分析了金属衬底上涂敷手征媒质的反射特性,计算了手征参数对手征媒质反射特性的影响;然后基于非均匀有理B样条建模,采用物理光学法比较了目标涂敷常规吸波材料与手征媒质时的雷达散射截面,结果说明了手征媒质减小反射电磁波的效果更好;最后运用粒子群算法和模拟退火算法在给定的范围内优化手征参数,并计算了在此参数下目标的散射截面.     

Generalized cross entropy method for analysing the SERVQUAL model

The aim of this paper is to define a new approach for the analysis of data collected by means of SERVQUAL questionnaires which is based on the generalized cross entropy (GCE) approach. In this respect, we firstly give a short review about the important role that SERVQUAL plays in the analysis of service quality as well as in the assessment of the competitiveness of public and private organizations. Secondly, we provide a formal definition of GCE approach together with a brief discussion about its features and usefulness. Finally, we show the application of GCE for a SERVQUAL model, based on a patients’ satisfaction case study and we discuss the results obtained by using the proposed GCE-SERVQUAL methodology.     

学理境界与价值体认的双重突破——评刘起林《胜景与歧途——跨世纪文学的多维审视》

《胜景与歧途——跨世纪文学的多维审视》突破学术界既有框架和思路,从文学现实本身的特征与规律出发审视二十世纪最后十年到新世纪前十年的文学,用"跨世纪文学"的概念来命名这一具有内在统一性和生长性的文学历史进程。从民族精神文化多元而健全地发展的高度,选择和探索文学创作的主流,辨析其演变特征、文化逻辑、价值得失及应予提倡的发展方向。采用宏观态势考察与典型文本细读相结合的论述方式,持论有着强烈的问题意识和自觉的价值持衡立场,实现了创作与批评、文学批评与文学史的良性循环,显示出学理境界与价值体认的双重突破。