Behavioural and emotional problems of children by type of out-of-home care in Croatia

The aim of this article is to compare the kinds of behavioural and emotional problems of youth in relation to type of out-of-home placement in Croatia. Children living in children's homes manifest significantly more behavioural and emotional problems than other groups of children in out-of-home care or children living in their primary families. Children living in foster families or in family-type homes integrated in the community do not differ from a comparative group of children living in primary families. Regardless of differences among sub-samples regarding behavioural and emotional problems, the current problems of individual children in all groups of children in out-of-home placement were connected more to currently experienced stressors than to unfavourable circumstances before their removal. This indicates that there are benefits to be gained by improving services in the children's present care environment.     

论居室内环境设计中的美术原则

本文从美术角度讨论美学原理，心理学，色彩学与居室装演的关系。美术修养在居室装潢中，对材料的选择，形式、色彩的组织，整体关系的处理诸方面的影响，是显而易见的。     

加入WTO后我国居民消费伦理的建构

伴随WTO文明成果一同进来的西方各种消极消费伦理思想 ,必将对我国居民消费伦理产生巨大影响。我国必须建构新型的居民消费伦理 ,以确保居民消费健康发展。新型的消费伦理要求居民消费应坚持适度消费、集体主义消费和文明消费的原则 ,遵循以勤俭节约为主的道德规范 ,最终树立科学、文明、进步的新型消费伦理观     

Scandinavian Contrasts and Norwegian Variations in Special Housing for Older People

De-institutionalization is a general trend for Scandinavian long-term care over the last decades. Denmark and Sweden have taken this trend a step further than Norway has, as Denmark suspended institutional care altogether in 1987 and Sweden in 1992. Since then, residential care has been provided to individuals in special housing in various forms. This housing is in principle “independent housing,” where residents are tenants and are provided services according to needs and not sites. This article concentrates on the Norwegian variations to this system, as this is the only country of the 3 that still provides residential care under 2 “regimes,” an institutional care regime and an assisted housing regime. Is assisted housing essentially different from institutional care, or is it better described as old wine in new bottles? The latter may be the case for Sweden, whereas Denmark stands out as having the most housing-oriented care model. Institutional care (i.e., nursing homes) still dominates in Norway, where assisted housing is merely a minor supplement to institutional care in most municipalities. The article explores the reasons for these trends and, in particular, the reasons for the Norwegian resistance to assisted housing as an alternative form of residential care.     

Older Peoples’ Descriptions of Becoming and Being Respite Care Recipients

The number of older people in the western world is increasing. Advancing age creates the need for care, including respite care. The aim of this study is to describe the experience of older people of becoming and being respite care recipients. Admission to respite care is a response to a range of practicalities in the home, such as the need to maintain privacy, dissatisfaction with home care, and deterioration in health. However, the participants in this study had little or no involvement in the decision regarding respite care placement. Activities, training, and medical treatment were found to be important to respite care recipients’ satisfaction with their care.     

住宅节能的经济性评价方法研究

从研究节能住宅综合经济效益的角度出发，阐述了对住宅节能进行经济性评价时需要考虑到的问题及目前较为可行的经济性评价方法。认为在住宅节能投资的初期适用差额净现值法和增额投资回收期法进行评价，经过初期的论证，待节能投资决策进入实质性阶段时适用性价比法和模糊综合评价法进行评价。     

生活废弃物回收系统运行模式

我国目前的生活废弃物回收市场存在严重的竞争无序性，为解决这种竞争无序性，应建立起以行业自律为基础的开放型行业管理，以代替政府对行业的直接管理。     

Designing for equality: Conceptualising a tool for strategic territorial planning

The struggle for equality is fundamental to the reduction of poverty in Central America. Besides, one of the foremost goals of urban spatial planning, when implementing social policies, is to contribute to the reduction of poverty. This is done by producing a list of territorially-based actions and selecting those suitable for the implementation of social policies developed at national level. However, urban planners working with local authorities in the Region face political, managerial, financial and technical limitations for adequately conducting this task. Of particular interest to this paper are the limited options they have for technically assessing the impact that territorially-based actions have on reducing inequality, and therefore poverty.An operational methodology is proposed in this paper, as a step forward to enable planners to simulate, assess and monitor the impact of territorially-based actions on inequality, and to promote the use of evidence from statistical data when proposing, implementing and monitoring those actions. The methodology is introduced by inscribing it in the context of urban spatial planning, presenting the concepts that underpin it, describing how it is intended to work, and illustrating its use through the presentation of an empirical study.