SafetiPin: an innovative mobile app to collect data on women's safety in Indian cities

Women's safety is a key concern of governments and civil society today. In India, the issue has become prominent in the wake of the gang rape and murder in 2012. One of the key elements in addressing the lack of safety in cities is identifying the causes. SafetiPin, a mobile app, is one tool that has been developed to collect data on safety in cities. Building on the international methodology of safety audits, SafetiPin has transformed it into a mobile app that crowd sources data and information on insecurity in cities. Using SafetiPin, data have been collected in seven Indian cities. This article examines some of the data to understand what factors lead to lack of safety and insecurity in cities, and discusses future plans for the project.     

成才规划设计对大学生成才的意义

本文通过对高等教育大众化阶段的学生素质、成才标准、就业方式变化的分析,阐述了成才规划设计对引导大学生健康成长、促进高校学风建设的重要意义,并具体提出了成才规划的基本模式、功能和原则.     

对优化“优势农产品区域布局规划”的探讨

入世以后，各地制定了优势农产品的区域布局规划，但普遍存在着以追求规模扩大和产量提高为主要目标、将本地区作为一个封闭系统来看待、对农产品的市场行情缺乏充分的研究和科学的预测、对规划发展的农产品项目优势缺乏精确界定以及缺乏具体的实施办法等问题。需要采取提高规划本身的质量水平、确立合适的目标和具体的措施和方案、加强对农户的指导、每年对规划进行评估和调整等措施，以达到更好的效果。     

Impact of having a high-risk pregnancy on future postpartum contraceptive method choice

BackgroundTo compare the knowledge and preference of preconceptional contraception to future postpartum contraceptive method choice in high-risk pregnancies.Research questionDoes a high-risk pregnancy condition affect future postpartum contraceptive method choice?MethodWomen hospitalised at the High Risk Pregnancy unit of a tertiary research and training hospital were asked to complete a self-reported questionnaire that included demographic characteristics, presence of unintended pregnancy, contraceptive method of choice before the current pregnancy, plans for contraceptive use following delivery and requests for any contraceptive counselling in the postpartum period.FindingsA total of 655 pregnant women were recruited. The mean age, gravidity and parity of the women were 27.48 ± 6.25 years, 2.81 ± 2.15 and 1.40 ± 1.77, respectively. High-risk pregnancy indications included 207 (31.6%) maternal, 396 (60.5%) foetal and 52 (7.9%) uterine factors. All postpartum contraceptive choices except for combined oral contraceptives (COCs) usage were significantly different from preconceptional contraceptive preferences (p < 0.001). High-risk pregnancy indications, future child bearing, ideal number of children, income and education levels were the most important factors influencing postpartum contraceptive choices. While the leading contraceptive method in the postpartum period was long-acting reversible contraceptive methods (non-hormonal copper intrauterine device Cu-IUD, the levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine system (LNG-IUS) (40%), the least preferred method was COCs use (5.2%) and preference of COCs use showed no difference between the preconceptional and postpartum periods (p = 0.202). Overall 73.7% of the women wanted to receive contraceptive counselling before their discharge.ConclusionA high-risk pregnancy condition may change the opinion and preference of contraceptive use, and also seems to affect the awareness of family planning methods.     

高校辅导员职业发展阶段与职业规划有效性研究

对我国高校辅导员职业生涯规划影响因素和职业发展阶段进行了质性研究。采用扎根理论,通过半结构化深度访谈的调查方法,在全国辅导员骨干培训班采访了37名高校辅导员,根据他们对影响自身职业生涯规划的内容如本职工作特征、职业身份、工作模式以及工作中所能获取的资源和遇到的阻碍等,将影响因素归纳为四个主要方面,即主观因素、客观因素、决策方法以及职业发展阶段,构建了高校辅导员职业生涯规划的影响因素模型;并进一步将辅导员职业发展分为探索阶段,形成阶段,维护阶段和专业化阶段四个阶段,在此基础上探讨了职业发展阶段与职业生涯规划有效性的关系,最终形成了高校辅导员职业生涯发展路径突破的建议。     

以公共艺术规划推进城市人文景观体系构建

公共艺术是城市人文景观的重要内容,发达国家和地区的公共艺术在推动人居环境的人文景观构建方面有许多优秀案例和成功经验。公共艺术规划是构建城市人文景观体系的重要措施,在城市公共空间和园林绿地建设中将公共艺术纳入专项规划存在必要性。本文分析了我国当前城市公共艺术规划的实践,探讨了公共艺术规划的工作框架,规划的性质、实施主体与参与方式;指出构建城市公共艺术人文景观体系对塑造城市人文内核和地域特色的重要性。     

Economic Modeling Triggers More Efficient Planning: An Experimental Justification

Consider a firm as an organization that needs to efficiently coordinate several specialized departments in an uncertain environment. Decision making involves collective planning sessions and decentralized operational processes. In this setting this paper explores the role of economic modeling through an experimental game. Results support the idea that economic modeling favors higher performance. Economic modeling facilitates the emergence of common knowledge and the decomposition of a group decision problem into individual decision problems that are meaningfully interrelated. This paper was presented at the Porquerolles Summer School on Cognitive Sciences, September 2001.     

Contraceptive utilization: profile of the Muslim Arab women in rural Israel

The contraceptive habits of the Arab population in rural Israel was explored by means of a cohort ( n =429) of rural Muslim women, with the aim to compose a profile of the women who practice modern contraception. Self-reported information revealed that only one third of the women apply modern contraceptive devices. Multivariate analysis showed the following independent variables to bear a contributory and predictive value with respect to use or non-use of modern contraceptive means by Muslim village women in Israel: degree of religiosity of the woman, male offspring, extent of modernity within the nuclear family, number of children, occupation of the husband, and adherence to traditional norms by the woman.     

The Role of Child Emotionality in Child Behavior and Maternal Instruction on Planning Tasks

This study explored the relation of children's emotional functioning to children's behavior during individual planning and mother's and children's behaviors during joint planning. Participants were 118 mothers and their second‐grade children. Mothers rated children on their emotional intensity and children rated themselves on their use of emotion regulation strategies. Children and mother–child dyads were videotaped during planning tasks and independent observers rated their behavior. Child emotional intensity was directly related to children being less engaged in the task and to an emphasis in maternal instruction on regulatory behaviors. Some types of emotion regulation strategies modified these relations. Findings suggest that child emotionality may play an important role in the early school years in children's opportunities to learn during social‐cognitive activity.     

现行养老社会保险政策解析

历经20多年的改革,我国养老社会保险已从单纯的"国家保险"或企业保险向真正意义上的"社会保险"过渡,"社会统筹与个人账户相结合"的改革政策正在走向完善并成熟,基本建立了与社会主义市场经济体制相适应的养老社会保险政策框架.然而,现行养老社会保险政策仍存在着保险基金入不敷出、保险面窄、替代率高、企业负担过重、社会化程度低、"空账"运行严重等诸问题.