Male Adolescents: Sexual Victimization and Subsequent Sexual Abuse

Veneziano, Veneziano and LeGrand (2000) found support for the victim to victimizer hypothesis of sexual aggression with 74 sexually abusive youth. This project, a further step in examining this theory (Burton, 2000, Burton, Miller, & Shill, 2002) builds on their ideas with data from 179 adolescent sexual abusers, and supports their findings. In an examination of relationships, gender, modus operandi, and acts, the sexually abused youth were likely to repeat what was done to them. This project also offers a further analysis of how victimization accounts for a significant portion of the variance in perpetration by these youth. Implications for research and practice are offered.     

The Effects of Spousal Health on the Decision to Smoke: Evidence on Consumption Externalities, Altruism and Learning Within the Household

Married individuals are healthier than single individuals though the reasons are not well understood. Individuals with spouses/or partners are less likely to smoke. We explore the relationship between health and marital status by analyzing three potential channels through which marriage affects smoking, i.e., consumption externalities (one spouse's smoking affects the other spouse's welfare), altruism (one spouse reduces smoking in response to the other spouse's bad health), and learning about risks of smoking from the health experience of one's spouse. We find spousal health does not affect smoking due to altruism or learning within the household but do find evidence for consumption externalities.     

Risk,trust and knowledge networks in farmers’ learning

This study reports on New Zealand dairy farmers’ access to and use of information as mediated through conditions of risk and trust within the context of their interpersonal social networks. We located participants’ reports of their information use within their perceived environments of trust and risk, following Giddens's [1990. The consequences of modernity. Polity Press, Stanford, CA] typology of trust and risk in pre-modernity and modernity. The research participants were constant users of interpersonal and print information from numerous sources, and monitored their incoming data in the light of strategic needs, reflecting their roles as both farming practitioners and business owners. Socio-spatial knowledge networks (SSKNs) combine individuals’ explanatory cognitive models of information acquisition and use with a micro-geographical analysis of their interpersonal networks. The participants showed characteristics of pre-modern, modern and even post-modern society in respect of their use of complex interactional forms, as well as a blending of individualistic and communitarian practices and concerns in their professional and personal lives.     

Learning by Objectives for Adaptive Shop-Floor Scheduling*

Effective production scheduling requires consideration of the dynamics and unpredictability of the manufacturing environment. An automated learning scheme, utilizing genetic search, is proposed for adaptive control in typical decentralized factory-floor decision making. A high-level knowledge representation for modeling production environments is developed, with facilities for genetic learning within this scheme. A multiagent framework is used, with individual agents being responsible for the dispatch decision making at different workstations. Learning is with respect to stated objectives, and given the diversity of scheduling goals, the efficacy of the designed learning scheme is judged through its response under different objectives. The behavior of the genetic learning scheme is analyzed and simulation studies help compare how learning under different objectives impacts certain aggregate measures of system performance.     

Bayesian inference with misspecified models

This article reviews Bayesian inference from the perspective that the designated model is misspecified. This misspecification has implications in interpretation of objects, such as the prior distribution, which has been the cause of recent questioning of the appropriateness of Bayesian inference in this scenario. The main focus of this article is to establish the suitability of applying the Bayes update to a misspecified model, and relies on representation theorems for sequences of symmetric distributions; the identification of parameter values of interest; and the construction of sequences of distributions which act as the guesses as to where the next observation is coming from. A conclusion is that a clear identification of the fundamental starting point for the Bayesian is described.     

先秦儒家性理观念溯源

"性理之学"是由"性"、"理"两个内在联系的核心范畴构成的,它虽定型于宋代,其观念则起源于先秦儒学中"生"、"天"、"命"、"德"、"理"等思想内涵。先秦儒家性理学观念的早期形态特点对后世性理之学产生了深远的影响。     

论平教会在民国时期乡村建设中的作用

20世纪二三十年代,面对中国乡村严重的危机,首先由民间力量发起了一场以救济乡村为直接目标的乡村建设运动,在政府和社会各界的关注与支持下,这一建设过程一直持续到抗战时期,平教会在这个建设过程中发挥了一定的积极作用。将平教会放到整个民国时期的乡村建设中进行考察,可以探析其在乡村建设过程中利用各种有利的社会条件,充分发挥自身优势,对实验区、乡村建设运动和南京民国政府等方面起到了桥梁、示范、推动和辅助的作用。但在半殖民地、半封建的社会里,平教会是无法实现其参与乡村建设最终目的的。     

学习型组织理论对人力资源管理教学的启示

在高校人力资源管理教学中运用学习型组织理论对师资培养、教师角色定位、教学方法的运用以及专业知识体系的设计等进行了探讨,得出了几点启示。     

论《大学·中庸》的精细化思想政治教育观

《大学·中庸》蕴涵着丰富的精细化思想政治教育观,即广大与精微的辩证统一、制度沿袭与制度创新的辩证统一、选拔人才褒与贬的辩证统一、精细化思想政治教育的保障在于常规化、精细化思想政治教育的精髓在于真诚、精细化思想政治教育的评价标准在于慎独。     

一般工科院校非英语专业大学生英语学习策略调查

本文运用定量研究的方法,调查了南昌航空工业学院509名非英语专业本科生英语学习策略.结果发现,一般院校非英语专业本科生在管理观念和策略、母语观念和策略功能操练观念和策略上存在很大问题,投入于英语学习的时间严重不足. 据此本文提出大学英语教学应以策略培训为基础,用英语教学,培养英语思维能力,强化学习动机.