A model for a comparative cost-effectiveness evaluation of two mental health partial care programs.

This study provides a model for comparing the cost-effectiveness of two mental health programs. The example cited examines the cost-effectiveness of a hospital-based and a community-based partial care program. Using each group as its own control, the authors compare patients' use of inpatient hospitalisation and emergency room services during one year prior to and one year subsequent to first admission in day care. In both day care programs, patients substantially reduced their number of inpatient admissions and days. Neither program, however, showed a significant decrease in patients' use of the emergency room. Reflecting the substantially lower costs of the community-based program, the benefit-cost and cost-effectiveness ratios were significantly better in the community-based program than in the hospital-based program. Based on this evidence the authors conclude that the lower-cost, equally effective community-based program should be carefully considered as an alternative for more partial care patients.     

航运中心与城市协调发展的国际经验与上海策略

国际重要的经济中心城市大多同时也是重要的国际航运中心,如中国香港、新加坡、伦敦、纽约、鹿特丹等。＂十二五＂期间,上海处在一个发展的关键时期。＂创新驱动、转型发展＂成为上海建设国际航运中心的迫切要求,因此,处于城市经济转型时期的上海必须建设具有全球航运资源配置能力的国际航运中心,实现上海国际航运中心与上海城市的协调发展。本文结合世界主要国际航运中心的实际,分析国际航运中心与城市协调发展可供借鉴的经验,提出目前上海国际航运中心建设与城市发展之间面临的矛盾与问题,并从集疏运体系和港城一体化角度提出上海国际航运中心与城市实现协调发展的对策建议。     

从实际生活出发 去理解实际生活——在上海大学上海社会发展研究中心揭牌仪式上的讲话

此文表达了在上海大学成立上海社会发展研究中心的意图．上海是经济社会大发展的一个基地，这个发展必然会要求社会学的研究者发挥更大的作用。新成立的研究中心作为一个“实验室”，努力培养一支有真才实学的、能真心服务于上海发展的科研队伍。     

Connecting a University to a Distant Neighborhood

Abstract

The willingness on the part of university participants to listen attentively to community representatives is of great importance to successful collaborations. This article presents three phases of a university-community partnership between the Macedonia neighborhood in High Point, North Carolina, and the Center for the Study of Social Issues (CSSI) at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Although no professional network and neighborhood contacts were in place prior to this collaboration, the partnership addressed community needs by obtaining federal grant funding and by listening to the residents' concerns. Staff, students, and faculty overcame the challenges of inexperience and the difficulty of working with a neighborhood that was not located near the university. In various phases, the partnership moved away from a technical assistance approach to a self-help model. By actively engaging neighborhood residents through the Community Outreach Partnership Center (COPC), a learning and adaptation process occurred that resulted in successful university-community collaboration.     

Taking Sacred Space out of Place: From Mount Sinai to Mount Getty Through Travelling Icons

Abstract

Starting from a behind‐the‐scenes tour preceding the opening of the recent Getty exhibition Icons from Sinai, this article seeks to destabilize traditional notions of sacred space as a territorially fixed entity defined through a binary opposition to the profane. Icons and other ‘travelling’ sacred objects are regarded as vehicles for the circulation and displacement of holy places outside of their physical boundaries and for the reconfiguration of sacred space in new, hybrid forms. The paper thus suggests a reconceptualization of sacred space in relational terms, as the product of human and non‐human interactions and networked flows, and of ‘sacred places’ as ‘reassuring anchors’ (both territorial and imaginative) within a world of fluid global networks.     

广州城市中心区街区尺度适宜性探讨--以天河体育中心片区街区为例

通过对广州天河体育中心片区的典型街区尺度进行实证调查，对其相应表达出的与人性化相协调的尺度适宜性进行分析，总结出街区尺度差异对适宜性所造成的影响，为引导城市街区形成体现适宜性的尺度特征提供具有现实意义的支持。     

赛珍珠研究综述——基于“中国知网”等数据库的统计分析

利用“中国知网”、“中国人民大学复印报刊资料数据库”、“人大资料中心信息发布系统”三个数据库平台对赛珍珠研究情况进行分析,无论是纵向进行历史梳理,还是横向与英美文化名人研究比较,赛珍珠研究已经成为大陆学界英美文学与翻译研究的重点。之所以出现这一可喜局面,与研究机构的支持、学者们的贡献、特色栏目的支撑有关。     

大学城校际间体育文化的构建探讨——以广州大学城为例

广州大学城是目前国内最大的大学园区,拥有最大规模的大学生群体。因此,加强大学城校际间体育文化的构建,对大学城学生乃至整个大学园区有着重要的意义。文章采用文献资料、逻辑分析等研究方法对广州大学城校际间体育文化的构建进行初步探讨,旨在促进大学园区体育文化的和谐、健康发展。研究结果表明,广州大学城校际间着手体育文化的构建有着特殊重要性及优势。     

一种加工中心的快速对刀方法

在加工中心的对刀过程中，以基准刀的底端面为基准面，测量其余每把刀底端面与该基准面的距离。以此作为刀具偏置值．这种对刀方法有效地缩短了对刀时间，能够提高生产效率．     

Assessment of Inhalation Exposures and Potential Health Risks to the General Population that Resulted from the Collapse of the World Trade Center Towers

In the days following the collapse of the World Trade Center (WTC) towers on September 11, 2001 (9/11), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) initiated numerous air monitoring activities to better understand the ongoing impact of emissions from that disaster. Using these data, EPA conducted an inhalation exposure and human health risk assessment to the general population. This assessment does not address exposures and potential impacts that could have occurred to rescue workers, firefighters, and other site workers, nor does it address exposures that could have occurred in the indoor environment. Contaminants evaluated include particulate matter (PM), metals, polychlorinated biphenyls, dioxins, asbestos, volatile organic compounds, particle-bound polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, silica, and synthetic vitreous fibers (SVFs). This evaluation yielded three principal findings. (1) Persons exposed to extremely high levels of ambient PM and its components, SVFs, and other contaminants during the collapse of the WTC towers, and for several hours afterward, were likely to be at risk for acute and potentially chronic respiratory effects. (2) Available data suggest that contaminant concentrations within and near ground zero (GZ) remained significantly elevated above background levels for a few days after 9/11. Because only limited data on these critical few days were available, exposures and potential health impacts could not be evaluated with certainty for this time period. (3) Except for inhalation exposures that may have occurred on 9/11 and a few days afterward, the ambient air concentration data suggest that persons in the general population were unlikely to suffer short-term or long-term adverse health effects caused by inhalation exposures. While this analysis by EPA evaluated the potential for health impacts based on measured air concentrations, epidemiological studies conducted by organizations other than EPA have attempted to identify actual impacts. Such studies have identified respiratory effects in worker and general populations, and developmental effects in newborns whose mothers were near GZ on 9/11 or shortly thereafter. While researchers are not able to identify specific times and even exactly which contaminants are the cause of these effects, they have nonetheless concluded that exposure to WTC contaminants (and/or maternal stress, in the case of developmental effects) resulted in these effects, and have identified the time period including 9/11 itself and the days and few weeks afterward as a period of most concern based on high concentrations of key pollutants in the air and dust.