A large-scale initiative to disseminate an evidence-based drug abuse prevention program in Italy: Lessons learned for practitioners and researchers

Across developed countries, experimentation with alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs often begins in the early adolescent years. Several evidence-based programs have been developed to prevent adolescent substance use. Many of the most rigorously tested and empirically supported prevention programs were initially developed and tested in the United States. Increasingly, these interventions are being adopted for use in Europe and throughout the world. This paper reports on a large-scale comprehensive initiative designed to select, adapt, implement, and sustain an evidence-based drug abuse prevention program in Italy. As part of a large-scale regionally funded collaboration in the Lombardy region of Italy, we report on processes through which a team of stakeholders selected, translated and culturally adapted, planned, implemented and evaluated the Life Skills Training (LST) school-based drug abuse prevention program, an evidence-based intervention developed in the United States. We discuss several challenges and lessons learned and implications for prevention practitioners and researchers attempting to undertake similar international dissemination projects. We review several published conceptual models designed to promote the replication and widespread dissemination of effective programs, and discuss their strengths and limitations in the context of planning and implementing a complex, large-scale real-world dissemination effort.     

Leaning Out: Exploring Organizational Advocacy Activities From an Open Systems Perspective

This article explores the effect of organizational culture on engagement with advocacy activities, both traditional and electronic. The Competing Values Framework offers a model for understanding how organizations’ culture influences behavior. Using a sample of nonprofit providers from across the country, the author hypothesized that organizations that use electronic advocacy tools are more involved with advocacy activities of all types. A paper and pencil survey was used to collect data on organizational culture, advocacy tools and techniques, perceived effectiveness of the advocacy tools, policy goals, organizational sustainability goals as well as barriers and facilitators of electronic advocacy. The study used path modeling to describe the connections between organizational culture and engagement in advocacy activities. The article examines the barriers and facilitators of electronic advocacy, the penetration of electronic advocacy use in this sample of agencies and the perceptions of effectiveness associated with using these strategies; lastly, the implications of these findings for managers and organizational leaders are discussed.     

框架图在《新世纪高职高专英语》教学中的应用

本文从语篇分析的角度,分析和总结了框架图在《新世纪高职高专英语》教学中的应用,指出对不同类型的语篇采用不同的框架图体现其内在的衔接关系,既可帮助学生更好地理解语篇,又可使教师了解学生在理解语篇过程中的困难,起到化繁为简、事半功倍的作用。     

Promoting Responsible Conduct of Research: A Canadian Perspective

This article compares the current Canadian and American approaches to governing the responsible conduct of research. The Canadian Secretariat on Responsible Conduct of Research acts on behalf of Canada's three federal research agencies to implement their Framework on Responsible Conduct of Research. It operates not on the basis of regulatory authority, like its U.S. counterpart, the Office of Research Integrity, but rather on the basis of making compliance a condition of eligibility for funding. Both offices are dedicated to promoting good research practices and to enforcing good standards of research practice.     

基于ERM框架的商业银行内部审计机制研究

内部审计作为公司治理、风险管理和控制结构的一部分,是对其它控制进行的再控制.由原来的"独立评价职能"转变为"风险管理和公司治理",内部审计在银行业中的作用越来越重要.在风险与效益并存的时代,现代银行业倡导全面风险管理理念.本文选取了全面风险管理的研究视角,对全面风险管理体系下的商业银行内部审计角色定位及作用机制进行研究.     

世界卫生组织《大流行性流感防范框架》及我国能力建设应对策略

世界卫生组织于2011年颁布实施的《大流行性流感防范框架》从病毒共享、疫苗分担和惠益共享等层面就未来全球各国如何应对和防范大流行性流感进行了全面、详细规定。中国既是大流行性流感病毒的受害国,又是大流行性病毒疫苗潜在生产国。现阶段中国应着重从实验室、疫苗、试剂和药品生产能力建设方面入手,以应对《大流行性流感防范框架》实施给中国带来的影响。     

基于新理论框架的思想政治教育系统建构

随着社会变迁与思想政治教育科学化的推进,人们需要运用新理论框架,重新认识和建构思想政治教育系统。由此而论,思想政治教育系统是由思想政治教育知识、学科、工作、环境等子系统构成的有机整体。在具体运行中,思想政治教育系统结构呈现为由以相依性共存为逻辑的内圈层、以相互性关联为逻辑的中圈层、以复合性关系为逻辑的外圈层构成的圈层结构。为了推进思想政治教育系统的优化发展,这就要求着力于实现思想政治教育目标,提升思想政治教育系统的认知,加强系统的多层次互动与协同,建设成熟的思想政治教育系统。     

Responsive supply chain: A competitive strategy in a networked economy

Supply chain management (SCM) has been considered as the most popular operations strategy for improving organizational competitiveness in the twenty-first century. In the early 1990s, agile manufacturing (AM) gained momentum and received due attention from both researchers and practitioners. In the mid-1990s, SCM began to attract interest. Both AM and SCM appear to differ in philosophical emphasis, but each complements the other in objectives for improving organizational competitiveness. For example, AM relies more on strategic alliances/partnerships (virtual enterprise environment) to achieve speed and flexibility. But the issues of cost and the integration of suppliers and customers have not been given due consideration in AM. By contrast, cost is given a great deal of attention in SCM, which focuses on the integration of suppliers and customers to achieve an integrated value chain with the help of information technologies and systems. Considering the significance of both AM and SCM for firms to improve their performance, an attempt has been made in this paper to analyze both AM and SCM with the objective of developing a framework for responsive supply chain (RSC). We compare their characteristics and objectives, review the selected literature, and analyze some case experiences on AM and SCM, and develop an integrated framework for a RSC. The proposed framework can be employed as a competitive strategy in a networked economy in which customized products/services are produced with virtual organizations and exchanged using e-commerce.     

政治发展:研究脉络与语境变迁

20世纪50年代之后,随着行为主义运动的滥觞,政治发展研究在西方开始兴起,并成为现代政治科学的一个重要分支。70年代以后,制度范式被"重新发现",新制度主义开始崛起,并从经济学向包括政治学在内的社会科学领域迅速扩散。在后行为主义时代,政治发展研究并没有随着行为主义的衰落而式微,而且在新制度主义语境中获得了新的理论分析视角,并逐步走向深入。