Abuse of disabled children in Ghana

Even though disabled children are targets of various forms of abuse, such issues remain mostly undocumented open secrets in many countries including Ghana. The article is based on a qualitative data provided by three key informants. Six stories emerged from the data and are discussed in terms of four main forms of abuse. Labelling theories are employed to strengthen the discussions. The article is aimed at increasing awareness on the various forms of abuse experienced by disabled children in Ghana. The study is also meant to capture the attentions of stakeholders that have the responsibility to end abusive practices against disabled children in Ghana.     

European‐American and African‐American Mothers' Emotion Socialization Practices Relate Differently to Their Children's Academic and Social‐emotional Competence

The current study examines whether the relation between mothers' responses to their children's negative emotions and teachers' reports of children's academic performance and social‐emotional competence are similar or different for European‐American and African‐American families. Two hundred mothers (137 European‐American, 63 African‐American) reported on their responses to their five‐year‐old children's negative emotions and 150 kindergarten teachers reported on these children's current academic standing and skillfulness with peers. Problem‐focused responses to children's negative emotions, which have traditionally been considered a supportive response, were positively associated with children's school competence for European‐American children, but expressive encouragement, another response considered supportive, was negatively associated with children's competence for African‐American children. The findings highlight the need to examine parental socialization practices from a culturally specific lens.     

Conscription of children in armed conflict—a form of child abuse. A study of 19 former child soldiers

Armed combat in childhood is a form of child abuse. It may lead to serious consequences, including post‐traumatic stress disorder. The inherent emotional abuse and acts or omissions by caregivers may cause behavioural, cognitive, emotional or mental disorder in the child. Nineteen former child soldiers were interviewed in a rehabilitation centre using a standard questionnaire. Reasons for recruitment included: volunteered (18), hatred of enemy (revenge) (5), virtue of being a freedom fighter (martyrdom) (9), as a means of supporting their family (economic) (3). One child was abducted, 7 joined for fear of the ‘enemy’ abducting them, and in 5 a family member was killed by ‘enemy’ or own group. The children were involved in manual labour (15), guard duty (15), front‐line fighting (7), bomb manufacture (5), setting sea/land mines (5) and radio and communication (2). Fifteen were trained in firearms and 14 in self‐destruction. Twelve children attempted to or did run away and 11 refused to obey orders or argued. This led to various punishments, including kitchen duty, beatings, imprisonment, blackmail or death threats. A majority of the children felt sad and emotionally upset when they remembered their mother and family. Children's involvement in war, whatever the ‘justifications’ may be, should always be considered as forced, as they cannot truly comprehend their action in war. The responsibility must be taken by the adult caregivers. The following definition of the abuse of children in armed conflict is proposed: ‘The involvement of dependent, developmentally immature children and adolescents in armed conflict they do not truly comprehend, to which they are unable to give informed consent, and which adversely affects the child's right to unhindered growth and identity as a child’. Firm international agreement on guidelines for the lower age limit of recruitment of children into armed forces is required. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

轮和完全等二部图联图的若干染色问题

图的染色理论是图论的一个重要分支。本文使用分析的方法得到了轮和完全等二部图联图的全色数、均匀全色数和邻点可区别边色数。     

An Exploration of Family Violence Among the Homeless

Abstract

This research found a high incidence of family violence among homeless people. The most common form of violence was physical; the least common was sexual abuse. The data also reported a high percentage of violence among homeless people confronted with mental illness. The policy and practice implications for these findings are discussed.     

庞德"意象"的审美阐释

庞德是英语现代诗歌运动的发起者之一,所创造的意象主义理论为英语诗歌走上改革之路起到了推波助澜的作用.在他看来,"诗必须以意象为主","一个意象是在瞬间呈现出的一个理性与感情的复合体.‘这种复合体’的突然呈现给人以突然解放的感觉,不受时空限制的自由的感觉,一种我们在面对最伟大的艺术品时经受到突然长大了的感觉".     

贾母形象功能探析

本文从提供形象范式、彰显双重主题、营造叙事结构、强化审美信息这四个维度 ,对《红楼梦》中的贾母形象进行了审视 ,发现一部文学作品 ,特别是优秀之作 ,其中人物形象的功能绝不是单向 ,而是多元的。因此 ,对人物形象的功能加以研究是非常必要的     

The Independence Number of Graphs with a Forbidden Cycle and Ramsey Numbers

Let k 5 be a fixed integer and let m = (k – 1)/2. It is shown that the independence number of a C _k-free graph is at least c ₁[ d(v)^{1/(m – 1)}]^{(m – 1)/m} and that, for odd k, the Ramsey number r(C _k, K _n) is at most c ₂(n ^{m + 1}/log n)^1/m , where c ₁ = c ₁(m) > 0 and c ₂ = c ₂(m) > 0.     

"后新时期"城市小说情感模式研究

"后新时期"城市小说的一个重要情感模式是"反抗城市".它体现了某种与西方当代文学的共有主题,并构成这一时期城市小说的主要审美内容,这一情感模式在具体创作中又分别体现为"走出城市社会"、"反抗制作世界"、"选择桑丘·潘沙"等子模式.     

An immune algorithm with stochastic aging and kullback entropy for the chromatic number problem

We present a new Immune Algorithm, IMMALG, that incorporates a Stochastic Aging operator and a simple local search procedure to improve the overall performances in tackling the chromatic number problem (CNP) instances. We characterize the algorithm and set its parameters in terms of Kullback Entropy. Experiments will show that the IA we propose is very competitive with the state-of-art evolutionary algorithms.