Marital Satisfaction,Family Emotional Expressiveness,Home Learning Environments,and Children's Emergent Literacy

The current study investigates associations among marital satisfaction, family emotional expressiveness, the home learning environment, and preschool‐aged children's emergent literacy skills among 385 Midwestern mothers and their children. Path analyses examined how marital satisfaction related to emotional expressiveness in the home and whether this path was associated with the home learning environment and children's literacy skills. Higher maternal satisfaction was associated with higher levels of positive and lower levels of negative family emotional expressiveness. Additionally, family emotional environments characterized by mothers with higher positive expression were related to better home learning environments, which in turn were associated with higher literacy skills in children. Study findings underscore the importance of marital and family processes when considering young children's academic development.     

The Physical Housing Environment and Subjective Well-Being Among Older People Using Long-Term Care Services in Japan

Abstract

For older people using long-term care services, the conditions of their life-space may be critical. The relationships between the physical housing environment and aspects of health were examined among older people in Japan (aged 65+ years, N?=?1,928) by multivariable logistic regression analysis, adjusting for sociodemographic characteristics. Lack of safety, low access to emergency assistance, low or high indoor temperature, poor sanitary conditions, and state of home disrepair were significantly associated with negative aspects of health among people with low activities of daily living (ADL) independence. Home care service providers and policymakers need to consider the importance of appropriate environmental conditions for the most vulnerable groups.     

Eight Years of Data on Residents in Small Dementia-Care Settings Suggest Functional Performance Is Maintained

Eight years of data analysis on residents’ status from three small Alzheimer care centers suggest notable stability in function. Individuals’ functional ability was best in their first year, but their year-to-year decline was mostly not significant. Cognitive abilities also were best in the resident's first year, but first-, second-, and third-year cognitive scores were not significantly different. We compared the residents’ dementia progression rate to the true rate of natural disease progression. This study, like others on small homelike settings, suggests that appropriate homelike environments maintain persons with dementia at an optimum level longer.     

Assisted Living for Lower-Income and Frail Older Persons from the Housing and Built Environment Perspective

Abstract

This paper examines the linkages between housing and supportive services from the built environmental perspective. When it comes to linking supportive services, it is usually true that the wealthier an individual is the more private resources he or she has available to define a personal support system at every step in the aging process; the poorer the individual is, the fewer choices she or he has and the successful linkages of government subsidized housing, health and supportive services become more important to successful aging of that person. Low-income and aging individuals are the real testing ground for whether current policy allows holistic support linkages to occur and whether programs are available in both the quantity and quality to empower low-income older persons with options and support choices.

The discussion that follows is limited to supportive services and aging in place in conventional housing and affordable purpose built assisted living programs and facilities; it omits institutional living. For low-income older persons, institutional care provides few if any housing choices or individual power to control support delivery, and thus linkages between cooperating support professionals and programs becomes increasingly moot.     

语言人与语言生态

语言人与语言生态环境唇齿相依。“语言人”作为一个专门术语,已被现代语言学者们广泛使用。作为语用主体的语言人在构建良好的语言生态环境中的作用是无与伦比的。语言人具有极强的可塑性,这种可塑性具有鲜明的特征,表现在：语言生态环境决定语用主体的动态趋向;语言之间的竞争决定语用主体的语用活力;语言生态变异决定语用主体的语用变化。关注语言人的竞争与合作,关注语言人的语言态度等,是语言生态学的一项重要工作。     

环渤海经济圈的海洋生态环境安全问题探讨

不论在我国区域经济发展中,还是在东北亚经济合作中,环渤海经济圈都占据重要的战略地位,注重在整体开发中解决生态环境安全问题成为当务之急.为此,应当站在全局高度透视时代背景,把握关键因素,分析产生原因,创意解决对策:转变观念,树立陆海并重思维;科技领先,推行绿色工程技术;健全法制,加大监管力度;创新制度,建立补偿机制;循环发展,减少源头排放.只有这样做,才能在环渤海经济圈整体开发中保障生态安全,铸就中国第三大经济增长极的国家战略品牌.     

李锐笔下的“历史”——读李锐作品有感

李锐在小说《厚土》系列、《旧址》《万里无云》《银城故事》里写下了一个叫“历史”的东西。无论是平淡生活,还是惊天动地,都会成为历史,李锐写出了人在历史面前的无力感。人所创造的“无理性历史”给人以警醒,虽然一切都会成为历史,但是使什么成为历史让人思考。     

山东省资源环境承载力分析

山东省重化工产业的长期发展,不仅消耗了大量土地、水、能源等资源,而且排放了较多的污染物。分析表明,山东省资源环境承载力较低,主要表现为能源利用效率偏低,能源外部依赖度过高,水资源严重短缺,土地资源日趋紧张,近岸海域环境质量恶化,复合型大气污染日趋严重等。     

Environmental affects: NASCAR,place and white American cultural citizenship

Attempts to grapple with the complicated tangle of race and memory are more prominent than ever in the public discourse of the United States. In 2006, public intellectual Henry Louis Gates sought to popularize the search for roots and meaning with his project African American Lives, and in 2007 the black and white descendants of the landmark Plessy v. Ferguson case met in New Orleans to discuss the past and present significance of their ancestors’ lives. As the crafting of identities around increasingly fluid notions of ‘race’ proceeds apace, the activities of family historians provide a useful entrée into struggles over race, identity, and collective memory in the United States. The research reported here illustrates how the shared history of the multi-racial descendants of eighteenth and nineteenth century St Domingue/Haiti in Louisiana is encountered in racially distinct ways. Participant observation is used to examine how race is dealt with in the activities of two groups: 1) a mainly European American genealogical society, called the St Domingue Special Interest Group; and 2) the LA Creole cultural and genealogy group, made up primarily of Louisiana creoles of color. Preliminary findings indicate that while the process of engaging in family history research provides an opening for some participants to better understand others across racial and ethnic divides, this kind of cross-racial dialogue was limited by the organization of family history activities into racially distinct social networks. As the popularity of genealogy increases, the findings here point to the need to recognize the public significance of these private histories.