Personal wellbeing among ethnic Koreans in China's Northeast

This study investigates personal wellbeing among a sample of ethnic Koreans in China's Northeast using the eight-item Personal Wellbeing Index (PWI). The PWI demonstrated good psychometric properties, consistent with previous studies. The data revealed a moderate level of personal wellbeing (PWI score = 70.3) and the results supported the Theory of Subjective Wellbeing Homeostasis, suggesting that strong external and internal buffers protect the HPM for ethnic Koreans, despite the onslaught of marketisation and urbanisation in China that are threatening to undermine Koreans' sense of ethnic identity. The predictors of personal wellbeing were found to be age (with a nonlinear relationship), education, gender, income, marital status and the city in which the individual lives.     

Visceral adiposity index is associated with benign prostatic enlargement in non-diabetic patients: a cross-sectional study

Objective: To evaluate the association between visceral adiposity index (VAI) - a novel indicator for the assessment of visceral adipose tissue and prostate enlargement in non diabetic patients.

Material and methods: Four hundred patients who were admitted to the Urology clinic between January and December 2014 with complaints of BPH(benign prostatic hyperplasia )/LUTS(male lower urinary tract symptoms)were enrolled in this cross-sectional study. Patients were divided into two groups according to their prostate volume and international prostate symptom score (IPSS) value. They were compared in terms of age, body mass index (BMI), VAI, prostate volume, PSA, post micturional residual volume (PMRV), uroflowmetry Q max value, triglyceride (TG), high density lipoprotein-cholesterol (HDL-C) and fasting blood sugar (FBS).

Results: Although univariate analyses reveal that age, BMI, waist circumference (WC), FBS, TG, HDL-C level and TG/HDL ratio were correlated with prostate volume, only age [1.125 OR (1.088–1.164), p?=?.00001], BMI [1.119 OR (1.040–1.204), p?=?.003], TG [1.043 OR (1.016–1.071), p?=?.002], HDL-C [0.923 OR (0.860–0.990), p?=?.025] and VAI [1.194 OR (1.110–1.305), p?=?.011] were statistically significant in multivariate analysis. A positive correlation was found between VAI value and prostate volume in the Spearman correlation test (r?=?0.29, p?=?.00001). The calculated area under the curve (AUC) for prostate volumes of 30, 40 and 50?ml were 0.680 (0.621–0.738), 0.625 (0.570–0.681) and 0.590 (0.528–0.652), respectively.

Conclusion: Our study revealed a positive correlation between VAI and prostate volume. Our results are needed to be tested with well-designed randomized prospective cohort studies.     

New social intervention technologies as a challenge in social work: IFSW Europe perspective

ABSTRACT

This study aims at analyzing the degree of training, use, and practice of the new technologies among the social work professionals in their work environment and at finding out their main reluctance or reservations to a more intensive use of ICTs in the performance of their tasks. For this purpose, a structured and closed questionnaire has been sent to the chairpeople of the professional organizations’ members of the International Federation of Social Workers Europe (IFSW Europe), which also includes Turkey and Israel. The reason for this choice lies in the fact that the representatives for the professional organizations have a privileged view on the situation of the profession from a global perspective and are the key informants on the current situation surrounding the social workers. This study allows us to know, among other results, that the success of ICTs among the professionals will depend on their ability to adapt to the specific professional nature of the social worker in the intervention domain. However, the uncertainty regarding the security of the personal data treatment, regarding the increase of the non included or paid work hours, and also, regarding the increase of professional stress are key factors explaining the reluctance of some professionals to a more intensive use of ICTs.     

Decomposition of gini and multivariate gini indices

A new type of decomposition by population subgroup is proposed for the Gini inequality index. The decomposition satisfies the completely identical distribution (CID) condition, whereby the between-group inequality is null if and only if the distribution within each subgroup is identical to all the others. Thus, this decomposition contrasts strikingly with the subgroup decomposition of the generalized entropy measures, which satisfy the condition that the between-group inequality is null if the mean within each subgroup equals those of all the others. The new decomposition can be generalized to the distance-Gini index and the volume-Gini index, two multivariate Gini indices introduced by Koshevoy and Mosler, with some modification of the index definition and a somewhat loosened CID condition in the latter case. The source decomposition is also generalized to these multi-dimensional indices. Interaction terms appear among sources of different attributes in the decomposition for the modified volume–Gini index.

考虑温度效应的大底盘双塔结构地震反应分析

在实施产业转型升级过程中,构建合适的效果评价指标体系是一个复杂而重要的环节。依托京津冀一体化的发展现状,在分析了评价指标体系设计原则的基础上,从河北省钢铁产业转型升级对环境的影响、对省内经济的产业贡献和产业自身高效持续发展这三个维度出发,建立了京津冀一体化背景下河北省钢铁产业转型升级效果评价指标体系,为河北省钢铁产业转型升级的效果评价提供了一种结构性方法。据此,又提出了运用这一指标体系具体实施评价的原则与思路,从而为这一宏观实践活动提供了有益的启示。     

论民生型政府的绩效评价

民生型政府是关注民生、重视民生、保障民生、改善民生的政府,也应是高绩效的政府。为确保民生型政府建设又快又好地推进,我们必须科学界定民生型政府的内涵,重构政府绩效评价的价值标准,科学设计政府绩效评价指标体系。     

我国基本实现现代化指标体系与评估

本文通过国际现代化实践与经验的比较分析,参照中等发达国家经济社会发展现状,结合我国国情与经济社会发展实际,界定了我国基本实现现代化的内涵,科学合理地选择了我国基本实现现代化指标及其目标值,并对当前全国与各地基本实现现代化的程度进行了评估,认为我国基本实现现代化的程度总体水平还不高,其中的主要原因在于经济发展水平与发展方式.今后我国应更加注重现代化的全面协调推进,把实现人的全面发展作为现代化的核心任务.     

上海“创新驱动,转型发展”评价指标体系研究

构建上海"创新驱动,转型发展"评价指标体系,应遵循体现"创新驱动,转型发展"的特点、兼顾区域比较、结合当前重点和着眼长远需要4个原则,从多个维度展开分析和研究:一是经济结构合理化,主要从产业结构、投资与消费结构、收入分配结构、企业所有制结构等的优化方面加以考察;二是创新驱动和经济运行质量提升,主要从创新成果、节能减排、经济效益、居民收入、就业等方面加以考察;三是社会生态环境优化,主要从生态环境、社会环境等方面加以考察。上海的"创新驱动,转型发展"评价指标体系应包含"创新驱动""转型发展"和"民生改善"3个子指标体系和30个具体的评价指标。     

生态文明视域下宜居城市构建路径探析:基于重庆的实证研究

基于生态文明理念,以重庆市为实证研究对象,采用案例分析、层次分析法、风玫瑰分析法对重庆宜居城市建设的现状进行了评价分析,发现重庆市的生态宜居性总体水平较差,虽然其经济发展与基础设施建设良好,但是文化教育、生态环境、社会保障三项指标存在明显短板。在今后的建设中,重庆应该积极寻求"新常态"下高效率、低成本、可持续的宜居城市建设之路,坚持五大功能区的定位延续其组团式的城市空间格局,大力发展生态产业,完善城市公共服务体系,加强科教文卫事业的投入,以此构建山水城市、宜居城市。     

2011年上海住房价格指数研究报告

2012年房地产调控政策已明确定调,“促进房价合理回归”为2012年楼市调控目标,“巩固房地产市场调控成果”为2012年楼市调控主题。上海将贯彻落实中央关于加强房地产调控的政策措施,“实现全年新建住房价格稳中有降”。调控目标的实现须以准确把握市场价格走势为前提,基于2011年上海住房价格指数趋势,未来房地产市场调控政策的调整应强化差别化政策：一是明确并加强对“刚需”的支持,尤其是差别化金融支持;二是对现有的调控政策合理评估,根据市场情况,适时调整政策执行力度。