The Blended Family Life Cycle

Blended families face unique challenges that differ greatly from those encountered by nuclear families. Societal stereotypes that view blended families as abnormal, taking nuclear family functioning as the prototype for all family units, create a lack of role clarity for each of the members involved. Although many strategies exist with which to help families, many are based on nuclear family systems and thus are inapplicable to blended families. The creation of a blended family life cycle specific to blended family systems could help members of a blended family create a successful family unit as they work with a counselor.     

Extension of the Kaldor-Kalecki model of business cycle with a computational anticipated capital stock

Abstract

This article would like to show the importance of anticipation for making decisions and organizational transformations. A useful tool for computing anticipatory systems is given by differential difference equations with retardation and anticipation. This paper shows the effect of retardation and anticipation on the evolution of simple growth equations. As a practical example, the Kaldor-Kalecki model of business cycle is studied in view of showing its anticipatory capabilities. Initially, this model was created to include anticipated decisions of investments. Indeed there is a time shift between a decision of investment and the actual installation of investment equipment. The Kalecki ‘distribution’ cycle related dynamics and income distribution in perhaps the first mathematically sophisticated treatment of cyclical phenomena in economics. His instrumental relationship was to posit a time lag between the investment decision and installation of investment goods.     

A Case Study of Adaptation in a Nonprofit Human Service Organization

This paper demonstrates the applicability of political economy theory to understanding adaptation of human service organizations. Through the use of a case study, the paper demonstrates the adaptation that occurred over twenty years in a family service agency. The findings show an organization selecting a particular service niche in which to operate. The findings further demonstrate a specialized clientele, a diversified program style, marked stability in the organization's financial strategy, and a diversified financial style. The major tier of revenue groups was dominated by Purchase of Service Contracts (POSC) which demonstrated volatility in response to changes in the external environment. Implications are drawn from education and practice.     

A Rose by Any Name Would Smell as Sweet

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关于我国开发区工业用地实行短租制的探讨

应用理论分析法和文献综述法，针对现阶段我国开发区工业用地的使用现状及出让制度进行分析，探讨工业用地实行短租制的可行性；通过对短租制的历史背景及相关法律关系进行分析，并结合我国开发区用地及供地现状，从短租制的法律依据、适用范围、性质界定、租期及租金确定等角度探讨了我国开发区工业用地实行短租制的可行性与现实意义。研究分析认为，开发区工业用地实行短租制具有相应的法律依据，符合现行政策，操作灵活，在实际工作中是可行的。同时，文章对保障短租制的实施也提出了相应对策及建议。     

返本开新与文化自觉——从斯宾格勒与雷海宗谈起

文化自觉,就是认识到文化是一个独立存在的有机体,有自己的孕育、萌芽、生长、成熟、衰落和死亡,完成一个自然生命的周期。文化多元的实质在于世界上曾经存在多个相互独立的文化,彼此无高下之分。中西文化之间,不是进步、落后,发达、不发达的问题,而是不同的文化形态、不同的有机体、不同的生命阶段及未来不同的走向。中国文化的出路在于返自我之本开自我之新。     

从《论法的精神》追寻孟德斯鸠“最优的政体”

孟德斯鸠将政体划分为民主政体、贵族政体、君主政体和专制政体,这一划分不仅是对亚里士多德的继承和发展,而且他强调政体的核心在于政体的原则。政体的原则是使政体行动的东西,是使政体运动的人类感情,包括风俗、人情、民族性、地理环境等等。每一种政体都有其赖以依存的原则,当这种政体原则发生变化的时候,政体就发生了腐化,造成了政体之间的循环。前三种宽和政体之间的转变是可以接受的,但是要防止政体向专制政体转化,就需要权力的制约和平衡。他认为"最优的政体"是一个最适宜于一个民族特征的政体,是一个包含社会各阶层的中庸政体,是一个在法律的统治之下权力相互制约、相互制衡的政体。     

政府机构改革中的“怪圈”探析——兼议完善大部制改革的方向

从我国政府机构改革发展历程看,政府机构及人员"精简—膨胀—再精简—再膨胀""怪圈"存在具有客观必然性,当前的大部制改革在具有合理性的同时,也存在局限性。因此,政府治理与改革不能以简单的机构增减论成败,而要以能否准确及时回应生产力发展和社会需求为准则,不断调整、完善和优化政府职能,以控制人均行政成本为中心,完善监督机制,实现"市场—政府"的动态平衡和"小政府、大社会"的善治模式,从而延长"怪圈"循环周期,直至走出怪圈。     

Living Lab 创新方法在网络课程建设中的应用

Livingb Lab作为一种创新方法已经在很多国家不同的领域开展了诸多的研究和应用,并取得了较大的成功。本研究利用Living Lab理念进行网络课程建设体系的创新,旨在探讨Living Lab在不同领域应用的理论和方法的适用性和特殊性;通过对网络课程建设中存在问题的分析,提出了课程建设中的CIC模型;通过分析课程建设生命周期不同阶段用户参与的贡献与作用,建构了利用Living Lab理念建立开放式的课程建设模式。本研究将Living Lab创新方法的研究应用于网络教育特定领域,以优化课程服务的生命周期为着眼点实现对课程建设效率的提升,这对探索网络教育持续发展的创新方法有着重要意义。     

论尼采的政治哲学

弗里德里希·威廉·尼采 ( Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche,公元 1 844— 1 90 0年 )是德国由自由资本主义向帝国主义过渡时期最敏锐地反映资产阶级要求的哲学家和政治思想家。他的政治哲学形成于 1 9世纪 70— 80年代。他从当时德国资产阶级实际发展的状况出发 ,宣称要摧毁“一切旧的价值体系”,并重新估价一切价值 ,创立以“权力意志”论为基础 ,以“超人”学说为核心的强者的价值体系。尼采的政治哲学就是建立在这种价值体系之上的 ,具有浓重时代气息的社会政治思潮 ,对当时德国资本主义的发展产生了重要影响