Alternative Medicine and Herbal Use Among University Students

Abstract

Objective: This study sought to (1) examine perceived stress and resources to cope with stress as predictors of emotional eating during the transition to college and (2) determine whether body mass index (BMI) moderated the emotional eating-stress relationship. Participants: Participants were 97 college freshmen (73% female; BMI: M = 25.3 kg/m², SD = 5.7 kg/m²). Research was conducted in September 2012. Methods: Participants completed the Perceived Stress Scale, Emotional Eating Scale, and Eating and Appraisal Due to Emotions and Stress Questionnaire during the first month of college. Height and weight were measured objectively. Results: BMI moderated the relationship between perceived stress and emotional eating. Higher stress predicted greater emotional eating for the lower BMI groups, but not the highest group. Greater resources to cope with stress predicted lower emotional eating. Conclusions: Greater perceived stress and poorer resources to cope with stress may contribute to emotional eating during the transition to college. The relationship between perceived stress and emotional eating may vary by BMI.     

Principles of Total Quality Management and Their Application to Employee Assistance Programs:

Total quality management (TQM) has been thrust into the psyche of corporate America. TQM is not a new phenomena. Introduced in the early fifties to Japanese managers by an American management expert, it served to make Japan an international economic leader. U.S. companies have generally had little international competition. They now recognize he formidable challenge that quality based companies represent and are striving to replicate these successes. To do so will be to remain competitive. To discount the impact of TQM initiatives could spell economic disaster. Employee assistance program (EAP) management is modeled after American management principles. EAPs are also now having to compete for market share in ways for which they were never prepared. The TQM initiatives currently being implemented in many companies may be applied equally well to EAPs. This article presents an overview of the TQM principles formulated by W. Edwards Derning. The article also attempts to critically analyze some of the areas that have been problematic in EAP management. Further, it examines how TQM initiatives could serve to ameliorate some of these problems and lend additional impetus to the competitiveness of employee assistance programs with other behavioral health care service delivery and cost management programs.     

网络的类市场环境与道德的自发生成

历史及事实皆显示道德在很大程度上沿自生自发的发展路径生成.网络实践较为明显地带来了个人的自主与自由,尤有价值的是文化上的自主性.网络环境是类市场环境,这种类市场环境的特征会逐步促使无数上网个体的自主性的觉醒,进一步确立起个体作为责任主体和道德主体的地位,最终有助于个体道德的生长.网络的类市场环境不仅有助于道德的自发生长,且意外地使自由、自主与道德三者形成了互相促进、相得益彰的关系.已经和正在展现的事实都表明网络的类市场环境让个体的自由、自主与道德获得了前所未有的发展空间,道德因素在网络世界愈发显示出其重要性和力量,并辐射与作用于现实社会.这使我们依然可以对信息时代的道德充满信心.     

我国民间投资的特征、结构及政策建议

我国民间投资包括企业法人投资、机构法人投资和自然人投资等。在现阶段 ,我国民间投资具有脆弱性、逐利性 ,地域性等特征。文章剖析了我国民间投资中存在的结构不合理等问题 ,并就此提出了一些政策建议。     

三板市场:设立的必要性与发展思路

首先归纳了三板市场的特征,从历史、理论、现实三个角度论证了在我国设立三板市场的必要性,构想了我国三板市场的发展思路和发展步骤,分析了发展的障碍,进而提出了相应对策.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
David Griffiths, W. Douglas Stirling, and K. Laurence Weldon, Understanding Data: Principles and Practice of Statistics
Ingwer Borg and Patrick Groenen, Modern Multidimensional Scaling: Theory and Applications
Jeffrey H. Dorfman, Bayesian Economics Through Numerical Methods: A Guide to Econometrics and Decision-making with Prior Information
Marek Musiela and Marek Rutkowski, Martingale Methods in Financial Modelling: Theory and Applications
Aad W. van der Vaart and Jon A. Wellner, Weak Convergence and Empirical Processes     

抗氧化修饰低密度脂蛋白单克隆抗体的制备及其初步应用

用氧化修饰脂蛋白（ａ）对Ｂａｌｂ／ｃ小鼠免疫．利用淋巴细胞杂交瘤技术制备了鼠抗人氧化修饰低密度脂蛋白（ｏｘｉｄａｔｉｖｅｌｙｍｏｄｉｆｉｅｄｌｏｗｄｅｎｓｉｔｙｌｉｐｏｐｒｏｔｅｉｎ，ｏｘＬＤＬ）单克隆抗体细胞株．以单克隆抗体包被建立了酶联免疫吸附（ＥＬＩＳＡ）双抗夹心法．用此法对１０例冠心病患者、６例其他心脏病患者、１０例正常健康人血浆中ｏｘＬＤＬ的含量进行了测定．结果表明，冠心病患者血浆中ｏｘＬＤＬ水平明显高于其他心脏病组和正常对照组．本实验所建立的方法对诊断冠心病患者血浆中的ｏｘＬＤＬ具有重要意义     

建立有效的国有企业管理人员的激励和约束机制

如何充分发挥国有企业管理人员的才能 ?如何针对国有企业管理人员的行为特征建立有效的激励和约束机制 ,从而解决激励不力、约束不力的问题 ?对这些问题的回答也正是搞活国有企业的关键所在。论文尝试建立针对国有企业管理人员的有效的激励、约束机制 ,从而推动国有企业的改革 ,实现国有资产的保值增值。     

仿人智能控制器的模糊自整定

仿人智能控制器（ＨＳＩＣ）是一类实时鲁棒的智能控制器，被成功用于不少工业过程，但在实际应用中，控制器参数的整定仍然依靠专家来进行，考虑到ＨＳＩＣ控制器参数与系统闭环响应过程特征参数之间的模糊关系，本文提出了一类基于模糊推理的参数自整定方法并用于温度对象的控制中，表明该方法是有效的。     

Efficiency improvement from multiple perspectives: An application to Japanese banking industry

The current study focuses on efficiency improvement for banking systems from multiple perspectives, which have different definitions of input/output about various attributes of a banking system. In this research we utilize data envelopment analysis (DEA) and Nash bargaining game (NBG) theory to improve inefficient banks in order to: (1) Make the inefficient bank be the state of Pareto Optimality for multiple perspectives, which can avoid discontentment of some perspectives. (2) Improve a bank by changing its attributes and provide various improving schemes for decision makers. A numerical case study of Japanese banks is also given to show the results of equilibrium solution from multiple perspectives.