The Continuum of Disclosure: Exploring Factors Predicting Tentative Disclosure of Child Sexual Abuse Allegations During Forensic Interviews and the Implications for Practice,Policy, and Future Research

When a child sexual abuse investigation ensues, many children do not disclose readily to professionals. Defining disclosure beyond the disclosure versus nondisclosure dichotomy is essential, yet little research exists on factors associated with a continuum of disclosure, including active and tentative disclosure. Through the coding of 196 forensic interviews using content analysis and subsequent regression analysis, findings suggest that children of color, children abused by adults, unintentional initial disclosure, and those lacking family support were more likely to tentatively disclose in this study. Implications include a need to understand tentative disclosure as part of a normal continuum of disclosure within court proceedings and investigations of abuse allegations.     

What’s on the Line?: Exploring the Significance of Gendered Everyday Resistance Within the Transnational Call Center Workplace

Abstract

Recent efforts on the part of International Political Economy (IPE) scholars to place an emphasis on the importance of everyday spaces and actors in analyses of the global political economy have largely tended to overlook the significance of gender. However, gender and other intersecting factors serve to inform everyday actions, which—as ‘everyday IPE’ scholars suggest—impact the international. Therefore I present a feminist everyday politics of the global economy (or FEPGE) approach that aims to provide a more nuanced understanding of the relationships between gender, everyday actions (in particular, resistance), and the international. Drawing on data from interviews with former transnational call center workers in Ontario, Canada, this approach is used to explore the significance of gendered everyday acts of worker resistance. I argue that along with the ‘feminization of labor’ within the industry, it may also be necessary to discuss the ‘feminization of resistance’.     

以旧换新收购方式下的逆向物流网络优化设计

为提高企业回收积极性,构建了一个以以旧换新为收购方式的新的逆向物流网络优化设计的混合整数非线性规划(mixed-integer nonlinear programming,MINLP)模型,以确定最优选址(位置和数量)和折扣价格,使回收中心净利润最大。提出了启发式算法来解决大规模选址问题,并利用算例验证了模型和算法的有效性和可行性。最后分别算例分析了企业的品牌差异和采用两种策略(单一折扣价格策略和质量依赖折扣价格策略)对回收中心净利润的影响。     

行政服务中心流程再造的影响因素:浙江实证

公共服务变革是一个从大政府小服务到小政府大服务的流程再造过程,行政服务中心是这一过程的重要载体.通过对浙江57家行政服务中心1009个部门/窗口负责人的问卷调查,运用多元线性回归方法探讨现阶段行政服务中心流程再造的主要影响因素.研究表明,流程绩效受到策略规划、企业家素质、窗口状况、信息化、部门合作、中心管理、互联互通等多方面因素的共同影响,公共服务再造的结果绩效主要受中心管理、企业家素质、部门合作、窗口发展等因素的影响.实证表明,浙江行政服务中心的发展正处于公共服务变革从第二阶段到第三阶段的过渡期,即前台整合、后台开始整合的阶段,第二阶段扎实的流程改造方面的努力(审批制度改革等)获得回报,流程规则步入正轨,但结果绩效相对较小且面临进一步突破的瓶颈.此外,还得到个别反常识的结果.     

Measuring structural HIV stigma

Despite the progress in pharmaceutical and epidemiological tools for combating HIV spread, HIV stigma remains a significant social barrier impeding treatment and prevention efforts, potentially reducing the effectiveness of interventions to reduce HIV transmission. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to defining and estimating HIV stigmatization through the structure of sexual relations, as opposed to attitudes. We conceptualize structural stigma as arising from two mechanisms: (1) a reduced propensity towards HIV serodiscordant partnerships (exclusion); and (2) a reduced propensity towards partnerships with seroconcordant individuals who themselves have serodiscordant partnerships (ostracism). Both mechanisms can be assessed from observed partnership network data using exponential family random graph models (ERGMs). We demonstrate our approach on a sexual contact network of black men who have sex with men in the South Side of Chicago. We find a tendency for serodiscordant sexual relationships to be suppressed in the network ($\theta$ = −0.69, p $<$ .05), as well as a suppressive tendency for HIV negative YBMSM to have sex with other HIV negative people in serodiscordant relationships ($\theta$ = −0.96, p $<$ .05) suggesting that structural HIV stigma is present in this network. Potential relationships with attitudinal stigma and implications for epidemiological strategies for reducing HIV stigma are discussed.     

High School Students' Contact with and Attitudes towards Persons with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in Kuwait

Abstract

This study aims to investigate demographic variables, contact-related correlates, and attitudes towards persons with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD) among Kuwaiti high school students (N = 700). The study focuses on variables that few studies have investigated and attempts to raise awareness among social workers to advocate for the inclusion of people with IDD and reform social policy that would improve the inclusion in society. The adapted Mental Retardation Attitude Inventory—Revised (MRAI-R) was used. A set of demographic variables and known predictors of attitudes to people with IDD were tested in multivariate analyses. Except for age, differences in global attitudes were found to be a function of gender, knowing persons with IDD, intimacy, frequency of contact, intensity of contact, and knowledge of IDD. Higher levels of Contact-Intensity and higher age were associated with more positive attitudes on the Integration–Segregation, Social Distance, Private Rights, and Subtle Derogatory Beliefs subscales. These findings support the development of legislation aimed at promoting successful inclusion that contributes to positive attitudes of students towards a person with IDD.     

严维与中唐侍僧交游考略

严维是中唐前期大历时期江南诗人的重要一员,交游广泛。严维一生除了与文人交游外,还与当时颇有诗名的诗僧如灵一、灵澈、清江等都有着密切的交游。本文就是针对严维与这些侍僧的交游进行详细考略,以期从中找到诗僧对严维人格、思想以及诗风的影响。     

The History of SHSAAMc: Student Health Services at Academic Medical Centers

This article presents an historical review of the organization known as Student Health Services at Academic Medical Centers (SHSAAMc). The authors discuss characteristics of health service directors as well as the history of meetings, discussion, and leadership. The focus of the group is the healthcare needs of health professions students at academic medical centers.     

The Tumorigenicity of Mutagenic Contact-Sensitizing Chemicals

The electrophilic nature of some contact sensitizers, that is, chemicals that cause allergic contact dermatitis (ACD), is also characteristic of genotoxic tumorigens. Electrophiles can adduct protein, which is the basis for ACD, as well as DNA, which is the basis for mutagenicity and carcinogenicity. This suggests that some electrophilic contact sensitizers may be genotoxic tumorigens. To further investigate this matter, we evaluated 146 chemicals that had been bioassayed for tumorigenicity and mutagenicity in the National Toxicology Program, with an analysis of structure-activity relationships for contact sensitization. Using the data from this analysis and from other sources, the proportion of the contact sensitizers that were both mutagenic and tumorigenic was found to range from 20% to 28%. This finding suggests that there may be in the order of 90 genotoxic tumorigens for rodents among the approximately 384 chemicals that have been validated as contact sensitizers for humans.