Looking Inwards,Looking Outwards: Dismantling the “Berlin Wall” Between Health and Social Services?

This paper argues that at a time when policy guidance urged closer collaboration and joint working between health and social services, the long-established cultural and professional gaps were widening and deteriorating. Drawing on data from four research sites, the paper argues that the deterioration was rooted principally in practitioners' preoccupations with changes within their own organizations and daily work, resulting from a major period of change in both health and social services, which, ironically, was at the expense of the joint working which the "Caring for People" reforms required. As the policy environment changes again, under the Labour government, it is likely that health and social care practitioners will be working within further organizational turbulence and change. It will be crucial that those changes are managed in such a way that they avoid the very real danger of compounding the problems which our respondents identified.     

“和为贵”、“中庸之道”与“武士道”精神——关于日本政治文化的思考

“和为贵”与“中庸之道”,是中国传统文化中的重要思想原则。传入日本后,曾对其社会发展,产生很大积极作用。但同时,当日本对外侵略扩张时,又能与其“军国主义”思想并行不悖。为什么呢？这是与日本本土政治文化,诸如“内外有别”的共同体意识、“武士道”精神,以及“万世一系”的天皇制度等相结合的结果     

A critical look at Lo's modified R/S statistic

We report on an empirical investigation of the modified rescaled adjusted range or R/S statistic that was proposed by Lo, 1991. Econometrica 59, 1279–1313, as a test for long-range dependence with good robustness properties under ‘extra’ short-range dependence. In contrast to the classical R/S statistic that uses the standard deviation S to normalize the rescaled range R, Lo's modified R/S-statistic V_q is normalized by a modified standard deviation S_q which takes into account the covariances of the first q lags, so as to discount the influence of the short-range dependence structure that might be present in the data. Depending on the value of the resulting test-statistic V_q, the null hypothesis of no long-range dependence is either rejected or accepted. By performing Monte-Carlo simulations with ‘truly’ long-range- and short-range dependent time series, we study the behavior of V_q, as a function of q, and uncover a number of serious drawbacks to using Lo's method in practice. For example, we show that as the truncation lag q increases, the test statistic V_q has a strong bias toward accepting the null hypothesis (i.e., no long-range dependence), even in ideal situations of ‘purely’ long-range dependent data.     

The social context of Welsh-medium bilingual education in anglicised areas

Principal component analysis of indicators from the 1991 Census was used to characterise the social context of school age Welsh speakers in South East Wales. The area had been largely anglicised by the Census of 1971, but the growth of Welsh-medium education was responsible for net gains in numbers of younger Welsh/English bilinguals. Doubts as to whether young people will remain active bilinguals after leaving school have been raised. The inter-relationships between figures for Welsh speaking in the Census and other social indicators were examined. Being categorised as a young Welsh speaker was found to cut across an economic advantage/disadvantage dimension, and so was a matter of life style rather than a by-product of parental choices unrelated to language resurgence. Probing life styles by means of interviews where Welsh-medium and English-medium schools could be matched on the economic advantage/disadvantage dimension showed that deciding for Welsh-medium education was embedded in authentic local life styles. Although networks of people at more local spatial scales were involved in Welsh-medium education, they were linked to wider scale networks establishing domains for Welsh language use in the public sector and local government.     

An Exploratory Analysis of the Value of the Skills of IT Personnel: Their Relationship to IS Infrastructure and Competitive Advantage

Determining and assessing the requisite skills of information technology (IT) personnel have become critical as the value of IT has risen in modern organizations. In addition to technical skills traditionally expected of IT personnel, softer skills like managerial, business, and interpersonal skills have been increasingly cited in previous studies as mandatory for these employees. This paper uses a typology of IT personnel skills—technology management skills, business functional skills, interpersonal skills, and technical skills—and investigates their relationships to two information systems (IS) success variables, IS infrastructure flexibility and the competitive advantage provided by IS. The study investigates these relationships using the perceptions of chief information officers (CIOs) from mostly Fortune 2000 companies. The contributions of this study are: IT personnel skills do affect IS success, technical skills are viewed as the most important skill set in affecting IS infrastructure flexibility and competitive advantage, and modularity is viewed as more valuable to competitive advantage than integration. Several explanations are offered for the lack of positive relationships between the softer IT personnel skills and the dimensions of IS success used in this study.     

英美侵权法神经损害之诉及其合理借鉴

神经损害之诉是英美侵权法中的一项颇具特色的制度,其对严格保护自然人生命健康权有着积极意义,但客观上该制度也蕴含着难以合理控制责任范围的问题.故此我国立法合理借鉴该制度的正确做法应该是:在我国既有的生命健康权保护的框架内,对后果严重的神经损害受害人予以救济,从而既能对确需救济的神经损害受害人予以合理保护,同时也能防止诉讼泛滥所带来的种种弊端.     

论希望的逻辑结构

某人有某种希望意指他希望某个命题为真,因而希望是关于命题的模态.希望逻辑是研究希望模态命题之间的逻辑关系.合理的希望是演绎封闭的、一致的、自我肯定的,等等,这些性质可以构成希望逻辑的公理.希望的一个重要的性质是,人们希望不一定为真,但是人们希望所希望的为真;它是希望逻辑的特有公理,可称为“希望公理”.借助于可能世界语义学通过选择不同的公理,可得到一些完全且可靠的希望逻辑系统.     

西方身份认同研究述评

身份认同是一个非常难以定义的概念,争议集中于身份认同是＂物＂还是＂过程＂,形成身份认同的关键因素是个体还是社会,身份认同与排斥是什么关系;大众媒体是传播和维持民族认同的工具,种族起源是民族身份认同的重要成份,共同语言和生活方式是身份认同的重要构成;身份认同的调查方法多种多样,普遍使用的是定性方法和定量方法,而定性和定量相结合的方法更为可靠。     

农产品质量监测信息系统的设计与实现

在农产品质量监测信息系统的需求分析基础上,提出了农产品质量监测信息数据的分析与处理方法,设计了农产品质量监测信息系统,给出了农产品质量监测信息系统的实现方法。本系统采用采用面向对象的MVC模型技术路线设计,运用物联网技术与农产品质量安全监测技术,实现对农产品质量安全的监控和管理。     

浅论提单的合同性

在国际货物买卖中,提单是被广泛使用的单据,其便利和快捷使其能极大的促进国际贸易的迅速发展。由于其得以发挥作用的价值所在乃法律所赋予它的功能,而确定提单关系的法律性质则是使其功能得以发挥的前提。然对此,目前学界尚存争议。笔者认为,无论从形式意义上还是实质意义上提单都彰显了一种意思自治的契约关系,故其应为一种合同。