Feeling at home: Korean Americans in senior public housing

What are older Korean immigrants' cultural conceptions of home arrangements and environments? Does aging affect their family relationships? Why do they decide to move to public housing? How do they adapt to and re-create a feeling of home in public housing? This research in the field of aging-and-environment focuses on these questions. Based on a naturalistic field research of older Korean immigrants to the USA this paper details the transitions from loss of feeling of home in their pre-move life, the decision to move to senior public housing, to settling into the new apartment. The themes delineated are: 1) shifting roles in multigenerational households, 2) altered conceptualizations and changing environments, becoming dut-bang no-in (guest in own home), 3) detachment from prized objects, and 4) re-creation of meaningful environment. Revealed are the complex and interwoven nature of the decision to move involving experiences, events, and nested mini-decisions, as well as the emotional disruptions, loss of sense of self, and detachments that occur. The adjustments made by these older adults to the culturally inappropriate design in order to regain feeling at home are described. Several socio-physical phenomena and concepts identified are: a) spatial oblation, b) environmental and object detachment, c) object meaning linked to persons, and d) planned surrender or disposal of cherished objects.     

民族团结心理的构建及其实证分析

“民族团结心理”的构建是多元文化和谐的心理基础。民族团结认知、民族团结态度与民族团结的行为倾向与交往策略是民族团结心理的基本构成要素。民族团结心理构建过程中,我们应关注民族意识、民族认知结构差异、宗教心理等民族心理因素。深化民族交往的广度与深度,完善国民民族教育体系,顺应民族发展意识与发展需要,是民族团结心理构建的必由路径。     

美国的亚太再平衡战略和中美关系

美国经历了9·11恐怖事件和2008年的金融危机,而走向相对衰退的道路。相形之下,中国急剧成为亚洲地区的经济、军事大国,通过在东亚地区推行地区主义,深化南中国海领有权等措施来扩大影响力。这种局势导致了美国的亚太再平衡战略,从中长期来看,这很可能构成中美关系的矛盾因素,而中美关系的变化导致东北亚安全不稳定。解决途径是美国自己对亚太再均衡政策尽快予以重新平衡。该方向应该是与中国进行合作或妥协,而对日本右翼群体划出分明的界限。这种措施同时为积极推行旨在和平解决核问题等韩半岛相关事宜,而不可或缺的,也是美国和亚洲能够共同繁荣的途径。     

Decision support for multi-family aggregate production planning

Aggregate production planning decisions are inter mediate range decisions that can have a significant impact on both productivity and profitability. In this paper, we examine an interactive computer-based method that provides decision support for the aggregate planner. The proposed approach combines the judgement of the planner with the optimization of subproblems to arrive at an effective solution for multi-family aggregate production planning problems. In the interactive approach, the planner exercises direct control over sensitive workforce levels and production capacities. A network flow sub-problem solver is used to generate optimal production plans and inventory levels given the user-specified production capacities. Decision aids are provided to help the planner achieve a cost-effective solution that is consistent with judgement concerning workforce levels. Computational testing on five test problems indicates that very cost-effective solutions can be obtained. The results of applying the interactive method to a real-world problem are also reported.     

行政决策责任追究对象的类型化认定研究

由于行政决策责任追究统一法律文本的缺失,中国行政决策责任追究制度具有离散和繁杂的特点。由此造成的一个突出问题就是,行政决策责任追究对象的认定困局。在构建与完善行政决策责任追究制度过程中,必须注重责任追究认定实践中典型问题的化解。将行政责任追究制度的构建重心放在集体决策、上级干预决策、经听证决策以及党政联合决策失误的责任对象认定上,防止行政首长借集体决策推卸责任,杜绝上级不正当干预决策,强化行政决策听证主持人的责任承担,健全党内责任追究制度。唯有如此,行政决策责任追究对象的认定才可能准确到位,行政决策责任追究制度的构建才具有针对性的现实意义。     

生态认证产品生产者分析

通过描述性统计分析和列联表分析(卡方检验)对申请认证生态产品的生产者进行研究,发现:生产者申请生态认证的主要动机在于经济效益、市场需求,这种认证申请是理性的、可靠的;生产企业管理者在追求个人利益的同时,已明确认识到应通过生态认证提升企业形象,以维护生产者的市场利益;而采取有效措施规范认证市场、确保认证的实际效益,是当下亟待解决的问题。     

The Language of Globalization,Transnationality and Feminism

This article considers recent feminist actions in the Asia-Pacific region, which have involved transnational collaboration. This provides a site for a discussion of the relationship between language, discourse, cultural practices, political economy, activism and social transformation. It is argued recent examples of transnational feminist collaboration have either been based on a logic of similarity and affiliation or on a recognition of mutual imbrication in structures of inequality.     

分解与融会:对公共关系涵义的一种解读

对公共关系涵义历来有不同的解读。由于公共关系的涵义的开放性和发展性,以及作为概念存在的零度与偏离的语言学特性,对之进行分解与融会式解读不仅是必要的,而且是可行的。本文从公共关系原文PublicRelations入手,运用分解与融会的方法进行读解,以期对公共关系的涵义有系统、丰富和深入的认识。     

试论法制建设与道德建设协调发展的实施途径

分别从理论上、历史上、国外经验、国内现实四个角度论述了道德建设法制化与法制建设道德化的必要性,指出了它们是法制建设与道德建设协调发展的两个基本途径。     

The Role of Society in Engineering Risk Analysis: A Capabilities-Based Approach

This article proposes a new conceptual framework in engineering risk analysis to account for the net impact of hazards on individuals in a society. It analyzes four limitations of prevailing approaches to risk analysis and suggests a way to overcome them. These limitations are a result of how societal impacts are characteristically accounted for and valued. Prevailing approaches typically focus too narrowly on the consequences of natural or man-made hazards, not accounting for the broader societal impacts of such hazards. Such approaches lack a uniform and consistent metric for accounting for the impact of the nonquantifiable consequences (like psychological trauma or societal impacts) and rely upon implicit and potentially inaccurate value judgments when evaluating risks. To overcome these limitations, we propose an alternative, Capabilities-Based Approach to the treatment of society in risk analysis. A similar approach is currently used by the United Nations to quantitatively measure the degree of development in countries around the world. In a Capabilities-Based Approach, the potential benefits and losses due to a hazard are measured and compared in a uniform way by using individual capabilities (functionings individuals are able, still able, or unable to achieve) as a metric. This Capabilities-Based Approach provides a foundation for identifying and quantifying the broader, complex societal consequences of hazards and is based on explicit, value judgments. The Capabilities-Based Approach can accommodate different methods or techniques for risk determination and for risk evaluation and can be used in assessing risk in diverse types of hazards (natural or man-made) and different magnitudes that range from minor to catastrophic. In addition, implementing a Capabilities-Based Approach contributes to the development of a single standard for public policy decision making, since a Capabilities-Based Approach is already in use in development economics and policy.