Establishing Positive Youth Development Approaches in Group Home Settings: Training Implementation and Evaluation

This article reports on a training program for group home supervisors that was designed to utilize positive youth development principles in work with youth transitioning from care to independent living. Over a period of 5 months, eight one-day training sessions took place across one state in the U.S. (Massachusetts) with a total of 186 group care staff in attendance. The evaluation consisted of three components: observation of participant feedback during training, training day post-test, and follow-up with participants 2–3 months after training. Implications of the data, particularly barriers to implementation of training programs, are discussed.     

Comparing the Level of Positive Tendency in a Life Satisfaction Evaluation between Chinese and Western People

We demonstrate that people from Chinese cultural backgrounds have a smaller positive tendency in life evaluation compared to people in typical Western cultures. Participants first described their imagined best and worst life and then rated their current life on scale anchored by those imaginings (Mellor et al. International Journal of Social Research Methodology Theory and Practice, 2, 263–278, 1999), with scores above 50 indicating the strength of positive tendency. We compare responses from 82 Taiwanese students to data from the 22 Australian students in Mellor et al.’s (International Journal of Social Research Methodology Theory and Practice, 2, 263–278, 1999) study. Results of independent t tests support the hypothesis that culturally Chinese subjects have a lower positive tendency (65.32%SM) than Australian participants (76.12%SM) in life satisfaction evaluation. Shih-jung Lee and Chia-huei Wu have made equal contributions to this study.     

高阶中立型方程正解的存在性

本文研究了高阶中立型微分方程[x(t)-p(t)x(τ(t))]~(n)+α(t)multiply from i=1 to m|x(δ_i(t))|~(αi)signx(δ_1(t))=0(1)正解的存在性,获得了方程(1)存在正解的充分条件,同时,当n=1时,我们也得到了方程(1)所有解振动的条件.我们的结果推广了一些文献的主要结果.     

THE NEUROBIOLOGY OF AFFECTIVE INTERVENTIONS: A CROSS-THEORETICAL MODEL

The integration of information from neuroscience with the practice of psychotherapy presents with numerous challenges. However, neuroscience research can guide practitioners in the purposeful use of the therapeutic relationship to enhance clinical outcomes. This article reviews such research pertinent to mental health and psychotherapy, and presents an a-theoretical model of intervention, guided by this information that can be incorporated into various therapeutic orientations.     

Strong control, conservative point estimation and simultaneous conservative consistency of false discovery rates: a unified approach

Summary.  The false discovery rate (FDR) is a multiple hypothesis testing quantity that describes the expected proportion of false positive results among all rejected null hypotheses. Benjamini and Hochberg introduced this quantity and proved that a particular step-up p -value method controls the FDR. Storey introduced a point estimate of the FDR for fixed significance regions. The former approach conservatively controls the FDR at a fixed predetermined level, and the latter provides a conservatively biased estimate of the FDR for a fixed predetermined significance region. In this work, we show in both finite sample and asymptotic settings that the goals of the two approaches are essentially equivalent. In particular, the FDR point estimates can be used to define valid FDR controlling procedures. In the asymptotic setting, we also show that the point estimates can be used to estimate the FDR conservatively over all significance regions simultaneously, which is equivalent to controlling the FDR at all levels simultaneously. The main tool that we use is to translate existing FDR methods into procedures involving empirical processes. This simplifies finite sample proofs, provides a framework for asymptotic results and proves that these procedures are valid even under certain forms of dependence.     

Y型先导式溢流阀阀芯受力平衡方程“P*A=P_1*B+K_0*X_0”及其应用

本文解释溢流阀阀芯受力平衡方程：“P*A=P_1*B K_0*X_0”及其在实际中的作用。     

经济系统中自稳—自组机制下的相互替代

在经济系统中,自稳定功能的功能主体主要是市场,市场通过市场机制的作用来平衡系统内的一般供求。而当涨落使系统远离均衡并且市场功能难使其达到均衡时,就得借助自组织功能主体———政府,政府通过多种政策工具对经济进行调整,使其恢复并达到新的均衡。     

新疆少数民族广告业的现状与发展

面对国际广告资本的大举登陆和国内外知名企业向新疆的大举进军,新疆少数民族广告业机遇与挑战并存,应当走出认为广告业是一个“小本行经营”行业、寄生行业、短命形式企业现象、人脉行业、包装行业的误区,积极调整心态、抛弃成见,提倡广告传播的民族性,推进新疆民族广告业的发展。     

关于完全主正阵的进一步讨论

给出完全主正阵的特性描述,得到几个命题,建立了关于正稳定两个结果。     

学习者的情感因素与大学外语教学

情感因素对大学外语教学的影响甚大。本文阐述了影响语言学习的几种情感因素在语言教学中的作用,指出情感因素在我国大学外语教学中没有受到应有的重视。最后提出了自己的意见和建议。