Effectiveness and feasibility of a 10-minute employee stress intervention: Outdoor Booster Break

There is a growing recognition that workplace environments affect employee health. Nature contact exposures in the workplace have been shown to be healthful for employees. This pilot study was designed to test the feasibility and efficacy of a daily outdoor work break (Outdoor Booster Break) compared to a daily indoor break. A census of university office staff was invited to participate (N?=?244). Phase 1 focused on feasibility—participants (n?=?119) reported that the Outdoor Booster Break was feasible (74%), practical (80%), and worthwhile (83%). During Phase II we used a single-site randomized controlled trial (RCT) to examine the effects of an Outdoor Booster Break—compared with a control indoor work break group—for 4 weeks on employee stress. Perceived stress was measured at pretest and posttest for both conditions. Mean posttest stress scores were lower for both the control group (n?=?19) and the treatment group (n?=?18). A main effects ANCOVA model controlling for baseline stress revealed posttest stress was lower for the treatment group compared to controls (p?=?.041). Taking a work break appears to have stress-reducing benefits, but the Outdoor Booster Break reduced stress significantly more than an indoor break. Implications for employers, worksite health promoters, and future research are discussed.     

陌生人社交视野的二手手机收购摊贩互信交易

街边大量存在的二手手机收购摊贩互信交易对剖析当下中国陌生人社交互信缺乏症具有极好价值。二手手机收购交易双方缔造的是一种“暂时性互信”，将“暂时性互信”的意义作一拓展，便可窥探到其背后隐藏着的二手手机收购互信交易所赖以达成的均衡机制；将此均衡机制再拓展运用到对中国陌生人社交互信缺乏症的诊疗上，又可探索到症结及药方——由此追求均衡、促成均势所构成的根本指导方法和原则的正义性也得到了应有的展示。     

Does Opening Adoption Records Have an Adverse Social Impact? Some Lessons from the U.S., Great Britain,and Australia, 1953–2007

This study provides an international history of the adoption reform movement in the United States, Great Britain, and Australia from 1953 to 2007. It empirically tests how safe birth parents and adopted adults are in countries that have opened their adoption records, usually birth registration records, using contact preference forms and contact vetoes. The results of this investigation reveal that a vast gap exists between the fear by birth parents and adopted adults that their privacy will be invaded and their family disrupted and the reality that few or no offenses are committed. It follows that opening adoption records with contact preference forms or contact vetoes provides a balanced adoption disclosure system and is a viable alternative to the sealed adoption policies currently used in the vast majority of American states and Canadian provinces.     

QQ访问：师生闲话中的精神交往

对于大学师生来说,精神交往尤为重要。QQ访问作为一种全新的精神交往方式,无疑是大学师生关系的润滑剂,能够直面学生的精神世界,动态地了解班级情况,延续着毕业后师生间的未了情。如果能够注意绕开一些网络交往雷区,教学效果势必会更佳。     

西北地区三声调方言分布特点透析

统计了西北地区131个三声调方言点,其在各行政区以及方言区的分布特点表明,西北地区方言的声调系统正在简化,东端的方言仍然保持四声调的格局,西端的方言则已经完成调类合并.西北地区三声调方言与阿尔泰语言的分布密切相关,声调系统简化是西北地区语言超音段特征的区域共性在汉语方言上的体现.     

联系度在决策中的应用

介绍了集对分析的一个重要概念——联系度，讨论了用联系度进行单个方案决策及多个方案评优决策的方法。     

地域空间与社会网络:宋明理学与道教的交融——以陆学士人与龙虎山道士的交游为中心

在宋明理学和道教的交流与融合过程中,深深地打上了地域性传统及社会文化交往圈的烙印.如宋元明时期陆学的发展与龙虎山道教的发达有着密切的关系,其地域联系、社会网络亦有着穿越时空的连续性.这种地域联系与社会文化交游圈对于陆学与龙虎山道教思想的融合无疑产生了重要的作用.     

借词和词语输入

结合具体例证对语言接触在词汇系统中的影响进行讨论,提出并论证了以下问题:借词这一基本概念的定义、内涵和外延;对词汇受外部语言影响引起的各种复杂变化进行分析归类;论述借词和词语输入之间的关系并解释两者之间进行区别的必要性.     

Multimarket pioneers: Does multimarket contact improve their performance?

First-mover advantages (FMA) and multimarket contact (MMC) have evolved independently in the strategic management literature. This is surprising because FMA erode as a result of competition which, in turn, is affected by MMC. This paper links these literatures through the concept of spheres of influence and analyses the effect of MMC on pioneers' profitability. We use the order of market entry to identify spheres of influence and to determine their distribution among multimarket firms. The distribution of spheres of influence allows us to distinguish between reciprocal MMC and non-reciprocal MMC and to study how each of them determines pioneers' profitability. We test our hypotheses in the mobile telecommunications industry. Our findings show that reciprocal MMC has a positive effect on pioneers’ results, but non-reciprocal MMC negatively affects them.     

Co‐producing innovation or innovating co‐production? Responding to the contact needs of non‐resident parents in the Republic of Ireland

The empowerment and participation of children and families in both the design and the delivery of services oriented towards them is now an accepted norm, if not always the accepted practice. Yet, challenges still remain, particularly where parents are separated and contact issues are problematic. Although contact centres are common in some Western countries including Australia, New Zealand, the UK, France, and the USA, this is not the case in the Republic of Ireland. The relatively recent introduction of divorce, increases in separation and childbirth outside of marriage have led to the need for service planners to respond to the growing issue of non‐resident contact with children. Using Bovaird's co‐production framework, the purpose of this paper is to outline and discuss specific findings relating to service user involvement emanating from a formative evaluation of an innovative supported contact service in Ireland. What emerges from the findings is a picture of co‐production where the broad parameters of the service are professionally defined and where the specifics of service user involvement in delivery vary from family to family but within the bounds of professional control.