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This paper describes the services and procedures of the Philadelphia Geriatric Center's multi-service respite service demonstration project for 305 caregivers of elderly Alzheimer's patients. Selected sections of data are reported that provide information needed by professionals for planning and delivering such services. Of all caregivers who were offered respite, 52% actually availed themselves of the services. Of those, two-thirds chose in-home services, with smaller proportions using day care and institutional respite. Reasons for such choices and for the non-use of respite, the advantages and problems of different types of respite, and implications for development of respite programs are discussed.     

Interprofessional collaboration between social workers and school counsellors in tackling youth at-risk behaviour

In Singapore, although youths are engaged in school, at-risk behaviours still prevail. This study discovers the experiences of collaboration between social workers and school counsellors when working together to tackle the multi-dimensional problems that youths face. It is posited that the collaborative processes have strengthened as seen in the role clarity, flexibility and tight communicative processes amongst professionals. There are also issues of concerns raised, such as confidentiality and clashes in agenda. These are discussed in light of the processes and orientations that influenced professionals in their practise. Last, relevant recommendations are given to develop collaborative work.     

The elementary-school functioning of children with maltreatment histories and mild cognitive or behavioral disabilities: A mixed methods inquiry

This mixed methods inquiry examined the school functioning of elementary school-aged children with maltreatment histories and mild cognitive or behavioral disabilities. Quantitative analyses of linked social service and education administrative data bases of 10,394 children in Minnesota with maltreatment histories indicated that 32% were eligible for special education services. Of those children with maltreatment histories and identified disabilities, 73% had mild cognitive or behavioral disabilities. The most frequent primary disabilities categories were specific learning disabilities (33%) and emotional/behavioral disabilities (27%). Children with maltreatment histories and mild cognitive or behavioral disabilities scored significantly below children with maltreatment histories and no identified disabilities on standardized assessments of math and reading, and this gap increased with grade level for math. Qualitative interviews with 22 child welfare professionals and 15 educators suggested why some children with maltreatment histories, especially those with mild cognitive or behavioral disabilities, struggle in school. Risks to school functioning included children's and families' multiple unmet basic and mental health needs which can mask or overshadow children's mild disabilities; poor cross systems collaboration between child welfare, education and mental health systems; and inadequate funding, especially for mental health services. Protective factors included child engagement in school, parent engagement with child welfare services and a professional culture of cross-systems collaboration. Implications are discussed for holistic child, family and system-level interventions.     

'一业一会'还是'一业多会'？————基于行业协会集体物品供给的比较研究

“一业一会”制度与行业协会最优规模的联合约束限制了行业协会数量以及协会内可以容纳的会员数,从而影响集体物品的供给与消费。但是,取消“一业一会”制度可能引发行业协会运行逻辑的转变,进而导致行业协会最优规模缩小以及选择性供给行业性集体物品,从而加剧行业利益代表的碎片化,弱化行业自律,影响行业协会追求行业整体利益的能力。因此,在取消“一业一会”制度时,应基于行业协会运行逻辑的转变,建构行业协会体系与内部均衡机制,防范行业协会集体物品供给出现异化。     

电子化供应链协同商务研究综述

网络经济时代,传统供应链将转变为电子化协同供应链,电子化供应链协同商务成为企业发展的助推器。梳理2000年以来国内外116篇电子化供应链协同商务的研究论文,归整出供应链协同、整合协同商务与电子化供应链、协同技术3个维度、11个要素的研究框架,评述各维度及各要素的研究现状,发现当前研究的系统性不强,缺乏方法论指导;研究空白点较多;滞后的理论研究影响应用研究;前沿性协同技术研究尚显不足。     

动荡环境下的非传统供应链的动态协同运营能力研究

针对动荡环境下的非传统供应链战略的实施问题,采用文献研究方法,以动态能力理论和运营能力理论为指导,结合非传统供应链的运营特点,提出了动态协同运营能力的概念和七种具有不同功能的次级能力概念。在目前动荡的环境下,要实施非传统供应链战略,必须要使得供应链具有如下能力：协同运营感知能力、协同运营创新能力、协同运营整合能力、协同运营重构能力、精益协同运营能力、敏捷协同运营能力和智能化的自主运营管理能力。     

斜拉索足尺疲劳试验的关键问题

随着斜拉桥建设的增多,斜拉索的疲劳问题越来越突出。作为研究斜拉索疲劳性能的主要手段,拉索足尺疲劳试验因其规模大、成本高等原因,在世界范围尤其是国内所进行的次数并不多。在研究国内外相关文献的基础上,提出了斜拉索疲劳的安全度准则及试验抽样方法,总结了疲劳试验参数的确定方法并比较了国内外规范的相关规定,研究并总结了目前为止国内外主要的拉索足尺疲劳试验,并介绍了疲劳试验常用的加载方式。     

Techno economic systems and excessive consumption: a political economy of ‘pathological’ gambling

This article argues that gambling is a paradigmatic form of consumption that captures the intensified logic at the heart of late modern capitalist societies. As well as a site of intensified consumption, it claims that gambling has also become the location of what has been described as a new form of ‘social pathology’ related to excess play. Drawing on Castells' (1996) notion of techno‐economic systems, it explores the ways that intersections between technology, capital and states have generated the conditions for this situation, and critiques the unequal distribution of gambling environments that result. It argues that, while the products of these systems are consumed on a global scale, the risks associated with them tend to be articulated in bio‐psychological discourses of ‘pathology’ which are typical of certain types of knowledge that have salience in neo‐liberal societies, and which work to conceal wider structural relationships. We argue that a deeper understanding of the political and cultural economy of gambling environments is necessary, and provide a synoptic overview of the conditions upon which gambling expansion is based. This perspective highlights parallels with the wider global economy of finance capital, as well as the significance of intensified consumption, of which gambling is an exemplary instance. It also reveals the existence of a geo‐political dispersal of ‘harms’, conceived as deteriorations of financial, temporal and social relationships, which disproportionately affect vulnerable social groups. From this, we urge an understanding of commercial gambling based on a critique of the wider social body of gambling environments within techno economic systems, rather than the (flawed) individual bodies within them.