Disability,pain and love in Jewish cosmology?

Individuals with disabilities face numerous barriers that limit their inclusion within the Jewish community (Trieschmann 2001 Trieschmann, R. B. 2001. “Spirituality and Energy Medicine.” Journal of Rehabilitation 67 (1): 26–32.[Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]). While many Jewish communities have progressed and moved towards an attitude of ‘acceptance’ and ‘tolerance’ for people with disabilities out of religious obligation, it is often a practice without the spiritual ethical governing force and guiding principles of respect, equality, and human rights (Shatz and Wolowelsky 2004 Shatz, D., and J. B. Wolowelsky. 2004. Mind, Body, and Judaism: The Interaction of Jewish Law with Psychology and Biology. Ktav Publishing House: Yeshiva University Press. [Google Scholar]). People with disabilities are stereotyped as dependent, draining, incompetent, pitiful, victims, freaks, angels, embarrassments, innocent, pathetic, and asexual social burdens (Nario-Redmond 2010 Nario-Redmond, M. R. 2010. “Cultural Stereotypes of Disabled and Non-Disabled Men and Women: Consensus for Global Category Representations and Diagnostic Domains.” British Journal of Social Psychology 49: 471–488.10.1348/014466609X468411 [Crossref], [PubMed], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]). What is lacking is the consideration of people with disabilities as human beings. This injustice is most evident, painful, and damaging at an individual and communal level when it comes to Jewish singles and their pursuit of intimate relationships. A central Jewish value, right, and goal, one that is strongly promoted in Israeli society, is that of committed intimate relationships. However, this value does not apply to people with disabilities     

论近代河南士绅的集会活动及其影响

河南士绅王锡彤、李敏修从相识到成名,“经正书舍”起了重要作用。该舍通过组织学习交谊活动首先突破了“县界”,然后通过“收回利权运动”,又将全省绅、商、学界知名人士联合起来。一个在区域上不断扩张的士绅群体,也塑造了其核心人物的声望与地位,这为个人发展赢得了机遇。     

企业-供应商关系与合作绩效路径模型实证研究

企业与供应商的合作已成为中国企业运营的重要方式,企业与供应商的关系成为双方合作成功的关键.依据相关理论分析提出假设路径模型,针对 139 家企业的 260 份有效问卷的调查数据,运用因子分析的方法,证实中国企业-供应商关系包括信任、信息共享、承诺和依赖4个维度,合作包括直接合作和间接合作两个途径,然后进行信度和效度检验.针对提出的假设模型,运用结构方程模型的方法进行假设检验和路径分析.实证结果表明,企业与供应商双方的信任通过直接合作和间接合作的途径对企业合作绩效具有直接和间接的正向影响,且影响程度不同;信息共享通过直接合作途径对合作绩效具有间接影响;双方的承诺通过间接合作对合作绩效具有间接影响;双方的依赖程度对合作绩效的影响不显著.研究结果为管理者提供了提高企业合作绩效的方法和启示.     

Perceived Autonomy Support From Parents and Best Friends: Longitudinal Associations with Adolescents' Depressive Symptoms

According to the self‐determination theory, experiencing autonomy support in close relationships is thought to promote adolescents' well‐being. Perceptions of autonomy support from parents and from best friends have been associated with lower levels of adolescents' depressive symptoms. This longitudinal study examines the relative contribution of perceived autonomy support from parents and best friends in relation to adolescents' depressive symptoms and changes in these associations from early to late adolescence. Age and gender differences were also investigated. Questionnaires about mother, father, and a best friend were filled out by 923 early adolescents and 390 middle adolescents during five consecutive years, thereby covering an age range from 12 to 20. Multi‐group cross‐lagged path analysis revealed concurrent and longitudinal negative associations between perceived parental autonomy support and adolescents' depressive symptoms. No concurrent and longitudinal associations were found between perceived best friends' autonomy support and adolescents' depressive symptoms. Results were similar for early and middle adolescent boys and girls. Prevention and treatment programs should focus on the bidirectional interplay during adolescence between perceptions of parental autonomy support and adolescents' depressive symptoms.     

Early and Middle Adolescents' Reasoning About Moral and Personal Concerns in Opposite‐sex Interactions

This study examined how adolescents coordinate personal and moral concerns in reasoning about opposite‐sex interactions. Sixty‐four early and middle adolescents (Ms = 12.74, 16.05 years) were individually interviewed about two hypothetical situations involving opposite‐sex interactions (commenting on appearance, initiating a date), presented in four conditions that varied the salience of personal vs. moral concerns. Overall, participants viewed opposite‐sex interactions as harmless and acceptable in personal conditions, but as moral concerns became more salient, they were viewed more negatively, as less contingent on the target's response, and as entailing humiliation, coercion, and victimization. Age differences occurred primarily in reasoning about conditions entailing mixed‐personal and moral concerns. Implications for adolescents' understanding of harassment and victimization are discussed.     

Living Apart Together and Money: New Partnerships,Traditional Gender Roles

Drawing on qualitative interview data from a sample of 54 men and women engaged in living apart together (LAT) partnerships in Belgium (Flanders), this study explored the organization and exchange of money in LAT arrangements. The data showed that the heterogeneity of LAT partnerships is reflected in couples' monetary behavior, with couples who foresee cohabitation (transitional LATs) showing more marriage‐like exchanges of financial support than those who perceive living apart together as a more permanent arrangement (permanent LATs). The economic position of the partners and the importance attached to economic independence and breadwinning mediate the impact of future expectations on the financial practices of LAT couples. The data also showed that traditional notions of gender and coupledom continue to be strongly influential, even in nontraditional types of partnerships.     

A Simple Data Transformation for Estimating Benchmark Doses in Developmental Toxicity Experiments

Developmental anomalies induced by toxic chemicals may be identified using laboratory experiments with rats, mice or rabbits. Multinomial responses of fetuses from the same mother are often positively correlated, resulting in overdispersion relative to multinomial variation. In this article, a simple data transformation based on the concept of generalized design effects due to Rao-Scott is proposed for dose-response modeling of developmental toxicity. After scaling the original multinomial data using the average design effect, standard methods for analysis of uncorrected multinomial data can be applied. Benchmark doses derived using this approach are comparable to those obtained using generalized estimating equations with an extended Dirichlet-trinomial covariance function to describe the dispersion of the original data. This empirical agreement, coupled with a large sample theoretical justification of the Rao-Scott transformation, confirms the applicability of the statistical methods proposed in this article for developmental toxicity risk assessment.     

Social Dominance in Romantic Relationships: A Prospective Longitudinal Study of Non-verbal Processes

The study of social dominance has a long tradition within the peer relationships literature, but rarely has the topic been investigated observationally and longitudinally within other salient close relationships. The present study investigated the role of experiences in social relationships and adjustment indices in childhood in predicting later observed non‐verbal social dominance behaviors in the context of romantic relationships in emerging adults. Analyses from a subsample (N = 70) from a 29‐year prospective longitudinal study revealed links between early peer behavior and subsequent romantic relationship interactions for men and women. Non‐verbal social dominance behaviors were concurrently associated with poor romantic relationship quality, conflict, and physical and verbal aggression within the dyad. Both childhood externalizing and internalizing behaviors significantly predicted non‐verbal social dominance behaviors in the romantic partner interactions.     

试论城市少数民族的民族意识与民族关系--以兰州市为例

在一个多民族共处的环境中,每一个民族都会表现出一定的民族意识.它是研究者用来衡量民族关系的重要变量以及民族关系研究的重要专题.本文以回族为研究重点,探讨民族意识之于民族关系的意义.以此为出发点,总结出城市少数民族民族意识的几种表现形式,即民族归属意识与民族认同意识、民族平等意识、民族群体意识以及民族帮扶意识等,并透过它们来探析城市民族关系的现状.