Early socialization of hostile attribution bias: The roles of parental attributions,parental discipline,and child attributes

The goal of this study was to examine child and parent predictors of children's hostile attribution bias (HAB) with a particular focus on exploring the associations between parents’ early attribution of child misbehavior and children's HAB in the transition to school age. Participants were 241 children (118 girls) of middle‐income families who were at risk for school‐age conduct problems. Multi‐method, multi‐informant data were collected on maternal attributions of child misbehavior, parental use of corporal punishment, and child attributes (i.e., verbal IQ, effortful control, theory of mind, and emotional understanding) at 3 years, and child HAB in ambiguous situations at 6 years. Results indicated that mothers’ internal explanations for children's misconduct may either reduce or increase children's later HAB depending on the specific content of attributions, such that mothers’ belief that children misbehave because of their internal state (i.e., emotional state or temperament) was associated with lower levels of child HAB, whereas attributing power‐based motives (i.e., manipulative, controlling intentions) in children was associated with higher levels of HAB. The findings are discussed with respect to appreciating the complexity of parents’ explanations for children's behavior, and considering parental cognition as a potential target for early identification and prevention of child HAB and related problems.     

Determinants of public attitude towards a social enterprise crisis in the digital era: Lessons learnt from THINX

This study examines how the perceived locus of crisis cause, controllability, and adherence to social mission are associated with public attitude in the context of a social enterprise crisis and evaluates the differences between these variables under episodic and thematic frames of online articles. Using the crisis case of THINX in 2017 as a case study, a quantitative content analysis was performed on a sample of 503 comments under online articles. Hierarchical regression revealed that the locus of crisis cause and adherence to social mission were associated with public attitude, whereas controllability was not associated with public attitude when adherence to social mission was accounted for. Significant differences were found in the locus of crisis cause, controllability, adherence to social mission, and public attitude between episodic and thematic frames. This study provided a basis for the theoretical development of crisis communication in a social enterprise and the corresponding role for public relations.     

一类CRM模型的构建及其销售策略分析

从分析现有CRM(客户关系管理)系统的缺失入手,强调了销售以客户“人”为分析基点的重要性,在此基础上给出了一类销售过程的简化状态指标.应用该思路、指标、借助于Pfeifer和Carraway的思路、利用Markov链建立商家与客户关系模型,就有限次销售的一次交易、多次交易及无限次销售的情况分别给出相应分析结果.并考虑企业实际运作,进一步讨论了该模型下不同销售策略模型的响应.结果表明,减少成功率小的销售活动,企业期望获利会更大些.     

香港科技發展的經驗及其對澳門的啟示

從97年回歸至今,香港的科技有了很大的發展。香港在發展過程中所制訂的科技發展策略和科技政策都非常值得澳門學習,本文對回歸以來香港的科技政策進行了全面回顧,由此歸納出可资澳門借鑒的科技政策。     

拉美會議業發展經驗及其對澳門的借鑒作用探析

近年來,拉美地區的會議業始終保持良好的發展勢頭,其中拉美各國政府、行業協會、會議觀光局等官方、半官方和非官方的組織發揮了重大的重用。本文對這些組織的作用進行了總結,由此歸納出可供澳門借鑒的經驗。     

Shared and unique characteristics of school,cyber and family victimization among school-aged children in Hong Kong

Victimizations from online and offline violence, such as sibling violence, school violence and witness of family violence, both have negative associations with victims' mental health and may share similar individual and family characteristics. This study aims to explore the common and differentiated characteristics in the prediction of school, cyber and family victimization and whether there are unique associations within these victimization types. We employed a two-stage stratified sampling method to collect a representative sample of 5567 children aged 3–17 from a cross-sectional, school-based survey in Hong Kong. Results showed that all types of child victimization, including sibling, school and cyberbullying, as well as the witness of violence at home, were positively correlated with each other. Children's age was positively related to the occurrence and cooccurrence of all types of child victimization. Frequent family residential mobility and parents' higher education level were positively related to all types of children's victimization. The scores of all aspects of children's paediatric quality of life were found negatively related to children's school victimization. This study provides insight into the unique and shared elements of children's online and offline victimization. Knowledge of the distinguished familial gradients of child victimization at home and beyond could benefit the development of child victimization prevention.     

Factors Associated with Adolescents’ Disclosure of Sexual Abuse Experiences in Hong Kong

This research project is the first study conducted in Hong Kong using adolescent subjects to explore predictors of child sexual abuse disclosure. Eight-hundred male and female adolescents aged 13 to 16 years were recruited from the community while another 30 adolescents joined the study from a clinical setting. One hundred and seventy-seven adolescents acknowledged having a child sexual abuse experience. Results showed that the severity of sexual abuse activities and parent attachment were associated with disclosure in the clinical setting, while abuser’s gender and the adolescents’ disclosure tendency were associated with disclosure among participants in the community setting. Among the 104 participants who had disclosed their childhood sexual abuse, 70% of them had disclosed it within one month and 63% of them had disclosed to 2 to 5 people. The majority of the disclosers (81%) shared their child sexual abuse experience(s) with their friends. Participants from the clinical setting tended to reveal the experience more to adults than those from the community. The study suggested that when choosing a potential confidant, adolescents paid more attention to confidant characteristics than to anticipated confidant responses to their disclosure. Limitations and practical implications for increasing child sexual abuse disclosure rates are discussed.     

Genetic algorithm to production planning and scheduling problems for manufacturing systems

Fundamental and extended multi-objective (MO) models are designed to address earliness/tardiness production scheduling planning (ETPSP) problems with multi-process capacity balance, multi-product production and lot-size consideration. A canonical genetic algorithm (GA) approach and a prospective multi-objective GA (MOGA) approach are proposed as solutions for different practical problems. Simulation results as well as comparisons with other techniques demonstrate the effectiveness of the MOGA approach, which is a noted improvement to any of the existing techniques, and also in practice provides a new trend of integrating manufacturing resource planning (MRPII) with just-in-time (JIT) in the production planning procedure.     

Diversification and Extensible Networks: The Strategies of Chinese Businesses in Australia1

DIVERSIFICATION ET RÉSEAUX EXTENSIBLES: LES STRATÉGIES DES ENTREPRENEURS CHINOIS EN AUSTRALIE
Cet ouvrage rend compte d'une enquête effectuée dans 28 entreprises créées par des Chinois de souche à Brisbane, Adélaïde et Perth et réalisée en 2000–2001. Elle met surtout l'accent sur les stratégies des immigrés en termes de diversification verticale, horizontale et non corrélée en combinant souvent différents produits, marchés et activités. Elle démontre combien ces pratiques sont socialement ancrées dans le système qui porte les migrants à préférer les réseaux personnels.
La diversification non corrélée en particulier se trouve favorisée et facilitée par l'usage de ierelations lâchesli servant de relais et donnant accès à de nouveaux réseaux (Granovetter, 1973). Cela permet de nouer des liens avec les Chinois d'origines nationales différentes et parlant des dialectes différents, ainsi qu'avec des membres chinois d'autres groupes ethniques. Les auteurs émettent l'opinion selon laquelle les réseaux ouverts et la diversification interagissent mutuellement, ce qui fait que chaque partie en tire profit, et qu'ils ont probablement évolué en tandem au départ de cultures et de pratiques commerciales antérieures, plus fermées et à caractère de niche.