现代性批判视野中的和谐价值观构建

作为现代性主导理念的人类中心主义与工具理性主义,已经成为现代人生存与发展的悖论。人类中心主义把人当作一切价值的尺度,催生了功利主义与个人主义信念,过度偏重人的利益和欲求,忽视人与生态环境的和谐关系,使现代化成了主体征服自然、人类宰制世界的强制过程,导致了"人道主义的僭妄"。工具理性主义对人性的片面设定,导致了人性的单一化与功利化,造成人的价值理性的遮蔽与生活意义的失落。这就需要对现代性主导理念的人类中心主义与工具理性主义展开深入批判,以确立起与生态文明时代相适应的和谐价值观。     

Strategic Maneuvers for Outsourcing Flexibility: An Empirical Assessment

Tan and Sia (2006) conceptualize outsourcing flexibility within a set of four dimensions: robustness, modifiability, new capability, and ease of exit, and propose a portfolio of preemptive, protective, exploitive, and corrective maneuvers to manage flexibility in outsourcing. In this article, we build upon their proposed framework by anchoring the strategic maneuvers through a multitheoretic lens and empirically validate the research propositions. A survey of 171 outsourcing projects in Singapore was conducted. The findings bear evidence that the four proposed dimensions of outsourcing flexibility are conceptually distinct and that different strategic maneuvers contribute differently to the various flexibility dimensions. The empirical findings also affirm the importance of structuring flexibility for outsourcing success, with some flexibility dimensions manifesting different intensity in enabling outsourcing success for IT outsourcing versus business process outsourcing. We conclude by proposing a more holistic approach for effective flexibility management in outsourcing and highlighting research gaps that may need deeper theorizing and empirical extension.     

Optimum spacings of elementary treatment contrasts in symmetrical 2-factor pa block designs

The concept of optimum spacing of an arbitrary group of treatments was introduced by Sinha and Sinha (1969) in a study of the relative efficiencies of a group of block designs. In this paper, the optimum spacings of elementary treatment contrasts in a 2-factor symmetrical block design with Property A are studied using the A-optimality criterion. Conditions for optimum spacings are expressed in terms of the relative magnitudes of the efficiency factors.     

Some Properties of connectedness in two-way designs

It is known that if a two-way design is connected, it is row-connected and column-connected. That the converse is not true was pointed out by Shah and Khatri (1973). It is shown here that for a particular class of two-way designs the converse is true under certain conditions.     

Preventing alcohol abuse: an examination of the "Downward Spiral" game and educational videos

Downward Spiral is a board game developed by the authors to illustrate the dangers of continued substance abuse. Previous work has found that college students and probationers find the game interesting, enjoyable, useful, and realistic [1]. In the current study, college students either played Downward Spiral, watched educational videos on substance abuse, or completed a set of questionnaires unrelated to alcohol and drug abuse. Those students who either played the game or watched the videos rated both as beneficial. However, students who watched videos had somewhat higher levels of consumer satisfaction. Students who played the game rated it as smoother, and they felt more positive following the session than students who watched videos. Both videos and the game increased students' intentions to limit alcohol consumption compared to students who served as controls. Individuals in the game group also indicated significantly greater intentions to change their alcohol behavior than those in the other groups.     

Partner relationship,social support and perinatal distress among pregnant Icelandic women

Background

It is inferred that perinatal distress has adverse effects on the prospective mother and the health of the foetus/infant. More knowledge is needed to identify which symptoms of perinatal distress should be assessed during pregnancy and to shed light on the impact of women’s satisfaction with their partner relationship on perinatal distress.