Trauma Events, Residence in Refugee Camps, and Educational Attainment as Predictors of Trauma Symptoms of Albanian Refugees in Macedonia

Adult members of 79 Albanian families who had fled from Kosovo to Macedonia during the immediate postwar period (June–August 1999) were interviewed. In conjunction with therapeutic intervention, the Harvard Trauma Questionnaire (HTQ) and the General Health Questionnaire (GTQ) were administered. Trauma symptoms as measured by the HTQ and psychological distress as measured by the GHQ were highly correlated. The best predictor of psychological distress was severity of the trauma experienced. Refugees with high educational attainment had fewer trauma symptoms than those with lower educational attainment. Refugees who lived with host families in towns showed fewer trauma symptoms than those who lived in camps, but they were also more highly educated. The results of hierarchical multiple regression analyses suggested that educational attainment may mediate the effect of place of residence. Educational attainment may be an indicator of resourceful and effective coping strategies that ameliorate the effects of trauma.     

政策调整适应劳动力市场灵活性

20世纪90年代以来,是中国从计划经济向市场经济转轨、市场经济体制逐步形成的过程。在这一过程中,政府对市场的直接干预程度弱化,劳动力市场机制对资源配置的基础性作用不断增强。与此同时,劳动立法和执法工作滞后,导致正规就业岗位越来越少,灵活就业和非正规就业比重极大增加,工作任期普遍缩短,劳动力流动率提高,而社会保障、就业服务机会不足,劳动者就业的稳定感极大地降低,劳动力市场的总体就业安全性降低。在这一过程中,政府进行了一系列的立法、制度和政策调整,来适应不断增强的就业灵活性。本文主要从劳动力市场制度政策的角度,对这些调整进行评价,并提出建议。     

The social worlds of immigrant youth

This introductory chapter uses a detailed case study to illustrate the interconnection of multiple social influences on one particular youth's path of migration. It further identifies some of the major influences on immigrant youth development, including the stresses of migration, separations and reunifications, changing networks of relations, poverty and segregation, and identity formation.     

Bias Reduction of Likelihood Estimators in Semiparametric Frailty Models

Abstract. Frailty models with a non‐parametric baseline hazard are widely used for the analysis of survival data. However, their maximum likelihood estimators can be substantially biased in finite samples, because the number of nuisance parameters associated with the baseline hazard increases with the sample size. The penalized partial likelihood based on a first‐order Laplace approximation still has non‐negligible bias. However, the second‐order Laplace approximation to a modified marginal likelihood for a bias reduction is infeasible because of the presence of too many complicated terms. In this article, we find adequate modifications of these likelihood‐based methods by using the hierarchical likelihood.     

完善城镇中低收入家庭住房保障体系的思考

广大中低收入者的收入与目前急速上涨的房价之间的差距,使得住房保障体系建立和完善的要求日益突出。针对廉租房和经济适用房制度中存在的问题,结合社会保障性住房的特点,提出了完善住房保障制度的建议。     

Vulnerability as a politics of decolonial solidarity: the case of the Anarchists Against the Wall

ABSTRACT

The contemporary turn to the settler-colonial framework has allowed an emerging and growing generation of activist-scholars working on Palestine-Israel to think about decolonisation as an alternative to the official conflict-management-focused peace process. This framing has allowed for the articulation of a range of rich and complex discussions concerning the making and unmaking of settler-indigenous relations in Palestine-Israel, as well as the possibility for decolonial cohabitation. This paper’s contribution to this ongoing conversation is to theorise the ways in which the widespread adoption of the settler-colonial framework by Israeli and international solidarity activists active in the nonviolent struggle against the West Bank Separation Wall has contributed to the evolution of a praxis of decolonial solidarity articulated through the strategic mobilisation of vulnerability vis-à-vis the violence, repression and dispossession of the settler-colonial state.     

Psychology in the Republic of Macedonia

Although psychology in Macedonia is as young as the country itself, it is a well established and developed science and profession. More than 1,200 psychologists are available to help the two million inhabitants meet the new standards of modern life in a society that is surrounded by countries engaged in war (Bosnia and Kosovo). This article describes two global periods of development in Macedonia. In the first period, Macedonia was part of the former Yugoslavia and held professional relationships with other Yugoslavian psychological centers, and as an independent country during its second period, Macedonia together with various international organizations assumed a crucial role in supporting psychologists' professional and scientific projects.     

《魏书》《北史》本纪部分衔接系统对比研究

语篇衔接手段主要有语法衔接和词汇衔接两大类。以Halliday的衔接系统理论为框架,对《魏书》、《北史》两书的本纪部分从照应、省略、连接、重复、搭配、同义词和反义词等方面进行对比分析,发现尽管所叙述的史实相同,但《魏书》语篇更多依赖词汇手段达到衔接,而《北史》则更多利用语法手段达到衔接。