Coalition for a Healthier Community: Lessons learned and implications for future work

The Coalition for a Healthier Community (CHC) initiative was implemented to improve the health and well-being of women and girls. Underpinning CHC is a gender-based focus that uses a network of community partners working collaboratively to generate relevant behavior change and improved health outcomes. Ten programs are trying to determine whether gender-focused system approaches are cost-effective ways to address health disparities in women and girls. Programs implemented through coalitions made up of academic institutions, public health departments, community-based organizations, and local, regional, and national organizations, are addressing health issues such as domestic violence, cardiovascular disease prevention, physical activity, and healthy eating. Although these programs are ongoing, they have made significant progress. Key factors contributing to their early success include a comprehensive needs assessment, robust coalitions, the diversity of populations targeted, programs based on findings of the needs assessments, evaluations taking into consideration the effect of gender, and strong academic–community partnerships. A noteworthy impact of these programs has been their ability to shape and impact public, social, and health policies at the state and local levels. However, there have been challenges associated with the implementation of such a complex program. Lessons learned are discussed in this paper.     

An approximation of logarithmic functions in the regression setting

We consider a method of moments approach for dealing with censoring at zero for data expressed in levels when researchers would like to take logarithms. A Box–Cox transformation is employed. We explore this approach in the context of linear regression where both dependent and independent variables are censored. We contrast this method to two others, (1) dropping records of data containing censored values and (2) assuming normality for censored observations and the residuals in the model. Across the methods considered, where researchers are interested primarily in the slope parameter, estimation bias is consistently reduced using the method of moments approach.     

国有经济是我国对国民经济实行宏观调控的基本手段

发展市场经济需要国家宏观调控已成为世界各国的共识。把国有经济作为实行宏观调控的基本手段可以说是我国作为发展市场经济时间不长的社会主义国家区别于西方资本主义国家的一个重要特征。通过国有经济进行宏观调控 ,既可以充分发挥国有经济的根本制度优势 ,实现国有经济在社会主义市场经济条件下的主导作用 ,又可以满足我国在目前经济发展阶段的特定宏观调控需要。因此 ,把国有经济作为调控手段 ,通过国有经济的主导作用来实现国家宏观经济目标 ,是符合我国国情的现实选择。     

化学新课程改革与微型化学实验

新一轮基础教育改革中，化学新课程改革在理念和内容上都强调学习方式的转变，即倡导探究性学习．探究性学习的实质，是学生主动参与教学过程，积极从事各种探究活动，亲自发现科学概念和原理，掌握探究技能．事实表明微型化学实验是实现探究性学习的有效手段．     

贝娄小说中知识分子夫妻之间的权力关系

美国诺贝尔文学奖得主索尔·贝娄小说中知识分子夫妻之间的权力关系有三种模式 :竞争、控制、平等 ;两种性质 :压抑性和生产性。作者在小说中 ,对压抑性的权力关系作否定、贬抑的描绘 ;对生产性的权力关系作肯定、赞美的描述。贝娄的小说通过揭示男女知识分子之间的权力关系 ,突出了这些女性人物本身的知识品格和职业道路。     

南非物流成本统计方法研究

宏观物流成本是评价一个国家经济发展质量的重要指标,客观、科学地统计宏观物流成本具有非常重要的意义。在系统地介绍了南非物流成本统计模型中的分解与合计统计方法的基础上,着重介绍了合计方法。合计方法是按每一种产品的生产量分别进行统计,比较符合物流运作的实际情况,可以为中国物流成本统计方法的改进提供有益的参考和借鉴。     

Predicting body fat using weight–height indices

While body fat is the most accurate measure of obesity, its measurement requires special equipment that can be costly and time consuming to operate. Attention has thus typically focused on the easier to calculate body mass index (BMI). However, the ability of BMI to accurately identify obesity has been increasingly questioned. This paper focuses attention on whether more general body mass indices are appropriate measures of body fat. Using a data set of body fat, height, and weight measurements, general models are estimated which nest a wide variety of weight–height indices as special cases. In the absence of a race and gender categorisation, the conventional BMI was found to be the appropriate index with which to predict body fat. When such a categorisation was made, however, the BMI was never selected as the appropriate index. In general, predicted female body fat was some 10 kg higher than that of a male of identical build and predicted % body fat was over 11 percentage points higher, but age effects were smaller for females. Considerable racial differences in predicted body fat were found for males, but such differences were less marked for females. The implications of this finding for interpreting recent research on the effect of obesity on health, society, and economic factors are considered.     

面向储能的光伏微网成本评价与对策研究

微电网是智能电网的重要组成部分,可以有效协调区域内的电力资源。为研究面向储能的光伏微网电力成本变化情况和优化对策,基于微网多主体结构构建微网电力成本均衡模型,以微网内分布式光伏供应及用户电力需求的统计数据为主要输入对象,并设置变量来区分不同情景下的分布式可再生能源发电量,建立以时间为自变量的微网分布式电力收益函数和用户购电成本函数,刻画微网电力资源调度的动态均衡变化。基于微网电力资源调度实例,发现微网在并网情景下的购电成本小于储能情景下的购电成本（C并=2 033.6元C储=2 633.6元）,且储能情景下购电成本的22.8%都来自储能设施的日折旧费,因此,加大科技研发和增强微网协同管理可以降低微网成本。