II. DEVELOPMENT OF ADOPTED CHILDREN WITH HISTORIES OF EARLY ADVERSITY

This chapter first presents a review of research on the development of adopted children, focusing on meta‐analytic evidence and highlighting comparisons between adopted children with and without histories of early adversity. Some methodological issues arising from this literature are considered as well. Second, 7 longitudinal studies of adopted children's development are described, and the convergence of findings across the longitudinal studies and with the cross‐sectionally based meta‐analytic evidence is discussed. Third, the role of the adoptive family in supporting adopted children's development is explored.     

What is the ‘personal’ in ‘personal information’?

Ethics and Information Technology - Contemporary privacy theories and European discussions about data protection employ the notion of ‘personal information’ to designate their areas of...     

“干清粪”系统猪粪快速堆肥过程中添加剂对甲烷、氧化亚氮和氨气排放的影响(英文)

研究目的:在"干清粪"系统猪粪堆肥过程中,不同添加剂(玉米秸秆、锯末和蘑菇渣)处理对甲烷、氧化亚氮和氨气排放的影响。创新要点:将不同的添加剂(玉米秸秆、锯末和蘑菇渣)应用到快速堆肥系统中进行堆肥,测定了猪粪堆肥过程中甲烷、氧化亚氮和氨气的排放规律,为国内猪粪堆肥的应用提供理论指导。重要结论:玉米秸秆作为添加剂能增加猪粪堆肥过程中氧化亚氮的排放;蘑菇渣添加剂增加了堆肥过程中甲烷的排放,然而减少了氧化亚氮及氨气的排放;锯末处理能增加堆肥过程中氨气的排放。添加剂能显著影响堆肥过程中氮素的损失。     

The Royal Statistical Society Schools Lecture 2004: ‘Lies and Statistics’, Part 2

This article concludes the serialization of the Royal Statistical Society's Schools Lecture for 2004, on ‘Lies and statistics’.     

The relationship between bilingual proficiency and self-esteem

Proposing that bilingual proficiency should produce a more favorable attitude toward bilingualism and should enhance one's self-esteem, the authors compared 57 bilingual and 67 unilingual students from grades 9, 10, and 11, measuring their opinions about bilingualism and their self-esteem. The bilingual students are substantially more favorably disposed toward bilingualism than the unilingual students are. On the Janis-Field scale of self-esteem, the bilingual students show greater self-esteem than the unilingual students. The largest differences between the groups are on questions that measure self-confidence and social ease; differences are less pronounced on questions about self-worth and about shyness. We speculate that bilingual proficiency offers some psychological advantages to students who achieve it.