Ongoing child welfare services: Understanding the relationship of worker and organizational characteristics to service provision

Ongoing child welfare services are put in place after completion of the initial maltreatment investigation when there is a perceived need to mitigate the risk of future harm. The knowledge of how clinical, worker, and organizational characteristics interact with this decision to provide ongoing child welfare services is not well integrated in the research literature. Using secondary data from the Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect-2008, this study’s primary objective is to understand the relationship of clinical, worker, and organizational characteristics to the decision to transfer a case to ongoing child welfare services and their relative contribution to the transfer decision in Canada. Findings indicate that several clinical level variables are associated with families receiving ongoing services. Additionally, organizational factors, such as type of services offered by the organization and the number of employee support programs available to workers, significantly predicted the decision to transfer a case to ongoing services. While no worker factors, such as education, amount of training, experience, or caseload, were associated with ongoing service receipt, the intraclass correlation coefficient of the final three-level parsimonious model indicated substantial clustering at the worker level. Results indicate that Canadian child welfare workers make decisions differently based on factors not available in the current study and that what would be deemed as important worker characteristics do not necessarily predict this outcome. Findings and implications for future research are discussed.     

《国家学生体质健康标准》评价效能的反思与优化——大学生体质健康预警机制的构建

体质健康预警针对体质健康等级评定存在的信息缺失、学生体质健康发展的非均衡性、学生对体质健康评价结果不够重视等问题,以体质健康测试数据分析与健康预测为基础而建立的预警警示分析系统.通过对体质健康弱化状态进行分析、监控并发出预警.通过对个体体质健康信息的具体预警,促进学生对体质健康的关注,促进学生从心理上产生健康危机意识,从而产生改善体质健康的紧迫感和危机感,促进主动进行锻炼的自我健康管理.     

The Effects of Age and Number of Demonstrations on Modeling of Form and Performance

Abstract

This study was designed to investigate the effects of age and number of demonstrations on both form (strategy employed) and physical performance on a Bachman ladder-balance task. College age (n = 60) and elementary age females (n = 60) were compared under four modeling conditions consisting of no, four, eight, and 12 demonstrations in an Age Group × Demonstration Group (2 × 4) MANOVA. Results indicated that college age students had higher performance and form scores than elementary age students. Only form differentiated the four demonstration groups. Participants receiving 12 demonstrations had higher form scores than the control participants. Form scores were analyzed in a discriminant function analysis to determine which of five form components differentiated the four demonstration groups. Results also revealed that climbing quickly was the component of form that differentiated the groups the most. It was concluded that matching form by the learner may be a more effective measure of modeling effects rather than inferring modeling from performance, especially in the initial stages of learning. In addition, it appears that the number of demonstrations needed to create modeling effects is task specific and dependent on the length of the practice period.     

层次分析法在人才招聘中的应用研究

目的探讨层次分析法在人才招聘中的应用.方法采用层次分析法（AHP）,将人的主观判断用数量形式表达和处理.结果采用AHP对人才招聘问题进行了研究与讨论,利用AHP法得出应聘人员对各工作类别的权重,通过建立最优分配模型,给出了按需择优录用分配方案.结论层次分析法可以对人才招聘中择优录用的分配方案给出一种好的方法.     

苗族服饰中的造型、色彩、图案的启示

本文分别从苗族服饰的造型、色彩、图案三个方面论述苗族服饰的产生过程、苗族服饰的特征内容,挖掘苗族服饰创作的源泉与深厚的内涵,为现代艺术设计开阔视野,提供启示.     

赛车前悬架和转向系统ADAMS/CAR建模及仿真

借助ADAMS/CAR,对某FSAE赛车双横臂独立前悬架和转向系统建立多体动力学模型,并对其进行前轮同向跳动仿真,对下控制臂球头铰上移和下移后再次仿真.仿真结果表明,下控制臂球头铰位置的变化对前轮定位参数影响显著.     

Ask Questions to Encourage Questions Asked

Abstract

We delineate some types of structured practice (modeling, requests, feedback, and space-making) that help students learn to pose appropriate questions and to initiate exploration of those questions. Developing skills requires practice, so we suggest ways to embed structured practice into existing class sessions. Including structured practice is nuanced, instructor-specific, and depends on context. Therefore, we give examples of implementation in an inquiry-based learning (IBL)-influenced calculus class, in a partially IBL mathematics for liberal arts class, and in a completely IBL class for gifted high school students.     

A prototype of workflow management system for construction design projects

1 Introduction 1 In recent years there is a growing understanding of the importance of effective design management to facilitate a coordinated building design within budget, and to ensure the smooth operation of a project [1]. Therefore, it becomes a certain tendency that management of construction design project should combine with information technology (IT) to approach information share and process integration. Since the application of computer-aided design technology (CAD) in China at la…     

Externalizing behavior problems and interest in reading as predictors of later reading skills and educational aspirations

This study examined the developments in children’s externalizing problems and interest in reading during their first four years of school (Grades 1–4) and investigated whether this development predicted the children’s Grade 6 reading skills and educational aspirations. Data comprised (1) teachers’ ratings of externalizing problems and children’s (N = 642; 43% girls) self-ratings of their interest in reading, collected between Grades 1 and 4, and (2) measures of reading fluency and comprehension, and children’s self-reports of educational aspirations, collected at Grade 6. First, latent growth modeling showed that a higher level of externalizing problems in Grade 1 was associated with a lower concurrent interest in reading. Second, a positive association between the initial level of interest in reading and a linear change in externalizing problems indicated that children with a lower interest in reading in Grade 1 were rated by teachers as exhibiting higher levels of externalizing problems, which nonetheless declined over the course of their first four years of school more than among other children. Third, a higher initial level of externalizing problems with a linear change in these problems across Grades 1–4 was a predictor of lower subsequent educational aspirations and poorer reading comprehension in Grade 6. Analysis of the indirect effects indicated that a higher level of externalizing problems was associated with a lower concurrent interest in reading, which, in turn, was related to poorer future reading fluency and lower educational aspirations. The findings imply that problem behaviors are interlinked with academic skill development and motivation across the first six years of school.     

Automatic generation method of geological cross-sections in dredging engineering based on 3D solid NURBS models

An automatic generation method of geological cross-sections in dredging engineering based on 3D geological solid models is presented.The 3D geological models are built applying the non-uniform rational B-splines(NURBS) technique,and a 2D profile can be calculated and generated automatically through Boolean operation to meet the demands of dredging projects.Moreover,an automatic marking method for geological attributes is put forward based on database technology,and the geological attributes include the profile name,scale,horizontal and vertical relative coordinates,geological lithology,and 2D standard lithology legend.At the same time,the automatic marking method can also provide an interactive mode for geological engineers to edit and modify the profile in the modeling system.Practical engineering applications show that the automatic generation method is a simple,flexible,fast and precise visual graphics rendering process that can create 2D standard profiles automatically and efficiently.This method also provides a convenient support tool for geological engineering digital analysis.