Comparing cumulative index and factor analytic approaches to measuring maltreatment in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health

Child maltreatment is a complex and multifaceted construct in need of advanced statistical techniques to improve its measurement. The current study compared the predictive utility of a cumulative index to a factor analytic approach for constructing a measure of maltreatment. Data were from Waves III and IV of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Wave III: n = 14,800; Wave IV: n = 12,288). As adults, participants retrospectively reported on their childhood experiences of physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, physical neglect, supervisory neglect, and social services investigations. Both the cumulative index and a two-factor solution showed evidence of convergent validity, predicting lifetime incidence of homelessness, being paid for sex, and various measures of running away or living apart from biological parents, and prospectively predicting depression, substance use, and criminal behavior. The latent variables, derived from a factor analytic approach, had greater explanatory power for many outcomes compared to the cumulative index, even when controlling for sociodemographic variables. Results suggest that factor analysis is a better methodology than a cumulative index for measuring maltreatment in large datasets when explanatory power for external outcomes is of greatest concern.     

高水平射击运动员心理选材指标的研究

本文通过与射击运动紧密相关的五项心理指标：简单反应时、肩臂动作稳定性、手指本体感、智力、个性等的分析讨论，拟从高水平健将级运动员身上明确其成功潜在的心理因素，服务于运动员的科学选材。     

过度运动对大鼠海马脑源性神经营养因子的影响

观察过度运动对海马神经元脑源性神经营养因子(BDNF)的影响,探讨过度运动导致的海马神经元形态改变与BDNF的关系.大鼠6周递增负荷游泳运动后取海马制作石蜡切片,采用SABC免疫组织化学染色方法观察BDNF的变化.结果发现:过度运动后大鼠海马发生形态变化,发生结构变化的神经元的BDNF表达增加.     

Developing the evidence base for UK film strategy: the research process at the UK Film Council

The UK Film Council established a Research and Statistics Unit in order to gather data relating to film to inform the development of UK Film Council strategy and to provide an information service to the industry, government, the arts and cultural sector and the wider research community. The Research and Statistics Unit draws data from both official and unofficial sources and commissions its own special-purpose studies to gather information relevant to the strategic objectives of the Council. Key tasks are the measurement of the size of the market for film and the various elements of the film value chain, the performance of films supported by the UK Film Council and the performance of UK films in general. Special-purpose research projects currently include a detailed survey of the film production workforce, a study of the economic impact of the UK screen industries and studies of the social impact of local cinemas and the experience of Black- and Minority-led film production companies. A range of industry and official partners are collaborating in these studies. The Research and Statistics Unit also provides statistical and policy analysis relating to the wider policy environment of UK film, including issues such as the future of film tax incentives. This analysis has been developed within the HM Treasury ‘Green Book’ framework with particular reference to understanding market failure in relation to film. Central to the market failure argument is the cultural value of film in both its qualitative and its quantitative aspects. UK Film Council research is placed in the context of the literature on hedonic pricing and contingent valuation. The industrial challenges of increasing cultural value are discussed. Finally, consideration is given to the potential of film to contribute directly to ‘public value’.     

网络链接分析研究进展

本文对网络链接分析研究的进展情况作了较为全面、详细的介绍，并分析了目前网络链接分析研究中存在的问题。     

北疆地区沥青混凝土路面平整度施工措施

本文通过对影响平整度的各种因素分析，提出提高路面平整度的几点措施，以保证平整度指标完成的经济、合理。     

贵阳市乌当区旅游资源开发战略

乌当区旅游资源丰富 ,品种多样 ,但开发中存在不利因素 ,如环境污染严重 ,资金短缺等 ,针对当前存在的问题 ,乌当区需实施可持续发展战略 ,政府主导战略和品牌战略     

英国工业革命期间的社会立法

在英国步入“福利国家”的历史进程中,各项社会立法的提出、确立、不断完善是其主要途径之一。其中,在英国工业革命期间的几项社会立法无疑处于这一社会立法轨迹中的起始阶段,有其渊源关系。其他位和作用应予以肯定。     

试论中国特许经营双赢的发展策略

特许经营以其独特的经营机制成为国际化潮流，在我国也呈现出火爆的局面。但众多的企业仅看到特许经营的优越性，而忽略了其中潜在的风险和投资陷阱。章着重分析企业和何规避特许经营发展中的失败风险及提出在中国发展特许经营理性、双赢的策略。     

Retooling Education: Testing and the Liberal Arts

The motivation and methodology for measuring intelligence have changed repeatedly in the modern history of large-scale student testing. Test makers have always sought to identify raw aptitude for cultivation, but they have never figured out how to promote excellence while preserving equality. They’ve settled for egalitarianism, which gives rise to “culturally fair” tests that substitute vagaries for knowledge, deprive students of any real appreciation for language, and trivialize education. Robert Jackson yearns for traditional oratorical approaches to schooling that venerate and imitate essential, time-tested masters. Unfortunately, he writes, such an education defies measurement with today’s multiple-choice instruments.