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.     

Carnosine in health and disease

Abstract

Carnosine was originally discovered in skeletal muscle, where it exists in larger amounts than in other tissues. The majority of research into the physiological roles of carnosine have been conducted on skeletal muscle. Given this and the potential for muscle carnosine content to be increased with supplementation, there is now a large body of research examining the ergogenic effects (or otherwise) of carnosine. More recent research, however, points towards a potential for carnosine to exert a wider range of physiological effects in other tissues, including the brain, heart, pancreas, kidney and cancer cells. Taken together, this is suggestive of a potential for carnosine to have therapeutic benefits in health and disease, although this is by no means without complication. Herein, we will provide a review of the current literature relating to the potential therapeutic effects of carnosine in health and disease.     

赛艇技术诊断人机智能决策支持系统的研制与开发

针对目前赛艇技术诊断专家系统(RTDS)中存在的过分强调计算机的智能和人机功能的不协调问题，指出专家的一部分智能(指与专家经验有关的能力)与认识主体是不可分的，计算机是不能够代替专家的。认为只有人机合理分工，相互协调，才能从根本上提高决策支持系统的智能。研制人机智能决策支持系统的目的，就是为我国赛艇项目的技术训练提供一种切实可行的诊断方法。     

对《体育与健康》课程学习和成绩评定的理论研究

本文以《体育与健康》新课程为主线,为如何建构体育教育中的学生学习评价和成绩评定体系提出了一些看法和意见。其目的是为了进一步深化体育教学改革,提高体育教学质量,提供理论依据。     

普通高校保健体育课现状调查及对策分析

本文对西安市部分(20所)高蒋及学生(随机抽取陕西师大99级、2000绵学生437名及已经参加体育保健班的学生患者的12 5%,并且只有24 5%的参加者认为现行保健班参自己的康复有作用。开设保健班的高校仅占80%,并且教学上有欠规范,教学内容缺乏针对性,师资达不要求。结论:高校保健康复体育教学的改革势在必行。     

论组织中的参与式决策

参与式决策注重以人为本,支持个人创新,强调组织成员的作用和潜能得到最大限度的发挥。作为现代组织管理的一种重要方式,参与式决策不仅能对组织成员产生激励作用,也能为组织目标的实现提供保证。     

Managing Health Care in Oregon: The Search for a Civic Bioethics

Managed health care deliberations in Oregon point to a "civic bioethics" model to resolve allocation issues through publicly articulated community values and priorities that influence legislative action. Communication practices in the Oregon experiment provide data to develop an evaluative framework to assess public moral deliberation in value-laden contexts such as health care distribution. The Oregon experience also points to dialogical virtues to heighten citizens' ethical sensibilities and political will, discursive tools to inform ethical communication practices in a civic bioethics model.     

21世纪普通高校体育教育前景展望

本文通过对 2 1世纪普通高校体育教育前景的研究分析 ,发现在新世纪高校体育教育面临着多种挑战 ,高校体育教育要发展就必须紧跟时代发展的步伐 ,高校体育健康教育改革必须是全方位的进行。     

谈中小学体育教师的继续教育

通过文献资料法、专家咨询法、逻辑分析法等,针对新一轮课程改革对中小学体育教育人才素质要求不断变化 的现状,首先分析了体育与健康课程的内涵,进而阐明了体育与健康课程的实施给教师培训部门带来的挑战;最后着重 从新课程体系的培养目标、培养模式、课程设置、质量保障体系等方面展开研讨,提出对策思路。     

健康——不可忽视的人力资本投资

健康作为一种人力资本投资对提高生产力、促进经济发展和个人发展有着重要的作用。它可以提高劳动者的生产效率，刺激教育方面的投资，使人具有更多的时间和能力利用其他资本要素，具有更大的财力（因减少医疗费用）用于其他方面的投资。所以进行人力资本投资时，不可忽视健康这一要素，它也是人力资本形成的重要途径，也对经济增长起着有力的推动作用。