Adolescent nutritional and psychological patterns and risk for the development of an eating disorder

A group of 256 female and 248 male adolescent students were assessed regarding nutritional practices and psychological attitudes associated with the development of eating disorders. While the majority showed adequate nutritional practices, there was a high prevalence of dieting and the consumption of low-calorie foods among the girls. For boys, there was no relationship between a strong desire for thinness and restriction of foods high in calories; boys tended to report that hunger and positive affective states were related to overeating. A risk factor conception of nutritional and psychological precursors to the later development of an eating disorder was discussed.This research was supported in part by a Biomedical Research Support Grant to Dr. Cheryl Perry.     

Images of Nyongo amongst Bamenda Grassfielders in Whiteman Kontri

This paper discusses the experiences and discourses of transnational migrants from the Bamenda Grassfields of Cameroon. It uses Nyongo, a popular form of witchcraft that privileges zombification over instant gratification through instant and total death, to seek to illustrate how the tensions occasioned by everyday witchcraft offer migrants and their communities the opportunity to interrogate, adapt to, reject or appropriate new ideas of being acquired through encounters with difference. The paper thus attempts to capture not only what it means to see oneself as a victim of Nyongo, but to detail the contradictions involved with inhabiting spaces that conjure images of Nyongo. While not primarily about potent witchcraft fears, violence and afflictions, the paper does point to how the metaphorical and sometimes joking self-image of zombiehood by Bamenda Grassfielders in the diaspora offers a discursive resource among others for ongoing negotiations of belonging, personal success and expectations. The paper argues that the collectivist notions of success from which migrants and their home communities draw are such as to warrant accusations, counter-accusations, and images of Nyongo as a way of seeking a healthy balance between marginalization and exploitation, social responsibility and personal success, home of origin and home of refuge. The accusatory language of victimhood employed by migrants to describe their subjection and ultra-exploitation by forces at home and in the host countries is evidence that, to them, home is neither simply to be found “at home” or “away from home”.     

Heroin addiction, crime and economic cost: A critical analysis

The conceptual framework for measuring the economic cost of crime is reviewed. Although this framework is generally accepted, specific applications are shown to contain conceptual errors. In the drug abuse area, where the greatest number of applications have been made, serious misapplications are documented. Because of these conceptual flaws and careless extrapolation of estimates that are hardly more than guesses, the total economic cost of drug-related crime has been greatly overestimated. The result has been to reinforce the policy emphasis on law enforcement and to mislead the public as to the important sources and magnitude of the total economic cost of drug abuse.     

地方政府绩效考评的人文GDP指标体系初探

党的十六届三中全会提出了全面、协调、可持续的科学发展观和构建和谐社会,这是我们党对社会主义现代化建设指导思想的新发展。因此,我们既要注重地方政府经济GDP和绿色GDP的增长,又要注重实现地方政府四个GDP(经济GDP、绿色GDP、人文GDP和人力GDP)的全面发展,同时,尤其要将人文GDP纳入考评轨道并建立科学的指标体系。     

电子政务与政府绩效评估——基于W市Q区电子绩效管理平台的实证分析

电子绩效管理平台是公共管理中一项崭新的研究议题,其关键在于以信息化工具取代传统的手工操作,创新绩效评估指标,完善绩效评估过程,精确反映绩效评估结果。电子绩效管理的出现蕴含了当代公共行政的重要变革与公共服务范围的扩展,本文依据电子绩效管理的应有含义,检视实际案例,分析实践中电子政务与政府绩效评估的契合程度,并评价电子绩效管理平台的实际效用与推广价值,揭示电子绩效管理在实践中的良好应用前景以及有待深入完善的领域。     

新奥尔良飓风灾难应对失当的成因剖析

举世瞩目的新奥尔良飓风灾难及随后问题百出的救援过程,折射出公共管理和城市管理过程中仍存在许多值得政府管理工作者高度重视的问题。本文从城市管理、危机管理和公共管理的角度对导致这次灾难加深加重的原因进行剖析,特别探讨了城市规划失误、财政专项资金挪用、危机预警意识薄弱、行政效率低下、忽视弱势群体以及政府间关系协调失当等原因。最后,本文强调了新奥尔良飓风灾难这一典型案例对中国的城市管理和危机管理的借鉴意义。     

公民社会的兴起对政策制定的影响

改革开放以来,随着国家与社会关系的调整和社会主义市场经济体制的建立,中国公民社会开始兴起。公民越来越多地借助于各种民间组织进入公共政策制定过程,影响政府的政策导向。公民社会的兴起提升了公民的参与意识,扩大了公民参与政策的范围,促进了政府政策制定模式转换和多元互动政策主体的出现。同时,公民社会的兴起也加剧了政策制定过程中的利益博弈,给政府的政策合意带来困难。     

地方政府利益调整的角色重构与制度创新——从“市管县”体制到以分权为特征的“扩权强县”改革

"扩权强县"改革在实现了市县双重解放之后,引发了利益调整与角色重构等多方面的深层问题。本文认为,解决这些问题必须跳出"扩权"思维,建立"分权"基础,在政治、经济、管理、行政、伦理、法律层面上界定改革的价值取向,并通过制定战略目标、加强政治意愿和协作、强化问责制度、确保地方财源、合理分配事务性项目、确保因地制宜等措施促进改革的成功。