Somebody’s Gotta Be There for These Kids: Importance of Service Orientation for Sustaining Public Child Welfare Workers

Research has long indicated that both employees’ perceptions of external support and their own dispositional factors tend to predict satisfaction, intent to stay, and retention. However, the dispositional factor of service orientation has received minimal attention in child welfare or social work research. This article furthers the research on service orientation by utilizing quantitative surveys to test relationships between service orientation and key organizational variables and then exploring qualitative results to gain a more nuanced perspective on how service orientation inhabits the work-related experiences of study participants and its relation to worker retention projections in the field of child welfare.     

差异提取试剂盒在混合斑DNA提取中的应用

目的评估差异提取试剂盒对混合斑样本中的精子和上皮细胞DNA分离提取的有效性。方法采用差异提取试剂盒,选择性裂解精细胞和上皮细胞,结合磁珠法分别对人为控制条件下制备的模拟混合样本和案件中的混合斑检材进行精细胞DNA和上皮细胞DNA的分离提取。对所提取的DNA进行定量分析和STR分型。结果该试剂盒能从精子和上皮细胞不同比例的混合斑中提取出高纯度的精细胞和上皮细胞DNA。结论该差异提取试剂盒适用于性侵害案件中混合斑检材的DNA提取。     

Disentangling Actors from Their Environment? Pitfalls and Added-Value of the Strategic-Choice Approach

ABSTRACT

This article argues that the Strategic-Choice Approach (SCA) put forward by Lake and Powell (1999b) can be further developed in two directions. First, the article highlights the challenge posed by the interdependence between actors and their environment. From this it draws two conclusions. A) The SCA approach is most fruitful for synchronic analysis but more challenging to implement in a diachronic research design. B) The interdependence between actors and their environment can be lessened by distinguishing between three types of actor preferences: meta, ranked, and pragmatic-preferences. Second, it argues that the SCA is an ideal framework to combine qualitative and quantitative research designs.     

Mixing Communities? Riots,Regeneration and Renewal on Problem Estates in France and England

Riots, social exclusion, and endless improvement programmes have been a feature of the poorest neighbourhoods in France and England for the last thirty‐five years or more—particularly focused on large social housing estates. Programmes of improvement have followed similar paths in each country, with mixed success. This article sets out a short overview of these programmes in each country, then contrasts and compares the objectives, approaches, and outcomes. Each country has key elements of inter‐agency working, local and resident participation and planning, large‐scale building rehabilitation and demolition programmes, though the French system is more often based on specific local contracts between cities and the central departments. Similar evaluation outcome indicators and frameworks of ‘floor’ and ‘gap’ targets have been set, although evidence of success is limited and, particularly in France, there has been considerable criticism of the approach and framework. In parallel, however, the concept of ‘mixed communities’ has emerged as an alternative strategic approach—intuitively reasonable, politically popular, but lacking an evidence base and often ineffective in dealing with poverty.     

混业经营:中国金融业的未来发展趋势

当前国际金融发展的一个重要趋势是从分业经营向混业经营转变 ,中国金融业也应当采取措施实行混业经营 ,以应对 WTO,以适应金融全球化的发展和中国市场的需要 ,以适应中国金融业的未来发展趋势     

城市流动散杂居少数民族经济发展研究

在散杂居少数民族乡村,劳务经济在当地经济发展中占有20%-30%比例,主要从事带有鲜明的民族特色的商业、服务行业,如经营清真食品、民族商品、民族药品等。由于受民族传统文化、语言、教育程度、谋生技能等因素影响,难以进入正规的企业就业,产业同质化,规模小,难有大作为。为此,流动散杂居少数民族发展经济需要在民族文化基础上,充分发挥劳务经济输出、输入地政府作用,利用"政府与市场"两只手,转变城市少数民族聚集区管理模式,发展特色产业,加强民族区域联动,走市场联动之路,合理有序引导少数民族流动人口,为流动少数民族提供良好就业、生活、培训环境,维护民族团结和社会稳定。     

Governance and regulation of urban bus transportation: Using partial privatization to achieve the better of two worlds

Mixed delivery of public services is gaining increasing attention as a way for public managers to avoid deciding between a purely public and purely private delivery system. The unusual coexistence of public and private operators in the urban bus market in Barcelona provides an interesting context in which to analyze the challenges and opportunities posed by this system. Competition for concessions among private operators and the regulation of concessionaires generate incentives to improve efficiency and quality. Furthermore, partial privatization increases the efficiency and feasibility of public operators. In fact, competitive bidding is effective in disciplining private operators and increasing the regulators' bargaining power over both public and private firms. The reform implemented in Barcelona offers an interesting insight into all metropolitan areas that are in a position to create a number of separate concessions large enough to benefit from economies of density.     

Set‐theoretic Multimethod Research: The Role of Test Corridors and Conjunctions for Case Selection

Set‐theoretic multimethod research (SMMR) using Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) formalizes the choice of cases based on a truth table analysis. We make three recommendations for improving SMMR. First, current standards can lead to faulty case selection if causal inference on a conjunction is the goal. Case selection needs to take into account that the non‐members of a conjunction might be empirically diverse and that only selected types of non‐members are ideal for causal inference. Second, we formally show that cases with similar fuzzy‐set memberships in a term and the outcome are the superior choice for process tracing. They minimize the expected membership in the mechanism and make it most difficult to pass a hypothesis test. Third, we propose formulas that comply with all SMMR principles and identify the best pairs of cases for analysis. We illustrate our arguments with a study of the effectiveness of sanctions against authoritarian regimes.     

论民事财产权体系中中间性权利的独立性

物权和债权区分的性质不是"抽象概念"意义上的逻辑划分,而是以权利内容为标准的权利类型的列举。既具有债权特征又具有某些物权属性的中间性权利是区别于债权和物权的一种独立权利类型。民事财产权利不是仅仅由物权和债权组成的一个封闭权利体系,而是存在无数权利类型的可能性,民事权利体系具有开放性。     

论纯粹经济损失的概念

纯粹经济损失概念的意义在于构建一个过滤可赔偿损害的特别法律范畴。纯粹经济损失概念产生的历史缘由为近代法确定的以有形财产为基础的损害赔偿制度。从法技术的维度看,纯粹经济损失概念的产生是德国侵权法以绝对权为基础确定严格限定的可赔偿损害范围模式的直接结果,非限定性的法国模式没有也不需要这一概念。纯粹经济损失概念在法律政策上有以下重要意义：将受害者与他人利益联系切断,而＂塑造一个利益独立的个人＂;为维护行为人的自由而免除加害人过重的负担;改变投射损失的光源点而大幅度地缩小可请求赔偿的间接损失范围,扩大不可赔偿的纯粹经济损失范围。我国损害赔偿法对纯粹经济损失的立法应采德国模式和法国模式的混合模式。