Gifts in a Romantic Relationship: A Survival Analysis

Employing a survival analysis approach, this study synthesizes 3 aspects of gift literature and suggests their effects on the timing of dissolution for a romantic relationship. Products or services can be consumed for the purpose of enhancing self‐attractiveness (self‐gift), expressing love to partners (other‐gift), and announcing a relationship to the outer world (joint‐gift). Results indicate that the distribution of time until dissolution for young students’ romantic relationships is more likely to first fall and then rise. Gifts can delay the timing of dissolution, but not the probability of its final destination. For female students, self‐enhancing gifts are found to delay the timing; for male students, love‐expressive gifts speed up the timing; and for both male and female students, relationship‐announcing gifts delay the timing of dissolution. Consumers, thus, are advised to use gifts to make their relationships endure, but not to attempt to alter a poor relationship into a successful one.     

儒家政治哲学的特点及其范式建构——以亚里士多德《政治学》为参照

梁启超称,“中国学术以研究人类现世生活之理法为中心,以今语道之,即人生哲学及政治哲学所包含之诸问题也。”[1]陈寅恪进一步补充说,“华夏民族所受儒家学说之影响,最深最巨者,实在制度法律、公私生活之方面。”[2]那么,这个影响华夏民族最深最巨的儒家政治哲学最主要的特点是     

《天盛律令》与西夏佛教

本文依据西夏法典<天盛改旧定新律令>和其它汉文资料,对西夏佛教的赐衣、封号、度僧和籍帐制度进行了论述,并认为<律令>最终还是体现了皇权至上的主导思想,佛教只不过是西夏统治者的精神寄托和用来巩固统治的工具.     

Price-directive decision making in hierarchical systems with conflicting preferences

In this paper we consider a classical model of price-directive decision making in hierarchical organizations, namely Dantzig-Wolfe decomposition, well known from single-objective programming. Here, however, we allow for preference differences that are usually observed between a central unit and a subunit in an organizational structure. The procedure models, therefore, how decision making may evolve in a context with decentralized information as well as intra- and interpersonal conflicts. Several numerical experiments with the procedure have been performed. The results of those experiments demonstrate that the procedure in many instances converges towards an efficient solution, despite the differences in the criteria weights used in the master problem and the subproblem respectively. This suggests that some amount of goal discordance need not prohibit efficient decision making in a hierarchical organization.     

第四届"道教文化及管理时期研修班在香港成功举办

7月25日下午,"第四届道教文化及管理时期研修班"毕业典礼在香港中文大学隆重举行.     

The Predictors of Suicidality in Previous Suicide Attempters following Case Management Services

Suicide attempts constitute a serious clinical problem. People who have attempted suicide are at an elevated risk for additional suicide attempts, but there is limited evidence regarding the predictors of suicidality of suicide attempters following case management services. In the present study the indicators of suicidality after case management were examined. A total of 1,056 subjects who had recently attempted suicide were recruited from January 1, 2011, to June 30, 2011. The suicide prevention center of Kaohsiung City in Taiwan provided case management services and followed up on suicide attempt cases for 6 months. The salient factors for repeat suicide attempts were estimated using a logistic regression analysis. The results showed that multiple factors, including a “willingness to receive mental health services during a crisis,” “social support,” “a history of mental disorders,” and “a history of suicide,” could predict repeat suicide attempts with hazard ratios (0.58, 0.54, 3.84, 1.51) and 95% confidence interval (0.39–0.86, 0.36–0.83, 2.41–6.10, 1.03–2.21). The four factors mentioned above were the most accurate predictors of subsequent suicidality when case management services were utilized after 6 months of follow‐up. The findings of our study could help clarify future strategies for suicide prevention.     

Predicting Suicide Attempts among Treatment‐Seeking Male Alcoholics: An Exploratory Study

Documented risk factors for suicide among alcohol‐dependent patients are sensitive but insufficiently specific to effectively identify individuals who are prone to future suicide attempt. As a first step to assess factors not previously considered, this pilot study involved a group of male alcohol‐dependent patients (N = 175) coming to detoxification to examine the potential utility of adverse childhood experiences (ACE) along with other documented events to discriminate individuals with a history of attempted suicide from their detoxifying peers. Family health history questionnaires were used to evaluate their ACEs. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis was applied to examine the predictive power of ACEs, alone or in combination with documented risk factors, to lifetime history of attempted suicide. Among our participants, 48 (27.4%) had a history of a suicide attempt and 156 (89.1%) reported at least one out of the nine categories of ACEs. Modeling by ROC analysis, we found that a cutoff of four or more ACEs plus a history of personal violence achieved the best predictive power to a history of any suicide attempt, producing a sensitivity of 0.7, specificity of 0.81, and area under curve of 0.75. A prospective study to replicate and extend our findings is necessary.     

《国语》中的儒家美德思想研究

《国语》中蕴含了丰富的伦理道德思想。其中"德"字共250见,具有多重内涵,大体上可以从"德性""德行""德政"三个层面对其"德"的内涵加以归类。该书记载了许多典型案例,其不遗余力地表彰和强化"德",主要目的是劝诫统治者推行德政来教化民众。该书还涉及礼、敬、忠、信、仁、义、智、勇等具体德目,通过分析这些具体德目,可以看出当时的"周礼"已经难以约束、规范人们的行为。春秋时期德目繁多,没有出现一个能够统一诸德的德目来规范人们的行为,然《国语》和《左传》的作者亦尝试以"仁""文"二德来统一诸德,这为孔子"仁学"的创立提供了必要的理论基础和方法借鉴。