Religion and spirituality: Linkages to physical health.

Evidence is presented that bears on 9 hypotheses about the link between religion or spirituality and mortality, morbidity, disability, or recovery from illness. In healthy participants, there is a strong, consistent, prospective, and often graded reduction in risk of mortality in church/service attenders. This reduction is approximately 25% after adjustment for confounders. Religion or spirituality protects against cardiovascular disease, largely mediated by the healthy lifestyle it encourages. Evidence fails to support a link between depth of religiousness and physical health. In patients, there are consistent failures to support the hypotheses that religion or spirituality slows the progression of cancer or improves recovery from acute illness but some evidence that religion or spirituality impedes recovery from acute illness. The authors conclude that church/service attendance protects healthy people against death. More methodologically sound studies are needed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Individual differences in self-assessed health: An information-processing investigation of health and illness cognition.

In 2 studies, the relation between measures of self-assessed health (SAH) and automatic processing of health-relevant information was investigated. In Study 1, 84 male and 86 female undergraduate students completed a modified Stroop task. Results indicated that participants with poorer SAH showed enhanced interference effects for illness versus non-illness words. In Study 2, 27 male and 30 female undergraduate students completed a self-referent encoding task. Results offered a conceptual replication and extension of Study 1 by confirming the specificity of the relation between SAH measures and automatic processing of health (vs negative or positive general trait) information. These studies provide evidence that individual differences in SAH are reflected in schematic processing of health-relevant information. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

生活中的慢性杀手--石化合成洗剂

文章回顾了石化合成洗剂的发展历史，从经历的五代产品的发展过程中可以看出它经历了一个环保到不环保再到环保的曲折过程分析了石化合成洗剂的主要成分及其清洗去污的作用原理着重指出目前使用的石化合成洗剂虽然给生活带来便利，但同时也给人体健康和生态环境都造成严重的危害；倡导使用新型环保型的第五代洗剂已成为新世纪中清洗剂发展的必然趋势。     

穿壁焊极柱合金探索

本文对起动用铅酸蓄电池穿壁焊极柱用合金配方进行了探索 ,并得到了良好的应用效果     

Toward the reduction of population obesity: Macrolevel environmental approaches to the problems of food, eating, and obesity.

The authors reviewed the evidential basis of three environmental approaches to reducing population obesity: What are the effects of (a) taxing or subsidizing foods, (b) manipulating the ease of food access, and (c) restricting access to certain foods? A narrative review evaluated evidence using National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute criteria. There was strong evidence that subsidization influences food purchases, but not necessarily food consumption or body weight. Ease of food access may influence food purchases, and possibly food intake and body weight. Data on restriction were lacking. More studies are needed to justify that altering these macro-environmental variables will necessarily reduce population obesity. A proposed conceptual model posits that the steps through environmental interventions may exert intended and unintended influences on body weight and obesity prevalence. Contemplated policy changes should weigh scientific evidence with social judgments and values concerning changes to the environment. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Getting Something for Nothing: Estimating Service Level Improvements Possible in Hospitals

One of the focal points of discussion among firms in the service sector concerns the level of service delivered and its value. In the hospital sector, an important aspect of the level of service relates to the level of quality of care delivered. We undertake an empirical study of 300 U.S. hospitals to evaluate their relative ‘service efficiency’ using the techniques of so-called allocative efficiency. This method estimates the potential improvement in service, estimates the ideal cost shares of the various resources, and provides the ‘peer group’ members to which the unit is being compared. Utilizing this information, the method proposed for units to improve involves two chief mechanisms. The first is a reallocation of cost shares among the various resource or input types (e.g. no increase in hospital budget). The second involves adopting the management practices used by peer group members. Over all 300 hospitals, a marked improvement potential was found for well over half. Of the poorest performers there appears to be some indication that a larger cost share was needed for face-to-face contact with patients (nursing) and a smaller share for personnel who do not deal with patients directly (lab technicians, non-physician administrators, etc.).     

西安绿色康居小区规划设计剖析

通过对西安绿色康居小区规划设计的实例分析，阐明了小康型住宅区的标准和要求，在旧城住宅区改造中的落实和运用，试图探索下一世纪旧城住宅区的改造之路．     

The development and maturation of humanitarian psychology.

Humanitarian psychological support as an organized field is relatively young. Pioneers in the field were involved primarily in providing psychological support to refugees and internally displaced persons in conflict and nonconflict situations. This article describes basic principles for the design of psychological support programs and interventions. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) began a psychological support program in 1991. The IFRC chose psychological first aid as its model for implementation in developing countries. Psychological first aid fits all the principles for psychological support program design and is adapted to individual communities. The first generation of psychological support programs differed dramatically depending on the countries in which they were developed. A second generation of psychological support programs evolved in response to the earthquake/tsunami of December 26, 2004. The Inter-Agency Standing Committee international guidelines consolidated the advances of second-generation programs and provided a clear indication of the wide acceptance of the importance of psychological support. A glimpse is provided of the third generation of psychological support programs, and an admonition is made for a more empirical evaluation of the effectiveness of interventions. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

关于河流健康内涵与评价方法的综合评述

在可持续发展观念的推动下，河流健康问题引起各界广泛的重视。本文对河流健康的概念与内涵进行了剖析，分析了河流健康与河流生态系统健康的异同，提出了河流健康应包括三方面的内涵：河流自身结构功能完备，能发挥其正常的生态环境效益，并满足人类社会发展的合理需求。系统地总结了河流健康评价方法、评价标准、评价指标及评价模型，指出了评价的主体应当是河流系统，评价的河流不同，评价指标的选取和权重的确定也随之不同，依其具体特征而定。为我国河流健康评价的发展提供了一定的参考价值。     

On‐Line Detection Of State‐Of‐Charge In Lead Acid Battery Using Radial Basis Function Neural Network

To realize a stable supply of electric power in an automobile, an accurate and reliable detection method of SOC (state‐of‐charge) in a lead acid battery is required. However the dynamics of the battery is very complicated. The characteristics of the battery greatly change due to its degradation. Moreover a automobile has many driving patterns, which are unknown beforehand. Thus it is not easy to detect the SOC analytically. In this paper, to overcome this problem, a new on‐line SOC detection method with a radial basis function neural network is proposed. In order to increase the detection accuracy of degraded batteries, physical values related to the degradation degree are used as input signal in the neural network. The detection accuracies for different sized batteries and various degradation states are investigated.