The mediating role of subjective health complaints on willingness to use selected functional foods

There is an increasing demand for functional foods in the market because such foods can either enhance physiological function or reduce disease risks. The present study draws on a research to develop a model that is believed to shed light on the extent to which modern health worries (MHWs), negative affect (NA), and healthy lifestyles (HL) are relevant to consumers’ willingness to use functional foods in Taiwan through the mediator of consumers’ subjective health complaints (SHCs). As expected, the results indicated that consumers’ SHCs play a mediating role in the relationship between NA and attitudes toward functional foods and in the relationship between HL and attitudes toward functional foods. Moreover, though people’s MHWs do not lead directly to SHCs, they do have a direct impact on their attitudes toward functional foods, resulting in further influencing their willingness to use such foods. Some suggestions for the public, the government authorities, and the marketers of functional foods are also provided in this study.     

The diversification of urbanisation: New challenges for New Zealand planning

Analysis of recent census data shows that the historical population drift to the north and the dominance of Auckland no longer explain urban differentiation in New Zealand. Growth in “sunbelt” communities and exurban areas is changing the shape of settlement. These parallel trends require new research and will demand novel responses from planners.     

从设计对人的精神影响到人在生活中的设计精神

生活中设计无处不在,设计影响和改造着我们生活的同时也为我们生活带来了很大的便利。寻求生活中有形与无形的设计精神为我们更好的更合理的做设计提供了现实的范本。     

Creating healthy, high-performance workplaces: Strategies from health and sports psychology.

Consulting psychologists are ideally suited to assist in the creation of healthy and life-enhancing workplaces that can increase employee productivity while promoting behaviors that reduce the risk of lifestyle disease incidence or mitigate the effects of such illnesses when already present. When psychologists integrate strategies from health psychology, these interventions can help reduce medical costs and contribute to worker productivity and morale, because these strategies are proven to decrease the incidence of the five leading lifestyle diseases: coronary heart disease, lung cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder, diabetes, and stroke. Integrating techniques from sports psychology as well results in even more effective healthy workplaces than could be achieved from using either set of techniques in isolation. Recommendations are offered for nutritional counseling, smoking cessation, stress management, and exercise initiation. Five skills from sports psychology mental training are described because they could be incorporated into psychologists' interventions for enhancing employee performance. A case study illustrates the key points. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

产品概念创新理念与方法

现代社会的消费需求越来越多元化和个性化，只有把创新放在产品开发的首要位置，企业才能在激烈的竞争中拥有主动权。产品创新的核心在产品的概念创新，要实现概念创新要从个体行为层、群体文化层、生活情景层和市场参考层等方面进行突破，通过“提升产品价值-引导消费潮流-塑造企业品牌”的系统过程来实现。     

现代文化在传统产业中的传承与创新研究——以明式家具为例

本文首先从史料研究了明式家具的特征及明代文人生活方式的特点,得出明代文人对明式家具的影响;用问卷调研与访谈的方法研究了现代文人的生活方式,并总结得出现代文人生活方式对新中式家具的影响.传统文人在今天的延续和传承是在了解了审美情感、功能使用、技术工艺三方面变化传承的可能性,尤其是基于文人生活方式延续对家具的影响.以求将传统与现代结合,不是拘泥于目前市面上销售的仅在于形式或风格上的对于传统传承类家具的发展与创新,而是真正设计出能传承文人生活方式和生活理念的新中式家具,得出探讨文人生活方式的变迁是家具设计传承中变化的新的途径.     

Technically Speaking: Planning Theory and the Role of Information in Making Planning Policy

Understanding how technical information is used in planning is important: the ability to carry out and interpret technical analysis is part of the basis for the legitimacy of planning as a profession. The role and influence of technical information in planning is, however, contested. The article presents a conceptual framework that has been tested in research that examined the use of technical information in British planning policies at a local level. The article concludes that planners are engaged in processes of mediation and negotiation to make policy and implement it. They are not involved in a simple process of rational choice between alternatives. Thus, technical information is not influential purely because it is 'correct' in some sense, but because of the way it is incorporated into the processes through which land use change is initiated, controlled and evaluated. These processes are structured by the rules and procedures created by the institutionalization of planning activities, and the use of technical information as an influence on land use change can only be understood within this context.     

The role of Caravan Parks in meeting the housing needs of the aged

A diversity of housing types is needed to meet the needs of our ageing Australian population. Despite the negative stereotypes, caravan parks, which offer permanent accommodation, can offer a lifestyle that compliments the needs and desires of some aged persons. They can create a good 'person-environment fit' in the balance they provide between security and autonomy. Land use planners typically view caravan parks as 'underdeveloped' properties and this threatens the future of many caravan parks located in urban areas or on the urban fringe.     

Prevention of Heavy Drinking and Associated Negative Consequences Among Mandated and Voluntary College Students.

The Lifestyle Management Class (LMC) was evaluated as a universal and targeted alcohol prevention program among voluntary and mandated college students. The relative efficacy of peer- and professional-led group interventions was also tested in this randomized, controlled design. LMC participants showed decreases in driving after drinking relative to control participants. Changes in heavy drinking varied as a function of treatment condition, readiness to change, and gender, with a trend toward larger decreases among voluntary LMC participants high in readiness to change and a comparable though nonsignificant advantage for male LMC participants in the mandated sample. The LMC was comparably effective for mandated and voluntary students, with no clear advantage for peer- or professional-led groups. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

北京地区农宅供暖季室内热舒适研究

对北京近郊的7户农宅进行了相关调查。结果表明,多数受试者认为室内环境舒适,实际热感觉投票值高于PMV模型预测值;农宅中性温度为18.4℃,可接受温度下限为10.9℃,舒适温度受农民的衣着习惯和生活方式影响。因此,北方寒冷气候区农宅的供暖温度标准不能照搬城镇单元式住宅楼的供暖标准,不宜维持较大的室内外温差。