加强和改进大学生心理健康教育工作的探索与实践

大学生的心理健康问题越来越引起教育工作者的关注,如何探索和建立一整套实用、有效的心理健康教育机制,帮助当代大学生健康成长,既是新时期培养高素质人才的迫切需要,也是高等院校需要直面的现实问题.本文通过北京林业大学在大学生心理健康教育工作方面做出的努力和探索,以希望能为大学生心理健康教育工作的深入而有效地开展提供可资借鉴的经验.     

Terms of Choice: Uncertainty,Journalism, and Crisis

This article considers whether thinking about journalism's present set of challenges is best served by the notion of “crisis.” It argues that adopting such a notion to explain a diverse set of technological, political, economic, social, occupational, moral, and legal circumstances misses an opportunity to recognize how contingent and differentiated the futures of journalism might be. It also raises critical questions about how institutions deal with uncertainty at their core, obscuring a fuller understanding of the permutations that get eclipsed by perceiving crisis as a unitary phenomenon.     

逆势勇进更能考验人——访浙江龙盛集团董事长阮伟祥

该文以访谈形式介绍浙江龙盛集团董事长阮伟祥在金融危机中逆势勇进,带领龙盛员工坚定信心,迎难而上,实现企业的新发展。     

The 2008 Irish Dioxin Crisis:Prevention is better than Crisis Management

In Ireland, in 2008, pig feed manufactured from recycled human food became contaminated with dioxin and this led to a global recall of all Irish pork products produced from 1st September to 6th December 2008. This case study illustrates several points a) the food chain is only as secure as its weakest link, b) due to the complexity of the modern food chain, once pork is processed, precise traceability to a particular farm of origin is impossible, c) even with a single food agency, overseeing the policing of the food chain, things can go wrong, d) it demonstrated the benefits of having credible consumer protection agencies to undertake scientific risk assessment and communicate with the public, e) if risk management decisions are taken quickly, and communicated in an open and transparent manner to the public, adverse human health effects can be avoided and consumer confidence can maintained, f) in the EU the legal limit for dioxins in pork fat is 1 picogram per gram (10-12 ) and attempting to communicate the risks associated with this level of contamination plus the concepts of bioaccumulation and body burden and the need for continued exposure to result in adverse health effects is extremely challenging, g) there was a major economic impact and damage to the country’s reputation as a food exporter and finally h) it illustrates that prevention is better that crisis management. Other countries can learn lessons from this incident that may prevent similar occurrences in their jurisdictions.     

欧洲主权债务危机恶化对中国经济的影响分析

欧洲主权债务危机自2010年爆发至今愈演愈烈,欧洲经济笼罩在一片阴霾之中。危机正在通过进出口贸易和银行业影响中国经济的发展。欧债危机恶化使欧元区银行自顾不暇,业务从新兴市场国家收缩,有利于中国银行业抢占其他新兴市场,有利于中国企业以更低的价格获取自己需要的资产和技术,有利于中国加快人民币国际化进程。同时,欧债危机重创中国对外贸易企业,不断挤压中国对外企业的利润空间,使企业生产信心不足;欧洲银行资金撤出新兴市场国家会引发金融恐慌,严重影响中国的金融稳定和安全。     

浅析经济危机背景下中国纺织品服装出口的现状和前景

世界经济危机虽然大势已去,但其阴影仍然笼罩着世界各国,世界各国包括中国的经济正在经历着调整和恢复,许多不确定性因素依然干扰着中国经济和中国对外贸易的发展。本文采取定性为主、定量为辅的方法,旨在对经济危机背景下中国纺织品服装出口的现状、存在的问题进行分析,并且针对这些问题提出诸如政府扶持、技术升级、创立品牌和成熟应对欧美贸易救济措施的解决对策,以此展望中国纺织品服装出口的前景。     

A network analysis of official Twitter accounts during the West Virginia water crisis

Online networks using Web 2.0 technologies have proven useful for communication among all parties involved in managing crises. These networks rapidly disseminate information allowing for coordination among organizations responding to the needs of those whose safety and wellbeing are threatened by the crisis and its aftermath. This study provides a network analysis of official Twitter accounts activated during the Charleston, West Virginia, water contamination crisis in 2014. The city’s water supply was rendered unfit for drinking or bathing after 7500 gallons of a toxic chemical leaked into the Elk River. The network created by the 41 Twitter accounts associated with the West Virginia water contamination lacked density, contained several isolates, exchanged information quickly (geodesic distance diameter), and contained both national and local accounts. The lack of density indicates limited exchange of information, particularly between national and federal accounts. The rapid dissemination of the information that was shared and the fact that some accounts did bridge the local and national gap, however, show the positive potential for such networks in responding to crises.     

The dynamic role of social media during Hurricane #Sandy: An introduction of the STREMII model to weather the storm of the crisis lifecycle

Social media has introduced a key ingredient, and a potentially unfamiliar variable, into the practice of crisis communication. In this paper, the authors critically assess the social media milestones related to Hurricane Sandy according to situational crisis communication theory (SCCT) (Coombs, 2007). Further, we discuss the crisis lifecycle of Hurricane Sandy with regard to the potential implementation of the STREMII model of social media crisis management, a proposed model originated through this research application. This original model develops from lessons and best practices discovered in historical and contemporary cases of social media crises and crisis management. The researchers acknowledge potential limitations and describe steps for further development of the model through research, all the while recognizing the powerful and paradoxical role of social media in the crisis management process. In reflection of Hurricane Sandy, further qualitative and quantitative examinations of crisis events are encouraged to evaluate the STREMII model continually in the dynamic social media climate and across the vast facets of crisis communication.     

Beyond positive or negative: Qualitative sentiment analysis of social media reactions to unexpected stressful events

Sentiment analysis techniques are increasingly used to grasp reactions from social media users to unexpected and potentially stressful social events. This paper argues that, alongside assessments of the affective valence of social media content as negative or positive, there is a need for a deeper understanding of the context in which reactions are expressed and the specific functions that users' emotional states may reflect. To demonstrate this, we present a qualitative analysis of affective expressions on Twitter collected in Germany during the 2011 EHEC food contamination incident based on a coding scheme developed from Skinner et al.'s (2003) coping classification framework. Affective expressions of coping were found to be diverse not only in terms of valence but also in the adaptive functions they served: beyond the positive or negative tone, some people perceived the outbreak as a threat while others as a challenge to cope with. We discuss how this qualitative sentiment analysis can allow a better understanding of the way the overall situation is perceived – threat or challenge – and the resources that individuals experience having to cope with emerging demands.     

Business Continuity Management: A Standards-Based Approach

ABSTRACT

Business enterprises are increasingly realizing the importance of business continuity management (BCM). Availability BS 25999 Standard has facilitated a consistent methodology that organizations can follow in designing their BCM System. This paper intends to provide a conceptual understanding of BCM right from BCM Policy to BCM maturity by describing the steps involved in the implementation of BCM Standard – BS 25999 – to ensure business continuity in the event of an outage. The key BCM tasks have been categorized into three phases of business continuity – Pre-event Preparation, Event Management, and Post-event Continuity. This paper also highlights some of the challenges experienced by the author in carrying out Risk Assessment and Business Impact Analysis. The Business Continuity Maturity Model® of Virtual Corporation is provided (with their permission) as a tool to strengthen business continuity maturity or organizations.