Child Death From Pediatric Illness: Conceptualizing Intervention From a Family/Systems and Public Health Perspective.

Despite the universal and understandable distress associated with the death of a child from pediatric illness, do psychologists help surviving families in ways that match their need for assistance? Many families do not seek psychological help and cope adaptively with their loss. Indications for psychotherapy with bereaved families are based largely on experience with families who engage in treatment and who have greater distress. Other families may not receive sufficient services but are at risk for ongoing difficulties and unlikely to engage in treatment. Suggestions for intervention are made, with attention to the fit of therapeutic approaches with family needs. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Resilience to Loss in Bereaved Spouses, Bereaved Parents, and Bereaved Gay Men.

Recent research has indicated that many people faced with highly aversive events suffer only minor, transient disruptions in functioning and retain a capacity for positive affect and experiences. This article reports 2 studies that replicate and extend these findings among bereaved parents, spouses, and caregivers of a chronically ill life partner using a range of self-report and objective measures of adjustment. Resilience was evidenced in half of each bereaved sample when compared with matched, nonbereaved counterparts and 36% of the caregiver sample in a more conservative, repeated-measures ipsative comparison. Resilient individuals were not distinguished by the quality of their relationship with spouse/partner or caregiver burden but were rated more positively and as better adjusted by close friends. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Survival as a Digital Ghost

You can survive after death in various kinds of artifacts. You can survive in diaries, photographs, sound recordings, and movies. But these artifacts record only superficial features of yourself. We are already close to the construction of programs that partially and approximately replicate entire human lives (by storing their memories and duplicating their personalities). A digital ghost is an artificially intelligent program that knows all about your life. It is an animated auto-biography. It replicates your patterns of belief and desire. You can survive after death in a digital ghost. We discuss a series of digital ghosts over the next 50 years. As time goes by and technology advances, they are progressively more perfect replicas of the lives of their original authors.

论邓小平以人为本的发展观

邓小平在领导中国现代化建设的历史进程中,始终坚持"以人为本"的发展观.其以人为本的发展观体现在他力主发展经济以满足人民的物质文化需要,重视发展教育,注重人的全面发展等方面.邓小平以人为本的发展观是科学发展观的重要思想来源.     

高职教育实践教学改革探索

高职教育教学改革要从市场的实际需要出发，把教学重点从“以理论教学为中心”转移到“理论与实践相结合，强化实践教育”上来，重视对学生动手能力和创新意识的培养，在实践教学中要转变教学观念、改进教学方法和教学手段、合理调整教学内容，为市场培养出高素质的实用型人才。     

Perceived similarity in face measurement

Automatic face recognition is a widely used biometric identification method, since it is based on standard video surveillance systems and does not require the collaboration of the person to be recognised. The recognition process involves decisions based on the face measurement results. The reliability and robustness of the recognition procedure are critical factors, strongly affected by influence quantities, such as face-camera relative orientation and position, illumination and expression. To improve performance it makes sense to imitate the recognition process in humans, who succeed in recognising faces even from poor quality images. It is therefore interesting to investigate the perception of similarity between faces, with the aim of gaining insight into the process of human face recognition. We report on an investigation that has been carried out by original methods developed in our laboratory for the direct measurement of perceptual quantities. Such methods have been implemented for two complementary recognition procedures, based either on the global appearance of a face or on the detection of specific repere points.     

老年人网络智能电视机顶盒设计方法研究

随着老龄化社会的到来,国内对养老保障的关注与探索逐步加强,老龄人口不断增长,电视成为人们生活中必不可少的产品,网络智能电视是未来发展的趋势,设计适合老年人使用的网络智能电视机顶盒,对改善老年生活,提高老年人生活质量有重要意义.通过老年人生理以及心理特点分析,归纳设计要素,提出一种新的适合老年人智能电视机顶盒设计与评估的分析方法——Analytical statement-C,该方法强调设计与评估并重,能够很好地提高开发老年网络智能电视机预盒的有用性.     

立足城市特色 培养创新人才

广州是我国改革开放的前沿城市，又是拥有岭南地方特色的历史文化名城，其城市建设呈现出多元化、多方向的发展特点，也为建筑创作提供了丰富的素材和广阔的实践基地。身为广州高校的建筑学专业如何利用区位优势，培养创新人才，更好地为社会服务来满足时代需求，是摆在我们面前的新课题。     

Fire risk perception and building evacuation by vulnerable persons: Points of view of laypersons,fire victims and experts

Fire risk perception and its influence on building evacuation were studied in order to improve building evacuation processes. The sample adopted in this study consisted of (i) laypersons, mostly elderly; (ii) healthcare professionals working with vulnerable individuals who live with disability on an everyday basis, for their point of view on disabled persons; (iii) fire victims for their experience (persons who suffered burns in a fire).Qualitative research was used to study fire risk perception and to understand the attitudes and behaviours of individuals. The information was collected during interviews following a questionnaire that combined questions of a general nature, questions referring to the fire and questions focused on the experience of evacuating a building.Results of this inductive, exploratory and qualitative method showed differences between the analysis of experts, the point of view of laypersons and the experience of fire victims. They also showed that risk perception is influenced by psychological, social, physical, political (here regulatory and normative) and cultural factors. Fire risk perception is based on the individual-environment-risk paradigm. Among the factors characterising risk perception, we noted the preponderant role of trust emerges, as well as that of the human environments (daily and emergency), the physical environment (building) and the climate of safety in which the event takes place. These different dimensions of fire risk perception show that it is a combination of psychometric and cultural paradigms. Building evacuation is seen as a psychological process involving both emotion and cognition.The resulting model aims to improve the understanding of a building evacuation process and to provide tools to anticipate crises.     

Jungian family sandplay with bereaved children: Implications for play therapists.

Jungian family sandplay (JFS) with bereaved clients, especially young children, may assist family members in communicating their intrapersonal world of grief through symbolic methods. Specifically, play therapists using JFS provide the opportunity for children to share feelings with caretakers that may be developmentally difficult to verbalize. With JFS, children use nonthreatening images to portray feelings and struggles associated with the death of a loved one. The focus of this article is the importance of including caretakers and family members in bereaved children’s sandplay. In addition, we include a clinical vignette to illuminate the potential benefits of incorporating JFS with bereaved children. We conclude with implications for play therapists. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)