北欧社会保障法律制度研究

北欧人所主张的社会保障法律是以国家为主体的公共福利计划,旨在保护全体公民免除因失业、年老、疾病或死亡风险而在收入上所遭受的损失,并借助公共服务与社会救助以提高全民福利,实行收入均等化、就业充分化、福利普遍化、福利设施体系化,遵循普遍性原则建出“从摇篮到坟墓”的社会保障法律体系。本文主要从养老保险、疾病医疗保险、职业伤害保险和失业保险等几个方面来分析。     

基于ZigBee技术的远程智能家居控制系统

随着社会经济和科学技术的发展,以及物质生活水平的提高,使得人们对家居设施的要求越来越高,智能家庭和物联网成为了研究热点。为了实现家居安防智能化控制,本文提出了一种基于ZigBee技术的远程智能家居控制系统,阐述了智能家庭网络的功能和总体构成,以CC2530无线芯片为核心,构建了基于ZigBee技术的智能家居软硬件系统。     

The video window: my life with a ludic system

The video window is a video screen hanging next to a window on my bedroom wall, showing the image from a camera mounted to show the skyline from outside that same window. In this paper, I describe the appeal of living with such a system, and the intermingled aesthetic, utilitarian and practical issues involved in its creation and the experience it offers.     

Psychologists as Leaders of Multidisciplinary Chronic Pain Management Teams: A Model for Health Care Delivery.

Psychologists have the potential to improve the quality of life of chronic pain patients by intervening not only through direct services but also by using their training for promoting proactive leadership in multidisciplinary teams and in the larger health care environment. To significantly impact pain management, psychologists must not only deliver state-of-the-art care but also take an active role in directing the design, implementation, and evaluation of these programs. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Job satisfaction and emotional distress among nurses providing palliative care: Empirical evidence for an integrative occupational stress-model.

This study tested an integrative occupational stress-model with a sample of 209 palliative-care nurses who responded to a survey. Using two hierarchical regression models, including the Job Demand-Control-Support model, the Effort-Reward Imbalance model, and specific palliative care stressors and resources, results showed that best predictors of job satisfaction were job demand, effort, reward, and people-oriented culture, whereas best predictors of emotional distress were reward, professional and emotional demands, and self-efficacy. Finally, using structural equation modeling, a two-factor occupational stress-model was developed, distinguishing job demands and job resources. Results emphasize the importance of using comprehensive and situation-specific models to study stress in specific worker populations, studying positive outcomes in stress research, and increasing job resources at work to prevent stress. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

The social consumption of information and communication technologies (ICTs): insights from research on the appropriation and consumption of new ICTs in the domestic environment

This paper reviews some of the research on the use and consumption of technology in the domestic space that may not be familiar to members of the usability and design community, especially those traditionally focused on design for the workplace. The paper also introduces original research findings and conclusions from a qualitative study of the adoption and use of new ICTs conducted in a number of households and workplaces in the late 1990s, a time when many new ICT products and services were becoming available, and more traditional media and communication products were becoming widespread in homes. The paper does not make recommendations about the type of products and services to be developed, nor those that may be successful, although it is quite possible to draw this type of conclusion from it. Instead it looks at some rather broader trends in the way that we engage with technologies, rejecting and adopting them, and the importance of our domestic space and social networks to the way we will engage with future technologies aimed at the home space. Electronic Publication     

Of Potholes and Bends: A Meditation on Psychoanalysis and Motorcycle Riding.

Psychoanalysis has recently turned attention to the importance of the patient's developing a sense of the future. Yet many patients cannot envisage a rich and worthwhile future, because their attention is focused on the dangers, real or imagined. This scenario is analogous to difficulties motorcyclists have in detaching their gaze from sources of danger and developing depth of vision. The author relates some experiences he has had in being coached in motorcycle riding and demonstrates their relevance to psychoanalytic processes. It is shown that both in motorcycling and in life, it is important to keep focus of vision on one's long-term goals while being aware of dangers in peripheral vision. The development of harmonious movement is shown to be a function of a combination of maternal care and paternal guidance in life as in riding motorcycles. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Societal Factors in Health Education.

Comments on T. J. Stachnik's original article (see record 1980-10503-001) which examined priorities for psychology in medical education and health care delivery. It is argued that psychologists must bring their expertise to bear on assisting Americans to alter current habits most likely related to preventable health problems. Additionally, this item comments on A. McAlister et al's original article (see record 1980-12690-001) which examined mass communication and community organization for public health education. The current author states that both articles are thought provoking, but wishes, however, that they had spotlighted the societal factors involved in health education--for example, the persistent and consistent propaganda of business establishments to get people to indulge in smoking or eat unhealthy foods in order to promote their own sales and profits. The current author asserts that however much one educates the community, certain industries have far greater access to mass media and make very effective use of them by clever advertisements, thereby neutralizing the effect of health education for a large number of people. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Psychologist at city hall: A problem of identity.

Describes personal experiences as a representative of the Mayor of Boston. Psychological knowledge was secondary to the understanding of the political situation. The most important role change was to be concerned with the political welfare of the Mayor, rather than for the welfare of an individual or a community. Some psychological knowledge could be communicated usefully at policy meetings, but there was a limit to being helpful in social-political situations. (0 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Computatonal Intelligence: The Grid as a Post-Human Network

Research and design collaborative EZCT Architecture & Design Research has adopted grid computing to produce a series of furniture systems and other small-scale prototypes using genetic algorithms in combination with automated fabrication technologies. Here, cofounder Philippe Morel relates this design practice to the broader technical and social implications of various grid-computing projects, such as the online organisation Folding@Home, which utilises grid computing and distributed communities for the production and exchange of postindustrial knowledge. He argues that these ‘knowledge farms’ which create an ‘ambient factory’, are perhaps the ultimate form of social-economic production, transforming not only the evolution of design but of the communities that produce and eventually consume its products. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.