Children's Social Welfare in China

Fundamental changes in China’s finance system for social services have\r\ndecentralized responsibilities for provision to lower levels of government and\r\nincreased costs to individuals. The more localized, market-oriented approaches to\r\nsocial service provision, together with rising economic inequalities, raise questions\r\nabout access to social services among China’s children. With a multivariate analysis\r\nof three waves of the China Health and Nutrition Survey (1989, 1993 and 1997), this\r\narticle investigates two dimensions of children’s social welfare: health care, operationalized\r\nas access to health insurance, and education, operationalized as enrolment\r\nin and progress through school. Three main results emerge. First, analyses do not\r\nsuggest an across-the-board decline in access to these child welfare services during\r\nthe period under consideration. Overall, insurance rates, enrolment rates and gradefor-\r\nage attainment improved. Secondly, while results underscore the considerable\r\ndisadvantages in insurance and education experienced by poorer children in each\r\nwave of the survey, there is no evidence that household socio-economic disparities\r\nsystematically widened. Finally, findings suggest that community resources conditioned\r\nthe provision of social services, and that dimensions of community level of\r\ndevelopment and capacity to finance public welfare increasingly mattered for some\r\nsocial services.

Teen Risk-Taking: Promising Prevention Programs and Approaches

To help close the knowledge gap and to help program directors, practitioners, and community leaders enlarge the network of effective programs and approaches for at-risk youth, Urban Institute researchers reviewed what is known about successful prevention interventions and their dissemination. They identified 51 problem behavior prevention interventions whose initial effectiveness has been demonstrated through scientific evaluation. A subset of 21 programs was selected on the basis of the rigor of their evaluations or the strength of their results for closer examination of the program elements and/or delivery modes that appeared to be associated with their effectiveness. The researchers also explored with the assistance of experienced prevention scientists and school-based practitioners what might be the essential elements of schools' and other community organizations' readiness to undertake research-based problem behavior prevention programming. This guidebook to promising programs and approaches offers the fruits of that research. It is our hope that it will provide a helpful starting point for the development of a larger, more sustainable network of effective prevention programs and approaches for at-risk teens.In the booklet you will find:An Update on Adolescent Risk-Taking -- what is known about the level and characteristics of teen risk-taking today and why it is both necessary and an opportune time to improve and expand the network of effective prevention programs for at-risk preteens and teens.The Common Elements of Successful Prevention Programs, briefly summarized, along with an explanation of the criteria used to select the 51 programs profiled in this guidebook.Moving from Research to Practice -- a discussion of the challenges facing practitioners seeking to replicate promising intervention programs or approaches, with some suggestions for ways to meet these challenges.A Prevention Readiness Questionnaire to help program directors and planners identify and assess factors necessary to create favorable conditions and circumstances for successful adaptation or replication of the programs or their salient components in new settings.Profiles of 51 Prevention Programs whose behavioral evaluations demonstrate their effectiveness. The profiles provide general information about the program, highlight unique features, summarize evaluation results, and give general contact information. The 21 (most) rigorously evaluated programs also have curriculum, training, and contact information included.A Handy Reference Chart for quick comparison of the 51 programs

Strategic formulation for the Al-Musayyib municipality directorate, according to use of the balanced scorecard for the years 2021-2025

The research problem revolves around the lack of a strategy for the municipality of Al-Musayyib that enables it to conduct its business in a complex environment, The importance of the research is evident in presenting a model for service organizations in general and municipalities in particular to evaluate their performance according to performance indicators for balanced scorecard perspectives and to use their results to formulate a strategy that enables them to adapt to the nature of their turbulent dynamic environment and raise their readiness to implement this strategy , The researcher chose the service sector for the current study and for the research community to be in the Al-Musayyib Municipality Directorate, which is one of the service institutions affiliated with the Ministry of Construction, Housing and Public Municipalities in Babylon Governorate , The researcher adopted the method of the intentional sample in selecting the research sample, which was represented by (15) director, assistant director, and division official in the searched directorate , Using the real data contained in the general directorate's budgets, final accounts, official records and annual reports during the years researched (2017-2019), performance measurement indicators, field coexistence, interviews and opinion poll forms for the research sample, and the questionnaire to evaluate the proposed strategy as tools for collecting information and data in the field side of the research , As well as using the (SWOT) matrix for the purpose of determining the environmental position of the investigated directorate , And( Bryson, 2011) model in determining the strategic issues of the directorate being the appropriate model for non-profit governmental institutions, The most prominent results that the researcher reached was that the performance of the Al-Musayyib municipality directorate for the years (2017-2019) was at an acceptable level, but with a negative performance gap, its percentage ranged between (40% and 41%) compared to the performance standards set by the researcher , As for the most prominent recommendations, the directorate should follow a therapeutic strategy in its work during the next five years and in line with what has been formulated of the strategic direction and the strategic issues of the investigated directorate

Short Paper: On Deployment of DNS-based Security Enhancements

Although the Domain Name System (DNS) was designed as a naming system, its features have made it appealing to repurpose it for the deployment of novel systems. One important class of such systems are security enhancements, and this work sheds light on their deployment. We show the characteristics of these solutions and measure reliability of DNS in these applications. We investigate the compatibility of these solutions with the Tor network, signal necessary changes, and report on surprising drawbacks in Tor's DNS resolution.Comment: Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC) 201

Feeling Good in the Place We Live: The Moderating Role of the Perception of Environmental Resources in the Relationship between Values and Personal and Family Well-Being

The environmental psychological literature suggested that three different value orientations (egoistic, altruistic, and biospheric) are relevant for understanding environmental beliefs and intentions. We surveyed 365 Italian adults of different ages (range 18–87) to examine whether the egoistic, altruistic, and biospheric value orientations can lead to personal and/or family-related well-being. Additionally, it is examined whether the perception of presence and accessibility of two types of environmental resources (natural and urbanistic) related to ecosystem services can moderate the relation between value orientations and personal and family well-being. Results of moderation analyses showed that people with high biospheric values felt themselves as more satisfied if they perceived high and medium (but not low) presence or accessibility of natural resources in their environment, while people with high egoistic values perceived their family more satisfied if they perceived the high and medium (but not low) presence of good infrastructures in their environment of living. No significant moderation model emerged considering the participants’ altruistic values. The implications for environmental beliefs and well-being are discussed

Digital Marketing Strategy Formulation For Distributor-Based Company Using Digital Customer Journey Approach (Study Case: PT Barca Trios Chemindo)

The research objectives is to identify critical touchpoint (s) of digital customer journey in PT BTC marketplace channel strategy, to discover the result of current PT BTC digital customer journey feedback, to give recommendation in digital marketing strategy to improve PT BTC digital customer journey, and to give supporting strategy to enhance PT. In this research, data collection methods will be using qualitative data from Primary Data and Secondary Data. This research found 5 critical touchpoints of digital customer journey in PT BTC marketplace channel strategy, like Awareness, Appeal, Ask, Act, Advocate. Current marketplace channel strategy is effective to catch new B2B customers but less effective to retain their consistency to buy via online transaction. From this finding research, the best suitable digital marketing strategy that fit to PT BTC customer journey is creating and establishing website and improving its system to become modify-website that enabled to e-commerce facilities. The supporting strategy to establishing website marketing strategy is purposing new company’s marketing division structure to delegate workload better, more effective and more efficient