Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Advances in Social Science, Humanities, and Management

Session: Society and Psychology

18 articles
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The Demographic Implications of Escalating Welfare Payments in Australia

A.R. Benson
This paper addresses the steady in-crease in Australian welfare beneficiar-ies. From 1979 to 2006, working-age welfare recipients on full income support increased from 5.6 to 10 per cent of the population. From 1996 to 1999, children of welfare recipients were found to be five times more likely to be...
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Cultural Dimension of Food Safety in Universities

Pingqiu Tang, Songyou Li, Yinghui Wang
Nowadays food safety has become a hot topic in Chinese society. Research shows that to maintain food safety we cannot only rely on government supervision and legal penalties. The establishment of food safety culture is the final approach to this issue. For universities, the management of food safety...
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Work Engagement: The Creation and Validation of a New Measure

Angus C.H. Kuok, Robert J. Taormina
Ninety-four full-time employees were surveyed for their work engagement in Macau, China. A newly created work engagement measure with three dimensions, i.e., Cognitive, Emotional, and Physical Work Engagement, was tested for its validity and reliability. Divergent validity was tested with burnout, and...
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Social Network Analysis and Its Developments

Xiaoxiao Deng, Guojun Mao
A social network is made up of a set of social actors and their ties between these actors, which have become an important research filed of sociology and its related studies. Together with the complex net-work concepts, it has formed many new methods and models. Based on infor-mation technology such...
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Influence of the Emergence of Gait Recognition System on Human Society

Xin Chen, Tianqi Yang
As an emerging biometric identifica-tion technology, gait recognition is getting more and more attention from re-searchers. By researching the gait charac-teristics mainly when the target is walking, it realizes the recognition of target identity. As the unique feature in long-distance recognition of...
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Health disparities and inequalities: a study of migrant workers in Shenzhen, China

Ki Fung Kelvin Lam, Janice Mary Johnston
Internal migration has induced a profound shift on social structure across China, but the effects on health for migrants remain scarcely reported. In this study we set out to investigate the disparities in health and the potential healthcare inequalities for migrant workers in Shenzhen.
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The heart in emotion

Qing-hong Pu
The present article attempts to explore and discuss conceptual metaphors and metonymies for emotions in the Chinese language with regard to the role of the body in emotions. The study on emotion metaphors and metonymies enables us to see how people of a given culture or dif-ferent cultures conceptualize...
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The role of the body parts in emotion

Qing-hong Pu
The present article attempts to discuss in detail how the Chinese language makes a principal use of the heart in the conceptu-alization of emotion. The role of some of the body parts in emotion will also be ex-amined and discussed.
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The Way of Mankind’s Existence and Development in Mohist Perspective

Wujin Yang
Mohism plays an important role in resolving the problems which today’s mankind are faced with in their existence and development. Mohist theory of universal love is the significant guidance of dealing with the interpersonal relationships; Mohist thought of moderation in use is a vital caution to the...
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Analysis on current situation and coun-termeasures of autistic children’s rehabilitation in China

Yun Xu, Jian Yang, Wen-feng Xu, Dan Xu
The prevalence rate of autism had in-creased significantly, and the social de-mand for autism rehabilitation is also in-creasing. This paper mainly discusses the current situation of the autistic children’s rehabilitation and the plight of de-veloping it, and puts forward some countermeasures for developing...
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Analysis on the Connotation of Social Security

Rui Wang
All of the world has attached great im-portance to the function of USA social security since the United States enacted the social security act. However, due to differences in political, economic and cultural backgrounds, its connotation of social security is also different. its under-standing of broad...
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The Research about Community Aged Care Service System in the Aging Context

Wen-si Wang
With the aging trend strengthening, the capability of traditional family care has been weakening, and most of govern-ments have inceasingly attached great significance to the construction and im-provement of community aging care ser-vice system. Aimed at analysing the de-mand, supply status, existent...
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Relationship between Poverty and Socio-demographic Characteristics of Poor Households: A Case Study in Kelantan, Malaysia

Chamhuri Siwar, Ferdoushi Ahmed, Nor Diana Mohd. Idris
Poverty is a complex and comprehensive phenomenon and covers many dimen-sions of human and social behaviour. Therefore, poverty reduction has become the most important issue in the develop-ment policies of almost all the countries including Malaysia. Poverty in Malaysia has generally been perceived as...
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Does Corporate Culture Affects Performance of Insurance Corporate

Jie Fu
Corporate culture is the base factor for living and healthy development, and excellent corporate culture plays an important role in raising its competitive capacity. The purpose of this article is two fold: first, this paper tries to demonstrate the corporate culture base on the 6S model which proposed...
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The Collaborative Propagation Mechanism of Traditional Science Media and New Science Media

Shengyue Hao, Jiajia Jin
Establishment of collaborative propagation mechanism between traditional science media and new science media has positive effect on the promoting of China's science and technology propagation. This paper first analyzes the possibilities for traditional and new science media to integrate in terms of organization,...
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Comparative Study Of the Differences on CSRR between China and South Korea

Yulong Zhong
With the increase of multinational coop-eration in China and Korea, Enterprises need to establish branches in each coun-try, publish CSRR which meeting local requirements. In this paper, we explore differences of Chinese and Korean CSR in background environment, overall con-tent and specific indicators...
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Study on Dynamic Mechanism of Chinese Rural Social Security from the Perspective of Ecology

Haobang Wu, Li Wang, Yin Feng
Rural social security system is a living and unnatural system, and both its global and local development will maintain close ties and mutual interactions with the surrounding environment. This paper explores a dynamic mechanism on the basis of ecological theory to promote the continuous development of...
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Research on characteristics in the spatial distribution of the whole county population of Sichuan province, China via ARCGIS analysis

Guiyao Zhou, Yanyou Wu, Xianjian Xie, Deke Xing, Fang Fan, Rui Yu
2000 and 2010 year census population data of each county of Sichuan Province, China has been chosen as research objects in our research. In this study, different spatial fitting model of geostatistics modules which are based on Arcgis Software has been used to discuss the fitting effects of population...