Neighbourhood social capital and individual mental health

Neighbourhood social capital is often claimed benecial for health, yet evidence of this contextual eect in the UK has been thin. To examine this eect, I draw upon Grossman health production model and Blume-Brock-Durlauf social interaction model underpinning the effects of neighbourhood social capital on individual health. This study uses two most recent independent surveys on neighbourhood social capital and on individual mental health in Wales. Both are linked based on neighbourhood. I nd that many forms of neighbourhood social capital, measured with widely used questions, improve resident's mental health (SF36). Public health practitioners have these measures as additional tools to draw upon in formulating public health policy.social capital; SF36; quality of life

Recall error and recall bias in life course epidemiology

OBJECTIVES I propose a distinction between recall error and recall bias and examine the the effect of childhood financial hardship on adult health, subject to such recall problems. Studying the effect of childhood hardship on adult health is a prototypical investigation in life course studies where both non-clinical factors and long-duration processes are at play in determining health outcome. These factors and processes are often elicited retrospectively. Unfortunately, retrospective information on childhood hardship is often subject to recall error and recall bias. There is surprisingly little methodological work on how to purge their effects in retrospective life course studies. METHODS I recast a variant of generalised latent variable models as covariate error measurement model to purge recall error in life course study. Additionally, I recast the endogeneous treatment model as a solution to the problem of recall bias. I apply both models to examine the effect of childhood financial hardship on adult health status of more than 359,000 European respondents from 23 countries. In addition, I validate the solutions using the National Child Development Study cohort where both prospective and restrospective information are available. RESULTS Childhood financial hardship has a strong effect on adult health status. Once recall error is accounted for in a generalised latent variable model, the effect reduced by an order of magnitude though remain statistically significant. Applying the endogeneous treatment model of recall bias suggests that childhood hardship is systematically misreported by respondents. Once this bias is purged, the effect of childhood deprivation on adult health increased markedly. Such an increase is consistent with multiple direct and indirect pathways linking childhood hardship and adult health. CONCLUSION Problems of recall error and recall bias are common in life course retrospective studies. Applied to data from 23 European countries, the proposed solutions recover the effect of childhood hardship on adult health outcome.recall bias; generalised latent variable model; life course; childhood hardship; European Survey of Income and Living Conditions; EUSILC; NCDS

BOOK REVIEW OF LIFE OF PI BY YANN MARTEL

This book review is written to find the strength and the weakness in Life of Piwhich is written by Yann Martel. “The Book Review of Life of Pi” is focusing on the content of the novel finding the strength and the weakness. The strengths are the plot and the main character named Pi, the weakness is the end of the novel. The plot conveys how the author describes all situations in this novel clearly and the main character shares readers about how to face the world and Pi shares lots of values in his life as a tough boy. The weakness is the end of the novel, Martel does not give an explanation about why Richard dumps Pi without saying goodbye at all. This novel conveys about anything that people think. A novel does not deliver any knowledge of life, but in this novel I read many valuable words

Utilization of NoSQL database for disaster preparedness

Ponencias, comunicaciones y pósters presentados en el 17th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science "Connecting a Digital Europe through Location and Place", celebrado en la Universitat Jaume I del 3 al 6 de junio de 2014.Nowadays, in the age of big data, geodatabases become more critical with respect to geospatial data volume, variety and capacity. It is required that geodatabases must be capable enough to cope with high stakes of geospatial data service during production, manipulation and publication stages. The concept of NoSQL database has been introduced as a potential alternative solution to existing SQL databases which is supposed to grow more rapidly in the near future. It has the prospective to combine the powerful capability of GIS data processing with an approach of non-relational Data Base Management System (DBMS). This type of data warehouse can potentially accommodate variety of information over the World Wide Web (www) space with different structures into one single geodatabase. MongoDB as one instance of NoSQL database introduces an open source document storage empowered by a replication using data partitioning approach across multiple machines. For the work described in this paper it has been used for the integration of open access geo-information by extracting geospatial information from a near real time earthquake service i.e. Geofon. Geospatial information is extracted from the Geofon uniform resource locator (url) then transferred into documents in MongoDB. This demonstrates the geospatial data integration in order to improve earthquake information contents as well as to enable GIS analysis approach using Python scripting environment in ArcGIS 10 platform. It shows a reliable performance even for handling a relatively big geographical names data from GEOnet Names Service (GNS)

HUBUNGAN ANTARA NILAI PRAKTEK KERJA INDUSTRI (PRAKERIN) DENGAN MINAT BERWIRAUSAHA PADA SISWA SMKN 40 JAKARTA

NATALIA TAMPUBOLON. The Correlation between Internship Score with Entrepreneurial Intention On Students of SMKN 40 Jakarta. Thesis, Jakarta. Study Program of Commerce Education, Department of Economics and Administration, Faculty of Economics, State University of Jakarta, July 2013. The purpose of this research is to obtain valid and reliability datas or facts about the possibility correlation between Internship Score with Entrepreneurial Intention On Students of SMKN 40 Jakarta. The research used survey method with the correlational approach. The research was conducted at SMKN 40 Jakarta for four months from March 2014 until June 2014. The population in this study are the students of SMKN 40 Jakarta, where as the possible populations were 65 students in Marketing and Multimedia major at class XII. The technique which is used in gathering the sample was simple random sampling about 55 students. According to statistical computation, the regression equation is Ŷ = 11,69+0,85X. Test requirements analysis of the normality test error of estimated regression of Y on X (Y – Ŷ) to produce Lcount liliefors test =0,1025, while the Ltable for n = 55 at 0,05 significant level is 0,1194. Because the Lcount Ftable, which is Fcount =19,55 > Ftable = 4,00, meaning that the regression equation is significant. Product Moment correlation coefficient of Pearson generating rxy =0,519, it indicates there’s a positive correlation between internship score with Entrepreneurial Intention. Thereafter performed the test significance correlation coefficient using the t-test and the resulting tcount > ttable, which is tcount =4,422 > ttable = 1,671. It can be concluded that the correlation between internship score with Entrepreneurial Intention is significant. The coefficient of determination obtained for 26,95% which shows that 26,95% of the variation of Entrepreneurial Intention is determined by internship score. The result of this research has proved the existence of a positive and significant correlation between Entrepreneurial Intention with internship score On Students of SMKN 40 Jakart

Analisis Pengaruh Citra Merek Dan Kepercayaan Merek Terhadap Loyalitas Konsumen(Survei Pada Pengguna Tupperware Di Kota Palembang)

This Study aimed to examine the effect of brand image and brand trust on customer loyalty Tupperware. Population in this research is all costumer Tupperware in Palembang city. Samples on this reaseach is mothers who located in primary school. Sample using purposive sampling from 100 responden. Testing done use SPSS Ver. 21. This research has been qualified validity, reliability, normality test, multicolineary test, heterokedastisitas test, and multiple regression analysis and F test and T test. The result of this research show there are significant brand image and brand trust on customer loyalty

Evaluasi Pelaksanaan Program/kegiatan Dana Block Grant di Tingkat Desa dan Kelurahan Kabupaten Kampar

Tujuan dilakukannya kegiatan evaluasi program pengembangan data/ informasi BlockGrant Desa/Kelurahan adalah (1) mengetahui informasi pelaksanaan dana bantuan(block grant) di Kabupaten Kampar, (2) mengetahui efektifitas, efisiensi, manfaat daridana bantuan (block grant) bagi masyarakat di Kabupaten Kampar, (3) mengetahuinilai tambah (positive value) program dana bantuan (block grant) bagi desa/kelurahandi Kabupaten Kampar, (4) mengetahui manajemen perencanaan dan pengelolaan danabantuan (block grant ) desa/kelurahan di Kabupaten Kampar. Penelitian dilakukandengan pendekatan analisis deskriptif terhadap data sekunder dan data primer.Pelaksanaan kegiatan budget sharing khususnya dalam bidang ekonomi pada umumnyamenunjukkan hasil yang cukup baik dan memuaskan. dengan adanya kegiatan budgetsharing, lebih dari 50 persen responden menyatakan bahwa terjadi kenaikan yangcukup dalam hal investasi dan infrastruktur ekonomi, diikuti dengan 30% respondenmenyatakan ada kenaikan yang tinggi dalam investasi dan infrastruktur ekonomi.Hanya sekitar 7% responden yang berpendapat investasi dan infrstruktur ekonomi yangrendah setelah implementasi kegiatan budget sharin

Pendidikan Teknologi dan Kejuruan dalam Menghasilkan Lulusan yang Relevan dengan Kebutuhan Dunia Kerja

Era globalisasi yang berlangsung saat ini menuntut peran pendidikan teknologi dan kejuruanagar semakin mantap. Masalah relevansi, peningkatan mutu dan efisiensi penyelengaraanpendidikan teknologi dan kejuruan sudah sering dipertanyakan, Hal ini didasarkan bahwa semakinsulitnya lulusan pendidikan teknologi dan kejuruan untuk memperoleh pekerjaan, sementara jumlahlulusannya semakin bertambah. Seluruh bidang keahlian dalam dunia kerja terbentuk dari hubunganantara manusia dengan benda. Manusia terdiri dari komponen jasmani dan komponen rohani atauide, sedangkan benda dapat berbentuk perangkat keras dan perangkat lunak yaitu data. Dengandemikian bidang keahlian dalam dunia kerja terbentuk atas hubungan manusia, ide, benda dan data.Pengembangan sistem pendidikan teknologi dan kejuruan perlu dirancang sesuai dengan kebutuhanindustri. Untuk dapat mencapai tujuan ini, keterlibatan dunia industri harus dikembangkan dalammenetapkan berbagai standar keahlian, pengembangan kurikulum dan kebijakan pengelolaan sistempendidikan. Tingkat pendidikan angkatan kerja Indonesia diharapkan akan berubah. Hal ini akanmengubah pula harapan dan keinginan generasi muda dan orang tuanya. Indonesia diperkirakanakan mengikuti jejak pengalaman berbagai Negara lain, dimana tingkat pendidikan yang semakintinggi merupakan kebutuhan individu dan keluarganya. Meningkatnya tingkat pendidikan angkatankerja harus diimbangi pula dengan meningkatnya ketrampilan kerja dan produktivitasnya.Kata Kunci; Pendidikan Teknologi dan Kejuruan, Lulusan dan Dunia Kerja

Struktur Paradigmatik Ilmu-ilmu Keislaman Klasik: Dampaknya Terhadap Pola Pikir, Sikap, Dan Perilaku Keberagamaan

: Paradigmatic Structure of Classical Islamic Sciences, its Impact on Mindset, Attitude and Religious Experience. The aims of this article is to study the paradigmatic structure of the classical Islamic knowledge which had dominated the discources of Islamic intellectualism in the world of Sunni Muslim. Epistemologically, in order to contruct the principles of classical Islamic knowledge, the revealed textsand the thought patterns of ulama Salaf such as analogy (qiyâs), consensus (ijmâ\u27), and intuitive (dzauqî) had dominated. Axiologically, the purpose of classical Islamic knowlegde is more oriented to transform Islamic values and defense of “religious” in order to gain the here after happiness, howeverthe aspects of socially realistic “secular” life tends to be periferal.In general, both textual-bayânî and ‘irfâni paradigm which till now have been established in the world of Islamic education had affected the mindset, attitude, and conduct of Ummah\u27s religiosity in order to respon the problems, opportunities, and challenges of modernity and globalization