Isolated counties,administrative monitoring,and the misuse of public funds in China

This article empirically investigates the effects of administrative monitoring on the misuse of funds by local governments and provides a representative model of fiscal decentralization with political centralization, where administrative monitoring relies on the top‐down hierarchy of the bureaucratic system in China based on a unique data set from audit programs. We show a double effect between distance and monitoring in local China. The incentive for misusing public funds can be strengthened if the county (a) is governed by a leader whose tenure is longer than 3 years, (b) is governed by a politician from outside the county, or (c) receives more transfer payments. These findings suggest that the administrative monitoring of local governments can be vital to remedying the misuse of public funds.     

我国儿童福利权保障法制化的实现路径

儿童福利权作为我国法律上确认并加以保障的重要权利之一,在当下的中国如何获得更好的保障,不仅是应对制度困境的需要,更是我们公法学人需要关注的课题.从目前我国儿童福利权保障的法律框架来看,相关内容极为分散且略显凌乱,其实现面临诸多困境.儿童福利权保障法制化的解决之道在于更新儿童福利权理念、尽快制定儿童福利基本法、建立专门儿童福利行政管理机构.     

教师教育要坚持养成

“师范性”不足、外部肆意塑造、强职业取向、乏范可师、重教书轻育人、泛实践倾向和窄技艺规训,是当前教师教育存在的突出问题.教师教育是养成性的,重视和深入实施养成性教师教育,有利于解决上述问题.在师范院校阶段,实施养成性教育要习养师范生的学识与技艺性、培养师范生的能力与建造力、滋养师范生的智慧与教育观、葆养师范生的童心与真性情、陶养师范生的谦诚与美善心、蓄养师范生的信心与上进心、涵养师范生的勇气与学习力.     

广西北部湾经济区外向型高层次人才培养策略

广西北部湾经济区现有的外向型高层次人才不能满足该区域经济合作发展的需求,必须加大和加强高层次人才国际化培训力度。本文针对外向型高层次人才培养工作中存在的缺失,提出创新培养模式、实施培养工程、加快培训基地建设和拓展培训项目等外向型高层次人才培养策略。     

广西北部湾开放开发的历史发展

自汉代海上丝绸之路开辟,两千年来,广西北部湾地区经历了四次重大的海上对外开放,迎来了四次发展高潮,各阶段相互衔接、逐次推进并走向快速发展态势。探寻广西北部湾开放开发的客观进程和规律,可为当前广西北部湾加快开放开发提供经验教训。     

经济手段在南部非洲发展共同体环境管理中的运用及启示

南部非洲发展共同体为根除贫穷和解决生态恶化问题需要寻求以可持续发展为导向、以促进共同实现经济效益和环境效益为目标的环境管理手段。作为一种市场激励手段,经济手段进入南共体环境管理的视野,并被广泛地运用于这一区域土地资源的管理和使用,水资源的使用、分配和管理以及工业部门中。南共体有关环境管理中经济手段运用的实践对于我国环境管理的革新同样具有一定的借鉴意义。     

Older women, health, and social care in Singapore

A key demographic feature in the high-income country of Singapore is that women have longer years of life than men, and the aging pattern in Singapore is similar to that of Northern Europe. This paper describes how this current generation of older Singaporean women aged 65 and above experiences declines in health status and well-being as they age. Their vulnerability is the higher risk of chronic illnesses stemming from longer life expectancy and a lower likelihood of access to appropriate health and social care. This is because health and social care in old age are mainly financed by individual out-of-pocket spending which includes support from adult children. Unlike Northern Europe, Singapore does not yet have a well-developed social welfare system to support women in old age.     

A novel skull registration based on global and local deformations for craniofacial reconstruction

Craniofacial reconstruction is important in forensic identification. It aims to estimate a facial appearance for human skeletal remains using the relationship between the soft tissue and the underlying bone structure. Various computerized methods have been developed in recent decades. An effective way is to deform a reference skull to the discovered skull, and then apply the same deformation to the skin associated with the reference skull to provide an approximate face for the discovered skull. For this method, the better the two skulls match each other, the more face-like the reconstructed skin surface will be. In this paper, we present a novel skull registration method that can match the two skulls closely, so as to improve the accuracy of the reconstruction. It combines both global and local deformations. A generic thin-plate spline (TPS)-based deformation, which is global, is applied first to roughly align the two skulls based on two groups of manually defined landmarks. Afterwards, the two skulls are largely matched, except some regions, on which some new landmarks are automatically marked. A compact support radial basis functions (CSRBF)-based deformation, which is local, will then be performed on these regions to adjust the initial alignment of the two skulls. Such adjustment can be repeatedly implemented until the two skulls have optimal alignment. In addition, all the skulls and face involved in the registration are represented by their single outer surfaces to facilitate the reconstruction procedure. The experiments demonstrate that our method can create a plausible face even when the reference skull is very different from the discovered skull. As a result, we can make full use of our database to provide multiple estimates for a principle components analysis (PCA) for the final reconstruction.     

海南国际旅游岛休闲养老产业的法律思考

当前我国已进入到老龄化社会,养老产业化发展已是不可回避的问题。积极发展海南国际旅游岛休闲养老产业是解决这一问题的最佳试验区,休闲养老产业的法律现状,已表明制定和出台发展海南休闲养老产业的政策和法律制度,是海南经济特区立法的当务之急。     

城管综合执法:多视角分析与路径选择——以广州市为例

城管综合执法机构自成立以来,其合法性备受质疑。执法手段粗暴,执法形象受损;执法成本高昂,执法效率低下;城管人员与被管理者情绪对立,甚至发生暴力冲突。本文以广州市为例,从博弈论、经济学、社会学、行政法学以及法理学等多个视角分析了当下城管综合执法的困境,并提出了相应的对策。