区域金融生态环境与金融资源配置的经验分析——以安徽省为例

运用典型相关分析与Granger因果检验等方法对安徽省区域金融生态环境与金融资源配置水平之间进行实证分析。两者存在Granger因果关系。但这种关系是单向的,是从金融生态环境到金融资源配置,而且表现为正向。建议从政府主导型市场经济向政府监管型市场经济的过渡,使两者相互促进的作用得以充分发挥。     

OVM Wins the Bid for a Nuclear Power Research Project

正The Liu zhou OVM Machinery Co.Ltd.(OVM)recently won the bid offered by China Nuclear Power Engineering C o.L t d.f o r t h e research and development of a steel joint used in the shell of a third-generation nuclear power plant that protects the plant from being hit by big commercial planes.Ever since the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster which occurred at the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant on March 11,2011,countries around the world have improved the safety standards for nuclear power plants.In China,another shell is built around the containment     

The United States–India Nuclear Relations after 9/11: Alternative Discourses

Abstract

In this article, I go beyond the conventional realist arguments of anarchy, national interest, and nuclear security to offer alternative discourses of the same as applied in the context of US–India nuclear relations after 9/11. To this extent, I draw from feminist International Relations, that security is a gendered phenomenon, to explore how the post-9/11 climate of globalization has served as the context within which are articulated masculinist forms of nuclear discourses between India and the United States. Furthermore, considering issues of international hierarchy and power relations between India and United States, I also draw from Edward Said's Orientalism to explore how assumptions of Orientalism are also sustained in these masculinist nuclear discourses. My contribution in this article lies in offering an alternative feminist and post-colonial perspective to comprehend that nuclear security discourses are not only about objective realist/neoliberal issues of insecurity and strategic interdependence but also contain subjective implications that sustain masculinist and orientalist forms of identity-making in international politics.     

Symptom Validity Testing for the detection of simulated amnesia: Not robust to coaching

Abstract

Symptom Validity Testing (SVT) has been proposed as a method to assess the veracity of claims of amnesia. Performance below chance levels on a forced choice task is indicative of malingering. Previous research has shown that the Symptom Validity Test is a promising challenge test: at levels of high specificity, it may detect approximately half of those who malinger. The present study investigated the effect of coaching on the sensitivity of the Symptom Validity Test. Participants were instructed to feign complete amnesia and tested about their identity using the Symptom Validity Test. Half of the participants were coached not to perform below chance levels. Results were straightforward: 58% of 19 naive malingerers were detected, but none of 19 coached malingerers were detected. The results show that the Symptom Validity Test is not resistant to coaching.     

Detecting concealed information: The role of individual differences in executive functions and social desirability

The aim of the study was to assess the relationship between deception efficiency and individual differences in executive functioning (EF) and personality, with a particular focus on the influence of social desirability. A mock crime scenario was used, followed by a Concealed Information Test based on reaction times (RT-based CIT). Individual measures of EF (inhibition, shifting, and working memory [WM]) and personality (the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire – Revised, EPQ-R), plus a measure of social desirability (Balanced Inventory of Desirable Responding, BIDR) were collected in a distinct session. Results indicated that better executive functions were associated with faster responses to irrelevant items in the RT-based CIT. In a regression analysis, individual differences in shifting and spatial WM were significant predictors of the extra-time taken to lie, compare to truth-telling. No significant relations between deception outcomes and personality measures were noted. Looking at social desirability, the Impression Management scale predicted a further portion of variance in the extra time required to lie, beyond the contribution of executive functions. The utility of an individual differences approach to deception is advocated.     

Extracting Concealed Information from Groups*

Abstract: Lie detection procedures are typically aimed at determining guilt or innocence of a single suspect. Serious security threats, however, often involve groups, such as terrorist networks or criminal organizations. In this report, we describe a variant of the skin conductance‐based Concealed Information Test (CIT) that allows for the extraction of critical information from such groups. Twelve participants were given information about an upcoming (mock) terrorist attack, with specific instructions not to reveal this information to anyone. Next, each subject was subjected to a CIT, with questions pertaining to the details of the attack. Results showed that for every question, the average skin conductance response to the correct answer option differed significantly (p < 0.05) from those to all other options. These results show that the information about the upcoming attack could be extracted from the group of terror suspects as a whole.     

美国法上“记者”的含义

在美国各州,记者享有在法庭上拒绝作证的权利,因此,哪些人是记者,即法律上确定"记者"的含义非常重要。美国存在联邦和州两个法律体系。在联邦法律体系中,至今不承认记者有拒证权。而在各州的法律体系中,36个州和哥伦比亚特区存在保护记者拒证权的"盾牌法"。根据立法和判例,美国法律认为所有以从事大众传播为目的的媒体记者都可以是记者,无论是出版社、报刊、广播、电视还是互联网站、博客或者其他电子媒体。个人要成为实质上的记者必须具备两个条件:一是实际参与了将要发表或者已经发表的报道的调查与采访;二是在开始收集新闻的过程中就有将报道向公众传播的明确意图。记者也不总是那些已经发表了作品的人,对于有证据证明,其调查、采访、写作的目的是为了完成作品向大众传播,那么无论他处于调查、采访、写作的哪个阶段,他都是"记者",可以享受记者拒证权。     

集团诉讼在德国:“异类”抑或“蓝本”?

德国学者关于美国集团诉讼的研究始于1970年代初期。这类研究在1970—1980年代主要集中在消费者保护领域,在1990年代,则主要集中在大规模侵害领域。进入21世纪,德国法学家提出了一系列系统改革德国群体性诉讼制度的立法建议,其中的某些内容已经被最新立法所采纳。可以肯定的是,虽然德国法学界一直拒绝在德国引入集团诉讼,但德国群体诉讼制度的发展其实已经受到了集团诉讼的影响。对于德国法学家来说,集团诉讼是异类,也是蓝本。     

中国在朝鲜核问题上的作用及其受局限的原因分析

自 2002年 10月以来,朝核问题一直成为国际社会关注的热点问题。“三方会谈”以及 3次“六方会谈”的成功召开把朝核问题纳入到一个多边框架下解决,对于这个重大成果,中国所起的重要作用是国际社会有目共睹的。尽管中国在朝核问题上发挥了其他国家所不可替代的作用,但是,从朝核问题的发展过程上可以看出,中国的作用也受到很大局限。     

防止核扩散的两大难题——以印关核关系为例

全球核不扩散面临着困境,国际社会在目标上的不确定性和体制上的低效性是当今世界核不扩散面临的难题,而各国利益的不一致是其根本原因,它也使这一国际行动的未来充满变数。美国与印度在核关系上的变化以及近年来热议的核合作,也无法回避这些难题。