Safety in Intimate Partnerships: The Role of Appraisals and Threat

For most intimate partners, safety is an important goal and basic need. How a partner perceives safety has an impact on what happens in the relationship, and this will in turn affect the responses from the other partner. Lack of safety can provoke negative emotions and actions which can lead to relationship deterioration and violence. However, little is known about this process from the insider’s perspective. In this study, constructivist grounded theory methods were used to analyze interviews from individuals (n = 37) to better understand individual appraisals of relational safety. The results include a theory that illustrates the process of relational safety and threat. This model articulates how certain relational conditions precede a perception of safety or threat, which then leads to corresponding actions. Implications of the model include a focus on interaction and context when assessing for safety and abuse, as well as the importance of self regulation.     

巴西：依法打击腐败的新利器

2013年6月，一巴西持续爆发的大规模反腐示威游行，凸显了巴西社会对于腐败问题的深恶痛绝。同拉美大多数国家一样，巴西也深受腐败问题之困扰，政府机构中，频频爆出各类腐败丑闻。为了严厉打击腐败行为，并尽快消除示威游行所带来的负面影响，巴西国会以罕见的速度，在一个多月时间内就通过了一部用于严惩腐败的《反商业贿赂法》。该部法律的出台，标志着巴西首次以法律形式对腐败问题进行依法打击。     

Methamphetamine and driving

Methamphetamine incidence in driving under the influence cases in the City and County of San Francisco is a significant and on-going challenge. Two methamphetamine positive driving cases are presented herein demonstrating some similarities in observed signs and symptoms and drug blood concentrations but which are also characterized by very different driving styles and behaviours towards the police officers when encountered on the road.     

甲基苯丙胺滥用与司来吉兰服用的区分:尿液中甲基苯丙胺和苯丙胺的手性分析

目的考察司来吉兰及其代谢物在尿液中的含量变化,并结合实际案例探讨手性分析区分甲基苯丙胺滥用与司来吉兰服用的可行性。方法采用CHIROBIOTICTM V2手性液相色谱柱对尿液样品进行手性分离和液相色谱-串联质谱(LC-MS/MS)法测定,并对司来吉兰服药志愿者尿样、疑服用司来吉兰的涉毒人员尿样进行甲基苯丙胺和苯丙胺的手性分析。结果服用5 mg司来吉兰后,尿液中司来吉兰的检出时限仅为7h。尿液中R(-)-甲基苯丙胺和R(-)-苯丙胺约在7h质量浓度最高,分别为0.86μg/m L和0.18μg/m L,并在80 h和168 h后无法检出。应用该方法成功分析了疑服用司来吉兰的涉毒人员尿液中甲基苯丙胺和苯丙胺的来源。结论甲基苯丙胺和苯丙胺的手性分析以及司来吉兰代谢物检测可区分甲基苯丙胺滥用与司来吉兰服用。     

When Citizens Fight Back: Justice Sensitivity and Resistance to Political Reform

A considerable number of individuals show resistance to reform, whereas others, although similarly affected, do not react in a resistant way at all. Based on research showing that people differ concerning how sensitive they are toward being a victim of injustice (victim justice sensitivity), we argued that people high in victim justice sensitivity perceive a reform more as an illegitimate limitation to their freedom resulting in more reactance. Consequently, people high in victim justice sensitivity should show more resistance to reform. We conducted three studies to test these assumptions. Our studies revealed that physicians (healthcare reform, Study 1) and students (introduction of tuition fees, Studies 2 and 3) with higher victim justice sensitivity experienced more reactance and thus showed more resistance to reform. The implications of these results for the implementation of political reforms are discussed.     

反腐败的实质是反权力的滥用

反腐败的重点应该放在制约权力的滥用上。要有效地加强对公共权力的控制,必须从三个方面入手:一是加强对权力的制约;二是加强对权力的监督;三是加强对权力掌握者的思想政治教育和职业道德教育。     

“菲迪克”的滥用及其对甲基苯丙胺分析的干扰

目的：消除麻黄减对甲基苯丙胺分析的干扰。方法：在甲基苯丙胺的提取过程中增加氧化步骤，即2ml尿样用0．5ml1mol／L的磷酸缓冲液（pH6．8）和0．5ml0．3mol／L高碘酸钠处理。结果：麻黄碱在高碘酸离子的存在下降解为小碎片而甲基苯丙胺则不受影响，从而消除麻黄碱的干扰。结论：样品提取前用高碘酸钠处理可消除麻黄碱引起的干扰，该样品处理方法可用于甲基苯丙胺的确证分析。     

Methamphetamine body packer: acute poisoning death due to massive leaking of methamphetamine

We encountered three methamphetamine (MA) body packers presenting simultaneously, one of whom died. Three Nigerian men (39, 35, and 37 years old) who attempted to smuggle were found to contain 35 (498 g), 21 (292 g), and 5 packages (73 g) of methamphetamine hydrochloride (MA-HCl) in their stomachs, respectively. Packages were wrapped with plastic film and Scotch tape. The 39-year-old man died with acute poisoning from c. 20 g of MA-HCl that had leaked from the packages into the stomach. His plasma MA concentration was 8.6 microg/mL when he was hospitalized (17 h before his death). Autopsy findings showed extreme pulmonary congestion and edema as well as moderate hepatic edema and several petechiae. Quantitative analysis was performed by gas chromatography/mass spectrometry. Extremely high concentrations of MA and its metabolite amphetamine (AP) were found in cardiac blood (63.5 microg/mL and 1.2 microg/mL), urine (4,518 microg/mL and 72.4 microg/mL), gastric contents (8,490 microg/mL and 16.9 microg/mL), and in all other autopsy samples. These high concentrations confirmed that the cause of death was acute MA poisoning. Furthermore, impurity-profiling analysis of the seized MA revealed that the MA smuggled by the three suspects originated from the same batch.     

武力打击国际恐怖主义的合法性问题

武力打击国际恐怖主义的合法性问题关系到国际法律秩序的前途与联合国集体安全体制的命运。通过对美国武力反恐政策与实践在国际法学界引发的争议、国际法上自卫权规则和安理会授权武力强制措施的适用性、国际恐怖主义泛滥对自卫权理论和规则的发展方向的影响 ,以及联合国在武力反恐中的作用等问题的分析 ,我们可以看到 ,虽然现有国际法理论和规则并不完全支持武力反恐 ,但是完全排除受害国使用武力反恐既不合理也不可行。为了既有效打击恐怖主义又不滥用武力 ,现行国际法和联合国体制都需要改革 ,以建立一个由和平措施和武力措施共同构成的反恐机制。     

Beyond the Ghetto: Police Power,Methamphetamine and the Rural War on Drugs

Viewing police as important cultural producers, we ask how police power fashions structures of feeling and social imaginaries of the “war on drugs” in small towns of the rural Midwest. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and a collection of interviews focusing on police officers’ beliefs about the causes of crime and drug use, we locate a narrative of rural decline attributed to the producers and users of methamphetamine. We argue this narrative supports punitive and authoritarian sensibilities and broader narcopolitical projects more generally and ignores long-standing social inequalities observed in rural communities. As such, the cultural work of rural police provides important insight to the shape and direction of late-modern crime control beyond the familiar terrains of the city and its “ghetto.”     

Strategic Research Partnerships: Constructing Policy-Relevant Indicators

Absent a set of indicators based on a set of valid constructs, it will remain difficult to determine the importance of strategic research partnerships (SRP) for the U.S. economy and the enterprise of science and technology in general. The purpose of this paper is to identify characteristics of a desirable policy indicator for strategic research partnerships. In choosing among the many possible conceptualizations and indicators of SRP, a framing question should be: “what is the public stake?” The fact that SRP activity has great economic import (still an open question) does not imply an equivalent government or public policy importance. This seems to imply, then, that SRP indicators should focus on such factors as the composition of R&;D (e.g. do they shift the balance in available public domain research?), impacts of labor and human resources, tax implications (e.g. use of tax credits, foregone revenue and its impacts), and, especially, public-private partnerships (e.g. how are government-sponsored or -brokered SRPs different from others?).     

Fight or flight: Integral emotions and violent intentions

The effect of proximate emotions on risk perceptions is of central importance to criminal decision‐making theory, but has been understudied. We investigate the role of two integral (situational specific) emotional responses, anger and fear, in a decision‐making context regarding the choice to commit assault. We draw on dual‐process models of information processing and appraisal theory to propose a theoretical model in which integral emotions influence decisions and behavior. Using data from an experiment embedded in a survey to a nationwide sample of adults (N = 804), we test the interrelated roles of anger, fear, and traditional rational choice considerations on the intention to commit assault. We find a strong direct association between emotions and intentions to commit assault. Additionally, anger and fear moderate the effect of cognitive deliberations on behavioral intentions and provide a lens through which to evaluate a criminogenic opportunity.     

改革正未有窮期

2008年，中国迎来改革开放三十周年，那么2009年，是中国改革开放进入第31年的日子。