Heat-related mortality in selected United States cities, summer 1999.

As part of a public health response to severe heat waves in the midwestern and northeastern United States in the summer of 1999, the authors actively solicited the number of heat-related deaths from 38 medical examiner and coroner jurisdictions comprising 35 metropolitan areas to enumerate heat-related deaths in areas affected by heat waves. They also determined the usefulness of these data for surveillance and rapid investigation of heat-related deaths. A total of 334 heat-related deaths were reported during the study period of July 1 - August 31. Minor changes in data collection and diagnostic criteria in some medical examiner and coroner jurisdictions would allow for greater comparability among jurisdictions. The National Association of Medical Examiners' position paper on heat-related mortality diagnosis provides important guidance to medical examiners and coroners regarding the certification of heat-related deaths and may require some refinement to address certain issues. Among these are certifying manner of death and classifying potential causes of heat-related death not involving hyperthermia or heat stroke, but where heat is a potential contributing factor to death. Medical examiners and coroners are an important resource for heat-related mortality research, and improvements in data collection and reporting could yield tremendous benefits to our understanding of and interventions for heat-related deaths.     

现今中国民法典编纂借鉴德国民法典的几点思考

当代中国,包括大陆、台湾和澳门的法制实际都是在借鉴和继受大陆法系法制,特别是德国法制的基础上建立的。无论从法律传统还是从现实情况看,我国目前正在进行的民事立法及将来的法典编纂没有特别的理由偏离这一既定取向。当然,这并不排除在具体规则和制度上借鉴吸收英美法系法制内容,以补充和完善整体法制。在此过程中,有两个基本而重要的制度及其理论直接涉及德国法制,即：民商分立和物权抽象原则。根据历史和现实的考察以及对民商法特征的分析,我国未来的民法典编纂仍应采取民商分立的模式,而且这实际已是一种现实。至于在德国国内始终存在很大争议的物权行为理论或抽象原则,我们则不应完全照搬,而要从中寻取启发,在此基础上根据我国的实际情况和我们自己的思路,建立一种较容易理解、较接近实际生活和便于操作的物权理论及其相应制度。     

1H‐NMR with Multivariate Analysis for Automobile Lubricant Comparison

Identification of suspected automobile‐related lubricants could provide valuable information in forensic cases. We examined that automobile lubricants might exhibit the chemometric characteristics to their individual usages. To compare the degree of clustering in the plots, we co‐plotted general industrial oils that were highly dissimilar with automobile lubricants in additive compositions. ¹H‐NMR spectroscopy was used with multivariate statistics as a tool for grouping, clustering, and identification of automobile lubricants in laboratory conditions. We analyzed automobile lubricants including automobile engine oils, automobile transmission oils, automobile gear oils, and motorcycle oils. In contrast to the general industrial oils, automobile lubricants showed relatively high tendencies of clustering to their usages. Our pilot study demonstrated that the comparison of known and questioned samples to their usages might be possible in forensic fields.     

猪生殖与呼吸综合征病毒△Gp5/M/N串联基因的克隆及原核表达

采用RT-PCR方法从猪生殖与呼吸综合征病毒(PRRSV)美洲株VR2332中扩增△Gp5、M和N基因片段,通过重组PCR方法得到串联基因△Gp5/M/N,将其克隆到原核表达载体pET-30a(+)上,并转化大肠杆菌感受态细胞BL21(DE3)pLysS,筛选表达PRRSV pET-△Gp5/M/N蛋白的菌株.经IPTG诱导表达,进行SDS-PAGE分析和western-blotting.结果表明,PRRSV pET-△Gp5/M/N蛋白在大肠杆菌中以包涵体的形式表达,纯化后的蛋白可与PRRSV阳性血清发生特异性反应.证明原核表达系统表达的PRRSV pET-AGp5/M/N蛋白具有良好的反应原性.     

以体制机制创新为支撑加快创新型城市建设

“把增强自主创新能力作为国家战略,致力于建设创新型国家”,这是党在十六届五中全会上提出的关于国家未来建设的重大战略决策。大连要建设创新型城市需要各方面共同努力,而加快体制机制创新是完成这项工程的重要支撑与保障。     

Outcome of suicidal ideation and behavior in a young, help-seeking population over a 2-year period

Suicidal behavior is associated with negative outcomes, including completed suicide. This study examined the prevalence of suicidal behavior in a sample of referrals to a youth psychiatric service and investigated the stability of suicidality over 2 years. Of the 140 people (mean age 17.8) who were referred to a youth psychiatric service, 82 who were accepted for treatment (RA group) and 58 who were not accepted (RNA group) were assessed; 57% reported considering suicide and 39% reported attempting suicide in the 12 months prior to referral. Participants who reported suicidal ideation were significantly more likely than nonsuicidal participants to have multiple Axis I diagnoses and lower levels of functioning. At the 2-year follow-up there was a significant reduction in suicidality in the RA group, but not in the RNA group. In conclusion, suicidality is prevalent among young people referred to psychiatric services. Even brief contact with services results in a reduction in suicidality over 2 years.     

论中国特色社会主义的强大生命力

中国特色社会主义是党和人民历经千辛万苦、付出巨大代价取得的根本成就,它开创于改革开放新时期,建立于中国共产党百年奋斗基础之上,是实现中华民族伟大复兴中国梦的必由之路.在中国特色社会主义事业不断发展进程中,一脉相承是根本保障,与时俱进是方向指南,在当今风云变幻的世界格局中,中国特色社会主义事业展现出更加强大的生命力.     

Decentralization,Government Capacity,and Environmental Policy Performance: A Cross-National Analysis

This study examines how decentralization and government capacity interactively shape national environmental policy performance. Despite the extensive literature on the policy consequences of decentralization, what remains deficient is a proper understanding of the role that government capacity may play in the process. This study advances an integrative proposition that decentralization can improve policy performance if the government is equipped with capable, efficient and trustworthy administrative apparatus. Findings from a cross-national analysis on national environmental policy performance lend strong support for the general argument by revealing that such positive effects of decentralization are significantly strengthened by the quality of government capacity.     

“爱莲（廉）”文化资源旅游价值转换研究

周敦颐的《爱莲说》对莲的“清廉、高尚”品质进行赞颂,并通过他本人的实践给他的后人留下“爱莲（廉）”家传。桂林灵川县江头村的周氏家族遵从祖训,将爱莲（廉）文化进行实践和发展,矢志不渝。在市场经济发展的今天,旅游是将这种文化传承并传播下去的有效价值转换机制。通过恢复村周边莲田种植,开发设计“爱莲（廉）”旅游产品,促进莲产业的发展,具有推动当地经济发展和廉政文化建设的双重效应。     

Judith Scott’s What is Property?: an inquiry into principles of dependency,propriety, and self-possession of an “outsider” artist

The essay addresses the politics of biography in the interpretation and reception of “outsider artist” Judith Scott’s work. Drawing from feminism, disability studies, and Alexander Kluge and Oskar Negt’s History and Obstinacy (1981) and its political economy of labor power, the essay proposes a new method of analysis which would foreground Scott’s work as a mode of institutional critique. Kluge and Negt ask “Can capital say ‘I’?.” The essay argues that Scott’s work compels a concomitant questioning of this “I” and the very terms of biography, authorship, and ownership that undergird the myths – and the institutions – of the “outsider” and her “art.”