A Walkinthe Clouds

<正>Summertime has finally come to the capital city,and everyone stands jaw agape at the wonderful,kaleidoscopic colored skies.Masks are out;parasol parades are in.Is that overhead blanket something new?Did the government by accident discover ways to make fissures in the vast gray concrete sheet that normaly hovers above our heads?Answering     

仲裁的起源、发展及展望

仲裁作为一种与诉讼并行的民商事纠纷解决机制具有悠久的历史,其正式发端于古希腊和古罗马时代,发展于欧洲的中世纪,近代以来已发展成为解决国际商事纠纷的重要方式之一。本文即对仲裁在世界范围内包括中国的起源和发展进行较为详尽的叙述,而后对世界仲裁以及我国仲裁的发展前景进行了展望。     

The Road toCredit

<正>Competition for a multi-billion personal credit investigation marketbeginsBooking a hotel room with your credit records,applying for immediate petty loans online,checking the credit record of the housemaid you are to hire,trusting a stranger to deliver goods for you by only checking his credit records—all these scenes will soon come true,and it is the personal credit information business that will bring people these conveniences.     

修订《消费者权益保护法》消费者友好型社会的构建

《消费者权益保护法》自1993年10月31日颁布、1994年1月1日实施以来，对于保护消费者权益、培养广大消费者和经营者的法治意识、净化市场交易秩序、推动国民经济稳步增长发挥了积极作用。随着我国社会主义市场经济体制的建立与健全，消费活动对国民经济的拉动作用不断增强，消费者权益保护事业面临的新情况与新问题也不断增多，《消费者权益保护法》有必要与时俱进。     

In Tune With OneAnother

<正>A small instrument unites a group of senior citizens in Beijing together Wang Suzhen,a 64-year-old lady who lives in Wangjing,a prime residential area in the northeastern part of Beijing,travels for two hours by bus and subway to the Temple of Heaven every Sunday,simply for the purpose of playing harmonica with her ensemble.     

A Tale of Three Cities

<正>An integrated transportation grid will connect Beijing,Tianjin and HebeiProvinceRen Aifan,a 28-year-old who works in downtown Beijing and dwells in Yanjiao,a town in neighboring Hebei Province,has to spend four hours in commuting every day."I get on a bus at 6:50 a.m.and take Beijing’s Subway Line 1 around 8:00a.m.When I get off at Chongwenmen Station and arrive in my office,it’s usually almost 9:00a.m.,"Ren told Beijing Review,complaining about the crowd in the bus enveloped in     

Experimental Effects of a Call-Center Disclaimer Regarding Confidentiality on Callers’ Willingness to Make Disclosures Related to Terrorism

ABSTRACT

Utilizing a sample drawn to represent the general U.S. population, the present study experimentally tested whether a call-center’s disclaimer regarding limits to caller confidentiality (i.e., that operators would be required to refer calls to law enforcement if callers were to discuss anyone who was a danger to themselves or others) affected disclosures related to a third party’s involvement with terrorist groups, gangs, or such party’s commission of assault and/or non-violent crimes.

Disclaimer type did not significantly affect the number of terrorism-related disclosures. Furthermore, it did not significantly affect either the number of gang-related disclosures or reports of assault. However, the law enforcement referral disclaimer/condition reduced the number of disclosures of non-violent crimes that were not directly related to terrorism, gangs, or assault, though its effect accounted for less than one percent of the variance between conditions. Additionally, disclaimer type did not significantly affect willingness to recommend the call-center, nor did that effect vary significantly by age or sex. Implications for the call-center’s role in addressing ideologically motivated violence (terrorism, violent extremism), as a form of secondary/targeted prevention, are discussed.     

Social Class and Party Choice in Northern Ireland's Ethnic Blocs

The peace process in Northern Ireland has not diminished the acute ethnic electoral faultline between the majority Protestant British population, supportive of parties favouring Northern Ireland's continuing place in the United Kingdom and the minority Catholic Nationalist population, which backs parties harbouring long-term ambitions for a united Ireland. Within each bloc, however, there has been a dramatic realignment in favour of parties once seen as extreme and militant. The Democratic Unionist Party has emerged as the main representative of the Protestant British population, whilst Sinn Fein, having for many years supported the Provisional IRA's ‘armed struggle’ against British rule, has become the dominant party amongst Catholic Nationalists. As both parties have entered the political mainstream and advanced electorally, to what extent have they moved from their electoral near-confinement among the working class to enjoy broader cross-class support – and how?     

仲裁制度的经济分析——以纠纷解决方式的成本比较和竞争互动作为考察点

在一个纠纷解决机制的经济学视角下,仲裁和诉讼作为其中的两种主要公共产品,如何在其竞合的商事纠纷解决领域实现互补并进而形成良性的竞争,将是使得商事纠纷解决秩序有效率运转的一个途径。基于纠纷解决需求的信息不对称模型和仲裁诉讼的寡头竞争格局模型的建构,可以得出关于仲裁定价的分析,并能为如何协同诉讼提供量化依据。