Introduction: citizenship as inhabitance? Migrant housing squats versus institutional accommodation

ABSTRACT

This special issue focuses on migrants’ self-organised strategies in relation to housing in Europe, namely the collective squatting of vacant buildings and land. In particular, the contributions to this special issue differentiate between shelter provided in state-run or humanitarian camps and squatted homes. Migrants squats are an essential part of the ‘corridors of solidarity’ that are being created throughout Europe, where grassroots social movements engaged in anti-racist, anarchist and anti-authoritarian politics coalesce with migrants in devising non-institutional responses to the violence of border regimes. In these spaces contentious politics and everyday social reproduction uproot racist and xenophobic regimes. The struggles emerging in these spaces disrupt host-guest relations, which often perpetuate state-imposed hierarchies and humanitarian disciplining technologies. Moreover, the solidarities and collaborations between undocumented and documented activists challenge hitherto prevailing notions of citizenship and social movements, as well as current articulations of the common. These radical spaces enable possibilities for inhabitance beyond, against and within citizenship, which do not only reverse forms of exclusion and repression, but produce ungovernable resources, alliances and subjectivities that prefigure more livable spaces for all. Therefore, these struggles are interpreted here as forms of commoning, as they constitute autonomous socio-political infrastructures and networks of solidarity beyond and against the state and humanitarian provision     

Near Infrared Spectroscopy Detection and Quantification of Herbal Medicines Adulterated with Sibutramine

There is an increasing demand for herbal medicines in weight loss treatment. Some synthetic chemicals, such as sibutramine (SB), have been detected as adulterants in herbal formulations. In this study, two strategies using near infrared (NIR) spectroscopy have been developed to evaluate potential adulteration of herbal medicines with SB: a qualitative screening approach and a quantitative methodology based on multivariate calibration. Samples were composed by products commercialized as herbal medicines, as well as by laboratory adulterated samples. Spectra were obtained in the range of 14,000–4000 per cm. Using PLS‐DA, a correct classification of 100% was achieved for the external validation set. In the quantitative approach, the root mean squares error of prediction (RMSEP), for both PLS and MLR models, was 0.2%w/w. The results prove the potential of NIR spectroscopy and multivariate calibration in quantifying sibutramine in adulterated herbal medicines samples.     

廉价政府是廉政建设的重要课题

从经济学的角度看,政府是公共物品的提供者,政府在提供各种公共服务的同时也需要消耗一定的社会资源。廉价政府就是在帕累托最优条件下政府提供的公共品与其成本之比,它不是一个静止的概念,而是一个动态的过程。建设廉价政府是马克思廉政建设的重要思想,是无产阶级政权建设的重要方面。正确认识当前我国廉价政府建设的现状,处理好历史与现实、廉洁与廉价、廉价与廉能的关系,努力为人民提供更多更好的公共服务,不断降低提供公共服务的成本,建设人民所期待的廉价政府,是当前我国廉政建设的重要课题。     

以科学发展观为指导科学确定任职教育院校的办学定位

办学定位是根据院校的办学传统、资源条件、特色优势以及所处的社会经济环境,以部队建设需求和期望为导向,为学校自身确定的办学目标和发展方向.科学合理的办学定位是任职教育院校充分发挥职能作用、实现可持续发展和保证新型院校体系整体优化的重要前提.科学确定任职教育院校办学定位应坚持需求牵引、突出特色、实事求是原则,发挥教学工作评价、法规制度和教育资源配置的导向作用.     

The strategic use of dismissal legislation: an empirical analysis using Spanish data

In this paper, we analyse empirically how the legal framework affects the relationship between labour market conditions and dismissals. We use a pseudo-panel of Spanish data from 1987 to 2001. We find that Labour Law reforms have effects on the use of individual and collective dismissals although such effects are much lower than those related to the business cycle. The results also show a strategic use of the different types of dismissals, distorting the work of those institutions involved in dismissals.      

刍议TRIMs协定对我国海外直接投资的影响

入世以来 ,WTO法律规则对我国各方面的影响正逐步凸现 ,在吸引外资方面 ,几乎取得了立竿见影的巨大效应。然而 ,入世的好处对我国海外直接投资的影响却表现得并不十分明显。其中 ,既有多年来海外直接投资本身发展滞后的客观因素 ,也有对此认识、研究不够 ,准备不足的主观因素。在对这些因素进行剖析的基础上 ,本文初步论述了 WTO协定群中的 TRIMs协定 (与贸易有关的投资措施协定 )对我国海外直接投资的影响 ,并希望以此能够引起对我国海外直接投资在入世后的重要性的足够关注     

关于加强民主党派参政能力建设的探索

执政党要加强执政能力建设,参政党也要加强参政能力建设。文章围绕政治把握能力、参政议政能力、民主监督能力、组织领导能力、合作共事能力,就参政党如何加强参政能力建设进行了探讨。