The use of phosphate buffered saline for the recovery of cells and spermatozoa from swabs.

In the forensic science laboratory, the recovery of spermatozoa from vaginal swabs, or vaginal cells from penile swabs, can help determine if sexual intercourse may have taken place. There are several methods used to recover spermatozoa and cells from the swabs before visualisation on a microscope slide and most of these methods use water. Phosphate buffered saline (PBS) is a non-toxic solution used in many biological laboratories. Unlike water, PBS prevents cells rupturing or shrivelling up due to osmosis. This study demonstrates that PBS can be used for the extraction of spermatozoa and cells from swabs and that PBS does not affect subsequent DNA profiling.     

报得春风又一枝——《非洲一体化与中非关系》读后感

*近年来,借着中非关系发展势头全面提升与国人对非洲兴趣日增这一东风,中国非洲学这一长期于困顿中踽踽行进的学科,似乎正在迎来久盼的春天。是否可以说,在历经三四代人之不懈努力后,中国的非洲学已到它的而立之年,它正由中国现代学术之边缘一隅之地,逐渐进入到人们关注的中心地带。事实上,非洲研究这一学科所可能蕴藏的蓬勃生机与丰富矿藏,已开始引起国内一些有学术敏觉力与前瞻性的人们的关注,政府部门亦正拟出台一系列推进中国非洲学发展的举措。而2006年底由社会科学文献出版社推出的罗建波博士所著的《非洲一体化与中非关系》一书,恰似…     

社会公平正文的制度经济学分析

实现和维护社会公平正义,是构建社会主义和谐社会的关键。本文从制度经济学视角对社会公平正义进行了分析,指出它的制度属性和所具有的强制性、局限性、承接性和阶段性特征,探讨了关于社会公平正义的制度变迁的诱致原因,提出了进行社会公平正义制度建设的几点建议。     

Prospects for Managed Democracy in Russia

The 2003 Duma election resulted in the victory of the party of power, thereby strengthening managed democracy in Russia. Since then, political trends in Russia's regions and rural politics provide considerable evidence of the increasing ability of pro-Kremlin forces to maximise their electoral fortunes in national contests. These political trends make it likely that United Russia will not only emerge as the dominant party in the 2007 Duma election, but will provide the Kremlin and Putin's successor with a compliant lower house. The outcome is that Putin's successor will find the political infrastructure to continue managed democracy.     

Hague Case Law — Latest Development

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专职代表制之可行性再探析

专职代表制和兼职代表制是两种不同的代表制 ,理论界对于我国能否建立专职代表制仍有不同看法。本文试图就专职代表制在我国的可行性从不同角度加以论证并做一些初步探索     

日本最高法院的少数意见制

少数意见制主要是英美法系国家采行的一项裁判制度,日本战后受美国的影响,将少数意见制移入其大陆法系司法制度的母体之中.日本法院法规定,最高法院各法官必须在裁判书上表示自己的意见.关于最高法院少数意见表示制度,日本法律界曾经意见分歧很大,但经过近六十年运行,其长处充分显现,已获得定型化.少数意见制与整个司法制度是相符合的,将少数意见制引入我国将促进宪法的进一步贯彻实施,深化司法改革.考虑到目前在全国普遍实施的条件还不成熟,以及各级法院地位和作用的差异,在具体的操作步骤上,可从最高人民法院审判委员会开始实行.     

论房地产行业的知识产权保护

伴随着我国经济的不断发展,房地产业也在不断升温,随之而来各种新的问题。知识产权问题尤为严重,同时我国又缺乏相关的法规来解决这一问题。本文拟从房地产业的版权、传统文化、商标权等方面进行阐述。完善我国知识产权方面相关的法律制度。     

论思想政治工作的定量化

思想政治工作的定量化走过了一个酝酿、产生和逐步发展的演进历程。作为一种融理论、实践和技术于一体的系统工程,新世纪新阶段思想政治工作的定量化要在广泛汲取古今中外相关理论、方法和技术的基础上,以人的思想信息认知的定量化为基点,紧紧围绕决策定量化、思想政治工作定量化和评估定量化来展开;同时,还必须科学地认识思想政治工作定量化的地位作用,扬其长、避其短,最大限度地发挥其功效。     

Sudden and unexpected death of a 6-month-old baby with silent heart failure due to anomalous origin of the left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery.

A 6-month-old girl died suddenly without any previous symptoms of heart failure. Autopsy examination showed cardiomegaly (97 g) with a severely fibrotized myocardium. The left coronary artery was originating from the pulmonary artery. Histologically, the myocardium showed myocardial infarcts of different ages, as well as grossly thickened arterial branches due to increased flow in left-right shunt. We suggest that rare anomalies of the coronary arteries should be considered in the autopsies of suspected sudden infant death syndrome cases.