Reluctant policy innovation through profit concession and informality tolerance: A strategic relational view of policy entrepreneurship in China's urban redevelopment

This paper engages with the theoretical perspective of policy entrepreneurship to examine the pattern and process of policy change in the context of China's urban redevelopment. Drawing upon a strategic-relational reinterpretation of policy entrepreneurship, this paper identifies a distinctive form of reluctant policy innovation in the “three old renewals” scheme initiated in Guangzhou where profit concession and informality tolerance were practiced to create a small window of opportunity for the project of urban redevelopment to break ground. The motivation of policy entrepreneurship in the successful urban renewal projects in Guangzhou was heavily contingent upon the geographically important location of the project site and the historically incidence of hosting the 2010 Asian Games, which forced municipal government to become entrepreneurial and innovative in decision making and income redistribution in order to get things done as quickly as possible. The distinct fashion of policy innovation identified in the case of Guangzhou points to the polymorphous and dynamic nature of policy entrepreneurship and advocates a relational treatment of the strategies and motives of policy entrepreneurs embedded in concrete geographical and historical context.     

The significance of detecting serum fluorine level in the diagnosis of drowning

In view of the high content of fluorine in the water of a vast area of Guangdong Province, we detected the serum fluorine level in rabbits that died of drowning and compared them with those obtained from rabbits immersed in water after death from hanging. The fluorine content in water is about 15-fold higher than in the normal serum content. In drowned rabbits, the serum fluorine values are significantly higher than normal while in control cases the serum fluorine values are slightly lower than normal. The fluorine content in human serum is similar with that of rabbits. It suggests that detection of serum fluorine content might be a valuable method for the diagnosis of drowning in those areas where there are high water fluorine content.     

Detection of drugs in saliva of impaired drivers

This study examined the feasibility of detecting drugs using saliva samples obtained from impaired drivers. Screening procedures on 1- to 2-mL samples were for cannabinoids, volatiles, benzodiazepines, and other acidic/neutral/basic drugs. Methodology consisted of enzyme multiple immunoassay technique (EMIT) and temperature programmed gas chromatography with confirmation by gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS). Fifty-six samples were obtained from drivers arrested for suspicion of impaired driving. Other than alcohol, the major drugs detected were cannabinoids and diazepam. Cocaine was found in one case.     

Differentiation of spermatic antigens and vaginal discharge in mixed spots

The technique of differentiation of ABO antigens in a mixed spot of sperm and vaginal discharge based on higher electrophoretic mobility of spermatic protein compared to that of vaginal secretion is proposed.