Reinventing government through on‐line citizen involvement in the developing world: a case study of taipei city mayor's e‐mail box in Taiwan

Since the 1980s, a global administrative reform movement is reshaping the relationship between citizens and state. A major concern is how government can be more responsive to the governed through citizen participation. However, the more citizens participate, the more costly it is to govern. And the application of new information and communication technology (ICT) seems to be a cure for this limitation. In this research, authors take the Taipei City Mayor's e‐mail‐box (TCME) in Taiwan as a case to illustrate the complex relationships among citizen involvement, e‐government and public management. After a series of empirical investigations, the authors show that although ICT can reduce the cost of citizen involvement in governing affairs, it cannot increase citizens' satisfaction with government activities without reforming the bureaucratic organisation, regulatory structure, and managerial capacities of the public sector. The results could be helpful to public managers in planning and evaluating online governmental services in the developing countries. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

浅析公安院校学生法律信仰的几个问题

公安院校的性质和任务要求培养的人才应具备法律信仰的精神品质。法律信仰应当具有法律至上、现代法治权力、正确的权利义务、法律程序化等理念。法律信仰的培植要根据学生心理形成机制从法律认知、法律情感、法律意志、法律理想等几方面入手。     

民主党派政治把握能力与多党合作制度探讨

民主党派加强自身能力建设是发展多党合作事业的必然要求。其中提高民主党派的政治把握能力是多党合作的政治基础,是完善我国政治制度的需要,也是国际国内形势发展的迫切要求。因此,如何提高民主党派政治把握能力已经成为民主党派自身建设的重要内容,为坚持和完善多党合作制度做出积极贡献。     

我国社区教育的嬗变、发展态势及其实践策略

社区教育是一种同社区生活紧密相结合的教育形态。我国社区教育经历了三次重大的时代转型和模式转换。当前。我国已经进入一个以创建学习型社会为主要标志的社区教育新阶段。为有效推进社区教育发展、推进学习型社区的建设,必须采取切实有效的实践策略。     

循环经济与可持续发展

循环经济是可持续发展经济模式。发展循环经济是21世纪全球可持续发展的大趋势,是我国落实科学发展观、全面建设小康社会的必然选择。发展循环经济需要转变传统发展理念。     

Subdural haemorrhage sustained in a baby-rocker? A biomechanical approach to causation

An unconscious 8 weeks old infant was admitted to hospital and found to have bilateral, subdural and retinal haemorrhages. He died the following day. The explanation for the subdural haemorrhage put forward by his carers was that the infant had been in a baby-rocker and that the carers had seen the rocker being rocked vigorously by their 14 months old daughter on two separate occasions. This paper describes the biomechanics of an infant model in the particular baby-rocker used and determines the maximum forces generated, comparing them with the 'forces' thought to be compatible with the causation of subdural haemorrhage.     

Herd behavior in designer genes

The ability of individuals to choose their children's genes has increased over time and may ultimately culminate in a world involving free market reprogenetic technologies. Reprogenetic technologies combine advances in reproductive biology and genetics to provide humans increased control over their children's genes. This Article offers economic perspectives that are helpful in understanding the possibly unexpected ethical, legal, and social issues at stake in using reprogenetic technologies for trait enhancement selection. The Appendix analyzes two competitive games that might arise in such a biotechnological society. Specifically, the Article focuses on herd behavior, caused by either a popularity contest or positional competition, in the choice of genetic traits. The analytical game-theoretic models in the Appendix can have several equilibrium outcomes in terms of individual reprogenetic technological choices and corresponding beliefs about such choices by others. This multiplicity of potential social outcomes suggests that a society can attain efficiency if the state or some private organization transforms individual parents' beliefs over the choices of other parents regarding their children's traits and, thus, coordinates parental reprogenetic decisions by selecting, as focal, certain beliefs over parents' reprogenetic decisions.     

中国人D7S21基因应5′端侧翼DNA多态性

分析D7S21基因座5’端侧翼DNA3个基因座多态性（－4A／G、－109C／T和一22lG／C）和单倍体分型。用PCR和扩增产物限制性内切酶酶解的方法检测了100名中国人无关个体的多态性,获得了6个不同等位基因的频率,即-4A＝0．29,－4G＝0．71,－109C＝0．54,－109T＝0．46,－221G＝0．74,－221C＝0．26。结果表明,D7SZI基因座5’端侧翼DNA3个基因座的DP值达0．944,在法医学个体识别中具有很高的个体识别能力。