The Prewar School Civic Education Policy in Hong Kong： A Historical Comparative Analysis

The civic education policy at the school level in Hong Kong had emerged before the Second World War, but the Hong Kong Education Department did not really implement this civic education policy. From the statist and colonial perspectives, this phenomenon was due to several factors, such as： （1） how the Hong Kong Government coped with the whole historical period and scenarios; （2） how it implemented the related policy; （3） whether civic education policy really became part of the government agendas; and （4） whether education did clarify some crucial historical questions. This paper wants to make certain about these questions. In fact, the Republic of China adopted modern schooling system which civic education was one of school subject. But it was not the education policy of the colonial Hong Kong Government. Historical reasons about this issue require reconstructive explanation. Under this study, the understanding of misinterpreted history can be amended correctly.     

The Use of Scale‐Invariance Feature Transform Approach to Recognize and Retrieve Incomplete Shoeprints

Shoeprints left at the crime scene provide valuable information in criminal investigation due to the distinctive patterns in the sole. Those shoeprints are often incomplete and noisy. In this study, scale‐invariance feature transform is proposed and evaluated for recognition and retrieval of partial and noisy shoeprint images. The proposed method first constructs different scale spaces to detect local extrema in the underlying shoeprint images. Those local extrema are considered as useful key points in the image. Next, the features of those key points are extracted to represent their local patterns around key points. Then, the system computes the cross‐correlation between the query image and each shoeprint image in the database. Experimental results show that full‐size prints and prints from the toe area perform best among all shoeprints. Furthermore, this system also demonstrates its robustness against noise because there is a very slight difference in comparison between original shoeprints and noisy shoeprints.     

论诉讼要件的审理裁判原理——以比较法的考察为视角

诉讼要件是法院为进行本案审理及判决所必须具备的必要条件,其解决的是已经成立的诉讼是否合法的问题。从涉及的具体内容来划分,诉讼要件可以分为关于法院的、当事人的和诉讼标的的三种类别。诉讼要件适用的调查原理以职权调查事项和诉讼障碍事项而不同。在审理顺序上,诉讼要件与本案实体要件应采并行原则,不同诉讼要件之间应采从抽象到具体的顺序。诉讼要件是否具备应在最后一次言词辩论前进行判断。欠缺诉讼要件应以诉讼判决的方式予以驳回,同时诉讼判决应具有既判力。     

高校统一战线服务经济社会发展问题探析

服务经济社会发展,既是高校统一战线践行科学发展观的客观需要,也是高校统战工作发挥作用的重要途径。本文阐述了高校统一战线服务经济社会发展的人才智力、民主政治、社会联系等主要优势,并分析高校统一战线战对象的多元化提高工作要求、统战工作与经济建设贴合还不够紧密和统战工作机制有待进一步健全等主要问题,最后提出加强高校统一战线服务经济社会发展的若干举措,加强思想引领,优化高校统战机制;利用资源优势,切实加大人才培养;积极参政议政,发挥建言献策作用;贴近民生诉求,统筹经济社会发展;搭建服务平台,持续拓展作为空间。     

Reconstruction of Banknote Fragments Based on Keypoint Matching Method

Banknotes may be shredded by a scrap machine, ripped up by hand, or damaged in accidents. This study proposes an image registration method for reconstruction of multiple sheets of banknotes. The proposed method first constructs different scale spaces to identify keypoints in the underlying banknote fragments. Next, the features of those keypoints are extracted to represent their local patterns around keypoints. Then, similarity is computed to find the keypoint pairs between the fragment and the reference banknote. The banknote fragments can determine the coordinate and amend the orientation. Finally, an assembly strategy is proposed to piece multiple sheets of banknote fragments together. Experimental results show that the proposed method causes, on average, a deviation of 0.12457 ± 0.12810° for each fragment while the SIFT method deviates 1.16893 ± 2.35254° on average. The proposed method not only reconstructs the banknotes but also decreases the computing cost. Furthermore, the proposed method can estimate relatively precisely the orientation of the banknote fragments to assemble.     

Developing indicators to assess women's empowerment in Vietnam

From mid‐1999 to mid‐2001, the authors carried out a qualitative study in rural Vietnam to explore relationships between gender equity and reproductive health. One of the study's objectives was to develop culturally appropriate indicators of women's empowerment, specific to the Vietnamese context. This paper describes the process of developing, testing, and refining the empowerment indicators, presents some of the findings, and discusses the methodological challenges that need to be addressed. The paper concludes by recommending a set of Vietnamspecific domains for assessing women's empowerment in the socio‐economic sphere as well as in reproductive health.