CLAIMING THEIR PLACE

正In a move away from the U.S.dollar as the international reserve currency, the BRICS members agreed to extend loans within the group in local currencies.Leaders of the five major emerging economies-Brazil,Russia,India,China and South Africa-reached the agreement at the Fourth BRICS Summit in New Delhi on March 29.     

Spelling Out China’s Asia Policy

While current international and regional developments are complex and fluid,Asia has generally maintained peace and stability."Promoting good neighborly relations,dialogue,cooperation and common development are prominent features in the policies adopted by countries     

Kim Jong Un’s First Shot

正Talks remain essential after North Korea’s failed satellite launch The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea(DPRK)failed to launch its Earth observation satellite on April 13,which gave the rest of the world some relief.     

The ACA And Obama’s Future

正Controversies over U.S. healthcare reform continue despite green light from the Supreme Court U .S. President Barack Obama must have breathed a sigh of relief when the Supreme Court upheld     

Hello,Again

Vladimir Putin makes his first state visit to China since his re-election Russian President Vladimir Putin’s upcoming state visit to China will be his first state visit outside the Commonwealth of Independent States since he started his third term as president in May.During the visit scheduled for June 5-7,China and Russia will discuss measures to deepen their all-round strategic cooperative partnership in political,economic and security cooperation.Chinese and Russian observers said China     

Portable high‐resolution automated 3D imaging for footwear and tire impression capture

The forensic science community raised the need for improved evidence recognition, collection, and visualization analytical instrumentation for field and laboratory use. While the 3D optical techniques for imaging static objects have been extensively studied, there is still a major gap between current knowledge and collecting high‐quality footwear and tire impression evidence. Among optical means for 3D imaging, digital fringe projection (DFP) techniques reconstruct 3D shape from phase information, achieving camera‐pixel spatial resolution. This paper presents a high‐resolution 3D imaging technology using DFP techniques dedicated to footwear and tire impression capture. We developed fully automated software algorithms and a graphical user interface (GUI) that allow anyone without training to operate for high‐quality 3D data capture. We performed accuracy evaluations and comparisons comparing with the commercial high‐end 3D scanner and carried out qualitative tests for various impressions comparing with the current practices. Overall, our technology achieves similar levels of accuracy and resolution with a high‐end commercially available 3D scanner, while having the merits of being (1) more affordable; (2) much easier to operate; and (3) more robust. Compared with the current practice of casting, our technology demonstrates its superiority because it (1) is non‐destructive; (2) collects more evidence detail than casts, especially when an impression is fragile; (3) requires less time and money to collect each piece of evidence; and (4) results in a digital file that can easily be shared with other examiners.     

行政法学的新使命 ——2016年行政法学研究述评

2016年,行政法学界围绕行政法基础理论、行政程序立法等问题,产生了一批优秀的研究成果,对促进行政法学理论发展、推动法治政府建设、实现国家治理能力和治理体系现代化,具有理论意义和实践意义.2016年行政法学研究呈现出三个特征:第一,选题紧密结合法治实践,为推进依法治国进程、法治政府建设提供了理论支持.第二,案例研究方法的运用明显增多,反映出大数据时代行政法学研究方法的变化.第三,理论研究不断深化,促进了理论创新与繁荣发展.     

疫情不可抗力的司法认定及与情势变更的衔接

不可抗力的客观要件可以从时间维度上把握,不能避免是指在客观情况发生过程中未能阻止,不能克服是指客观情况发生之后不可逆。以不可抗力的构成要件去审视,新冠肺炎疫情可以一般性地构成不可抗力,但需要在个案中进行具体考察。新冠肺炎疫情作为不可抗力,免责和不免责都需要具备相应的条件,在具体的免责适用中,也不是全部免除或不免除,而存在免责和减责的区分。另一方面,新冠肺炎疫情也符合情势变更的构成要件,但在现行法的框架下,情势变更排斥不可抗力;在民法典草案的框架下,这种排斥将被取消,取消之后,情势变更将兼容不可抗力。在因情势变更而解除合同的场合,如果需要赔偿损失的,还可以直接适用不可抗力减免责任规则,对损失赔偿的数额进行调整,从而使得不可抗力和情势变更在司法实践中的适用很好地衔接起来。     

大数据环境下数字图书馆的基本职能

数字图书馆作为一种信息环境,其基本属性仍是收藏属性,基本职能仍是文献收藏。在大数据环境下,尤其需要重视对数字信息资源的整理与收藏,在这个过程中需要政府的强力支持,数字资源呈缴制度的建立与法律保障,数字图书馆联盟的组织,国家图书馆的核心领导,信息生产商、出版商、网络用户、技术商的合作,图书馆、档案馆、个人用户的协调,以发挥数字图书馆在大数据环境下保存和传承人类文化的基本职能。