Death associated with inadvertent hydrocodone overdose in a child with a respiratory tract infection

A 3-year-old child died of the combined effects of a bacterial superinfection and a relative overdose of hydrocodone prescribed for a cough due to a presumed viral respiratory tract infection. This case illustrates the importance of evaluating the effects of prescribed medication in assessing the cause and mechanism of death in children dying suddenly of presumed natural disease.     

普法应侧重培养法律思维——从贪官忏悔“不懂法”谈公务员群体“五五”普法内容

据媒体报导,中组部干部监督局在分析违法犯罪的86名原领导干部的反省材料时发现,其中81.4%的人认为自己犯罪与不懂法有关。难道这是全民普法20年工作没做到位?“我不是很懂法,并不知道事后收人家钱是犯罪行为。”说这话的是安徽省委政法委原副书记、曾担任过铜陵市委书记、阜阳     

Blind validation of postmortem interval estimates using developmental rates of blow flies

This study evaluated the use of different degree day (DD) models, developmental thresholds and developmental data sources for estimating postmortem interval (PMI) based on developmental rates of blow flies (Diptera: Calliphoridae). Blow fly evidence was collected from three mock crime scenes and sent for blind analysis of PMI. PMI estimates were calculated using averaging, single sine, double sine, single triangle, and double triangle models of DD calculation with minimum developmental thresholds of 0, 6 and 10 °C and Anderson's, Byrd and Allen's, Greenberg's, Nishida's and Kamal's developmental data sets. These estimates were compared with the actual PMI to determine which combination of DD model, developmental threshold and developmental data provided the most accurate estimate. For all three cases, at least one method gave a PMI estimation that was within 1 day of the actual date of death. There was no variability between PMI estimated using the five models of DD calculation. Overall, as lower developmental threshold increased, the PMI interval estimates increased. Depending on the developmental data set used, increasing the lower developmental threshold caused some overestimations of the date of oviposition, with estimates given that were prior to the actual death. Future PMI estimates should include error ranges, so that overestimation of PMI is avoided.     

浅议大学新生在人际交往中的矛盾心理

大学新生在人际交往中存在多种矛盾心理,主要有强烈的交往需要与强烈的孤独感之间的矛盾,过分自尊与自卑的矛盾,传统与现代观念的矛盾,现实交往与虚拟交往心理的矛盾.     

俄中美三角中的俄罗斯东部地区

21世纪初西伯利亚和远东的地理政治与地理经济作用正逐渐增长,太平洋地区国家对该地区的兴趣和关注也在飞速增长.莫斯科、北京和华盛顿在广袤的西伯利亚和远东的利益将如何部署,这种部署会建立在合作的基础之上还是会成为引发各种冲突表现的主要原因?它将怎样影响在太平洋地区和全世界的国际关系?一种关于"俄中美三角关系"在西伯利亚和远东广大地区相互作用之前景的观点得出了关于潜在冲突的结论,这种潜在的冲突埋伏在三方态度和利益的差异上.在太平洋地区潜在的国家利益和全球及地区力量分配的改变可能会给三方利益和立场的确定带来调整.     

Reactions to flag desecration in American society: Exploring the contours of formal and informal social control

Although flag burnings today rarely draw the amount of attention they received in the late 1980s, efforts to protect the flag have persisted for nearly a decade. Accordingly, the flag protection campaign has captured the interest of intellectuals from various academic backgrounds, including political scientists, egal scholars, and journalists. Conspicuously absent from the literature on flag desecration, however, are sociologists and criminologists. Combining historical evidence with recent cases, this article unveils key sociological aspects of social control, including formal and informal responses to flag desecration.     

Bundled Discounts, Leverage Theory, and Downstream Competition

Under plausible circumstances, a monopolist in one market canuse its control of prices in that market to force competingdownstream buyers to sign tying contracts that will lever itsmonopoly into another market. Specifically, the monopolist ofthe tying good can place each downstream buyer in a prisoner'sdilemma by offering them more favorable pricing on the tyinggood if they sign a requirements-tying contract covering thetied good. Since a buyer benefits on receiving more favorablepricing on the tying good and the competitors do not, and suffersif the competitors receive more favorable pricing on the tyinggood and the buyer does not, buyers will sign the tying contracteven when they would earn higher profits if they all refusedto sign. This enables a monopolist in one market to inefficientlyexclude an entrant in another market.     

Allele frequency distribution for 21 autosomal STR loci in Bhutan

We studied the allele frequency distribution of 21 autosomal STR loci contained in the AmpFlSTR^® Identifiler™ (Applied Biosystems), the Powerplex^®16 (Promega) and the FFFL (Promega) multiplex PCR kits among 936 individuals from the Royal Kingdom of Bhutan. As such these are the first published autosomal DNA results from this country.