International Rivalries at Sea and China’s National Security

The sea provides not only basic living conditions for human beings,but also serves as an important arena for international political games. Along with accelerating economic developments,political structural adjustments,and the world’s increasing demands on natural resources,rivalry at sea is reemerging as a focus of international attention,and competition appears to be intensifying. China’s territory is composed of both land and sea. It has not only thousands of miles of land borders,but also a very long se...     

Academic judgement,the university Visitor and the Human Rights Act 1998

Students have proved increasingly willing to challenge academic judgements in court, and the passage into law of the Human Rights Act 1998 is likely to have a major bearing on future challenges. The Act will make it unlawful for a public authority (including both a university and the courts) to act in a way which is incompatible with many of the provisions in the European Convention on Human Rights (and the Protocols attaching thereto). It will also permit a victim of such unlawfulness to bring proceedings in an appropriate court or tribunal, whether in the High Court as part of an application for judicial review or as an ordinary civil action for negligence or breach of contract. The court will have the power to grant whatever remedy it considers to be just and equitable, including an award of damages where it feels such an award to be appropriate. This could have significant consequences for the use of the Visitor in chartered universities as the final arbiter in disputes over academic judgements. For the Visitor does not conduct hearings in public and often fails to follow any recognised procedure. It may even be doubted whether the Visitor can be said to be truly independent of the institution against whose decision the student is appealing. In future, therefore, universities may have to be prepared to justify any marks awarded in the public forum of the courtroom.     

公民法律意识的量表测量:一个基于调查数据的分析

法律意识是关于社会与法律之间关系研究的一个重要领域,虽然国内外在这方面的研究已有较长的历史,但法律意识的标准化的量表测量技术一直未受到重视,我国学术界最近涌现的大量关于法律意识的实证研究也显示出在调查方法上的欠缺。本文借鉴环境意识测量研究的经验,利用所收集的农民法律意识调查数据对建立法律意识量表体系进行了尝试,其结果证明了这种研究方法的可行性。文章同时提出了法律意识量表体系设计的基本框架,并简要论述了该测量方法对今后研究发展和政策制定的指导意义。     

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Contemporary International Relations, the English journal published by China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations, is now 15 years old.     

事业单位分类改革中面临的深层次问题及其启示——来自鄂尔多斯市和包头市事业单位分类改革的调研报告

内蒙古作为西部经济欠发达的民族地区,其事业单位分类改革面临更多复杂的矛盾和问题。本文以内蒙古鄂尔多斯市和包头市为例,比较系统和深入地分析和总结了内蒙古事业单位分类改革中面临的深层次问题及其启示。本文的主要观点是,在深入贯彻党的十七大精神的新形势下推进事业单位分类改革,必须有新的视野和新的思考,尤其要在根本思考的基础上进行总体设计和全面推进。     

北部侗族文化涵化的过程和机制——天柱社区的个案研究

侗族南部方言区与北部方言区之间存在着明显的文化差异。北部地区文化涵化层次较深,渗透到社会生活的方方面面。南部地区的涵化程度则相对微弱,本民族的传统文化几乎没有失落什么特质,也没有被当代文明冲淡。是什么原因造成侗族文化的结构现状呢?探讨这个问题对我们借鉴历史经验,全面把握和构建当代侗族文化无疑具有重要的现实意义和学术价值。鉴于侗族北部方言区地域广阔,在现有条件下难以进行整体的研究,我们选择了涵化面最广、涵化程度最深、文化变迁最突出的天柱县作一个案分析,试图理清北侗文化涵化的历史过程和社会机制,从而更好地为侗族地区的两个文明建设服务。     

A comparison of normal and disturbed adolescent Offer Self-Image Questionnaire responses in an Irish cultural setting

In an effort to gauge the overall usefulness of the Offer Self-Image Questionnaire (OSIQ) as a practical discriminator between clinically disturbed and normal Irish teenagers, the 11 scale scores and the mean of these scores for 845 normal and 115 disturbed adolescents were computed and compared. The results show that the test does, in fact, distinguish disturbed adolescents from normals and, in particular, psychotic from both normal and other disturbed adolescents. We conclude that the test may have considerable potential on an individual clinical basis, provided suitable cultural norms are established.Lecturer in Behavioral Science, Faculty of Nursing Post-Graduate Course, Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland. B. A., 1966, and H. Dip. Ed., 1967, University College, Galway; Dip. Psych., University College, Dublin, 1973. Recipient in 1977 of Council of Europe Medical Fellowship — field of study Residential Treatment of Disturbed Adolescents.     

An analysis of the medicolegal autopsies performed in Adana, Turkey, in 1983-1988.

Data on 1,000 medicolegal autopsies have been compiled by the Morgue Department of the Adana branch of the Council of Forensic Medicine of Turkey, and have been reviewed to determine the local differences in causes of death, as well as age and sex distributions of decedents, in medicolegal deaths in this region. This is the first report on this subject in this region of Turkey. Unusual categories of death and incidences of death are also discussed. The results of this study show that the number of medicolegal autopsies and the rate of natural death in Adana are quite close to those of some other cities of Turkey and some foreign countries. Contrary findings are revealed in the frequencies of the causes of death.     

Poor educational standards and Part V of the Education Act 1 993

This article offers a critical examination of Part V of the Education Act 1993, which builds on the quality assurance regime provided for by the Education (Schools) Act 1992. Among its many important provisions are new powers for special measures to be taken in respect of ‘failing’ schools.