Wheat Woes

Soaringwheat prices are unlikely to endanger globalgrain security chicago wheat futures began to skyrocket in early June, jumping 62 percent and reaching their highest level since September 2008. In Russia,wheat prices increased 70 percent recently.And Europe's wheat prices also rose 8 percent within a short time.     

制度权威:评价标准与建构路径

西方学术界对制度及权威的研究主要表现为制度主义视角、结构主义视角、国家制度化理论视角、治理主义视角。国内学界较为关注正式制度与非正式制度之间的矛盾与冲突,注重制度权威的秩序与稳定功能。衡量制度权威的双重维度包括制度正当性维度与制度有效性维度。建构制度权威的可能路径包括:塑造制度权威的社会认同、培育制度权威的社会资本、重塑制度权威的人力资源、注入制度权威的德性伦理。     

传统文化:"在场"中的"缺席"——对近年传统文化题材影视剧的文化解读

近年来的传统文化题材影视剧可作三种角度的解读,从类型角度而言,很多涉及平民生活理念的影视剧落入了“类型剧”的俗套;从女性主义的角度来看,一些涉及“婚外恋”的影视剧与其说是“劝世寓言”,不如说是“欲望叙事”;从“视觉产品”的角度看,很多文化题材影视剧基本被当成了“文化怀旧”产品。它们在强化“情感抚慰”功能的同时失落了对待传统文化应有的客观立场。     

论举证时限的裁量空间

举证时限制度设置的目的应为确立与法定顺序主义相适应的双阶型审判流程。证据适时提出主义赋予了法官过大的裁量权,与设置我国举证时限制度的目的相去甚远。我国民事审判流程的革新本身是想朝着双阶型审判流程而去,却深受民法法系国家证据随时提出主义的影响,淡化了驱动双阶型审判流程的法定顺序主义,最终陷入裁量陷阱。《举证时限通知》的进步在于对法官在举证时限制度运行中过度裁量权的限缩。举证时限制度的合目的运行不仅需要程序技术的进步,更需要程序伦理的支撑与推动。《举证时限通知》的进步仅仅是程序技术方面的进步。     

Reporting a fatality during tumescent liposuction

Deaths of patients during elective surgery have drawn attention to the danger of anesthesia. Tumescent local anesthesia is subcutaneous infiltration of large volumes of dilute lidocaine with epinephrine to produce vasoconstriction while delivering anesthesia over large areas without lidocaine toxicity. This report documents the case of a 38-year-old woman who attended an outpatient clinic to undergo liposuction of the abdomen and bilateral hips and thighs. According to one witness, around 30 min after anesthesia administration, the victim suffered an episode of tonic–clonic convulsion. When the emergency medical services arrived the patient was in asystole. She died in spite of attempted cardiopulmonary resuscitation. The patient had no significant past medical history including no history of allergies or any known complications with anesthesia. A complete autopsy was performed and possible causes of death such as myocardial infarction, aspiration of food or foreign body, and pulmonary embolism were discarded. Anaphylactic shock was considered a possible but unlikely explanation for the fatality. Toxicological analyses revealed the presence of lidocaine and mepivacaine in heart blood, at concentrations of 4.9 and 16.2 mg/L, respectively. All drugs involved in the case were detected using gas chromatography with nitrogen–phosphorus detector and confirmed using gas chromatography–mass spectrometry full scan mode after solid-phase extraction using Chem-Elut columns. An additional high-performance liquid chromatography coupled to diode-array detection screening also obtained the same results. Based on the autopsy findings, case history, and toxicology results, the forensic pathologists ruled that the cause of death was an overdose of local anesthetic agents. The Court of Law ruled the death as an involuntary homicide due to gross negligence.     

论科学证据的三大基本理论问题

科学证据可以定义为运用具有可检验特征的普遍定理、规律和原理,解释案件事实构成的变化发展及其内在联系的专家意见,其主要理由在于可以科学原理在科学证据生成过程中所起的作用与功能,将科学证据分为"科学描述型"与"科学检验型"两类,"科学描述型"不是典型意义上的科学证据。从定位来看,科学证据应属于言词证据、间接证据。可以按照不同的标准对科学证据进行分类,以此加深对科学证据的认识。     

从人民代表到代表人民-由《选举法》的修改说起

一、楔子 在中华人民共和国建国六十周年之际，当改革开放行进三十年之际，全国人大常务委员会公布了《选举法》修改草案。就草案的内容看，其是我们政治体制改革的进一步深化与具体化，是人民民主之法治化的延伸，是人民当家作主的进一步扩大。     

侦查人员出庭作证的法律依据辨析

侦查人员出庭作证已列入我国新一轮司法改革方案之中,但理论界对侦查人员出庭作证的法律依据一直存在争论。有的认为《刑事诉讼法》第48条规定的证人包含了侦查人员,此条即为侦查人员出庭作证的法律依据;也有的认为《刑事诉讼法》第28条关于侦查人员应当回避的规定实际上否定了侦查人员出庭作证的资格。笔者对上述意见概不同意,认为在我国现行刑事诉讼法上侦查人员出庭作证是有依据的,只是不够直接、明确,应当根据侦查人员的法定职责、审判活动的实际需要、侦查人员及侦查工作的特殊性等因素完善侦查人员出庭作证的法律依据。     

20世纪末以来中、美与东盟的三边互动关系——以权力转移为视角

中国的崛起对美国和东盟均产生重大影响,导致中、美和东盟在经贸、政治和认知方面形成了互动关系。由于经济领域的区域经济一体化、贸易转移效应和政治领域东亚一体化的排斥效应等因素,中美在东亚的权力关系发生了转移,东亚秩序经历了结构性调整。三方在经贸、政治和认知的互动相互影响并呈正相关关系,使得东亚的权力转移在和平中实现。互动中仍存在一些问题需要三方调适和合作加以解决。