Visibility and Invisibility of Animals in Traditional Chinese Philosophy and Law

There is yet to be any animal welfare or protection law for domestic animals in China, one of the few countries in the world today that do not have such laws. However, in Chinese imperial law, there were legal provisions adopted more than a 1,000 years ago for the care and treatment of domestic working animals. Furthermore, in traditional Chinese philosophy, animals were regarded as constituent part of the organic whole of the cosmos by ancient Chinese philosophers who saw no strict delineation between humans and non-human animals. Notwithstanding, the attitude and practice towards animals in ancient Chinese life was also ambivalent and was predicated upon the practical utility of animals for the service of humans and society. Such practice can be seen through the legal provisions in imperial China. This paper first discusses animal’s place in traditional Chinese philosophy and then in Chinese imperial law. It raises the issue of the gap discernable from the philosophical thought on animals and practice regarding animals in everyday life in China. The paper argues that given the gap in perception and attitude regarding animals, law can play an important role that moral teaching has not been able to achieve.     

规范初始提名提高选人用人公信度

初始提名对提高选人用人公信度至关重要。呼伦贝尔市以初始提名为核心,规范干部选任工作程序,取得了良好成效,但作为一种新的探索,其制度体系,还有待于健全完善。     

医疗立法探讨

医疗立法是保障公民健康权的重要途径，是我国卫生法制建设的重要内容，是保证新医改关于医疗服务体系健全和公立医院改革顺利进行的重要保障之一，是依法卫生行政的内在要求。在分析医疗法立法的依据和-原则后，借鉴Et本、德国、台湾医疗立法经验，建议以总则、医疗法人制度、医疗安全保障、病人权益保护、信息公开制度、监督管理体制、法律责任作为医疗法的基本框架，并就我国医疗立法的相关问题进行探讨。     

内幕交易规制的立法体系进路：域外比较与中国选择

内幕交易监管全球化背景下,当代世界各国规制内幕交易的立法体系可以归纳为信义进路与市场进路。信义进路的发展历史,就是一部不断拓宽信义义务人范围边界与判断其交易主观状态的历史;市场进路的发展历史,就是一部限缩或废除内幕交易认定的主体与主观要件与完善内幕交易客观构成要素的历史。中国资本市场内幕交易难以禁止的现实困境,实则是内幕交易行为构成体系逻辑混乱的一个映射,并已对内幕交易行为认定与责任追究构成妨碍。就内幕交易规制立法体系变革方向而言,我国目前不宜引入信义进路,而市场进路或许更适合我国法制传统和资本市场实际。在市场进路指引下,任何不当使用内幕信息的行为皆应被认定为内幕交易,废除现行法中关于内幕交易行为构成的主体要件和主观要件,同时完善客体要件和客观要件,既能推助内幕交易规制立法的功能实现,又可彰显证券法的核心宗旨和基本原则,或为契合本土实际并体现世界最新立法趋势的内幕交易立法改革方案。     

试论新加坡政府投资高等教育的特点

本文主要探讨新加坡高等教育的经费来源主体是政府、政府控制其教育投资规模及调控其运用等特点。在此基础上,分析新加坡政府重视高等教育投资以及改变与完善投资模式的原因。     

Histopathology mapping of biochemical changes in myocardial infarction by Fourier transform infrared spectral imaging

Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) imaging and microspectroscopy have been extensively applied in the identification and investigation of both healthy and diseased tissues. FTIR imaging can be used to determine the biodistribution of several molecules of interest (carbohydrates, lipids, proteins) for tissue analysis, without the need for prior staining of these tissues. Molecular structure data, such as protein secondary structure and collagen triple helix exhibits, can also be obtained from the same analysis. Thus, several histopathological lesions, for example myocardial infarction, can be identified from FTIR-analyzed tissue images, the latter which can allow for more accurate discrimination between healthy tissues and pathological lesions. Accordingly, we propose FTIR imaging as a new tool integrating both molecular and histopathological assessment to investigate the degree of pathological changes in tissues. In this study, myocardial infarction is presented as an illustrative example of the wide potential of FTIR imaging for biomedical applications.     

浅谈法国“一人公司”制度对中国的借鉴

公司法出台和发展的早期,对成立一人公司持反对意见的观点占主要地位。但是,一人公司的形式灵活,能更好地适应经济生活的需要和中小企业的发展。从1925年列支敦士《自然人和公司法》颁布后,一人公司得到了越来越多国家的认可。法国也在其公司法中进行了修订,批准了一人公司的法律形式,并逐渐完善相应的制度。通过介绍和分析法国一人公司制度,对我国目前完善一人公司制度有着借鉴意义。     

差异与排斥:新生代农民工社会融入的联动分析

伴随中国经济社会快速转型,农民工群体开始代际更替,新生代农民工成为城镇农民工的核心群体.但是,新生代农民工市民化进程却仍存在诸多障碍,社会差异、社会排斥问题成为社会融合的主要困难.本文选取社会差异和社会排斥为研究视角,考察新生代农民工社会差异、社会排斥的现实状况和影响因素,特别是考虑到社会差异和社会排斥两个方程残差项相关,使用似不相关回归模型和Biprobit模型进行影响因素的联动分析.研究发现,教育年限、技术级别、家庭负担、心理落差四个因素影响显著,回归结果通过了稳健性检验.在研究结论的基础上,提出了减少差异、排斥,促进社会融合的若干思考.     

法律效率价值导向下的城乡环境正义探究

城乡环境正义的失衡是城乡二元社会结构体制的必然结果,从法律的效率价值视角思考城乡正义,这种城乡环境差异具有一定的合理性和历史必然性,当这种差异越过一定度时,城乡环境立法就要向法的正义价值回归。城乡环境正义的纠偏不能脱离环境效率价值的掣肘,我国新《环境保护法》对农村环境保护的目标期待能否实现、如何实现,关键在于农村环境保护的法律实施能否抓住效率这个核心,高效配置和利用农村环保资源,实现农村环境保护的根本改观。     

Forensic identification of resampling operators: A semi non-intrusive approach

Recently, several new resampling operators have been proposed and successfully invalidate the existing resampling detectors. However, the reliability of such anti-forensic techniques is unaware and needs to be investigated. In this paper, we focus on the forensic identification of digital image resampling operators including the traditional type and the anti-forensic type which hides the trace of traditional resampling. Various resampling algorithms involving geometric distortion (GD)-based, dual-path-based and postprocessing-based are investigated. The identification is achieved in the manner of semi non-intrusive, supposing the resampling software could be accessed. Given an input pattern of monotone signal, polarity aberration of GD-based resampled signal's first derivative is analyzed theoretically and measured by effective feature metric. Dual-path-based and postprocessing-based resampling can also be identified by feeding proper test patterns. Experimental results on various parameter settings demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.