Managing Emotional Intelligence in U.S. Cities: A Study of Social Skills among Public Managers

This study assesses perceptions of managerial emotional intelligence in local government, as well as the practices and polices affecting it. Though few cities offer training programs for managers that are called "emotional intelligence," many cities engage in activities that target or address EI skills. This study finds improvement opportunities for managers to become better attuned to the feelings of others and themselves, to better know their own strengths and weaknesses, to better deal with their negative emotions and increase their adaptability, and to improve their communication and relationship skills. Feedback and mentoring processes are directly associated with increased perceptions of EI, while other practices such as training, selection and policy development are only indirectly associated with perceptions of EI. This study contributes to the knowledge base by increasing awareness about managerial EI skills, and providing specific examples of practices to further managerial EI.     

Citizenship in the Faroe Islands: Participant,Parochial or Colonial?

This article analyses citizenship and political culture in the Faroe Islands based on a quantitative survey carried out in summer 2004. Located theoretically in the tradition of Scandinavian citizenship investigations and its predecessors in the 'civic culture' tradition of Almond and Verba, four areas of citizenship are analysed: political engagement, democratic participation, political efficacy and democratic identity. The main hypothesis is that the character of citizenship in the Faroe Islands is very similar to that found in the Scandinavian countries in general. While most of the results found confirm this hypothesis, there are a number of special features that demand alternative explanations. Thus, the fact that the Faroese score much below the Scandinavian average concerning 'postmodern' forms of political participation like political consumption or boycott of goods, and that gender differences are bigger than in other Scandinavian countries when it comes to female representation in the Faroese parliament and in government, seems better explained by the relative remoteness of the islands from the Scandinavian political and cultural mainstream (the parochialism hypothesis). Also the fact that the Faroese are much less confident in speaking at public meetings, sending letters to newspapers or complaining to authorities than, for example, Danes in general calls for an alternative explanation. As these features go together with much less knowledge about and confidence in the Danish parliament ('Folketinget') and a lower level of efficacy towards the parliament than among Danes in general, the most likely explanation seem to be found in the way in which Danish supremacy has affected political culture in the Faroe Islands (the colonialism hypothesis).     

实验性大鼠急性心肌缺血的组织化学和扫描电镜观察

本文报告40只大鼠结扎左冠状动脉所致实验性心肌梗死早期（缺血1～8h）的病理形态学变化。结果发现苏木素-碱性复红-苦味酸（HBFP）和吖啶橙荧光染色诊断早期心肌缺血较敏感，氯化-2，3，5-三苯基四氮唑（TTc）大体染色法显示缺血境界鲜明可靠。此三种方法不受室温（15～20℃）死后自溶12～48h的影响。酸性复红染色（AF）对早期缺血组织较敏感，但受死后自溶影响，妨碍认定缺血区。扫描电镜（SEM）观察心肌缺血改变基本与透射电镜（TEM）相同，与早期自溶改变难以区别。     

32例妊娠期死亡法医病理学研究

目的　探讨妊娠死亡的特点。　方法　对 1990～ 2 0 0 0年间华西医科大学法医学院所做 3 2例妊娠死亡尸检病例进行分析。　结果　妊娠产妇死亡年龄以 2 5～ 3 0岁为多见 ,职业以农民常见 ,且绝大多数无产前检查记录 ,死亡多发生于分娩过程中 ,区、乡一级卫生院多发。前四位的死因依次为 :胎盘残留、输卵管妊娠破裂、产后感染和子宫血管结扎出血 ,绝大多数妊娠产妇死亡前产下活婴。　结论　有必要加强基层与农村医疗保健工作和制订有关的预防措施 ,以降低妊娠产妇的死亡率。     

一次检测微量血痕的种属来源、ABO血型及红细胞酶EsD、PGM_1的表型

本文介绍一种一次检测微量血痕的种属来源、ABO 型、红细胞酶 EsD、PGM_1表型的方法。用盲法共测151份已知血痕种属来源 ABO 血型、EsD 与 PGM_1表型的血痕纤维,均能正确判型、吻合率为100％。     

The real costs of tuition tax credits

Calculations of the costs of tuition tax credits should include estimates of the induced migration from public to private schools. The estimate by the President's advisors that his 1983 tax credit proposal would cost up to $800 million by 1986 neglected the migration factor. It is demonstrated that a migration from public to private schools of about from 1 to 1.4% of the present public school enrollment is all that is necessary to secure savings from migrants that just offset the loss in federal tax revenue from tax credits granted to incumbent private school families. Greater migration will generate net revenue gains to governments as a whole.     

Ethnic differentials: Sri Lanka,Malaysia, and Israel

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Towards a global critical justice problematic

This paper argues that a global perspective is demanded by neo-Marxist methodological considerations, pointing out that traditional comparative criminology has been seriously flawed in its assumptions and preconceptions. A critical comparative criminology must be based on a world system and/or dependency model, coupled with human rights concerns. The crucial concerns of critical criminology are re-identified within a problematic of the concepts: “reproduction”, “production”, “the state”, and “transformation”. Their relevance to a comparative criminology is underscored, by way of critiquing north/western (including Canadian) critical criminology. The paper ends by drawing out some of the implications of this approach for justice theory and research in Canada.     

Dialogue and the Inquisitorial Tradition: French Defence Lawyers in the Pre-Trial Criminal Process

Recent years have seen an intermittent debate amongst journalists, policy-makers and academics in adversarial jurisdictions about the nature and quality of the inquisitorial tradition in criminal process. Much of the political impact of the debate in Britain has stemmed from the view asserted periodically by certain high profile figures that some form of judicial supervision of police investigation – as practised for example in France – might be introduced in England and Wales.¹ Such views tend to find expression when events call into question not just particular rules but also the underlying structures and assumptions of our adversarial tradition of criminal process. Thus in 1991 the public revelation of serious miscarriages of justice led to the appointment of a Royal Commission on Criminal Justice in which the adversarial character of the pre-trial process seemed to be a key point of interrogation.² The police view, demonstrated in a number of key cases, was that once they were clear that a suspect was guilty they had no responsibility to pursue exculpatory lines of investigation. This, combined with the failure of defence lawyers to play the extensive, autonomous investigative role the adversarial system demanded of them, encouraged some to ask whether there might not be advantages in somehow ensuring that the resources and rights of the state were devoted to pursuing exonerating as well as incriminating evidence. Given the limited empirical evidence then available on the workings of judicial supervision in practice⁴ and the sometimes vehement dispute in France itself about the future of its pre-trial process and especially the juge d'instruction(examining magistrate), the proposals were perhaps not surprisingly rejected.⁵ But since the mid 1990s, British funders have begun to finance a number of empirical studies of French criminal justice.⁶ This paper reports the principal findings of a empirical study primarily funded by Britain's Economic and Social Research Council into the role of defence lawyers in France.⁷ Our focus and primary theme is the developing nature of their dialogue and exchanges with key state actors such as judges, prosecutors and the police on the one hand and with clients on the other. But in so doing we aim to cast light on the broader functioning of the pre-trial process in France.     

糖原磷酸化酶同工酶BB与缺血性心肌损伤及法医学应用前景

糖原磷酸化酶同工酶BB(GPBB)是新近发现的心肌缺血性损伤的酶指标 ,作为糖原分解的关键酶 ,对缺血、缺氧导致的损伤高度敏感 ,对心肌梗死 (AMI)的早期诊断、不稳定心绞痛 (UA)与AMI的鉴别诊断等优于其他生化指标。在法医学中也有广泛的应用前景。