Comparison of p30 and acid phosphatase levels in post-coital vaginal swabs from donor and casework studies

The application of p30 detection to casework analysis of seminal traces on vaginal swabs is reported and compared with the levels of acid phosphatase determined.A simple crossed-over immunoelectrophoresis system was used for batch identification of swab extracts using a commercially obtained anti-p30 serum.Positive p30 results were obtained in less than 20% of the casework swab extracts, but they provide conclusive proof of the presence of semen which is a substantial advantage over the quantitative determination of acid phosphatase.     

Symposium Introduction: Competency and Higher Civil Servants

‘Competency’ is a word that seems to have crept into the language of public administration and policy relatively recently, although largely under the radar of academic scholarship in Europe. This article introduces a symposium of papers that address key questions about competency management: how and why has it become popular and what are the implications of the spread of ‘competency’ approaches? As the introductory paper, it outlines the intellectual background to competency approaches and outlines three interpretations of their development. One interpretation sees them as a passing fad; a ‘difference’ interpretation sees them as a common label for widely varying patterns and practices; and a ‘sameness’ interpretation treats competency management as a symptom of broader politico‐administrative developments.     

Neoconservatism: Myth and reality

Seymour Martin Lipset is the Caroline S. G. Munro Professor of Political Science, professor of sociology, and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, all at Stanford University. He taught previously as the George D. Markham Professor at Harvard University. Among his books are Consensus and Conflict, Political Man, The First New Nation, Party Coalitions in the 1980s,and Revolution and Counterrevolution.This text was originally delivered as the First Ernst Fraenkel Lecture, given at the John F. Kennedy Institute at the Free University of Berlin.