Observed Characteristics of Suicidal Hangings: An 11-year Retrospective Review

Many studies have been published regarding suicidal hanging deaths, and most forensic pathologists and coroners are very familiar with such causes of death. Forensic pathologists are challenged over their rulings regarding manner of death in part because the general public has a limited scope of knowledge. One such challenge centers on the question of whether a hanging can be a suicide if the individual is not fully suspended. The authors designed a retrospective study to review suspension in hangings and to analyze other criteria used to help in deciding manner of death. We examined 229 suicidal hanging deaths over an 11-year period (1997 through early 2009) using the data from two separate jurisdictions in Ohio. In conclusion, we found that the vast majority (83.4%) of people who hanged themselves were found partially suspended. Among other criteria analyzed, only the presence of petechial hemorrhages and acute neck injury was statistically significant.     

论乡镇政府政策执行力提升的伦理意蕴

我国已将保障和改善民生作为加快转变经济发展方式的重要支撑。这要求乡镇政府的政策执行必须体现"公平正义"、"以人为本"、"德法并举"和"责任民生"。当前,乡镇政府政策执行伦理的缺失主要表现为公平正义缺失、以人为本缺失、民主法治缺失和责任民生缺失。我们可以通过营造先进的执行力文化、重塑官员道德、完善道德约束机制、构建制度伦理和实现行政道德制度化等途径来提升乡镇政府政策执行力。     

满意度和需求度二维耦合视角下的农村公共服务现状研究——以湖北省为例

本文根据2010年11月对湖北省3个县市624名农村居民的问卷调查及深度访谈所获得的数据和信息,从满意度和需求度二维耦合的视角对农村公共服务的现状进行实证分析。结果表明:农村居民对农村公共服务的满意度和需求度的评价不存在明显的相关性。以满意度和需求度的得分为观测值,运用系统聚类法将基本医疗保障等15项农村公共服务分为6类各具特征的公共服务。文章建议各级政府依据各类公共服务的特征及优先序,采取差异化的供给策略。     

The Issue of China＇ s Land ＆ Sea Frontiers and the Proper Response

China is located at the eastern end of Eurasia and on the western side of the Pacific.Since ancient times,China has had both land and sea territory.In addition,China has common land or sea borders with many neighboring countries.So China has always regarded her land and     

Sudden Death by Occult Metastatic Carcinoma

A 33-year-old female collapsed and died suddenly after presenting with acute dyspnea and increasing cough over the preceding several months. Autopsy revealed poorly differentiated linitis plastica adenocarcinoma of the stomach. Microscopic examination of the lungs showed features consistent with pulmonary tumor thrombotic microangiopathy (PTTM). PTTM is a well-described complication in patients with adenocarcinoma. The typical presentation involves acute pulmonary hypertension, right-sided heart failure, and sudden death, often before the adenocarcinoma is discovered. The pathophysiology of PTTM remains elusive; it has been suggested that carcinoma cells may produce substances that influence pulmonary vasculature. Our patient had classic clinical and histologic features of PTTM in addition to prominent extravascular compression by intralymphatic tumor cells. These features undoubtedly caused her precipitous decline and lethal pulmonary hypertension, induced by underlying adenocarcinoma. This case demonstrates that sudden death can occur from pulmonary hypertension induced by metastatic carcinoma with remarkably little prior symptomatology.     

Liberal government and authoritarianism

This paper examines the intelligibility of authoritarian measures within Foucauldian analyses of the liberal government of the state. Such measures are understood as following from a liberal understanding of the task of government itself. This understanding rests on a distinction between the legal and political order (of 'the state') and a 'liberal police' of what is exterior to it, classically conceived as 'civil society'. The relation between these two aspects is conceived as a series of 'foldings' between the two sides of a liberal governing, which turn the injunction to govern through freedom into a set of binding obligations potentially or actually enforceable by coercive or sovereign instruments. The paper places this perspective within aspects of the genealogies of economy, poverty, welfare and police and discusses the trajectories of such foldings in the present.