The Missing Democratic Revolution and Serbia's Anti-European Choice: 1989–2008

In 1989, as the countries of the Soviet bloc took a turn toward democracy and Europe, Yugoslavia and Serbia plunged into a bloody war and moved in the opposite direction. This article argues that the legacy of that era is still strongly felt in postwar and post-Milosevic Serbia. Now, like then, the choice is not simply for or against Europe. By holding on to the nationalism of the Kosovo myth, which territorializes both the Serbian ethnos and the opposition between Christianity and Islam, Serbia is tracing a tortuous path toward democratization and European integration. In the contemporary context, the Kosovo myth impedes Serbia’s recognition of Kosovo as an independent state; it continues to fuel the rhetoric of fractious elites that never cease to tap its capacity for rallying the public; and it provides room for “pro-European” leaders to negotiate EU integration, straddling the fence between Europe’s Atlantic propensities and the resurgent power of Russia. This nationalist myth thus plays a normative and an instrumental role, both domestically and internationally. Outside Serbia, it also engages with a narrow and “thick” notion of Europe, which gained traction within Europe itself in the post-9/11 climate of heightened fear of Islam, where cultural identity trumps the values of liberal democracy.     

民办高职思想政治课校内协同育人实践探讨——基于产教融合的背景

高职院校的主要任务是为企业培养集生产、服务和管理于一身的高素质技能型专门人才。产教融合是高职教育的必然要求,也是高职教育的鲜明特色。民办高职思政课必须积极发挥校内各方力量形成协同育人的态势,这既是适应新形势下产教融合大趋势的应然之举,也是提升思政课教育教学效果的有效路径。其主要形式包括:发挥学校董事会的引领作用;借助校内各系部、处室以及学生社团的力量开展"用核心价值引领学生成才"的各类协同育人活动;辅导员和思政课教师协同育人;思政课教师担任兼职班主任;设立"立德树人奖"等方式来形成协同育人的合力。     

Public debt stabilization: the relevance of policymakers’ time horizons

Policymakers are stuck in time. Political short-termism, policy myopia, policy short-sightedness, and similar words have been coined to emphasize the present-centric policy thinking. Politics tends to produce short time horizons, and as a result, policymakers often fail to use present opportunities to mitigate future harms. Focusing on fiscal and monetary strategic interactions, given different separate decision makers, our paper aims to explore the effects of policymakers’ time horizons on debt stabilization. To formalize our ideas, we use the novel concept of Nonlinear-model-predictive-control Feedback Nash Equilibrium (NFNE) and find that present-centric policy thinking and decision horizons matters under several dimensions.     

Reshaping State Structure and Strategy: The Reform of Railway Policy in Germany and Italy

For almost four decades, the reform of the state has been a recurrent and relevant topic for social sciences. Has the s.c. positive state been replaced by a regulatory state, or have hybrid configurations emerged? Based on a comparative analysis of German and Italian railway policies, this article aims to contribute to the literature on regulation, considering the possibility of policy mixes in which elements of the positive and the regulatory state are interrelated. Such hybridization is the result of multiple-actor policy arenas, where regulatory tools are used to restructure state’s direct intervention rather than to bring about its retreat.     

Correction to: Age Patterns in Risk Taking Across the World

Journal of Youth and Adolescence - In the original publication, the legends for Figs 4 and 5 were incorrect, such that each regression line was mislabeled with the incorrect country. Below are the...     

胸膜肺炎放线杆菌apx I A基因在不同宿主系统中的表达及密码子偏好性分析

用PCR方法从胸膜肺炎放线杆菌(APP)血清1型参考株APP259的基因组DNA中,扩增了约954 bp的apx I A基因片段,分别构建了大肠杆菌表达栽体pGEX-4T-1/apx I A和毕赤酵母表达载体pPICZαA/apx I A.对目的基因密码子偏好性进行了分析,发现其中有4个大肠杆菌稀有密码子,占1.2%;有49个毕赤酵母稀有密码子,占15.4%.利用所构建的大肠杆菌表达载体pGEX-4T-1/apx I A和毕赤酵母表达载体pPICZαA/apx I A分别进行表达.结果显示,目的基因在大肠杆菌中能以包涵体形式进行高效表达,其融合蛋白占菌体总蛋白的32%;在毕赤酵母中则以较低水平分泌表达至培养基的上清液中,40倍浓缩后方能检测到少量目的蛋白.证实,目的基因序列中的密码子偏好性影响其在大肠杆菌和毕赤酵母中的表达.     

美国法典1404(a)与非方便法院原则辨析

由于美国法典28卷1404（a）条款的立法规定在功能与措辞上均非常类似普通法上的非方便法院原则,因此很多学者误以为该立法规定与非方便法院原则之间并不存在实质性的差异。然而,这一看法并不正确。事实上,1404（a）条款立法在法律效果、证明标准以及具体适用方面均与非方便法院原则存在显著的区别。     

高职文科专业实践教学课程体系构建与实践教学方法研究

高等职业教育课程目标具有三个特性,即职业性、实践性和开放性.高等职业教育目标要求在人才培养过程中加强实践教学环节,构建实践教学课程体系.文科专业的实践教学课程体系和实践教学方法要在理工科院校“工学结合一体化”课程基础上进行创新,构建既符合高职教育目标又符合文科专业特点的实践课程体系和实践教学方法.     

试论大学校园创业文化氛围的营造

高校如何培养学生实践能力和创新精神是目前大学生创业教育的课题。创业意识的培养需要和谐校园建设、创新文化的营造。文章认为,营造良好的大学校园创业文化氛围,坚持正确的原则,选择合适的途径,对大学生创业教育具有重要意义。     

土家族古碑林:诠释审美价值观及文化传播方式——以恩施州鱼木寨古碑林为个案考察

鱼木寨是鄂西南清江流域的传统土家族村落,其著名景观古碑林作为一种文化传播媒介,展现了土家族村落对中原汉文化与审美境界的认同,也为土家族村落文化传承提供了重要的传播方式。