Case Comment: The Legality of ‘Kettling’ after Austin

This case comment considers the European Court of Human Rights decision of Austin v United Kingdom (2012) 55 EHRR 14. Austin claimed, unsuccessfully, that police kettling at a public protest in London amounted to a violation of her right to liberty under Article 5 of the European Convention of Human Rights. This case comment suggests that the court took an unexpected and unorthodox approach to the issue of ‘deprivation’ within Article 5. This decision may come to undermine the protections afforded by Article 5 and extend the current exceptions to Article 5 to an indefinite range of situations.     

村民介入公共产品供给的实践逻辑——对江苏Y市某村修路活动的过程／事件分析

近10年来，伴随着我国乡村社会的全面转型，某些区域的村民通过集体行动介入当地农村公共产品供给的现象时有发生。奥尔森“集体行动的逻辑”以及公共选择理论均对集体行动的达成机理做出了解释。然而，发生在中国农村的集体行动，其达成还具有自身独特的实践逻辑。本文以江苏某村修路事件为个案，采用和借鉴“过程／事件”分析法，在关注、描述和分析事件及其过程的基础上，对其中的逻辑进行动态的解释；同时，以参与式观察和非结构访谈的方式，发掘乡村精英入主村落治理的可能性，村民在日常生活中对家族、村落等传统因素的认知，尤其是这些传统因素及村落舆论对村民造成群体性压力的程度。最后，文章试图通过深入探讨村民集体行动中的个体行为逻辑和心理反应，并从可能性及制约因素角度简要概括该地区村民介入公共产品供给的实践逻辑，以此呈现我国转型期村落治理的本土资源。     

Modification Methods of Blank Pistols in Turkey in 2006

Abstract:  This study describes the modification methods of blank cartridge firing pistols in Turkey. We have examined cases submitted to the Aydın Regional Criminal Laboratory of Turkey in 2006. In total, 95 modified pistols and 300 modified cartridges were examined. The blank cartridge firing pistols are guns which look similar to "real" pistols, however, there are blockages in their barrel in order to prevent the discharge of a bullet. However, as a result of simple modifications, these pistols can be easily converted into "real" firearms. Studied modification methods are removing the obstruction from the barrel, removing the partial obstruction from the barrel, sleeving a smaller diameter tube into the original barrel, using a replacement barrel, and rifling the original barrel. Special cartridges for these modified pistols are also produced. These modified pistols and cartridges were evaluated in respect of the converting methods.     

论改革中国的出入境检查制度

中国现有的出入境检查制度存在不足之处，例如法律欠缺、行政诉讼程序有瑕疵、查控电脑软件有漏洞等。建议通过完善立法、改进电子化管理程度、革新出入境检验技术以及提高执法人员素质等举措来改革中国出入境检查制度，以便落实反恐维稳等保障国家安全的战略对策。     

日本的东亚合作战略评析——区域性公共产品的视角

区域性公共产品的供给和消费是分析东亚区域合作的一个新的理论视角。二战结束以来,日本在不同阶段提供了各种形态的区域性公共产品,这成为日本促进东亚经济一体化和实现自身大国外交战略的核心途径之一。为了实现最优供给模式,日本经历了从单向供给到机制建设的转变。在此过程中,日本分别遵循"开放的地区主义"和"竞争性合作"等原则,处理和协调与域外大国和域内大国的关系,并力图通过"加权总和"和"最优环节"等供给方式缓解战略意图与供给能力之间的矛盾。     

Exploring a Model of HIV Prevention Using a Cognitive-Behavioral Skills-Building Framework with Black Immigrants

Abstract

This paper addresses the burgeoning Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) crisis in the black community in the United States, particularly black women. A cognitive-behavioral skills-building HIV prevention intervention tailored to the realities of blacks in South Africa is presented as a model that may be modified and adapted for HIV prevention among blacks in the United States. This model of HIV prevention must view blacks as a heterogeneous group that includes African immigrants, and cognitive-behavioral skills-building HIV prevention interventions tailored to the realities of black women are needed for the prevention of heterosexually transmitted HIV infection. The implementation of HIV interventions within accessible sexually transmitted diseases (STD) testing and treatment programs will provide the combined clinical-behavioral approach that is missing in HIV prevention interventions among blacks in the United States.     

On the Progress of Women/Gender Studies in China from the Collection of Women＇s Studies ——Analysis of the Changes in the Columns, Themes and Contents ill the Past 20 Years

本文对《妇女研究论丛》创刊20年来的栏目变化、刊文情况以及主题与内容进行分析,探讨中国妇女/性别研究进展。结论认为,中国妇女/性别研究经历了由浅入深、不断走向成熟的过程,学术性和实践价值都在不断增强。但仍需进一步加强妇女/性别研究的理论创新,加强有关妇女发展和性别平等的重大现实问题研究,加强妇女发展与性别平等法律与政策研究,促进中国妇女/性别学科建设。     

Counting homeless persons with surveys of users of services for the homeless

Abstract

Because of their comparative economy, the most commonly used methods for counting the homeless focus on users of shelters, food lines, health clinics for the homeless, and other services for the homeless. This paper argues that surveys restricted to shelter users are of limited usefulness, but that joint surveys of food‐line, shelter, and clinic users include very substantial proportions of the homeless in many communities. Such comprehensive surveys can provide an accurate basis for research on the homeless in communities with reasonably capacious service systems. The reliability of such surveys has grown as service systems for the homeless have improved. Groups of the homeless that tend to be missed in service user surveys include homeless youths on their own as well as substantial portions of the rural homeless population and of the doubled‐up or institutionalized homeless populations. Surveys of homeless persons sleeping in known places “on the streets” can be used to supplement surveys of service users. Research in Colorado suggests that such supplemental surveys of the street population provide a practical basis for comprehensive estimates of the homeless street population.     

GC／MS检验1-苯基-1-丙酮和1-苯基-2-丙酮

目的阐明1-苯基-1-丙酮和1-苯基-2-丙酮在色谱行为、用途和受管制程度等方面的差异。方法使用GC／MS对1-苯基一1-丙酮和1-苯基-2-丙酮进行定性分析。结果1-苯基-1-丙酮和1-苯基-2-丙酮的保留时间相差约1min，特征离子显著不同。结论1-苯基-1-丙酮和1-苯基-2-丙酮虽然为同分异构体，且多数时中文名称都简称为苯丙酮，也都是制备毒品的原料，但其实二者在色谱行为、用途、管制程度上却有着巨大的差别。     

On-line public relations: towards an integrated theoretical model

Abstract

Much has been said about the so-called information superhighway. Organisations are realising that a whole new world can be created on-line: more and more organisations, and individuals, are entering this superhighway at an incredible rate. Ironically, most people do not have a clue what the information superhighway really is, which is, for example, evident in the 1993 advertisement of the telecommunication giant, Pacific Bell, which claimed that: ‘While others talk about the information superhighway, we're actually building it’, but only launched their consumer Internet access service in 1996. In spite of widespread ignorance, the exponential growth of the Internet provides public relations practitioners with constantly expanding on-line public relations resources and the opportunity to use these online systems to create or enhance the images of organisations in the market place.

Without theory, the field of on-line public relations has no framework for understanding, organising and integrating the many activities and purposes of online public relations. Therefore online public relations needs a body of knowledge grounded in theory. It is clear that the shift is away from mass communication towards dialogical or interactional communication. In order to understand the theory of on-line public relations, it is important to systemise it in terms of a theoretical aporoach. This leads to the main aim of this article, which is to propose a theoretical model, the Or,-line Public Relations (OPR) model, to provide a suitable framework for explaining the on-line public relations process, and if applied in the development of on-line public relations plans or strategies, it can maintain its utility as a framework for the analysis thereof.

Based on a qualitative approach, this article attempts to theoretically explore, describe, interpret and conceptualise the concept on-line public relations, with specific reference to the development of on-line public relations in South Africa, the shift from traditional paradigms to new on-line trends and the integration of on-line public relations with other communication processes. Particular reference is made to the theoretical foundations of on-line public relations, and it is argued that at the root of on-line public relations, as a framework for explaining it, lies the need for an integrated theoretical approach. In the last section, a new OPR model is proposed, and a brief discussion of the elements of the model, the conceptual foundation of on-line information and information overload is presented.