Human Resources in Public Administration in the Czech Republic

This paper informs about results of a research taking place within an internal grant of College of Polytechnics Jihlava, which is aimed at examining the efficiency in public administration from the point of view of the office workers. The research is divided into three stages which were proceeding gradually in large organisations of public administration carrying out self-government as well as state government in figurative effect. The research took place in the form of questionnaires, which were given to randomly chosen workers of the offices, and these anonymously answered 60 questions were divided into six topics： human resources, organizational capital, information capital, customer capital, performance measuring, and innovation capital. The respondents assessed the situation in the office using their own judgement. The aim of this paper is to inform about the results of this research especially from the point of view of human capital, organizational capital, and social capital in organisations of public administration.     

Mobility among Pentecostal pastors and migratory “miracles”

Taking into account space and identity in the movements of transnational religious actors, this article is engaged in reframing and reinterpreting experience by investigating the articulation of migratory and religious experiences as expressed by the pastors of four different Brussels-based Pentecostal congregations. The analysis of pastors' narratives, as they reassess the circumstances that brought them from Sub-Saharan Africa or Latin America to Belgium, reveals an interwoven process of geographical shifts and “divine” actions: this offers us an opportunity to consider an implied double process of mobility and religion. On the one hand, we can see how Pentecostalism transforms and subverts their immigrant experience by allowing for an alternate narrative of this experience. On the other hand, we can analyse the effect of the migratory experience on the discourse and religious practices in the new social context, more particularly through the identification of such “Children of God” with missionary duties towards their fellow immigrants. An analysis of the pastors' narratives also offers a particularly relevant opportunity to question the tensions between processes of endogenous identification (missionaries elected by God and working towards the extension of his “kingdom”) and exogenous assignment, repeated associations of otherness and strangeness, and the stigma coupled with pejorative characterizations of the “migrant”.     

The performance of university spin-offs: an exploratory analysis using venture capital data

University spin-offs are defined as firms founded by university employees. Using a large database on venture-backed start-up companies, I describe the characteristics of university spin-offs and investigate whether they perform differently than other firms. I find that venture-backed university spin-offs are concentrated in the biotechnology and information technology industries. Moreover, a spin-off tends to stay close to the university, suggesting that technology transfer through spin-offs is largely a local phenomenon. Multivariate regression analyses show that university spin-offs have a higher survival rate but are not significantly different from other start-ups in terms of the amount of venture capital raised, the probability of completing an initial public offering (IPO), the probability of making a profit, or the size of employment.

FTA战略下我国海外能源投资的法律问题研究——以我国投资澳洲能源为例

解决好海外能源投资中出现的法律问题是我国海外能源投资顺利进行的主要保障。海外能源投资出现的法律问题实质上涉及到资本输出国的相关完善的立法以及对于东道国相关外资法律规定的应对。据此对于如何完善我国资本输出的相关立法以及应对发达的东道国的外资法进行抛砖引玉的研究。     

死刑案件被害人家属信访问题研究

在死刑案件中,被害人家属既难以通过量刑程序实现自己的复仇愿望,也难以通过刑事附带民事诉讼获得应有的赔偿,还难以通过司法救助机制获得充分的救助,这导致了被害人家属很难理性地对待刑事诉讼制度,进而采取信访甚至闹访等非常规手段来主张自己的诉求。为了兼顾死刑判决的法律效果和社会效果,一审法院不得不面临死刑政策与民意之间的直接冲突。一审法院尤其是承办法官在死刑案件一审判决前后始终面临着信访带来的压力。为了妥善处理死刑案件被害人信访问题,需要构建科学、合理的信访工作机制,并以此为契机,稳步、有序地推进涉诉信访工作机制的进一步完善。     

杂交种知识产权申请方式探讨

申请不同的知识产权,可获得不同的权利保护。符合植物新品种条件的杂交种亲本,应申请品种权。杂交种不是品种,是一种生产方法;不愿申请品种权,应申请生产方法发明专利权。对控制目标性状的目的基因,应申请基因发明专利权。     

首都小学生传统节日文化认识现状及对策

为了解首都小学生对传统节日文化的认知情况,北京青少年教育与发展研究中心从2007年4月至2008年6月底,对首都;5778名小学生进行了问卷抽样调查。对当前首都小学生关于传统节日文化认识方面存在的主要问题进行了分析,在此基础上进行了相应的对策研克在全社会范围内营建和创造传统节日文化教育的良好环境;以家庭和学校为重要阵地,科学普及传统节日文化知识;利用节日契机,强化节日知识;挖掘传统节日文化价值,突出节日主题,有重点地对小学生进行教育。     

美国未成年人死刑制度——对伦奎斯特法院刑罚观的法律思考

在西门斯案件中,美国联邦最高法院多数意见判决禁止对未成年人执行死刑。但以前首席大法官伦奎斯特为核心的保守主义大法官撰写反对意见,深入证成未成年人死刑制度。伦奎斯特法院保守主义力量坚持的法律路线——未成年人死刑制度具备存在的必要;在边缘性的案件中,该制度能够体现刑罚正义。在未成年人刑罚改革的过程中,获取稳妥前进的法律进路甚为关键。     

论外资经济产业风险的产生及防范

从产业结构角度考察外资风险,主要有区域经济控制力风险、产业结构失衡风险、本土产业自主创新受阻风险和外商减(撤)资风险等。我国外资集聚区产业风险产生的症结在于不合理的产业结构,而形成原因既有国际生产体系变革因素,也有我国经济结构转换和地方政府的引资偏好等因素。化解和防范外资产业风险的主要途径,应通过借助引进外资研发等高附加值的产业,启动价值链向高端攀升机制,带动产业结构调整并优化;同时通过发展区域服务经济、改变招商模式和加快政府的管理创新等措施,加快这种过程,从根本上达到规避风险之目的。     

Free and unfree labor in Qing China: Emigration and escape among the bannermen of northeast China, 1789–1909

Though internal migration in China during the Qing era (1644–1911) was mostly unrestricted, the government tightly controlled the movement of peasants who worked state lands in frontier regions and certain other locations. Such peasants accounted for 5–10% of China's population. In the state farms of northeast China, households could move legally only from one place to another within the system. Departure from the system was illegal. In this article, one of the first quantitative studies of migration in late imperial China, we apply discrete-time event-history methods to longitudinal, nominative household register data from six northeast Chinese state farm systems to compare how characteristics of the farm system, village, and household influenced the chances of legal moves and illegal departures. We show that among these state peasants, who were supposedly “unfree,” migration was not uncommon. We also show that the determinants of legal and illegal migration differed substantially. We conclude with a discussion of the implications of these findings for our understanding of migration processes in late imperial China.