On Desire,Transcendence and Sacrifice

This contribution offers a careful but critical reading of Johan van der Walt’s theory of post-apartheid law as sacrifice and social struggle. By placing a theoretical emphasis on the inevitability of violence and the impossibility of love, Van der Walt’s thesis risks denying the possibility of thinking the world in a different, way. In order to reconceive the terms of community and horizontality in post-apartheid South Africa, there is a need to move beyond thinking the world as constructed according to tension, conflict and self-preservation at the expense of understanding and compassion. In developing a critique of law as sacrifice, I utilise Panu Minkkinen’s call for justice as the beyond of law that goes beyond the mere battle for recognition. I also address his view that the unappeasable desire of metaphysics entails the recognition that there is hope for the future and the recovering of transcendence as otherness. Secondly, I use Louis Wolcher’s work on Zen Buddhism to argue that any obsession with conceptual purity, as is glimpsed in Van der Walt’s work, ignores the impossibility of setting down the immutable and universal truth for all time. In other words, however attractive a theory of law as sacrifice may be, it is only one perspective amongst many others. Lastly, I contrast Van der Walt’s work with that of Luce Irigaray, and in particular her formulation of ‘horizontal transcendence’ that makes possible relations ‘between two’.

Detection and Identification of Psilocybe cubensis DNA Using a Real‐Time Polymerase Chain Reaction High Resolution Melt Assay,

Psilocybe cubensis, or “magic mushroom,” is the most common species of fungus with psychedelic characteristics. Two primer sets were designed to target Psilocybe DNA using web‐based software and NBCI gene sequences. DNA was extracted from eighteen samples, including twelve mushroom species, using the Qiagen DNeasy^® Plant Mini Kit. The DNA was amplified by the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) using the primers and a master mix containing either a SYBR^® Green I, Radiant? Green, or LCGreen Plus^® intercalating dye; amplicon size was determined using agarose gel electrophoresis. The PCR assays were tested for amplifiability, specificity, reproducibility, robustness, sensitivity, and multiplexing with primers that target marijuana. The observed high resolution melt (HRM) temperatures for primer sets 1 and 7 were 78.85 ± 0.31°C and 73.22 ± 0.61°C, respectively, using SYBR^® Green I dye and 81.67 ± 0.06°C and 76.04 ± 0.11°C, respectively, using Radiant? Green dye.     

Dienstleistungsrichtlinie und Immobilienwirtschaft

Die Dienstleistungsrichtlinie (RL 2006/123/EG des Europ?ischen Parlaments und des Rates, vom 12. 12. 2006, über Dienstleistungen im Binnenmarkt, ABl L 376/36), die bis 28. 12. 2009 von den Mitgliedsstaaten der EU umzusetzen ist, hat neben ihrem arbeitsrechtlichen Schwerpunkt auch Auswirkungen auf die Immobilienwirtschaft sowie deren rechtliche Rahmenbedingungen. ?sterreich hat durch eine Novelle der GewO 1994 einen der wichtigsten Punkte der DL-RL, n?mlich die obligatorische Berufshaftpflichtversicherung der Immobilientreuh?nder – Nachweis dieser Versicherung bis sp?testens 27. 8. 2008 – bereits umgesetzt. Angesichts verschiedener Vorbehalte bleibt allerdings die Integrationswirkung der DL-RL hin zu einer Europ?isierung des gesamten Wohn- und Immobilienrechts in absehbarer Zeit beschr?nkt.     

我国高校大学生恋爱教育状况研究——基于对476份调研数据的分析

大学生恋爱现状及教育状况与大学生婚恋现状及交往状况、家长对待孩子恋爱的态度、恋爱动机或原因、性知识获取渠道或途径、校园恋爱暴力五个方面相关联。鉴于对大学生恋爱及教育现状的实证调研,综合大学生恋爱状况及恋爱教育问题的分析,可以从明确恋爱教育目标、树立科学的恋爱教育理念、构筑高校大学生恋爱教育体系、建立多主体联动的教育新机制四个方面入手解决大学生恋爱及恋爱教育存在的问题。     

表儿茶素对四氯化碳诱导肝纤维化大鼠的干预作用

目的 研究表儿茶素对四氯化碳诱导大鼠肝纤维化的保护作用。方法 将80只雄性SD大鼠随机分为正常对照组、模型组、秋水仙碱组（0.1 mg/kg）、表儿茶素高剂量组（100 mg/kg）、表儿茶素低剂量组（25 mg/kg）。除正常对照组腹腔注射橄榄油外,其余各组均腹腔注射四氯化碳（CCl4） 建立肝纤维化模型。复制模型的同时开始给药,各给药组大鼠灌胃相应药物,正常对照组和模型组大鼠灌胃等容积生理盐水,每日1次,连续6周。末次给药后,称取肝湿质量,计算肝脏指数;采用微板法检测大鼠血清中天冬氨酸氨基转移酶（aspartate aminotransferase,AST）、丙氨酸氨基转移酶（alanine aminotransferase,ALT)水平;苏木精-伊红染色和Masson胶原染色观察肝脏病理学变化;Western blot法检测肝脏中平滑肌肌动蛋白(alpha smooth muscle actin,α-SMA)、Ⅰ型胶原(typeⅠcollagen,collα1)蛋白的表达水平。结果 与模型组相比,表儿茶素能显著降低大鼠的肝脏指数和血清ALT、AST的含量;显著降低肝组织中α-SMA、collα1蛋白的表达;肝组织病理学指标明显改善。结论 表儿茶素对四氯化碳诱导的大鼠肝纤维化有一定的保护作用,其机制可能与抑制α-SMA、collα1的表达有关。     

船舶保险条款中的恐怖活动风险

本文扼要介绍“9.11恐怖袭击事件”后船舶保赔保险战争险除外条款及特别保赔保险战争险(SPECIAL P＆I WAR RISKS COVER)的变化,阐明了船舶所有人在市场上安排保赔保险战争险的必要性。     

Petitioning in early seventeenth-century Scotland, 1625–51

ABSTRACT

In contrast to recent work on England and other parts of Europe, research on petitioning in early modern Scotland is still in its early stages, notably in respect of its political significance in a comparative context. This article investigates supplicatory activity in Scotland during a crucial period in which the petition came under intense scrutiny. The 1630s saw a determined attempt by King Charles I’s Scottish government to clamp down on the use of supplications to express criticism of royal policy; assertive, but carefully controlled, petitioning was one part of a resistance strategy that resulted in the downfall of the king’s regime. When a new government came to power in 1638 headed by the Covenanters, petitioning activity came to be seen as a potential challenge to their authority. Petitioning does not appear to have invoked ‘opinion’ in 1640s Scotland as has been claimed for England; the printed petition remained a rarity in Scotland. Nevertheless constitutional reform, combined with the wartime conditions of the 1640s, generated more recourse to petitioning, and the government recognized opportunities to enhance its claims to legitimate rule. A preliminary investigation of everyday petitions to the government during the 1640s shows how the narratives constructed by supplicants often sought to endorse its values and ideals, but that this type of petitioning was also used by supplicants to critique the government’s policies and hold it to its own rhetoric.     

当代在校大学生恋爱认同及行为选择的实证研究

本研究利用2007-2009年大学生学习与生活状况追踪抽样调查原始数据,运用定量模型及定性资料分析了在校大学生的恋爱行为及恋爱认同的影响因素,结果发现,大学生的恋爱选择及恋爱认同受大学生个体特征、社会交往及家庭因素的综合影响,其恋爱行为与认同感的差异是一种社会理性选择的结果。