中国与朝鲜经贸关系转型中的困境及对策

新世纪以来,中朝经贸关系保持快速发展态势。其中的重要转变是从过去以战略安全为主导的经贸关系逐步转向以市场为主导的经贸关系,这一转变预示朝鲜正处于向市场经济转型的初始阶段。而在中朝经贸关系持续发展过程中,中国和朝鲜各自存在的问题影响、甚至阻碍着双边经贸关系的进一步发展,为了超越障碍、抓住朝鲜亟须外部支持之时机,中国有必要从重新确定双边经贸关系战略地位等方面入手,积极推动中朝经贸关系深入发展。     

一株致猪胃溃疡大肠杆菌的分离鉴定

四川某猪场暴发保育猪与育肥猪水样腹泻,病理剖解可见胃黏膜大面积脱落、胃溃疡等症状,采集病死猪扁桃体与肠系膜淋巴结进行病毒检测;以肠内容物做寄生虫卵检测;选取其中一代表病例做细菌分离,经小鼠致死试验、仔猪回归试验确定病原菌,并对病原菌进行了形态学观察、生化鉴定、16SrDNA序列分析及药敏试验。结果显示,猪瘟病毒、伪狂犬病病毒等的检测结果为阴性;无寄生虫感染;从十二指肠内容物中分离到1株疑似致病性大肠杆菌,并命名为SCDC-1。用SCDC-1株人工感染健康仔猪成功复制出水样腹泻、胃溃疡病例。对SCDC-1株进行16SrDNA克隆测序,并与GenBank中的8株肠杆菌科和4株巴氏杆菌科菌株的16S基因进行同源性分析,发现SCDC-1株与大肠杆菌16S基因的相似性高达99.5%～99.9%。药敏试验结果显示,该病原菌仅对头孢曲松钠、头孢吡肟、丁胺卡那霉素敏感。试验结果证实,引起此次保育猪与育肥猪胃溃疡的主要病原为致病性大肠杆菌。     

Impact of human rights on U.S. foreign assistance to Latin America

Building upon the contributions of previous studies of U.S. foreign aid, this study examines the relationship between human rights and U.S. foreign assistance. Concentrating on the years 1979–1985, the impact of human rights conditions on both economic and military aid allocations to Latin America is analyzed. The results of this analysis indicate that though other factors have a significant effect upon aid allocation, human rights are an important factor in determining the allocation of both U.S. economic assistance and U.S. military assistance. The findings suggest that those countries with better human rights conditions are likely to receive more U.S. aid than others.     

The Impact of EU-based Populism on Turkey-EU Relations

ABSTRACT

The May 2019 EP elections once again highlighted the current cultural backlash throughout Europe against progressive values such as cosmopolitanism and multiculturalism, which impacts on the ‘future of Europe’ debate, raising important questions for the evolution of Turkey-EU relations. Even though Turkey is no longer a hot topic in EU political parlance and public opinion, opposition to Turkish EU membership continues in the form of nativism, particularly with reference to the issues of immigration and Islam, as the cases of AfD in Germany and UKIP in Britain show.     

The politics of foreign debt in Latin America a study of the debtors’ cartel

This analysis of the foreign debt problem in Latin America shows that this economic burden is onerous and will not be reduced in the short run. The region's political leaders perceived that collective bargaining could increase their bargaining leverage with foreign lenders and could produce more advantageous repayment schedules for most nations. However, despite verbal backing and the economic promise of collective bargaining, a debtors’ cartel failed to materialize. Evaluations of the political dynamics in key nations anticipated creditors. This analysis also shows that the debtors’ cartel failed because collective bargaining did not gain domestic political support. Foreign influence was tangential to the outcome. Given this political climate, the chances for a revival of collective bargaining are very slim.     

Comparison between Temperature Gradient Gel Electrophoresis of Bacterial 16S rDNA and Diatom Test for Diagnosis of Drowning

When a body is discovered in water, it is difficult to conclude whether the cause of death was drowning, even today. Although diatom testing by the digestive method is classical, we hypothesized that aquatic bacteria, as well as diatoms, might be detected in drowned bodies, and conducted temperature gradient gel electrophoresis (TGGE)‐targeting 16S rDNA. DNA was extracted from the site water, and from heart blood and liver samples from 27 bodies concluded as drowning deaths by autopsy and subjected to TGGE after amplification of 16S rDNA by polymerase chain reaction. We observed whether the feature point of each 16S rDNA from the site water and blood or liver samples matched. Considerably higher correspondence was observed in drowned bodies, and the rate was higher than that achieved with the digestive method. Moreover, TGGE is safer than the digestive method. Our study suggests that this method can aid diagnosis of drowning.     

Building from the ground up: exploring forensic mental health staff’s relationships with patients

Recovery-orientated care is becoming generally accepted as the best practice, and continued development in the ways it is practiced is necessary to ensure improvement of ongoing care. Forensic patients often experience double stigmatization (the dual stigma of mental illness and offending behaviour) and during admission to hospital may lose touch with their community supports. While working through their personal recovery, patients develop therapeutic relationships with their multidisciplinary team members. When positive, these relationships can enhance a patient’s recovery. Clinical staff members participated in 88 in-depth interviews, which were transcribed, reviewed, and analysed using thematic analysis. From analysing the data, main themes and subthemes emerged related to staff’s perceptions of therapeutic relationships. When developing relationships, staff need to overcome receptiveness issues by increasing trust through understanding their preconceptions, reducing stigma, sharing innocuous stories, and giving patients the time they need. The key pillar underpinning all traits ascribed to patients and staff is collaboration and approaching treatment protocols with a social approach is essential to enhancing recovery. Staff shared a holistic view of recovery that incorporated the benefits of positive relationships and the need to create a sense of home within the institution.     

Unsupervised Routine Activities as a Mediator of the Parental Knowledge–Delinquency Relationship

The principal aim of this study was to examine the relationship between parents (parental knowledge) and peers (unsupervised routine activities) in predicting delinquency. Enlisting all 1,170 male members of the Pathways to Desistance study and a causal mediation model, baseline and Wave 1 measures of parental knowledge and unsupervised routine activities were cross-lagged and then regressed onto Wave 2 delinquency. Consistent with the view that parenting precedes peer influence when it comes to predicting delinquency, the target pathway (baseline parental knowledge → Wave 1 unsupervised routine activities → Wave 2 delinquency) achieved significance and the comparison pathway (baseline unsupervised routine activities → Wave 1 parental knowledge → Wave 2 delinquency) did not. These results suggest that weak parental knowledge may increase delinquency by failing to divert the child from involvement in unsupervised routine activities with peers.     

化解新时代社会主要矛盾的财税法思维

新时代社会主要矛盾发生变化,是以人民为中心的发展思想对我国社会主要矛盾作出的新判断和新表述。财税法作为治国安邦之法,与共同富裕目标衔接紧密,是让改革发展成果更公平惠及全体人民的重要法律领域。财税法通过调整和规范政府间财政关系、政府预算和税收制度,回应和化解新时代社会主要矛盾,为加快建立现代财政制度提供道路支撑。新时代财税法思维包括三个方面:一是立足现代化建设和改革发展,提高政府治理能力、法治思维能力并依法拓展财源,建设现代化经济体系;二是渐进推动民主、促进民生福祉,满足人民美好生活需要,建构预算规范、财力协调和区域均衡的财税体制;三是实现分配正义,通过区域、产业和群体之间的财税制度设计和规则安排,促进发展更加平衡更加充分。借助财税法思维化解新时代社会主要矛盾有利于加快国家治理现代化和迈向全面小康的步伐。