Shrinking democratic space? Crisis of consensus and contentious politics in Uganda

Previously considered a reforming and promising African country, economically and politically, Uganda has in recent years suffered substantial shrinkage of democratic space. This article argues that two factors have been crucial: the gradual breakdown of minimum political consensus forged under a ‘broad-based’ government which climaxed in a relatively progressive constitution in 1995 and, second, the security imperative accentuated by the war on terror. These two are compounded by the exigencies of incumbent president Museveni’s determination to rule for life, the result being erosion of basic democratic institutions, securitisation of politics, criminalisation of political competition and upsurge in contentious politics.     

知识经济时代的图书馆及其发展策略

步入21世纪,人类将进入以知识信息的生产、分配和利用为基础的知识经济时代.在知识经济时代里,图书馆作为人类知识的宝库,其职能与作用更显突出与重要.面对知识经济的挑战,当代图书馆应大力实施有效的发展策略,以适应时代发展的潮流.     

浅析建立企业年金的必要性

社会保障体系改革不仅要解决原有保障制度历史遗留问题,更重要的是应该着眼于未来。构造新型社会保障体系以促进我国转型后市场经济的健康发展,不仅需要加快建立城镇职工基本养老保险制度,同时还要积极发展企业年金。     

离职竞业禁止协议的立法选择——兼评《劳动合同法》第23条24条之规定

离职竞业禁止协议由于涉及太多的矛盾与冲突,其效力一直受到国内外学者的关注和质疑。作者在分析了离职竞业禁止协议性质和各国立法的基础上,提出中国作为大陆法系国家,在当前法官素质不高的国情下,有必要在借鉴各国立法司法经验的基础上对竞业禁止协议作出更加全面的规范,以指导当事人的行为和司法审判实践。     

Primum Mobile: Women and Auto/mobility in the Era of the Great War

Abstract: This article explores the construction of Andrea Dworkin as a public persona, or a ‘feminist icon’, revered by some and demonized by others. It argues that in both her fiction and non-fiction, Dworkin engaged in a process of writing herself as an exceptional woman, a ‘feminist militant’ as she describes herself in the subheading of her 2002 memoir, Heartbreak. The article illustrates Dworkin's autobiographical logic of exceptionalism by comparing the story told in Heartbreak to the story of Dworkin's major novel, Mercy, which features a heroine, Andrea, who shares Dworkin's name and significant biographical details. While Dworkin has insisted that Mercy is not an autobiographical novel, the author undertakes a reading here of Mercy as the story of Dworkin if she had not become the feminist icon of her own and others' construction. In Mercy, Andrea unsuccessfully attempts to escape the silent, victimized status that Dworkin has insistently argued is imposed upon women. In her repeated victimization, Andrea functions for Dworkin as an ‘everywoman’ who both embodies Dworkin's world-view and highlights how Dworkin's own biography exists in tension with some of her central assumptions about women, gender and contemporary society.     

小颗粒黄色荧光粉YAG：Ce,Gd表面氨基化修饰显现指印的研究

目的研究高效、环保的手印显现技术,拓展黄色荧光粉YAG：Ce,Gd的应用范围。方法采用液相沉积法对黄色荧光粉进行氨基化修饰,并对修饰前后粉体进行红外光谱、光学性能及表面形貌的分析。结果氨基化的黄色荧光粉能够成功地显现非渗透性和渗透性客体上的油脂手印和汗液手印。结论本方法使手印显现效果达到高效、无毒、无损的要求。     

基于ISO9001的ERP质量管理系统研究

本文从理论上对ISO9001与ERP的融合进行分析,重点论述了ISO9001与ERP结合的实施要点,结合最新的质量管理理论和质量信息技术研究了质量管理信息系统的理念和方法技术,接着提出了基于质量信息集成的质量管理信息系统的智能化发展趋势,并对系统的设计方法进行了有益的探讨,为ISO9001质量管理体系在企业长期高效地运作寻求更为有效的手段。     

应用比对显微照相检验59式手枪射击弹头撞击金属后的痕迹价值

射击弹头碰撞不同客体产生的变形损伤程度存在差异。利用比对显微镜,进行无变形损伤射击弹头和变形损伤射击弹头的痕迹比对照相,来论证59式手枪射击弹头撞击金属后痕迹特征的稳定性和对鉴定价值的影响,可以为变形损伤射击弹头痕迹检验提供科学依据。     

FETAL TESTOSTERONE AND CRIMINALITY: TEST OF EVOLUTIONARY NEUROANDROGENIC THEORY

Evolutionary neuroandrogenic (ENA) theory asserts that criminality is a crude form of competitive behavior over resources, status, and mating opportunities. Theoretically, males have been selected for resource acquisitiveness as a result of female preferences for mates who are successful at resource provisioning. ENA theory also asserts that brain exposure to both prenatal and postpubertal androgens (particularly testosterone) promotes all forms of competitiveness, including those that victimize others. The present study was undertaken to test ENA theory by correlating 14 self‐reported measures of offending with a biomarker for fetal testosterone exposure based on the ratio of the 2nd and 4th digits of the right hand (r2D:4D), in a nonrepresentative sample of 445. Both Spearman correlations and negative binomial regressions produced results that largely supported the hypothesized connection between offending and high prenatal androgen exposure, even when findings were analyzed separately by sex. Also, offending was significantly associated with r2D:4D for both males and females. Overall, this study supports the view that exposing the brain to high levels of testosterone and other androgens prenatally elevates the probability of offending later in life.     

Deceptive behaviour and instrumental violence among psychopathic and non-psychopathic violent forensic psychiatric patients

Deceptive behaviour and instrumental violence are well-known psychopathic features and as such play important roles in the assessment of psychopathy. This study examined first, the nature of the violence committed by offenders that have been admitted to forensic psychiatric care and whether scores on the Psychopathy Checklist: Screening Version (PCL:SV), Part 1, were associated with the instrumentality of violence. Second, we examined the proneness of offenders to re-frame the instrumentality in their past violent crimes, and whether this was associated with scores on the PCL:SV. The results show that the PCL:SV, Part 1 (interpersonal/affective features), was positively related to the officially coded instrumentality of the violent crimes. As expected, this association disappeared when the instrumentality was self-reported. However, the majority of the patients tended to exaggerate the reactivity of their violent crimes when it was self-reported, indicating that most offenders, independently of level of psychopathy, used deception when questioned about the characteristics of their past violent crimes. The reasons for, and implications of, the use of deception are discussed.