Examining the immanent dilemma of small states in the Asia-Pacific: the strategic triangle between New Zealand,the US and China

ABSTRACT

Small states throughout the Asia-Pacific are confronted by a growing dilemma over how to balance their traditional security ties with the US and rapidly growing trade with China. This gives Washington and Beijing potential leverage over small states to use within their competition with one another. This article explores the implications of this for New Zealand – a small South Pacific state that prides itself on maintaining an independent foreign policy. Situated within the small state literature, it utilises a material-based strategic triangle to illustrate the fundamental facets of New Zealand's position. Relatedly, the article examines how Wellington has managed its burgeoning relations with China and the US over the past decade and critically considers New Zealand's independent foreign policy. It finds that New Zealand has adopted a mixed set of strategies to manage its position between the US and China, closely aligning itself with Washington while remaining nonaligned on some key security issues in the Asia-Pacific region. New Zealand has certainly not opted for neutrality. The article concludes that New Zealand and other small states must remain vigilant, may want to consider alternative strategies of alignment, and outlines a number of areas where additional research could prove fruitful.     

气相色谱法快速分析人血、尿中地芬尼多

目的建立人血、尿中地芬尼多的气相色谱快速分析方法。方法用氯仿提取血、尿中的地芬尼多,采用气相色谱法进行定性、定量分析。以正常人血浆、尿液为空白样本,分别添加标准地芬尼多及SKF525（内标物）对方法进行考察和优化,并对1例大剂量误服地芬尼多中毒者体液浓度进行快速测定和检测。结果所建方法分析血、尿中地芬尼多的线性范围均为5.0～200.0μg/mL;最低检测限均为1.0μg/mL（S/N≥3）;日内、日间精密度RSD≤5.6%（n=5）;回收率：血≤（106.23±2.05）%;尿≤（104.19±5.51）%。结论该分析方法操作便捷、实用,适用于地芬尼多的临床血药浓度快速监测和法医毒物鉴定。     

Reassembling Gender: On the Immanent Politics of Gendering Apparatuses of Bodily Production in Science

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Arguing that new feminist materialist work has insufficiently attended to how gender is differently materialized and embodied in practices with non-human others, this article examines ethnographically what genderings come to matter in the knowledge-making practices of mass spectrometry and peer review in a Czech research laboratory. The article returns to Donna Haraway's analytics of the ‘apparatus of bodily production’ and its extension by Karen Barad as a productive device for tracing the situational making and unmaking of gender in specific human–technology assemblages and the sedimenting histories of such intra-actions. Through a triple movement of disassembling, contextualizing and reassembling particular embodiments, the author brings unstable, implicit and absent genderings, and their affective textures, affordances and valuations to the fore, including the corporeal orientations associated with enterprising adrenalin-driven masculinity and denigrated forms of embodiment such as shame and defeat. The article shows how these (de)genderings render present tensions and exclusions in prevailing apparatuses of knowledge production and pose questions of responsibility.     

兔体内三唑仑及其代谢物的检测

目的不同方法检测三唑仑及代谢物α-羟基三唑仑，为其及时、准确的检测提供科学证据和最优方法。方法用GC／NPD、GC／MS、MS／MS、GC／ECD对兔体内三唑仑及代谢物α-羟基三唑仑进行检测。结果GC／ECD法最易检测出三唑仑及其代谢物。结论兔胃及内容物、尿液中容易检测到三唑仑及其代谢物；运用酶水解后，检测率最高；GC／ECD检测三唑仑及其代谢物的灵敏度最高。     

GC/MS检验燃烧残留物中的矿物油1例

1案例简介 2008年8月2日早晨，京山县罗店镇徐杨村发生一起命案，张某（男，43岁，农民）致6人死亡，1人重伤，并将其中1名受害人焚尸。派出所民警将正准备逃离现场的犯罪嫌疑人张某抓获。笔者随后进入现场，从被焚受害人身上提取了燃烧残留物稻草灰。     

高效液相色谱-质谱联用法测定生物检材中吡虫啉

吡虫啉是烟碱类超高效杀虫剂，具有广谱、高效、低毒、低残留，害虫不易产生抗药性等特点，并有触杀、胃毒和内吸等多重作用。主要用于防治水稻、小麦、棉花等作物上的刺吸式口器害虫。吡虫啉大鼠急性经口LD50为1260mg／kg，急性经皮LD60〉1000mg／kg。     

Building organisation–public relationships: Towards an understanding of the challenges facing public relations

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The main aim of this article is to investigate the challenges facing public relations professionals in building organisation–public relationships (OPRs), by means of an overview of related modernistic literature, mainly within a modernistic paradigm. Dominant business developments have historically impacted the broader role of public relations in organisations and society, and it is maintained that the change in the domain of public relations to a relational perspective is yet again a consequence of the efforts by business to survive in the new millennium. There can be no doubt about the strategic importance of relationships to the survival of organisations and to public relations. A relational approach to public relations has major strategic value, and embracing its challenges is vital for the profession. The relational approach offers a two-fold opportunity to public relations professionals, namely to confirm their contribution to achieving organisational goals through the measurement of their relationship-building efforts, and the prospect of realigning themselves with other business functions in the organisation. The main objective of this article is to review the change in the domain of public relations to a relational perspective, and to investigate the current challenges facing public relations professionals in building mutually beneficial OPRs on the basis of the relational perspective of public relations.     

甲胺磷在犬体内的死后分布

目的建立甲胺磷的犬灌胃染毒致死模型,观察甲胺磷在犬体内的死后分布规律。方法犬经8倍LD50（7.4mg/kg）剂量甲胺磷灌胃后,观察其中毒症状,死亡后即刻解剖,分别取心、肝、脾、肺、肾、脑、右上肢肌、右下肢肌、胸肌、胃组织、心血、胆汁、玻璃体液和尿液,GC/MS和GC法检测其中甲胺磷含量。结果犬8倍LD50甲胺磷灌胃染毒后20min内出现中毒症状（,53.3±14.1）min死亡。各组织脏器及体液中甲胺磷含量由高到低分别为胃（99.84±0.87）μg/g、脾（46.87±28.67）μg/g、肝（43.82±22.74）μg/g、肾（43.79±29.04）μg/g、心血（35.36±13.98）μg/mL、肺（35.25±18.59）μg/g、尿34.81μg/mL、胸肌（19.23±17.18）μg/g、右上肢（16.92±8.98）μg/g、心（15.09±6.11）μg/g、右下肢（12.83±7.63）μg/g、脑（10.91±4.13）μg/g、胆汁（6.75±1.45）μg/mL、玻璃体液（6.22±4.97）μg/mL。结论甲胺磷在犬体内死后分布不均,胃、脾、肝、肾、心血、肺、尿检材中含量较高,可作为疑似甲胺磷中毒毒物分析的检材。     

Analyzing Brazilian vehicle documents for authenticity by easy ambient sonic-spray ionization mass spectrometry

Using desorption/ionization techniques such as easy ambient sonic-spray ionization mass spectrometry (EASI-MS), it is possible to analyze documents of Brazilian vehicles for authenticity, providing a chemical profile directly from the surface of each document. A method for the detection of counterfeit documents is described, and the falsification procedure is elucidated. Forty authentic and counterfeit documents were analyzed by both positive and negative ion modes, EASI(±)-MS. EASI(+)-MS results identified the presence of (bis(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate plasticizer and of dihexadecyldimethylammonium biocide in both types of documents. For EASI(-)-MS results, the 4-octyloxybenzoic acid additive ([M + H](+): m/z 249) is present only in counterfeit documents. It was also found that counterfeit vehicle documents are produced via Laserjet printers. Desorption/ionization techniques, such as EASI-MS, offer therefore, an intelligent way to characterize the counterfeiting method.     

New Methodism and Old: Churches,Police and State in Fiji, 2008–09

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Although Methodism has remained the dominant form of Christianity in Fiji, Methodist beliefs have been contested by a proliferation of Pentecostal/evangelical churches, but never more directly than by a new form of Methodism which flourished in the years up to 2009. This new church was called the New Methodist Church and, for a period in 2008 and 2009, the Fiji police forces were strongly encouraged to participate and finally to convert to it. This article is part of ongoing research that traces the alliances and challenges between Christianity and the state in Fiji.