Candidates' Ideological Locations,Abstention, and Turnout in U.S. Midterm Senate Elections

Many spatial models of voting suggest that citizens are more likely to abstain when they feel indifferent toward the candidates or alienated from them. In presidential elections, previous research offers evidence that alienation and indifference affect individuals' probabilities of voting. We find evidence that indifference and alienation also affect the decision to vote in midterm Senate elections, a context not previously explored. These individual-level effects imply that candidates' ideological locations should influence aggregate turnout by affecting the proportions of citizens who feel indifferent toward or alienated from the candidates. Our aggregate-level analysis supports this (at least in contests featuring two previous and/or future members of Congress). Our findings underscore the importance of the electoral context for understanding citizen behavior and suggest that elections featuring at least one centrist candidate may be normatively appealing since they stimulate participation.     

Partial Agonist Therapy in Schizophrenia: Relevance to Diminished Criminal Responsibility

Abstract: Pathological gambling (PG), classified in the DSM‐IV among impulse control disorders, is defined as inappropriate, persistent gaming for money with serious personal, family, and social consequences. Offenses are frequently committed to obtain money for gambling. Pathological gambling, a planned and structured behavioral disorder, has often been described as a complication of dopamine agonist treatment in patients with Parkinson’s disease. It has never been described in patients with schizophrenia receiving dopamine agonists. We present two patients with schizophrenia, previously treated with antipsychotic drugs without any suggestion of PG, who a short time after starting aripiprazole, a dopamine partial agonist, developed PG and criminal behavior, which totally resolved when aripiprazole was discontinued. Based on recent advances in research on PG and adverse drug reactions to dopamine agonists in Parkinson’s disease, we postulate a link between aripiprazole and PG in both our patients with schizophrenia and raise the question of criminal responsibility.     

中国大鲵维氏气单胞菌病的组织病理学观察

运用病理切片和HE染色技术,对维氏气单胞菌自然感染大鲵的肌肉、肝、肾、肺、肠道等器官的组织病理学变化进行了观察。结果显示,肝可见大量淋巴细胞和少量中性粒细胞,肝细胞空泡状变性,肝血窦内见大量血细胞;肾集合管中可见少量蛋白样物,血管球扩张,有的溶解坏死;心肌纤维溶解,甚至坏死,可见充血和出血;胰细胞颗粒变性;肺偶见充血;脾索排列紊乱,脾窦中充满大量红细胞和巨噬细胞;肠道内肠绒毛溶解脱落,有充血现象;肌纤维蜡样坏死,肌细胞核浓缩凝固,深染,破碎。证实,维氏气单胞菌能使中国大鲵的多个组织器官出现严重的病理变化而导致死亡。     

试论警察组织中群体规范的形成、作用与异化

本文对群体规范的概念、形成及警察群体规范的形成、功能和作用进行了初步的探讨,并在此基础上对社会群体规范悖谬与异化的的形成,警察群体本身具有的易腐性及其在社会转型期对规范悖离与异化、警察腐败的趋势与现象进行了尝试性的探索与研究。     

边际效用递减理论在习语翻译中的应用——谈归化与异化的均衡点

分析目前翻译领域有关归化/异化翻译策略的研究成果,以及其他学科研究方法和理论在翻译研究中的应用,可以将经济学中的边际效用递减理论应用于归化与异化在文学作品中习语翻译的研究。简单解释的归化法、详细解释的归化法和异化法在习语翻译中会产生三种不同的心理状态,为达到读者阅读效用最大化,应理性选择归化与异化翻译策略,实现话语语境背景下的动态均衡。     

转变中的公共行政范式——从官僚制行政走向民主制行政

官僚制行政不可避免地面临着自身组织、权力和人的异化和社会变迁下的诸多困境。在此背景下,民主制行政从被历史遗忘的角落里重新被人发掘并成为一种新的替代性的公共行政范式。