Digital Knowledge Exploitation: ICT, Memory Institutions and Innovation from Cultural Assets

There has been considerable recognition of the regional embeddedness of the knowledge-based economy and its uneven geographical incidence, with mainly urban or metropolitan areas being the crucibles of knowledge-intensive activities. Drawing from recent research conducted analysing cultural industries, the paper explores how the knowledge-based economy can be built upon, focussing on the value afforded by regional cultural diversity which offers a means of economic development and growth to peripheral regions.     

民族地区乡村汉族移民社会关系的建构——以宁夏南部的几个汉族移民家族为例

通过对宁夏南部几个汉族移民家族的田野调查,从社会关系建构的视角,我们发现,民族地区乡村汉族移民建构社会关系的主要方式有：原有社会关系的＂移植＂、通过＂认家门＂的方式融入当地大户汉族人家的家族内部、以＂结亲、联姻＂的方式与当地汉族大家族建立紧密联系以及通过密切的经济往来主动与当地回族建立良好关系等。     

关于促进欠发达地区人才流动的思考

人才是一个国家经济和社会发展的重要战略资源,更是经济欠发达地区摆脱贫困、实现跨越式发展的关键。人才流动无论是在国家之间还是地区之间,都是加快人力资本积累进而促进经济社会发展的一个重要机制,是市场经济发展客观规律的必然要求。本文分析了欠发达地区人才流动的重要性及影响人才流动的不利因素,提出了促进欠发达地区人才流动的建议,即以经济结构转变吸引人才,以高质量社会服务水平支持人才流动,以政府政策导向引导人才流动。     

东西部人才发展的基础条件和要素比较

该文从资源禀赋、经济发展情况和人才发展现状等三个主要方面,对东西部人才发展的基础条件进行比较分析,为探讨东西部人才发展模式奠定基础。研究得出：一是西部地区拥有较为丰富的自然资源,东部地区拥有大量的人力和技术资源;二是近年来,西部地区经济与东部地区相比仍有很大差距;三是西部地区高学历人才并不短缺,缺乏的是从事具有创新性工作的研发人员和高层次（院士、长江学者等）人员。     

加强民族地区思想政治工作,促进西部大开发——云南省双江县勐库镇思想政治工作调查分析

民族地区的思想政治工作是当前西部大开发中民族地区获得发展的先导和保证。云南省双江县勐库镇思想政治工作的实况从一个特定的侧面反映出 ,近年来民族地区思想政治工作已得到加强 ,但总体上看 ,与西部大开发对思想政治工作的要求仍有距离 ;同时还反映出 ,思想政治工作是经济工作和其他一切工作的生命线 ,与经济发展息息相关。勐库镇思想政治工作的成绩与不足及其原因 ,相当程度上提示了当前加强和改善民族地区思想政治工作应如何来进行     

“三农问题”:一个一般分析框架

文章提出了"三农问题"的一个一般分析框架,指出"三农问题"是发展中国家普遍存在的问题,"三农问题"的一般特征是城乡发展差距过大,主要表现在城乡之间居民收入、产业和社会发展等方面。运用这一分析框架,文章分析了我国当前"三农问题"的主要表现,指出我国"三农问题"具有一般性和特殊性,"三农问题"根源是长期奉行"重工轻农、城乡分治"经济社会发展战略的结果,根治途径是必须实施统筹城乡发展的战略。     

论统筹城乡资源配置与地方政府层级改革

统筹城乡经济社会发展,就要调整公共资源配置方式,做到公共资源配置权下移至县域,公共服务统筹权上移到省和中央政府。省直管县能有效调动和发挥县级政府的积极性,促进城乡协调发展。当前改革条件已经成熟,要在分析问题基础上分类指导改革,转变政府职能,明确省、县政府职责重点,下放权力,以事权确定财权,合理核定县的机构设置,缩小省级政府管理规模和幅度,创新市制,调整和完善垂直管理体制。     

Understanding the survival of post-Communist corruption in contemporary Russia: the influence of historical legacies

Corruption is widespread throughout the former Communist states, and it is particularly severe and entrenched in Russia. Despite the fact that Russia's contemporary corruption has recently become a subject of analysis, there is, however, no study that has addressed the role of the Communist legacy in the development of various aspects of corruption. This paper contributes to the debates through, first, disentangling the complex phenomenon that is corruption, and focusing on its three aspects: supply, demand, and the attitude of the population. Second, the paper also contributes to the literature on modern corruption by explicitly focusing on the role of the historical legacy in these different aspects of corruption. The study is based on several rich data-sets on corruption and on an original data-set compiled to measure the percentage share of Communists in various regions of Russia in the last decades of the USSR (1970s–1980s). The analysis presented in the paper uncovers different roles of the Communist legacies across the development of various aspects of corruption. By doing so, the paper contributes to the literature on historical legacies in general, on Communist legacies in particular, as well as to the broader literature on the causes of corruption in transitional societies.     

西部民族地区人口、资源与环境的可持续发展

我国西部民族地区战略地位重要,它的发展对整个国家的经济和社会发展有着举足轻重的作用。从2000年开始的西部大开发战略实施以来,整个西部地区发生了翻天覆地的变化,城市化进程加快,工业化迅速发展,生产总值在全国经济的占比越来越重。经济的发展带来日益严峻的环境问题,尤其是在西部民族地区,由于其特殊的自然地理条件和社会历史原因,环境问题的处理成为其在追赶经济的过程中不可忽视的一环。     

Typing the 1.1 kb control region of human mitochondrial DNA in Japanese individuals

This study presents a reliable method that uses high-fidelity long-range PCR and optimized primers to assess polymorphism and to genotype human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). This method was used to analyze polymorphic sites in the human mtDNA control region, including hypervariable regions I, II, and III (HVI, HVII, and HVIII), from 124 unrelated Japanese individuals. In HVI, HVII, and HVIII, 80, 37, and 14 polymorphic sites were identified, respectively, excluding those in the homopolymeric cytosine stretch (C-stretch) regions. The region between HVI and HVII also contained 15 polymorphic sites. On the other hand, C-stretch length heteroplasmy in HVI or HVII was observed in 66 of 124 Japanese individuals (53%), which is much higher than in Caucasian populations. The variants in the C-stretch regions were characterized by counting the number of heteroplasmic peaks split from the single peak in homoplasmic sequences (i.e., 16244G and 16255G in HVI and 285G in HVII). Including the C-stretch length heteroplasmy, the 124 Japanese mtDNA samples were classified into 116 distinct haplotypes. The random match probability and the genetic diversity were estimated to be 0.95% and 0.998581, respectively, indicating that the method presented here has higher discrimination than the conventional method for mtDNA typing using HVI and HVII. [Correction added after publication 30 January 2007: in the preceding sentence random match probability and genetic diversity estimates were corrected from 0.95 and 0.998581%, respectively, to 0.95% and 0.998581, respectively.] The haplogroups and their frequencies observed in this study (i.e., D4; 13.7%, M7a1; 11.3%, D4a; 9.7% and M7b2; 8.9%) were similar to those observed in other studies of Japanese mtDNA polymorphism. The method described here is suitable for forensic applications, as shown by successful analysis of tissues from highly putrefied remains of an infant, which allowed maternal relationship to be determined via mtDNA haplotyping.