民警执法观念变革及其方法论的思考

推进执法观念变革确有必要;在我国的现实法治环境中,“硬着陆”是无法回避的必然选择;但同时又必须对若干负效应加以必要的警惕。通过加强制度法规体系建设,培育整个社会的民主法制氛围,解决基层公安机关的现实困难,执法观念革命的目标则能实现。     

当代中国政治制度与文化软实力发展

文化软实力包括制度文化软实力和观念文化软实力两个部分,优越的政治制度本身就是制度文化软实力的体现。当代中国政治制度具有文化软实力特征:对内有凝聚力,对外有一定的吸引力。但是,当代中国政治制度也面临一些困境。只有走出困境,才能更好地展现中国政治制度的文化软实力。     

中国警察文化软实力建设的路径探析——警察法治建设全面发展的新视角

警察软实力建设是警察综合实力的重要方面,也是国家软实力建设的重要一环。警察文化软实力建设应包括警察的文化力、制度力、精神力、影响力、亲和力、形象力等方面的综合建设。提升警察软实力建设的路径主要有：建设先进的警察文化、设立科学的警察制度、树立良好的警察精神、培育警察执法特色、优化警察内部软环境和突出警察的严谨作风等。     

论警察软文化战略

从意识形态方面思考,警察软文化是指警察群体在一定社会文化大背景下,基于警察职业的特殊性质,在长期的警务实践和意识活动中所创造、积累下来的文化心态和观念形态的警察意识形态。文化心态包括警察情感、意志、道德规范、审美价值观、思维方式等警察群体的精神状态和道德面貌;警察意识形态包括警察的价值观念、思想观念、礼仪观念等意识形态。     

公域治理转向：公共治理模式的兴起

西方传统市民社会理论无法对后现代时期继续分化的社会公共领域作出有力解释。因此,须在治理背景下对市民社会理论予以重构。当社会管理创新业已成为当今我国改革的战略任务和社会共识时,坚持公权力机关主导下的传统管理模式已明显不合时宜。在社会结构深刻变化的时代,公共治理模式日益成为公域的必然选择,而公共治理模式尤应以软法机制为主要调整手段。     

民间借贷的软法治理模式探析

民间借贷作为民间融资的重要形式,在解决金融资源公平、有效配置问题方面发挥着不可替代的作用.目前,硬法治理模式在规范民间借贷时出现了系统性的制度缺位,随着软法治理模式的日渐兴起,民间借贷的软法治理方案成为一种弥补硬法局限的金融治理模式.通过分析不难发现,民间借贷与软法治理在制度供给与制度需求、价值取向和治理方式诸方面有较高的契合度.构建以保障民生为宗旨的民间借贷软法治理模式,将是理顺和规范民间贷关系的一种理性选择.     

Soft power,ideology and symbolic manipulation in Summer Olympic Games opening ceremonies: a semiotic analysis

This paper is a semiotic analysis of Summer Olympic Games Opening ceremonies as performative texts. Owing to massive media attention, these events have become eagerly awaited global spectacles. However, with such a wide audience, the challenge is to convey both an Olympic welcome and something truly unique about the host city and nation. This creates a communication challenge and some interesting questions in terms of symbolism. Research into the content of Olympic Games ceremonies reveals an exercise both in forging internal cohesion and in projecting soft power. Soft power is an increasingly valuable currency in a multipolar world and opening ceremonies are a prime soft power opportunity. The paper seeks to uncover the ways successive Olympics Games organising committees have sought to balance the competing communicational objectives of opening ceremonies through double coding. The author considers every ceremony from Moscow 1980 to London 2012 in this comparative semiotic analysis.     

Pronasale Position: An Appraisal of Two Recently Proposed Methods for Predicting Nasal Projection in Facial Reconstruction

This study examines two recently proposed methods for predicting nose projection from the skull, those developed by Stephan et al. (Am J Phys Anthropol 122, 2003, 240) and Rynn et al. (Forensic Sci Med Pathol 6, 2010, 20). A sample of 86 lateral head cephalograms of adult subjects from Central Europe was measured, and the actual and predicted dimensions were compared. Regarding nose projection (the anterior and vertical position of the pronasale), in general, the method of Rynn et al. (Forensic Sci Med Pathol 6, 2010, 20) was found to perform better and with less error variance than the method of Stephan et al. (Am J Phys Anthropol 122, 2003, 240), but the mean difference between the actual and predicted values did not exceed 2.2 mm (6.5% of the actual dimension) in most of the variables tested. The vertical dimensions of the nose were predictable with greater accuracy than the horizontal dimensions. Although the mean error of both methods is not great in practice and thus both methods could be considered to be “accurate,” the real variance of error should not be overlooked.     

FACE‐R—A 3D Database of 400 Living Individuals' Full Head CT‐ and Face Scans and Preliminary GMM Analysis for Craniofacial Reconstruction

In the past, improvements in craniofacial reconstructions (CFR) methodology languished due to the lack of adequate 3D databases that were sufficiently large and appropriate for 3‐dimensional shape statistics. In our study, we created the “FACE‐R” database from CT records and 3D surface scans of 400 clinical patients from Hungary, providing a significantly larger sample that was available before. The uniqueness of our database is linking of two data types that makes possible to investigate the bone and skin surface of the same individual, in upright position, thus eliminating many of the gravitational effects on the face during CT scanning. We performed a preliminary geometric morphometric (GMM) study using 3D data that produces a general idea of skull and face shape correlations. The vertical position of the tip of the (soft) nose for a skull and landmarks such as rhinion need to be taken into account. Likewise, the anterior nasal spine appears to exert some influence in this regard.     

Rugoscopy: Predominant Pattern,Uniqueness, and Stability Assessment in the Indian Goan Population

The palatine rugae possess unique characteristics that could be used when it is difficult to identify a dead person according to fingerprints or dental records. They are permanent and unique to each person. The rugae are surrounded by cheeks, lips, tongue, and buccal pad of fat; hence, they remain protected in trauma, incineration, or mass disasters. Their pattern of orientation is formed by the 12th to 14th week of gestation and remains stable throughout life. In this study, dental casts of 120 patients were analyzed for individual rugae characteristics and strength and subsequent individual codes were given. No two individuals were having exactly matching rugae codes. Dimensions of rugae pattern, incisive papilla, and midpalatal raphe were also noted. Rugae were reevaluated after one year to check its stability, which showed no significant difference. The coding system followed can be adopted as a good and simple technique to achieve electronic transfer of the records of the palatal rugae.