Reading the spirits in Julia Alvarez’s A Wedding in Haiti

Dominican writer Julia Alvarez’s 2012 memoir, A Wedding in Haiti: The Story of a Friendship, documents her first-time travel from the Dominican Republic to Haiti over land in order to attend the wedding of Piti, a young Haitian man who had worked for her and her husband for a number of years. She deploys the literary non-fiction genre of memoir, a genre that is relatively new to her, to explore both the Dominican (collective) relationship with Haiti and her individual relationship with both Haiti and its people centering on her connection to Piti and his family. Drawing on Vodou, a nature religion that strives for balance, this article explores Alvarez’s memoir through several lwa. I argue that the lwa are deployed and manifest as mechanisms from within Vodou epistemology to restore balance to a world relationship between Haiti and the DR that reverberates in the metaphysical world. Examinations of this unequal relationship between the two nations are even more prescient contemporarily considering the recent decision by the Dominican Constitutional Court to strip children of “irregular” migrants born in the DR after 1929 of their Dominican citizenship.     

A Thorny Issue

正Recurring credit crunches in the banking system has exposed problems that require institutional reform China’s banking system suffered another credit crunch at the end of 2013.On December 19,trading in the high-value payment system was extended by an extra half an hour,followed by rumors of breaches of contract among banks.Although relevant departments clarified the rumors,interbank     

A Weaker Union

正True love,freedom of choice and even wealth drive recent surge in divorce rate Wu Minqiang,70,has devoted a significant part of his life to providing free marriage counseling for couples considering a divorce.     

What Mr. Spock told the earthlings: the aims of political philosophy,action-guidingness and fact-dependency

Abstract

Recently, G. A. Cohen introduced an influential distinction between fact-sensitive and fact-insensitive principles arguing that all basic normative principles are of the latter type. David Miller rejects this claim submitting that the validity of basic normative political principles depends on some general propositions about human nature and societies; for example, that men’s generosity is ‘confined’ and that nature has made ‘scanty provision’ for his wants. Miller ties this view of the nature of basic political principles to the view that political philosophy ought to guide people engaged in real-world politics and claims plausibly that in order to fulfil this purpose, political philosophy must be informed by social science. I argue that Miller neither succeeds in showing that basic principles can be fact-sensitive, nor establishes any connection between the Cohen-Miller disagreement on fact-sensitivity, on the one hand, and the nature and aims of political philosophy, on the other hand.     

Progressive Taxation: Applying Hayek's Constraint

That progressive taxation might offset a disproportionate burden of indirect taxes upon low income households sits at the heart of a suggestion from Friedrich Hayek. This concerns the manner in which a degree of progression might be accommodated and constrained to preclude arbitrary tax hikes upon minority income groups. While Hayek's proposal is permissive of socialist aims, it looks for efficiency in resource usage as reflected in the aspiration ‘that each should feel that in the aggregate all the collective goods which are applied to him are worth at least as much as the contribution he is required to make’.     

浅析《欲望号街车》在冷战时期的去同性恋化

美国冷战时期的文化意识形态以反共产主义和反同性恋为主导,导致许多作家不得不对当时的文化审查做出不同程度的妥协。而百老汇剧作家田纳西.威廉姆斯便是其中之一。由于他本人同性恋的身份,他的作品更是备受关注。主要通过对比普利策获奖作品之一的《欲望号街车》的先后两个版本,提出他的创作并非一开始便回避同性恋主题,其作品的同性恋化其实是一个历史的渐进过程。     

我国取保候审措施存在的问题及其对策

我国刑事诉讼法规定的非羁押强制措施之一取保候审，它的实施应有其良好的法律效果和社会效果。但实践中的操作程序不完善和缺乏监督等问题，使取保候审的作用得不到应有的发挥。对取保候审中存在的问题，应根据实际情况予以具体分析对待。     

Determination of salvinorin A and salvinorin B in Salvia divinorum-related products circulated in Japan

Two major salvinorins, salvinorin A (SalA) and salvinorin B (SalB), in three Salvia divinorum dried leaf products and nine of its “concentrated extract” products circulated in Japan were determined. These ingredients were extracted twice with acetonitrile and decolored with graphite carbon powder. SalA and SalB were confirmed by liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry in product ion scan mode, and quantified by high-performance liquid chromatography with UV detection (for SalA) and by mass spectrometry in single ion monitoring mode (for SalB). The SalA/SalB contents (μg/mg) were in the range of 3.2–5.0/0.10–0.17 in the dried leaf products and 4.1–38.9/0.26–2.42 in the “concentrated extract” products. These findings would be useful for analysis of S. divinorum-related products circulated in the drug market.     

A型塞内卡病毒VP2蛋白间接ELISA检测方法的建立

为建立一种检测塞内卡病毒VP2蛋白的间接ELISA方法,本试验将A型塞内卡病毒(SVA)VP2蛋白作为抗原包被酶标板,采用棋盘式方法优化反应的最佳血清稀释度和抗原包被量,同时对间接ELISA方法的其他反应条件进行了筛选。结果显示,VP2蛋白包被量为2μg/m L(1∶1000稀释);用2%BSA封闭液稀释标准阳性血清为1∶20;二抗做1∶5000稀释;TMB底物显色液室温避光显色反应10 min。特异性试验结果显示,同FMDV、PRRSV、CSFV、PRV和APP阳性血清均无交叉反应。此方法对塞内卡病毒阳性血清的敏感性为1∶160。批间、批内重复性试验结果的变异系数均小于10%。对200份猪血清样本分别进行间接荧光抗体免疫方法和间接ELISA方法的检测,结果符合率为95.5%。上述结果表明,该方法具有良好的特异性、敏感性和重复性,可用于塞内卡病毒血清抗体检测和流行病学调查。     

家兔死后心肌酰胺A带的傅里叶变换红外光谱图像分析

目的 应用傅里叶变换红外光谱成像系统研究家兔心肌酰胺A带变化与死亡时间的关系.方法 将32只家兔处死后取出心脏,20℃保存,于48h内不同时间点取样并制作切片.用傅里叶变换红外光谱成像系统绘制酰胺A带图像,分析研究死后酰胺A带阳性与阴性面积比的变化规律. 结果 48h内随死亡时间(x)的延长,酰胺A带的阳性与阴性面积比...