培育中药产业的国际竞争力

中医中药是中华民族的文化瑰宝,是数千年来中国人民防病、治病经验的结晶。随着中国加入WTO和中医药整体竞争优势的增强,一些国家对中医药的认识不断提高;同时,天然药物市场的壮大及其对中药类产品的接纳,我国中药产业的发展面临良好的机遇,但也面临着多方面的挑战。立足于中药行业的发展环境,着眼于中药行业的发展现状,剖析中药在国际市场竞争中存在的问题,并从建立中药现代研究开发体系,形成科技先导型中药产业,提高产业集中度和拓展中医药进入国际医药市场的渠道四个方面提出对策。     

物质主义与"传统价值观"对大学生心理健康的影响

在社会转型时期,西方传入的物质主义和中国传统价值观并存且冲突,它们对大学生的心理健康有着重要的影响。以云南四所高校的学生为研究对象,通过问卷调查了解物质主义与传统价值观对心理健康的影响分析,发现物质主义对当代大学生的心理健康有负面影响,而“传统价值观”对其有着正面的影响。     

论招录体制改革下的公安法学教育

公安院校招录体制改革出现的新情况,使原有公安法学教育模式已不能适应改制生的教育需求,针对改制生的特点,公安法学教育应科学、合理设置法律课程,突出法律意识培养、实战能力培养,创新教学方法和手段。     

解析赞比亚独立以来的酋长制度

酋长制度是非洲一项传统的政治制度。赞比亚独立后保留了酋长制度,通过对酋长的权力进行限制和改造,将酋长纳入了国家现代政治管理的框架中,并让酋长在特定范围内发挥他们的传统权威作用,为赞比亚现代社会发展服务。酋长制度在现代赞比亚得到保留,权力受到限制与削弱,同时在现代文明的影响下酋长的面貌出现了许多新变化。酋长制度在现代赞比亚得以保留并继续发挥作用,有深刻的历史和现实原因。在现代赞比亚,酋长依然是国家政治生活中的一支重要力量,掌管着本地的公共事务和土地管理分配权。酋长制度作为赞比亚传统文化的符号和象征对经济发展起一定的促进作用,更重要的是,酋长制度能够促进赞比亚民族国家的整合。因此,酋长制度作为传统因素能够为赞比亚的现代社会发展提供动力。     

世界粮食危机与中国粮食安全

世界粮食危机预示着高粮价时代的到来,各国开始重新审视自己的粮食安全。全球人口膨胀和消费需求不断增加打破了供需之间的平衡,而美国推行的生物燃料政策和美元霸权进一步加剧了这种不平衡。因此,美国要为世界粮食危机的加剧负主要责任,但美国同时也是世界粮食危机的最大受益者,国际粮价的高涨体现了美国粮食武器的威力。面对形势严重的世界粮食危机,中国应该保证自给自足,高度重视粮食安全,力保粮食主权,实现经济和社会的可持续发展。     

论中医药传统知识保护立法的基本原则

中医药传统知识不仅是我国的传统文化和医疗资源,也是具有巨大经济价值的商业资源,通过立法来保护中医药传统知识已经成为了中医药界的共识。在保护中医药传统知识立法的过程中,立法技术要遵循与现行法律有效衔接、制度创新、上位法与下位法相结合等基本原则;立法内容要遵循保护与利用相结合、分类确权、体现价值、国家利益、政府主导等基本原则;立法进程要遵循先易后难、协调配合等基本原则,从而实现对中医药传统知识保护法律制度的系统构建。     

A study of stranger rapists from the English high security hospitals

Abstract

Heterogeneity hinders our understanding of sexual violence; but does this problem extend to stranger rape and, if so, would the construction of homogeneous subtypes advance our understanding of this crime and aid criminal investigations and clinical practice? To answer these questions, 41 stranger rapists from the English high security hospitals were examined using version 3 of the Massachusetts Treatment Centre rapist typology (MTC:R3) and multidimensional scaling (MDS). The MTC:R3 suggested that sexual desire and opportunism were the primary motivations for these men, but that proportionately more psychopaths were violent and sadistic. In accordance with previous research, the men experienced problematic childhoods and displayed high rates of criminality and psychiatric morbidity in adulthood. However, MDS found that rapist histories and offence behaviours generally divide into sexual and violent themes. These results have important implications for theory, criminal investigations and clinical practice.     

Upgrading Traditional Technologies in Small-Scale Industry Clusters: Collaboration and Innovation Adoption in Indonesia.

There is by now sufficient evidence that small-scale industry clusters matter in developing countries. This article intends to contribute to the discussion on cluster transformation by focusing on innovation adoption in a roof tile cluster in Indonesia. Clustering allows small-scale enterprises to grow in 'riskable steps' by sharing the costs and risks through collaboration. Using data from longitudinal field surveys we find that technological change is not only a matter of comparing costs and benefits of technologies, but also a matter of access. Collaboration among leaders is crucial in innovation adoption when technological indivisibilities play a role. In our case study it appears that joint action should be viewed as a means to an end only; it was given up in favour of traditional hierarchies in the cluster as soon as possible.     

Foreign aid: An instrument for fighting communism?

In this paper, we test the argument that the sizeable reduction in aggregate aid levels in the 1990s was due to the end of the Cold War. We test two different models using a dynamic econometric specification on a panel of 17 donor countries, spanning the years 1970–97. We find aid to be positively related to military expenditures in the former Eastern Bloc during the Cold War, but not in the 1990s, suggesting that the reductions in aid disbursements are driven by the disappearance of an important motive for aid. We also study the effect on aid allocation, but here we do not find any robust effects of the end of the Cold War.