The Genealogy of Colonial Plunder and Erasure – Israel's Control over Palestinian Archives

The essay discusses one characteristic of colonial archives – how the ruling state plunders/loots the colonized’ archives and treasures and controls them in its colonial archives - erasing them from the public sphere by repressive means, censors and restricts their exposure and use, alters their original identity, regulates their contents and subjugates them to colonizer’s laws, rules and terminology. It focuses on two archives plundered by Israel in Beirut in 1980s: the Palestine Research Center and archive of Palestinian films. The essay continues my earlier research on Palestinian visual (and other) archives taken as booty or looted by pre-state Jewish military organizations and soldiers or civilians in the first half of the twentieth century, especially during the Nakba (the Palestinian catastrophe, 1948), and later by Israel’s military bodies. It analyzes the plunder itself while focusing on the power relations reflected toward the hybrid gazes of the colonizer and the colonized and discusses colonial features of military archives holding and controlling seized materials. While colonial museums have been largely discussed, and also archives holding colonial history, this is one of the first essays to discuss features of colonial archives holding plundered archives/material.     

The impact of anti-democratic actions on a country’s international image,as projected in the foreign press and on social media: The case of Israel

The notion of soft power suggests that actions that contradict international standards will harm a country’s international image. The current study focuses on the impact of anti-democratic action taken by Israel during 2015 on its international image, as projected in the foreign press (N = 4,425 articles) and on social media (N = 23,797 tweets). The findings indicate that anti-democratic actions did not have an immediate or long-term effect on the tone of coverage toward Israel, while other factors, such as the circumstances and the topics discussed, did influence the tone of coverage.     

Features of objectified body consciousness and sociocultural perspectives as predictors of eating and body image disturbances among young women and men in China

Body surveillance and body shame are features of objectified body consciousness that have utility in predicting body image and eating disturbances but evidence is based largely on samples in developed Western nations and it is not clear whether these factors predict disturbances independent of conceptually-related factors emphasized in alternate sociocultural accounts. To address these issues, we assessed the impact of body surveillance and body shame as well as features of other sociocultural models (i.e. perceived appearance pressure, appearance comparisons, general negative affect) on disordered eating, fatness concerns, and body dissatisfaction among young Chinese adults. University-age women (n = 466) and men (n = 230) from Chongqing, China completed validated self-report measures of demographics and the above constructs. For women, objectified body consciousness measures explained significant variance in each measure of disturbances, beyond effects of other factors; body surveillance had a unique impact in each prediction model. For men, facets of objectified body consciousness also combined for unique variance across prediction models, though body shame was the more prominent unique influence. Findings highlight the potential role of individual differences in body surveillance and body shame as influences on eating and body image of young women and men within a Chinese context.     

试论监狱人民警察文化的基本构成

监狱人民警察,在本质上是人类创造的一种社会政治文化现象。人类社会创设了监狱警察现象．就相伴而产生了监狱警察文化。一部监狱警察的发展史,也就是监狱警察文化的发展史。从监狱警察文化的特质和实践看,监狱人民警察文化的基本构成可概括为：监狱警察精神、监狱警察职业道德、监狱警察专业知识和专业技能、监狱警察形象、监狱警察文艺等。     

数字分色技术在公安图像处理中的应用

传统分色照相是利用色光及滤色镜,改变被摄客体在某一选定色光波段的反射光亮度分布,以加强或减弱被摄客体颜色之间差别的一种专门摄影技术。使用数字图象处理软件中的数字分色技术,同样可以有效处理不同颜色之间的亮度反差,与传统方法相比,可选色光波段多,操作方便,分色效果好于传统分色照相技术,在一定程度上可以取代传统分色技术。     

浅析犯罪现场重建与犯罪心理画像的整合

犯罪现场重建技术与犯罪心理画像技术发展迅速。其中,犯罪现场重建是对犯罪客观过程的整体构建,犯罪心理画像则可以看做对犯罪行为人主观精神状态及其个体特征的描述和再现。犯罪现场重建和犯罪心理画像各具优劣,目前不能相互替代,因此,在实际的侦查过程中必须将两者有机整合才能确保准确地刻画犯罪行为特征、动机特征和犯罪者的人身特征,从而为侦查活动服务。     

抓好辅导员队伍建设做好学生管理工作

本文从负责高校学生管理领导者的角度结合工作实际认真感知以胡锦涛总书记为核心的新一代中央领导集体对教师、教育工作者的亲切关怀和殷切期望,并通过对这种感知的最佳践行者孟二东的榜样确立,对新的历史条件下的高校辅导员的工作重要性提出了自己的见解。     

增信措施担保化的反思与重构——基于我国司法裁判的实证研究

我国司法实践中关于差额补足、流动性支持等增信措施有保证合同说、无名合同说、债务加入说和对赌协议说四种学说构造。从《民法典担保制度解释》第36条的上下文看,该条文的内容有可能导致司法实践中将增信措施解释为保证合同。但增信措施的运用领域复杂多样,应根据其交易结构、交易习惯和行为目的进行意思表示解释。在结构化金融和信托管理计划中使用增信措施,并不存在被担保的主债权,不需要按照保证合同解释。资产管理业务中的增信措施起到合法的保底作用,也不宜解释为保证合同。即使在一般的金融交易领域,增信措施有避免担保被计入企业财务报告、上市公司信息披露、保证合同各项限制性规则等意义,于此应尊重当事人的意思自治,将增信措施解释为独立的无名合同。如果增信措施的保证意思表示明显,则当然要适用保证的规则。如果增信措施被解释为无名合同而非保证,也可以考虑类推适用保证合同的规则,包括保证合同主体资格的限制、保证合同的书面形式、公司对外担保的决议,以及保证中的债权转让或债务人变更的后果等规则。但是,关于保证的从属性、保证责任范围、一般保证推定、保证期间、保证人援引主债务人抗辩事由等规则,不宜类推适用。     

A framework for the multimodal analysis of online news galleries: What makes a “good” picture gallery?

The development of digital technology in recent years has led to a revolution in news production and dissemination. In terms of production, we have witnessed a fundamental shift towards visual story-telling. Images dominate the verbal story space and have the potential to become the story themselves. Beyond this, they are also creating unique spaces for themselves (e.g. the online news gallery), with new multimodal genres posing challenges for practitioners and analysts alike. The potential effects of such fundamental shifts on the professional news story-telling practices of the legacy news media provide a rich research opportunity for understanding both how and whether news organisations fulfil their mandate of making sense of the plethora of information that is now available. In this paper, we concern ourselves with one particular innovation in visual news reporting – the online news gallery, or picture gallery in journalism terms. We report on a qualitative analysis of 35 galleries from 12 English-language newspapers with online presence from Europe, North America, Australia and Asia, and interrogate the choices made by institutions in composing this particular type of multimodal “text”, as it is situated in a professional, news story-telling context. In doing so, we explore how a systemic-functional semiotic approach to multimodal news discourse may help us to access the meaning potential of this emerging genre as a vehicle for multimodal digital news reporting, present a framework for the multimodal analysis of online news galleries and consider its implications for the education of media practitioners.     

Photographic Analyses Using Skin Detail of the Hand: A Methodology and Evaluation,

Skin features have been employed by law enforcement agencies for suspect and victim identification. Comparisons of hand have arisen in casework where images have been submitted where a face was not present but a hand was visible. This research utilizes a collection of 128 hands from employees of the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory to examine the frequency and distribution of skin detail on the dorsal surface of the hand. To assess the location of features, the hand was segmented into 14 regions using readily discernible anatomical landmarks. Overall, 2618 pigmented lesions and 92 scars or injuries were documented. When comparing the regions with one another, Regions 1–10 had fewer pigmented lesions than Regions 11–14. There was no pattern to the distribution of scars throughout the regions. The findings presented a foundation for one possible method that may differentiate hands based on the frequency and distribution of such features.