Process and Social Formation: Petty Commodity Producers in Zinder,Niger

This case study employed a qualitative methodology to examine gender relations in urban domestic water supply under duolocality where heterogeneous spouses live in separate residences. It is based on the experiences of the Ga of Ghana at the present time (2011–present), with James Town as the study area. Results show that gender relations in duolocal water supply is mediated by several factors, including women's economic positioning and time reported to sleep at husbands' homes, age and authority structure, proximity of males and females, distance to water points, and availability of public showers and sachet water. There is significant participation of duolocal men in household water provision, aided by short distances to water points and ready access to showers and pure water. Women renegotiate their subordinate position in domestic water provision by using their economic clout as leverage, manipulating their physical presence at men's residences, including late arrival to sleep but early departure, and capitalising on opportunities presented by new social dynamics to form indirect alliances with men. The study provides additional contribution to understanding gender discourse in urban water supply as it uncovers previously under-explored social processes in the linkages between residential patterns and gender relations in resource access and use.     

From walls to membranes: fortress polis and the governance of urban public space in 21st century Britain

Drawing on the work of Paul Virilio, this paper addresses changes in the architectural and legal topography of the urban landscape through an examination of regulatory patterns, which increasingly intensify governance through, and as, ‘control’. Such regulation is ambivalent in that it cuts across many traditionally discrete regimes of power melding them into new forms with new effects; as a consequence it is no longer sufficient to think in terms of such distinctions as private/public, civil/criminal, and so on. This paper argues that a concern with patterns of enclosure and privatisation in our urban centres must now be placed within the context of changes in architectural practice and technology, which the authors term ‘open architecture’, and the embedding of governance through partnership, which give particular emphasis to the use of dematerialised and diffused modes of control. The paper utilises Virilio’s history and image of the fortress, which he tracks from a material form to a dematerialised form, to envisage these developments and to provide the foundation for an understanding of the importance of the development of practices of surveillance into, what the authors term, ‘total registration’ as a feature and function of governance through ‘control’.

Diary of an astronaut: examination of the remains of the late Israeli astronaut Colonel Ilan Ramon's Crew Notebook recovered after the loss of NASA's space shuttle Columbia

Two months after the fatal re-entering into the Earth's atmosphere of Columbia flight STS-107, the remains of Israeli astronaut Colonel Ilan Ramon's Crew Notebook were found strewn in a field in San Augustine County, TX. The random pile of papers was found to have survived the calamity of the Shuttle's disintegration remarkably well. Most of the papers recovered were torn and/or washed out to varying degrees but only mildly charred around the edges. The sheets of paper could be categorized into four groups: Group I: eight sides of paper written while in space in black ink and in pencil--Ramon's personal diary; the writing on these eight sides of paper survived well and is only missing where the pages were torn. Small fragments found in the field were physically matched to holes in the pages thus locating their original positions in the text. Group II: six sides of technical preparation notes written by Ramon before the mission. The writing on these pages was washed out entirely, but much of it was visualized using infrared luminescence. Group III: eight sides of personal notes prepared by Ramon before the mission written in blue ink. The writing on these pages was barely visible to the naked eye and not visualized by infrared luminescence, but was made largely legible by digital enhancement imaging. Group IV: a few sides of printed technical information. These pages were mostly intact and were not examined at length as they contained standard printed material. After completion of examinations at the Questioned Document Laboratory of the Israel Police, the diary was transferred to the Paper Conservation Department of the Israel Museum for preservation and strengthening treatments.     

青少年网络犯罪的原因和对策

青少年网络犯罪原因包括虚拟空间中道德和法律观念的异化与失衡,网络立法具有滞后性和不完善性,不规范的网络环境导致青少年社会化不足,网络亚文化诱发青少年网络心理障碍和青少年犯罪心理的形成等方面。预防青少年网络犯罪的措施包括加强对网络的监管力度,处理好网络法律与网络技术监控的关系,加强防控网络犯罪的国际合作等方面。     

虚拟机技术在数据恢复实训课程中的应用

首先介绍虚拟机技术的原理及特点,然后基于作者对《数据恢复技术》课程实践教学经验的积累,介绍了利用虚拟机模拟硬盘故障及相应故障恢复的过程和方法。     

从中国大城市基层政府管理体制改革看城市管理及社会治理(下)——以北京市街道办事处管理体制改革为例

(二)街道管理体制改革、机构设置及组织图1.关于街道新组织图的几个新机构的职能及组织关系的说明(见图2)(1)地区党建联席会(协会)。非常设机构,由辖区各单位负责社区党建的副书记组成。其职能是:制定辖区单位党组织和党员参加社区建设的计划,各单位分工并承担相应任务,动员各单位党组织对社区建设提供各种资源支持,并组织各单位党组织交流社区党建经验。市、区党委应制定“社区党建联席会(协会)条例,”以明确该组织的性质、职责、权利及行为规范。(2)街道地区管理委员会。“报告”指出,地区管理委员会是街道主持的辖区的行政事务组织协调机…     

虚拟现实技术及其在公安教育中的应用

虚拟现实是计算机科学和信息科学的交叉和融合,被认为是21世纪信息技术的代表。虚拟现实技术的发展给公安教育的超常规发展提供了一个机遇,将在很大程度上改变公安教育的面貌,促进公安工作。     

A Carbon Dioxide Fatality from Dry Ice

Abstract:  This report documents a rare case of carbon dioxide intoxication in a young healthy male. The deceased hid in a small plastic container, size 1.5 × 1 × 1 m, and within 5 min he was located suffering convulsions and was reported as dead within minutes. Scene investigation revealed dry ice in the container. Autopsy findings were unremarkable. The probable cause of the convulsions was carbon dioxide intoxication due to both the dry ice sublimation and the small confined space in which he was hiding. This report emphasizes the significance of scene investigation in establishing the cause of the death.     

Forensic Imaging‐Guided Recovery of Nuclear DNA from the Spinal Cord*,†

Abstract: Our objective is to document the recovery of DNA from the spinal cord or surrounding dura mater in 11 cases of severely burned human remains. Radiographs established that portions of charred tissue contained spine segments. Multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) revealed that each spine specimen contained an intact spinal cord remnant. A full DNA profile was obtained from seven specimens using spinal cord dura mater in six specimens and spinal cord medulla in one specimen. A partial profile was obtained from four specimens (spinal cord dura mater, 2; spinal cord medulla, 2). Bone and muscle surrounding the spinal cord appear to insulate nucleic acid containing tissue from critical thermal degradation. The spinal cord, which is easily identified by MDCT examination of remains and easily recovered at the postmortem examination, can be a source of DNA with extraction yields comparable with other tissue sources. Specimens of dura mater are preferable as processing time is faster than bone.     

论大数据智能化侦查应用的特点及其构建

数据极大化和算法智能化是大数据侦查应用的基础和手段,人是大数据在侦查应用中的关键因素.从大数据侦查模式的宏观构建、微观算法目标和智能更新方式的设计到相关的行规、法规的建设等方面都需结合这两个特点展开研发和应用.通过阐述大数据智能化应用在预审业务及其人才培养的双重困境,提出在预审业务及其人才培养中开展大数据智能化侦查应用...