Digital technology uses for sustainable management of natural resources in multicultural contexts

This article questions the notion that the use of digital technologies guarantees better policy development for the sustainable management of natural resources, particularly in multicultural contexts. It is argued that input of digital technologies could positively or negatively affect the geopolitical projects and development strategies pursued by indigenous peoples.     

街道乡镇政府信任与居民的社区志愿精神——基于南京市若干城乡社区的实证调查

以南京市城乡若干社区的实证调查为研究个案,深入探讨居民对街道办(乡镇)政府的信任度对居民参与社区志愿服务的意愿与居民的社区志愿精神究竟有何种程度的影响。通过Logistic回归分析,研究结果发现居民对街道办(乡镇)政府的信任度与居民的社区志愿精神之间存在着密切的关联性。对于各级政府而言,本研究的政策含义是需要特别关注影响居民对街道办(乡镇)政府信任的各种居民背景因素,培育居民对街道办(乡镇)政府的信任感和亲切感,不断促进居民社区志愿精神的孕育与成长,从而凝聚成社区草根民主成长的动力和纽带。     

论我国社区矫正制度的确立——以《中华人民共和国刑法修正案（八）》为观照

社区矫正代表着当今行刑制度的发展趋势。刑法修正案（八）实行社区矫正的规定,为司法行政机关开展社区矫正工作提供了法律依据,为改革完善我国刑罚执行制度奠定了重要基础,标志着我国社区矫正法律制度的确立。     

Public opinion, party messages, and responsibility for the financial crisis in Britain

The political consequences of the crisis in world financial markets are only beginning to be understood. In this article, we take up one of these many repercussions by examining public beliefs of who’s to blame for a complex and unparalleled set of events. Analyses of survey data from Britain find that while most assign responsibility for the crisis to market actors, the likelihood of blaming governments, as opposed to blaming banks and investors, is greater among low sophisticates and Conservative Party identifiers. We further show how elite messages from competing political elites evolved over-time and were reflected in mass beliefs about the crisis. Results highlight the centrality of partisan cues and, in particular, of political sophistication in understanding the dynamics of responsibility attributions. Lastly, we estimate the consequences of blaming the government for the crisis for voter choice.     

Anforderungen an einen Europäischen Vollstreckungstitel für unbestrittene Forderungen

Eine Entscheidung, die im Ursprungsmitgliedstaat als Europ?ischer Vollstreckungstitel (EuVT) best?tigt wurde, wird in anderen Mitgliedstaaten anerkannt und vollstreckt, ohne dass es einer Vollstreckbarerkl?rung bedarf und ohne dass die Anerkennung angefochten werden kann. Nach der EuVTVO (Art 21 Abs 1) wird nur noch die Verletzung der Rechtskraft einer Vorentscheidung unter bestimmten Voraussetzungen als Grund für die Verweigerung der Vollstreckung normiert. Dagegen kann weder die Zustellung der zu vollstreckenden Entscheidung noch ein allf?lliger Versto? gegen den ordre public des Vollstreckungsstaats in diesem überprüft werden, wie § 21 Abs 2 EuVTVO unmissverst?ndlich klarstellt. Dass die Best?tigung als EuVT an den Schuldner zuzustellen w?re, wird in der EuVTVO nicht angeordnet. Art 20 Abs 1 lit c EuVTVO verlangt "gegebenenfalls" eine übersetzung der Best?tigung in die Amtssprache des Vollstreckungsmitgliedstaats. Berücksichtigt man, dass es nicht von den Sprachkenntnissen des Entscheidungsorgans im Vollstreckungsmitgliedstaat im Einzelfall abh?ngen darf, ob die in der EuVTVO verlangte übersetzung beizubringen ist oder nicht, ist es angebracht, streng vorzugehen, zumal die formalen Voraussetzungen an einen Exekutionsbewilligungsantrag nach der genannten Verordnung ohnedies auf das Mindestma? reduziert wurden. Demnach muss – sieht man von der W?hrungsbezeichnung, die aber nach dem Formular ohnedies nicht schriftlich angegeben werden müsste, ab – immer dann eine übersetzung angeschlossen werden, wenn die in der fremden Sprache ausgestellte Originalbest?tigung samt Unterschrift nach Art 20 EuVTVOW?rter dieser Fremdsprache enth?lt. Dieses Erfordernis müsste nur dann nicht erfüllt werden, wenn eine vom Titelgericht vollst?ndig in deutscher Sprache ausgefüllte Best?tigung vorl?ge.     

Potency Trends of Δ9‐THC and Other Cannabinoids in Confiscated Cannabis Preparations from 1993 to 2008*

Abstract: The University of Mississippi has a contract with the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) to carry out a variety of research activities dealing with cannabis, including the Potency Monitoring (PM) program, which provides analytical potency data on cannabis preparations confiscated in the United States. This report provides data on 46,211 samples seized and analyzed by gas chromatography‐flame ionization detection (GC‐FID) during 1993–2008. The data showed an upward trend in the mean Δ⁹‐tetrahydrocannabinol (Δ⁹‐THC) content of all confiscated cannabis preparations, which increased from 3.4% in 1993 to 8.8% in 2008. Hashish potencies did not increase consistently during this period; however, the mean yearly potency varied from 2.5–9.2% (1993–2003) to 12.0–29.3% (2004–2008). Hash oil potencies also varied considerably during this period (16.8 ± 16.3%). The increase in cannabis preparation potency is mainly due to the increase in the potency of nondomestic versus domestic samples.     

国际金融危机对日本经济的主要影响因素分析——基于MIMIC模型的硏究

2008年由美国次贷危机引发的"金融海啸"席卷全球,日本经济也受到了强烈的冲击。日本MIMIC模型的建立发现了影响日本"危机强度"的国内信贷/GDP和政府债务/GDP两个国内主要影响因素,对各种传染渠道进行检验后发现了这次引起日本金融危机的主要是贸易传染渠道,对上述国内外主要影响因素进行分析,日本政府为刺激经济的一系列扩张性政策,在金融市场中并没有转化为有效的投资和需求反而大大增加了政府债务。     

中华鳖TLR2部分序列的克隆及其组织表达差异分析

为探究中华鳖天然免疫的分子机制,针对TLR2(Toll-like receptor 2)保守区设计兼并引物,从中华鳖脾cDNA中扩增出了740bp的目标序列。测序和序列分析结果表明,该序列包含富含半胱氨酸型C端结构域、跨膜结构域和TIR结构域;与斑马鱼、鸡等脊椎动物相应的TLR2序列相似性为60.5%～74.4%。采用荧光定量PCR检测中华鳖感染嗜水气单胞菌后各组织TLR2mRNA表达的变化,结果显示,感染后第24小时,中华鳖脾和外周血TLR2mRNA相对表达水平升高,其中外周血中的增幅最显著,是对照组的8.57倍;中华鳖外周血经4μg/mL酵母聚糖刺激后,第2小时TLR2mRNA相对表达水平较高。首次获得了中华鳖TLR2部分cDNA序列,并分析了不同刺激物对中华鳖TLR2mRNA转录的影响。     

The Political Economy of Developing Country Antidumping Investigations against China

This article draws on industry-level data to analyze the political economy of the use of the antidumping statute by 10 less developed countries (LDCs) against China. Test results suggest that Chinese import competition is an important factor explaining the pattern of LDC antidumping initiation against China. Macroeconomic factors such as gross domestic product growth rate also play some role in influencing the pattern of LDC antidumping determination against China. Importantly, statistical analyses did not yield any evidence suggesting that China's membership in the World Trade Organization has disciplined developing countries' use of the antidumping policy. The paper conjectures that China's Most-Favored-Nation status under the World Trade Organization, the designation of China as a nonmarket economy in antidumping investigations until 2016, and the retaliatory incentives generated by the growing deflection of Chinese exports to developing country markets may have overwhelmed the institutional effect of the trade organization in shaping the pattern of LDC antidumping decision making toward China.     

REASSESSING THE BREADTH OF THE PROTECTIVE BENEFIT OF IMMIGRANT NEIGHBORHOODS: A MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS OF VIOLENCE RISK BY RACE,ETHNICITY, AND LABOR MARKET STRATIFICATION*

Researchers in the United States have increasingly recognized that immigration reduces crime, but it remains unresolved whether this applies to people of different racial–ethnic and economic backgrounds. By using the 2008–2012 area‐identified National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), we evaluate the effect of neighborhood immigrant concentration on individual violence risk across race/ethnicity and labor market stratification factors in areas with different histories of immigration. The results of our analysis reveal three key patterns. First, we find a consistent protective role of immigrant concentration that is not weakened by low education, low income, unemployment, or labor market competition. Therefore, even economically disadvantaged people enjoy the crime‐reduction benefit of immigration. Second, we find support for threshold models that predict a nonlinear, stronger protective role of immigrant concentration on violence at higher levels of immigrant concentration. The protective function of immigration also is higher in areas of longer histories of immigration. Third, compared with Blacks and Whites, Latinos receive a greater violence‐reduction benefit of immigrant concentration possibly because they live in closer proximity with immigrants and share common sociocultural features. Nevertheless, immigrant concentration yields a diminishing return in reducing Latino victimization as immigrants approach a near‐majority of neighborhood residents. The implications of these results are discussed.