由环境群体性事件看我国参与式民主建设

环境群体性事件是我国公众基于维护生态利益而采取的环保自力救济行为的典型表现,实际上环保自力救济行为也为我国参与式民主政治建设提供了新的视角,解决生态问题内在地包含于以生态为导向的社会主义政治文明建设的理论逻辑与实践进程之中。有序的社会参与是建设社会主义政治文明和社会主义生态文明的双向要求和逻辑结合点,因此,在环境管理中引入社会参与机制,既是参与式民主理念在环境事务中的应用和深化,也是建设中国特色社会主义民主政治的现实选择。     

苗族生态审美观中的宗教意识——以黔东南苗族为例

苗族原生态民族文化蕴含着原始的生态审美观。从生态美学的视角解读贵州黔东南苗族传统审美文化,可以发现许多原始宗教意识的痕迹,它们通过日常的服饰、歌舞、丧葬和节日庆典等形式表现出来。除了强调万物有灵外,原始宗教意识促成了主体之间同生共处和主体间性关系思想的形成,构成了苗族和谐生态审美观的价值核心。原始宗教对主体间性的支持,使得苗民与自然万物平等地交往、对话、沟通和融合,从而形成包括天与人、神与人和人与人的"和"文化。     

High turnout in the Low Countries: Partisan effects of the abolition of compulsory voting in the Netherlands

We use a quasi-experimental framework to test the conventional wisdom that left-of-center parties benefit from higher turnout by analyzing the partisan effects of the abolition of compulsory voting in the Netherlands. Fixed effects, multilevel, and matching models of party family vote shares in the Netherlands before and after the reform–and in reference to a control group of Belgian party families–show consistent evidence the voting reform led to an increase in the vote share of Dutch social democratic parties and a decrease in the vote share won by minor and extreme parties. We find some evidence that Christian democratic and liberal parties also benefited from the voting reform, but argue this finding is not causally related to the reform itself.     

黄河三角洲高效生态经济区高等教育发展问题与对策

通过调研黄河三角洲高效生态经济区高等教育现状,分析其存在的投入不足、优质教育资源短缺、专业层次结构不够合理三大问题,对该区域高等教育与区域发展的关系、在全省高等教育发展中的定位进行了探讨,提出了该区域规划期内的发展目标,设计了建设名校、调优专业、深化教学改革、打造优秀团队、推进产学研结合的发展路径,对政府支持高等教育的发展提出了优化布局、增加投入、政策支持的三条对策建议。     

Effect of History and Context on Forensic Pathologist Interpretation of Photographs of Patterned Injury of the Skin

In a previous study, a survey‐based analysis of pathologist diagnoses of patterned injury was performed. Subjects were provided with photographs of “classic” injuries and asked to diagnose the lesion in the absence of history or context. There was a relatively low diagnostic consensus among respondents. A second survey suggested that the disparate answers were not due to a strong belief in different diagnoses, but instead reflected how the respondents dealt with ambiguity. A third survey was created that asked participants to evaluate patterned injuries of the skin, but provided history and contextual information. The addition of history and contextual information increased consensus from a median of 80% to 98% on a per‐question basis. Confidence increased from a median of 56%–92%. These results demonstrate the importance of history and context in medical diagnosis of patterned injuries of the skin.     

可持续发展与法律价值的完善--中国法制可持续现代化的路径探究

随着人与自然的危机日益迫切,可持续发展理念应运而生.面对可持续发展的第一波冲击,现有法制必将做出回应性重构.为此,当前法制建设的关键,是把可持续性发展作为一切法律活动的出发点.中国法制的可持续现代化,必将把可持续发展的基本理念纳入到立法、司法和守法之中.     

“低碳”世园会对城市生态化建设的启示

发展“低碳经济”已成为世界各国的共识,倡导低碳消费也成为各国实现城市生态化的必然选择。2011年西安世园会倡导“绿色引领时尚”理念,这正是低碳视角下城市生态化的充分体现。揭示低碳经济的内涵、特点及对构建生态城市的意义,从园区规划建设入手全方位解读西安世园会。对构建生态文明。实现城市生态化有一定启示和借鉴意义。     

生态责任、草根行动与低碳社区的能力建设——英美案例及其启示

对英美构建低碳社区两个基层组织行动成功案例的分析表明,社区是实现环境变化和社会低碳发展的基础空间;社区基层组织自下而上的草根行动,依赖有限的权力、资源和能力,通过促使个人能力与所在社区的组织能力、基础设施能力与文化能力间的互动与整合,既能够改变行动者自身的行为,也能够促进社区低碳发展总体能力的提升和社区社会结构的改变....     

Estimation of age-at-death for adult males using the acetabulum, applied to four Western European populations

Methods to estimate adult age from observations of skeletal elements are not very accurate and motivate the development of better methods. In this article, we test recently published method based on the acetabulum and Bayesian inference, developed using Coimbra collection (Portugal). In this study, to evaluate its utility in other populations, this methodology was applied to 394 specimens from four different documented Western European collections. Four strategies of analysis to estimate age were outlined: (a) each series separately; (b) on Lisbon collection, taken as a reference Coimbra collection; (c) on Barcelona collection, taken as a reference both Portuguese collections; and (d) on London collection taken as reference the three Iberian collections combined. Results indicate that estimates are accurate (83-100%). As might be expected, the least accurate estimates were obtained when the most distant collection was used as a reference. Observations of the fused acetabulum can be used to make accurate estimates of age for adults of any age, with less accurate estimates when a more distant reference collection is used.     

Questions,propositions and assessing different levels of evidence: Forensic voice comparison in practice

This paper contributes to the ongoing discussion about the distinction between observations and propositions in forensic inference, with a specific focus on forensic voice comparison casework conducted in the UK. We outline both linguistic and legal issues which make the evaluation of voice evidence and the refinement of propositions problematic in practice, and illustrate these using case examples. We will argue that group-level observations from the offender sample will always be evidential and that the value of this evidence must be determined by the expert. As such, a proposal is made that experts should, at least conceptually, think of voice evidence as having two levels, both with evidential value: group-level and individual-level. The two rely on different underlying assumptions, and the group-level observations can be used to inform the individual-level propositions. However, for the sake of interpretability, it is probably preferable to present only one combined conclusion to the end user. We also wish to reiterate points made in previous work: in providing conclusions, the forensic expert must acknowledge that the value of the evidence is dependent on a number of assumptions (propositions and background information) and these assumptions must be made clear and explicit to the user.