The Linux FAT32 allocator and file creation order reconstruction

The allocation algorithm of the Linux FAT32 file system driver positions files on disk in such a way that their relative positions reveal information on the order in which these files have been created. This provides an opportunity to enrich information from (carved) file fragments with time information, even when such file fragments lack the file system metadata in which time-related information is usually to be found.Through source code analysis and experiments the behaviour of the Linux FAT allocator is examined. How an understanding of this allocator can be applied in practice is demonstrated with a case study involving a TomTom GPS car navigation device. In this case, time information played a crucial role. Large amounts of location records could be carved from this device's flash storage, yielding insight into the locations the device has visited—yet the carved records themselves offered no information on when the device had been at the locations. Still, bounds on the records' time of creation could be inferred when making use of filesystem timestamps related to neighbouring on-disk positions.Finally, we perform experiments which contrast the Linux behaviour with that of Windows 7. We show that the latter differs subtly, breaking the strong relation between creation order and position.     

革命政治文化传播与清末民初政局

清末社会出现了许多重要的政治群体,以孙中山为首的中国同盟会及其他进步社团,吸收了西方民主共和的新思想,形成了反封、排满、批判传统文化的革命政治文化,并利用舆论工具迅速传播,发挥了变革政治体系的功能和作用,对清末民初政局有着深刻的影响。     

中国文化在经济全球化时代的定位

在经济全球化时代 ,中国文化必须找准自己在世界大格局中的定位。首先应当看到中国文化有巨大的生命活力 ,它绵延五千年不断发展演变。振兴中华 ,最重要的是弘扬和培育民族精神 ,焕发民族的自尊心、自信心和自豪感。对中国文化要进行反思 ,确立新的文化取向。要重视民族文化的科学含量 ,在学习先进文化的同时 ,努力创新 ,在科学技术上作出新的贡献。     

从苗族古歌看苗族传统林业知识

有“苗族古代社会生活的百科全书”之称的《苗族古歌》综合反映了苗族古代社会的情况。传统林业思想是其科技文化中的一个重要方面。本文以古歌原文为依据 ,论述了它所反映的制种、整地、播种、移栽、砍伐、使用等的全过程。展现了苗族为丰富祖国林业文化所做出的贡献。     

冲突与融合:中国少数民族高等教育发展的思考

新中国成立以来 ,我国少数民族高等教育取得了很大进展 ,但由于历史、地理、经济、文化观念等原因 ,在新形势下中国少数民族高等教育仍显得相当落后 ,出现了一些值得关注的问题。本文针对少数民族高等教育中的问题 ,分析了造成这些问题的文化方面的原因 ,并提出了对策建议。     

贵州文化浅论

文章对贵州文化的定义、外延、内涵、特征文化价值等作了简要的论述,并认为贵州文化、贵州文化资源在发展贵州就、发展贵州文化产业、文化商品方面,在社会、经济、文化三者协调发展方面,具有无比的文化价值和广阔的前景。     

城市化视野下的少数民族传统文化与民族意识--以广西百色市壮族为例

城市化对我国少数民族传统文化和民族意识的发展的影响主要有两种可能一是少数民族文化与汉族文化之间的差异缩小,少数民族传统文化逐渐消失,民族意识弱化;二是少数民族传统文化继续发展,民族意识增强.无论怎样的发展趋势,都将影响到我国民族关系的发展走向.     

执政党科学执政的探究

中国共产党能不能科学执政,关系到党在建设中国特色社会主义的历史进程中的地位和作用,关系到建设中国特色社会主义事业兴衰成败,关系到中华民族前途命运,关系党和国家的长治久安。这已不再是危言耸听,这已成为中国共产党乃至世界上一切政党必须要认真总结的执政规律。     

从庞德意象派诗歌看中西方文化交融

庞德作为美国意象主义诗歌的公认领袖,极大地推动了20世纪英美诗歌的发展。然而庞德具有“中国文化情结”,他的诗歌从诗学原则,诗歌语言来说都受到中国古代诗歌的影响,可以说庞德借鉴并创新了中国古典诗歌的表现形式。“五四”运动后诞生的中国现代诗歌又深深受到意象派的影响,将新文化运动的主帅胡适与庞德意象派诗歌进行比较可以清楚地揭示这一点。可以说庞德及其所代表的意象派诗歌架起了中西方文化交融的桥梁。中西文化的不断交流碰撞对整个人类文明产生了深远的影响,必将呈现中西文化发展一体化的趋势。     

‘Sometimes fear gets in all your bones’: towards understanding the complexities of risk in development work

ABSTRACT

In the context of increasing risk for aid workers, a growing body of scholarship is focused on risk management in contexts of humanitarian assistance and development work. Much less attention, however, has been given to how staff and volunteers experience such risks. This paper adopts a feminist geographical approach to explore how development workers make meaning of risk in specific contexts. Adopting a qualitative approach, it draws upon 14 semi-structured in-depth interviews with international (7) and local (7) staff of an international educational and sporting non-governmental organisation (NGO) in Afghanistan. After exploring differences between local and foreign staff perceptions of risk, it also offers a gendered analysis of risk for women development workers in Afghanistan. In so doing, this paper contributes to the growing body of literature in ‘Aidland’ studies by revealing the complex understandings of risk and fear by both foreign and local staff in the same geographical and organisational context. For NGOs seeking to make life-saving decisions based on the calculation of risk, this paper evidences the need to also create space for the voices of local and foreign staff whose experiences of risk will be highly relational, embodied, gendered and context specific.