International advocacy for contract-based public private partnerships through case studies: a re-interpretation of Southern Cross Station,Melbourne

In response to urban infrastructure deficits, international organisations, such as the United Nations, encourage governments to harness private finance. Contract-based Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) represent one policy option enabling infrastructure to be privately financed and constructed, and for service provision to occur. With PPPs also a contested policy option, private sector policy intermediaries advocate for their adoption, including through the selective promotion of case studies. In recognition that favourable case study narratives may leach out local context, a multi-dimensional analytical framework is introduced distinguishing between de-institutionalised, aspatial, non-historical, uncritical and non-futuristic perspectives. Recently the private sector-led World Economic Forum published ‘Harnessing Public-Private Cooperation to Deliver the New Urban Agenda’, which reported upon the PPP-led development of Spencer Street (or Southern Cross) Station in Melbourne, Australia. In deploying the framework, this paper concludes that case study narratives can be reductionist and locally detached in various ways. The role of policy intermediaries in the transfer of policy information therefore requires carefully interpretation, not least because of the malleable use of case studies to reveal desired conclusions.     

Prediction and preliminary standardization of fire debris constituents with the advanced distillation curve method

The recent National Academy of Sciences report on forensic sciences states that the study of fire patterns and debris in arson fires is in need of additional work and eventual standardization. We discuss a recently introduced method that can provide predicted evaporation patterns for ignitable liquids as a function of temperature. The method is a complex fluid analysis protocol, the advanced distillation curve approach, featuring a composition explicit data channel for each distillate fraction (for qualitative, quantitative, and trace analysis), low uncertainty temperature measurements that are thermodynamic state points that can be modeled with an equation of state, consistency with a century of historical data, and an assessment of the energy content of each distillate fraction. We discuss the application of the method to kerosenes and gasolines and outline how expansion of the scope of fluids to other ignitable liquids can benefit the criminalist in the analysis of fire debris for arson.     

巴马香猪超前免疫高致病性猪繁殖与呼吸综合征弱毒疫苗的免疫效果评价

为了评价高致病性猪繁殖与呼吸综合征弱毒疫苗(JXA1-R)对仔猪超前免疫的免疫效果及安全性,给3头巴马香猪超前免疫弱毒疫苗JXA1-R 1头份/头,以3头同窝仔猪为对照组,接种等量疫苗稀释液,观察疫苗免疫后的临床表现,测定疫苗免疫后的抗体动态变化及排毒情况;免疫后第35天,采用高致病性猪繁殖与呼吸综合征病毒(JXA1)攻毒,测定攻毒后的抗体变化、排毒情况及免疫保护作用。结果表明,巴马香猪超前免疫后第14天发生抗体阳转,鼻拭子样品、肛门拭子样品和血清样品中均检测到病毒核酸,同居的阴性对照组中有1头仔猪发生抗体阳转,提示该疫苗存在排毒现象。攻毒前免疫组和对照组的抗体阳性率分别为3/3和1/3;攻毒后免疫组和对照组的免疫保护率分别为3/3和1/3,表明该疫苗具有一定的免疫保护作用,但初生巴马香猪超前免疫后表现生长缓慢,被毛粗乱,提示该疫苗对仔猪具有一定的毒力,不适合用作超前免疫。     

论全球化视野下中国特色社会主义文化的发展取向

全球化因素及未来世界文化发展的总趋势影响着中国先进文化的基本取向。中国应立足国情,巩固和发展本土优秀文化,增强中国特色社会主义文化的民族性;勇于开拓,促进中国文化综合创新,增强中国特色社会主义文化的科学性;解放思想,融合吸收世界文化精华,增强中国特色社会主义文化的时代性;放眼世界,积极推动中国文化全球化,增强中国特色社会主义文化的世界性,使中国先进文化始终引领我们民族向前进。     

论《抗旱条例》的完善——以中共中央、国务院《关于加快水利改革发展的决定》为指引

现行《抗旱条例》存在欠缺,应以中共中央国务院《关于加快水利改革发展的决定》的相关理念及政策措施为指引,于《抗旱条例》中吸收"利益导向理念"与"风险管理理念",为防旱抗旱管理体制与国家旱情监测系统的完善提供具体路径,并补充防旱抗旱财政预算保障制度、特殊地区防旱抗旱援助制度及水权(利益)协调与补偿制度等规范内容。     

Driving growth: Regulatory reform and expressways in Indonesia

This article uses the case study of Indonesian governments' attempts to construct a 1,000 kilometer toll road through the densest parts of Java to shed light on how governments with a checkered past of enforcing contracts and protecting private property rights go about establishing the requisite regulatory framework to attract private investment for infrastructure. While regulatory reform has taken place in Indonesia, vested interests and power will keep the country's political economy from taking on World Bank-promoted best practice characteristics. Programs that promote private sector participation in infrastructure need to be reconsidered where the main ingredients for these programs' success exist in small measures.     

REACHING CONSENSUS TO ASIA-PACIFIC PROSPERITY

正Is an Asian version of the EU possible?With China’s help,it just may be In the past few decades, Asia has been the region with the world’s most dynamic and fastest growing economic development Since the global financial crisis broke out in2008, Asia has once again become an important engine driving global economic recovery and growth.During this amazing period of growth the contribution of the Chinese economy has been obvious. The rapid growth of the Chinese economy has benefited from the     

中国共产党始终是中国先进文化前进方向的忠实代表

党的性质和任务决定了中国共产党必须代表中国先进文化的前进方向;党的80年历史充分证明中国共产党始终代表着中国先进文化的前进方向;要代表先进文化的前进方向,必须不断推进有中国特色社会主义文化建设.     

党的先进性形象在舆论传播中的确立与维护

重视党的先进性形象的舆论传播作用，是加强党的先进性建设的需要。无论过去还是现在，中国共产党始终是勇于创新、为民造福、无私奉献、拒腐防变的时代尖兵。借助传媒手段建构党的先进性形象，对加强党的自身建设、实现党的奋斗目标，具有重大而深远的意义。当前，最基本的着力点是着眼加强党的先进性建设，建立党的先进性形象传播的长效机制。     

高校工作中永葆共产党员先进性的理论思考

高等教育工作是我们党全局工作的重要组成部分。在新世纪新阶段,在高等院校工作的广大党员干部保持先进性,用“三个代表”重要思想统领高等教育工作,是高等教育在我国社会经济发展中的重要地位、作用所决定的,是教育事业不断开创新局面的必然要求,是实现我国民族伟大复兴的客观需要。