WHEN PARENTS CAN CHOOSE TO HAVE THE “PERFECT” CHILD: WHY FERTILITY CLINICS SHOULD BE REQUIRED TO REPORT PREIMPLANTATION GENETIC DIAGNOSIS DATA

Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD) is a procedure used to screen embryos for certain genetic conditions before implantation via in vitro fertilization (IVF) so the desired embryos can be chosen for implantation. The procedure was originally used to prevent the birth of children with deadly genetic disorders, but it is now used for more controversial reasons, such as to select for sex. Limited information is available regarding how PGD is used in the United States and there are many ethical concerns surrounding the practice of PGD, most notably that it could lead to the creation of designer babies and eugenic practices. This Note proposes amending a federal act to require fertility clinics to report PGD data through an existing web‐based system. This data can then be used by policymakers to federally regulate PGD practices.     

欺诈性抚养的损害赔偿及其原权利探究

欺诈性抚养的实质涉及受欺诈方权利受到侵害及其法律保护问题,受害人若一并提出损害赔偿请求,法官应给予支持。损害赔偿不仅包括财产权,还应包括人身权,即人格权中的知情权、亲情权、生育权和身份权中的亲权。     

论刑侦发展与刑侦支撑体系建设

刑侦工作作为抗衡、揭露、制裁刑事犯罪的国家"利器",面临在现有打击能力下发展创新的重大课题。研究刑侦发展离不开研究刑侦支撑体系建设,刑侦工作实际上是由主体支撑、信息支撑、保障支撑三者互为作用的有机体系,在核心构成、动力机制、基础保障三个方面支撑刑侦的发展,必须注重刑侦支撑体系的内在突破和整体推进,实现刑侦工作全面、协调、可持续发展,满足人民群众日益增长的安全需求,突破自身的发展局限和障碍。     

论犯罪人的帮困扶助——以社会支持理论与社会控制理论的冲突为视角

社会控制理论与社会支持理论在性善或性恶的切入点、社会支持与社会联系的作用与地位的认识上存在着种种不同与冲突。理论的冲突与融合往往带来实践的思考。以两种理论的冲突看犯罪人帮困扶助,它既是一项预防犯罪的举措,也是促进社会和谐的重要手段,而构建和谐的"社会联系"是其科学发展的基础与着力点。     

地方招商引资财政扶持政策的几点思考

财政扶持政策是当前地方在招商引资过程中比较常见的形式。地方政府对招商引资的企业进行财政支持虽然为企业提供了资金便利,也为其创造了良好的投资环境,但其带来的财政收支虚增等问题和危害也不容忽视。应对之策,是树立正确的政绩观,改进干部考核机制;完善监督机制,加强督查力度;转变政府职能,明确政府定位;明确招商责任,加强跟踪落实;改善投资环境,提高人员素质等。     

信用卡“养卡”、“套现”行为的刑法定性分析——兼与刘宪权教授商榷

信用卡养卡行为与套现行为,尽管在事实构造上存在不同,但是二者在刑法规范评价上应当做相同评价,只要行为人在养卡套现活动中收取手续费,均构成非法经营罪。类似借记卡性质的预付卡性质的预付费的储值卡、房贷卡等属于刑法意义上的＂信用卡＂,适用于《关于办理妨碍信用卡管理刑事案件具体应用法律若干问题的解释》第7条第一款关于信用卡＂套现＂中的＂信用卡＂。信用卡套现的司法解释是针对＂其他严重扰乱市场秩序的非法经营行为＂,而不是＂非法从事资金结算业务＂。持卡人以非法占有为目的,使用POS机为自己套现,恶意透支的构成非法经营罪和信用卡诈骗罪想象竞合。持卡人使用POS机为自己套现,随后产生非法占有目的恶意透支的,属于转化犯,构成信用卡诈骗罪,不再构成非法经营罪。     

陕甘宁边区拥军优属运动述评

抗战时期陕甘宁边区在党中央的直接领导下,为进一步促进军民团结和军政团结,开展了轰轰烈烈的拥军优属运动,取得了显著成效,不仅为各抗日根据地开展拥军优属树立了典范,也为最终夺取抗战胜利和新中国的建立创造了重要的条件。     

Fighting to win: Wartime morale in the American public

The ingredients of wartime morale are the subject of lively debate, with casualties, prospect of victory, and elite cues representing the major points of view. This research covers the wars in Korea and Vietnam with expanded time series of public support and rare surveys that probed perceptions of victory during those military interventions. The prospect of victory affected wartime morale during both of those conflicts. It did so quite uniformly in the American public, cutting across elite cues such as partisanship.     

Coalition type and voter support for parties: Grand coalitions in German elections

While scholars have generally acknowledged that coalition governments are less accountable to voters than single party majorities, surprisingly little differentiation is made among different types of coalition governments. In this paper, we examine voter support for two very different types of coalition governments: those with a single large party and a junior partner and grand coalitions—governing coalitions between two large but ideologically dissimilar parties. We argue that grand coalitions differ from the more typical senior–junior partners in terms of the ability of individual parties to respond to their constituencies. We test this argument using survey data from four German Election Studies (GES), before and after each of the two German grand coalitions (1965, 1969, 2005, and 2009), which provide a unique opportunity to compare voter support for grand coalitions to those of the more typical senior–junior party model. We find evidence that voters responded to grand coalitions by moving away from their traditional voting patterns, and increasing their support for parties outside of the grand coalition, although this effect varies by the number of alternative parties.     

基于机器学习的指纹识别技术

指纹识别技术是重要的刑事侦查手段,也是图像识别领域具有代表性的一类模式识别问题。本文通过对机器学习算法的研究和分析,将目前流行的学习算法应用于指纹识别问题,以提高指纹识别系统的识别速度和学习算法的泛化能力。