东盟的国际社会性——一个尝试性的分析

国际社会的内涵在于共同利益、共同观念、共同规则和共同制度.就东盟来说,共同利益多来自外部的刺激和威胁,内部共生利益较少;共同观念主要是行为方式和决策方式的趋同,没有形成真正深入普通民众心中的地区认同意识;共同规则是被东盟各成员国高度认同的,但正受到东盟内外的挑战;由于惩罚性制度缺失,诱导性制度功能不足,东盟的共同制度远不能应付地区危机和国际政治转型的要求.总的来说,东盟的国际社会性是微弱的.     

规范空间的逻辑与契约论的局限

规则理性不同于个体理性,契约论者与契约至上论者也分别拥有各自不同的理性概念.由相近规范原则所构成的规范空间有着自身的逻辑特征.基于上述诸种基本区分,本文指出,传统契约理论存在着如下缺陷:混淆了规范原则与规范有效性,没有能够区分契约得以可能的逻辑条件与规范空间得以可能的逻辑条件.因此,契约论面临着从个体理性达致规则理性的困难,它更多地沦为规范有效性的一种解释机制而非辩护机制.     

论应急预案的性质和效力——以国家和省级预案为考察对象

应急预案在本质上是各种应急法律规范的具体执行方案,但分析发现,目前的国家和省级预案却创制、补充了大量的法律规范用于弥补立法缺陷,事实上已使预案本身异化为应急法律体系的一部分。对于预案中暂时替代法律发挥作用的这些内容,为了保证其合法性,有必要在形式上将一定级别的预案上升为行政法规和规章,从而需要对预案的编制程序和内在结构进行必要的调整。     

The Impact of Pubertal Timing and Parental Control on Adolescent Problem Behaviors

This study examined the relationship among pubertal timing, parental control, and problem behaviors. There were 267 participants, whose ages ranged from 9 to 16 years. Both maternal and paternal psychological control predicted problem behaviors over and above the effects of behavioral control. For boys, early maturation and high levels of paternal psychological control, whereas for girls, on-time maturation and low levels of paternal psychological control were associated with low levels of internalizing problem behaviors. Early maturation and high levels of maternal psychological control predicted high levels of externalizing problem behaviors. The implications of these findings were discussed in terms of the detrimental effects of psychological control on adolescent wellbeing, the role that pubertal timing may or may not play during this period, and finally the need to separately examine fathers’ parenting and mothers’ parenting while investigating the impact of parental control on adolescent problem behaviors. Rübab G. Arım is a Doctoral Student at the University of British Columbia. She received her M.A. degree in Human Learning, Development, and Instruction from the University of British Columbia. Her major research interests include evaluating the long-term impact of biological and contextual factors on adolescent problem behaviors. Jennifer D. Shapka is an Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia. She received her Ph.D. in Human Development and Applied Psychology from the University of Toronto. Her major research interests include identifying patterns of risk and protective factors impacting adolescent well-being over time.     

Digital behavioral-fingerprint for user attribution in digital forensics: Are we there yet?

the need for a reliable and complementary identifier mechanism in a digital forensic analysis is the focus of this study. Mouse dynamics have been applied in information security studies, particularly, continuous authentication and authorization. However, the method applied in security is void of specific behavioral signature of a user, which inhibits its applicability in digital forensic science. This study investigated the likelihood of the observation of a unique signature from mouse dynamics of a computer user. An initial mouse path model was developed using non-finite automata. Thereafter, a set-theory based adaptive two-stage hash function and a multi-stage rule-based semantic algorithm were developed to observe the feasibility of a unique signature for forensic usage. An experimental process which comprises three existing mouse dynamics datasets were used to evaluate the applicability of the developed mechanism. The result showed a low likelihood of extracting unique behavioral signature which can be used in a user attribution process. Whilst digital forensic readiness mechanism could be a potential approach that can be used to achieve a reliable behavioral biometrics modality, the lack of unique signature presents a limitation. In addition, the result supports the logic that the current state of behavioral biometric modality, particularly mouse dynamics, is not suitable for forensic usage. Hence, the study concluded that whilst mouse dynamics-based behavioral biometrics may be a complementary modality in security studies, more will be required to adopt it as a forensic modality in litigation. Furthermore, the result from this study finds relevance in other human attributional studies such as user identification in recommender systems, e-commerce, and online profiling systems, where the degree of accuracy is not relatively high.