On the Undecidability of Legal and Technological Regulation

Law and Critique - Generally, regulation is thought of as a constant that carries with it both a formative and conservative power, a power that standardises, demarcates and forms an order, through...     

Analysis of off-farm work decisions among smallholder farm households in Burkina Faso

This article investigates off-farm work decisions by smallholder farm households. Using data on 1,101 households from Burkina Faso, it demonstrates that in addition to the usual household socio-demographic characteristics, remittances, access to information and beneficiary of specific training affect off-farm work decisions, as well as rainfall factors and idiosyncratic health shocks. Community characteristics such as accessibility and number of inhabitants are also key factors. While suggesting that off-farm work is less likely to be undertaken for accumulation purposes, these results have important policy implications. In particular, policy measures should consider each segment as a separate entity.     

Three cheers for liberal modesty

ABSTRACT

Many liberals have been immodest in postulating that their own progressive, secular liberalism is the only one that can be justified in public reason. In Liberalism’s Religion, I articulate a more modest theory of liberalism and religion. While I personally endorse progressive secular liberalism, I argue that it is only one of the reasonable conceptions of liberal justice. This liberal modesty has profound, hitherto unnoticed implications for (i) the role of religious arguments in the public sphere, (ii) the legitimacy of religious establishment, and (iii) the justifiability of religious exemptions. In this article, I defend these three claims by providing replies to my critics.     

1株抗须癣毛癣菌枯草芽孢菌的鉴定

为了探讨抗须癣毛癣菌感染新的治疗途径,从患须癣毛癣菌病兔自然恢复皮肤分离了1株细菌,经16S rDNA基因比对,并结合菌落形态进行了鉴定,通过体内外试验测定其对须癣毛癣菌的拮抗作用。结果显示,分离株能在营养琼脂培养基生长,菌落为皱褶圆形,菌体呈杆状,革兰染色阳性,基因序列分析与GenBank中的枯草芽孢杆菌相似率为99.8%,该分离株被鉴定为枯草芽孢杆菌。抗菌谱分析显示,分离株对须癣毛癣菌能形成抑菌圈,对白色念珠菌、平滑念珠菌、热带念珠菌、烟曲霉菌、黄曲霉菌没有抑制作用。该分离株与须癣毛癣菌混合培养,能明显抑制须癣毛癣菌生长。在皮肤涂抹试验中,该分离株能逆转由须癣毛癣菌引起的皮肤病变。本试验证实了分离的枯草芽孢杆菌对须癣毛癣菌有明显的拮抗作用。     

改善中小企业融资环境探讨

中小企业是社会生活中不可或缺的重要组成部分 ,但在其发展过程中遇到很多困难 ,其中融资困难是影响中小企业发展的主要问题。要解决融资难的问题 ,必须改革金融制度 ,拓宽融资渠道 ,完善融资体系 ,进而为中小企业创造良好的融资环境。     

猪生殖与呼吸综合征病毒GP5蛋白抗原表位基因的表达及其表达产物的抗原性

为了确定猪生殖与呼吸综合征病毒GP5蛋白A、B抗原表位之间的相互关系和对免疫的影响,应用PCR方法扩增出A、B抗原表位基因并分别克隆于原核和真核表达载体中。原核重组质粒表达的重组蛋白经Western-blotting检测证明,该重组蛋白具有良好的抗原性。将重组蛋白和真核表达质粒免疫小鼠,前者可诱导产生针对PRRSV的特异性ELISA抗体,但是此抗体没有中和活性;后者不能诱导免疫小鼠产生PRRSV特异性抗体。结果表明,中和抗体的产生不但与A、B表位的空间构象有很大的关系,如果蛋白质分子质量过小也不能诱导机体产生有效的免疫反应。     

幼年牦牛松果体的光镜和电镜观察

利用光镜和电镜技术对幼年牦牛松果体的组织形态结构特征进行了研究。结果表明,光镜下,幼年牦牛松果体由松果体细胞、少量的神经胶质细胞、毛细血管和神经等组成。电镜下,松果体细胞的电子致密度低,细胞质内含有丰富的线粒体、粗面内质网、滑面内质网、高尔基复合体、微管、微丝和核糖体,典型异质细胞器突触带呈球形,多位于质膜附近。神经胶质细胞内的线粒体丰富,胞体突起呈球形膨大伸入到松果体细胞之间。松果体细胞以及神经胶质细胞间均存在突触和连接复合体。牦牛松果体内的毛细血管为连续型,远腹侧血管周围可见色素细胞。     

Justice,Fairness, and World Ownership

It is a central tenet of most contemporarytheories of justice that the badly-off have aright to some of the resources of the well-off.In this paper, I take as my starting point twoprinciples of justice, to wit, the principle ofsufficiency, whereby individuals have a rightto the material resources they need in order tolead a decent life, and the principle ofautonomy, whereby once everybody has such alife, individuals should be allowed to pursuetheir conception of the good, and to enjoy thefruits of their labour in pursuit of suchconception. I also endorse the value offairness, whereby the right person orinstitution makes the decision as to whether tobring about justice.I show that justice and fairness can besatisfied only if we all enjoy a combination ofprivate and collective rights over the world.In making that case, I shall argue that the setof ownership rights I advocate differs fromreadily available conceptions of restrictedprivate ownership in two important respects.First, it is such that in some circumstances,two individuals or more can have control rightsover the same property at the same time, not,as is standardly the case in legal systems, bycontracting with one another (through gifts andjoint purchase), but simply on grounds ofjustice. Second, it allows that, if necessary,property-owners be expropriated from theirproperty without compensation.