Privacy with public access: digital memorials on quick response codes

Quick response (QR) codes on gravestones are a relatively new global phenomenon, and the actual number of them is unknown. The placement of a digital gateway on a physical stone is a new form of mediated middle region and a challenge to the classic public–private dichotomy, and this study discusses in detail the implications of the QR-coded gravestones. While some cemetery visitors might consider the gravestone and the digital content private, the visible QR code is also an invitation to the broader public in the shared physical space. Building on privacy as a contextualized matter, the business interests of gravestone makers as well as 30 Danish memorials are analyzed. In a general shift toward the digital in contemporary memorial culture and a growing tendency to online sharing of the emotionally important, QR codes on gravestones are but one example of the ongoing negotiations of privacy and sharing in our digital society.     

An unexpected meeting of four seemingly unrelated problems: graph testing, DNA complex screening, superimposed codes and secure key distribution

This paper discusses the relation among four problems: graph testing, DNA complex screening, superimposed codes and secure key distribution. We prove a surprising equivalence relation among these four problems, and use this equivalence to improve current results on graph testing. In the rest of this paper, we give a lower bound for the minimum number of tests on DNA complex screening model. The first and second author would like to dedicate this paper to professor Frank K. Hwang on the occasion of his 65th birthday. This research is partially supported by Republic of China, National Science Council grant NSC 92-2115-M-009-014.     

中国医疗费用DRGs结算模式的建立

DRGs是根据主要诊断、病情严重程度以及医疗服务强度分组结算医疗费用的模式，该模式的建立将会有效抑制中国医疗结算中存在的医疗费用增长过快现象，有效提高医疗服务质量和规范医疗行为。探讨DRGs结算方法的优缺点，提出建立和完善中国DRGs结算模式的建议，即建立完备的计算机信息系统、统一医院病历书写与疾病编码、制定临床诊疗常规标准和统一出院标准、制定科学合理的费用标准、做好DRGs的试点组织工作等。     

佛教大藏经及其刻印述略

作者从佛教传入中国及《大藏经》的刻印过程着手,叙述了佛经在经历了陈武帝时的抄写、北魏北周时代的禁毁及唐、宋时的勃然发展,从中可以看到中国古代印刷术的发明是和佛经的广泛、大量需求有着密切的联系。佛教的传播和佛经从抄写、石刻、雕版印刷均已成为中国古代文化发展的一个组成部分,在保存了我国古代文化典籍的同时,也为后代的佛学研究提供了丰富的资料。     

Governing Global Supply Chain Sustainability through the Ethical Audit Regime

Over the past two decades multinational corporations have been expanding ‘ethical’ audit programs with the stated aim of reducing the risk of sourcing from suppliers with poor practices. A wave of government regulation—such as the California Transparency in Supply Chains Act (2012) and the UK Modern Slavery Act (2015)—has enhanced the legitimacy of auditing as a tool to govern labor and environmental standards in global supply chains, backed by a broad range of civil society actors championing audits as a way of promoting corporate accountability. The growing adoption of auditing as a governance tool is a puzzling trend, given two decades of evidence that audit programs generally fail to detect or correct labor and environmental problems in global supply chains. Drawing on original field research, this article shows that in spite of its growing legitimacy and traction among government and civil society actors, the audit regime continues to respond to and protect industry commercial interests. Conceptually, the article challenges prevailing characterizations of the audit regime as a technical, neutral, and benign tool of supply chain governance, and highlights its embeddedness in struggles over the legitimacy and effectiveness of the industry-led privatization of global governance.     

非语言代码及其翻译障碍

非语言代码和语言代码共同传达语言意义和文化信息。非语言代码与文化关系密切,英汉非语言代码的文化差异是文化误译的主要原因之一。为保证译文忠于原作并避免误译,译者还要关注不同非语言代码间的文化差异,克服认识、行为、心理、知识和观念等五个方面的障碍。     

以虚粒子为特征的阴性物质能量的释放--人类可利用的新能源之探索

从我们人类所在的四维时空的视点观察,宇宙的边界就是阳性物质世界三维空间弯曲的极限.以虚粒子为特征的阴性物质充盈在三维空间,直至宇宙的边界;但是它并不占有这个空间和边界.爱因斯坦相对论公式虽然具有普遍的意义,但是用它来解释四维以上多维时空以虚粒子为特征的阴性物质时,却显得无能为力,甚至不能说明任何问题--这里正是新的科学的起点和发祥地.以虚粒子为特征的阴性物质蕴含着宇宙间总能量的二分之一,并且携带着宇宙和人类的所有信息和密码.探索以虚粒子为特征的阴性物质能量释放的条件,是解决人类可利用的新能源的当务之急.     

LDPC码与RS码的联合迭代译码

针对LDPC码与RS码的串行级联结构,提出了一种基于Chase的联合迭代译码方法。软入软出的RS译码器与LDPC译码器之间经过多次信息传递,性能可以逼近最大似然译码。模拟结果显示:AWGN信道下这种基于Chase的RS码与LDPC码的联合迭代译码方案可以获得约0．5 dB的增益。     

新闻标题与受众心理

运用心理学的基本原理,探讨阅读新闻标题时受传双方心理的特点。受众心理的视觉规律和受众心理选择规律,赋予新闻标题新的含义;标题发展史潜含着受众心理流变,制作标题时契合受众心理的方法。