Queering Canadian Social Work Accreditation standards and procedures: a content analysis

ABSTRACT

This paper reviews and critically analyzes the Canadian Association for Social Work Education—Association Canadienne Pour La Formation En Travail Social’s (CASWE-ACFTS’) Accreditation Standards and Procedures from a Sexual Orientation Gender Identity and Expression (SOGIESC) lens to examine how such are addressed in relevant documents. The CASWE-ACFTS Queer Caucus undertook a lead role in examining ‘diversity’ in the documents as it serves as an umbrella term for SOGIESC and other intersecting positionalities. This paper iterates an initial response in the CASWE-ACFTS Queer Caucus’ ongoing consultation with the CASWE-ACFTS’s Education Policy Committee’s work on Education Policy and Accreditation Standards 2019 (EPAS2019). The content analysis of the documents reveals that SOGIESC issues are not adequately addressed and this has implications for undergraduate and graduate social work curricula in Canada. The authors provide recommendations that address the integration of SOGIESC in CASWE-ACFTS’s Accreditation Standards and Procedures documents.     

On parallel policies for ranking and selection problems

In this paper we develop and test experimental methodologies for selection of the best alternative among a discrete number of available treatments. We consider a scenario where a researcher sequentially decides which treatments are assigned to experimental units. This problem is particularly challenging if a single measurement of the response to a treatment is time-consuming and there is a limited time for experimentation. This time can be decreased if it is possible to perform measurements in parallel. In this work we propose and discuss asynchronous extensions of two well-known Ranking & Selection policies, namely, Optimal Computing Budget Allocation (OCBA) and Knowledge Gradient (KG) policy. Our extensions (Asynchronous Optimal Computing Budget Allocation (AOCBA) and Asynchronous Knowledge Gradient (AKG), respectively) allow for parallel asynchronous allocation of measurements. Additionally, since the standard KG method is sequential (it can only allocate one experiment at a time) we propose a parallel synchronous extension of KG policy – Synchronous Knowledge Gradient (SKG). Computer simulations of our algorithms indicate that our parallel KG-based policies (AKG, SKG) outperform the standard OCBA method as well as AOCBA, if the number of evaluated alternatives is small or the computing/experimental budget is limited. For experimentations with large budgets and big sets of alternatives, both the OCBA and AOCBA policies are more efficient.     

野生动物非法狩猎治理机制的构建

由于错误的传统饮食观念的影响,许多人认为野生动物具有较高的营养价值甚至药用价值,这成为野生动物非法狩猎行为难以治理的原因。通过实证研究方法对野生动物非法狩猎案件进行统计分析,针对非法狩猎罪中“明知”对象的法律规定模糊、适用速裁程序的案件范围窄以及社区矫正的规制机能难以发挥等问题,应当通过建立非法狩猎工具的协同治理机制、扩大速裁程序的案件覆盖范围以及针对非法狩猎者建立公益劳动制度以从根本上保障人民群众的生命健康安全和社会经济的稳定发展。     

Bayesian adaptive dose‐escalation procedures for binary and continuous responses utilizing a gain function

One of the main aims of early phase clinical trials is to identify a safe dose with an indication of therapeutic benefit to administer to subjects in further studies. Ideally therefore, dose‐limiting events (DLEs) and responses indicative of efficacy should be considered in the dose‐escalation procedure. Several methods have been suggested for incorporating both DLEs and efficacy responses in early phase dose‐escalation trials. In this paper, we describe and evaluate a Bayesian adaptive approach based on one binary response (occurrence of a DLE) and one continuous response (a measure of potential efficacy) per subject. A logistic regression and a linear log‐log relationship are used respectively to model the binary DLEs and the continuous efficacy responses. A gain function concerning both the DLEs and efficacy responses is used to determine the dose to administer to the next cohort of subjects. Stopping rules are proposed to enable efficient decision making. Simulation results shows that our approach performs better than taking account of DLE responses alone. To assess the robustness of the approach, scenarios where the efficacy responses of subjects are generated from an E _max model, but modelled by the linear log–log model are also considered. This evaluation shows that the simpler log–log model leads to robust recommendations even under this model showing that it is a useful approximation to the difficulty in estimating E _max model. Additionally, we find comparable performance to alternative approaches using efficacy and safety for dose‐finding. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

《不动产登记暂行条例》的若干评析与建议

《不动产登记暂行条例》按照《物权法》的规定,实行不动产统一登记制度,改变我国当前不动产“多头登记”的现状,有利于界定不动产归属,维护交易安全。总则部分关于登记范围的规定遗漏了探矿权、采矿权、取水权这三种重要的权利,且没有在全国范围内确定唯一的不动产登记机构,故没有真正实现完全意义上的不动产统一登记;暂行条例首次规定了不动产登记薄的设置、保管、查阅等内容,但是依然欠缺登记簿法律效力的规定,没有彻底地贯彻物权公示公信原则;登记程序亦没有和《物权法》的程序性规定实现有效整合。登记机构对于登记申请的审查义务的规定明确、具体,在明晰审查义务的基础上,援引《物权法》的规定确定登记错误时登记机构的赔偿责任,较为合理。     

新审查起诉程序实践运行状况研究--以山东省J县为样本

审查起诉是人民检察院实现公诉职能的一项准备工作;是对侦查活动进行法律监督的一项重要手段;是发现和纠正违法行为的必要保障。新审查起诉程序自2013年1月1日起已实施两年多,其实践运行状况基本上得到落实,但仍然存在退回补充侦查使用率偏高、考核制度制约法律有效实施、羁押必要性审查立法缺失、非法证据排除使用率偏低等问题,需要通过进一步完善补充侦查制度、羁押必要性审查制度、非法证据排除规则、提高司法队伍建设等手段进行解决。     

Pharmacovigilance in Clinical Trials: Current Practice and Challenges

In view of the MENA increasing participation in multinational trials and the increasing number of national/regional trials, this article explores potential areas of pharmacovigilance, requiring reform and provides recommendations for building a robust safety reporting system. Regulatory silence on expedited reporting requirements creates confusion for local sites that are part of multinational trials. Not allowing waiver for serious adverse events that are protocol specified or are study endpoints, along with lack of emphasis on causality as reporting criteria, adds substantial burden of uninformative cases for regulatory review. Despite global focus on Development Safety Update Report, local regulators are not yet insistent on real-time update of a drug’s cumulative safety profile. Issues like reporting requirements for generic trials, pregnancy reporting and lenient timeline for death/life-threatening events need attention. Finally, the need to formulate an all-encompassing local pharmacovigilance guideline, in sync with global practice cannot be overemphasized.     

Bayesian averaging of classical estimates in asymmetric vector autoregressive models

The estimated vector autoregressive (VAR) model is sensitive to model misspecifications, resulting to biased and inconsistent parameter estimates. This article extends the Bayesian averaging of classical estimates, a robustness procedure in cross-section data, to a vector time-series that is estimated using a large number of asymmetric VAR models. The proposed procedure was applied to simulated data from various forms of model misspecifications. The results of the simulation suggest that, under misspecification problems, particularly if an important variable and moving average (MA) terms were omitted, the proposed procedure gives robust results and better forecasts than the automatically selected equal lag-length VAR model.     

未来的救赎——对未成年人前科消灭制度德州模式的思考

在考量我国现有对于前科消灭制度的基础上,对德州乐陵法院的模式展开思考,从主导机关、程序设计、证明标准、考察模式和证明标准等方面进行分析,采用更为稳定的影响因素和证明标准来对于类行政审批程序的前科消灭机制进行重构,以期实现司法力量为主导、综合相关部门协同的抗辩制前科消灭考察程序,来达到社会预防和个人发展的和谐统一。     

中国共产党党内民主发展的程序路径选择

发展党内民主,必须加强程序建设。党内民主程序化建设主要是围绕制度来进行的,没有制度就没有程序,没有程序制度的运行就缺少保障,程序建设与制度建设是统一的,二者不可分割。党内民主程序化建设应从“权力”人手,构建一套包括党内权力的产生和授予、行使、终止的体系。具体来说,就是要加强选举制度、决策和监督制度、罢免或撤换制度建设。