Understanding sex: the right to legal capacity to consent to sex

This article addresses the right to legal capacity to consent to sex of people with intellectual disabilities. Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities guarantees the right to legal capacity on an equal basis in all areas of life. This article discusses sex as an area of life in which people with intellectual disabilities are frequently not being granted legal capacity on an equal basis. The article examines current capacity to consent to sex law in Ireland, England and Wales in light of Article 12. It proposes an ‘agreement model’ as a potential alternative that would be Article 12 compliant.     

试论十六大以来马克思主义在中国的新发展

十六大以来，面对时代发展和中国社会主义现代化建设的实际，以胡锦涛同志为总书记的党中央，围绕全面建设小康社会这个宏伟目标，在经济、政治、文化、社会、党的建设等各方面，提出了许多新思想、新观点，使马克思主义在新的实践中得到新的丰富和发展。     

青年初期的人格结构研究

以16PF为测量工具分析了青年初期的人格结构,研究发现,青年初期的人格结构在模式上与成人“大五”一致,其模式没有年龄特异性和文化特异性;但在内涵上,内外向性、情绪稳定性和谨慎性这三个维度是稳定的、普遍的,另外两个维度既对经验的开放性和宜人性存在着年龄特异性和文化特异性,分别命名为智慧和现实性。     

学习十六大报告开创民族高等教育新局面

十六大报告从全面建设小康社会,实现中华民族伟大复兴的全局出发,深刻阐述了新时期教育发展的目标和任务,也为我国的民族高等教育提出了更高更新的要求.本文结合十六大报告的有关要求,对民族高等院校如何在新的历史条件下,与时俱进,取得全面的发展提出了一些思路.     

语篇教学——大学英语阅读教学方法

立足于语篇理论又结合了当代多种研究成果的语篇教学法,以宏观的视野进行教学,从整体入手、再到局部、最后又回归整体,在大学英语阅读教学中具有明显的优势。恰当地应用语篇教学法,有利于提高学生获取完整信息的能力和语言交际的能力。在大学英语阅读教学中,语篇教学法注重把握语篇体裁,激活背景知识,融词句于篇章,精心设置问题,进行综合训练等各个教学环节。语篇教学法对教师提出了更高的要求,教师需要不断地从实践中学习。     

论政治文明建设的基本原则

十六大指出,社会主义政治文明建设必须坚持三个基本原则:中国共产党的领导、人民当家作主和依法治国有机统一;立足国情,吸收和借鉴人类政治文明的有益成果,坚持创新;积极稳妥,循序渐进.深入学习、领会这三大基本原则及其精神,对于如何开展社会主义政治文明建设具有重要的指导作用.     

对十六大报告中若干领导观的思考

十六大报告在新的历史条件下坚持和发展了领导就是服务 ,领导就是表率 ,领导必须相信和依靠群众 ,领导必须与时俱进等马克思主义领导观。对此 ,广大领导干部应该认真学习和领会 ,从而不断更新观念 ,有效地带领人民群众去努力实现全面建设小康社会的奋斗目标。     

FINANCIAL CONSTRAINTS AND INNOVATION: WHY POOR COUNTRIES DON'T CATCH UP

This paper examines micro‐level channels through which financial development can affect such macroeconomic outcomes as level of income. Specifically, we investigate theoretically and empirically how financial constraints affect a firm's innovation activities. Theoretical predictions are tested using unique firm survey data, which provide direct measures for innovations and firm‐specific financial constraints, as well as information on shocks to firms' internal funds that serve as firm‐level instruments for financial constraints. We find unambiguous evidence that financial constraints restrain the ability of domestically owned firms to innovate and hence to catch up to the technological frontier.     

The WHO/WTO Study on Trade and Public Health: A Critical Assessment

This article provides a brief critical examination of a 2002 report jointly issued by the World Health Organization and the World Trade Organization on WTO law and public health. The author argues that the report is in many respects misleading as to the content of WTO law, as interpreted by the Appellate Body of the WTO, its final court. In particular, the WHO/WTO report systematically understates or underestimates the margins of regulatory autonomy that WTO member states have to make regulations that protect public health.