刑事审级制度的现实挑战与应对转型——基于当下刑事司法改革的思考

中国实行四级两审终审的审级制度,这种审级制度设置源于法律移植、历史传统、地缘环境以及认知理念等因素的考量。但是当下正在积极推行试点的刑事案件速裁程序改革、人民陪审员制度改革,强烈冲击了司法裁判生效过程的一元化特征,并对各级刑事审判机关的职能划分提出了挑战,进而影响刑事审级制度的设置。为了更好地适应社会结构的转型和司法改革的推进,中国刑事审级制度的设置应当进行调整,实现司法裁判生效过程的多元化,并重塑各级刑事审判机关的职能划分。     

基于模糊理论评估连续梁桥地震破坏状况

为了研究不同强度等级地震作用下连续梁桥的破坏模式及破坏程度,采用多级模糊综合评判方法建立连续梁桥的综合评估模型。根据连续梁桥的特点,利用连续梁桥各单元及各构件的破坏程度建立多个因素集,根据各因素的权重和评价标准,对多个因素集进行逐级评判,根据最大隶属度原则得到地震作用下连续梁桥的破坏情况,并通过等级参数评判法对不同地震强度下连续梁桥的破坏情况进行等级评判,得到连续梁桥破坏情况与地震强度之间的关系。最后,基于多级模糊综合评判方法对一座连续梁桥实例进行评判     

历史地理学研究中GIS的认知过程及其人类因素考量

GIS技术在历史地理学研究领域的引入,为21世纪历史地理学沉淀积累和蓄势待发提供了新的研究视角和路径。随着GIS技术的普遍运用,尤其是在历史自然地理领域的使用,遂成为该研究方向创新和发展的重要因素。不过,GIS技术在人文地理研究领域中的运用情况则略显滞后,其实质在于受人类因素影响下历史文献数据化的标准问题。此外,GIS技术自身定位不再局限于一种研究手段,而是呈现出向新方法和理论高度的认知过程。     

民事裁判错误问题研究——以法律救济为视角

民事裁判错误作为民事诉讼过程中不可避免的客观存在,对其进行相应的法律救济应是一个亟需关注的论题。而我国现行民事诉讼法关于民事裁判错误的界定以及相应的救济程序的设置都存在着问题。因此,在现代司法理念下有必要将民事诉讼立法的指导思想重新定位,由"实事求是,有错必纠"转变为"依法纠错",在"依法纠错"的指导理念下建立健全民事诉讼法规,界定民事裁判错误的范围,设置合理的法律救济程序。     

Effect of aggregation on the estimation of trend in mortality

There are three approaches to analyzing and forecasting age‐specific mortality: (1) analyze age‐specific data directly, (2) analyze each cause‐specific mortality series separately and add the results, (3) analyze cause‐specific mortality series jointly and add the results. We show that if linear models are used for cause‐specific mortality, then the three approaches often give close results even when cause‐specific series are correlated. This result holds for cross‐correlations arising from random misclassification of deaths by cause, and also for certain patterns of systematic misclassification. It need not hold, if one or more causes serve as “leading indicators”; for the remaining causes, or if outside information is incorporated into forecasting either through expert judgment or formal statistical modeling. Under highly nonlinear models or in the presence of modeling error the result may also fail. The results are illustrated with U.S. age‐specific mortality data from 1968–1985. In some cases the aggregate forecasts appear to be the more credible ones.     

The Collapsing Choice Theory: Dissociating Choice and Judgment in Decision Making

Decision making theory in general, and mental models in particular, associate judgment and choice. Decision choice follows probability estimates and errors in choice derive mainly from errors in judgment. In the studies reported here we use the Monty Hall dilemma to illustrate that judgment and choice do not always go together, and that such a dissociation can lead to better decision-making. Specifically, we demonstrate that in certain decision problems, exceeding working memory limitations can actually improve decision choice. We show across four experiments that increasing the number of choice alternatives forces people to collapse choices together, resulting in better decision-making. While choice performance improves, probability judgments do not change, thus demonstrating an important dissociation between choice and probability judgments. We propose the Collapsing Choice Theory (CCT) which explains how working memory capacity, probability estimation, choice alternatives, judgment, and regret all interact and effect decision quality.      

Risk-Reducing Legal Documents: Controlling Personal Health and Financial Resources

Every adult can eliminate the risk of losing control of personal health decisions and financial resources by having a last will and testament, health proxy, power of attorney, and living trust. Yet evidence suggests that less than a majority of adult Americans have these documents. We surveyed 900 adult Americans (25 plus years old) to determine what factors predict the possession of these risk-reducing documents. In total, 46% had a living will and testament, 32% a durable power of attorney, 30% a health proxy, and 18% a living trust. Events that prompt people with wealth to secure these documents, such as increasing age, getting married, having children, and experiencing a life-threatening event were the strongest predictors of having a will. These were also among the strongest predictors of having a health proxy, along with a personal history of being proactive, and a family history that fostered trust of attorneys. Affluence, age, and education were the strongest predictors of having a living trust, and the strongest correlate of having a durable power of attorney was having faced a life-threatening event, positive experiences with attorneys, and higher educational achievement.     

Ranked set sampling with concomitant variables

Ranked set sampling is a procedure which may be used to improve the precision of the estimator of the mean. It is useful in cases where the variable of interest is much more difficult to measure than to order. However, even if ordering is difficult, but there is an easily ranked concomitant variable available, then it may be used to “judgment order” the original variable. The amount of increase in the precision of the estimator is dependent upon the correlation between the 2 variables.     

高校图书馆文献资源的开发与利用

高校图书馆拥有极其丰富和宝贵的文献资源,如何对其进行开发与利用是一个迫切需要解决的课题。高校图书馆必须充分认识其必要性,通过多种途径对文献资源进行开发与利用。     

Challenges to the Acceptance of Probabilistic Risk Analysis

This paper discusses a number of the key challenges to the acceptance and application of probabilistic risk analysis (PRA). Those challenges include: (a) the extensive reliance on subjective judgment in PRA, requiring the development of guidance for the use of PRA in risk-informed regulation, and possibly the development of robust or reference prior distributions to minimize the reliance on judgment; and (b) the treatment of human performance in PRA, including not only human error per se but also management and organizational factors more broadly. All of these areas are seen as presenting interesting research challenges at the interface between engineering and other disciplines.