Public sector delivery of waste management services: cases from the Indian Sub-Continent

This paper discusses the role of public sector institutions in the delivery of urban services, with a particular focus on waste management in the Indian Sub-Continent. Public sector institutions are the major stakeholders in the delivery of urban sevices. They hold the major responsibilities, funds and employ a large number of staff. The public sector institutions are also exposed to political influence and the institutional changes are often politically or donors driven. However, since new institutions such as non-government organisations and private sector are taking important roles in the actual delivery of services, there is a greater need to understand the existing linkages to promote integration. The informal sector also provides services to a large number of population. In order to promote efficient and effective delivery of urban services, it is important to work on the integrated approaches involving key stakeholders.     

全球金融体系变革与中国金融监管体制改革

王俊豪通过对城市公用事业分类研究,发现整个城市公用事业存在许多竞争空间,而在竞争性领域,民营企业通常具有较高的效率。他认为,民营企业进入城市公用事业有巨大的潜在空间,中国城市公用事业改革可实行分类民营化政策。戚聿东、范合君认为,十二五时期要把竞争化改造作为深化垄断行业改革的主攻方向,形成有效竞争格局,同时需要把运营模式改革与竞争模式改革作为着力点。齐兰和郑少华认为,未来全球金融监管具有综合监管、无缝监管、系统性风险监管、国际金融监管合作等新态势,中国金融监管体制必须采取诸如调整金融监管模式、扩大金融监管范围、实施系统性风险监管、加强金融监管国际合作等方面的改革措施。胡亦琴认为,土地的可持续利用是农业可持续发展的基础,创新农地流转及其相关制度、机制,是提高土地要素配置效率、促进土地资源永续利用、进而实现农业可持续发展的重要突破口。     

农地流转制度创新与中国农业可持续发展

王俊豪通过对城市公用事业分类研究,发现整个城市公用事业存在许多竞争空间,而在竞争性领域,民营企业通常具有较高的效率。他认为,民营企业进入城市公用事业有巨大的潜在空间,中国城市公用事业改革可实行分类民营化政策。戚聿东、范合君认为,十二五时期要把竞争化改造作为深化垄断行业改革的主攻方向,形成有效竞争格局,同时需要把运营模式改革与竞争模式改革作为着力点。齐兰和郑少华认为,未来全球金融监管具有综合监管、无缝监管、系统性风险监管、国际金融监管合作等新态势,中国金融监管体制必须采取诸如调整金融监管模式、扩大金融监管范围、实施系统性风险监管、加强金融监管国际合作等方面的改革措施。胡亦琴认为,土地的可持续利用是农业可持续发展的基础,创新农地流转及其相关制度、机制,是提高土地要素配置效率、促进土地资源永续利用、进而实现农业可持续发展的重要突破口。     

第三人侵权情况下经营者安全保障义务：由案件生发

基于双方不同的利益诉求和预期,在对经营者安全保障义务标准上存在不同理解,尤其是在第三人介入侵权的情形下,经营者基于安全保障义务而承担侵权责任的情形更为复杂。我国《侵权责任法》规定了经营者承担的是一种补充责任,但从内在法理机理和社会对于立法预期考察,其承担直接侵权责任更有利于实现立法目的。     

陕西省服务业发展研究

服务业现代化程度的测评是目前研究涉及较少的领域。从分析陕西省服务业发展水平和结构入手,首次提出服务业现代化指数概念,并结合2005年经济普查的数据对陕西省服务业各行业的现代化水平及其经济效益进行了初步测评。在定量分析的基础上得出了陕西省服务业内部各行业经济效益参差不齐的结论。从整体上看,其经济效益还较低,因而提高服务业的经济效益应该成为陕西省发展服务业的主要努力方向。     

Scholarly Communication 2.0: Exploring Researchers' Opinions on Web 2.0 for Scientific Knowledge Creation, Evaluation and Dissemination

This paper presents the results of a survey aimed at gauging the potential acceptance of a collaborative and Web 2.0 inspired scholarly communication sector. While this sector has seen the birth of a multitude of innovative initiatives, there is still little empirical evidence of the acceptance of such initiatives by researchers. We received 349 completed questionnaires from researchers of many different disciplines. The results of the survey show that there is a strong positive attitude towards Web 2.0 and open publishing approaches. However, the major challenge still resides in combining free dissemination of results with robust and reliable quality control mechanisms.     

What explains frontline workers' views on poverty? A comparison of three types of welfare sector institutions

The study analysed views on poverty among Finnish frontline workers in three welfare sector institutions. Two different institutional logics, universal and selective, and two sectors, the public and the voluntary, were represented. A nationwide survey among social security officials, municipal social workers and diaconal workers was utilised (N = 2,124). The methods applied included factor analysis, the examination of means and multivariate analysis of variance. Frontline workers were found to support structural reasons for poverty regardless of institutional affiliation. Analyses, however, also revealed significant differences between the institutions, but not of the kind expected. Social security officials, working in a universal institution, were less likely to endorse structural factors and more likely to endorse individualistic poverty explanations than were social and diaconal workers. Type of education and personal political ideology, respectively, were also found to be of significant importance for poverty perceptions, independent of institutional logic.     

论第三人代付保险费

保险费的交付义务可否由第三人代为履行是一个颇值得探讨的问题.笔者分别从财产保险合同与人身保险合同两方面对这一问题进行了论述.在财产保险合同中,保险费的交付在性质上与一般债务相同,所以由任意第三人代付保险费也应为事理所允许;在人身保险合同中,因其以保障被保险人的生命、安全为主要目的,为防止主观危险,应该认为其保险费的交付是具有特殊性质的债务,不得由任意第三人代付.     

Richmond Barthé: Black Homoeroticism and the Raptures of the Hermaphroditic Body

ABSTRACT

African American sculptor Richmond Barthé (1901–1989) conjoined issues of sexuality and race in works that foreground the aesthetic worth of Black bodies. While exposing Western figuration practices that exclude Black people from artistic visibility, Barthé also targeted the African American distaste for the explicit treatment of nudity. Barthé’s androgynous sculptures have by now become the trademark of his art, but Barthésian scholarship still neglects the significance of a small group of statues, which de-emphasize the aura of same-sex desire, in order to explore the intricacies of corporeal ambisexuality. In view of his homoerotic depictions and the presence of the hermaphrodite at the core of his disruption of the sexual dichotomy, the frequent assumption that Barthé remained “closeted all his life” does not stand critical scrutiny. Instead of taking refuge in the sexual closet, Barthé debunked the man/woman binary as the foremost epistemic construct that prompts the societal need for sexual self-misrepresentations.     

《哈利·波特》的第三空间及其意义——兼论文学数理批评

运用数理批评的方法,分析论述了《哈利·波特》的叙事空间及空间的文化意义,并对杜贵晨先生提出的文学数理批评范围进行思考。认为,《哈利·波特》的第三空间融合物质与世俗的第一空间麻瓜世界和精神与神圣的第二空间魔法世界而成,却生发出超越麻瓜与魔法世界的三大文化意义：童话、文化寻根和英雄成长;在英雄成长这一核心意义层面又生发出死亡、爱与成长三大核心主题。《哈利·波特》多＂三＂的现象显示罗琳对数字＂三＂的崇尚超出现代人一般意义的数字崇拜而接近原始思维中的数字崇拜。因而,杜贵晨先生对数理批评可以用于全部文学的设想是切实可行的。