和谐社会构建与国家赔偿法的完善

我国现行国家赔偿法已颁行十余年,既发挥了重要作用,也日益显现出缺陷与不足.国家赔偿法的直观缺陷表现在赔偿范围狭小、赔偿标准低等方面,而深层次的原因在于立法理念落后、基本原则缺位.在构建和谐社会的背景下应修订国家赔偿法,改革和完善国家赔偿制度的基本原则和相应制度.     

Health education for Somali Bantu refugees via home visits

Background: Somali Bantu refugees, with unique health information needs, created challenges for health and social service providers. Objectives: A service innovation was developed (i) to raise awareness, especially among local health and social service providers, about the Bantu refugees’ presence in the community, their culture, and their information needs and (ii) to deliver needed health information, emphasizing child health, to the Bantu mothers in their homes. Methods: The project consisted of: (i) a community conference targeting local health and social service providers, describing the refugees’ presence in the community, their culture, and information needs. (ii) Focus groups conducted with members of the Bantu population elicited additional information needs. (iii) Curriculum was developed based on identified needs, and (iv) the curriculum was delivered to the refugees in their homes. A clinical informationist and MP3 technology enhanced the project. Findings: Conference attendees’ evaluation responses indicated improved understanding of Bantu culture. Focus groups’ identification of health information needs provided a framework for the health education curriculum. A project website made educational materials available to other healthcare providers. Conclusions: The project raised awareness of the Bantus’ presence, culture, and information needs. Identification of other unmet needs demonstrated that additional support for refugees is required.     

试析我国个人数据法律保护的趋势

在网络信息时代,个人数据是一种具有潜在价值的信息,也具有鲜明的法律特征。个人数据所有者享有对个人数据无可争议的所有权。只有对个人数据进行立法保护,才能从根本上保护个人数据所有者的合法权益不受侵害。本文就个人数据的概念、法律特征及其在我国采取法律保护的趋势进行了探讨。     

Training in culture: the case of aikido education and meaning-making outcomes in Japan and the United States

This study investigated whether a relationship existed between instructional style and points of emphasis in the training context of the martial art aikido and the perceptions which practitioners of aikido generated for aikido-related concepts. The findings were gathered within and compared across aikido training settings in two cultures — Japan and the United States. Analysis of the quantitative and qualitative data gathered for this investigation revealed several potent differences between the manner in which Japanese and American aikido practitioners represented their understandings of aikido-related concepts. Differences in the manner in which aikido practitioners in Japan and the United States represented their understandings of aikido reflected the teaching emphasis observed in the respective cultures. It was concluded that aikido instructors represented the values of their own culture in the context of aikido training, and thus served as important mediating forces influencing the meaning which practitioners generated for aikido. An additional finding revealed that in neither culture were participants able to accurately represent how practitioners in the “other” culture structured their understandings of aikido. It was reasoned that both cultural groups generated faulty perceptions of how the “other” group understood aikido because they utilized a similar pattern of projection, using their own meanings of aikido to represent the understandings of practitioners in the “other” cultural group.     

Essential gyrators and reciprocity in junction structures

This paper proposes an extended definition of reciprocity for a multiport junction structure based on the concept of essential gyrator coupling. Two theorems are given for junction structures containing gyrators and an algorithm is presented for identifying essential gyrators. The results are useful both theoretically and for designing efficient computation procedures for junction structures.     

Ladder realizations of multivariable positive real functions

Necessary and sufficient conditions are obtained for the realization of an m-variable positive real function (PRF) as the impedence function of a resistively-terminated ladder network of m lossless two-ports connected in cascade. Each two-port is a single-variable lossless ladder with all of its transmission zeros either at the origin or at finity. Conditions are also obtained when each of the two-ports is a Fujisawa-type lowpass ladder.