A complex network approach to environmental impact assessment

This article proposes a complex network methodology for the process of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) that limits subjectivity and reduces uncertainty by incorporating elements of complex systems theory in the stages of identification and assessment of the significance of environmental impacts. The proposed methodology reduces the sources of uncertainty, which emerge from the use of simplified models that analyse the environment-activity interactions in a unidirectional fashion. This proposal determines the significance of environmental impacts through multidirectional or complex causal relationships. Likewise, it limits the subjectivity of the evaluator by using these causality relationships instead of criteria based on the impacts’ attributes. The application of the proposed methodology demonstrates the advantages of (i) prioritizing the impacts according to their capacity to interact with other impacts, and (ii) the possibility to redirect the environmental management plans towards the prevention of impacts of higher complexity and to reduce the importance of derived impacts.

The application of the proposed methodology reveals that the percentage of irrelevant and moderate impacts is reduced, whereas the percentage of severe and critical impacts increase, in comparison to the conventional methodologies.     

汉英双语法庭口译员角色定位的伦理思考

关于汉英法庭口译员的角色定位,从译员的主体性意识角度出发,得出其在庭审过程中担任的有"信息的筛选人","交际的调解人","权力的平衡人"以及"立场的倾斜人"四种不同的角色,这四种角色的交织关系具化了在庭审过程中译员所展现出来的主体性意识。同时也不能回避其自身的伦理意识问题。以切斯特曼的五种翻译伦理模式为导向,结合相关真实庭审语料分析,对汉英双语法庭口译员的角色定位进行客观的伦理评价,得到如下发现:1)译员主体性意识下的汉英双语法庭口译员的四种角色符合翻译伦理要求;2)汉英双语法庭口译员的角色定位并不是一层不变的,只要符合翻译伦理要求,译员角色的定位可以有新的突破和发展。     

思想的实践-高校思政课实践教学的主体性建构

高校思想政治理论课的实践教学是一种致力于主体思想实践的教学活动,其目的在于通过实践确立人的正确的思想观念,完善和提升人的道德品质,也就是说思想的实践即是善恶观念和主体生存与发展智慧养成的实践。思想实践的全时空性、主体性、整体性和动态性,是思想实践的基本特性,也是思想政治理论课实践教学的建构基础。思想政治理论课实践教学应该紧紧围绕学生主体思想认识形成过程与特点来建构。依照思想实践的规律与特征,反思和检讨现有的思想政治理论课实践教学,重新建构其实践模式与过程,是思想政治理论课实践教学取得实效的必由之途。     

知识经济时代人的主体性初探

从人的主体性将整体得到强化和部分受到弱化两方面．探讨了进入知识经济时代，人的主体性的嬗变。     

新时期女性文学的现代性

新时期以来,女性文学呈现出许多新质,这些新质与现代性的主体性要求不谋而合,集中表现在女人由依附性到独立性这一精神过程的艰难蜕变。从着力于人的发现、即＂女人也是人＂;到＂男女都一样＂,从男女政治权利社会地位平等中窥视女性的性别价值;再到＂男女不一样＂,表现出强烈的女性性别意识;再到＂女性自身＂,女人的生命发现与讴歌;最后,＂双性和谐＂的相融并交才是女性文学的最终指向。这一历程与发展目标正是性别现代性的题中应有之义：即双性主体。     

公共政策失败的决策主体性分析

作为公共政策决策主体的立法者、政治家、行政官员和政党，是经济人而不是公共人，他们在决策过程中的自利行为导致公共政策失败。健全法律、完善制度和引导决策者树立科学的决策价值观是规制决策者自利行为，减少公共政策失败的三条有效途径。     

Introduction to special issue: The plus ultra of empirical research.

Recent advances in cognitive science and neuroscience (CSN) have allowed scientists to begin to address questions that were heretofore considered the province of the humanities. Growing out of a 2007 conference at Bucknell University, this volume explores recent research in many different areas that combines the methods and perspectives of both the humanities and CSN. This introduction argues that the barriers to such work (such as the opposition between objective scientific research and subjective humanistic research) are purely of our own making and in no way absolute; it further asserts that the articles herein demonstrate that the potential benefits of interdisciplinary study far outweigh the risks. There is no fixed method for interdisciplinarity. Its success depends on respect for the particulars of each research question and the imagination to see what combinations of different disciplines might work best. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

What Are You Doing? What Am I Doing?

Psychology ought to describe how and explain why we human beings live our lives as we do, which necessarily comes down to how and why we engage in the actions and have the subjective experiencings that we do. Our physical actions are themselves in part subjective phenomena, because actions are not simply body movements but also essentially involve intentions, beliefs about specific causation, and a sense of voluntariness. Thus, whatever else it is, psychology is inescapably the science of explaining the personally subjective. It is time for psychology to openly embrace its subjective subject-matter as such, which would open up a vast domain still waiting to be systematically studied. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

On the Subjective Quality of Social Justice: The Role of Affect as Information in the Psychology of Justice Judgments.

This article argues that it is not uncommon for people forming justice judgments to lack information that is most relevant in the particular situation. In information-uncertain conditions, people may therefore construct justice judgments by relying on how they feel about the events they have encountered, and justice judgments may hence be strongly influenced by affect information. Findings show that in information-uncertain conditions, the affective states that people had been in prior and unrelated to the justice event indeed strongly influenced their justice judgments. These findings thus reveal that in situations of information uncertainty, people's judgments of justice can be very subjective, susceptible to affective states that have no logical relationship with the justice judgments they are constructing. Implications for the social psychology of justice and the literature on social cognition and affect are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)