Examining the relationships among e-government maturity,corruption, economic prosperity and environmental degradation: A cross-country analysis

There is growing interest in the role and contribution of e-government to the levels of corruption, economic prosperity and environmental degradation of nation states. In this paper, we use publicly available archival data to explore the relationships among them. Results substantiate a significant relationship between (1) e-government maturity and corruption; and (2) e-government maturity, economic prosperity and environmental degradation through the mediating effects of corruption. The findings suggest that while e-government maturity did not contribute to economic prosperity and environmental degradation, its value could be realized indirectly via its impacts on corruption. Our findings contribute to the theoretical discourse on e-government impact by identifying the role of e-government in a country and provide indications to practice on enhancing its economic prosperity and lowering its environmental degradation by managing the levels of e-government maturity and corruption.     

Electricity theft: a comparative analysis

Electricity theft can be in the form of fraud (meter tampering), stealing (illegal connections), billing irregularities, and unpaid bills. Estimates of the extent of electricity theft in a sample of 102 countries for 1980 and 2000 are undertaken. The evidence shows that theft is increasing in most regions of the world. The financial impacts of theft are reduced income from the sale of electricity and the necessity to charge more to consumers. Electricity theft is closely related to governance indicators, with higher levels of theft in countries without effective accountability, political instability, low government effectiveness and high levels of corruption. Electricity theft can be reduced by applying technical solutions such as tamper-proof meters, managerial methods such as inspection and monitoring, and in some cases restructuring power systems ownership and regulation.     

关于新形势下反腐败斗争的思考

反腐败斗争是一项长期的政治任务。在新形势下,腐败与反腐败的斗争将更加尖锐激烈。其手段趋于现代化;其表现方式呈现出"法制化"特点。斗争的领域和范围也将日益国际化,预防腐败比惩治腐败更为重要。     

对国有企业贯彻落实惩治和预防腐败体系的认识

国有企业贯彻执行党中央颁布的<建立健全教育、制度、监督并重的惩治和预防腐败体系实施纲要>,要准确把握惩治和预防腐败体系的科学性,在惩治和预防腐败工作中要切实增强有效性,构建企业惩治和预防腐败体系要严格把握原则性.     

“腐败有益论”的辨析

20世纪60年代,国际学术界开始出现主张全面分析腐败在发展中国家的正、负功能并认为腐败具有某些有益影响的观点。国内学术界也有一些人主张重新认识和评价腐败的影响,并提出了腐败有益或腐败具有正效益的论点。“固公腐败有功”、“经济要上,廉政要让”、“关系是一种生产力”等思想在一些党政干部中也颇为流行。文章针对这些观点及危害性进行剖析。     

加强廉洁宣传教育力度努力从源头上预防腐败

反腐倡廉宣传教育工作是党风廉政建设和反腐败工作的基础,在预防腐败,加大源头治理腐败中具有重要地位,发挥着不可替代的作用.预防腐败必须贯彻落实科学发展观、加强党的建设和廉政勤政建设.反腐倡廉建设必须从教育抓起,不断夯实领导干部廉洁从政思想道德基础,筑牢拒腐防变思想道德防线     

Generative image inpainting with salient prior and relative total variation

Image inpainting is an important research direction of image processing. The generative adversarial network (GAN), which can reconstruct new reasonable content in the corrupted region, is the most interesting tool in current inpainting technologies. However, the previous deep methods generally need to be pre-added the binary mask representing the corruption location as the extra input. A novel inpainting algorithm which does not require additional external labels is proposed in this paper. The algorithm consists of two parts: corruption recognition module and content inpainting module, which can recognize and fill random corruption. In the recognizer, the salient object from the uncorrupted region is used as the prior for distinguishing corruption. In the inpainting module, a two-stage network is applied to reconstruct the image from coarse content to texture details. To avoid the misdetection in recognition which has a negative impact on the restoration in inpainting, we perform relative total variational filtering on the corrupted image, and use the salient map as the supervision of detail reconstruction. Qualitative and quantitative experiments on multiple datasets verify the effectiveness of our recognition module, the competitive advantage of our inpainting module, and the enlightening significance of our total algorithm in image inpainting.     

论贪污犯罪的审计对策

贪污手法主要有:伪造单据、涂改账目、虚报冒领,并利用"洗钱"使不合法收入合法化.贪污犯罪的审计要注意人员选配、取证时机、审计攀谈、审查账目、账外信息、横向比较、强强联合、合理授权等.     

空调用微通道换热器的可靠性研究进展

本文通过对微通道换热器应用于空调时的系统可靠性、长期可靠性和工艺可靠性的研究成果进行分析,总结了冷凝水排除、结霜化霜、防腐与积灰、加工工艺等方面存在的主要问题及研究方向,这对提高微通道换热器的可靠性具有重要的指导意义,有助于扩大微通道换热器在空调领域的应用范围并加快其推广进度。     

加强油田会战单位纪检监察工作的几点思考

油田会战单位远离油田管理机关,工作相对独立,切实加强纪检监察工作的关键在于:一要深刻认识“三个代表”的重要思想对指导油田会战单位加强纪检监察工作的重要性;二要进一步加强油田反腐倡廉工作,不断增强党员、干部的廉洁意识和纪律观念;三要加强对领导班子的监督检查,认真落实“五项要求”和“七项制度”;四要突出对重点人口、单位和部门的监督检查,把党风廉政建设责任制的执行情况作为领导干部考核的重要依据;五要以成本效能监察为重点,查找“跑、冒、滴、漏”的根源,堵塞管理中的漏洞;六要不断加强自身建设,增强反腐倡廉的政治责任感和紧迫感。