Harsh Parenting and Adolescent suicidal Tendencies: Based on A Moderated Mediation Model

Various evidence reveals that teenagers today have become a population with high suicide risk. It is of great theoretical and practical significance to investigate the factors influencing teenagers’ suicide mentality and the mechanism underlying them. Published in Psychological Development and Education, this study examines the relationship between harsh parenting and adolescent suicidal tendencies, based on a questionnaire survey of 4071 secondary students from four middle schools in Xi'an City

Open Environmental Information Upon Disclosure Request in China: The Paradox of Legal Mobilization

Taking a realist view that law is one form of politics, this dissertation studies the roles of citizens and organizations in mobilizing the law to request government agencies to disclose environmental information in China, and during this process, how the socio-legal field interacts with the political-legal sphere, and what changes have been brought about during their interactions. This work takes a socio-legal approach and applies methodologies of social science and legal analysis. It aims to understand the paradox of why and how citizens and entities have been invoking the law to access environmental information despite the fact that various obstacles exist and the effectiveness of the new mechanism of environmental information disclosure still remains low. The study is largely based on the 28 cases and eight surveys of environmental information disclosure requests collected by the author. The cases and surveys analysed in this dissertation all occurred between May 2008, when the OGI Regulations and the OEI Measures came into effect, and August 2012 when the case collection was completed. The findings of this study have shown that by invoking the rules of law made by the authorities to demand government agencies disclosing environmental information, the public, including citizens, organizations, law firms, and the media, have strategically created a repercussive pressure upon the authorities to act according to the law. While it is a top-down process that has established the mechanism of open government information in China, it is indeed the bottom-up activism of the public that makes it work. Citizens and organizations’ use of legal tactics to push government agencies to disclose environmental information have formed not only an end of accessing the information but more a means of making government agencies accountable to their legal obligations. Law has thus played a pivotal role in enabling citizen participation in the political process. Against the current situation in China that political campaigns, or politicization, from general election to collective actions, especially contentious actions, are still restrained or even repressed by the government, legal mobilization, or judicialization, that citizens and organizations use legal tactics to demand their rights and push government agencies to enforce the law, become de facto an alternative of political participation. During this process, legal actions have helped to strengthen the civil society, make government agencies act according to law, push back the political boundaries, and induce changes in the relationship between the state and the public. In the field of environmental information disclosure, citizens and organizations have formed a bottom-up social activism, though limited in scope, using the language of law, creating progressive social, legal and political changes. This study emphasizes that it is partial and incomplete to understand China’s transition only from the top-down policy-making and government administration; it is also important to observe it from the bottom-up perspective that in a realistic view law can be part of politics and legal mobilization, even when utterly apolitical, can help to achieve political aims as well. This study of legal mobilization in the field of environmental information disclosure also helps us to better understand the function of law: law is not only a tool for the authorities to regulate and control, but inevitably also a weapon for the public to demand government agencies to work towards their obligations stipulated by the laws issued by themselves.Tämä väitöskirja tarkastelee kansalaisten ja järjestöjen rooleja ympäristön tilaa koskevan tiedon vaatimisessa valtion laitoksilta hyödyntämällä sitä varten tehtyjä lakeja Kiinan kansantasavallassa. Tarkastelun kohteena ovat myös tietopyyntöprosessin yhteiskunnallis-laillisen puolen ja poliittis-laillisen puolen vuorovaikutuksen mukanaan tuomat muutokset. Väitöskirjan lähestymistapa on oikeussosiologinen sen hyödyntäessä yhteiskuntatieteen ja laintulkinnan metodeja. Sen keskiössä on kansalaisten ja muiden toimijoiden toiminnan ristiriita niiden hyödyntäessä lakia saadakseen käsiinsä ympäristön tilaa koskevaa informaatiota. Ristiriita kumpuaa tiedon saannin epävarmuudesta ja uuden mekanismin toimintavarmuuden kyseenalaisuudesta. Väitöskirjassa laki nähdään realistisen koulukunnan mukaan yhtenä politiikan osa-alueena. Tutkimuksen pohjana on 28 tapausta ja kahdeksan selvitystä ympäristötietoa koskevista tietopyynnöistä. Tapaukset ja selvitykset ajoittuvat vuoden 2008 toukokuun jälkeiselle ajalle, jolloin Kiina otti käyttöön tiedon avoimuutta käsittelevät säädökset. Materiaalien keräys päättyi vuoden 2012 elokuussa. Tutkimuksen johtopäätös on, että hyödyntämällä valtion omia lainvoimaisia tietopyyntöjä mahdollistavia mekanismeja, kansalaiset, järjestöt, asianajotoimistot ja media ovat aikaansaaneet valtioon kohdistuvan paineen, joka pakottaa sen toimimaan lain kirjaimen mukaan. Näin ylhäältä käsin luodun mekanismin toimivuuden on todistanut ruohonjuuritason aktivismi. Kansalaiset ja järjestöt ovat siis luoneet niin pääsyn tiedon lähteille kuin keinon saattaa valtion toimijat vastuuseen lain edellyttämistä velvoitteistaan. Lain rooli kansalaisten osallistamisessa poliittiseen prosessiin on täten ilmeinen.Siirretty Doriast

Fighting the Water Giant: Lawsuits against Veolia Finally Accepted by China Court

One month ago in Lanzhou, a heavily industrialized city of 3.6 million people in the northwestern province of Gansu, a district court accepted the filing of four lawsuits by fourteen citizens against Lanzhou Veolia Water Company after almost a year of struggle

Formulae of ı\imath-divided powers in Uq(sl2){\bf U}_q(\mathfrak{sl}_2), III

The $\imath$-divided powers (depending on a parity) form the $\imath$canonical basis for the split rank 1 $\imath$quantum group and they are a basic ingredient for $\imath$quantum groups of higher rank. We obtain closed formulae for the structure constants for multiplication of the $\imath$-divided powers. Closed formulae for the comultiplication of the $\imath$-divided powers are also obtained. These structure constants are integral and positive.Comment: 19 page

The translation of Indonesian Passive Voice into English in Novel 9 Summers 10 Autumns by Iwan Setyawan translated by Maggie Tiojakin

Desi Amalia. 1155030043. The Translation of Indonesian Passive Voice Into English In Novel 9 Summers 10 Autumns by Iwan Setawan Translated by Maggie Tiojakin. Thesis for English Literature in Adab and Humanities Faculty, State Islamic University of Sunan Gunung Djati Bandung, 2019. This research is done to find out the corresponding equivalents of Indonesian passive constructions in English as used in the novel and its translation an to identify the method of translation when translate SL into TL so that the TL sounds natural. The steps and procedures of discovering the answer to the both of research problems are shown under the discussion of research method which includes: (1) the data source, (2) method and technique of collecting the data consisting of observation method and note-taking technique; (3) method and technique of analyzing the data. The results of the study show that among the passive in Indonesian which can be identified in SL, most are marked by prefix di- (prefix di- + verb base) and (prefix di- + verb base + suffix –kan, -i), and prefix ter-, which are also translated into passive in English (be + past participle ) with five types namely (be+ past participle) + to infinitive translation, (be+ past participle) + by agent translation (stated and implied) , the next is translated into active, and the rest translated into get/got + past participle. This clearly reveals that some passives in SL are retained, namely translated into passive in English and some others are translated into actives. Second, from the 684 data analysis the researcher found four types of translation methods or procedures used in the passive translation, namely 33 sentences are translated using literal translation, 21 sentences are translated using transposition, 17 sentences are translated using modulation, and 13 sentences are translated using adaptation. From the analysis it also clearly shows that most of the passive voice in the Novel used literal translation to get the equivalent of the meaning

Dynamic Analysis of a Phytoplankton-Fish Model with Biological and Artificial Control

We investigate a nonlinear model of the interaction between phytoplankton and fish, which uses a pair of semicontinuous systems with biological and artificial control. First, the existence of an order-1 periodic solution to the system is analyzed using a Poincaré map and a geometric method. The stability conditions of the order-1 periodic solution are obtained by a theoretical mathematical analysis. Furthermore, based on previous analysis, we investigate the bifurcation in the order-1 periodic solution and prove that the order-1 periodic solution breaks up an order-1 periodic solution at least. In addition, the transcritical bifurcation of the system is described. Finally, we provide a series of numerical results that illustrate the feasibility of the theoretical results. Based on the theoretical and numerical results, we analyzed the feasibility of biological and artificial control, which showed that biological and artificial methods can control phytoplankton blooms. These results are expected to be useful for the study of phytoplankton dynamics in aquatic ecosystems