Genetically modified organisms and the age of (Un) reason? A critical examination of the rhetoric in the GMO public policy debates in Ghana

Using narrative policy analysis we examined the adversarial rhetoric of claims-makers in their bid to undermine alternative and conflicting accounts of GMOs as environmental and human health risk and to forestall any challenges to the scientific authority of the technological deterministic account of the GMO policy debates in Ghana. The study shows that the GMO discourse was built with the rhetorical frames of smallholder farmer vulnerability and entitlement used in the account it contradicts, thereby legitimating its own appeal for responsive remedies. Civil society claims attacked GMOs as discriminatory and as an environmental and human health risk. Government and scientists engaged in unsympathetic counter rhetorical strategies in hopes of debunking or neutralizing the claim made by civil society. In other words, Government and scientists were denying the claim that GMO was discriminatory and posed significant human health risk, as well as the call to action to do something about GMOs. Civil society adapted the counter rhetoric of insincerity, claiming that scientists had some kind of “hidden agenda” behind their claim, such as eagerness to just earn money from their patents on GMOs. It is imperative that communication on GMOs includes the underlying assumptions, the uncertainties and the probabilities associated with both best and worst case scenarios. This is a necessary condition to minimise misinformation on GMOs but may be insufficient to completely erase conspiracy theories from the minds of the public especially when scientists and government are perceived to be biased towards multinational corporations that are ostensibly preoccupied with making profits.     

Information on sellers and buyers characteristics: added value to explain price formation at primary fish markets in managed French scallop fisheries

The aim of this article is to explore, through a hedonic approach, the factors that might explain the price variability for the French-managed fishery of scallop at primary fish markets. In addition to factors classically identified in the current literature like intrinsic product characteristics or markets situation, the characteristics of operators are tested. The relationships of loyalty between sellers and buyers, and market assiduity are notably considered.     

论双电源切换装置的特点

双电源切换装置是一级负荷和其他重要负荷等用电设备中经常使用的关键设备。随着科技发展，双电源切换装置已有多种产品和型式供用户选择。本文重点对“Y”型和“H”型双电源切换装置的原理、发展过程、特点等进行论述，为电气设计、采购、及维护人员提供技术参考。     

心理健康教育视域下的校园文化景观教学——以福建商业高等专科学校为例

在校园文化建设中,景观建设是其基本内容。商专校园文化景观贯穿继承与弘扬"闽商精神"的根本理念,将几大文化板块相融通,构造出丰富多彩的内容。探讨校园文化景观与心理健康教育的关系,结合相关的基础理论,分析校园文化景观对心理健康教育的多重积极作用,使心理健康教育的情境化教学方式落到实处,有益于心理健康教育的良性发展,对深化高校心理健康教育的多样化途径的认识与理解也有借鉴作用。     

健康APP持续使用意愿研究——电子健康素养和确认度的影响

智能手机的普及促使健康APP得到普遍应用，但存在健康APP下载之后用户对其使用率低的普遍现象，为此分析健康APP持续使用意愿的影响因素十分有必要。在健康APP、信息系统持续使用等相关文献的研究基础之上，结合健康APP用户使用行为特征，在ECM-IS中引入电子健康素养，构建健康APP的持续使用意愿模型，主要分析电子健康素养和确认度对持续使用意愿的影响机制。另外给出模型中变量的定义和相关假设，为后续实证研究奠定理论基础。     

维果茨基心理发展理论对素质教育的启示

维果茨基是前苏联著名的心理学家,其所创立的心理发展理论和历史文化理论对心理学、教育学和实践的发展具有极其重要的影响.本文在简述维果茨基心理发展理论的基础上,探讨了其对我国当前素质教育进一步开展的意义.     

Optimal Retirement with Increasing Longevity

We develop an optimizing life‐cycle model of retirement with perfect capital markets. We show that longer healthy life expectancy usually leads to later retirement, but with an elasticity less than unity. We calibrate our model using data from the US and find that, over the last century, the effect of rising incomes, which promote early retirement, has dominated the effect of rising lifespans. Our model predicts continuing declines in the optimal retirement age, despite rising life expectancy, provided the rate of real wage growth remains as high as in the last century.