我国政府统计网站绩效测评与提升

从信息公开、在线办事、公众参与、网站建设与维护四个方面,对我国省级政府统计网站绩效进行评估.结果显示,政府统计网站绩效水平参差不齐,差异明显.必须高度重视统计网站建设,强化"三个面向"意识,加快信息资源和网站功能建设.     

中国政府网站的三大功能定位——政府网站理论基础之一

建设“透明、服务、民主”政府是我国政府公共管理方式变革的重要方向，政府网站是政府提高公共管理服务水平的重要手段，将“信息公开、在线办事和公众参与”作为网站主要功能定位，既是我国政府网站建设的基本要求也是评价政府网站绩效的理论基础。     

贯彻落实《政府信息公开条例》大力推进信息公开

论述了2008年中国政府网站绩效评估指标体系中的信息公开指标体系的设计思路;提出了通过加强重点公开信息专栏建设、加强政府信息资源梳理和目录编制、加强依申请公开渠道和机制的建设等做法提升政府网站信息公开的规范性;指出全面梳理整合信息资源、不断完善信息公开目录、加大政府信息公开的力度、建立健全公开政府信息的更新维护机制是我国政府网站信息公开规范的要求和发展趋势。     

基于分众服务的政府网站优化研究

分析基于分众服务政府网站建设的必要性。在研究国外政府网站优化的基础上,从建立政府网站用户分类数据库、构建用户信息需求模型、优化网站信息资源库、建立用户信息反馈机制4个方面对我国政府网站提出优化策略。     

政府网站信息无障碍设计的内涵、政策与举措

论文论述了信息无障碍的含义,在具体分析了国内外政府网站信息无障碍的政策、标准和举措之后,提出了我国政府网站信息无障碍建设对策。     

谈我国政府网络建设

世界各国都公认 ,政府是巨大的信息资源之一。开发政府信息资源成为各国信息化建设的主要目标之一。目前我国也在极力推动政府上网工程 ,开发政府信息资源。本文简要论述了我国政府上网的背景原因、我国政府网站建设及政府上网的作用     

论政府信息获取对电子政务建设的影响

本文通过电子政务建设与政府信息获取关系的深入探讨,指出电子政务建设必须基于政府信息为所有个人或组织获取利用的前提.当前,政府网站建设的进步与网上信息获取的低效已经限制和影响了电子政务的发展.同时,通过我国政府网站信息获取与利用状况的分析,提出改进措施与对策.     

我国中部地区政府网站建设的对策分析

随着信息科技的逐渐普及,政府网站建设已是激励政府效能建设必不可少的一种工具。然而政府网站建设面临种种困境,亟需转变政府服务观念;科学定位网站,优化政府网站体整规划;加强政府对信息资源的整合力度及建设;缩小数字鸿沟,增进政府公民双向互动;加强政府门户主网站和部门子网站之间的整合程度;维护网络安全,加快立法步伐等。以期能使我国中部地区政府网站的运行及管理更加有序,充分发挥政府网站的总体效益并使中部地区政府效能建设得到最大的促进与推动。     

国内省级政府网站信息构建状况分析

本文针对我国已建立的省级政府网站，以信息构建作为评价标准，通过考察网站信息组织、导航、检索、标识等方面的表现，从信息内容组织功能的角度对省级政府网站进行定量评价，并探讨网站建设状况与地理分布和地区经济的相关性。     

谈我国政府网站合并与整合的必要性和可行性

针对当前我国政府网站建设与运行维护工作中存在的网站信息重复与缺失、内容更新机制不健全和运行维护成本高等关键问题,提出合并同级政府部门现有的职能相近或相关的网站,或由上级政府职能部门自上而下建设统一的网站平台以整合网站信息、削减网站数量、方便网站用户以及促进网站可持续发展的设想,论述了政府网站合并与整合的必要性和可行性,并对网站合并的具体策略与实施步骤作了初步探讨.     

To serve and promote science development via innovation

CAS should stick to the principle of rendering service to, and giving impetus for, the development of China＇s science enterprise by making S＆T innovations, said CAS President LU Yongxiang. The CAS president made the remarks in a recent talk to communicate the gist of the winter session of the Party＇s Leading-member Group at CAS, which was held from 7 to 11 January in Beijing.     

Students' Reactions to the Introduction of Videoconferencing for Classroom Instruction

This study examined how students who had no prior experience with videoconferencing would react to the use of videoconferencing as an instructional medium. Students enrolled in seven different courses completed a questionnaire at the beginning of the semester and again at the end of the semester. Students at the origination and remote sites did not differ in their reactions toward videoconferencing but there was a significant difference for gender. Women reacted less favorably to videoconferencing. Compared to the beginning of the semester, students reported significantly less positive attitudes toward taking a course through videoconferencing at the end of the semester. There were no significant differences in students' attitudes toward videoconferencing across courses at the beginning of the semester but there were significant differences across the courses at the end of the semester. The results suggest the need for better preparation for both students and instructors.     

Tracing the origin and early radiation of birds——Paleornithologist ZHOU Zhonghe

With great care, Dr. ZHOU Zhonghe takes out a package wrapped by cotton tissue from a drawer and says: "This is the gem of our collections: the fossil of a bird that lived 125 million years ago!" Then, pointing at a tiny mound, he explains: "Look, this is the claw and that is the head. It was in the egg shell and ready to hatch ... The species fell into a family of waterside inhabitants."     

Cooler temperatures inductive to locust outbreaks

Ajoint study by Prof. ZHANG Zhibin from the CAS Institute of Zoology and his co-workers from Norway, US and Swiss have indicated that historical outbreaks of migratory locusts in China were associated with cold spells, suggesting that China＇s projected climate warming could decrease the pest＇s numbers. The study was published in Proceedings of theNational Academy of Sciences on 17 September, 2007.     

Exploring Multiplexity: Social Network Structures in a Computer-Supported Distance Learning Class

A computer-mediated group is a complex entity whose members exchange many types of information via multiple means of communication in pursuit of goals specific to their environment. Over time, they coordinate technical features of media with locally enacted use to achieve a viable working arrangement. To explore this complex interaction, a case study is presented of the social networks of interactions and media use among members of a class of computer-supported distance learners. Results show how group structures associated with project teams dominated who communicated with whom, about what, and via which media over the term, and how media came to occupy their own communication niches: Webboard for diffuse class-wide communication; Internet Relay Chat more to named others but still for general communication across the class; and e-mail primarily for intrateam communication. Face-to-face interaction, occurring only during a short on-campus session, appears to have had a catalytic effect on social and emotional exchanges. Results suggest the need to structure exchanges to balance class-wide sharing of ideas with subgroup interactions that facilitate project completion, and to provide media that support these two modes of interaction.     

The Role of Intermediating Institutions in the Diffusion of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI): How Industry Associations Intervened in Denmark, Finland, and Hong Kong

Electronic data interchange (EDI) provides means for interorganizational communication, creates network externalities, requires an advanced information technology (IT) infrastructure, and relies on standards. In the diffusion of such innovations, institutional involvement is imperative. Such institutions contain governmental agencies, national and global standardization organizations, local government, and nonprofit private organizations like industry associations. The last type of organizations we call intermediating institutions. They intermediate or coordinate ("inscribe") the activities of a group of would-be adopters. Unfortunately, little is known of how these organizations shape the EDI diffusion trajectory. In this article we examine one specific type of intermediating organizations?industry associations?and how they advanced the EDI diffusion process in the grocery sectors of Hong Kong, Denmark and Finland. We identify six institutional measures, placed into a matrix formed by the mode of involvement (influence vs. regulation) and the type of diffusion force (supply push vs. demand pull), that can be mobilized to further the EDI diffusion. Industry associations were found to be active users of all these measures to varying degrees. Their role was critical especially in knowledge building, knowledge deployment, and standard setting. Furthermore, institutional involvement varied due to policy and cultural contingencies and power dependencies.     

How Electronic Publishers are Protecting Against Piracy: Doubts About Technical Systems of Protection

The increasing prospects of digital piracy has prompted the perceived need by electronic publishers to adopt technical systems of protection, and governments to reform their copyright laws. This article is a preliminary study of the management of intellectual property by electronic publishers, defined as those involved in the production of online databases, and CD-ROMs. It focuses on three main issues: (1) how electronic publishers view the increasing threat of piracy; (2) the methods of protection employed to protect intellectual property in digital format; and (3) the importance of technological protection of intellectual property in electronic publications. The analysis is based on a sample of 23 UK electronic publishers. The interviews revealed an interesting assortment of protection methods and did not show that technological protection was a preferred way. Instead, the means of protection, in addition to copyright law, comprised niche markets, pricing, trust, bad publicity, and nontechnical and technical means.     

Rough Justice: A Statistical Assessment of ICANN's Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy

Long-standing conflict between domain name registrants and trademark holders prompted the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to create a global, mandatory arbitration procedure known as the Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP). The UDRP has been used in 2166 cases involving 3938 domain names as of 1 November 2000. The policy gives the initiator of a complaint, generally a trademark holder, the right to choose which ICANN-accredited dispute resolution service provider (RSP) will handle the case. During the preparation of the UDRP,some feared that complainant selection would lead to "forum shopping" that might bias the results. This article performs a statistical assessment of the forum-shopping thesis and finds support for it. There are statistically significant differences in the various RSPs' propensity to take away names from defendants; there are also major differences in the number of cases brought to each RSP. RSPs who take away names have the larger share of cases. The study examines other variables that might explain differences in market share, such as price, the plaintiff's nationality, or the time taken to decide a case. It finds that nationality and time also are correlated with market share. The study concludes that shopping for a favorable outcome is an important factor in the UDRP.     

Prevalence of soft neurological signs in Chinese people

Prof. Raymond C.K. Chen, a neuropsychologist with the CAS Institute of Psychology, has made novel progress in his studies of schizophrenia. His work has been reported by a recent issue of Behavioural Neurology.     

Stern-Gerlach effect goes chiral

Prof. SUN Changpu from the CAS Institute of Theoretical Physics and coworkers from University of Basel in Switzerland have worked out a way --at least in theory --to split a beam of molecules according to their chirality. The technique involves passing the molecules through three different laser beams and is similar to the famous Stern-Gerlach effect, whereby a beam of atoms passing through a magnetic field is split in two according to the atoms＇ spin states （Phys. Rev. Lett. 99 130403）.