图书馆面向未成年人阅读障碍症群体服务评价指标体系构建与实证研究

[目的/意义]旨在构建图书馆未成年人阅读障碍群体服务评价指标体系,为图书馆进行未成年人阅读障碍症群体服务评价提供参考依据.[方法/过程]运用德尔菲法分别构建基于图书馆自身评价及未成年人阅读障碍群体(及其家长)的阅读障碍服务评价指标体系.[结果/结论]本文构建的指标体系中基于图书馆自身评价的一级指标6个、二级指标18个,...     

信息化图书馆服务质量评价体系构建

信息化的图书馆服务质量评价体系是对图书馆服务质量的一个重要衡量,也是图书馆建设的一个重要方面。图书馆的服务质量反映标准有很多方面,其中比较重要的一方面就是如何构建信息化服务质量体系,一个体系的形成需要前期构建及后期的维护,本文重点论述了信息化图书馆服务质量评价体系的构建。     

基于LibQual+构建高校移动图书馆服务质量评价指标体系——运用德尔菲法的调查分析

Lib Qual+是一套较成熟、可应用于高校的图书馆服务质量评价模型。现时高校移动图书馆发展急需一套符合自身特色的服务质量评价体系。文章在Lib Qual+图书馆服务评价模型基础上,运用德尔菲法,尝试性地构建一套涵盖移动及网络环境、信息获取、服务效果3个范畴的高校移动图书馆服务质量评价指标体系。该指标体系构建特色及合理性在于新建移动及网络环境范畴的指标,在Lib Qual+基础上新增移动特色的信息获取范畴指标,在服务效果范畴突出关注个性化服务的评价。     

基于集对分析的图书馆服务质量综合评价

为提高图书馆服务质量,构建图书馆服务质量评价体系,运用集对分析理论建立评价数学模型.以福州职业技术学院图书馆为例,对其体系中各指标进行态势分析,并对其图书馆服务质量进行综合评价,为图书馆服务质量的评价定量化提供一种新的方法.     

读者满意度测评指标体系构建研究——以哈尔滨理工大学图书馆为例

本文以哈尔滨理工大学图书馆为例,对读者满意度测评指标体系构建进行了综合评价,并在提出读者满意度评价体系和建立读者满意度模糊测评模型的基础上,结合实例,论述了构建高校图书馆读者满意度评价体系的必要性。     

高校图书馆智慧服务质量评价体系构建

高校图书馆智慧服务质量评价体系的构建对优化服务、强化管理、增强馆员素质、提高业务水平、提升用户满意度、促进图书馆良性发展具有重要的意义。文章针对高校图书馆智慧服务质量评价体系现状提出了构建高校图书馆智慧服务质量评价体系的原则和路径。     

试论高校图书馆服务质量评价体系的建构

让用户满意是图书馆服务的终极目标,也是构建高校图书馆服务质量评价体系的核心标准.而建立该评价体系目前还存在着工作难以量化等诸多原因的困扰,建议建立基于用户的服务质量模糊评价体系,并通过三级管理模式来保障该评价体系的实施.     

基于LibQUAL的图书馆服务质量评价及实证研究

介绍了美国研究图书馆学会推出的评价图书馆服务质量的工具LibQUAL,从实证角度探讨了LibQUAL体系在图书馆服务质量评价中的应用,同时对LibQUAL体系作为图书馆服务质量评价工具的局限性进行了探讨,并提出了将LibQUAL和其他评价方法结合,构建完善的服务质量评价体系的设想.     

基于多层次模糊评价模型的图书馆读者满意度评价研究

本文论述了构建图书馆读者满意度评价体系的必要性,并在提出读者满意度评价体系和建立读者满意度模糊测评模型的基础上,对某校图书馆读者满意度进行了综合评价。     

图书馆数字参考咨询服务评价数学模型的设计及实现

图书馆数字参考咨询服务的飞速发展,使得数字参考咨询服务的质量评价具有非常现实的重要意义。本文对数字参考咨询服务质量评价的意义、方法及体系的构建进行了论述,并且对质量评价体系加以改进,对图书馆的数字参考咨询评价体系进行分析,取得良好的实际效果。     

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.     

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.     

Monoculture Rubber Plantations Have Negative Ef ects on Controlling Splash Erosion

<正>In Xishuangbanna,one of China’s most biodiverse regions,landscape has changed dramatically during the past three decades due to the conversion of tropical rainforest to rubber plantations.In steep areas,terraces are often constructed before planting rubber trees,which causes two important changes in the soil:the destabilization of soil in the bench terraces and the increased vulnerability of unvegetated riser faces to erosion.Few studies have documented the nature and intensity of erosion on bench terraces.Prof.LIU Wenjie and his colleagues from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden(XTBG)conducted a study in Menglun County(21°5′39″N,101°15′55″E),Xishuangbanna to evaluate the influence     

Chinese Scientists Use Earth Observation Technologies to Study and Protect Wild Camels

<正>Chinese scientists plan to apply Earth Observation technologies to protect the critically endangered wild camels(Camelus ferus).With the help of remote sensing,satellite positioning,geographical information system and wireless sensors networks,they will be able to access the distribution and population of the wild camels and protect their habitats.The project will be carried out by the International Research Center for Wild Camel Conservation,which was jointly established earlier this year by the Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth(RADI)of the Chinese     

More than Skin Deep – Understand Skin Biology by Means of Dermatogenomics

<正>The Paul Gerson Unna Research Group on Dermatogenomics was founded in October 2012 at the Partner Institute for Computational Biology.The ultimate goal of the group is to understand the biology of skin and skin appendages.