加强基本理论教育 夯实学生创新基础

作者就我国的地方高等教育如何加强基本理论教育,夯实学生创新基础,加强创新人才培养,使培养的学生能在将来工作岗位上充分发挥聪明才智,创造性地处理工作中所遇到的问题进行了探索,提出要紧密结合地方经济建设和社会发展的需要,坚持“准确专业定位、严格过程控制、加强内涵建设”的高等教育理念。     

地方高校基于创新创业教育人才培养的实践研究——以湖南城市学院为例

基于国家"大众创业、万众创新"的发展战略,地方高校必须进一步深化教育教学改革,通过制度建设、模式创新、平台基地建设等措施夯实创新创业教育基础、丰富创新创业教育途径、营造创新创业教育氛围,致力于培养学生的创新精神和创业能力,全面提高高等教育人才培养质量。     

协同创新背景下地方高校科研管理工作的思考

协同创新是国家继"211"工程、"985"工程之后为提升我国高等教育整体水平,全面提高高等教育质量,促进高等教育持续健康发展的又一重大战略部署,对高校科研管理工作提出了新的要求。本文简要分析了协同创新背景下地方高校科研管理工作面临的机遇与挑战,在此基础上提出了加强地方高校科研管理工作的措施。     

校企合作培养创新型教师的机制与实践

师资队伍的建设是现代高等教育发展的关键。我国高等教育事业取得了一定的成绩,教师队伍建设也卓有成效,但教师队伍总体素质还不能满足培养高质量的创新人才的需要。已成为制约高等教育改革发展的关键。本文从师资现状入手,分析高校教师存在的一些问题,论述了通过加强校企合作,来提高教师队伍建设水平,更好地为地方经济建设培养实用型人才的一些做法。     

新工科背景下建筑学毕业设计多元教学实践--以安徽建筑大学为例

新工科建设对高等教育人才培养质量提出了新的标准,建筑学主要培养具有较强执业实践能力的高级专门人才。毕业设计是建筑学专业人才培养的重要环节,是学生提升设计实践能力和创新思维能力、开阔视野以及加强社会责任感、提升团队协作能力的重要过程。该文通过安徽建筑大学建筑学专业近年来本科生毕业设计教学实践,探讨了地方高校立足自身实际开展新工科建设,探索使用多元化教学模式的方式方法、程序、收获以及建议。     

“一带一路”背景下地方高校外向型创新创业人才培养模式研究

"一带一路"倡议的提出为地方高校外向型创新创业人才培养提供了契机,本文在对"一带一路"背景下地方高校外向型创新创业人才培养的意义进行分析的基础上,从制定人才培养战略、构建课程体系、创新联合培养机制、加强师资队伍建设等方面探讨了地方高校培养外向型创新创业人才的模式。     

地方高水平大学科技创新体系建设方略——以广西大学为例

大学建设科技创新体系有利于践行大学的三大功能,有利于自身快速可持续发展,也有利于提高地方自主创新能力.基于自身的特点,地方高水平大学科技创新体系建设原则应为"发挥优势、立足本地,面向全国",发展目标要"少而精",具体措施要充分发挥特色研究、优长学科、创新团队、成果转化、学生创新等积极因素的作用.     

地方应用型本科院校环境工程专业人才培养的思考

本文以新组建的地方本科院校环境工程专业为研究对象,分别从培养目标、优化课程体系、加强"双师型"师资队伍建设、推进第二课堂等方面探讨如何建设适应地方经济社会发展的环境工程专业应用型人才培养的创新体系。     

地方院校创新创业人才培养思考

地方院校作为国家培养人才的主体,顺应"大众创业、万众创新"的时代要求,针对资源匮乏、创新创业项目新颖性不足等问题完善创新创业人才培养,地方院校应该多渠道整合教育资源,加强师资队伍和创新创业教育课程体系建设,改革创新创业教学方法与考核方式,构建"1+1+1专业导师制"培养方式。     

协同创新背景下地方高校科研管理工作的思考

协同创新是国家继“211”工程、“985”工程之后为提升我国高等教育整体水平,全面提高高等教育质量,促进高等教育持续健康发展的又一重大战略部署,对高校科研管理工作提出了新的要求。本文简要分析了协同创新背景下地方高校科研管理工作面临的机遇与挑战,在此基础上提出了加强地方高校科研管理工作的措施。     

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.