建筑材料实验教学开放模式的初步探讨

随着科技的发展,建筑材料的日新月异,高校教育改革的深入,应用型人才培养目标的明确化,建筑材料实验课由于自身的特点和特殊性,目前大多数高校的建筑材料实验课传统教育教学方式已经逐渐不能适应高校培养学生目标的需要,不能适应应用型人才培养的需要。本文从建筑材料开放性实验室的建立,实验室开放后建筑材料的教学模式,实验类型的划分以及建筑材料的现场教学等几个方面入手就建筑材料实验教学开放模式的初步研究进行了论述。     

新建本科院校实验室开放工作探索

传统的实践教学模式已逐渐满足不了应用型人才培养的要求,实验室开放是高校实践教学改革的大趋势。本文从实验室开放存在的问题、主要应对措施、注意事项等方面进行探讨,为高校实验室开放工作提供思路。     

新建本科院校实验室开放工作探索

传统的实践教学模式已逐渐满足不了应用型人才培养的要求,实验室开放是高校实践教学改革的大趋势。本文从实验室开放存在的问题、主要应对措施、注意事项等方面进行探讨,为高校实验室开放工作提供思路。     

应用型本科院校实验室开放管理方法探索

实验室开放是应用型本科院校培养适应社会需求的创新型人才的重要途径。本文阐述了应用型本科院校开放实验室的意义和定位,高校实验室在开放过程中出现的问题以及围绕遇到的问题提出了一定的解决方案,以提高高校实验室开放管理水平。     

关于新建应用型本科院校大学英语课程改革

新建应用型本科院校的人才培养目标就是为社会培养需要的应用型人才,英语课程作为一门重要的学习内容,为了适应时代需要和培养人才的需要,必须对其进行改革创新,确保培养出高质量的应用型人才.文章对新建应用型本科院校大学英语课程改革进行了探讨,期望通过本文的写作,为高校人才培养提供有益帮助.     

高校教材建设与培养应用型人才的研究

高等院校应用型人才培养的数量和质量是高等教育的可持续发展和社会的进步的决定性因素。这一目标的完成,很大程度上依赖于教材的建设与创新。现在的普通高校教材,在结构上还是把学科知识作为核心,已不能适应培养应用型人才的需求了。高校教材建设应定位于培养应用型人才,要把创新与特色,满足学生需要作为出发点。     

高校教材建设与培养应用型人才的研究

高等院校应用型人才培养的数量和质量是高等教育的可持续发展和社会的进步的决定性因素。这一目标的完成,很大程度上依赖于教材的建设与创新。现在的普通高校教材,在结构上还是把学科知识作为核心,已不能适应培养应用型人才的需求了。高校教材建设应定位于培养应用型人才,要把创新与特色,满足学生需要作为出发点。     

高校实验室建设与卓越工程人才培养

为了适应卓越工程人才培养的需要,充分发挥高校专业实验室的专长,介绍了高校实验室在卓越工程人才培养方面的地位和作用,从实验队伍建设、实验教学模式和开放实验室等方面分析了目前实验室建设中存在的主要问题,阐明了加强实验室建设的必要性和紧迫性。建议加大政策倾斜力度,稳定实验队伍,充分调动实验人员的积极性;进行实验教学模式改革,提高学生实验教学自主性,建立开放实验教学模式,为卓越工程人才培养创造良好的条件。     

基于专业教育与创新创业教育相融合的应用型人才培养模式研究

在很大程度上,我国高校现行教育模式下培养出的人才还不能很好地适应和满足社会的需求,学校“所给”与社会“所需”存在一定程度的脱节。为社会和地方培养所需实用人才,理应成为大多数普通高校尤其是地方普通本科院校的人才培养导向,应用型人才培养也就自然成为绝大多数地方普通本科高校的必然选择,将高校专业教育与高校创新创业教育两者相融合,共同服务于高校应用型人才培养,不失为一条有效的应用型人才培养途径。     

高职汽车技术服务与营销专业人才培养改革与探索

为了培养适应重庆汽车服务业需要的高素质、高技能汽车技术服务与营销专业应用型人才,需对高职汽车服务人才需求状况进行调研,分析以前人才培养模式中存在的问题,提出人才培养目标,围绕着目标的实现,分别从优化专业结构,深化教学改革,加强学生从业素质培养,加强师资建设和实验室建设四个方面进行人才培养模式改革和探索。     

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.     

Low doses of a red wine ingredient figh diabetes in mice

Aresearch group led by Prof. ZHAI Qiwei from the Institute for Nutritional Sciences under the CAS Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences has discovered that even relatively low doses of resveratrol--a chemical found in the skins of red grapes and in red wine--can improve the sensitivity of mice to the hormone insulin, according to a report in the October,2007 issue of Cell Metabolism. As insulin resistance is often characterized as the most critical factor contributing to the development of Type 2 diabetes, the findings“provide a potential new therapeutic approach for preventing or treating” both conditions, the researchers said.     

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.     

Molecular motor assembly of a biomimetic system

Active biological molecules and functional structures can be fabricated into a bio-mimetic system by using molecular assembly method. Such materials can be used for the drug delivery, disease diagnosis and therapy, and new nanodevice construction.     

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