人文素质教育在提高独立学院学生素质中的作用

在分析独立学院学生中存在的问题后,发现深层次的根本性原因在于独立学院学生综合素质水平较低,其中严重缺乏人文素质教育。大量学生教育工作的开展仅停留在解决表面问题,没有追根溯源,由表及里。人文素质教育是提高学生综合素质、促进其可持续发展的重要教育活动,在提高学生综合素质方面可以发挥积极作用,它重点解决的是思维性问题,提升学生认知度。     

人文素质教育在提高独立学院学生素质中的作用

在分析独立学院学生中存在的问题后,发现深层次的根本性原因在于独立学院学生综合素质水平较低,其中严重缺乏人文素质教育。大量学生教育工作的开展仅停留在解决表面问题,没有追根溯源,由表及里。人文素质教育是提高学生综合素质、促进其可持续发展的重要教育活动,在提高学生综合素质方面可以发挥积极作用,它重点解决的是思维性问题,提升学生认知度。     

浅谈中职学生的人文素质培养

针对当前中职学生人文素养的不足,给出了中职学生进行人文素质教育的内涵和意义。通过对构建合理科学的课程体系、课程教学中渗透人文教育精神、开展第二课堂活动、教师人文素质提升等四个方面来探讨有效提升中职学生人文素质培养的途径,突出人文素质培养在中职教育中的作用,以期帮助中职学生人文素养的提升。     

浅析在人体解剖学教学中融入人文素质教育的必要性及实践

随着现代医学的逐步发展,如何提高医学生的人文素质成为医学教育中的重要问题。我校人体解剖学教研室在教学工作中注重对学生的人文素质教育,通过一系列举措提高学生的人文意识。本文就开展医学生人文素质教育的必要性和在人体解剖学教学中融入人文素质教育的实践两个方面展开论述。     

浅谈影视艺术手段与高职学生人文精神培养

高职毕业生人文素质普遍较差,直接影响其长远发展,因此,必须重视对高职学生人文素质的教育和培养.本文针对高职教育实际,提出高职的人文素质教育重点应放在学生的人文精神的养成上,除在专业课程的传授过程中渗透人文精神外,可充分利用影视艺术手段促成学生人文精神的养成.     

高职学生人文素质教育方法创新探讨

针对目前高职院校学生人文素质教育缺失的现状,本文首先介绍了当前高职院校人文素质教育缺失的现状,简单分析了其中的原因,并在此基础上,从建立人文素质教育评价标准、加强人文素质教育与专业教育的融合,以及加强教师人文素质这三个角度提出了高职院校实施人文素质教育的方法策略,对于高职院校提高人文素质教育水平具有一定借鉴意义。     

中外合作办学英语教学中的人文素质教育

英语教学在中外合作办学项目中起着至关重要的作用,英语教学质量的优劣直接关系到合作办学的成败。然而由于近年高职院校生源质量不断下降,学校片面重视专业教育和技能训练,学生人文素质造成缺失。英语课程作为中外合作办学中的核心课程和少有的人文课程,应该在教学中渗透人文素质教育,促进学生人文素质的提升。     

浅谈影视艺术手段与高职学生人文精神培养

高职毕业生人文素质普遍较差，直接影响其长远发展，因此，必须重视对高职学生人文素质的教育和培养。本文针对高职教育实际，提出高职的人文素质教育重点应放在学生的人文精神的养成上，除在专业课程的传授过程中渗透人文精神外，可充分利用影视艺术手段促成学生人文精神的养成。     

人文素质教育--农村教育不可或缺的内容

农村教育培训是适应农村经济发展的需要,也是解决农村劳动力转移的重要措施。当前的农村教育中普遍存在重技能、轻素质;重专业,轻人文的现象。本文从人文素质教育在农村教育中的地位和农村人文素质教育的特质内容阐述了农村发展人文素质的重要性。     

中职生人文素质培养经验谈

当前我国中职生的人文素质状况不容乐观。在中职人文教育中,语文教师肩负着培养中职生人文素质的重要责任。具体做法有：树立人文教育理念,完善素质教育目标;挖掘课程人文内涵,加强师生互动交流;指导学生课外阅读,丰富学生文化底蕴;教师加强人文修养,潜移默化感染学生。     

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.     

Our Own Devices: Heterotopic Communication, Discourse, and Culture in the Information Society 1

The main premise of this article is that in information societies generally, and in virtual social contexts particularly, a distinctive style of interaction to facilitate the communication of difference, heterotopic communication , has emerged. It rests on two cultural foundations: an ideological belief in the positive, socially integrating power of communication, and a prevailing ethic of instrumental rationality, subjective individualism, and strategically practiced self-interest. The former is demonstrated by the use of simulation and spectacle as sources of information; exhibitionism/voyeurism as a communicative style; and the awareness of surveillance. The latter is seen in the competitive use of knowledge as a commodity; a surface globalism masking deep parochialism; lateral as well as vertical information inequity; and the use of public versus private as strategies for engagement rather than as spaces. Those who engage in heterotopic communication resort to their 'own devices' both in the sense of personal agendas, strategies, interests, and interpretations, and in the form of the telecommunication tools that help realize them. These personal and technological devices allow individuals with the right educational and technical resources to avoid exposure to disagreement, difference, or other information that does not serve their direct purposes or reflect their particular views of the world; yet they also help convey the appearance of openness, availability, and cooperation. This style of interaction is used strategically in combination with information and communication technologies to gain social or economic advantages, but it may encourage social separatism and parochialism, inhibit the negotiation of disputes, and emphasize competing interests.     

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