新建本科院校科研工作

科研是新建本科院校汇聚人才、提高教学质量、提升学校整体实力和办学竞争力的重要途径。但是新建本科院校的科研工作在发展中面临着诸多挑战和困难,只有正确处理教学与科研关系,采取有力措施,端正科研管理工作的思路,依据学院的实际情况和原有的学科优势,推动团队建设,才能提高这些院校人才培养的质量和社会服务的能力。     

新建本科院校科研管理初探

本文对新建本科院校科研现状进行了分析,从建立健全有效的科研管理制度、建立有效的激励机制、创造良好的科研环境和建立科学的评价机制四方面探讨了新建本科院校科研管理方法,得出了一些新建本科院校科研管理的策略.     

浅谈新建本科院校图书馆继续教育

新建本科院校要重视图书馆馆员的继续教育,文章就馆员同时代发展存在的差距进行了调查分析,阐述了馆员继续教育的内容和途径.     

新建本科院校档案管理现代化问题

新建本科院校承担了我国高等教育面向大众的重任.从观念、制度、技术、人才和经费等入手,实现档案管理的现代化,将有力地推动新建本科院校建立现代化管理机制,促进教学质量和办学水平的提升.     

新建本科院校图书馆发展浅析

分析了新建本科院校图书馆的状态,根据当前图书馆所面临的各种问题和困难,探讨了新建立的本科院校图书馆如何谋求发展。     

新建本科院校档案管理现代化问题

新建本科院校承担了我国高等教育面向大众的重任。从观念、制度、技术、人才和经费等入手。实现档案管理的现代化，将有力地推动新建本科院校建立现代化管理机制，促进教学质量和办学水平的提升。     

新建本科院校科研工作的思考

近几年来 ,一些专科院校通过自身努力或合并等途径 ,陆续成为本科院校 ,为其发展带来了前所未有的良好机遇 ,但也面临着严峻的挑战。特别是新建本科院校的科研工作比较薄弱 ,只有充分认识科学研究对学校发展和建设的重要地位和作用 ,认真研究解决科研工作面临的困难和问题 ,切实加强科研工作 ,以科研促教学 ,发挥高等院校的科技优势、人才优势和智力资源 ,为现代化建设培养高素质的专门人才做出更大的贡献。　新建本科院校要充分认识科研工作在学校建设和发展中的重要地位和作用　科研是加强师资队伍建设 ,提高学校教学质量的必由之路　科研…     

新建本科院校电子资源建设刍议

就新建本科院校电子资源建设的现状进行了分析,确立了电子资源建设的原则,提出了新建本科院校加强电子资源建设的措施,阐述了电子资源的几种引进方式,并对电子资源供应商提出了建议。     

新建本科院校科研激励机制研究

新建本科院校由于资源的整合,面临着尽快完成由专科教育向本科教育的转轨,其科研管理应该根据科研工作自身的特点和发展变化,不断认识完善和发展科研管理体系。科研激励机制是一种科学、有效的科研管理手段,对现行新建本科院校的激励机制进行深入研究,指出科研激励机制的现状及其作用,并构建新建本科院校的科研激励机制,以提高从事科研人员的积极性和创造性,促进学校科研工作的顺利发展。     

浅析新建本科院校教师队伍建设

新建本科院校教师队伍建设是新建本科院校实现顺利转型亟待解决的首要问题。目前,新建本科院校教师队伍存在结构不合理、实践能力不足、质量有待提高等问题,主要是由教师观念落后、教师引进单一、学校忽视培训、教师评价体系失衡等原因造成的,因此,转变教师的教育观念是先导,多形式引智是前提,加强校本培训是根本,完善评价指标是动力。     

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.     

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.     

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