增强家庭经济困难大学生社会责任感的朋辈辅导个案研究

在对家庭经济困难大学生的资助过程中,受助大学生社会责任感的提高一直是高校资助工作需要实现的重要目标之一。本文以个案研究的方法,对一名家庭经济困难大学生社会责任感的增强做了朋辈辅导干预研究。结果表明,在研究者与朋辈辅导小组成员及学生本人的共同努力下,分阶段实施的朋辈支持计划是有效的。     

社会工作方法创新大学生资助工作的思考

我国家庭经济困难学生资助政策体系日趋完善,基本保障了家庭经济困难大学生的日常生活。然而各高校普遍存在资助对象识别难精准、资助育人功能未充分发挥等问题。探讨利用社会工作方法介入到大学生资助工作中,利用社会工作"助人自助"理念,实现大学生资助工作的内涵式发展。     

高校贫困生资助政策引起的大学生思想素质滑坡问题探析

随着高校家庭经济困难学生资助工作的发展,大学生对现行的资助政策的不适应性导致大学生不能正确看待资助工作中出现的新问题,因此造成大学生思想素质滑坡问题。文章通过大学生资助工作,分析高校家庭经济困难学生的资助工作现状和大学生思想素质滑坡的具体表现,并由此提出高校资助工作的改进措施。     

朋辈心理辅导在大学生心理健康教育中的优势与不足

从介绍朋辈的心理辅导入手，对它在大学生心理健康教育中的优势与不足进行了分析，以增强朋辈心理辅导在大学生心理健康教育中的作用。     

高校朋辈心理辅导的实践路径探索

朋辈心理辅导作为大学生心理健康教育的重要方式之一,也是心理健康教育体系的有益补充,具有朋辈认同感、方便易行和缓解师资不足等优势。但目前许多高校的朋辈辅导存在机制不健全、专业性不够、辅导形式单一等问题,如何有效地开展朋辈心理辅导、提升辅导的质量与效率,势在必行,本文从两种模式和三种途径的角度对高校有效实践朋辈心理辅导进行了个人思考。     

浅析高校大学生朋辈心理互助体系的构建

朋辈心理辅导是心理辅导的一种新的模式。本文阐述了当代高校进行朋辈心理辅导的必要性,针对当前的发展现状指出问题,并提出了构建高校大学生朋辈心理互助体系的几点建议。     

浅析高校大学生朋辈心理互助体系的构建

朋辈心理辅导是心理辅导的一种新的模式。本文阐述了当代高校进行朋辈心理辅导的必要性,针对当前的发展现状指出问题,并提出了构建高校大学生朋辈心理互助体系的几点建议。     

高校家庭经济困难学生的甄别与认定研究

家庭经济困难学生的甄别和认定是高校开展贫困生资助工作的首要环节。在家庭经济困难学生认定工作实际操作过程中还存在着一些问题。只有加强经济困难学生的甄别与认定,才能使国家对大学生的支持和关爱产生更大的作用和社会效益,真正解决贫困大学生上学难的问题。     

西部高校家庭经济困难学生的认定方法及资助体系探讨

随着高等教育从精英化教育转为大众化教育,已经成为被社会关注的弱势群体之一的高校家庭经济困难学生人数也不断增加,如何正确认定高校家庭经济困难学生是做好家庭经济困难学生工作的前提条件。本文在对西部高校家庭经济困难学生产生原因进行分析的基础上,探讨其认定方法和资助体系,以期进一步完善贫困学生资助政策,进而建立一个统一、公平和高效的资助制度体系。     

普通高校家庭经济困难学生资助问题探析

本文概述了国家现行资助家庭经济困难学生政策体系以及现状。结合国家和高校的资助情况,总结分析了家庭经济困难学生资助工作中存在的困难与问题,指出家庭经济困难学生的认定难度大、勤工助学岗位少、社会捐助渠道窄、学生信息不能实现动态管理等问题,是目前高校家庭经济困难学生资助工作中的症结所在。在针对性地提出解决建议后,对于申请助学贷款学生的管理与教育工作,进行了进一步论述。     

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.     

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.