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In the last decade ‘quality’ has assumed the status of one of the meta-discourses across many domains of public policy, including education. This paper focuses on the specific example of quality policy in Australian higher education of the 1990s, and in particular, on the micro level of quality policy practice as experienced by academic practitioners in 6 universities. As such, it forms a follow-up to an article published earlier in the Journal of Education Policy (Vidovich and Porter 1997) which examined macro (national) and intermediate (the Committee for Quality Assurance in Higher Education) levels of a quality policy cycle consisting of contexts of influence, policy text production and practice, as articulated by Ball and colleagues (Bowe, Ball and Gold 1992, Ball 1994). The findings of in-depth interviews with key university personnel provide evidence of the ‘messy’ realities of the policy process and considerable variation in quality policy practices at local sites, particularly in terms of the different historical contexts of universities which were categorized as ‘traditional’, ‘alternative’ and ‘former college’ types. However, despite such variation, the ‘bigger picture’ effect of the quality policy under investigation was to enhance Australian national Government control of higher education, albeit at a ‘distance’, characteristic of the culture of performativity increasingly pervading higher education across many OECD countries. A further effect was to increase inequalities, both between and within universities.     

CERN document server: Document management system for grey literature in a networked environment

Conclusion In this paper we briefly described the current status of research in the field of digital libraries interoperability, mainly with respect to federated data processing such as permitted within the Open Archive Initiative framework. We then presented the CERN Document Server Software suite that is a free software package main-tained by CERN providing an online digital library solution for mid- to large-sized document repositories. The set of CDSware modules was described and the differ-ences with other existing tools briefly mentioned. Finally we have mentioned a typical usage statistics illustrating the scope of grey literature and networked con-ditions of the CERN Document Server. We pointed out that the current trend in grey literature management goes toward institutional repositories build upon the distributed and federated model. Further research is going on within the CDS collaboration in this area, focused particularly on (i) semantic interoperability using ontologies in distributed and federated data processing and (ii) ranking technologies when searching grey literature in OAI compliant repositories.     

船舶运动数据在字符与数值混合通信中的简易压缩方法

通过对船舶运动数据的分析,提出了在具体应用条件下一种船舶运动数据的简易压缩方法。     

试析毛泽东的教学思想

教育是立国之本，强国之路，面对当代科技革命的挑战，党和国家了适时的回应，和出全面推进素质教育的决定。在如何实施素质教育工作中，毛泽东同志关于“教学民主”、“知行统一”、“少而精”、“启发式”等一系列教学思想给我们提供了一定的思路和启迪。     

大学生体质健康标准信息管理系统的设计与实现

针对《学生体质健康标准》,结合实际工作的需要,运用软件工程自顶向下的开发方法对系统进行分析与设计,利用面向对象的开发工具Visual Basic 6.0和数据库开发工具Visual Foxpro 7.0实现该信息管理系统.     

《论语》的沿革

由于时代的不同、地域的差异,《论语》的版本及其注释在传承过程中呈现出诸多的变化。从《论语》发展变化的宏观角度来看,《论语》在传承过程中经历了三个关键性的历史阶段：汉朝时期,《论语》的版本及注释逐渐形成;宋朝时期,《论语》杂糅各学,内涵逐渐丰富;19世纪末20世纪初,《论语》得到了新的诠释,并直接影响当前对《论语》的解读。     

基于改进反馈约束分析的土地集约利用评价模型

研究一种改进的土地集约利用评价模型,通过低碳节能区域规划,设计土地集约利用数学控制模型,提高土地利用效益。传统方法的模型无法定量刻画土地利用的特定时间和空间上的属性特征,利用效益不高。本文提出一种基于改进反馈约束分析的土地集约利用评价模型,根据不同区域内不同的自然环境特征和环境容量,实现功能分区调整,有效预测和规划今后一定时期内土地资源的开发利用及其发展趋势。对集约利用要素进行有机结合,设计反馈约束算法,进行土地物质、能量和价值信息交流控制模型设计,从经济发展的需要和可能出发,以土地利用数据的测定为基础,按利用现状进行分类调查统计,实现模型改进。仿真结果表明,该模型能有效提高土地利用收益,对降低生成成本,改善生态等方面具有促进作用。