Comparing school accountability in England and its East Asian sources of ‘borrowing’

Education reforms in England are increasingly justified by borrowing ‘best practices’ of high-performing East Asian societies, including Hong Kong, Singapore and Shanghai. However, taking the reforms of school accountability as an illustrative example, this article argues that there are serious variations between England and its East Asian sources of ‘borrowing’ with regard to the ways in which schools are held to be accountable. How school accountability is organised and operationalised in practice deeply depends on socio-political priorities of each society. Therefore, education policy borrowing from East Asia to England is potentially extremely difficult. Furthermore, this article remains alert to the possibility that the claim (about improving the education system in England through imitating East Asian models) is symbolic rather than practical – symbolic in the sense of producing legitimacy for pre-existing policy agendas.     

An effective quadrilateral mesh adaptation

INTRODUCTION Adaptive grids are desired for solving partial differential equations (PDEs) (Khattri, 2006a; 2007). There are various techniques for generating adaptive quadrilateral meshes. For example, solution of cou- pled elliptic system (Khattri, 2006d; Thompson et al., 1998), minimization of a functional or variational approach (Cao et al., 1999; 2003; Huang, 2001), etc. In this article, we present a simple and effective technique for generating adaptive quadrilateral meshes. Sever…     

借阅统计对文献选购的引导意义

文献选购是根据选购政策、书目信息、社会评价和读者意见进行的,借阅统计则是读者借阅状况的真实描述,是文献选购时不可不参考的信息。本文以文献选购依据为切入点,重点论述在采取多种手段获取读者文献需求的同时,重视借阅统计对文献选购的引导功能。     

Generalized bounds on the partial periodic correlation of complex roots of unity sequence set

In this paper, the generalized bounds are derived on the partial periodic correlation of complex roots of unity sequence set with zero or low correlation zone （ZCZ/LCZ） as the important criteria of the sequence design and application. The derived bounds are with respect to family size, subsequence length, maximum partial autocorrelation sidelobe, maximum partial crosscorrelation value and the ZCZ/LCZ. The results show that the derived bounds include the previous periodic bounds, such as Sarwate bound, Welch bound, Peng-Fan bound and Paterson-Lothian bound, as special cases.     

谈分部积分法中u(x)和v′(x)的选择

不定积分中的分部积分法是教学中的重要和难点，其中u(x)、v′（x）正确选择是关键。“指三幂对反，谁在后边谁为u(x)”这一口诀的运用，易于选择，便于记忆，有利于掌握分部积分法的解题要领，大大提高学生解决不定积分问题的能力。     

藏借阅一体化开架管理的探讨

本文论述了现代化的图书馆应采用藏借阅一体化的开架管理模式 ,以体现“藏以致用”的原则 ,并分析了针对藏借阅一体化的管理模式应采取的几种对策     

英语否定意义句子的理解与疑难浅析

从英语句子的部分否定，否定的内容和否定意义的特殊表达三个方面，探讨了英语否定意义句子的理想与疑难问题。     

消费者权益保护视野下的“寄存”之辩

消费者使用超市的自助寄存柜存物时,与超市形成的是借用合同关系。如果消费者存入自助寄存柜内的物品丢失,超市的责任应当分情况讨论。为此,需要依次回答下列问题:超市要求消费者在进入购物区之前存包,是否侵犯消费者之合法权益?保管合同、借用合同与租赁合同关系的异同对法律关系的影响值得注意。超市的注意义务之必要性的具体内容是对于消费者的人身财产安全。     

加拿大英语外来语研究

加拿大英语是英语的一个地域变体,具有鲜明的特征。加拿大英语的形成大致通过三种途径：继承、创新与借用。与其它英语变体相比,加拿大英语的借用更加广泛和频繁。加拿大是一个多民族、多文化和多语言的国家,这为加拿大英语大量吸纳外来语提供了前提。外来语的进入遵循一定的原则和规律。加拿大外来语的进入主要通过直借、转借、半借、译借等方式。     

数据挖掘技术在高校图书馆中的应用

随着数据库技术的迅速发展以及数据库管理系统在图书馆的广泛应用,图书馆积累了大量的读者对资源的历史访问数据。本文介绍并利用数据挖掘技术获取读者信息、流通信息,提出了个性化服务的相关策略。