动态战略适应视角下的学部制改革成效分析范式

动态战略适应视角是从大学战略管理中提出来,学部制改革作为大学内部治理结构中重要的战略选择,涉及高校内人、财、物多方面整合。基于动态战略适应理论的分析框架,即大学战略与大学所处的内外部环境、所拥有的资源以及大学内部组织之间的适应状态,提出学部制改革成效分析范式,即学部制改革的环境适应、资源适应及组织适应。     

国家骨干高职建设背景下的商务英语专业校内实训体系构建与实践——以江西财经职业学院为例

校内实训基地建设是商务英语专业建设的重要内容之一,本文以江西财经职业学院为侧,分析了在国家骨干院校建设背景下商务英语专业校内实训室建设的原则,并提出了商务英语专业校内实训体系建设的总体构想及其具体建设措施。     

浅析我国高校学分制运行中存在的问题及对策——以武汉三所高校为例的实证调查

高校学分制是一种以学分为计量单位,衡量学生学业完成状况的教学管理制度,它在高等教育改革中起着重要作用。但在学分制的实施过程中,尚存在很多问题亟需改善。本文以武汉大学、武汉理工大学和华中师范大学三所高校为样本,实证调查了学分制实施过程中存在的问题,并提出相应的对策和建议。     

工程机械液压传动系统故障分析及维护

现代工程机械广泛采用液压、液力技术,对加强液压系统维护保养提出了更高要求。归纳了液压传动系统常见故障及排除措施,总结了液压传动系统故障诊断方法,从故障成因出发,提出液压系统维护与保养方法。     

澳大利亚高校招生考试制度理念及其实现

公平、效率、自由选择,是现代高校招生考试制度的基本理念。澳大利亚"多元与统一"、"灵活与适性"特征兼具的高校招生考试制度体系,既体现了教育考试的公平价值取向,又为各类高校有效甄别学生入学提供了保障。而澳大利亚高校招生考试中学生自由选择权以及高校招生自主权的实现,反映了非资源约束条件下高校招生制度的改革方向。     

Internet Connectedness and its Social Origins: An Ecological Approach to Postaccess Digital Divides

This study examines the influence of sociocultural factors on the level of “Internet connectedness.” The Internet Connectedness Index (ICI), composed of five items, is modified and applied to measure disparities in the ways in which people use the Internet. With a dataset of 384 randomly selected telephone survey respondents, the ICI is regressed on various social indicators. The result indicates that technological environments, social environments, and the scope and intensity of Internet-related goals significantly influence individuals' Internet connectedness. This finding highlights that even after people gain access to the Internet, the ways they incorporate the Internet into their everyday lives differ, and that the differences reflect disparities in the multiple dimensions of the social context in which individuals are situated.     

Multilingual Digital Libraries: A review of issues in system-centered and user-centered studies,information retrieval and user behavior

Abstract

This study aims to identify, collect and critical review the research literature on Multilingual Digital Libraries in English language from 1997 to 2012.

Design/methodology/approach: The present literature review has followed the rules of systematic review. In particular, the identified relevant papers were categorized based on their expressed aim on two core themes, that of system-centered and user-centered studies. The assigned papers were further analyzed and six sub-themes emerged for the system-centered studies and four for the user-centered studies. Additional categorization was also provided according to type of publication.

Findings: The literature concerning Multilingual Digital Libraries is vast and mainly focuses on two aspects the “System” and the “Users”. The majority of papers tried to meet the challenges raised for enabling multilingual information retrieval in Digital Libraries. Unfortunately, these efforts undertaken by a small number of researchers or research groups apparently working in isolation and therefore resulting in the development of numerous different tools and techniques. Relatively few studies have focused on the user and aimed to explore users' behavior and expectations when interacting with Multilingual Digital Libraries. As a result, further research is needed to reach to some tangible and usable findings.

Originality/value: This literature review captures the diversity of the research conducted regarding multilingual information access and retrieval in Digital Libraries. It organizes the vast literature in comprehensive themes and sub-themes enabling easy access to specific information.

Limitations: This study reviews only papers in English due to language restrictions from 1997 to 2012.     

Data Warehouse Integrates Toxic Inhalation Hazards and Hazardous Materials Information,GIS, and the Intranet

ABSTRACT

A data warehouse, developed for United States Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration (USDOE/NNSA) Pantex Plant in a multi-department collaboration, brings data from disparate datasets and spatial information about the site together into a single database accessible through an intranet web page or ArcGIS software. The web page directs queries of buildings, facilities, and areas through a Geographic Information System (GIS) viewer that displays spatial site information and chemical hazards data. The Spatial Database Engine (ArcSDE) provides the vehicle for linking mainframe datasets, downloaded daily, to current spatial information about buildings and facilities that store chemicals of potential concern to firefighters and other emergency responders. The system is available to the plant's shift supervisors and individual GIS users throughout the department.     

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An Open Source ILS Glossary: Version 2

This article is a glossary of terms one finds in open source integrated library systems (ILSs). The focus of this glossary is on the two major open source ILSs—Evergreen and Koha. These are being used in an increasing number of U.S. and Canadian public libraries as well as other types of libraries. The glossary is an introduction to the terms that those working with these open source library systems use on a day-to-day basis, with links to sources with more information for those new to open source projects.