Making Bio-Expectations

This paper marks one attempt to open up the boundaries of humanitarianism to the diverse effects of scientific objects, practices and technologies. It follows the frontiers of their effects with one particularly consequential practice of scientific reductionism through its implication with vitamin A deficiency. I open up how the scientific articulation of vitamin A is not simply about reductionism as a process of limiting, but one that unfolds as something more malleable, more multiple; how it is a shifting, distributed reality that speaks of the ongoing effects of reductionism as giving life to, among other things, emotive abstractions, and efforts to widen a distinctly humanitarian promise. I show how this scientific practice puts into play a set of emotive abstractions around the figure of the ‘Third World child’, un/remaking the problem as a morally tense ‘bio-expectation’ that ensures the survival of children across the generalised expanse of the Global South.     

全球农产品贸易的虚拟耕地资源流动演变及影响因素

为定量探讨农产品贸易的耕地资源效应,本文在核算1986—2016年全球农产品贸易隐含耕地资源量的基础上,揭示了全球虚拟耕地资源流动演变特征;采用贸易引力模型,分析了影响全球虚拟耕地流动演变的因素。结果表明：①1986—2016年全球农产品贸易导致的虚拟耕地资源流动量增长1.74倍,虚拟耕地输出国（地区）主要集中在耕地资源充裕国家（地区）,且输出量迅速增加,虚拟耕地输入国（地区）则主要为人均耕地资源较低或经济发展迅速的国家（地区）。②从社会经济、资源禀赋及区域关联选取相应指标对虚拟耕地流动演变的影响因素分析表明,人口规模、人均收入、贸易协定对虚拟耕地流动具有显著促进作用,其中,人均收入增长对经济发展程度不同的国家（地区）影响具有显著差异;输入国（地区）土地和水资源禀赋对其虚拟耕地流动具有显著的负效应,贸易国（地区）之间的地理距离对虚拟耕地流动具有显著的负效应。中国自2004年开始成为全球最大的虚拟耕地净输入国,作为耕地资源绝对稀缺国家,随着中国人均收入的提高、人均农业资源短缺的加剧,虚拟耕地资源输入量将持续增加,应采取相应措施,保障虚拟耕地的可持续供给。     

关于20世纪中外文学关系研究的梳理与思考

作为一门跨学科研究,20世纪中外文学关系的研究与比较文学、中国现当代文学的学科发展密切相关.该研究方向在发展初期吸收了影响研究的思路和方法,在原始资料的搜集、整理,以及20世纪中外文学的交流和比较研究等方面,取得了相当的成绩,同时也面临着新的挑战,研究者们对影响研究的质疑、关于"20世纪中国文学中的世界性因素"的提出、对"文学性的重申"等,都是试图使20世纪中国文学能以对等的姿态进入世界文学的多元格局中,并以自己的独特创造丰富世界文学,20世纪中外文学关系研究也将在不断的质疑与尝试中,寻求自身的突破与发展.     

国内外信息化人才建设的经验及启示

信息化人才是目前国内外竞争最激烈的稀缺资源,全球新一轮的信息化人才争夺具有其新的态势和特点,国内外先进地区信息化人才建设的做法和经验,给了我们新的启示.     

Leveraging microgrants to support capacity-building workshops in low- and middle-income countries for meeting the Sustainable Development Goals

Twenty fifteen marked the year of assessment for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The MDGs that achieved the greatest success were those where evidence-based practice (EBP) interventions were implemented. The ability to practice evidence-based medicine is grounded in the creation of and access to medical literature that synthesizes research findings. The role that global health literature played in the success of the MDGs demonstrates that medical libraries and librarians have a role to play in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).Librarians can hold capacity-building workshops that provide instruction on how to access evidence-based literature and also train health professionals to conduct synthesis research. Research findings conducted by in-country health professionals are more likely to address issues being faced by local communities and will afford the possibility of obtaining the necessary evidence-based answers that can then be used to implement policies to resolve public health issues identified in the SDGs.This paper discusses how an international team of librarians leveraged funding from a Medical Library Association/Librarians without Borders/Elsevier Foundation/Research4Life grant to hold a capacity-building workshop in Zimbabwe and follow-up online trainings. The workshop focused on accessing evidence-based resources and conducting synthesis research. Outcomes included the creation and policy implementation of evidence-based knowledge products in alignment with local needs and galvanizing a multisectoral group of key individuals who have gone on to collaborate toward the vision of creating a Zimbabwe innovation hub. Looking ahead, such grants can be leveraged to conduct capacity-building to support knowledge translation and other local training needs.     

大面积建成区建筑密度遥感制图产品的精度验证

大面积建成区建筑密度遥感制图产品能够提供土地开发强度与人类居住环境的基础信息,是支撑人居环境研究和土地利用规划的重要数据。全球人类居住区层（global human settlement layer,GHSL）是由欧盟联合研究中心负责的大面积人居环境制图项目,建成区建筑密度遥感制图产品是GHSL重要的组成部分。目前该产品在欧美地区已经完成了GHSL建成区建筑密度遥感制图产品的验证。然而以中国为代表的东亚区域的建筑物形态和城市布局与欧美等区域有较大的差别,有必要在亚洲地区对其进一步验证。以中国的5个典型城市（上海、西安、长春、昆明和乌鲁木齐）大面积单体建筑物分布图为基础,通过聚合分析和邻域关键点搜寻匹配等算法,生成中国建成区建筑密度栅格图像产品作为验证数据,然后通过回归分析等方法,在像元尺度上对GHSL建成区遥感制图产品进行评价验证。结果显示,GHSL建成区建筑密度产品在较低分辨率下可以反映中国地区建筑密度情况,但在较高分辨率下在高值区过高估计密度。本研究可以为中国地区研发建成区建筑面积密度产品提供依据。     

寒春过后看世界“变暖说”

本文针对目前的热点话题——全球气候变暖,提出了三个疑问：气候真的在异常变暖吗？气候变暖真的有害吗？即便气候真的在异常变暖,主要是人为排放温室气体所致吗？经论证分析,本文认为气候变化是一个还没有定论的科学前沿问题,和政治、经济有关,但应该和公众无关。     

中国气候对全球气温增暖的响应

近４０年来，在全球气候变暖的背景下，中国气候也有明显的增暖趋势，北部增暖最明显，与全球平均温度变化相似，长江流域变暖不明显．冬季增暖最突出，夏季在部分地区有降温现象．近４０年，全国平均降水量趋于减少，北部减少最明显，中心在华北及山东半岛；长江中上游降水偏丰．表明近期我国气候对全球气温变暖的响应特点，主要表现表式：北方为暖—干型；长江流域为冷—湿型；华南大部为弱暖—干型     

重金属铅的生态效应及其地球化学循环

随着工业化的快速发展,大量工业废弃物的无达标排放到环境中,造成了环境污染.其中重金属污染更是引起了人们的高度重视,很多学者对重金属的生态效应及地球化学循环进行了比较深入、系统的研究.本文仅以重金属铅为例,就近年来国内外学者对其的生态学效应、地化循环研究进行了综述,为以后进一步探讨铅污染问题提供有益的借鉴.     

Evaluating effects of atmospheric CO2 on stability of global climate: a cell-to-cell mapping approach

Atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration [CO2], incoming solar radiation and sea ice coverage are among the most important factors that control the global climate. By applying the simple cell-to-cell mapping technique to a simplified atmosphere-ocean-sea ice feedback climate model, effects of these factors on the stability of the climatic system are studied. The current climatic system is found to be stable but highly nonlinear. The resiliency of stability increases with [CO2] to a summit when [CO2] reaches 290 μL/L which is comparable to the pre-industrial level, suggesting carbon dioxide is essential to the stability of the global climate. With [CO2] rising further, the global climate stability decreases, the mean ocean temperature goes up and the sea ice coverage shrinks in the polar region. When the incoming solar radiation is intensified, the ice coverage gradually diminishes, but the mean ocean temperature remains relatively constant. Overall, our analysis suggests that at the current levels of three external factors the stability of global climate is highly resilient. However, there exists a possibility of extreme states of climate, such as a snow-ball earth and an ice-free earth.