Birds of a feather end up flocking together when studying abroad. Can a university bridge the cultural differences that challenge friendships between Pacific Island students and New Zealand students?

Intercultural friendship formation is a key challenge for international students studying abroad. In an increasingly globalised world, where people regularly engage with others from different cultures, meaningful intercultural friendships are important. However, culture can pose a considerable challenge that hinders the formation of friendships between people of different cultures. This paper explores challenges and insights into developing intercultural friendships between international Pacific Island students studying in Aotearoa New Zealand and domestic New Zealand Palagi¹ students. Similar to other studies, the findings in this study highlight the key challenges connected to cultural differences. These findings are surprising as New Zealand Palagi students would have gone to primary and secondary schools with Pacific Island students and should have had some contact and interactions with them and be more accustomed to cultural differences. Unique to this study is that these international Pacific Island students recognised that universities are in a prime position to champion and promote systemic interventions to assist both international and domestic students to engage with each other in order to promote cultural understanding. Overcoming intercultural friendship development challenges involves creating meaningful intercultural spaces and campus ‘friendship’ events to increase intercultural interactions, raise domestic students’ cross-cultural awareness, and encourage reciprocal intercultural learning. Such activities are likely to enhance the overall well-being of all students and improve the internationalisation of universities with increasingly diverse student cohorts.     

海底观测网的研究进展与发展趋势

海底观测网是人类观测海洋的新型平台,可实现海洋由海底到海面的全天候、原位、长期、连续、实时、高分辨率和高精度观测,对海洋科学发展起到重要的支撑作用。美国、加拿大、日本以及欧洲各国凭借在海洋领域的先发优势,纷纷投入巨资构建海底观测网并成功运行。在现代传感器、水下机器人、海底光纤电缆、物联网、大数据等新型技术的推动下,海底观测网呈现综合性立体观测、数据深度发掘、多种观测计划综合交叉融合的发展趋势。     

A teacher’s journey: a first-person account of how a gay,Cambodian refugee navigated myriad barriers to become educated in the United States

Educational institutions, like most social service organizations, need to recognize intersectionality and complexity and move away from monolithic conceptions of homelessness – if they recognize homelessness at all. This first person account of a gay, Cambodian refugee illustrates the enormous complexity schools face in forming institutional responses for the needs of homeless, highly mobile, and economically displaced children and youth. This article demonstrates an effort to avoid reductionist definitions of homelessness and to include experiential representations of humans living at the margins (under the 5th Avenues of the world, in central parks, in downtown shelters, outside of the ethical and systemic “home” of current ideologies and social orders, under the politics of HIV in Africa, as refugees and as those “othered” by dominant social narratives). The research takes place in the context of the At Home At School program at Washington State University.     

National technology policy and computer production in Asia‐pacific countries

The relationship of technology policy to economic and industrial development has become a subject of debate between those who argue that market forces should determine how technology is produced and used and those who believe that government has a role in supporting investment in technology use and the development of high‐technology industries. This article looks at the effects of national technology policy in promoting the production of computer hardware and software in Asia‐Pacific countries during the 1980s. It also analyzes the relationship between various environmental factors and computer production and looks at the interaction between environment and policy. It finds three types of environmental factors associated with level of computer production: human resources, in the form of scientists and engineers; the presence of complementary industries, particularly electronics production; and expenditures on research and development. It also finds that hardware production is higher in countries with national computer plans but that software production does not appear to be associated with efforts by the government to promote the computer industry.     

正视北太平洋地区冲突，保持世界稳定

强国林立的北太平洋地区由于多种原因，存在着诸如领土争端、军事冲突、经济冲突、政治冲突，文化冲突等众多矛盾与纠葛，在新的历史时期，它们很有可能导致地区冲突的激化甚至升级，影响世界的稳定，该地区各国都应高度重视这些矛盾的严重性，本着和平共处精神予以正确决策，积极寻找合理的解决办法，以保持国际社会的安定团结。     

Research paradigm choices made by postgraduate students with Pacific education research interests in New Zealand

This paper explores the nature of postgraduate research in the broad area of Pacific education completed in New Zealand universities. First, a number of basic trends are identified in terms of institutional affiliation, area of educational research, MA and PhD balance, growth over time, national/ethnic focus and the expected beneficiaries of the research. Secondly, and more significantly, trends in the theorisation of Pacific postgraduate education research are identified using a positivist-interpetivist-emancipationist-deconstructivist paradigm typology as a basis for analysis, in particular the degree to which the latter two research perspectives have been embraced. It is argued that research done within emancipationist and deconstructionist paradigms has the most socially transformative potential. The completion of socially transformative educational research is significant given increasing calls from within Pacific communities to decolonise and re-indigenise both educational research agendas as well as systems of Pacific primary and secondary schooling influenced by educational research. The paper demonstrates, however, that very little emancipationary and deconstructivist education research has been completed. This apparent mismatch is explored in the light of the wider competing educational discourses of Pacific colonisation and indigenisation.     

中国的印度洋海权战略

印度洋具有重要的地缘战略地位,实施印度洋海权战略为解决中印领土争端、南中国海和太平洋海权问题开辟了第二条战线,是维护中国海权的一个重要措施。中国的印度洋海权战略以海军建设为中心,以西藏、云南和新疆为战略支点,构建连接中国和印度洋的石油走廊、金融走廊、文化走廊。     

WHO西太平洋地区医学索引建设进展与问题

介绍了WPRIM （WHO西太平洋地区医学索引）的主要发展历程以及在期刊遴选、检索服务平台建设和数据采集等方面所取得的进展。用户日志分析表明,WPRIM已经初步具备了一定的国际影响力,但还不是一个相对成熟的区域性国际医学索引,并从宣传和推广、项目发展资金、期刊评审和数据采集方面提出了建议。     

OCLC in the Asia Pacific Region

This essay provides an overview of both the accomplishments and difficulties faced by OCLC as it has expanded in the vast Asia Pacific region. It describes the organizational changes as they evolved as this previously North American collaborative organization expanded westward and details initiatives pursued in each of the Asia Pacific countries where it has operated. Finally, it examines the five major challenges yet facing OCLC in the region: the lack of bibliographic name authority files, competing classification systems, competing MARC cataloging formats, the perceived high costs associated with participating OCLC programs and services, and the need for local vernacular products in addition to those developed largely for the North American and European markets.     

变动中的世界政治与日本问题

本文认为：苏联解体后雅尔塔体系在欧洲结束,但在远东没有结束;西方针对苏联的冷战结束了,但冷战在世界范围内不仅没有结束反而有所强化.战后日本问题,本质上说就是雅尔塔体系问题.苏联解体后日本的实际表现告诉我们：日本再次导演＂大东亚＂的剧幕已经开始并一定要被日本右翼推到高潮.新世纪的日本在这方面将有大动作.而中美在稳定太平洋方面担负着重大的历史责任.