Muslim Rulers Visiting the Imperial City: Building Alliances and Personal Networks between Constantinople and the Eastern Borderlands (Fourth/Tenth–Fifth/Eleventh Century)

This essay explores one of the main tools of Byzantine diplomatic techniques: inviting foreign rulers to Constantinople and establishing bonds of alliance through the bestowal of titles and stipends, with respect to the empire's Muslim neighbours in the fourth/tenth and fifth/eleventh centuries. In particular, it will be explained how and under what circumstances the traditional lines of communication between Constantinople and the caliphal court of Baghdad were gradually transformed into a multilayered network of personal contacts between the emperor and a number of Muslim frontier lords, who partly took on the role of representatives and dignitaries of the Byzantine Empire. Furthermore, I will try to examine the development of these newly established networks with respect to the emirates of Aleppo and Edessa, the Jarrā?id clan in Syria and the Marwānid dynasty in the Upper Euphrates and Lake Van region.     

Intelligent scientific authoring tools: Interactive data mining for constructive uses of citation networks

Many powerful methods and tools exist for extracting meaning from scientific publications, their texts, and their citation links. However, existing proposals often neglect a fundamental aspect of learning: that understanding and learning require an active and constructive exploration of a domain. In this paper, we describe a new method and a tool that use data mining and interactivity to turn the typical search and retrieve dialogue, in which the user asks questions and a system gives answers, into a dialogue that also involves sense-making, in which the user has to become active by constructing a bibliography and a domain model of the search term(s). This model starts from an automatically generated and annotated clustering solution that is iteratively modified by users. The tool is part of an integrated authoring system covering all phases from search through reading and sense-making to writing. Two evaluation studies demonstrate the usability of this interactive and constructive approach, and they show that clusters and groups represent identifiable sub-topics.     

[3+2]环加成反应合成稠合吡咯衍生物

目的:串联合成稠合吡咯衍生物。方法:以氨基吡唑或氨基嘧啶和芳酮醛水合物为原料,选用对甲苯磺酸为催化剂,N,N-二甲基甲酰胺为溶剂,100℃条件下反应。结果:经[3+2]反应,合成了8例吡咯并[2,3-c]吡唑衍生物和吡咯并[2,3-d]嘧啶衍生物。结论:该反应底物范围广、分离过程简单、产率高、区域选择性高,丰富了吡咯杂环化合物库。     

A Pretty Paella: The Alfonsine Cantigas de Santa Maria and their Connexions with Other Repertories

The collection of Cantigas de Santa Maria compiled by Alfonso X (el Sabio) (r. 1221–1284) is a gold mine of musical information; unfortunately, however, much fool's gold has also been found amongst its pages. The CSM have been argued to provide evidence that their music derives from plainchant (thus justifying “churchy” performances) yet also to manifest so many “Arab” traits as to support a “Turkish Delight” style of performance. True, there are occasional substantive links between one or other of these repertories, but these are infrequent and specific rather than numerous and general. A closer, judicious, scrutiny of the Cantigas reveals that they are neither the product of an ecclesiastical nor of an “Arab” kitchen, as it were, but a repertory (and iconography) whose careful examination yields up several surprising secrets, especially when reading between its lines. The CSM are neither fish nor fowl, and the collection contains few, if any, recipes for Lamb Ziryāb or for the Lenten fast. On the contrary, its dishes are, in common with Paella, suorum generis, belonging to a musical cuisine of their own, whose sum is indeed greater than the parts of their manifold influences.     

科教融合:高等教育理念的变革与创新

科教融合是一种尽管经受各种挑战仍顽强延续下来的大学理念。从洪堡的柏林大学到吉尔曼的约翰.霍普金斯大学,再到当代研究型大学,有一个理念始终贯穿其间:始则若隐若现,继而渐明渐亮,最终由应然走向必然,行将成为世界高等教育变革与转型的主旋律,这就是科教融合的理念。科学研究与教学协同创新培养人才是中国高等教育必须面对和解决的一个重要的理论问题和实践问题。从科教分离到科教融合是中国高等教育哲学的重大转变,是实现中国高等教育转型、提高高等教育质量、提升高校创新能力和建设高等教育强国的现实选择。     

《暗算》叙述方式的解读

《暗算》在英雄主题、叙述策略、语言的组织上,都对当下军旅文学的审美视野进行了挑战。英雄的私语化描述,饱含情绪的主观化叙述,正奇语言的混杂,都给读者带来了新的审美感受。为此《暗算》也带来了迎合世俗文化消费的质疑,但新的叙述方式为军旅文学创作模式的多元化提供了借鉴和思索。     

酸性离子液体[HNMP][HSO_4]催化潲水油制备生物柴油的研究

制备了酸性离子液体[HNMP][HSO4],用于催化潲水油制备生物柴油,并研究了实验过程中的反应时间、反应温度、醇油摩尔比、剂油摩尔比等因素对酯交换反应转化率的影响,确定了较适宜的反应条件。结果表明:在反应时间为4h,反应温度为140℃,醇油摩尔比为11,剂油摩尔比为0.08条件下,酯交换反应转化率为90.28%。     

电工电子技术课程教学模式改革与学生能力培养

电子课程是中等职业学校电类及相关各专业必修的技术基础课,本文对电工电子技术课程教学模式进行了研究,从中职教育的培养目标和中职学生的特点出发,分析了传统电工电子教学中存在的问题,并在此基础上提出了几点改革思路和想法。探讨理论教学和实践环节如何做到有机结合。旨在为提高教学质量作一些有益的尝试和探索,培养出有文化、懂技术的技能应用型人才,这是近年来国内外教育界强调素质培养、加强教学改革建设主旋律中的一个新亮点。     

高校能否真正发挥学习型社区的作用

近年来,学习社区的概念在北美国家受到了广泛的关注。美国中田纳西州立大学作为较早研究教育的机构,经历了从师范院校发展为今天综合性的大学的过程,在更好地发挥大学功能方面形成了一系列学校决策和发展理论,包括创建学习社区以及如何发展学术研究等。文章通过对美国近二十年教育改革成就和失误的分析,提出了建立学习型社区满足社会客观要求的理论,并探讨了高校在建立学习型社区方面的基本理念及机制转变过程中亟待解决的问题。     

中国国际关系学的一种审视:对学科分支领域的快速扫描(下)

本文从具体的研究领域和问题入手,对最近十余年中国国际关系学的学科发展做了一个比较全面的透视。大至马克思主义国际关系研究、现实主义理论、国际制度学说、建构主义流派、国际战略探讨、全球化问题追踪、国际政治经济学、联合国研究、民族主义、地区主义、女权主义等主流或热门理论,小到政治文化分析、生态政治学、国际关系伦理学、英国学派和哥本哈根学派等边缘或支流学派,乃至主权研究、安全研究、国家利益研究、方法论研究、“中国特色”研究等核心问题,可以说这些年中国国际关系学界探讨的主要内容,均受到作者的关注和点评。论文既简明提示了所获进步的主要内容及其背景,更扼要检讨了现有问题的各个方面和下步发展的方向,着重强调了这一学科在当今中国的“任重道远”。