Helping patrons find locally held electronic resources: An interlibrary loan perspective

The University of North Texas Libraries provide extensive online access to academic journals through major vendor databases. As illustrated by interlibrary loan borrowing requests for items held in our databases, patrons often have difficulty navigating the available resources. In this study, the Interlibrary Loan staff used data gathered from the ILLiad interlibrary loan management system to investigate why patrons request locally available materials. This study resulted in recommendations for the Libraries' linking strategies in EBSCOhost databases. Several user education needs were identified and communicated to the Libraries' Subject Liaisons.     

The Florida Geographic Data Library: Lessons Learned and Workflows for Geospatial Data Management

The University of Florida GeoPlan Center has been organizing, standardizing, and distributing geospatial data since 1998 through the Florida Geographic Data Library (FGDL), a collection of Florida geospatial data from various agencies, as well as data developed in-house. With funding from the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT), FGDL serves as a public distribution mechanism for hundreds of Florida geospatial data layers. Since 2004, FGDL layers have formed the data foundation for FDOT's interagency application known as efficient transportation decision making (ETDM), which facilitates the review and permitting process for proposed transportation projects. Data layers are standardized and inspected to ensure that the data are adequate for use in analysis and decision making. To efficiently manage the geospatial data and workflows, a quality assurance/quality control (QAQC) process and relational database schema was developed to track the standardization procedures, lineage, versioning, and archiving of the data layers. This article details the history of the Florida Geographic Data Library, challenges of managing a large geospatial data repository, development of a QAQC process and database schema, and lessons learned.     

工业化中期阶段的城乡收入差距平抑机制的建构

城乡居民收入存在差距,是世界各国工业化进程中普遍存在的基本事实,但城乡居民收入差距的过分扩大,会导致一系列不利于经济发展的后果,必须努力寻求城乡收入差距的平抑机制。我国当前城乡收入差距的平抑机制包括:调整国民收入分配格局,加大财政对农业、农村、农民的支持力度;进行制度创新,为平抑城乡收入差距提供制度保障;推进工业化、城镇化进程,转移农村富余劳动力;积极推进农业产业化经营,拓展农业内部增收渠道。     

多时滞非线性中立型Lurie系统的绝对稳定性

利用一般的Lyapunov泛函方法，讨论了具有多时滞非线性项的中立型一般Lurie控制系统的绝对稳定性问题，并给出了一些实用的代数判据。     

安徽省与周边省份资本分布情况比较研究

将安徽、山东、江苏、江西四省并列,对90年代以来影响各省资本分布的各个因素:区域经济增长差异、财政转移支付差异、信贷投放差异、外商直接投资利用差异进行了深入分析并对四者所反映出来的情况与问题做了系统研究,从而发现从中央财政支付转移的角度看,山东、江苏二省每年都有相当数额的财政收入上缴中央政府,而安徽、江西二省2000年以来每年都接受大量的中央政府财政补贴,并有逐年增大的趋势.从银行及其资本渠道来看,四省均出现资本外流现象.     

PCS抗干扰问题的应用

分析了电磁干扰及其对PCS干扰的来源，指出在实际应用时要综合考虑PCS的抗干扰性能，并结合实际提出了几种抗干扰措施。     

Factors affecting the career progress of academic accountants in Australia: Cross-institutional and gender perspectives

Since the late 1980s, Australian highereducation has undergone significant reforms andpolicy changes based on economic rationalismand modernisation of management. This paperexamines the outcomes of the reform processesbased on the career attributes, status andperceptions of work environment of academicaccountants in Australian universities.Similarities and differences between academicaccountants are explored fromcross-institutional and gender perspectives.The data provide insight into a number ofsystemic inequalities between the older andmore established universities and the neweruniversities. In specific, across-institutional analysis based on fouruniversity types: Sandstones/Redbricks,Gumtrees, Unitechs and New (Marginson 1999)indicates that academic accountants in Newuniversities employ a much lower proportion ofstaff with PhD qualification, a weakerpublication profile, and perceive greaterbarriers for conducting research in terms of ashortage of research mentors, colleagues withresearch experience, and post-graduatestudents. Further, the commitment to flexiblelearning and delivery strategies iscomparatively stronger in Unitechs, and posesadditional demands on accounting academics'overall workload. Perceptions of gender-baseddiscrimination by female academic accountantsare generally stronger than their malecounterparts, particularly, in Newuniversities. These results raise severalissues for academic accountants at both theinstitutional and individual level in terms ofequal employment opportunities, management ofresearch programmes, development of teachingstrategies and individual time management.     

动态车辆调度系统的滚动时域调度算法

提出了一类特殊的动态车辆调度问题--动态独占性带时间窗口装卸货问题.给出了问题的数学描述,分析了其静态性质,并把问题简化为不对称带时间窗口旅行商问题.提出了求解该动态问题的滚动时域调度算法,通过时域的不断滚动,不仅可以跟踪问题的动态变化,还由于每次滚动只对部分客户进行处理,可以减少问题的求解时间.并分析了算法的3个要素:当前客户窗口、当前客户窗口的调度和滚动策略.测试结果验证了算法在求解动态车辆调度问题中的有效性.     

Agile administrative choreographies for multimode education at the University of Pretoria

This paper responds in part to a special edition of this journal (39/2) on dual-mode provision. We were concerned that contact providers might drift into distance education provision through extending campus-based online learning without first thinking through the underpinning implications of its administrative systems, an issue that was not addressed in the special edition. Proceeding from a pragmatic and constructivist perspective, while adopting a transactional orientation drawing on systems theory and hermeneutics, this paper focuses on the challenge for administrative staff and systems of the changing nature of provision in terms of both the underpinning learning and business models. Based on experience and reflection, we conclude that the move into dual- and multimode provision is inevitable and that this requires agility on the part of both administrative staff and systems that is often overlooked in planning and review processes.