Creating a departmental culture for communication grants

Extramural funding to support communication research influences and is influenced by the culture of our discipline, universities, and departments. Both the National Communication Association and the International Communication Association have established closer ties to funding agencies and encouraged members' grant writing pursuits through mentorship and convention programs, newsletter columns, and publicity. Universities vary in how much support they have available as infrastructure to assist in the submission and administration of grants. Some institutions facilitate extramural funding endeavors through mentoring programs, university-wide research centers, sharing of indirect costs, and space. Department cultures, too, vary in the resources available to support grants. Departments in many ways have the most direct effects on grant-supporting cultures. In addition to activities indicated for the discipline and university, departments can build a grant culture by recognizing grant writing in their personnel practices, creating systems for rewarding and supporting grant activities, and having policies in place for the many related issues (e.g., release time, indirect cost sharing, research assistants). Finally, the interpersonal culture, whether colleagues recognize and support grants, plays a major role in individual pursuit of, and satisfaction with, seeking extramural funding to support communication research.     

网络检索工具的发展与应用

阐述了网络检索工具的发展概况及各种网络检索工具的一般特点，以及如何有效利用这些网络检索工具获取网络信息。     

Demystifying blockchain: A critical analysis of challenges,applications and opportunities

The blockchain is considered to be the potential driver of the digital economy. The Blockchain technology outweighs the challenges associated with the traditional transaction business governed and regulated by the third trusted party. There is a growth in the interest among the researchers, the industry, and the academia to study and leverage the potential of Blockchain. Blockchain provides a decentralized and distributed public ledger for all the participating parties. Though it seems that blockchain is a viable choice and solution for all the centralized governed and regulated transactions (in digital online space), it has potential challenges that need to be resolved; opportunities to be explored, and applications to be studied. This paper utilizes a systematic literature review to study several research endeavors made in the domain of blockchain. To further research on blockchain adoption, the paper theoretically constructs an integrated framework of the blockchain innovation adoption process in an organization considering organizational and user acceptance perspectives. This would facilitate its widespread adoption, thereby achieving sustained leadership solutions. The paper offers 23 propositions to information systems (IS)/information management (IM) scholars with respect to innovation characteristics, organizational characteristics, environmental characteristics, and user acceptance characteristics. Further, the paper explores several areas of future research and directions that can provide deep insights for overcoming challenges and for the adoption of blockchain technology.     

Business Giving,the Tsunami and Corporates as Rock Stars: Some Implications for Arts Funding?

Financial and cultural aspects of corporate giving by UK and non-UK companies in response to the December 2004 South Asia Tsunami disaster are explored in this article. Literatures on corporate giving rationales, concepts of disaster and donor activity in disasters provide an underpinning. The article seeks to make connections between this high profile if short-lived business giving and the funding of the arts that is sought from business; and to draw tentative lessons for arts funding when seeking business support. The giving accounts in the wake of the Tsunami from a non-probability sample1 1. A probability sample is one in which each person (or company in this case) in the population has an equal chance (probability) of being selected. In a non-probability sample some people (in this case, companies) have a greater chance than others of being selected. For this study the availability of public information on the companies was the deciding factor on being selected. View all notes of 56 UK companies and 16 non-UK companies were examined. Reported online to the UK charity Business in the Community, these accounts were accessed in February 2005 and scrutinized thematically. Concurrently, company financial profiles to accompany giving figures were constructed. Although linkages between donation levels and financial performance were lacking, emerging themes included the role of employees, influencing company giving and creating a climate of expectation of firms' contributions. These developments may have important implications for business funding for the arts, where leading philanthropists are prominent as individuals in the giving landscapes; but employees' collective involvement is not marked. Alternatively, cultivation of employees as would-be donors, indirectly via their firms, may be a more secure, if lower level route to funding for some arts organizations than dependence on high profile business leaders. The article considers alternative scenarios for company giving in disaster contexts, including as a sustained and lasting giving theme or as company support as a ‘one-off’ event, rock-star style. The likely development of employee power as a key element in company giving is explored; and its wider meanings for funding in arts settings, (where the giver as rock star heroine/hero is also prominent) are considered.     

网络计量学的理论、方法及应用

网络计量学研究的对象包括网络信息直接计量、网上文献信息及相关特征信息计量、网络结构单元的信息计量。网络计量学有其规律和研究工具。它具有内容新颖、广泛和大量运用统计学知识的特点。其研究方法有链接分析法、统计分析法和图论分析法等。网络计量学在网站评价与建设、信息资源开发与管理、网络信息检索,以及数字图书馆资源管理等方面,都有广泛的应用。参考文献12。     

基于Web数据挖掘的研究与应用

随着Internet的迅速发展及Web的全球普及,数据挖掘技术已经在各个领域、各个行业展现了它的巨大作用。通过分析Web及数据挖掘的特点,列举出数据挖掘在Web基础上的具体应用。     

NSFC管理科学项目成果评价指标体系研究

本文在对大量基金项目调查的基础上,根据市场经济发展的要求,以我国相关的科技政策和法规为依据,结合基金项目的特点和实用性要求,确定了以学术水平,社会效益,经济效益为一级指标,九个二级指标和四个等级的评价指标体系.     

美国高等教育绩效拨款模式的分析与启示

高等教育绩效拨款在促进高等教育发展过程中发挥着重要作用。美国高等教育绩效拨款基本形成稳定的模式,促使美国的高等教育发展水平处于世界领先地位。本文在分析美国高等教育绩效拨款模式发展过程及其特点的基础上,探析对促进我国高等教育绩效拨款机制建立完善的有益启示。     

钛镍形状记忆合金在医学中的应用

钛镍形状记忆合金是一种难得的具有生物功能的金属材料。近几年来,在国内外掀起了钛镍合金临床推广应用的高潮。本文介绍了钛镍形状记忆合金的基本特性及在医学中的应用。