科技成果转化和技术转移的比较及其政策含义

科技成果转化和技术转移是两个互相渗透互相包容的概念,该文通过对这两个概念内涵的比较,揭示了中国和西方相关科技法律和政策的差异,指出了中国在市场经济条件下坚持科技成果转化工作的必要性及努力方向。     

Recasting Title IX: Addressing Gender Equity in the Science,Technology, Engineering,and Mathematics Professoriate

Questions of gender equity and the underrepresentation of women in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) professoriate in U.S. institutions of higher education have become central issues in debates on the role and makeup of the STEM workforce in today's innovation‐driven economy. In response, policy makers, advocacy groups, academics, and other stakeholders have called for the dedicated enforcement of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 as a tool for combating gender inequities in the academic workforce. Although previously applied primarily to gender bias in athletic programs and participation, Title IX was created to address myriad aspects of gender equity in educational institutions and, as such, currently is being invoked in the realm of STEM academic employment. Accordingly, we analyze Title IX relative to categories of potential regulatory development in light of the policy environment and related dynamics. Providing an historical overview of Title IX and its associated regulations as background, we characterize and delineate its relevance to gender disparities in the STEM professoriate, identifying areas for policy consideration and future application.     

Identifying IT-based rural development infrastructures： Strategic alignment approach

Information technology （IT） has been able to facilitate the rural development through empowering and integrating the accessibility of the villagers （cottagers） to the available knowledge and information and the opportunities to different extents. The success of IT approach in rural development requires some initial efforts to prepare applying IT in order to achieve it. Awareness of IT-based rural development infrastructures and subsequently preparation of required infrastructures are one of the most important steps towards delivering the development program. Considering the importance of this subject, in this paper, we have tried to identify the IT-based rural development infrastructures, using the ideas of experts in IT and rural development across the Iran country. The data analysis of 171 respondents with T-student test showed that the factors of social-cultural, organizational-managerial, technical-telecommunication and legal-legitimate are the IT-based infrastructures of rural development. Successful provision of these elements depends on the existence of strategic alignment approach and focuses on the balanced maturity of the infrastructures.     

黑龙江省与俄罗斯远东地区的农业科技合作

科技是第一生产力,农业科技是农业生产力发展的重要推动因素。与俄罗斯远东地区开展农业科技交流与合作,充分利用、吸收俄罗斯的先进农业科技成果,推动科技成果产业化,有利于黑龙江省加速农业发展和农业科技进步,有利于提高农业科技自主创新能力,有利于增强农业竞争力。提升黑龙江省与俄远东地区的农业科技合作水平,必须建立完善的合作机制,具备充足的资金保障,以农业科技成果产业化为主导,加快复合型人才的培养。     

日本环境产业的发展

环境产业是改善环境和保证经济社会可持续发展的物质技术条件,也是促进日本经济与环境协调发展和激活其地区活力的强大动力.目前,日本的环境产业已从少数产业部门扩展到几乎所有产业部门,未来将同汽车业和建筑业并驾齐驱,成为支撑日本经济发展的主导支柱产业之一.促进日本环境产业发展的主要因素是,强化环境法规的限制,推动经济政策的绿色化,完善企业的环境管理和发展绿色消费.     

物流仿真软件的应用现状与发展

物流仿真在我国已逐渐显出其重要作用。我国物流发展水平和研究应用能力还不尽人意，物流企业或企业物流在面临物流工程项目投资新建或原有系统技术改造时，由于缺乏准确丰富的信息数据和必要的物流仿真系统决策支持，造成了企业物流项目建设投入的盲目性和资金流失。物流仿真借助计算机技术对物流系统进行真实模仿，通过仿真实验得到各种动态活动及过程瞬间仿效记录，进而验证物流工程项目建设的有效性、合理性和优化效果，因此物流仿真是有其重要意义的。本文着重介绍物流仿真的功能，几种常见的物流仿真软件的性能特点，同时结合Flexsim和RaLC（乐龙）两种国内外典型仿真软件，进行物流仿真软件的应用过程与仿真效果分析。     

Calling on Jefferson: the ‘custodiary’ as the fourth estate in the Democratic Project

Aimed at reinforcing the democratic values of freedom of speech and increased diversity in civic access to the means of communication, this paper examines the concept of democracy within an information and communication technology-mediated context. Discussion proceeds with an analysis of orthodox views adopted by Jefferson and the architects of the American Constitution. Building on the Jeffersonian tradition, a critique is presented of present-day, non-transparent constraints on the democratic values of freedom of speech, information access and the structural constrains mitigating unfettered public access to critical information and debate on fundamental social and political issues of the day. The proposed ‘custodiary’ model for the new Democratic Project is premised on the development of a constitutional framework which encourages information diversity and freedom of access and expression as a way of bringing back ‘discourse’ into democratic praxis.     

Constituent Communication Through Telephone Town Halls: A Field Experiment Involving Members of Congress

Telephone town halls are an increasingly prevalent method for members of Congress (MCs) to communicate with constituents, even while garnering popular criticism for failing to facilitate engagement and accountability. Yet scholars have paid little attention to the events and their effects, and even less to how they might be improved. To remedy this problem, we report on a field experiment in which four MCs joined their constituents in telephone town halls. Overall, participation in an event improved constituents’ evaluations of the format in general, and of the MC in particular. Furthermore, we studied how these events might be improved by evaluating a reform—a single‐topic focus with predistributed briefing materials—designed to enhance deliberative interaction. This reform enhanced effects on opinions of the format without significantly altering effects on attitudes toward the MC. Our results suggest that telephone town halls hold promise for constituents, officeholders, and democratic practice.