Raising Funds and Raising Quality for Schools in China     

Leslie N.K. Lo 《School Effectiveness & School Improvement》2013,24(1):31-54

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Soft power,university rankings and knowledge production: distinctions between hegemony and self‐determination in higher education     

William Yat Wai Lo 《比较教育学》2011,47(2):209-222

The purpose of this article is to analyse the nature of the global hegemonies in higher education. While anti‐colonial thinkers describe the dominance of the Western paradigm as an oppression of indigenous culture and knowledge and as neo‐colonialism in higher education, their arguments lead to such questions as how much self‐determination do non‐Western countries have? On what basis can the colonised resist the coloniser? To what extent are non‐Western nations aware of the Western hegemony? To answer these questions, this article uses the concept of soft power to interrogate how global hegemonies are manifested in higher education agendas. With reference to the pursuit of a world‐class status in higher education in East Asia, it discusses how the international inequality in higher education is viewed from the anti‐colonial perspective in the existing literature. The article then proposes the soft‐power perspective as an alternative way to explain why non‐Western countries are willing to follow the Anglo‐American paradigm to develop their higher education systems. Extending this analysis, the article argues that the emerging global university rankings are important resources of soft power that have the potential, as a governance tool, to reshape the global higher education landscape.  相似文献   

Correlation between cell migration and reactive oxygen species under electric field stimulation     

Shang-Ying Wu  Hsien-San Hou  Yung-Shin Sun  Ji-Yen Cheng  Kai-Yin Lo 《Biomicrofluidics》2015,9(5)

Cell migration is an essential process involved in the development and maintenance of multicellular organisms. Electric fields (EFs) are one of the many physical and chemical factors known to affect cell migration, a phenomenon termed electrotaxis or galvanotaxis. In this paper, a microfluidics chip was developed to study the migration of cells under different electrical and chemical stimuli. This chip is capable of providing four different strengths of EFs in combination with two different chemicals via one simple set of agar salt bridges and Ag/AgCl electrodes. NIH 3T3 fibroblasts were seeded inside this chip to study their migration and reactive oxygen species (ROS) production in response to different EF strengths and the presence of β-lapachone. We found that both the EF and β-lapachone level increased the cell migration rate and the production of ROS in an EF-strength-dependent manner. A strong linear correlation between the cell migration rate and the amount of intracellular ROS suggests that ROS are an intermediate product by which EF and β-lapachone enhance cell migration. Moreover, an anti-oxidant, α-tocopherol, was found to quench the production of ROS, resulting in a decrease in the migration rate.  相似文献   

第九届全运会女子100m栏铜牌得主曾小玲的赛前训练控制     

罗彬 《体育科技》2003,24(3):15-17

赛前训练控制是运动员在比赛中取得好成绩的关键环节之一 ,对第九届全国运动会女子10 0m栏铜牌获得者曾小玲的赛前训练控制进行探讨。根据个人特点 ,采用大赛前六周训练控制 ,赛前安排时间较长 ,减少运动量 ,降低专项强度 ,大幅度减少机体总的负荷量 ,结果在 2 0 0 1年第九届全运会上跑出了 12″91的好成绩 ,一年时间提高 0 .5 6s ,取得女子 10 0m栏季军。  相似文献   

对制订高校科技发展规划若干问题的初步探讨     

罗普磷 《西安体育学院学报》1994,(4)

本文对高校科研工作的地位、作用与基本特点和制订高校发展规划的基本原则、程序与方法以及应注意的问题进行了初步的探讨．  相似文献   

Prospective elementary teachers’ knowledge of fraction division     

Jane-Jane Lo  Fenqjen Luo 《Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education》2012,15(6):481-500

Prospective elementary teachers must understand fraction division deeply in order to meaningfully teach this topic to their future students. This paper explores the nature of the subject content knowledge of fraction division possessed by a group of Taiwanese prospective elementary teachers at the beginning of their mathematics methods course. The findings provide preliminary evidence that many prospective Taiwanese elementary teachers have developed the knowledge package of fraction division as described by Ma (Knowing and teaching elementary mathematics: Teachers?? understanding of fundamental mathematics in China and the United States. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, 1999). The nature of various strategies used by these teachers provides further illustration of a secure common content knowledge that can serve as a benchmark for the development of mathematics courses for prospective teachers. However, the findings also show that the tasks of representing fraction division, through either word problems or pictorial diagrams, are challenging even for those highly proficient in elementary and middle school mathematics. The broader implications of this research for the international community are discussed, and recommendations for elementary teacher education programs are presented.  相似文献   

Syntactic skills in sentence reading comprehension among Chinese elementary school children     

Pakey Pui-man Chik  Connie Suk-han Ho  Pui-sze Yeung  David Wai-ock Chan  Kevin Kien-hoa Chung  Hui Luan  Lap-yan Lo  Wendy Suet-yee Lau 《Reading and writing》2012,25(3):679-699

The present study examined the role of syntactic skills for reading comprehension in Chinese. Two hundred and seventy-two Chinese children were tested on their phonological processing, orthographic, morphological, syntactic, and literacy skills at Grades 1 and 2. Hierarchical multiple regression results showed that syntactic skills, in terms of word order, connective usage, and knowledge of morphosyntactic structure (measured by an oral cloze task) in Grade 1, significantly predicted sentence reading comprehension in Grade 2 after controlling for the children’s age, IQ, and word level reading-related cognitive skills in Grade 1, and word reading in Grade 2. As in alphabetic languages, syntactic skills are essential for reading comprehension in Chinese. The unique roles of individual syntactic skills for understanding sentences in Chinese are discussed.  相似文献   

Erratum to: Contribution of discourse and morphosyntax skills to reading comprehension in Chinese dyslexic and typically developing children     

Pakey?Pui-man?Chik  Connie?Suk-han?HoEmail author  Pui-sze?Yeung  Yau-kai?Wong  David?Wai-ock?Chan  Kevin?Kien-hoa?Chung  Lap-yan?Lo 《Annals of dyslexia》2012,62(1):19-21

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Television news is government news in Taiwan patterns of television news sources selection and presentation     

Ven‐Hwei Lo  Jei‐Cheng Cheng  Chin‐Chuan Lee 《亚洲交流杂志》2013,23(1):99-110

Based on a content analysis of evening newscasts by the three television stations in Taiwan, this study examines the patterns of news sources selection and presentation in television news. The results of this study show that television news relies heavily on government officials who are primarily middle‐aged men in executive positions located in the capital city of Taipei. These findings suggest that the central government officials in Taipei appear to be the primary definers of social reality. TV news portrays only a very limited view of the society. In conclusion, this study suggests that with the management and content tightly controlled by the state, Taiwan's television news consists primarily of official rituals.  相似文献   

Examining the first,second and third-person effects of Internet pornography on Taiwanese adolescents: implications for the restriction of pornography     

Ven-Hwei Lo  Ran Wei  Hsiaomei Wu 《亚洲交流杂志》2013,23(1):90-103

To explore the impact of Internet pornography on users as compared with traditional forms of pornography, a total of 1688 adolescents in Taiwan were surveyed. Results show that respondents estimated the harms of Internet pornography to exceed that of pornographic materials in print and broadcast media. More importantly, findings show that exposure to Internet pornography resulted in desensitizing effects in that users tended to perceive the harms of Internet pornography as less on self and others. In addition, exposure was found to be negatively related to support for restrictions of Internet pornography, but the perceived harm on self was found to be positively related to support for restrictions. Finally, the joint effects of the first and third-person effect (the second-person effect) were shown as a more reliable predictor of behavioral intention than the third-person perception. Findings help resolve the contradiction in past research that reported the third-person perception as both a significant and non-significant predictor of support for restrictions on pornography.  相似文献