Environmental planning and management for the Assarawat highland region of south-western Saudi Arabia: the traditional versus the professional approach

The environmental planning and management of the Assarawat highlands of south-western Saudi Arabia are currently confronted by difficult problems. Deforestation is caused either by natural or intentional forces. Natural factors are limited to lightning fire and drought, while intentional forces include vandalism caused by the burning or cutting of preserved forests. Such vandalism continues despite the tremendous efforts of afforestation and preservation by several government agencies, especially the Ministry of Agriculture and Water, the National Commission for Wildlife Conservation and Development and by the municipalities of the cities and towns in the region. For centuries, local inhabitants of the Assarawat highlands have successfully established environmental planning and management strategies which balanced the settlements' growth and natural resource uses according to Islamic laws, and the tribal self-government of each settlement and tribal region. Following the establishment of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 1932, the land management system started to change from tribal-based, where every tribe used to manage its local territory, to State authority. The creation of the State witnessed the unification of various fragmented tribes of Saudi Arabia into one government. This meant that environmental planning and management moved from local/regional towards a national control. This investigation proposes that the local/regional planning and management practised by the tribes could be viably utilized today. As in the past, the implementation of these practices could protect the natural environment of the locality and region and regularize their exploitation rationally, as long as vernacular people implement them. Today environmental planning and management need to be based on strategies of local requirements that enable the indigenous people to plan and manage the use of the resources.     

论高职英语教学中的文化导入

作为文化的一部分,语言与文化的关系是密不可分的。本文通过对我国高职英语教育目标及现状的分析,指出了在高职英语教学中进行文化导入的必要性及方法。     

高职高专院校实验室安全管理探析

以人身安全及环境保护为前提,探析高职高专院校的实验室安全问题。分析当前高职高专院校实验室安全管理的现状、特点及存在问题,结合自己单位安全工作的具体实践,提出高职高专院校实验室的安全管理的主要措施:一是树立"以人为本,珍惜生命,安全第一,预防为主"的安全科学发展观,突出安全教育;二是健全安全管理体制,做到管理、安全工作全校"一盘棋";三是借鉴ISO质量保证体系模式,加强安全质量标准化建设。     

高校隐性财务风险的规避、控制思考

高校隐性财务风险形成的原因主要集中在规模贷款和财务管理,突出表现在财务监控机制缺乏或不完善、财务管理缺乏系统的评价指标和风险意识等。规避、控制高校隐性财务风险,可通过促进资金来源多元化、加强监管、维持预算平衡、严格贷款程序、建立财务评价指标体系、推进财务管理信息化的渠道来实现。     

Traffic noise and executive functioning in urban primary school children: The moderating role of gender

The objective of this study was to examine the relationships between noise and school children's executive functioning (EF). The study included 311 children (146 boys and 165 girls) aged 7–11 years, who lived in the center of Belgrade. Teachers rated children's EF on a standard scale evaluating their ability to work independently in a focused manner to achieve an end goal as well as children's ability to follow directions carefully. Residential noise exposure was estimated in three daytime intervals, one evening interval and two nighttime intervals in the middle of the streets where children lived. School noise exposure was measured on three different school days in front of children's schools. Socioeconomic status (mother's highest level of education and family income) was used as a statistical control. There were no significant main effects of ambient noise levels on EF, however, a significant interaction indicated adverse noise impacts on boy's EF. We discuss possible reasons for male EF vulnerability to noise.     

安全工程本科教育专业认证的方法与实践

简要介绍我国高等工程教育专业认证试点的发展状况和主要做法,详细阐述安全工程专业认证以学生为本的指导思想和以质量保证及质量改进为出发点的基本特点。在通用标准的基础上,在培养目标、课程设置专业实验、专业实践、学科基础实践和毕业论文5个方面细化了安全工程专业认证的补充标准,明确安全工程专业认证的基本流程。安全工程本科教育专业认证的方法与实践,对于促进高等学校安全工程教育与注册安全工程师制度的相互衔接和质量的提高,促进我国的注册安全工程师制度与国际接轨有着重要的作用。     

计算机辅助HAZOP技术的研究

在HAZOP原理的基础上,讨论了计算机辅助HAZOP技术的优势,并针对传统的HAZOP、基于深层知识模型SDG的计算机辅助HAZOP和应用PHA-Pro软件3种方法进行了分析和比较;介绍了研发成功的针对开、停车过程和应急阶段顺序颠倒、操作步骤遗漏的人工误操作危险与可操作性分析系统MO-HAZOP;该系统具有定量计算出所有的人工误操作顺序组合的发生概率值,结合现有知识和专家经验,判定事件发生的风险等级,从而有重点地给出预防危险、保障生产安全的建议的功能;MO-HAZOP分析系统对于石化企业的安全生产具有重要意义。     

河北省高校社会体育专业培养目标及学生满意度调查分析

运用文献资料法、问卷调查法、数理统计法和对比分析法,对我省社会体育专业本专科院校的培养目标情况、学生收获和满意度情况进行调查分析。研究结果表明,中环院社会体育专业学生对课程体系设置的满意度最高,就业信心指数最大。进一步分析可知,以社会体育产业为目标定位、以能力本位为教育模式对社会体育专业学生的培养具有一定的优越性     

高校传统诚信教育的理性重建

"诚信"是中华民族的道德规范,我国大学教育一直秉承诚信教育传统,为培养诚实守信的公民而不懈努力。但面对市场经济带来的思想、观念、制度冲击,传统诚信教育的弊端日益凸现,如何看待诚信、如何促进诚信教育的良性发展、如何保障诚信教育的切实践行等问题,应该成为高等教育者们不断思考的焦点,而重建传统诚信教育要通过建设校园诚信文化和构建校长负责制等措施来实现。     

高职英语教学与学生职业素质的培养

长期以来,我国教育领域各层次的外语教学普遍使用单一的教学内容,教学理念、方法和手段落后,考核形式单一。高职院校只有改革英语教学内容,丰富教学方法和手段,采用多元化的考核方式,更新人才引进观念,在教学中注重学生职业素质的培养,才能使高职英语教学真正体现出职业教育特色。