Database reverse engineering: From requirements to CARE tools

This paper analyzes the requirements that CASE tools should meet for effective database reverse engineering (DBRE), and proposes a general architecture for data-centered applications reverse engineering CASE environments. First, the paper describes a generic DBMS-independent DBRE methodology, then it analyzes the main characteristics of DBRE activities in order to collect a set of desirable requirements. Finally, it describes DB-MAIN, an operational CASE tool developed according to these requirements. The main features of this tool that are described in this paper are its unique generic specification model, its repository, its transformation toolkit, its user interface, the text processors, the assistants, the methodological control and its functional extensibility. Finally, the paper describes five real-world projects in which the methodology and the CASE tool were applied. This is a heavily revised and extended version of “Requirements for Information System Reverse Engineering Support” by J.-L. Hainaut, V. Englebert, J. Henrard, J.-M. Hick, D. Roland, which first appeared in the Proceedings of the Second Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 136–145, July 1995. This paper presents some results of the DB-MAIN project. This project is partially supported by the Région Wallonne, the European Union, and by a consortium comprising ACEC-OSI (Be), ARIANE-II (Be), Banque UCL (Lux), BBL (Be), Centre de recherche public H. Tudor (Lux), CGER (Be), Cockerill-Sambre (Be), CONCIS (Fr), D'Ieteren (Be), DIGITAL, EDF (Fr), EPFL (CH), Groupe S (Be), IBM, OBLOG Software (Port), ORIGIN (Be), Ville de Namur (Be), Winterthur (Be), 3 Suisses (Be). The DB-Process subproject is supported by the Communauté Fran?aise de Belgique.     

Constructing Space for Science at the Royal Institution of Great Britain

Those who have worked in the Royal Institution of Great Britain have, since its foundation in 1799, made significant contributions to scientific knowledge, to its practical application, and to its communication to a wide variety of audiences. Such work cannot be carried out in an architectural vacuum, and in this paper we examine how the buildings of the Royal Institution, 20 and 21 Albemarle Street in central London, have shaped the work undertaken within its walls and how, on a number of occasions, the buildings have been reconfigured to take account of the evolving needs of scientific research and communication. This paper is based on the Conservation Plan of the Royal Institution that we wrote during 2003. The Conservation Plan did not examine the land owned by the Royal Institution to the north (i.e., 22 and 23 Albemarle Street; for this area see Richard Garnier, “Grafton Street, Mayfair,” Georgian Group Journal 13 (2003), 210–272), but it did discuss 18 and 19 Albemarle Street. In this paper we concentrate on the core Royal Institution buildings at 20 and 21 Albemarle Street. Other studies of the relationship of architecture,space, and science include Crosbie Smith and Jon Agar, ed., Making Space for Science: Territorial Themes in the Shaping of Knowledge (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1997); Peter Galison and Emily Thompson, ed., The Architecture of Science (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1999); and Sophie Forgan,“The architecture of science and the idea of a university,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 20 (1989), 405–434. Frank A.J.L. James is Professor of the History of Science at the Royal Institution; he has written widely on the history of nineteenth-century science in its social and cultural contexts and is editor of the Correspondence of Michael Faraday. He is President of the British Society for the History of Science. Anthony Peers is an Associate of Rodney Melville and Partners where he works in the field of building conservation as an architectural historian. He is a Council member of the Ancient Monument Society.     

用电泳技术制备YBCO高温超导厚膜

介绍了电泳技术制备YBCO高温超导厚膜的实验方法和YBCO高温超导厚膜的电学性质测量 ,讨论了在学生小型科研实验或设计实验中开展此实验的学时安排、注意事项和实验内容的扩展 .     

Physics in Melbourne

I survey highlights of the practice of physics and allied sciences in Melbourne,Australia, from the 1850s, soon after Europeans first settled in the area, to the present. I note recognizable sites of past and current physical-science activity that may be visited, as well as exhibits of historic items of physics apparatus. I trace the role of physics, in the course of a century and a half, in the evolution of a pioneering settlement into a large city embedded in a modern industrial economy.     

色谱分析发展简史及其给我们的启示

简要回顾了色谱分析技术的发展史，厘清了某些中文文献中的不妥表述。通过分析色谱发展过程中的几个重要突破，总结了在科学技术创新方面给我们的启示：（1）基础研究始终是色谱技术进步的源泉；（2）社会发展的需求是各种色谱方法创新的驱动力；（3）学科交叉是色谱分析技术创新的重要途径；（4）不懈坚持和勇于探索是科学技术创新的必要条件。最后对色谱发展的前景作了展望。     

物理化学课程“热化学”主题学习历程研究——化学师范生知识建构的文本分析

为深入了解地方性师范院校化学师范生知识建构习惯和水平，探讨他们在大学专业基础课程中的学习历程，以物理化学课程中以“融合科学读写特色”的“热化学”学案作为研究载体，研究对象在学案引导下开展自学活动，并在阅读教材和文献基础上进行科学写作。采用量表工具针对大学生自学效果和反思活动进行评价，并采用SOLO分类评价科学写作作品，采用KWL工具评价学生的科学阅读收获。结果发现研究对象学习动机不强，不擅长在新的学科知识学习中联系已有专业课程知识，基于文本学习的建构活动水平极低，可能是因为他们在应试背景下的基础知识并未形成体系，先修课程中并未培养元认知学习策略。     

未成年人科学素质监测指标体系研究

未成年人是我国公民科学素质监测的四大重点人群之一.国家及时准确地了解未成人科学素质状况,是正确认识本国公民科学素质现状之必须.由于未成年人代表国家未来,因此,掌握未成人科学素质的变化动态也是国家预测未来公民科学素质的重要依据.指标体系的开发是监测的起点,本文通过各种国际对比分析,利用德尔菲法设计一整套适用于我国未成人科学素质监测的指标体系,为我国未成年人科学素质监测工作奠定了坚实的科学基础.     

著名物理学家约翰·巴丁及其两次中国之行

介绍著名物理学家巴丁两次获诺贝尔物理学奖的科学探索历程;回顾了巴丁对中国的两次访问和对中国科技、教育发展的关注与支持;从巴丁的科学精神和他善于发挥个人智慧与科学团队的集体创造力中汲取有益的启示与思考.     

基于应用型本科生创新能力培养的教学改革研究*

基于应用型本科院校创新型人才的培养目标,对本科生开展科研训练,将科研训练纳入教学过程,从课程体系、教学环节、教学手段、考核评价等方面进行了探索,构建了以科研训练为主线的研究型教学模式。     

两化融合的科学认识与发展实践

系统阐述了我国两化融合的本质、发展规律、阶段特征、实现途径,总结了两化融合在我国的实践和发展,最后提出了若干政策建议。通过理论研究和总结,为践行具有中国特色的两化融合之路提供借鉴和参考。