南开日研的日本研究

1988年4月,为适应新时期日本研究的需要,在日本外交史专家俞辛焞教授的倡议和组织下,分散在南开大学各系所的日本研究人员实现联合,正式成立日本研究中心。初建的南开日研除拥有一支日本研究队伍外,一无经费,二无办公场所,白手起家,惨淡经营。但是,在学校各级党政领导的关怀支持下,在国内外有关机构和友人的帮助下。

二十年的历程——纪念“南开日研”成立二十周年

2008年是中日友好条约签订30周年。在胡锦涛总书记的访日暖春之旅取得圆满成功的日子里,我们以喜悦的心情迎来了南开日研成立20周年。这二十年,南开日研的全体师生同心同德,努力拼搏,谱写了辉煌的篇章。机构成长壮大我校是全国高等院校中最早开始日本研究的大学之一。

敬业与创新:“南开日研”的发展之魂

20年前,南开大学日本研究中心作为校内横向联合的'虚体'研究机构宣告成立。今天,她已发展成为在国内外有一定影响全国高校唯一的日本研究院。值此中日友好条约签署30周年纪念暨庆祝南开日研成立20周年之际,作为日研的一名成员,抚今追昔,心情无法平静。

国别史研究的创新性实践——中华人民共和国成立70年来南开大学的日本史研究

中华人民共和国成立70年来,特别是实行改革开放政策40年来,在社会发展的大环境下,南开大学日本史研究事业所取得的长足进步,既是源自研究者敬业的内在动力,也是依靠科研管理体制、研究资源的筹措与使用、人才培养机制以及科学研究等方面的创新。由此,日本史学科不仅确立和巩固了在学界的研究重镇地位,而且在学科发展的外延式渗透扩张中,进一步推动了多学科交叉的国别日本研究与复合型专业人才培养,自身亦在与相关学科的共生互动中成长,实现内涵式知识结构更新。

Changes in Citizen Participation in Japanese Civil Society

Japan experienced the retrenchment of the welfare state. The purpose of this study was to deepen the understanding of the impact these policy changes had on citizens’ organized activities. It focused on the 2016 revision of Long-Term Care Insurance （LTCI） system, which urged citizens to organize activities to support the frail seniors in their communities. Researchers conducted interviews in the Tokyo from February-March 2016. The subjects were six local officers in charge of LTCI implementation and 10 community members who led the voluntary activities organized as a response to the 2016 systemic revision. This study found that those leading voluntary activities were primarily baby boomers, who were born between 1947 and 1949. They were actively involved in “new voluntary activity movements” in the 1980s, as interacting with a wide range of citizens. However, as they reached the age of 65 or older, they became more focused on developing a comfortable space and collaborating with those similar to them： those who were college graduates, middle- to upper-class, and held white-collar jobs. The disparity based on income level seemed to be emphasized also because the way the 2016 revision of LTCI system was designed.

Language as a Key to Global Research and Challenges in the 21 st Century： Insights From Nigeria

The main purpose of this research is to draw insights from Nigeria to find out how language serves as the key to global research and challenges in the 21 st century. This research is necessitated by the fact that apart from the point that globalization will be very difficult if not impossible without language, language is also a major tool to fix every challenge of life since solution to problems of life arises through thought. The researcher draws her data from bill boards, television, posters, and other secondary sources of data like textbooks, journals, internet, etc. and adopts a descriptive framework for the analysis of data. The investigation portrays the fact that language is an indispensable tool not only for global research but for resolving all the challenges facing Nigerians in the 21 st century. The study shows that there are challenges in the health, security, educational, social, economic, and political sectors in Nigeria. It equally reveals that through language, solution to the health, security, educational, social, economic, and political challenges in Nigeria is provided.

Academic Study of Religion in Universities, Southwest Nigeria： In Search of Social Identity/Relevance

Social theorists have engaged religion as a social agent and submitted that it has the capacity to foster positive and negative changes in the society. Milton Yinger, Emile Durkheim, and Karl Marx lead the pack among other sociologists. The need to therefore interrogate religion as an agent of social engineering cannot be overemphasized normatively and functionally. One of the implications of such engagement is that religion; study and practice need to respond to issues in the society. Basic challenges facing the Nigerian nation are issues of poverty, diseases, corruption, and illiteracy. However, in Nigerian universities, the situation posits that religion is studied with theological intentions based on the curriculum bequeathed by the missionaries that laid the foundation for the academic study of religion in Nigeria leading to exclusive and reductionist approaches to its study. There is also government policy that placed emphasis on science and management courses for development. The situation has led to reduction in students＇ enrolments for the study of religion in Nigerian universities. Therefore, this paper seeks explanations for the non-functional design（s） of the curriculum for the academic study of religion in universities, southwest of Nigeria. Descriptive and analytic methods were adopted in the study to pursue the thesis that the academic study of religion in Nigeria should be rebranded and repackaged to respond and interrogate social challenges/problems, such as the scourge of HIV/AIDS plaguing the society thereby recreating a new social identity and relevance for its study.

Collaborating Against AIDS:A Urban Chinese Case Study of World AIDS Day Awareness

Objective: To incorporate students and other local community partners in creating a collaborative Nanjing World AIDS Day exhibition. Background: Stigma and discrimination continue to complicate effective World AIDS Day activities in China. Including foreign students in World AIDS Day campaigns broadens the potential Chinese audience as well as making the government's AIDS policiesmore transparent. Methods: In order to broaden the potential audience, relevant media (television, radio, newspaper) were notified of the 2003 Nanjing World AIDS Day Exhibition. The exhibition represented a unique collaboration between Nanjing University and the Chinese National Center for STD and Leprosy Control, depending on foreign and Chinese students at several levels. In addition, close contacts at the Jiangsu Provincial Health Bureau helped to coordinate local experts and distribution of condoms. Results: This multi-disciplinary cooperative exhibition was successfully completed. Several major media sources covered the event. Conclusions: The success of this campaign suggests that other urban cities with significant foreign student populations could benefit from including foreign and Chinese students in future World AIDS Day campaign activities.

Preliminary Study of Anthelmintic Potential of Terminalia catappa Fresh Leaves Following Short-Term Daily Feeding on Goats

The anthelmintic resistance was developed in many species of gastrointestinal nematodes and occurred worldwide. This phenomenon had reduced the effectiveness of anthelmintics which based on drugs. This situation has led to the scientific study on natural anthelmintic that based on traditional usage of local plants. In this study, local plant named Ketapang （Terminalia catappa） that traditionally used to treat helminth infection was chose as experimental plant. Eighteen mix Katjang goats were equally divided into three groups, where two groups were treated with mature and immature T. catappa leaves respectively, while the third group was untreated. Leaves were daily feeding in raw to the goats for four weeks. Normal goat＇s pellet was fed to the goats according to scheduled time-feediing; morning and afternoon, and water was given ad libitum. Fecal samples were collected every two days during the experimental period and subjected to modified Mc Master fecal egg count. Results for this short-term preliminary anthelmintic trial had showed significant percentage of helminth eggs reduction in goats. The reduction in goats treated with mature leaves was at 72% and 63% for the goats treated with immature leaves. Control goats did not showed significant reduction in terms of the parasite worm eggs. In conclusion, the ethnoveterinary data about this local plant was scientifically proven and can be widely promoted to the local livestock＇s owner as an alternative approach for parasitic helminths control in goats.

Port Service Quality Study of Nigerian Sea Ports

This study is focused on service quality assessment in the Nigerian ports with Westem and Eastern port zones as study areas. It discovered the level of satisfaction derived by port users by evaluating expectations and perceptions at the ports using some selected analysis tools to test raised hypothesis. This evaluation was based on the service quality model as developed by Parasuraman within the core dimensions of Empathy, Responsiveness, Tangibles, Reliability and Assurance. The attributes of expectations and perceptions raised within these dimensions were addressed with two hypotheses. H1 （Hypothesis one） and H2 （Hypothesis two） were addressed with the results of Factor Analysis which identified the significance port users attach to service quality dimensions and their respective attributes.

Mechanical response of transmission lines based on sliding cable element

In order to study the sliding characteristics when the cable is connected with the other rods in the transmission line structures,a linear sliding cable element based on updated Lagrangian formulation and a sliding catenary element considering the out-of-plane stiffness coefficient are put forward.A two-span and a three-span cable structures are taken as examples to verify the sliding cable elements.By comparing the tensions of the two proposed cable elements with the existing research results,the error is less than 1%,which proves the correctness of the proposed elements.The sliding characteristics should be considered in the practical engineering because of the significant difference between the tensions of sliding cable elements and those of cable element without considering sliding.The out-of-plane stiffness coefficient and friction characteristics do not obviously affect the cable tensions.

Recent Development in Maize Research at Institute for Agricultural Research, Samaru, Nigeria

Maize research at Institute for Agricultural Research, Samaru, Nigeria resulted in sustained growth in yields in the last two decades. Maize is grown throughout the country with guinea savanna as the most important maize growing zone. In the last five years, four new open pollinating varieties developed in collaboration with the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture （IITA, Ibadan） had been released for production. Hybrid varieties are also marketed by seed companies. The research was focused on variety improvement, improved management practices, integrated pests and disease control, soil fertility management, on-farm testing of improved production packages and socio-economics of production as well as adoption studies. The recently released quality protein maize has improved the nutritional status of vulnerable groups. Drought tolerant maize for Africa research project has contributed to sustainable maize production, poverty reduction and food security in the continent.

Comparing the frequencies of restriction fragment length polymorphisms for dystrophin gene in Chinese with those from Japanese and Caucasian populations

The restriction fragment length polymorphisms distribution and frequency of dystrophin gene in Chinese were studied by using 14 subclones of the entire 14kb cDNA for the dystrophin as hybridization probes. Allelic fragments were detected in hybridization patterns of PvuII/1a, Taq I/2b-3, Taq I/5b-7, and Xba I/10. Among them, the allelic fragments (26kb and 3.8kb) in PvuII/2b-3 pattern and the allelic fragments (10.0kb and 8.4kb) in Taq I/5b-7 patterns had never been reported previously. Compared with the data from Caucasians and Japanese, it indicated that there was a significant difference (P<0.01) of the allelic fragment frequency in Taq I/2b-3 and Xba I/10 patterns between Chinese and Caucasians. The frequencies of allelic fragments A2 (5.6kb) in Taq I/8 and A2 (10.7kb) in EcoR V/9 were high in Caucasians, yet had not been detected in Chinese, the differences were also highly significant. But in Chinese and Caucasians, the B1B2 allelic frequencies in Taq I/5b-7 are the same. As to the frequency of the allelic fragments A1A2 and B1B2 in Pvu II/1a, there was no significant difference between Chinese and Japanese.

Selection of Maize Genotypes Resistant to Pink Stem Borer and Sugarcane Borer

Maize is an important economic crop grown in Nigeria. Its production is dramatically affect by the pink stem borer--Sesamia caIamistis （Hampson, Noctuidae） and sugarcane borer--Eldana saccharina （Walker, Pyralidae） that are endemic in Southeastern Nigeria. In areas of stress, existing genotypes may marginally do well due to their inherent capabilities. Therefore, it is possible to find useful genes in such areas of stress, since such genes have been responsible for the survival of host crops over the years. Evaluation study was conducted for a range of agronomic characteristics and resistance attributes for 209 local maize collections from Southeastern Nigeria along with three improved check varieties. Field trials were conducted at three locations in a total of four environments in 2001. Highly significant genotypic variances as were noted in all the traits, are indicative of the magnitude of variation that exists among the genotypes, thus providing the opportunity of selection for desirable traits. Furthermore, four traits, namely, leaf feeding, ear damage, stalk lodging and yield were used from across the environments to construct a rank summation index （RSI）, which was used to rank the entries for resistance to stem borers. This RSI led to the identification of 11 genotypes which represents the best 5% of the 212 genotypes in resistance ability. Genotype AMA TZBR-WC1 （from International Institute of Tropical Agriculture （IITA）, Ibadan） had the best overall resistance levels, followed by genotypes SE NG-77 and SE NG-67 （from Umuahia North）, SE NG-62 （from Ikwuano）, SE NG-148 （from Ukwa West）, SE NG-106 （from Bende）, SE NG-119 （from Isiala Ngwa）, SE NG-33 （from Ikwuano） and SE NG-65 （from Umuahia North）.

Learner Choice and Accommodation:Exploring Comments in Chinese EFL Learning Diaries

本文区分顺化(accommodation)的认知、批判和交际三种意义。对这三种意义的探讨有助于理解二语/外语课堂的教与学,包括学习者遇到的困难、障碍和学习者做出的选择。研究的第一手资料是65位高校英语专业学生的275篇英语学习日记。通过对学生的话语进行内容分析(content analysis),我们探讨学生在特定学习环境下所做出的学习选择,从而建议应该对语言学习中的顺化现象进行更全面的描述。

An adaptive C^0IPG method for the Helmholtz transmission eigenvalue problem

The interior penalty methods using C^0 Lagrange elements(C^0 IPG) developed in the recent decade for the fourth order problems are an interesting topic at present. In this paper, we discuss the adaptive proporty of C^0 IPG method for the Helmholtz transmission eigenvalue problem. We give the a posteriori error indicators for primal and dual eigenfunctions, and prove their reliability and efficiency. We also give the a posteriori error indicator for eigenvalues and design a C^0 IPG adaptive algorithm. Numerical experiments show that this algorithm is efficient and can get the optimal convergence rate.

An advanced carbon dioxide retrieval algorithm for satellite measurements and its application to GOSAT observations

An advanced carbon dioxide retrieval algo- rithm for satellite observations has been developed at the Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The algorithm is tested using Greenhouse gases Observing SATellite （GOSAT） LIB data and validated using the Total Column Carbon Observing Network （TCCON） measurements. The retrieved XCO2 agrees well with TCCON measurements in a low bias of 0.15 ppmv and RMSE of 1.48 ppmv, and captured the seasonal vari- ation and increasing of XCO2 in Northern and Southern Hemisphere, respectively, as other measurements.