An Analysis of the Current Situation and Causes of the Journals of Colleges and Universities for Nationalities

The Journal of national colleges and universities is the window of teaching and scientific research.Only by improving the quality of the journal can we better serve the teaching and scientific research of the journal.Therefore,this paper tries to find out the causes of the problems from the management system,the academic status,the source of manuscripts and the editors themselves,so as to improve the quality of the journals.

Comparative study and error analysis of digital elevation model interpolations

Researchers in P.R.China commonly create triangulate irregular networks(TINs) from contours and then convert TINs into digital elevation models(DEMs).However,the DEM produced by this method can not precisely describe and simulate key hydrological features such as rivers and drainage borders.Taking a hilly region in southwestern China as a research area and using ArcGISTM software,we analyzed the errors of different interpolations to obtain distributions of the errors and precisions of different algorithms and to provide references for DEM productions.The results show that different interpolation errors satisfy normal distributions,and large error exists near the structure line of the terrain.Furthermore,the results also show that the precision of a DEM interpolated with the Australian National University digital elevation model(ANUDEM) is higher than that interpolated with TIN.The DEM interpolated with TIN is acceptable for generating DEMs in the hilly region of southwestern China.

A Millimeter-Wave Radio Telescope Project at Seoul National University

The Department of Astronomy at Seoul National University is carrying out a project to build a radio observatory, the Seoul Radio Astronomical Observatory (SRAO). The observatory will be constructed on our campus, which is located at sea level in Seoul, Korea, at (126°57.′3E, 37°27.′1N). The observatory will operate a 6 m millimeter radio telescope.

Ethnic Museum of the Central University for Nationalities

THE Central University for Nationalities Ethnic Museum houses over 20,000 cultural relics relating to China’s 56 ethnic groups. The majority of these are traditional costumes and ornaments that examplify expertise on the part of ethnic minorities in weaving, dying, embroidery and tannage. Some are decades, and others centuries old. Exhibits such as the gifts to Chairman Mao Zedong and the central government in the early days of the People’s Republic from the Panchen Lama, Dalai Lama, and ethnic minorities across China are of great political and historical significance.

Law School of Nankai University Holds International Seminar on National Human Rights Action Plan

The Information Office of the State council issued the first National Human Rights Action Plan of China （NHRAP） （2009-2010） on April 13, 2009. The Nankai University participated in the drafting of this significant national document on human rights, with three teachers invited one after another to work at the panel of experts under the drafting committee. In cooperation with the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law （RWlHRHL） of Sweden, the Research Center for Human Rights under Law School of the university held an international seminar titled ＂Formulation and Implementation of NHRAP- Swedish Experience.＂

Second National Convention on University Human Rights Education Held in Beijing

The Second China Convention on Human Rights Education in Universities was held on November 6-8 in Beijing. It was jointly sponsored by the Human Rights and Humanitarian Law Institute of the China University of Political Science and Law, the Norwegian Center for Human Rights at the University of Oslo, Norway, the Danish Institute for Human Rights and the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at Lund University, Sweden. More than 90 researchers, scholars and human rights teachers of universities from China and other countries attended.

The Daily Life of the Professors of National Southwest Associated University—Taking Professor Zheng Tianting and Zheng Tianting's Diary of National Southwest Associated University (Zheng Tianting Xinan lianda riji) for Material

This article explores the life of the professors of National Southwest Associated University during the Anti-Japanese War in detail,and tries to reveal their mental outlook and their enlightenment on how to live.The paper also describes the daily lives of Professor Zheng Tianting and his colleagues,including living and sleep,body care,diet and hobbies,family life,closeness to nature,appreciation of cultural artifacts,various cultural and entertainment activities,nostalgia for deceased relatives,communication and care within clans and social groups,diary writing,and self-cultivation.Zheng and his colleagues from National Southwest Associated University felt deeply that people living in social groups needed to take the initiative to find friends,make friends,and be critical friends.Friends can encourage each other,solve difficulties,promote personal development,enrich life interest,and improve quality of life,which makes an already active life more dynamic and colorfiil.The life of Zheng and his colleagues was in accord with the social conditions of the times.There are three aspects of consistency between them:the common experience of war,patriotic spirit,and confidence that China would definitely win;traditional moral benevolence and the inheritance of the spirit of the ancient Chinese intellectuals who cared about the country and the people before personal enjoyment;and maintaining the spirit of the times,which was a new awareness of independent personality and consciousness.There are many inspirations for life that can be drawn from the daily life of Zheng and his colleagues:People should have a rich and diverse life,every meal deserves to be taken seriously,and one should watch art performances,play mahjong and poker,appreciate art works,collect cultural relics,and so on.Such is what life should mean.Whether it was the willingness of the professors of National Southwest Associated University to"go Dutch"when they had dinner parties during the Republic of China or the novel experience of daylight savings time,these were considered new things in life.They are a reminder that we need to continue to supersede closed thoughts.The professors,who had both the essence of traditional morality and the modern sense of democracy,realized their desire to be their own "master."

The Australian National University

The Australian National University was established by Federal Parliament in 1946 with a mission to bring credit to the nation and to be one of the world’s great universities.It was the country’s only full-time research university at the time,and had no undergraduate teaching responsibilities.