The Future of Systems Thinking

Due to the diminishing popularity of systems thinking, an attempt is done to predict its future in the university world. Two starting points are used: one in the traditional scientific community, being its habitat; and the other in the surrounding society, being its area of application. The investigation shows that systems thinking is highly needed, although its nearest future seems bleak. The systemic challenge to the traditional academic world has unfortunately been taken as a threat against its existence. The scientific and educational impact of systems thinking is therefore opposed as an alternative to the old scientific paradigm. Furthermore, the resistance to new theories moving across disciplinary boundaries seems stronger than resistance to theories within the disciplines.     

Varieties of noise: Analogical reasoning in synthetic biology

The picture of synthetic biology as a kind of engineering science has largely created the public understanding of this novel field, covering both its promises and risks. In this paper, we will argue that the actual situation is more nuanced and complex. Synthetic biology is a highly interdisciplinary field of research located at the interface of physics, chemistry, biology, and computational science. All of these fields provide concepts, metaphors, mathematical tools, and models, which are typically utilized by synthetic biologists by drawing analogies between the different fields of inquiry. We will study analogical reasoning in synthetic biology through the emergence of the functional meaning of noise, which marks an important shift in how engineering concepts are employed in this field. The notion of noise serves also to highlight the differences between the two branches of synthetic biology: the basic science-oriented branch and the engineering-oriented branch, which differ from each other in the way they draw analogies to various other fields of study. Moreover, we show that fixing the mapping between a source domain and the target domain seems not to be the goal of analogical reasoning in actual scientific practice.     

形象思维在医学英语术语命名中的应用

形象思维在医学英语术语的命名中发挥着重要的作用。借助植物、动物、自然现象、物品、古希腊罗马神话中的人物形象对医学英语术语进行命名,可以增加医学英语术语的美感、趣味性和准确性,利于理解和记忆。     

典型信息法：中西文化互补与科学技术创新案例

记述笔者提出"典型信息法"假说,以中西文化互补的一种新形式,初步解决当代一项科学技术难题,经大量应用验证,得到国内外承认的心路历程;为中国传统文化与"象思维"在当代科学技术原始性创新中的关键作用,提供一个案例.     

《工程力学》课程教学手段探讨

本文基于工程力学课程特点,从教学实践出发,通过对数据的分析,从课程体系、软件应用和考核方式三个方面,探讨了教学手段的应用.     

发散思维教学与学生创新能力的培养

本文用发散思维方法于无机化学教学过程，从不同的方向，不同的侧面，不同的层次，横向拓展，纵向深入，将学生的思维积极引向探索创新，克服思维定势，激发思维潜能，有助于学生全面把握相关知识点的相互联系和创新能力的提高。     

多媒体环境下高职英语教学的调查与思考

从教学实践和调查问卷两个方面着手，提出了多媒体环境下高职英语教学中存在的问题，并根据实证调查数据。提出了有益的教改建议。     

从“意向性”概念反思现象学对美学的意义——以胡塞尔现象学为例

意向性概念一直是西方学术研究的重点。目前，国内学界是在现象学视域下理解意向性概念的。寻求美学突围的学术追求尤其要反思和警惕这一概念的西方学术理路，同时努力捕捉中西文化、思维的恰切点。以实验性的态度重塑东方关学。     

服装立体裁剪中创意思维的培养

创意思维作为一种超束缚性的突破传统的思维模式，对于进行较高层面的立体裁剪设计者来说起着突破性、主导性的作用。而创意思维是可以通过一些方法的训练得以开发并提高的。因此，本文对立裁中的创意思维的训练方法做了一些初步的分析，将灵感和创意思维用于指导立裁设计，完成好的作品。     

开展幼儿科学活动的思考

提高全体国民的科学素质是教育改革的主要任务,因为没有高科学素质的人,社会就不能进入高科技时代,就不能得到可持续发展.而这一切都要从幼儿抓起,从娃娃抓起.文章以此为背景,阐述了幼儿科学活动的重要性以及科学活动对幼儿教师提出的新要求,并说明了培养幼师学生科学活动能力的方法.