About true science and false words: "oxidase", "cryostat" and "apoptosis".

The author examines the concept's deviations due to some erroneous constructions of words, by considering the words oxidase, cryostat and apoptosis. But he insists much more on the bandy-legged structures linked to these words which deviate totally from any significance attached "officially" to them and leading to false deductions. The author conveys all scientists to use: oxydase, cryotome and Programmed Cell Death, or PCD, forgetting all other queer non-sense words. He suggests to use the word "cytoptosis".     

“生物膜的流动镶嵌模型”基于科学史的教学设计

利用生物膜研究的科学史资料,引导学生进行基于资料的课堂探究性学习,注重学生自主、合作、探究的学习方式,达成知识、能力、情感态度与价值观的三维目标。     

生物技术专业《生命科学进展》双语教学初探

为提高学生的外语水平,适应社会经济高速发展对人才的更高要求,通过对《生命科学进展》课程进行了双语教学的实践探索,探讨了教学手段和方法的改革,教学效果调查评估结果显示,认为课程总评及满意程度达良好及以上等级的学生占94%,表明开展的《生命科学进展》双语教学活动所采用的教学方法和手段基本适合学生目前的英语和专业知识水平,《生命科学进展》双语教学改革实践是成功的。     

“基因在染色体上”基于科学史的教学设计

以科学史发展过程中科学家对基因与染色体关系的探索与研究为主线,以基于类比推理、演绎推理、模型构建的科学思维和方法的训练为核心,兼顾科学态度的培养,实现知识、能力、情感态度与价值观的三维教学目标。     

Our "Collegium Antropologicum" officially the most improved social science journal in the world for mid-2002

Thomson ISI's bimonthly web-product ISI Essential Science Indicators (ESI) is an in-depth analytical tool that regularly reports quantitative analyses of research performance and science trends, covering about 8,500 scientific journals from the entire world. In each issue ESI lists the scientists, institutions, countries and journals that are most improved from one update to the next, i.e. that show the largest percentage increase in total citations. In its edition of January 2003, it reported that our "Collegium Antropologicum" was the most improved journal in the field of Social Sciences during the period from July 2002 to September 2002. The field of Social Sciences is one of 22 categories of science regularly analyzed by ESI. It includes anthropology, public health, sociology, social work and policy, political science, law, education, communication, library and information sciences, environmental studies and rehabilitation. Due to journal's success, which is based on publications of predominantly Croatian scientists within the past seven post-war years, Croatia was also officially the most improved among more than 200 countries, and University of Zagreb was the most improved in the field of Social Science among thousands of other institutions. We hope that this is an early sign of revival of the scientific activity in our country after the War in Croatia (1991-1995).     

Analogies in science and science teaching

Analogies are often used in science, but students may not appreciate their significance, and so the analogies can be misunderstood or discounted. For this reason, educationalists often express concern about the use of analogies in teaching. Given the important place of analogies in the discourse of science, it is necessary that students are explicitly shown how they work, perhaps based on the structure-mapping theory we outline here. When using an analogy, the teacher should very clearly specify both its components and its limitations. Great care is required in developing an analogy to ensure that it is understood as intended and that misconceptions are minimized. This approach models the behavior of a scientist, which helps to develop student understanding of the practice of science.     

Data-intensive science applied to broad-scale citizen science

Identifying ecological patterns across broad spatial and temporal extents requires novel approaches and methods for acquiring, integrating and modeling massive quantities of diverse data. For example, a growing number of research projects engage continent-wide networks of volunteers ('citizen-scientists') to collect species occurrence data. Although these data are information rich, they present numerous challenges in project design, implementation and analysis, which include: developing data collection tools that maximize data quantity while maintaining high standards of data quality, and applying new analytical and visualization techniques that can accurately reveal patterns in these data. Here, we describe how advances in data-intensive science provide accurate estimates in species distributions at continental scales by identifying complex environmental associations.