新加坡学校德育及其启示

新加坡独立20多年后就建立起了一个物质文明和精神文明高度发达的现代化国家,这与她高度重视道德建设和对青少年一代的精心培养是分不开的。同属儒家文化圈,并且也正在面临着西方文明的渗透与演变,新加坡现代化建设的成功经验对我国当前社会主义精神文明建设和教育改革具有启迪和借鉴作用。     

打造享受阅读乐趣的完美空间——新加坡图书馆见闻

目前新加坡已建成1个国家图书馆、3个区域图书馆、23个社区图书馆、10个社区儿童图书馆、10个学校和学术馆、14个政府和特别服务馆。这些设施都有有充足的、高素质的人员配备,政府给予的充分的财政支持和一个优秀的领导团队所对新加坡文化、经济起了巨大的推动作用。     

Challenging the developmental state: Nature conservation in Singapore

Abstract: Nature conservation efforts are often reactive to encroaching development plans and systematic conservation planning that is integral with development is not only uncommon, but is often fraught with difficulties even where it is actually attempted. Such obstacles to conservation are especially apparent in developmental states where state legitimacy is largely derived from the state's ability to develop the country. Among other things, developmental states place a premium on physical and economic development. This paper critiques, through the standpoint of nature conservation, the inadequate conceptualisation of ‘development’ in the developmental state thesis. Specifically, this paper argues that the seemingly value‐free (but ultimately economically based) underpinnings of development goals pushed by the developmental state needs to be tempered with a broader concern for the ethics of development. To that end, I draw on two case studies of nature conservation tussles in Singapore to show how alternative extra‐economic visions of development have been articulated, notwithstanding the developmental state's monopoly on the discourse (and practice) of progress and development. The case studies, set in the heady economic growth of the early 1990s, will critique two related aspects of the developmental state: its ‘amoral’ economistic conception of development and its use of growth and materialism as legitimacy.     

The borders within: Mobility and enclosure in the Riau Islands1

Abstract: The border studies literature makes a strong case against claims for unfettered transnationalism and ‘borderlessness’ in our ‘globalising world’. However, its focus on movement across borders means that it fails to address bordering practices that occur within the nation‐state as a result of transnational activity. In this paper, we extend Cunningham and Heyman’s concepts ‘enclosure’ and ‘mobility’ to confront the different layers of bordering (both physical and non‐physical) that have occurred in Indonesia’s Riau Islands since they became part of the Indonesia–Malaysia–Singapore Growth Triangle.     

Dramatic decline in bat species richness in Singapore, with implications for Southeast Asia

Literature searches and recent surveys of the bat fauna of Singapore indicate that of the 24 species of Microchiroptera and six species of Megachiroptera documented for this small equatorial island just 15 and 5, respectively, are still present. These recorded declines in chiropteran species richness almost certainly understate the true losses as extensive land transformation/habitat loss (>95%) and biota loss occurred early in Singapore’s colonial history before comprehensive surveys of bats were made. In an effort to reconstruct the pre-settlement bat fauna, we inferred an upper bound of pre-settlement species richness using a checklist from a well-known bat assemblage in neighbouring Peninsular Malaysia, and a lower bound based on species common to Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo and Sumatra. The Singapore records were compared with these two species list predictions. Based on this analysis, we infer that between 60 and 72 species would have inhabited Singapore before 1819. We also estimate that between 33% (based on the confirmed inventory) and 72% of the species (based on the upper-bound estimate of species richness) are now locally extinct. For Microchiroptera the data suggest that the documented local extinction rate of 38% may project to between 69% and 75%. Forest-dependant bats are particularly affected and comprise a much lower proportion of the bat fauna than is seen in intact forest in Peninsular Malaysia. All hipposiderids and 40% of the documented rhinolophid taxa have been lost and almost half (6) of the surviving microchiropteran species are locally endangered. Projected local extinction rates for Megachiroptera raise the documented value (17%) to about 60%, with most of the survivors being widespread species known to forage in cultivated or secondary forest habitats or to commute long distances between fragmented resources. The dramatic decline in Singapore bat species richness and a concomitant change in chiropteran guild and trophic structure (Microchiroptera vs. Megachiroptera) reflect patterns of diversity change seen elsewhere in the region in response to loss of forest habitat. In Singapore, the decline in diversity (species richness and abundances) for both mega- and microbats may also relate to urbanisation and deliberate or accidental destruction of bats and their roost sites in a land that has one of the highest human population densities on the planet. Although these losses (actual and inferred) represent a microcosm of mainly local extinctions, a wider geographical extrapolation over the 21st century indicates that heavy deforestation in progress in Southeast Asia might be expected to lead to extinction of many bat taxa, with upper-bound estimates of regional species losses exceeding 40% and global extirpation anticipated for at least 23% of Southeast Asia’s bat fauna by 2100.     

新加坡电子政务案例对江西林业信息化建设的启示

新加坡是全球公认的电子政务发展最为领先的国家。借鉴新加坡信息化与电子政务建设的成功经验,建设好江西省林业信息化与电子政务。     

RNA干扰技术抑制新家坡石斑鱼虹彩病毒感染细胞多肽ICP46与绿色荧光蛋白融合基因的表达

新加坡石斑鱼虹彩病毒（singapore grouper iridovirus,SGIV）是一种严重的能引起全身性疾病的病原体,对石斑鱼养殖造成了重大的经济损失。将含有SGIV感染细胞多肽ICP46（infected cell polypeptides 46）基因的真核表达载体pEGFP-ICP46转染到胖头鲤细胞（fathead minnow cells,FHM）中进行融合表达,用荧光显微镜观察到ICP46-GFP融合蛋白主要分布于FHM细胞的细胞质中。根据SGIV-ICP46的序列,设计并体外化学合成了特异性干扰SGIV-ICP46的siRNA（siRNA-ICP46）,与pEGFP-ICP46共转染到FHM细胞中,通过荧光显微镜观察不同时间点荧光强度的变化。转染后24~48 h,实验细胞（共转染siRNA-ICP46和pEGFP-ICP46）和阳性对照细胞（共转染siRNA-GFP和pEGFP-ICP46）中的荧光微弱,发荧光的细胞数量较阴性对照（共转染siRNA-Negative和pEGFP-ICP46）少70%左右,但其后实验细胞和阳性对照细胞的荧光强度开始增强,在转染后72 h其与阴性对照组已差别不大。说明体外化学合成的siRNA-ICP46转染后24~48 h可有效抑制FHM细胞中外源导入SGIV-ICP46基因的表达。     

Public intervention,private aspiration: Gated communities and the condominisation of housing landscapes in Singapore

While the proliferation of gated communities worldwide has generated great interests and debates, the emergence of gated communities is by no means a ‘global’ urban phenomenon that displays uniform characteristics and genesis. Drawing on Singapore as a case study, this paper goes beyond the universalising and often polemical discourses on gated communities to provide a balanced account on how gated communities in the form of enclosed condominium estates are locally embedded in the city state where public housing dominates. As will be pointed out in the paper, gated communities in Singapore may be considered as a form of ‘club good’ that exists as part of the state's urban/national developmental agenda and are, arguably, less socially and spatially divisive than those depicted elsewhere. By teasing out the local specificities of gated communities, this paper underscores the need to read beyond the physical form of gated communities in order to understand the complex social and political production of housing landscapes.     

人与自然和谐共居的花园城市——新加坡

新加坡以花园城市闻名于世,园林建设的成就有目共睹。文章通过实地考察,归纳总结了新加坡城市园林绿化的4个特色,提出了可供借鉴学习的地方。     

城市水利景观基础设施的研究与设计——以新加坡碧山宏茂桥公园为例

快速、密集的城市化进程削弱了现有城市水利基础设施的正常功能。文中提出以景观与城市水利基础设施相结合作为缓解现有基础设施发展滞后问题的一种手段,对现有城市水利基础设施进行模式改进和功能拓展;以新加坡碧山宏茂桥公园为例,阐述了景观手段在实践中的具体运用,进一步强调景观的引入有益于城市水利基础设施的可持续发展,也为城市的可持续发展奠定了基础。