The present status and analysis of Science & Technology Information (STI) service policy in Korea: Centered on Representative National STI Institute

National Science & Technology Information (STI) infrastructure of Korea has been independently developed as a decentralized system within the government ministry. In order to effectively establish the national STI infrastructure, it is essential to create a networked and integrated system in the domestic and foreign information infrastructure. This study aims to analyze current national STI infrastructure and to suggest specific ways in which domestic and foreign STI infrastructure may be utilized.     

从国外几个典型案例看装备科技信息工作创新发展

在新时期新形势新环境下,装备科技信息研究工作仍面临着地位作用不高、海量信息冲击大、资源共享机制不畅、研究质量不高、服务效果不佳等一系列困局。文章通过两个作战教训和几个典型智库信息研究先进做法,重申了装备科技信息研究的重要性,并针对性地提出了推动装备科技信息工作创新发展的几点思考。     

Romantic relationships: an important context for HIV/STI and pregnancy prevention programmes with young people

Romantic relationships are central in the lives of young people. This paper uses data on romantic relationships from urban youth in the USA to illustrate how using a relationships perspective in HIV/STI and pregnancy prevention programmes broadens the skills and content covered, and contextualises the learning to enhance relevance and use. Self-report survey data were collected using electronic handheld devices for a school-based randomised trial. The survey sample includes 911 young people (mean age = 12.4 years) representative of their schools. Logistic regressions explored associations between selected sexual behaviours and relationship characteristics. For all participants, having more boy/girlfriends, dating alone, ever touching and ever having had oral sex were associated with an increased likelihood of having vaginal sex. Among young people with current partners, having a partner three or more years older, length of relationship and ever having oral sex were associated with an increased likelihood of having vaginal sex. The study data confirm the importance of accounting for relationships in sexual risk reduction programmes, and provide avenues for enhancing the relevancy of typical school-based prevention programmes.     

Outercourse: Exploring Nonpenetrative Forms of Pleasurable Safer Sex

Best practices in comprehensive sexuality education call for rights-based, factual lessons that provide healthy options and are sensitive to the varied contextual factors affecting participants. Further, lessons are to better balance positive and negative outcomes of sexual expression that reflect the sexual realities of (young) men and women. This lesson plan contributes to such aims through the facilitation of nuanced activities and discussions to critically assess a wide range of sexual practices with and without a partner and beyond penetrative or procreative acts. The main outcome is to broaden options for healthy sexual expression and consider the potential reconciliation of pleasure and safer sex.     

The new production of legitimacy: STI policy discourses beyond the contract metaphor

Science, technology and innovation (STI) policy is borne by a set of historically contingent concepts, models, and metaphors. From around 1950 to 1980, its language was dominated by the contract metaphor and the linear model of innovation, both of which have catered for beliefs in stability, orderliness, and distinct social roles for scientists and policymakers. While prominent new models of the 1990s (mode 2, post-normal science, triple helix) had challenged the old contract metaphor, they remained experts’ brainchildren. After 2000, in contrast, we observe the emergence and pluralization of several new and powerful concepts. Building on conceptual history and cognitive linguistics, we analyze three of these new concepts: “frontier research,” “grand challenges,” and “responsible research and innovation” (RRI). Whereas the “frontier” and “grand challenges” convey many layered historical meanings, a distinct metaphorical appeal, and have become popularized beyond expert’s communities, the RRI discourse, though the most ambitious one, has not yet shaken off its roots in the bureaucratic structures of the European Commission. Finally, we discuss which conceptual and metaphorical properties enable the career of STI policy discourses in the 21st century.     

Untangling the conflation of ‘young adults’ and ‘young people’ in STI and sexual health policy and sex education

Young adults, aged 18–30 years, are disproportionally mentioned in sexually transmissible infection surveillance data both in Australia and internationally. This contributes to categorising young adults as an ‘at risk’ group in health policy. How young adults are framed in policy, and what informs this, have direct implications for policy priorities and responses, including the development of health promotion programmes. In this paper, we provide a case study of Australia’s National Strategies for Blood Borne Viruses and Sexually Transmissible Infections from 2005 to 2017. We identify how ‘young adults’ as a population are masked by, and subsumed within, the broader category of ‘young people’ within these strategies. As a result, young adults become framed by default as a ‘risk category’ that requires education to correct its deficits, regardless of personal experience. For health promotion to advocate, mediate and enable better sexual health outcomes, a policy environment is needed that reflects the changing social and cultural contexts and sexual independence that young adults experience. Sexual health policies should reflect the complexity and opportunities of young adulthood if we are to offer an enabling policy environment for innovative and nuanced health promotion strategies, including adult appropriate health education.     

构建新时期科技情报工作的科学技术体系

1983年7月2日,钱学森同志在国防科技情报工作会议上作了关于《科技情报工作中的科学技术》的报告,报告具有划时代的理论意义和实践意义,当前有必要重温钱学森的这篇报告。本文根据钱学森的综合集成方法论思想,提出了一套构建情报研究科学技术体系的具体方案框架——情报搜集、情报存储、情报分析、情报服务。最后,对科技情报工作的科学技术性建设提出了一些具体的建议,推动科技情报工作早日实现现代化、信息化、自动化。     

关于科技信息服务知识化的战略思考

本文在探讨知识化概念、功能及实质的基础上,分析了科技信息服务知识化的现实意义,阐述了科技信息服务知识化建设的主要目标和任务,最后提出实现知识化的主要策略.