As a follow-up to the successful International Conference on Biomaterials,Bio-Design and Manufacturing(BDMC)held at the National University of Singapore in 2023[1]and at the University of Tokyo in 2024[2],BDMC2025 too...As a follow-up to the successful International Conference on Biomaterials,Bio-Design and Manufacturing(BDMC)held at the National University of Singapore in 2023[1]and at the University of Tokyo in 2024[2],BDMC2025 took place at the University of Oxford in the UK from August 8th to August 10th this year.After the meeting,a participant from the University of Cambridge described his experience of attending BDMC2025 on the social media platform LinkedIn in the following terms:“Many thanks to the organizers for a fantastic event bringing together nearly everyone at the interface of Biofabrication,Materials Science,and Biomedical Engineering”[3].The conference was held on the campus of the University of Oxford and 190 researchers from 55 academic institutions across 10 countries and regions attended(Fig.1).展开更多
The pandemic highlighted significant gaps in the public health infrastructure impacted by shortages of public health workers, an undertrained workforce, and years of disinvestment. These gaps required innovative probl...The pandemic highlighted significant gaps in the public health infrastructure impacted by shortages of public health workers, an undertrained workforce, and years of disinvestment. These gaps required innovative problem-solving by public health agencies (PHAs), including local health departments (LHDs), to respond to rapidly changing community conditions during and after the pandemic. Many schools and programs of public health (SPPH) worked with PHAs to mobilize public health (PH) students through practice-based teaching (PBT). Current research indicates PBT benefits all stakeholders—PHAs, students, faculty, SPPH, and ultimately the community served. However, more research is needed on the utility of PBT in addressing a community’s systemic public health issues, the extent to which the academic-community collaboration enhances a PHA’s capacity, and the impact of the pedagogy on preparing the workforce for an evolving PH landscape. This paper examines the process of a semester-long PBT course, guided by the PBT STEPS framework, which includes five steps from collaboration to implementation to evaluation of a PBT course. The collaborating PHA and its student group addressed community trauma and resilience issues during the semester. Additionally, it examines the longer-term impacts after the semester for the PHA, community, and the workforce by 1) conducting a formative evaluation to understand needs and gaps in the community;2) redesigning an intervention that merged the results of the formative evaluation with the intervention developed during the semester;and 3) securing funding and resources for intervention sustainability. Through the documentation of a post-course partnership between an LHD and faculty at a large school of public health, this case study illustrates the potential for PBT to lay the foundation for ongoing research that supports more impactful interventions for PHAs while bolstering the workforce abilities of students as future practitioners.展开更多
Background One Health approach is crucial to tackling complex global public health threats at the interface of humans, animals, and the environment. As outlined in the One Health Joint Plan of Action, the internationa...Background One Health approach is crucial to tackling complex global public health threats at the interface of humans, animals, and the environment. As outlined in the One Health Joint Plan of Action, the international One Health community includes stakeholders from different sectors. Supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, an academic community for One Health action has been proposed with the aim of promoting the understanding and real-world implementation of One Health approach and contribution towards the Sustainable Development Goals for a healthy planet.Main text The proposed academic community would contribute to generating high-quality scientific evidence, distilling local experiences as well as fostering an interconnected One Health culture and mindset, among various stakeholders on different levels and in all sectors. The major scope of the community covers One Health governance, zoonotic diseases, food security, antimicrobial resistance, and climate change along with the research agenda to be developed. The academic community will be supported by two committees, including a strategic consultancy committee and a scientific steering committee, composed of influential scientists selected from the One Health information database. A workplan containing activities under six objectives is proposed to provide research support, strengthen local capacity, and enhance global participation.Conclusions The proposed academic community for One Health action is a crucial step towards enhancing communication, coordination, collaboration, and capacity building for the implementation of One Health. By bringing eminent global experts together, the academic community possesses the potential to generate scientific evidence and provide advice to local governments and international organizations, enabling the pursuit of common goals, collaborative policies, and solutions to misaligned interests.展开更多
Sciencenet.cn is the leading online portal serving the Chinese scientific community. This paper intends to analyze the interdisciplinary and intradisciplinary knowledge communication patterns based on friends-list lin...Sciencenet.cn is the leading online portal serving the Chinese scientific community. This paper intends to analyze the interdisciplinary and intradisciplinary knowledge communication patterns based on friends-list links in the blog community at Sciencenet.cn by using hyperlink analysis and social network analysis. The major findings are: 1) More bloggers have an academic background in management science and life science; 2) there are some core actors in co-inlink network and co-outlink network, who take the lead in engaging with knowledge exchange activities and produce a great influence on interdisciplinary communication; 3) interactive relationships commonly exist between a blogger and those on his/her friends list, and the most linked-to blogs usually play a key role in generating interactive communication; 4) management science has the highest co-inlink count with life science or information science and it has the highest co-outlink count with life science or mathematical and physical science; 5) management science and life science have the greatest impact on information science and the interdisciplinary knowledge communication will also produce relatively significant influence on the development of information science discipline. It is our hope that this research can serve as a reference source for the future studies of academic virtual communities, and the development of mechanisms for facilitating increased engagement in knowledge exchange activities in academic virtual communities.展开更多
Although the interconnection between science and the humanities has a long history, ‘scientific culture' triggering widespread interest as a specific concept is a more recent phenomenon. Specifically, it can be t...Although the interconnection between science and the humanities has a long history, ‘scientific culture' triggering widespread interest as a specific concept is a more recent phenomenon. Specifically, it can be traced back to the famous lecture given by British physicist and novelist Charles Percy Snow at Cambridge University in 1959. Since then, the academic community has frequently discussed the issue of scientific culture according to the relationship between scientific culture and humanistic culture.展开更多
Data Intelligence(DI)is dedicated to promoting the widespread dissemination and in-depth exchange of the latest research findings and technological advancements in data science,artificial intelligence,and their cross-...Data Intelligence(DI)is dedicated to promoting the widespread dissemination and in-depth exchange of the latest research findings and technological advancements in data science,artificial intelligence,and their cross-disciplinary applicatins.DI fosters close cooperation between the academic and industrial communities by publishing high-quality research papers,review articles,technical reports,case studies,best practices,and various data resources,thereby accelerating the innovation and application of data intelligence technologies and contributing to the development and progress of the field.展开更多
Introducing article numbering to Journal of Palaeogeography Within the publishing industry,article numbering has emerged as an easy and efficient way to cite journal articles.Article numbering has already been success...Introducing article numbering to Journal of Palaeogeography Within the publishing industry,article numbering has emerged as an easy and efficient way to cite journal articles.Article numbering has already been successfully rolled out to Elsevier's multidisciplinary open access journal Quaternary Science Advances,as well as more than 1600 other journals,and has been well received by the academic community.Based on that positive feedback,we are now pleased to introduce article numbering to Journal of Palaeogeography from April 22,2025.展开更多
Amid the intensifying global contention surrounding the governance of artificial intelligence(AI),China has consistently prioritized the establishment of a rule-based framework within the AI sector,integrating AI legi...Amid the intensifying global contention surrounding the governance of artificial intelligence(AI),China has consistently prioritized the establishment of a rule-based framework within the AI sector,integrating AI legislation into its legislative agenda.Currently,China possesses a foundational institutional structure for AI-specific legislation,with the academic community actively contributing insights and proposing two drafts for AI legislation.展开更多
Within the publishing industry,article numbering has emerged as an easy and efficient way to cite journal articles.Article numbering has already been successfully rolled out to Elsevier's multidisciplinary open ac...Within the publishing industry,article numbering has emerged as an easy and efficient way to cite journal articles.Article numbering has already been successfully rolled out to Elsevier's multidisciplinary open access journal Chinese Journal of Aeronautics,as well as more than 1600 other journals,and has been well received by the academic community.Based on that positive feedback,we are now pleased to introduce article numbering to Visual Informatics from Volume 9,Issue 2.展开更多
Data Intelligence(DI)is dedicated to promoting the widespread dissemination and in-depth exchange of the latest research findings and technological advancements in data science,artificial intelligence,and their cross-...Data Intelligence(DI)is dedicated to promoting the widespread dissemination and in-depth exchange of the latest research findings and technological advancements in data science,artificial intelligence,and their cross-disciplinary applicatins.DI fosters close cooperation between the academic and industrial communities by publishing high-quality research papers,review articles,technical reports,case studies,best practices,and various data resources,thereby accelerating the innovation and application of data intelligence technologies and contributing to the development and progress of the field.展开更多
This study draws a historical picture of conceptual linkages of innovation systems(IS)and global value chains(GVC).We used a co-citation technique to map the evolution of these two fields since 1990.We highlighted the...This study draws a historical picture of conceptual linkages of innovation systems(IS)and global value chains(GVC).We used a co-citation technique to map the evolution of these two fields since 1990.We highlighted the connecting nodes over the past three decades.The first decade witnessed a connection between national innovation systems(NIS)and GVC,mediated by regional studies related to industrial clusters and district-based innovation.The tradeoff between tacit sticky local and codified transferable global knowledge and innovation and learning's importance in upgrading in GVC generated two new routes in the second decade.In the last decade,although these routes are retained,their mediating nodes have changed with the literature on technology and sustainable transition from IS and the path dependency role in the evolution of districts in global production networks.Recent trends indicate that evolutionary views on economic geography and catch-up may open new opportunities to link the two,and some lessons highlight the need for more structured interactions in the future.展开更多
The production-oriented approach （POA） has been developed over a decade. It is driven by the need to improve English classroom instruction for university students in China （Wen, 2016）. It is also motivated by the ...The production-oriented approach （POA） has been developed over a decade. It is driven by the need to improve English classroom instruction for university students in China （Wen, 2016）. It is also motivated by the aspiration to enhance the quality of foreign language education in other similar pedagogical contexts outside China. A volume of research has been done by Wen Qiufang and her research team, to formulate the theory of POA and to test its effectiveness in classroom pedagogy （e.g. Wen, 2016, 2015; Yang, 2015; Zhang, 2015）. At the moment, the POA is still at an early stage of theory building and almost all empirical research is done in the Chinese context. In order to improve the quality of this theory and to make it intelligible to the international academic community, a one-day symposium was held in Beijing Foreign Studies University on May 15, 2017. The symposium was entitled ＇The first international forum on innovative foreign language education in China： Appraisal of the POA＇. In the forum, leading experts in applied linguistics were invited to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the POA and the directions for its future development. The symposium was the first attempt for the POA research team to discuss its latest work with international scholars. This Viewpoint section collects the responses of four experts who participated in the symposium, listed in alphabetical order. The collection of articles covers three topics related to the POA： its pedagogical application, its use for teacher training, and its research. Alister Cumming is Professor Emeritus and the former Head of the Centre for Educational Research on Languages and Literacies, University of Toronto, Canada. His article focuses primarily on POA research as an exemplary case of design-based research. Rod Ellis is Research Professor in the School of Education at Curtin University, Australia. He discusses POA in terms of pedagogy, teacher training and research, with both critiques and constructive suggestions. Paul Kei Matsuda is Professor of English and Director of Second Language Writing at Arizona State University, the writed states. He responds to POA from the perspective of an expert researcher and teacher of L2 writing. Charlene Polio is Professor and Associate Chair in the Department of Linguistics ＆ Germanic, Slavic, Asian ＆ African Languages atMichigan State University, the writed states. She conceptualises POA as a useful method to address some issues in pre-service teacher development. Overall, the articles in this section are insightful and reader-friendly. They are not only useful for the development of POA in particular, but may also be valuable to a broad range of researchers as they touch upon pertaining issues, as well as emerging topics, in the field of applied linguistics. We therefore find it necessary to make them accessible to a wide readership.展开更多
文摘As a follow-up to the successful International Conference on Biomaterials,Bio-Design and Manufacturing(BDMC)held at the National University of Singapore in 2023[1]and at the University of Tokyo in 2024[2],BDMC2025 took place at the University of Oxford in the UK from August 8th to August 10th this year.After the meeting,a participant from the University of Cambridge described his experience of attending BDMC2025 on the social media platform LinkedIn in the following terms:“Many thanks to the organizers for a fantastic event bringing together nearly everyone at the interface of Biofabrication,Materials Science,and Biomedical Engineering”[3].The conference was held on the campus of the University of Oxford and 190 researchers from 55 academic institutions across 10 countries and regions attended(Fig.1).
文摘The pandemic highlighted significant gaps in the public health infrastructure impacted by shortages of public health workers, an undertrained workforce, and years of disinvestment. These gaps required innovative problem-solving by public health agencies (PHAs), including local health departments (LHDs), to respond to rapidly changing community conditions during and after the pandemic. Many schools and programs of public health (SPPH) worked with PHAs to mobilize public health (PH) students through practice-based teaching (PBT). Current research indicates PBT benefits all stakeholders—PHAs, students, faculty, SPPH, and ultimately the community served. However, more research is needed on the utility of PBT in addressing a community’s systemic public health issues, the extent to which the academic-community collaboration enhances a PHA’s capacity, and the impact of the pedagogy on preparing the workforce for an evolving PH landscape. This paper examines the process of a semester-long PBT course, guided by the PBT STEPS framework, which includes five steps from collaboration to implementation to evaluation of a PBT course. The collaborating PHA and its student group addressed community trauma and resilience issues during the semester. Additionally, it examines the longer-term impacts after the semester for the PHA, community, and the workforce by 1) conducting a formative evaluation to understand needs and gaps in the community;2) redesigning an intervention that merged the results of the formative evaluation with the intervention developed during the semester;and 3) securing funding and resources for intervention sustainability. Through the documentation of a post-course partnership between an LHD and faculty at a large school of public health, this case study illustrates the potential for PBT to lay the foundation for ongoing research that supports more impactful interventions for PHAs while bolstering the workforce abilities of students as future practitioners.
文摘Background One Health approach is crucial to tackling complex global public health threats at the interface of humans, animals, and the environment. As outlined in the One Health Joint Plan of Action, the international One Health community includes stakeholders from different sectors. Supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, an academic community for One Health action has been proposed with the aim of promoting the understanding and real-world implementation of One Health approach and contribution towards the Sustainable Development Goals for a healthy planet.Main text The proposed academic community would contribute to generating high-quality scientific evidence, distilling local experiences as well as fostering an interconnected One Health culture and mindset, among various stakeholders on different levels and in all sectors. The major scope of the community covers One Health governance, zoonotic diseases, food security, antimicrobial resistance, and climate change along with the research agenda to be developed. The academic community will be supported by two committees, including a strategic consultancy committee and a scientific steering committee, composed of influential scientists selected from the One Health information database. A workplan containing activities under six objectives is proposed to provide research support, strengthen local capacity, and enhance global participation.Conclusions The proposed academic community for One Health action is a crucial step towards enhancing communication, coordination, collaboration, and capacity building for the implementation of One Health. By bringing eminent global experts together, the academic community possesses the potential to generate scientific evidence and provide advice to local governments and international organizations, enabling the pursuit of common goals, collaborative policies, and solutions to misaligned interests.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.:70973093)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(Grant No.:201110401020006)
文摘Sciencenet.cn is the leading online portal serving the Chinese scientific community. This paper intends to analyze the interdisciplinary and intradisciplinary knowledge communication patterns based on friends-list links in the blog community at Sciencenet.cn by using hyperlink analysis and social network analysis. The major findings are: 1) More bloggers have an academic background in management science and life science; 2) there are some core actors in co-inlink network and co-outlink network, who take the lead in engaging with knowledge exchange activities and produce a great influence on interdisciplinary communication; 3) interactive relationships commonly exist between a blogger and those on his/her friends list, and the most linked-to blogs usually play a key role in generating interactive communication; 4) management science has the highest co-inlink count with life science or information science and it has the highest co-outlink count with life science or mathematical and physical science; 5) management science and life science have the greatest impact on information science and the interdisciplinary knowledge communication will also produce relatively significant influence on the development of information science discipline. It is our hope that this research can serve as a reference source for the future studies of academic virtual communities, and the development of mechanisms for facilitating increased engagement in knowledge exchange activities in academic virtual communities.
文摘Although the interconnection between science and the humanities has a long history, ‘scientific culture' triggering widespread interest as a specific concept is a more recent phenomenon. Specifically, it can be traced back to the famous lecture given by British physicist and novelist Charles Percy Snow at Cambridge University in 1959. Since then, the academic community has frequently discussed the issue of scientific culture according to the relationship between scientific culture and humanistic culture.
文摘Data Intelligence(DI)is dedicated to promoting the widespread dissemination and in-depth exchange of the latest research findings and technological advancements in data science,artificial intelligence,and their cross-disciplinary applicatins.DI fosters close cooperation between the academic and industrial communities by publishing high-quality research papers,review articles,technical reports,case studies,best practices,and various data resources,thereby accelerating the innovation and application of data intelligence technologies and contributing to the development and progress of the field.
文摘Introducing article numbering to Journal of Palaeogeography Within the publishing industry,article numbering has emerged as an easy and efficient way to cite journal articles.Article numbering has already been successfully rolled out to Elsevier's multidisciplinary open access journal Quaternary Science Advances,as well as more than 1600 other journals,and has been well received by the academic community.Based on that positive feedback,we are now pleased to introduce article numbering to Journal of Palaeogeography from April 22,2025.
文摘Amid the intensifying global contention surrounding the governance of artificial intelligence(AI),China has consistently prioritized the establishment of a rule-based framework within the AI sector,integrating AI legislation into its legislative agenda.Currently,China possesses a foundational institutional structure for AI-specific legislation,with the academic community actively contributing insights and proposing two drafts for AI legislation.
文摘Within the publishing industry,article numbering has emerged as an easy and efficient way to cite journal articles.Article numbering has already been successfully rolled out to Elsevier's multidisciplinary open access journal Chinese Journal of Aeronautics,as well as more than 1600 other journals,and has been well received by the academic community.Based on that positive feedback,we are now pleased to introduce article numbering to Visual Informatics from Volume 9,Issue 2.
文摘Data Intelligence(DI)is dedicated to promoting the widespread dissemination and in-depth exchange of the latest research findings and technological advancements in data science,artificial intelligence,and their cross-disciplinary applicatins.DI fosters close cooperation between the academic and industrial communities by publishing high-quality research papers,review articles,technical reports,case studies,best practices,and various data resources,thereby accelerating the innovation and application of data intelligence technologies and contributing to the development and progress of the field.
文摘This study draws a historical picture of conceptual linkages of innovation systems(IS)and global value chains(GVC).We used a co-citation technique to map the evolution of these two fields since 1990.We highlighted the connecting nodes over the past three decades.The first decade witnessed a connection between national innovation systems(NIS)and GVC,mediated by regional studies related to industrial clusters and district-based innovation.The tradeoff between tacit sticky local and codified transferable global knowledge and innovation and learning's importance in upgrading in GVC generated two new routes in the second decade.In the last decade,although these routes are retained,their mediating nodes have changed with the literature on technology and sustainable transition from IS and the path dependency role in the evolution of districts in global production networks.Recent trends indicate that evolutionary views on economic geography and catch-up may open new opportunities to link the two,and some lessons highlight the need for more structured interactions in the future.
文摘The production-oriented approach （POA） has been developed over a decade. It is driven by the need to improve English classroom instruction for university students in China （Wen, 2016）. It is also motivated by the aspiration to enhance the quality of foreign language education in other similar pedagogical contexts outside China. A volume of research has been done by Wen Qiufang and her research team, to formulate the theory of POA and to test its effectiveness in classroom pedagogy （e.g. Wen, 2016, 2015; Yang, 2015; Zhang, 2015）. At the moment, the POA is still at an early stage of theory building and almost all empirical research is done in the Chinese context. In order to improve the quality of this theory and to make it intelligible to the international academic community, a one-day symposium was held in Beijing Foreign Studies University on May 15, 2017. The symposium was entitled ＇The first international forum on innovative foreign language education in China： Appraisal of the POA＇. In the forum, leading experts in applied linguistics were invited to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the POA and the directions for its future development. The symposium was the first attempt for the POA research team to discuss its latest work with international scholars. This Viewpoint section collects the responses of four experts who participated in the symposium, listed in alphabetical order. The collection of articles covers three topics related to the POA： its pedagogical application, its use for teacher training, and its research. Alister Cumming is Professor Emeritus and the former Head of the Centre for Educational Research on Languages and Literacies, University of Toronto, Canada. His article focuses primarily on POA research as an exemplary case of design-based research. Rod Ellis is Research Professor in the School of Education at Curtin University, Australia. He discusses POA in terms of pedagogy, teacher training and research, with both critiques and constructive suggestions. Paul Kei Matsuda is Professor of English and Director of Second Language Writing at Arizona State University, the writed states. He responds to POA from the perspective of an expert researcher and teacher of L2 writing. Charlene Polio is Professor and Associate Chair in the Department of Linguistics ＆ Germanic, Slavic, Asian ＆ African Languages atMichigan State University, the writed states. She conceptualises POA as a useful method to address some issues in pre-service teacher development. Overall, the articles in this section are insightful and reader-friendly. They are not only useful for the development of POA in particular, but may also be valuable to a broad range of researchers as they touch upon pertaining issues, as well as emerging topics, in the field of applied linguistics. We therefore find it necessary to make them accessible to a wide readership.
