＂The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.＂ Anatole France （Francois-Anatole Thibault, 1844-1924）.
In newly developed agro-biodiversity park, several plantation blocks were developed in phased manner, such as teak （2,200 plants in 2.2 ha）, mahuva （1,500, 1.5 ha） plant dominant community blocks and mixed forest ...In newly developed agro-biodiversity park, several plantation blocks were developed in phased manner, such as teak （2,200 plants in 2.2 ha）, mahuva （1,500, 1.5 ha） plant dominant community blocks and mixed forest tree block （4,600, 2.5 ha）. Besides, a separate generic blocks of, viz., palm （300, 0.4 ha）, medicinal trees （700, 0.7 ha）, bael （Aegel marmelos） （200, 0.4 ha） and minor fruit tree block （1,200, 1.0 ha）. A species diversity Ficus block （225 no. of 30 species in 0.4 ha） was also developed and maintained. Of late rare, endemic, endangered and threatened species Ceropegia （Asclepiadaceae） was identified in 2014. Since then, utmost care was taken for conservation and preservation in agro-biodiversity park. Every year during monsoon, the gap filling was done to maintain greenery in different block plantations. Water ponds and bodies were also created as a source of water for all resident and migratory bio-creatures for promotion of fauna genetic resources. The natural fauna present in agro-biodiversity park are wild boars, field rabbits, small mammalians, field peacocks, reptiles, lizards, avians, amphibians, toads, etc.. Besides, 24 species of insects, five species of fish and eight species of reptiles were recorded. Out of 120 species of butterflies present in the state, 56 were found in the park. The bird species increased from 35 to 172 species within eight years of duration. The creation of different plantation blocks has facilitated to increase flora and fauna in the park. The native flora and fauna were protected by erecting chain link mesh as border fencing against movement of trespass and livestock animals. The agro-biodiversity park was aimed mainly to preserve, conserve and promote the native flora and fauna through ex-situ conservation of species and to establish 15-20 biotic communities, including wild relative field crops, such as cereals, millets, pulses, oilseeds and fiber crops as a repository that flourished in the Deccan plateau in the past. The other objectives were to restore and develop the existing dry land and wet land habit to preserve and conserve the genetic resources.展开更多
It is a great time for Chinese plastic and reconstructive surgery and it is against this backdrop that the Chinese Journal of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery is being christened.This moment has arrived because of t...It is a great time for Chinese plastic and reconstructive surgery and it is against this backdrop that the Chinese Journal of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery is being christened.This moment has arrived because of the many trail blazers,who made numerous historic contributions,be it with the anterolateral thigh flap,with forearm replantation,with flap prefabrication,or with the radial forearm flap(or in the West,sometimes called the Chinese flap).This moment has arrived because of the decades-long consistent excellence and standard bearing by Shanghai Ninth People’s Hospital in the field of plastic and reconstructive surgery.This moment has arrived also because of the renaissance rise of China,with ensuing demands from much improved quality of life by a much larger swath of its vast population.展开更多
Dear Editors,This letter,reflecting on my research career,is dedi-cated to Professor Qingshi Zhu for his 80th Birthday.Part of this letter is based on my comment“A 20-year journey on the invention of vibrational phot...Dear Editors,This letter,reflecting on my research career,is dedi-cated to Professor Qingshi Zhu for his 80th Birthday.Part of this letter is based on my comment“A 20-year journey on the invention of vibrational photothermal microscopy”published in the May 2025 Nature Meth-ods Focus Issue on Bond-Selective Imaging[1].展开更多
This paper presents a review of how the ductile diaphragm concept was formulated,evaluated,improved,and implemented over time to achieve seismically resilient bridges.A particular emphasis is placed on the most recent...This paper presents a review of how the ductile diaphragm concept was formulated,evaluated,improved,and implemented over time to achieve seismically resilient bridges.A particular emphasis is placed on the most recent work that has provided a more fully,and more widely applicable,version of the concept.The paper also addresses how to design buckling restrained braces used as energy dissipating elements in the longitudinal di-rection of multi-span bridges(simple spans or continuous bridges)as part of the ductile diaphragm concept.In all cases,the objective of the ductile diaphragm concept is to concentrate ductility demands in steel energy dissi-pating elements located at the ends of the superstructure spans to protect the substructure(and rest of the su-perstructure)from damage,to ensure that the bridge can remain open to full traffic immediately following an earthquake.展开更多
Self-Centering Piston-Based Braced Frames(SC-PBBFs)are designed to curtail structural damage under severe ground motions.The self-centering mechanism in this bracing mitigates structural damage during an earthquake,th...Self-Centering Piston-Based Braced Frames(SC-PBBFs)are designed to curtail structural damage under severe ground motions.The self-centering mechanism in this bracing mitigates structural damage during an earthquake,thereby reducing post-earthquake repair costs and contributing to seismic resilience.However,non-structural components,particularly those sensitive to floor acceleration,remain vulnerable,resulting in prolonged func-tional recovery times.This paper aims to address this limitation by introducing a novel structural archetype,the Self-Centering Viscous-Based Braced Frame(SC-VBBF),which integrates superelastic shape memory alloy(SMA)bars,viscous dampers(VDs),and friction springs(FSs).A streamlined analytical approach relies on the strength decoupling of VD from other components using aλfactor to design SC-VBBFs.To evaluate the effectiveness of the hybrid brace,a set of 4-,8-,and 12-story archetypes equipped with SC-PBBs and SC-VBBFs are simulated in OpenSees and analyzed under various earthquake types,including crustal,subcrustal,and subduction events.The results demonstrate the superior performance of the SC-VBBF withλ≤0.5 system compared to SC-PBBFs in mitigating floor accelerations under design-level earthquakes and improving seismic resilience.展开更多
The escalating complexity of modern malware continues to undermine the effectiveness of traditional signature-based detection techniques,which are often unable to adapt to rapidly evolving attack patterns.To address t...The escalating complexity of modern malware continues to undermine the effectiveness of traditional signature-based detection techniques,which are often unable to adapt to rapidly evolving attack patterns.To address these challenges,this study proposes X-MalNet,a lightweight Convolutional Neural Network(CNN)framework designed for static malware classification through image-based representations of binary executables.By converting malware binaries into grayscale images,the model extracts distinctive structural and texture-level features that signify malicious intent,thereby eliminating the dependence on manual feature engineering or dynamic behavioral analysis.Built upon a modified AlexNet architecture,X-MalNet employs transfer learning to enhance generalization and reduce computational cost,enabling efficient training and deployment on limited hardware resources.To promote interpretability and transparency,the framework integrates Gradient-weighted Class ActivationMapping(Grad-CAM)and Deep SHapleyAdditive exPlanations(DeepSHAP),offering spatial and pixel-level visualizations that reveal howspecific image regions influence classification outcomes.These explainability components support security analysts in validating the model’s reasoning,strengthening confidence in AI-assisted malware detection.Comprehensive experiments on the Malimg and Malevis benchmark datasets confirm the superior performance of X-MalNet,achieving classification accuracies of 99.15% and 98.72%,respectively.Further robustness evaluations using FastGradient SignMethod(FGSM)and Projected Gradient Descent(PGD)adversarial attacks demonstrate the model’s resilience against perturbed inputs.In conclusion,X-MalNet emerges as a scalable,interpretable,and robust malware detection framework that effectively balances accuracy,efficiency,and explainability.Its lightweight design and adversarial stability position it as a promising solution for real-world cybersecurity deployments,advancing the development of trustworthy,automated,and transparent malware classification systems.展开更多
Physician well-being is vital to delivering high-quality emergency care.A supported and healthy emergency medicine workforce leads to better patient outcomes,fewer medical errors,and greater job satisfaction and staff...Physician well-being is vital to delivering high-quality emergency care.A supported and healthy emergency medicine workforce leads to better patient outcomes,fewer medical errors,and greater job satisfaction and staff retention.[1,2]Emergency physicians(EPs)face unique pressures,including shift work,high patient volumes and acuities,overcrowding,and systemic inefficiencies that escalate their risk of burnout.As a result,EPs have reported the highest rates of burnout among physician specialties.展开更多
There were in the past two main approaches to discussion of the political orientation of the intellectual community and its relations with student unrest in the Republican period, especially on the upsurge of the stud...There were in the past two main approaches to discussion of the political orientation of the intellectual community and its relations with student unrest in the Republican period, especially on the upsurge of the student movement during the civil war between the Guomindang and the Communist Party of China (CPC) (1945-1949). One was to attribute this to the leadership of the CPC, seeing it as the 'second front' opened up by the CPC when the two parties were at war. The other approach was straightforward discussion of how intellectual circles promoted democracy, struggled against autocracy and gradually became estranged from展开更多
Earlier this year,I learnt from Xinhua News that Professor Shi Changxu had been awarded the 'State Science and Technology Top Award' in China.It was not only a tremendous honour to Professor Shi,but also a gre...Earlier this year,I learnt from Xinhua News that Professor Shi Changxu had been awarded the 'State Science and Technology Top Award' in China.It was not only a tremendous honour to Professor Shi,but also a great moment for the entire Chinese Materials Science Community. Since 1992,I have had opportunities to attend meetings and other activities of the National Natural Science Foundation Committee(NSFC).I met Professor Shi several times at these events.At first glance, his bronze-coloured face and shining head gave me an impression of an old fisherman.He was smiling展开更多
Professor Shi Chanxu received the Top Scientists Award of China in early 2011.This is a very important event.As a materials scientist originally from China,I am very happy to hear this news.I see this award as a great...Professor Shi Chanxu received the Top Scientists Award of China in early 2011.This is a very important event.As a materials scientist originally from China,I am very happy to hear this news.I see this award as a great encouragement,not only for people working in the field of Materials Science and Engineering, but also for all scientists and technologists in China. Professor Shi is one of the most famous materials scientists in the world,and has also made great contributions to the strategic development of science and engineering in China.I had the opportunity to展开更多
Delong Su(Teh-long SU,1906-1985)was an intermationally renowned public health expert,a medical educator and philosopher,and one of the major founders of classic epidemiology in China(Fig.1).He was among the first grou...Delong Su(Teh-long SU,1906-1985)was an intermationally renowned public health expert,a medical educator and philosopher,and one of the major founders of classic epidemiology in China(Fig.1).He was among the first group of the national distinguished professors and doctoral supervisors appointed since the founding of the People's Republic of China.Dr.Delong Su served as vice-president of the Shanghai First Medical College and vice-chairman of the National Schistosomiasis Research Council.展开更多
文摘＂The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.＂ Anatole France （Francois-Anatole Thibault, 1844-1924）.
文摘In newly developed agro-biodiversity park, several plantation blocks were developed in phased manner, such as teak （2,200 plants in 2.2 ha）, mahuva （1,500, 1.5 ha） plant dominant community blocks and mixed forest tree block （4,600, 2.5 ha）. Besides, a separate generic blocks of, viz., palm （300, 0.4 ha）, medicinal trees （700, 0.7 ha）, bael （Aegel marmelos） （200, 0.4 ha） and minor fruit tree block （1,200, 1.0 ha）. A species diversity Ficus block （225 no. of 30 species in 0.4 ha） was also developed and maintained. Of late rare, endemic, endangered and threatened species Ceropegia （Asclepiadaceae） was identified in 2014. Since then, utmost care was taken for conservation and preservation in agro-biodiversity park. Every year during monsoon, the gap filling was done to maintain greenery in different block plantations. Water ponds and bodies were also created as a source of water for all resident and migratory bio-creatures for promotion of fauna genetic resources. The natural fauna present in agro-biodiversity park are wild boars, field rabbits, small mammalians, field peacocks, reptiles, lizards, avians, amphibians, toads, etc.. Besides, 24 species of insects, five species of fish and eight species of reptiles were recorded. Out of 120 species of butterflies present in the state, 56 were found in the park. The bird species increased from 35 to 172 species within eight years of duration. The creation of different plantation blocks has facilitated to increase flora and fauna in the park. The native flora and fauna were protected by erecting chain link mesh as border fencing against movement of trespass and livestock animals. The agro-biodiversity park was aimed mainly to preserve, conserve and promote the native flora and fauna through ex-situ conservation of species and to establish 15-20 biotic communities, including wild relative field crops, such as cereals, millets, pulses, oilseeds and fiber crops as a repository that flourished in the Deccan plateau in the past. The other objectives were to restore and develop the existing dry land and wet land habit to preserve and conserve the genetic resources.
文摘It is a great time for Chinese plastic and reconstructive surgery and it is against this backdrop that the Chinese Journal of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery is being christened.This moment has arrived because of the many trail blazers,who made numerous historic contributions,be it with the anterolateral thigh flap,with forearm replantation,with flap prefabrication,or with the radial forearm flap(or in the West,sometimes called the Chinese flap).This moment has arrived because of the decades-long consistent excellence and standard bearing by Shanghai Ninth People’s Hospital in the field of plastic and reconstructive surgery.This moment has arrived also because of the renaissance rise of China,with ensuing demands from much improved quality of life by a much larger swath of its vast population.
文摘Dear Editors,This letter,reflecting on my research career,is dedi-cated to Professor Qingshi Zhu for his 80th Birthday.Part of this letter is based on my comment“A 20-year journey on the invention of vibrational photothermal microscopy”published in the May 2025 Nature Meth-ods Focus Issue on Bond-Selective Imaging[1].
文摘This paper presents a review of how the ductile diaphragm concept was formulated,evaluated,improved,and implemented over time to achieve seismically resilient bridges.A particular emphasis is placed on the most recent work that has provided a more fully,and more widely applicable,version of the concept.The paper also addresses how to design buckling restrained braces used as energy dissipating elements in the longitudinal di-rection of multi-span bridges(simple spans or continuous bridges)as part of the ductile diaphragm concept.In all cases,the objective of the ductile diaphragm concept is to concentrate ductility demands in steel energy dissi-pating elements located at the ends of the superstructure spans to protect the substructure(and rest of the su-perstructure)from damage,to ensure that the bridge can remain open to full traffic immediately following an earthquake.
文摘Self-Centering Piston-Based Braced Frames(SC-PBBFs)are designed to curtail structural damage under severe ground motions.The self-centering mechanism in this bracing mitigates structural damage during an earthquake,thereby reducing post-earthquake repair costs and contributing to seismic resilience.However,non-structural components,particularly those sensitive to floor acceleration,remain vulnerable,resulting in prolonged func-tional recovery times.This paper aims to address this limitation by introducing a novel structural archetype,the Self-Centering Viscous-Based Braced Frame(SC-VBBF),which integrates superelastic shape memory alloy(SMA)bars,viscous dampers(VDs),and friction springs(FSs).A streamlined analytical approach relies on the strength decoupling of VD from other components using aλfactor to design SC-VBBFs.To evaluate the effectiveness of the hybrid brace,a set of 4-,8-,and 12-story archetypes equipped with SC-PBBs and SC-VBBFs are simulated in OpenSees and analyzed under various earthquake types,including crustal,subcrustal,and subduction events.The results demonstrate the superior performance of the SC-VBBF withλ≤0.5 system compared to SC-PBBFs in mitigating floor accelerations under design-level earthquakes and improving seismic resilience.
文摘The escalating complexity of modern malware continues to undermine the effectiveness of traditional signature-based detection techniques,which are often unable to adapt to rapidly evolving attack patterns.To address these challenges,this study proposes X-MalNet,a lightweight Convolutional Neural Network(CNN)framework designed for static malware classification through image-based representations of binary executables.By converting malware binaries into grayscale images,the model extracts distinctive structural and texture-level features that signify malicious intent,thereby eliminating the dependence on manual feature engineering or dynamic behavioral analysis.Built upon a modified AlexNet architecture,X-MalNet employs transfer learning to enhance generalization and reduce computational cost,enabling efficient training and deployment on limited hardware resources.To promote interpretability and transparency,the framework integrates Gradient-weighted Class ActivationMapping(Grad-CAM)and Deep SHapleyAdditive exPlanations(DeepSHAP),offering spatial and pixel-level visualizations that reveal howspecific image regions influence classification outcomes.These explainability components support security analysts in validating the model’s reasoning,strengthening confidence in AI-assisted malware detection.Comprehensive experiments on the Malimg and Malevis benchmark datasets confirm the superior performance of X-MalNet,achieving classification accuracies of 99.15% and 98.72%,respectively.Further robustness evaluations using FastGradient SignMethod(FGSM)and Projected Gradient Descent(PGD)adversarial attacks demonstrate the model’s resilience against perturbed inputs.In conclusion,X-MalNet emerges as a scalable,interpretable,and robust malware detection framework that effectively balances accuracy,efficiency,and explainability.Its lightweight design and adversarial stability position it as a promising solution for real-world cybersecurity deployments,advancing the development of trustworthy,automated,and transparent malware classification systems.
文摘Physician well-being is vital to delivering high-quality emergency care.A supported and healthy emergency medicine workforce leads to better patient outcomes,fewer medical errors,and greater job satisfaction and staff retention.[1,2]Emergency physicians(EPs)face unique pressures,including shift work,high patient volumes and acuities,overcrowding,and systemic inefficiencies that escalate their risk of burnout.As a result,EPs have reported the highest rates of burnout among physician specialties.
文摘There were in the past two main approaches to discussion of the political orientation of the intellectual community and its relations with student unrest in the Republican period, especially on the upsurge of the student movement during the civil war between the Guomindang and the Communist Party of China (CPC) (1945-1949). One was to attribute this to the leadership of the CPC, seeing it as the 'second front' opened up by the CPC when the two parties were at war. The other approach was straightforward discussion of how intellectual circles promoted democracy, struggled against autocracy and gradually became estranged from
文摘Earlier this year,I learnt from Xinhua News that Professor Shi Changxu had been awarded the 'State Science and Technology Top Award' in China.It was not only a tremendous honour to Professor Shi,but also a great moment for the entire Chinese Materials Science Community. Since 1992,I have had opportunities to attend meetings and other activities of the National Natural Science Foundation Committee(NSFC).I met Professor Shi several times at these events.At first glance, his bronze-coloured face and shining head gave me an impression of an old fisherman.He was smiling
文摘Professor Shi Chanxu received the Top Scientists Award of China in early 2011.This is a very important event.As a materials scientist originally from China,I am very happy to hear this news.I see this award as a great encouragement,not only for people working in the field of Materials Science and Engineering, but also for all scientists and technologists in China. Professor Shi is one of the most famous materials scientists in the world,and has also made great contributions to the strategic development of science and engineering in China.I had the opportunity to
文摘Delong Su(Teh-long SU,1906-1985)was an intermationally renowned public health expert,a medical educator and philosopher,and one of the major founders of classic epidemiology in China(Fig.1).He was among the first group of the national distinguished professors and doctoral supervisors appointed since the founding of the People's Republic of China.Dr.Delong Su served as vice-president of the Shanghai First Medical College and vice-chairman of the National Schistosomiasis Research Council.
