Welcome to our new Editorial Board Members of the Journal of Infrared and Millimeter Waves at 60th anniversary of SITP and happy new year 2019

It is a great honor to introduce Prof.Dr.Weida Hu and Prof.Dr.Chaohai Du as our new Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Infrared and Millimeter Waves at 60th anniversary of the Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics(SITP)of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.SITP celebrated its 60th year of existence on October 28,2018,with a scientist and engineer academic conference to commemorate the six decades of its history,to honor the six decades that SITP has devoted to developing science and technology in frontier areas of infrared physics.SITP was cofounded by CAS and Fudan University on October 28,1958.

Introduction to the New Editorial Board Member of Journal of Landscape Research

Dong Lili is a professor and the deputy dean of College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Chongqing Jiaotong University. Prof. Dong is also a Class 1 Registered Architect, the member of the Expert Pool of Chinese Society of Landscape Architecture (CHSLA), the director of the Academic Committee of Underground Space of the Architectural Society of China (ASC), the committee member of Women Landscape Architects Branch, CHSLA, the member of the Committee of Landscape Architecture of Chinese Society for Urban Studies (CSUS), the vice chairman of the Engineering Graphics Society of Chongqing, the vice president of Women Landscape Architects Branch of Chongqing Society of Landscape Architecture (CQSLA), the executive director of BIM Branch of the Civil Engineering and Architectural Society of Chongqing, the member of the Development and Planning Professional Committee of Chongqing Association for Technical Youth, and the director of Chongqing Intellectual Association.

Introduction to the New Editorial Board Member of Journal of Landscape Research Gao Xiaoshu

Cao Xiaoshu is a professor of the School of Geography and Planning as well as the deputy director of the Center for Urban and Regional Studies of Sun Yat-Sen University. He is also the deputy head and secretary-general of the Urbanization Working Group of the Chinese National Committee for the International Human Dimensions Programme on the Global Environmental Change (CNC-IHDP), the member of the Professional Committee for Historical Geography of the Geographical Society of China (GSC), and the member of the Academic Committee of China Land Science Society (CLSS). Prof. Cao also serves as the editorial board member of various influential publications such as Scientia Geographica Sinica , Historical Geography, Human Geography, Economic Geography, Tropical Geography , Areal Research and Development, and Land Economics.

Decision-Making Process in Japanese Board Room. Audit ＆ Supervisory Board as a Source of Information to Outside Board Members： A Systematic Review

I the context of the Corporate Governance Code enactment in Japan, we examine how newly introduced outside directors in Japanese boards obtain information to take part in the decision-making process. We conducted a systematic review of the literature and found 18 peer-reviewed publications in a time span between 2000 and 2016 that described the asymmetry of information between the insider group of board directors （including the CEO） and the outside board members. Our fmdings show that for the course of more than a decade, despite all changes and reforms, the role of board directors, whether insiders or outsiders, is still supplementary. They are treated more as advisors than active part in the decision-making process. We reveal different insider sources of information as forming social ties with the CEO and/or inside board directors and collaboration with Audit ＆ Supervisory Board （Kansayaku）, which can help reduce this asymmetry and improve the decision-making process. We assume that it will be easier for the outsiders to establish contacts and form social ties with the Audit ＆ Supervisory Board members because of their unspoken lower status and thus to obtain more information about the company internal affairs and discussions that take place during the informal meetings, where only insiders （including the CEO） are present.

The Third Editorial Committee of Earth Science Frontiers A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO OVERSEA MEMBERS OF THE EDITORIAL BOARD

(1)Dr. El-Sayed Mohamed Abdelrahman Professor of Geophysics, Cairo University, Egypt. His primary research interests are potential field methods. His research has focused on gravity, magnetic, self-potential methods including depth and shape determination. He has been awarded 5 prizes between 1992 and 2003, including the state prize in Earth sciences, the state prize in advanced technological sciences and the others.

The Third Editorial Committee of Earth Science Frontiers A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO OVERSEA MEMBERS OF THE EDITORIAL BOARD

(1)Dr. El-Sayed Mohamed Abdelrahman Professor of Geophysics, Cairo University, Egypt. His primary research interests are potential field methods. His research has focused on gravity, magnetic, self-potential methods including depth and shape determination. He has been awarded 5 prizes between 1992 and 2003, including the state prize in Earth sciences, the state prize in advanced technological sciences and the others. (2)Dr. Norman Bleistein Emeritus Professor of Geophysics, Colorado School of Mines, USA. His primary research interests: asymptotic methods for forward modeling and inversion in seismic exploration.He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, UK, and Guest Professor, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China.

Board of Directors, Independent Directors and Audit Fees： Based on the Empirical Data of the GEM of China

As one of the alternative variables of audit quality, audit fees have been researched widely in the Mainboard of China stock market, but empirical research based on the GEM （Growth Enterprise Market） of China is very few. From the perspective of GEM of China, this article observes and studies the impact of corporate governance structure represented by board of directors and independent directors on audit fees. This article selects the data of 348 listed companies in the GEM of China in 2012, proves that there is a positive correlation between the number of meetings, independent directors＇ salaries and audit fees through the use of multiple linear regression model, and accordingly proposed suggestions that improve the corporate governance structure of the GEM of China.

Study on the Current Implementation Situation of the Independent Director System in China＇s Listed Companies

The independent director system, as an effective measure to improve the corporation governance structure of China＇ s listed companies, is focused by more and more people at the capital market. In this paper, the proportion of independent directors in the board of directors, and the actual condition, compensation, and duties performing of independent directors are analyzed by taking A-share listed companies in Shanghai Stock Exchange as an example, so that the current implementation situation of the independent director system in China＇ s listed companies is analyzed deeply through the empirical method. Finally, suggestions for its imorovement are orooosed.

INVITATION LETTER Inviting You to Become a Member of the Editorial Board of Chinese Nursing Research

Dear Professor, We would like to invite you to be our Member of Editorial Board so as to promote the development of nursing profession.

Meeting of China's Mainland members of the Fourth Editorial Board of Journal of Natural Gas Chemistry held in Nanjing

In the occasion of the 14th National Symposium of Catalysis of China, a meeting of the China's Mainland members of the fourth Editorial Board of Journal of Natural Gas Chemistry （JNGC） was held in Nanjing on October 17, 2008. Xinhe Bao, Editor-in-Chief of JNGC, Liwu Lin, Member of the Consultant Board of JNGC, and other China's Mainland members of the Editorial Board Can Li, Huilin Wan, Wei Chu, Shuanshi Fan, Yuan Kou, Dezheng Wang, Ye Wang, Xiaoming Zheng, Xiaoping Zhou, and Fengshou Xiao attended the meeting. The meeting was chaired by Prof. Xinhe Bao.

World Journal of Gastroenterology A Brief Introduction of Editorial Board Members 2004-2006

The World Journal of Gastroenterology Editorial Board consistsof 174 members,representing a team of worldwide experts ingastroenterology and hepatology.They are from 53 countriesincluding:Albania(1),Algeria(1),Argentina(2),Austria(1),Belarus(1),Belgium(1),Brazil(1),Bulgaria(1),Canada(1),China(40),Costa Rica(1),Croatia(1),Denmark(1),Egypt(1),Finland(1),France(1),Germany(7),Greece(1),Hungary(2),Iceland(1),India(2),Iran(1),Ireland(2),Israel(2),Italy(2),Japan(3),Latvia(1),Lithuania(1),Macedonia(1),Malaysia(2),Monaco(1),Netherlands(3),New Zealand(1),Pakistan(1),Philippines(1),Poland(2),Portugal(1),Romania(1),Russia(3),Singapore(1),SIovakia(1),Slovenia(2),South Africa(1),South Korea(2),Spain(1),Sri Lanka(1),Sweden(2),Switzerland(2),Thailand(1),Turkey(1),United Kingdom(6),United States(53),and Yugoslavia(1).

The Moderating Role of Ownership Structure on the Relation between Board Independence and Voluntary Financial Disclosure: An Analysis of Italian Listed Company

Voluntary disclosure and corporate governance variables, such as board independence and ownership structure are considered mechanisms useful to reduce information asymmetries between competing parties of the firms. This paper aims at investigating both the relationship between board independence and the quality of voluntary financial disclosure and how previous relationship is moderated by the level of ownership concentration. The analysis has been conducted on a sample of Italian non-financial listed companies. The results show that there is a positive and significant relationship between board independence and the quality of voluntary financial disclosure provided by companies. In addition, the findings reveal that ownership concentration plays a relevant moderating role in previous relationship. The results highlight the necessity to consider the interaction effects of different governance mechanisms, when studying corporate governance effectiveness.

New Members of ZTE Communications Editorial Board

Fa-Long Luo, PhD, is the chief scientist of two leading international companies dealing with software-defined radio and wireless multimedia with headquarters in Silicon Valley, USA. He was the Founding Editor-in-Chief of International Joumal of Digital Multimedia Broadcastingfrom 2007 to 2011.

New Members of ZTE Communications Editorial Board

Dr. CHEN Yan is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Northwestern University, USA. He is also an adjunct professor in the College of Computer Science at Zhejiang University, China. He got his PhD in Computer Science at University of California at Berkeley, USA in 2003. His research interests include network security, measurement and diagnosis for large scale networks and distributed systems. He won the Department of Energy （DoE） Early CAREER award in 2005, the Department of Defense （DoD） Young Investigator Award in 2007, and the Best Paper nomination in ACM SIGCOMM 2010.Based on the Google Scholar, his papers have been cited for over 9000 times and his h-index is 40.

New Member of ZTE Communications Editorial Board

Xiaodong Wang （S＇98-M＇98-SM＇04-F＇08） received the PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University. He is a professor of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University in New York. Dr. Wang＇ s research interests fall in the general areas of computing, signal processing and communications, and he has published extensively in these areas. Among his publications is a book entitled “Wireless Communication Systems： Advanced Techniques for Signal Reception”, published by Prentice Hall in 2003. His current research interests include wireless communications, statistical signal processing, and genomic signal processing. Dr.