Meeting report of the editorial board meeting for World Journal of Hepatology 2019

The first editorial board meeting of the World Journal of Hepatology(WJH)was held on November 8,2019 at the Side Bar Grille,Sheraton Boston Hotel,Boston,MA,United States.Ruo-Yu Ma,Director of Editorial Office,on behalf of the Baishideng Publishing Group(BPG),organized the meeting with the great help of Professor Ke-Qin Hu,Journal Editor-in-Chief.There were six editorial board members,including two Editors-in-Chief and one administrative director of the editorial office at the meeting,discussing future strategies of the journal’s development.The editorial board provided BPG a number of suggestions in regard to the business plan and quality control of the WJH.Regarding the business aspect,the editorial board suggested that BPG should advertise the WJH at the international Hepatology and Gastroenterology conferences and promote the WJH via social media.On the scientific aspect,the editorial board suggested that the assessment systems for managing the reviewers and the editorial board members are necessary,and that the BPG should make efforts to attract more high-quality manuscript submissions.An additional comment was to continue to foster a scientific culture for the journal.In conclusion,it was noted that these new ideas expressed during the meeting will bring the WJH to the next level.In the future,the BPG and the editorial board will increase communication and collaboration in order to further the development of the WJH.

Proposals for Disaster Countermeasures Based on the Experiences and Lessons Gained through the Kumamoto Earthquake in ,Japan

This paper aimed to make proposals for disaster prevention and reduction measures based on the experiences and lessons gained through the Kumamoto earthquake. This paper firstly introduced disaster countermeasures of affected local governments within Kumamoto Prefecture. Next, by narrowing the focus on measures concerning the intangible side of things, this paper discussed three points including （1） issues concerning the assumption of disaster countermeasures; （2） issues concerning the BCP （Business Continuity Plan） of both government and private corporations, the DCP （District Continuity Plan） concerning local communities, the CCP （Community Continuity Plan） concerning local communities, and （3） issues conceming disaster countermeasures besides the two issues mentioned above. Based on the discussion results, it was pointed out that the disaster countermeasures assuming complex continuous disasters should be considered.

Readiness of financial resilience in start-ups

Financial resilience refers to a start-up's capacity to anticipate,plan for,respond to,and adapt to gradual change and abrupt unforeseen shocks to survive and thrive by enacting appropriate economic policies to decrease budget deficits.Economic history tells us that more companies fail to emerge from a downturn than go into or during it.Many studies have been done on financial resilience in many dimensions,but no one has studied start-ups’organizational readiness for financial resilience.This gap inspires the current research,which uses the Total Interpretive Structural Modelling(TISM)approach to identify financial resilience factors and analyze hierarchical interrelationships start-ups’organizational readiness factors for financial resilience.This article aims to identify,assess,and categorize start-up organizational preparation elements for financial resilience.The result shows that the first importance should be given to digital financial innovation,liquidity planning,going concern consideration,financial strategy of CFOs,and cyberthreats.Managers of start-ups can utilize the findings of this study to prepare for financial resilience professionally.In a fast-paced environment,start-ups may use financial resilience to gain a competitive edge.

A look at the ASEAN-NDI: building a regional health R&D innovation network

Globally,there are growing efforts to address diseases through the advancement in health research and development(R&D),strengthening of regional cooperation in science and technology(particularly on product discovery and development),and implementation of the World Health Assembly Resolution 61.21(WHA61.21)on the Global Strategy and Plan of Action on Public Health,Innovation,and Intellectual Property(GSPA-PHI).As such,the Association of Southeast Asian Nations(ASEAN)is responding to this through the establishment of the ASEAN-Network for Drugs,Diagnostics,Vaccines,and Traditional Medicines Innovation(ASEAN-NDI).This is important in the ASEAN considering that infectious tropical diseases remain prevalent,emerging,and reemerging in the region.This paper looks into the evolution of the ASEAN-NDI from its inception in 2009,to how it is at present,and its plans to mitigate public health problems regionally and even globally.