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The last seventy years have witnessed the transition of communication from Shannon's theoretical concept to current high-efficiency practical systems.With respect to Shannon information theory,to fulfill the high-bandwidth utilization,any further increase in the data rate requires a significant augmentation in the received signal power unless the bandwidth is extended in proportion to the incremental data rate.

Astronomical Techniques and Instruments (ATI) Editorial Board 2024 working meeting and the inaugural meeting of the first Young Editorial Board were successfully held

On June 21,2024,the 2024 working meeting of the Editorial Board of Astronomical Techniques and Instruments(ATI)and the inaugural meeting of the first Young Editorial Board were successfully held in Dali,Yunnan,China.More than 30 editorial board members and young editorial board members of ATI from research institutes such as Yunnan Observatories,CAS,Nanjing Institute of Astronomical Optics&Technology,CAS,Institute of Optics and Electronics,CAS,as well as universities like Nanjing University,Sun Yat-sen University,and Shandong University attended the meeting.

Editorial Manager在线审稿设计初探

Web环境下在线编辑出版系统发展日新月异,其中Editorial Manager的审稿设计特点突出,值得深入研究。以Editorial Manager10.0为例,梳理了其基本的工作流程,并概括了其在线审稿设计的特征,以期为Web视域下的审稿规范化研究提供参考。

Editorializing in Chinese English

This paper examines the discourse structure of newspaper editorials in Chinese English in terms of their macrostrcture and their lexco-grammatical features. Data were extracted from the online edition of the People's Daily online. The study reveals that the discourse features of editorials manifest the interactive nature of the texts. Implications of the findings for second language teaching are also discussed.

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As Zoological Research enters its 33rd year of publication, let us reflect back on the last three decades of dramatic change to China and the scientific community. In the latter half of the 20th century, scientific research was almost exclusively published in the United States or Europe. We started Zoological Research in 1980 with the goal of creating a strong Chinese-language journal to support regional and national research and push towards developing an innovative and collaborative Chinese scientific community.

Editorial:“Frontiers in Astrophysics”——A special issue dedicated to the IAU XXVⅢth General Assembly (Beijing,20-31 August,2012)

This special issue consists of 12 invited reviews on the frontier areas of as- tronomy and astrophysics, and is aimed at a timely, in-depth evaluation of the current status and key progress, with suggestions for future directions. This special issue is particularly dedicated to the IAU XXVIIIth General Assembly （GA） and is complementary to the IAU GA Invited Discourses during the conference.

Editorial:Special issue on offshore structure-soil interaction

As the offshore industries move from shallow to deep waters in excess of 1000 m, there has been rapid development of ocean engineering practices. Innovations in theoretical and applied me- chanics have been essential in this shift and in underpinning the exploitation of offshore oil and gas and renewable energy re- sources worldwide. Understanding and predicting physical mech- anisms of structure-soil interactions are vital for the stability and safety of offshore engineering structures. Accordingly, in this spe- cial issue of Theoretical ＆ Applied Mechanics Letters （TAME）, eight letter-papers are published to present recent advances in analyti- cal and numerical analysis and in physical modeling of offshore structure-soil interactions in marine environments. They all provide examples of how enhanced understanding of mechanics can imoact on aoDlied oroiects.

Editorial Statement——Action and Policy

On 16 March 2004, we received an appeal from Dr. Qing WANG of the United States’ Naval Postgraduate School questioning the legitimacy of the paper entitled, Modeling Marine Stratocumulus with a Detailed Micro physical Scheme, that was published by ZHAO Chunsheng and Yutaka Ishizaka in the January 2004 issue of the Advances in Atmospheric Sciences (AAS). She pointed out that the modei described in the paper was developed by her group in which the first author, Dr. Zhao, worked as a visiting scholar during February 1997-February 1998. The authors should not have claimed in the paper that they developed the modei. In particular, they should not have published her group’s work as their own. Thus, Dr. Wang requested that the paper be retracted from AAS.

Editorial: Food Legume Diversity and Legume Research Policies

This special issue is focused on grain legumes,which belong to the Fabaceae family.Legumes are the second largest family of plants in the world after the grasses and are key components of manmade and natural ecosystems[1–3].They provide the environmental service of nitrogen fixation,so essential to soil construction and fertility maintenance,and are thus essential to agricultural systems[4,5].Different species of legumes range from huge trees to shrubs

EDITORIAL COMMITTEE OF“APPLIED MATHEMATICS AND MECHANICS”

Editor-in-chief:Chien Wei,zang(钱伟长)Vice Editor-in-chief:Yeh Kai-yuan(叶元沅)

IoT-based Smart and Complex Systems：A Guest Editorial Report

THE Industrial Revolution starting from about 1760 and ending at around 1840 has been viewed as the first Industrial Revolution.It features with the replacement of human and animal muscle power with steam and mechanical power.Human income per capita had taken 800 years to double by

Editorial board publication strategy and acceptance rates in Turkish national journals

Purpose: This study takes advantage of newly released journal metrics to investigate whether local journals with more qualified boards have lower acceptance rates, based on data from 219 Turkish national journals and 2,367 editorial board members.Design/methodology/approach: This study argues that journal editors can signal their scholarly quality by publishing in reputable journals. Conversely, editors publishing inside articles in affiliated national journals would send negative signals. The research predicts that high(low) quality editorial boards will conduct more(less) selective evaluation and their journals will have lower(higher) acceptance rates. Based on the publication strategy of editors, four measures of board quality are defined: Number of board inside publications per editor(INSIDER), number of board Social Sciences Citation Index publications per editor(SSCI), inside-to-SSCI article ratio(ISRA), and board citation per editor(CITATION). Predictions are tested by correlation and regression analysis.Findings: Low-quality board proxies(INSIDER, ISRA) are positively, and high-quality board proxies(SSCI, CITATION) are negatively associated with acceptance rates. Further, we find that receiving a larger number of submissions, greater women representation on boards, and Web of Science and Scopus(WOSS) coverage are associated with lower acceptance rates. Acceptance rates for journals range from 12% to 91%, with an average of 54% and a median of 53%. Law journals have significantly higher average acceptance rate(68%) than other journals, while WOSS journals have the lowest(43%). Findings indicate some of the highest acceptance rates in Social Sciences literature, including competitive Business and Economics journals that traditionally have low acceptance rates. Limitations: Research relies on local context to define publication strategy of editors. Findings may not be generalizable to mainstream journals and core science countries where emphasis on research quality is stronger and editorial selection is based on scientific merit.Practical implications: Results offer useful insights into editorial management of national journals and allow us to make sense of local editorial practices. The importance of scientific merit for selection to national journal editorial boards is particularly highlighted for sound editorial evaluation of submitted manuscripts.Originality/value: This is the first attempt to document a significant relation between acceptance rates and editorial board publication behavior.

Editorial Comment

Environmental mineralogy is having an unprecedented development in the world. Following the increasing communications between scholars on environmental mineralogy, the number of papers on this subject is rising progressively. Besides, the cultivation of talents has been strengthened. And some colleges found graduate schools or research centers of environmental mineralogy. The Special Group of Environmental Mineralogy was set up in the Commission on Mineralogy, Geological Society of China in April 1999. The Commission on Environmental Mineralogy was set up in the Chinese Society for

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With the appearance of this Editorial, we stand on the threshold of yet New Year, looking forward with glorious expectations. We take this opportunity to wish our readers, authors, reviewers, the members of the journal editorial board,

Editorial: Special subject on the mechanical behavior of thermal protection materials and structures

The thermal protection materials and structures are widely used in hypersonic vehicles for the purpose of thermal insulation, and their mechanical behavior is one of the key issues in design and manufacture of hypersonic vehicles. It is our great pleasure to present the seven papers in this special subject of Theoretical ＆ Applied Mechanics Letters （TAML） and introduce the recent progresses on the mechanical behavior of thermal protection materials and structures by the authors.

Guest Editorial Special Issue on Mid-Infrared Lasers and Applications

Mid-infrared （mid-IR） lasers, generally defined as having an operation wavelength in the spectral region of 2μm to 20μm, have attracted great scientific and technological interests owing to their widespread applications. This wavelength range not only contains some strong vibration transitions of many important molecules, thus, exhibiting enormous potential in medical, spectroscopy.

Meeting report of the chief editorial board meeting for World Journal of Diabetes 2021

The 2021 online editorial board meeting of the World Journal of Diabetes(WJD)was held on November 9,2021.Jin-Lei Wang,General Manager on behalf of the Baishideng Publishing Group,and Professor Islam,one of the Editors-in-Chiefs(EiCs)of the WJD,organized the meeting.Three EiCs and 18 Baishideng Publishing Group staff attended the meeting.The meeting goal was to brief the EiCs on the journal’s performance,discuss the issues of concern of the EiCs,and gather ideas for the journal’s development in 2022.As of November 8,the WJD had received 287 manuscripts since the year’s start,among which 122 met the criteria for publication.These numbers represent an increase of 117.4%for submissions and 110.3%for publications compared to those in 2020.However,how to effectively control the academic quality of manuscripts and attract highquality original article submissions remain a challenge.The EiCs provided feedback and suggestions centered on three topics:(1)Who should and how to control the academic quality of the manuscripts;(2)How the EiCs perform their responsibilities;and(3)The distinctive and shared responsibilities of the publisher and the EiCs.

Guest Editorial for Special Issue on Human-centered Intelligent Robots:Issues and Challenges

The special issue aims to address a broad spectrum of topics ranging from human-centered intelligent robots acting as a servant,secretary,or companion to intelligent robotic functions.The special issue publishes original papers of innovative ideas and concepts,new discoveries,and novel applications and business models relevant to the field of human-centered intelligent robots.In this special issue,modeling,intelligent control,

Guest Editorial for Special Issue on Fractional Order Systems and Controls

I.INTRODUCTION FRACTIONAL calculus has been applied in all MAD(modeling,analysis and design)aspects of control systems engineering since Shunji Manabe’s pioneering work in early 1960s.The 2016 International Conference on Fractional Differentiation and Its Applications(ICFDA)was held in Novi Sad,Serbia,July 18-20.Quoting from the

Editorial: Special issue on marine instruments

Our blue planet is made of atmosphere,hydrosphere,lithosphere and biosphere,these four layers are interdependence and interaction,which effect the environment and life on the planet.In these four layers,the hydrosphere is mainly associated with the ocean which is crucial to the human survival and development,due to the difference heat capacities be-