Editorial for the special issue“Hydrogen Energy Production,Storage and Utilization”

Hydrogen energy has emerged as a significant energy source for accomplishing energy transformation and achieving carbon neutrality.Hydrogen production,storage and transportation are the key technologies to realize hydrogen energy application and carbon neutralization goal.Apart from the mature technologies of fossil fuel reforming and water electrolysis,new hydrogen production methods(such as solar photolysis,biomass conversion,thermochemical circulation,etc.)have garnered widespread attention and research interest.The lack of safe and efficient hydrogen storage and utilization technology for hydrogen fuel cell systems is the major obstacle to achieving hydrogen economy.In the past decades,global researchers have conducted extensive studies on enhancing the hydrogen storage performance of materials,such as alloy,metal hydride,complex hydride,carbon-based materials,etc.,as well as the technological development of fuel cell power generation systems using solid hydrogen storage materials as hydrogen storage carriers.The themed issue entitled“Hydrogen Energy Production,Storage and Utilization”includes 10 carefully selected papers that address the most recent developments in hydrogen production and storage materials,involving catalyst design,structure characterization,hydrogen ab-/desorption performance and mechanism,and fuel cell coupling system exploit.

Germplasm and molecular breeding in horticultural crops

Horticulture is an important part of agricultural planting and production, which is of great significance for enriching human nutrition and beautifying and transforming the human living environment. At present, the area of horticultural crops in China is about 40 million ha, accounting for about onefourth of the national crop planting area, while the production of primary agricultural products is 1 billion tons, and the output value accounts for more than half of the total output value of the planting industry.

Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games:Commitments to science and public health

The Beijing 24th 2022 Winter Olympic Games present a unique opportunity to promote the spirit and values of the Olympic Games in relation to their impact on physical activity and global health,sports medicine,and sports performance.The 2022 Winter Olympic Games mark the 98th year since the first Winter Games were held in Chamonix,France,in 1924.The inaugural Winter Olympic Games sponsored 16 events,and 250 athletes from 16 nations participated.1 In contrast,the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games will sponsor 109 events.

Sports medician and science in soccer

Can you name one sporting event that attracts more worldwide attention than the FIFA Worid Cup?Didn't think SO.Soccer(football)iS the most widely played spo]。

Introduction

It is a great honor to introduce the first arrhythmia issue of the Journal of Geriatric Cardiology. One goal of this Issue is to encourage discourse between East and West and to provide contrasts in management philosophies. The contributors representing some of the prominent in their field from the East and from the West do just this. Several contributors from the West have had prior experience in the East so they can understand cultural difference that might affect medical management approaches.……

Ecological functions of biochar

Biochar has been widely applied as a soil amendment in many parts of the world,which can enhance soil organic carbon (SOC) sequestration and nutrient availability beyond the fertilizer effect.Enriched in poly-condensed aromatic C forms,biochar-C is difficult to be degraded and can hold carbon in soils for hundreds to thousands of years.

Introduction

Cardiorenal diseaseThe modern day,worldwide epidemics of obesity and hypertension (HTN) are central drivers of a secondary epidemic of type 2 diabetes with combined chronic kidney disease (CKD)and cardiovascular disease (CVD).1 Approximately half of those with diabetes will develop CKD.2 Conversely,half of all cases of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) are due to diabetic nephropathy.With the aging of the general population and cardiovascular care shifting towards the elderly,an understanding of why decreasing levels of renal function act as a major adverse prognostic factor after a variety of cardiac events is imperative.The heart and kidney are inextricably linked via hemodynamic and neurohumoral function (Fig.1).Considerable evidence shows that CKD accelerates atherosclerosis,myocardial disease,valvular disease,and promotes an array of cardiac arrhythmias.

Biology and therapy of urological cancer metastasis

From the early roots of modern urology to today,genitourinary(GU)cancers have been an important part of the fields of urology and cancer biology.As medical science has advanced,newer clinical and basic viewpoints have impacted the thinking and practice in this important field.As such,GU oncology has been consistently seen as an area of rapid evolution both in biological understanding and clinical care.GU cancers continue to rise in incidence worldwide.Moreover,they represent a significant portion of cancer mortality in Asia and the western world.These facts have been met with some of the boldest and most important advances in cancer biology and therapy that have reshaped this field.

2006年12月世界医学期刊回顾

1.Abnormalltles of the bronchial arteries in asthma.This Study compares the structure of the bronehial arteries,whieh suppIy systemic blood to theairways,tracheobronchial

Special Edition Women’s Cardiovascular Health

A Peruvian native,Dr.Velarde earned her medical degree from the New York University School of Medicine in New York and went on to complete her residency training in Internal Medicine at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center and Cardiovascular Disease fellowship training at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York and Boston University.Dr.Gladys P.Velarde is Associate Professor of Medicine/Cardiology at The University of Florida,Jacksonville where she directs the Women’s Cardiovascular Health Program and is Director of the Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship training program.

Editorial for the special issue of“Celebrating Prof.San Ping Jiang's 65th Birthday”

This themed issue is specifically devoted to celebrate Professor San Ping Jiang's 65th birthday,therefore including a number of high-quality original research or review papers related to his expertise,1–7 focusing on the development of advanced electrodes and electrolytes for a series of energy conversion and storage devices.Prof.Jiang is one of the pioneer researchers in the field of fuel cells with remarkable contributions to fundamental understanding,materials development and technological advancement of both high temperature solid oxide fuel cells(SOFCs)and low temperature polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells(PEMFCs).His work has a hallmark of consistence,problem-solving and technological oriented insight view in the key issues/topics,which facilitate substantially both scientific knowledge and technological advancement in this field.Over the past 30 years,Prof.Jiang has published more than 400 journal papers,edited 15 book chapters and 5 books in his expertise of fuel cells and renewable energies.Prof.Jiang is also a Most Cited Researchers(MCR)in Energy Science and Engineering(by Shanghai Jiaotong University ARWU/Elsevier,2016)and a Highly Cited Researcher(HCR)in Cross-Field(by Clarivate Analytics/Web of Science,2018).To recognize his distinguished national and international academic reputation and outstanding record of service to professional and public life,Prof.Jiang was awarded the prestigious title“John Curtin Distinguished Professor”and“Lifetime Achievement in Research”in 2016 by the Curtin University Council.

Direct-fed microbial: Animal nutrition and reproduction responses

Manipulating the gastrointestinal microbial ecosystem to enhance animal performance and reproductive responses has been one of the main goals of animal science researchers and veterinarians.Recent restrictions to the use of antimicrobials as growth promoters led researchers to seek alternative practices that can show promise both from the standpoint of efficacy as well as from the practical and economic aspects.One of the alternatives that surfaced as very promising in the last few decades is the use of direct-fed microbials （DFM） as a means to modulate the effects of the gastrointestinal microbiome on the host immune status, health and productivity.

Introduction

Heart Failure (HF) is a major source of morbidity and mortality worldwide. In the United States, five million people carry this diagnosis. It accounts for in excess of one million hospitalizations and costs approximately $30 billion to treat.The elderly population is particularly affected since more than 80% of those hospitalized for HF are over age 65 years.Despite the development of evidence-based therapy and guidelines in the management of chronic HF for use by physicians and other health care providers, the mortality remains high.……

Message from the Editors

I was very pleased to be invited to be a guest editor for Issue 29 of Teaching English In China.JimBanks,who edited the last two issues,returned to the UK In December.On behalf of all our readersand contributors I would like to thank Jim for his excellent work and wish him and his family ally thebest for 1997.I would also like to thank my co-guest editor,Peter Hare,for undertaking the difficultjob of selecting the best articles from the hundreds we receive.

Preface: Advanced Thin Film Developments and Nano Structures

In this special issue, we invited a few leading materials researchers to present topics in thin films, coatings, and nano structures. Readers will find most recent developments in topics, including recent advances in hard, tough, and low friction nanocomposite coatings; thin films for coating nanomaterials; electroless plating of silver thin films on porous Al2O3 substrate; CrN/Nano Cr interlayer coatings; nano-structured carbide derived carbon （CDC） films and their tribology; predicting interdiffusion in high-temperature coatings; gallium-catalyzed silica nanowire growth; and corrosion protection properties of organofunctional silanes. Authors are from both national laboratories and academia.

Intracellular Communication

Gene expression of the nuclear, plastid, and mitochon- drial genomes in plants is mutually dependent and highly coordinately regulated. This ensures adequate synthesis of proteins functioning in common protein complexes for organellar gene expression and energy-transducing activities in chloroplasts and mitochondria. The concept of intracellular communication includes an anterograde and retrograde signaling network between nucleus and the two organelles, enabling this interactive exchange of information essential for cellular hemostasis. By definition, the intracellular communication is based on the inter-orga- nellar reciprocity whereby the transcriptional activities in the nucleus are regulated in part by signaling pathways derived from plastids and mitochondria （retrograde sign- aling）, while the organellar gene expression is controlled by information received form the nucleus （anterograde signaling）.