High-level Personnel Research Articles

Results of a Needs Assessment for a DEI Workshop for GME Program Coordinators.

Competency in diversity, equity, and inclusion skills is critical for graduate medical education program coordinators. Coordinators contribute to high-level personnel and program management while also providing informal social support to residents. However, little has been reported about program coordinator learning needs, interest, and self-reported skills and attitudes regarding diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives in graduate medical education. This study sought to describe the characteristics, job tasks, attitudes, and learning needs of program coordinators attending a professional development session about diversity, equity, and inclusion. Participants registered for a September 2022 program coordinator professional development workshop on diversity, equity, inclusion, and bias were invited to complete an electronic needs assessment prior to the workshop. Items were based on expert opinion and literature review. We performed descriptive and comparative analysis. The response rate was 54% (106/198); 90% (94/104) of respondents identified as female; 42% (44/104) identified as an underrepresented minority. Fifty-seven percent (63/104) received mandatory training on bias while 13% (14/104) were previously trained on bias at a conference specific to the role of a coordinator. Eighty-nine percent (86/104) of coordinators reported having contact with applicants during recruiting; 67% (63/104) offer informal resident evaluations. Most participants agreed it is the coordinator's professional responsibility to confront colleagues who display signs of discrimination toward women (66%; 62/104) or based on cultural/ethnic identity (65%; 61/104). Program coordinators report visible and impactful roles in the residency leadership and management team. Few coordinators have received diversity, equity, and inclusion training related to their complex work in graduate medical education. Future graduate medical education diversity, equity, inclusion, and bias competency programs should specifically include program coordinators.

Criminal Justice in a Time of Ecological Crisis: Can the Serious Accidents Punishment Act in Korea Be Enforced to Punish ‘Ecocide’?

At the global level, voices are growing to criminalise severe environmental destruction as ecocide so that the International Criminal Court can punish. This social phenomenon suggests that international criminal law has been ineffective in protecting the environment and humanity at the time of planetary crisis. In parallel, however, only a small body of literature exists looking at how criminal justice is effective in preventing environmental damage at the domestic level. To address this research gap, this study first builds a green criminological perspective, which emphasises crimes of the powerful, and explains different types of ecocide. Then, it examines Korean environmental criminal law and demonstrates that high-level personnel in corporations have not been adequately held accountable for serious environmental destruction. As a viable option to strengthen criminal justice in the environment sector in Korea, it is argued that the Serious Accidents Punishment Act (SAPA) can be amended to hold business owners and other responsible persons accountable and liable for serious environmental crime caused by corporate activities.

Predicting the survival benefit of liver transplantation in HBV-related acute-on-chronic liver failure: an observational cohort study

Liver transplantation (LT) is an effective therapy for acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) but is limited by organ shortages. We aimed to identify an appropriate score for predicting the survival benefit of LT in HBV-related ACLF patients. Hospitalized patients with acute deterioration of HBV-related chronic liver disease (n=4577) from the Chinese Group on the Study of Severe Hepatitis B (COSSH) open cohort were enrolled to evaluate the performance of five commonly used scores for predicting the prognosis and transplant survival benefit. The survival benefit rate was calculated to reflect the extended rate of the expected lifetime with vs. without LT. In total, 368 HBV-ACLF patients received LT. They showed significantly higher 1-year survival than those on the waitlist in both the entire HBV-ACLF cohort (77.2%/52.3%, p<0.001) and the propensity score matching cohort (77.2%/27.6%, p<0.001). The area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUROC) showed that the COSSH-ACLF II score performed best (AUROC 0.849) at identifying the 1-year risk of death on the waitlist and best (AUROC 0.864) at predicting 1-year outcome post-LT (COSSH-ACLFs/CLIF-C ACLFs/MELDs/MELD-Nas: AUROC 0.835/0.825/0.796/0.781; all p<0.05). The C-indexes confirmed the high predictive value of COSSH-ACLF IIs. Survival benefit rate analyses showed that patients with COSSH-ACLF IIs 7-10 had a higher 1-year survival benefit rate from LT (39.2%-64.3%) than those with score <7 or >10. These results were prospectively validated. COSSH-ACLF IIs identified the risk of death on the waitlist and accurately predicted post-LT mortalityand survival benefit for HBV-ACLF. Patients with COSSH-ACLF IIs 7-10 derived a higher net survival benefit from LT. This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 81830073, No. 81771196) and the National Special Support Program for High-Level Personnel Recruitment (Ten-thousand Talents Program).

Contribuindo para o avanço do estado da arte da pesquisa em biodiversidade: o papel da FAPESP nos últimos 60 anos

Abstract Since its creation in 1960, the São Paulo State Research Foundation (FAPESP) has been supporting biodiversity research; however, in the early years, this large umbrella was still divided into botany, ecology, and zoology. This support became more effective by the establishment of the Research Program on Characterization, Conservation, and Sustainable Use of the Biodiversity of São Paulo State, better known as the BIOTA/FAPESP Program, in 1999. The program adopted the definition of biodiversity of the Convention on Biological Diversity and focused on 4 priorities: a) advancing scientific knowledge about Brazilian biodiversity; b) training high-level personnel (master’s degrees, PhDs and postdocs) to carry out biodiversity research; c) transferring the advancement of knowledge to improve public policies on biodiversity conservation and restoration; and d) transferring private sector knowledge to economically explore the potential of Brazilian biodiversity by using it sustainably. This paper summarizes the major achievements of the BIOTA/FAPESP Program, now entering its third decade of existence.

Explicit solutions to the nonlinear VK system by the generalized separation of variables method* *This work is supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province under Grant No. ZR2020MA011, the high-level personnel foundation of Liaocheng University under grant Nos. 318050087 and 318011613.

The von Kármán (VK) system is of great importance in mechanics and physical applications, but it is difficult to cope with explicit solutions to such a nonlinear partial differential equation (NLPDE) system. In this paper, we develop the combination of symmetry integration and separation of variables method (SVM) to deal with this NLPDE system, some new types of explicit solutions to the nonlinear system are obtained. Moreover, by the complete classification method, we investigate exact solutions to a nonlinear ordinary differential equation (NLODE) system, so the explicit solutions to the VK system are presented.

How to manage the personnel files of high-level personnel well in Chinese universities

To further play the role of personnel file in high-level talent management, boost high-level talents in Chinese colleges and universities should play value, development of this research by several universities high-level talents for China's henan province personnel file management present situation analysis, from high-level personnel personnel file management research to individuation, combined with the survey data, literature review and related policies, This paper puts forward effective countermeasures and suggestions on how to make rational use of high-level talents with the help of personalized construction of personnel files of high-level talents in Chinese universities.

Sex-Based Harassment and Symbolic Compliance

With the rise of the #MeToo movement, there has been a groundswell of attention to sex-based harassment. Organizations have pressured high-level personnel accused of harassment to resign, or fired them outright, and they have created or revised their anti-harassment policies, complaint procedures, and training programs. This article reviews social science and legal scholarship on sex-based harassment, focusing on definitions and understandings of sexual (and sex-based) harassment, statistics on its prevalence, the consequences of harassment both for those who are subjected to it and for organizations, and explanations for why sex-based harassment persists. We then discuss the various steps that organizations have taken to reduce sex-based harassment and the social science literature on the effectiveness of those steps. We conclude that many organizational policies prevent liability more than they prevent harassment, in part because courts often fail to distinguish between meaningful compliance and the merely symbolic policies and procedures that do little to protect employees from harassment.

Quantization of electromagnetic modes and angular momentum on plasmonic nanowires**Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11704058 and 11974069), the National Special Support Program for High-level Personnel Recruitment, China (Grant No. W03020231), Liaoning Revitalization Talents Program, China (Grant No. XLYC1902113), Program for Liaoning Innovation Team in University, China (Grant No. LT2016011), Science and Technique Foundation

Quantum theory of surface plasmons is very important for studying the interactions between light and different metal nanostructures in nanoplasmonics. In this work, using the canonical quantization method, the SPPs on nanowires and their orbital and spin angular momentums are investigated. The results show that the SPPs on nanowire carry both orbital and spin momentums during propagation. Later, the result is applied to the plasmonic nanowire waveguide to show the agreement of the theory. The study is helpful for the nano wire based plasmonic interactions and the quantum information based optical circuit in the future.

A novel class of two-dimensional chaotic maps with infinitely many coexisting attractors**Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11672257, 11632008, 11772306, and 11972173), the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province of China (Grant No. BK20161314), the 5th 333 High-level Personnel Training Project of Jiangsu Province of China (Grant No. BRA2018324), and the Excellent Scientific and

We study a novel class of two-dimensional maps with infinitely many coexisting attractors. Firstly, the mathematical model of these maps is formulated by introducing a sinusoidal function. The existence and the stability of the fixed points in the model are studied indicating that they are infinitely many and all unstable. In particular, a computer searching program is employed to explore the chaotic attractors in these maps, and a simple map is exemplified to show their complex dynamics. Interestingly, this map contains infinitely many coexisting attractors which has been rarely reported in the literature. Further studies on these coexisting attractors are carried out by investigating their time histories, phase trajectories, basins of attraction, Lyapunov exponents spectrum, and Lyapunov (Kaplan–Yorke) dimension. Bifurcation analysis reveals that the map has periodic and chaotic solutions, and more importantly, exhibits extreme multi-stability.

Management Practice of Training Excellent Young Nursing Talents with Employee Assistance Programs in Hospital Based on the Theory of Planned Behavior

Background: The theory of planned behavior (TPB) is a derivation of the theory of rational behavior, which acts as a theoretical framework for studying human intention to conduct a specific behavior from the perspective of psychological factors. On the basis of TPB, the intention to improve training Young Nursing Talents, the quality of personal life and work performance with Employee assistance programs (EAP) in Hospital, so that employees and organizations can benefit from it. We aimed to explore a new model for the training and management of nursing talents. Methods: Based on the theory, the party nursing department, committee office, science, and nursing department have jointly developed the Excellent Nursing Talents training program. To start with organizational culture, enhance team cohesion, and use tutor system as the whole process of guiding mode, which is similar to graduate management. After three years of organization and implementation, under the guidance of the instructor, the “Youqing” group has been trained. Implement the excellent support program and root the scientific research awareness into clinical practice. It also promotes the scientific research innovation and the practice of Youqing example in all the departments, and has achieved very significant results. At the end of the training period, the “Youqing” nursing team's innovative ability was investigated and the output of scientific research was evaluated. Conclusion: The scores of “Youqing” innovation behavior and organizational innovation atmosphere were higher than those of other nurses (p<0.05), and the scores of innovation behavior and organizational innovation atmosphere in the departments with “Youqing” teams were higher than those of other departments (p<0.05). Besides, the research results and scientific research influence of the nursing team were significantly higher than those before the implementation of the training program. Interpretation: Using TPB as a guide, the top-level design of nursing talent management will improving. It is conducive to improving the innovative ability of nurses and improving their nursing ability. At the same time, it also promotes the innovation ability and scientific research ability of nurses in the hospital. Funding Statement: This study was supported by the Jiangsu Provincial Commission of Health and Family Planning Foundation [grant number: Z201622,N2017009], Jiangsu Province ‘333 high-level talent training project’ Foundation [grant number: BRA2016198], Jiangsu Province Youth Medical Talent Foundation [grant number: QNRC2016409], and Jiangsu Province ‘six talent peak high-level personnel training project’ Foundation [grant number: WSN-234]. Nantong Science and Technology Plan Directive Project [ MS12019007]. Declaration of Interests: The authors declare that there is no conflict of interest. Ethics Approval Statement: All procedures performed in this study were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional research committee and with the Second Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University.

Similarity Analysis of Learning Interests among Majors Using Complex Networks

At present, multi-specialization cross integration is the new trend for high-level personnel training and scientific and technological innovation. A similarity analysis of learning interests among specializations based on book borrowing behavior is proposed in this paper. Students of different majors that borrow the same book can be regarded as a way of measuring similar learning interests among majors. Considering the borrowing data of 75 majors, 14,600 undergraduates, and 280,000 books at the Northwest Normal University (NWNU), as an example, this study classified readers into majors depending on similarity among students. A complex network of similar learning interests among specializations was constructed using group behavior data. The characteristics of learning interests were revealed among majors through a network topology analysis, importance of network nodes, and calculation of the similarity among different majors by the Louvain algorithm. The study concluded that the major co-occurrence network was characterized as scale-free and small-world; most majors had mutual communication and an infiltrating relationship, and the 75 majors of NWNU may form six major interest groups. The conclusions of the study were related to the development of majors of the university, and a match between major learning communities was based on the borrowing interest in a similar network to reflect the relationship between the characteristics and internal operating rules of a major.

Discussion on the Teaching Reform of the Engineering Post-graduate Education

Post-graduate education is a major approach for the training of high-level personnel in China. However, compared with advanced foreign education systems, a disparity of the post-graduate student’s training quality still exists. In this paper, based on the current post-graduate eduation status, the problems exist in the engineering post-graduate education are brought forward, from the aspects of the frontier knowledge, application ability, innovation ability, and academic communication ability. The reasons of the problems in the teaching process of the engineering post-graduate courses are mainly investigated, and the major aspects related to ‘teaching’ and ‘learning’ that influence the teaching effects are discussed. It is pointed out that the dismatch between the teaching, including contents and teaching method, and learning ability of the students is the main reason of these problems. To solve them, suggestions on the teaching reforms are proposed,including: selection of teaching contents, reform of teaching method, establishement of the feedback mechanism, change of learning method, and improvement of evaluation method, etc. A closed loop strcture of the entire post-graduate teaching approach is proposed as well. This work is benefit for improving the teaching effect of the engineering post-graduate courses, and it also provides a reference for the teaching reform of the engineering post-graduate education in the new engineering background.

Genome-Wide Analysis Identified Three-Locus DNA Methylation Signature As Biomarkers with Superior Prediction Performance for Gastric Cancer Survival

Background: The morbidity and mortality of gastric cancer (GC) is in the fourth and third place among all malignant tumors in the world. The prognosis is poor due to the lack of biomarkers for treatment selection. Methods: To select the methylation biomarkers related to overall survival of GC patients and improve the prognosis, we analyzed the methylation sequences of 388 GC patients from the Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) database. These patients were divided into training and testing datasets. Results: A total of 233 patients were randomly allocated to training dataset and 155 were allocated to testing dataset. The survival analysis showed that the three-DNA methylation signature was significantly correlated with overall survival of GC patients and could differentiate between high-risk and low-risk patients in training and testing datasets. Moreover, the three-DNA methylation signature could predict prognosis of GC patients with high sensitivity and specificity using receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis. The three-DNA methylation signature, independent of age, gender, radiation-therapy and histologic differentiation, could predict the prognosis of GC. It is noteworthy that the three-DNA methylation signature has higher prediction accuracy than the known biomarkers. Interpretation: Our results suggest that the three-DNA methylation signature was a useful prognostic indicator of GC and may have translational implications in GC clinical treatment. Funding Statement: This study was supported in part by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 31671311 and 81371033), the National first-class discipline program of Light Industry Technology and Engineering (LITE2018-14), the “Six Talent Peak” Plan of Jiangsu Province (No. SWYY-127), the Innovative and Entrepreneurial Talents of Jiangsu Province, the Program for High-Level Entrepreneurial and Innovative Talents Introduction of Jiangsu Province, Guangdong High-level Personnel of Special Support Program and Yangfan Plan of Talents Recruitment Grant, and Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (JUSRP51712B and JUSRP1901XNC). Declaration of Interests: The authors declare that they have no competing interests. Ethics Approval Statement: Authors stated: Not applicable.

Influence of Coating Layer on Acoustic Wave Propagation in a Random Complex Medium with Resonant Scatterers**Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos 11374066 and 11374068, the High-Level Personnel Training Project in Guangdong Province, and the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province under Grant No S2012020010885.

We investigate the influence of coating layer on acoustic wave propagation in a dispersed random medium consisting of coated fibers. In the strong-scattering regime, the characteristics of wave scattering resonances are found to evolve regularly with the properties of the coating layer. By theoretical calculation, frequency gaps are found in acoustic excitation spectra in a random medium. The scattering cross section results present the evolution of scattering resonances with the properties of the coating layer, which offers a good explanation for the change of the frequency gaps. The velocity of the propagation quasi-mode is also shown to depend on the filling fraction of the coating layer. We use the generalized coherent potential-approximation approach to solve acoustic wave dispersion relations in a complicated random medium consisting of coating-structure scatterers. It is shown that our model reveals subtle changes in the behavior of the acoustic wave propagating quasi-modes.

Research on the development of health personnel in China

Objective The paper aims to analyze the effectiveness and problems of health personnel construction in China since 2012, provide reference for promoting the construction of health professionals. Methods Using national data from China health statistics yearbook, adopted the methods of descriptive statistics and literature research and so forth. Results The construction of health personnel has been continuously strengthened in China, the structure and distribution of health personnel have been further optimized, the medical service capabilities have been improved. However, there are still inappropriate or imbalanced situations. Conclusions The construction of key personnel such as primary health personnel and urgently needed personnel need to be further strengthened; promote the construction of health service personnel to meet new health needs; continue to improve the construction of high-level and management personnel to play a leading role. Key words: Health personnel; Structure; Problem; Suggestion

Symmetry reductions and exact solutions to the systems of nonlinear partial differential equations**This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 11171041 and the high-level personnel foundation of Liaocheng University under grant No. 31805.

In this paper, the Lie symmetry analysis is performed on the four systems of nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs). One is the system of nonlinear coupled PDEs in a real physical application. The other system describes the unsteady liquid and gas flows in long pipelines. The third is the approximate equations for long waves in shallow water. The fourth is the general classical dispersiveless long wave equations. All of the point symmetries of the systems are presented for the first time, then the symmetry reductions and exact solutions to the systems are investigated.

Symmetries, Symmetry Reductions and Exact Solutions to the Generalized Nonlinear Fractional Wave Equations**Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos. 11171041 and 11505090, the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province under Grant No. ZR2015AL008, and the High-Level Personnel Foundation of Liaocheng University under Grant No. 31805

In this paper, the Lie group classification method is performed on the fractional partial differential equation (FPDE), all of the point symmetries of the FPDEs are obtained. Then, the symmetry reductions and exact solutions to the fractional equations are presented, the compatibility of the symmetry analysis for the fractional and integer-order cases is verified. Especially, we reduce the FPDEs to the fractional ordinary differential equations (FODEs) in terms of the Erdélyi-Kober (E-K) fractional operator method, and extend the power series method for investigating exact solutions to the FPDEs.

Integrability classification and exact solutions to generalized variable-coefficient nonlinear evolution equation**Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11171041) and the High-Level Personnel Foundation of Liaocheng University (Grant No. 31805).

This paper is concerned with the generalized variable-coefficient nonlinear evolution equation (vc-NLEE). The complete integrability classification is presented, and the integrable conditions for the generalized variable-coefficient equations are obtained by the Painlevé analysis. Then, the exact explicit solutions to these vc-NLEEs are investigated by the truncated expansion method, and the Lax pairs (LP) of the vc-NLEEs are constructed in terms of the integrable conditions.

浅谈终身学习与卓越工程师成长之路

卓越工程师的培养存在校内校外两个课堂，卓越工程师的成长道路分为形成期和成长期两个阶段，在分析卓越工程师培养标准的基础上，建立了卓越工程师的校内培养体系，在分析卓越工程师成长的前提上，培养学生的自学能力，将终身学习引入工程师的成长中，按照工作岗位对人才的需求进行分类，形成一个从单一到全面的、从技术到管理的上升空间，建立卓越工程师在工作岗位上的学习和成长体系，最终将一个具有专业知识和一定技能的卓越工程师培养成知识全面、技能优秀，同时具有丰富管理经验的高层次人才。 Excellent engineer training has two classes inside and outside the school. And the development of excellent engineers also has two stages: the birth and the growth period. The training system of excellent engineers in school was established on the analysis of excellent engineer training stan-dards. The lifelong learning is introduced into the growth of the engineer on the premise of ana-lyzing the development of excellent engineers. The rise in space has formed from a single project to comprehensive project, from the technology job to the management job. A system of learning and growth of excellent engineers in the workplace has been established. Excellent engineers who have professional knowledge and skills were trained. And they have rich experience in management of high-level personnel.

Plasma Lipoprotein-Associated Phospholipase A2 and Superoxide Dismutase are Independent Predicators of Cognitive Impairment in Cerebral Small Vessel Disease Patients: Diagnosis and Assessment

Backgroud: Lipoprotein-associated phospholipase A2 (Lp-PLA2) and superoxide dismutase (SOD) have been linked to vascular/neuro-inflammation and stroke. Using a retrospective design, we investigated whether circulating Lp-PLA2 and SOD in cerebral small vessel disease (CSVD) patients were associated with cognitive impairment (CI). Methods: Eighty-seven CSVD patients were recruited. Plasma Lp-PLA2 and SOD were determined, and cognitive status was measured by the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) and Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA). Multiple linear regressions were used to evaluate the relationship between Lp-PLA2 and SOD and the presence of CI. Ordinal logistic regression and generalized linear models (OLRGLMs) were applied to further confirm whether Lp-PLA2 and SOD are independent risk factors for CI in CVSD. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis was used to distinguish CSVD patients with CI from those with normal cognition (NC). Findings: Lp-PLA2 and SOD with mild or severe CI were lower than those with NC. We noted positive linear associations of Lp-PLA and SOD with CI in CSVD, independent of LDL-C. OLRGLMs confirmed that Lp-PLA2 and SOD were independent risk factors of CI in CSVD. The ROC for the combination of Lp-PLA and SOD yielded a better accuracy for distinguishing CSVD with mild (area under the curve [AUC]=0.77) and severe CI ([AUC]=0.90) from those with NC than each parameter alone. Interpretation: Lp-PLA2 and SOD are independently associated with CI and useful for the rapid diagnosis and evaluation of CI in CSVD. Lp-PLA2 and SOD are modifiable factors that may be considered as therapeutic targets for preventing CI in CSVD patients. Funding Statement: This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Science and Technology Program of Guangdong of China Natural Science Foundations of Guangdong of China, and Leading Talent in Talents Project Guangdong High-level Personnel of Special Support Program. Declaration of Interests: The authors declare no conflict of interest. Ethics Approval Statement: The study was approved by the ethics Human Research Committee at Zhujiang Hospital of Southern Medical University and complied with the principles outlined in the revised Declaration of Helsinki of 1975 and the National Institutes of Health Human Subjects Policies and Guidelines released in 1999. Informed written or verbal consent was obtained from patients and family members.