Senior Professors Research Articles

Louis Henry, the Wallaby Club and Melbourne’s Federal Elite

Founded in 1894, the Wallaby Club is Australia’s oldest walking club. In its heyday, between 1901 and 1927 when Melbourne was the federal capital, it attracted some of the nation’s leading citizens, including three prime ministers, four generals, two High Court judges, as well as several senior public servants and professors. Born amidst the ruins of ‘Marvellous Melbourne’, the club answered a longing among younger members of the city’s professional elite for recreation and renewal through regular walks in the Australian bush. This article traces the career of the club’s founder, the German-educated Jewish doctor Louis Henry, and examines the culture of the club, including its masculine ethos, and its influence on the formation of a self-conscious federal elite.

Lived experiences of medical students of online learning: lessons for adopting virtual learning in medical education

BackgroundThe COVID 19 lockdown created a shift in medical education from the traditional physical classroom to online learning.ObjectivesTo explore the lived experiences of students in various years of medical education attending a medical college in Chennai, India.MethodsIn this qualitative exploration of lived experiences we conducted 4 focus group discussions among students of the four years in the medical college with the help of a checklist. We recorded the interviews, transcribed them and performed a thematic content analysis.ResultsThere was a gendered impact of the lockdown on the online learning experiences with women students finding it challenging to attend classes balancing their gender roles of performing household chores. Online learning offered some advantages in the form of increased participation and engagement due to the partial anonymity. The greatest disadvantage of online learning was lack of clinical learning experience. The students resorted to fabricating case studies for discussion, which some students found useful and some commented that it can never replace real life clinical discussions. A generational gap between adoption of technology between the senior professors and the students hampered the online learning. Online assessments were challenging, and many students resorted to cheating in these exams.ConclusionsThough online learning offers several advantages, it has serious limitations in offering the clinical learning experience. While planning adoption of online learning into routine medical education adequate time must be set aside for real life clinical exposure in addition to the online lectures and demonstrations for conceptual understanding.

Empowering public relations for sustainability: examining the landscape in Turkey

PurposeThis paper examines the engagement of public relations (PR) in advancing sustainability within Turkey, exploring both current contributions and future potential. It analyzes how PR professionals and scholars conceptualize sustainability, revealing divergent perspectives within the industry. The study delves into the perceived roles and responsibilities of PR professionals in driving sustainable initiatives, highlighting the key challenges hindering their impact. Ultimately, the research identifies essential knowledge and skills needed to empower Turkish PR to effectively contribute to a more sustainable future.Design/methodology/approachThis study employs a qualitative research approach using semi-structured in-depth interviews with two distinct groups: experienced PR professionals holding director positions in agencies and corporate communication departments, and PR professors with at least five years of teaching experience in Turkey.FindingsThe findings reveal a dynamic, yet complex, landscape of sustainability within the Turkish PR industry. While PR professionals are actively integrating sustainability into strategic initiatives and emphasizing measurable impact, they face barriers to full integration, and their conceptualization of sustainability often differs from that of PR scholars. The findings point to a critical need for targeted education and professional development to better equip Turkish PR practitioners to drive sustainable development.Originality/valueMethodologically, the incorporation of representative groups, consisting of senior communication professionals and professors, offers valuable insights that can inform improvements in PR practices, enhance PR education, and advance the understanding of sustainability within the field of communication within the specific context of Turkey.

When Less Is More: The Semiotic Privilege of Status Downplay

Why do affluent people drive used cars, elite chefs praise basic ingredients, and upper‐middle couples arrange backyard weddings? What makes senior professors feel comfortable dressing down and allows men to bring their kids into the office? This article takes a formal sociological approach to explore the cultural phenomenon of “Status Downplay”—a paradoxical type of status display, where more social status is signaled through a subtraction of status symbols. The trans‐contextual analysis of diverse manifestations of status downplay uncovers the inverted cultural presumptions of “doing” and “being” and the hierarchical classifications underlying such parodical presentation of self. The proposed semiotic model articulates the social privilege of unmarked actors' performative flexibility: the social license of those considered “normals” to deviate from the performative norm. Under this asymmetrical structure, status underdoings are revealed as markers of cultural dominance.

Influence of notebook computers screens and undergraduate level of dental students in the radiographic detection of carious lesions

Aim: To evaluate the influence of notebook computers screens and undergraduate level of dental students in the radiographic detection of carious lesions. Methods: Bitewing digital radiographs were presented to 3rd and 5th year dental students in three different notebooks computers: Notebook 1 with anti-glare screen (1366×768 pixels), Notebook 2 without anti-glare screen (1366×768 pixels), and Notebook 3 with anti-glare screen (1920×1080 pixels). A reference standard based on a consensus analysis was set by three senior professors of Oral Radiology and Cariology. Sensitivity, specificity and accuracy values were measured and submitted to two-way ANOVA at a significance level of 5%. Results: Notebook 2 provided significantly lower sensitivity values (Mean 56.5% ± 2.94) than notebook 3 (71.1% ± 2.82) (p = 0.002). We found no statistically significant differences between the two undergraduate years (p > 0.05). Conclusion: The anti-glare screen of notebook computers screens can influence the radiographic detection of carious lesions, but the undergraduate level of dental students does not influence this diagnostic task.

UNO's Sustainable Development Goals in academic courses: a pilot analysis on the programs of an Italian university.

Universities are critical in educating tomorrow's citizens and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations Organization. The aim of this study was to investigate the integration of these goals in the curricula of an Italian university. Cross-sectional study. In February 2021, as part of the annual Syllabus preparation for each course, the teaching staffs at the University of Udine (Italy) were asked to complete an additional section in which they could indicate up to three Sustainable Development Goals for their courses. Descriptive statistics, Chi-square test and logistic regression were performed to determine whether the professors' sex, age, or department affected the likelihood of mentioning Sustainable Development Goals. In 723 courses, 360/1040 professors 59% male, mean age 53 years (range 30-73), mentioned one (29%), two (23%), or three (31%) Sustainable Development Goals. No Sustainable Development Goals were mentioned in 16% of courses, the majority of which were from the Mathematical, Computer and Physical Sciences Department (58%). The top six Sustainable Development Goals quoted were: Good health and well-being (35%), Responsible consumption and production (22%), Quality education (17%), Industry, innovation and infrastructure (13%), Gender equality (13%), Decent work and economic growth (13%). The least frequently mentioned Goal was Life below water (1%). Women (p<0.0001) and senior professors (p=0.0148) were more likely to consider at least one of the Sustainable Development Goals, while Mathematical, Computer and Physical Sciences Department showed a negative correlation (p<0.0001). Gaps were identified with respect to specific Sustainable Development Goals, but discrepancies between departments may indicate deficits in respondent awareness. A transparent description of the Sustainable Development Goals in courses is recommended, to increase students' and university's engagement in sustainability.

The Eke Tangaroa programme for Māori/Pasifika early career academics: Past, present, future

This commentary reflects on Auckland University of Technology’s Eke Tangaroa programme, which aims to increase the number of Māori and Pasifika academic staff of the university and to support them in developing their research careers. The commentary has three parts, representing the past, present and possible future of the programme. The first part (past) is by the two senior professors who came up with the idea in the first place. The second part (present) is by the inaugural and current kaiurungi (navigator) of the programme, also the first author of this commentary. The third part (future) draws on a conversation with the Deputy Vice Chancellor Academic, who is responsible for the programme.

Perception of Current and Future Commitment of Medical Teachers to the Varied Roles of a Teacher: An Observational Study.

Background Medical education is gradually moving towards self-directed learning, thus the roles of a teacher have assumed wider dimensions than before. The awareness of these roles among medical teachers has been studied in several countries, but no study on the awareness of these roles among Indian medical faculty has been found. The aim of this research was to assess the current and future commitment perception of the roles of a teacher among Indian medical faculty. Methods A cross-sectional questionnaire-based survey regarding the 12 roles of a teacher, as defined by Harden and Crosby, was conducted among medical teachers in a tertiary-level hospital and medical college. The questionnaire consisted of three categories: importance in medical teaching, current commitment, and preferred future commitment to these roles, all measured on a five-point Likert scale. Results The highest mean scores were given to the roles of learning facilitator and on-the-job role model. In contrast, the lowest scores were designated to the production of study guides. Interestingly, the teachers' current commitment to roles such as curriculum planner and course organizer was found to be low. A significant difference was observed between the three categories for the majority of the roles. Younger faculties showed significant difference among categories, while the senior professors did not showsignificant variations across the roles. Conclusion This study of Indian medical teachers emphasizes the decreased importance attributed to roles like curriculum planning and course organization. Further studies in other developing countries are essential to understand this issue more comprehensively.

PKM – Peningkatan Kemampuan Dosen Dalam Menyusun Manuskrip Penelitian Melalui Workshop Rekonstruksi Hasil Analisis Data Untuk Dosen AMIK Serang

As a lecturer, the ability to compile research manuscripts is a crucial skill to possess. However, there are still a significant number of junior and senior professors who frequently struggle with writing research papers. There are also many professors who are able to analyse data, but they struggle when it is time to incorporate it into manuscripts. This community service activity aims to assist lecturers in putting together research paper draughts, particularly for community service partners. In general, this activity can be divided into two distinct phases: preparation and implementation. Beginning preparatory activities include the identification of partners' problems and requirements, the creation of activity schedules, and ongoing dialogue between the service team and partners. This is done to level the perception of the carried out activities. Following the completion of the preparatory phase, the implementation of community service occurs. During the implementation phase, participants received training from two instructors using distinct materials. This community service activity uses workshops and resource sharing as its methodology. Before and after the activity, pre- and post-test questionnaires were distributed in order to assess the participants' understanding and knowledge. Community service activities have a significant effect on participants' comprehension when composing research paper draughts, as demonstrated by the findings. 67% of the participants who took the post-test indicated that they comprehended the preparation of research manuscripts based on the results of the data analysis. 33% of the remaining respondents indicated that they did not understand.

Instrumentalism and the publish-or-perish regime

Motivated by concerns about the nature and implications of the current publish-or-perish culture in the academe, we firstly examine based on which perceptions and interpretations individual researchers at universities cope with, survive, or even flourish, in the context of the publish-or-perish regime. Secondly, we probe, following a critical agenda of fostering non-instrumentalist understandings of research, to which extent local conditions may impact these perceptions, interpretations, and ways of coping. We conducted interviews with 32 researchers from six different research units in European universities across all ranks of the academic hierarchy, from first-year PhD students to very senior professors. Our focal descriptive category is instrumentalism: the degree to which an instrumentally rational understanding of research as a means of producing publications as items of countable performance dominates the entire research process from its very beginning. In our study we find notably heterogeneous forms of instrumentalism, which we have termed modes of instrumentalism, from purposely instrumentalist to critical non-instrumentalist modes. We identify and describe local research cultures as mediating the perceptions of individual researchers, and thus the influence of the global publish-or-perish regime on them. Based on our conceptualisation of degrees and modes of instrumentalism and the local research cultures we sketch some measures for fostering non-instrumentalist research cultures that would help in resisting the undesirable effects of the publish or perish regime.

당위와 이상과 현실의 접점에서

This article was written as a keynote paper in a planning presentation titled “Finding a New Way to Classical Literature as a Major Education of the University.” Although many educators have already suggested new ways to educate classical literature, discussions on this topic are repeated. This means that the problems arising from classical literature education are reasoned beyond the dimension of personal competence. I judged that the cause was the public’s demand for universities and changes in the social structure. In addition, the current situation and direction of classical literature education were viewed from three directions. These are the history of changes in Korea’s education curriculum period, curriculum opened in the Department of Korean Language and Literature, and the career environment of graduates. These are the development of thesis focusing on instructors, curriculum, and students, respectively. First of all, as a result of reviewing the trend of the education curriculum period, professors revealed that each generation has features. Therefore, it was desirable for senior professors to give lectures on basic subjects that expand the foundation of knowledge, and young professors to share education on the modern use of classical literature. Next, the curriculum of the Department of Korean Language and Literature at various universities was reviewed. As a result, it is recommended that basic subjects for knowledge acquisition and subjects for modern use be properly divided, and local universities need to study and lecture on literary works and writers created in the region. Finally, it emphasized the need to open subjects related to the career paths of graduates. This includes lectures on scenario creation and video production using classical literature contents. However, it was also emphasized that lectures on basic subjects should be emphasized in order to enter the education school, which is expected to be established soon. However, it should never be forgotten that the task of producing and accumulating knowledge through research and interpretation should be continuously carried out along with this division of roles. This article began with the character of suggesting the direction of classical literature education, not presenting examples of individual classes. Therefore, instead of suggesting a special plan for classical literature education, we had no choice but to discuss the framework in which classical literature education as a major education could be activated. Nevertheless, the most important secret to the success of classical literature education was the warm human relationships and harmony formed between the educational parties. This is because this is one of the basics necessary for education.

Influence of Surgical Experience and Risk Factors for Surgical Failure in Primary Retinal Detachment Surgery

Introduction: The aim of this study was to report surgical outcomes and risk factors for primary surgical failure following rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD) repair. Methods: In this retrospective cohort study, RRD patients who underwent primary surgery at a tertiary center between January 1, 2006, and December 31, 2020, were enrolled. Surgical failure was defined as reoperation within 60 days postoperatively due to retinal re-detachment and putative risk factors for surgical failure were analyzed. Results: Of 2,383 eyes (2,335 patients), 1,342 (56.3%) underwent vitrectomy and 1,041 (43.7%) underwent scleral buckling. The surgical failure rate was 9.1% overall, and 6.0% and 13.1% for the vitrectomy and scleral buckling groups, respectively. In the multivariate logistic regression analysis, surgical failure was associated with surgical experience (first-year fellow vs. senior professor) (odds ratio [OR]: 1.66; p = 0.018), scleral buckling (OR: 2.33; p < 0.001), and longer axial length (AL; ≥26.5 mm) (OR: 1.49; p = 0.017). In each surgical approach, age <40 years (OR: 2.11; p = 0.029) in the vitrectomy group and age >40 years (OR, 1.84; p = 0.004), male sex (OR: 1.65; p = 0.015), and first-year fellows compared to senior professors (OR: 1.95; p = 0.013) in the scleral buckling group were associated with surgical failure. Lens status were not associated with the surgical failure rate. Conclusion: In this large retrospective study using data from Korea, vitrectomy was superior to scleral buckling in terms of primary anatomical outcomes in the management of RRD. First-year fellows were a risk factor for surgical failure, especially for scleral buckling. Longer AL was a significant parameter for predicting the success rates.

Ciri Akademik Cemerlang di Universiti Awam Malaysia

In a university system, the key to identifying and rewarding excellence is through academic promotion to professorship. However, research on the characteristics of professors as excellent academic leaders and how they enact leadership activities is very limited. The main issues include unclear definition of excellent professors and in-depth research on the notion and concept of academic leadership. Thus, this study aims to explore the elements of excellence among senior professors in the Malaysian public universities by identifying the strengths and weaknesses of their leadership contributions. Based on a qualitative study and using a document analysis approach on curriculum vitae, ten senior professors holding VK 5 post (Grade A) were selected as respondents using purposive sampling method. They represented the four types of public universities namely research, comprehensive, technical and focused. The findings revealed that in general, the senior professors’ excellent contribution is unbalanced and skewed towards elements related to teaching, research and management. The senior professors reported less contribution involving professional development and public intellectual activities. The findings also showed that they contributed excessively to activities within their own university ecosystem, but less on activities outside their university, and at the regional and international levels. The findings point to several implications for academic leadership theories, policy development, and the status and relevance of the academic profession in Malaysia.

Preface

The International Conference on Recent Advances in Electrical, Electronics, Ubiquitous Communication and Computational Intelligence (RAEEUCCI 2022) was held in blended mode during April 22-24, 2022. The conference aimed to bring researchers, practicing engineers, faculty members and students from across the globe to a common platform to share their research ideas that would help to attain solution to various real time problems related to electrical, electronics, communication, computational intelligence and its related areas.To meet the aim of the conference the theme of the conference was divided into 6 tracks namely, Microwave and Optical Devices and Communications, Signal and Image Processing, Electronic Devices VLSI and Embedded Systems, Electrical Engineering, Computational Intelligence, Multidisciplinary Engineering and Technology. Call for papers were sent across the country as well as to various Universities and research groups across the group. We received a good response. To provide a quality review, each track was overseen by senior professors who are having expertise in the track domains. Dr. T. Rama Rao, Dr. S. Malarvizhi, Dr. P. Aruna Priya, Dr. J. Preetha Roselyn, Dr. B. Ramachandran, and Dr. R. Kumar are assigned as editor of above-mentioned tracks receptively. We got the assistance of 2 professors in the editorial process, Dr. Claudionor Bezerra, from Brazil, Dr. Cheng-Yang Liu, from Taiwan as our chief editor and assistant editor. Dr. Shanthi Prince, Dr. Chittaranjan Nayak, and Dr. Damodar Panigrahy served as managing editor.List of PATRONS, ADVISORY COMMITTEE, CONVENOR, JOINT CONVENOR, COORDINATORS, TECHNICAL COMMITTEE, ORGANIZING COMMITTEE are available in this Pdf.

Knowledge production and international academic collaboration in Taiwan: a disciplinary analysis

ABSTRACT Taiwan, an emerging scientific powerhouse, has systematically upgraded its knowledge production and international academic collaboration . It is imperative to understand such new developments. In addition, according to extant theoretical and empirical perspectives, disciplinary areas and faculty members’ characteristics are also critical factors influencing the behaviours of knowledge production and international collaboration. Under this broader context, this research aims to decipher the progress of knowledge production and international co-authorship at the national level. This study will explore three wider disciplinary areas to examine the academic production and international co-authorship in relation to faculty characteristics/factors, including faculty rank, mobility experience, and gender (using data from 2008 to 2018). Our findings indicate that knowledge production and international collaboration have declined in Taiwan since 2013, with lower output seen in recent years. Performance in different disciplinary areas is detectable within the data. In addition, academic rank offers more explanatory power in determining publication behaviour than mobility experiences and gender. Research indicates that young faculty members seem to bear a greater burden of knowledge production and international collaboration than senior professors. Mobility experiences and gender are not influential in terms of knowledge production. These results bring substantial implications to the Taiwanese academic system.

Awareness and Challenges of ISO 9001:2015 Implementation in Higher Education

This study focused on the awareness of about the implementation of ISO 9001: 2015 in the university academic staff and challenges encountered of all stakeholders in the university. Also, it is deals on the correlation of respondents’ demographic profile to the level of awareness and challenges. The study used a descriptive research design and a convenience sampling technique with a total of 100 survey participants from senior officials, professors, faculty, and non-faculty personnel. To collect responses, the researchers adapted a structured survey questionnaire used in this study and generated Google Forms. Descriptive statistics such as frequency count, percentage, and weighted mean were used to analyse the extracted data. The spearman was used for data inferential analysis. The results of the study show that employees’ level of awareness to the implementation of ISO 9001:2015 are Fully Aware and Aware, particularly in terms of the quality mission, vision, and objectives. However, employees “Disagree” with the various challenges in the implementation of ISO 9001: 2015. In addition, there was no significant relationship among the respondents’ profile, awareness and challenges in the implementation of ISO 9001: 2015 at the university. The study found that while university employees are usually aware of the quality management system’s fundamental objectives, they normally disagree on the challenges of putting it into practice. For this, information dissemination should be done on a regular basis while the employees are obliged to also internalize the university’s quality management system’s vision, mission, and objectives.

Smoking cessation interventions in South Asian Region: a systematic scoping review

BackgroundCigarette smoking is one of the most preventable causes of morbidities and mortalities. Since 2005, the World Health Organization Framework Convention for Tobacco Control (WHO-FCTC) provides an efficient strategic plan for tobacco control across the world. Many countries in the world have successfully reduced the prevalence of cigarette smoking. However, in developing countries, the prevalence of cigarette smoking is mounting which signifies a need of prompt attention. This scoping review aims to explore the extent and nature of Smoking Cessation (SmC) interventions and associated factors in South Asian Region (SAR) by systematically reviewing available recently published and unpublished literature.MethodsThe Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) framework frames the conduct of this scoping review.PubMed, EBSCO CINAHL Complete, Cochrane Library, ProQuest Dissertation and Theses, and local websites as well as other sources of grey literature were searched for relevant literature. In total, 573 literature sources were screened. Following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) flow diagram, finally, 48 data sources were included for data extraction and analysis.We analyzed the extracted SmC interventions through the FCTC. Factors that affect smoking cessation interventions will be extracted through manual content analysis.ResultsRegarding FCTC recommended smoking cessation strategies (articles), most of the articles were either neglected or addressed in a discordant way by various anti-smoking groups in SAR. Key barriers that hamper the effectiveness of smoking cessation interventions included lack of awareness, poor implementation of anti-smoking laws, and socio-cultural acceptance of tobacco use. Conversely, increased levels of awareness, through different mediums, related to smoking harms and benefits of quitting, effective implementation of anti-smoking laws, smoking cessation trained healthcare professionals, support systems, and reluctance in the community to cigarette smoking were identified as facilitators to smoking cessation interventions.ConclusionThe ignored or uncoordinated FCTC’s directions on smoking cessation strategies have resulted in continued increasing prevalence of cigarette smoking in developing countries, especially SAR. The findings of this review highlight the need for refocusing the smoking cessation strategies in SAR.StrengthsThe review was conducted by a team of expert comprising information specialists, and senior professors bringing rich experience in systematic and scoping reviews. Every effort was made to include all available literature sources addressing cigarette SmC and associated factors in SAR. The review findings signal the need and direction for more SmC efforts in SAR which may contribute to development of effective policies and guidelines for the control of smoking prevalence.LimitationsDespite efforts, potentially relevant records may have been missed due to unpublished or inaccessible articles, unintended selection bias, or those published in local languages, etc. Moreover, the exclusion of literature on under 18 participants and mentally ill smokers may limit the generalizability of findings.

The Linkage between Ethical Leadership, Well-Being, Work Engagement, and Innovative Work Behavior: The Empirical Evidence from the Higher Education Sector of China.

In this study, we investigate the relationship between ethical leadership (EL), work engagement (WE), well-being, and innovative work behavior (IWB). The significance of these variables has increased in the current era when the influence of technology is exponentially increasing in the education sector. We investigate the role of ethical leadership in determining innovative work behavior. Moreover, we investigate the moderating effect of WB in the relationship between EL and WE. We also examine the mediating impact of WE in the relationship between EL and IWB. We used a questionnaire survey approach to collect data. The target population of this study was the academic personnel, i.e., senior professors, lecturers, and supporting staff associated with the higher education sector located in Zhejiang Province, China. Data were collected in two phases. In the first phase, we sent 300 research questionnaires and received 251 responses. In the second phase, after a three-month interval, we sent 200 questionnaires and received 162 responses. However, over the two phases, we collected a total of 413 questionnaires; 43 were discarded. Therefore, for analysis, we used 370 questionnaires. The data were analyzed using the structural equation modeling through SmartPLS 3.2.2. First, in the direct relationship, results confirm that EL positively influences the IWB. Secondly, WB has a positive and moderating relationship between EL and IWB. Thirdly, we address the relationship between EL and WE. The outcome indicates that there is a positive and significant relationship. Fourth, the results of this study indicate that there is positive and significant relationship between WE and IWB. Finally, the outcomes imply that WE positively mediates between EL and IWB. Ethical leadership and well-being are important for innovative work behavior that supports managers in introducing a supportive workplace environment that promotes good interpersonal relationships with subordinates. Therefore, a good interpersonal relationship between managers and subordinates enhances the work quality. So, ethical leaders provide a supportive work environment to all subordinates regarding their work.

Control the Self‐assembly of Block Copolymers by Tailoring the Packing Frustration

Comprehensive SummaryThe concept of “packing frustration” has been used to understand the self‐assembly behaviors of block copolymers for decades. However, rare attention has been paid to tailoring the packing frustration. This account provides a review of our recent endeavor of controlling the self‐assembly of block copolymers via tailoring the packing frustration. The basic idea is to release the packing frustration of chains through the local segregation between different blocks of the same component filling different spaces of near and far. Two different majority blocks are designed to release their packing frustration in the matrix. In particular, this effect of released packing frustration has been successfully combined with other effects such as the stretched bridging block to stabilize many unusual low‐coordinated phases. We have also proposed to release the packing frustration of minority blocks within the interface curvature by designing the architectures of minority blocks. The effect of released packing frustration of minority blocks is applied to drastically expand the region of spherical phases and thus to obtain significant regions of complex Frank‐Kasper phases. In brief, the self‐assembly of block copolymers can be largely controlled by tailoring the packing frustration of blocks, even leading to the formation of many unusual ordered phases. How do you get into this specific field? Could you please share some experiences with our readers?I got into the field of block copolymer self‐assembly when I started my postdoctoral research. After I finished my PhD study, I had two options. One option was to stay in Shanghai Jiao Tong University where I had already spent nearly 9 years. The other was to do postdoc. At that time, it was quite difficult for me to find good postdoctoral position. Actually, I just got one offer from a very small university, St. Francis Xavier University located at a small town in Canada that is actually more like a village since its population is less than 10000. Considering that the supervisor has a solid background and his research about the self‐assembly of block copolymer is of interest for me, I decided to take that postdoctoral position. Moreover, I really wanted to go abroad to open the mind and to improve my English. A few years after I got into this field, some senior professors told me that there was nothing worth doing anymore and suggested me to change to other fields. After thinking it over and discussing with my supervisor of my second postdoc, Prof. An‐Chang Shi, I decided to stay in this field. Soon after, we came up with some exciting ideas. With these ideas, we have obtained a series of interesting results that renew the understanding on the self‐assembly of block copolymers. When we are doing scientific research, we do not think “the grass always looks greener on the other side of the fence”.How do you supervise your students?I do not have very rich experience in supervising students. I supervise my students abiding by one main principle, that is, supervising each student in accordance with his/her aptitude.What is the most important personality for scientific research?There are many uncertainties in scientific research. In particular, we never know when great idea comes up in your brain. Great ideas are the most important for making outstanding achievements. Only if one keeps thinking and working hard can he/she come up with good ideas. Therefore, the most important personality for scientific research is perseverance.What are your hobbies?I like music and sports, both of which can relax me. Especially, I like to play basketball. When I play basketball, I only have the hoop in my eyes, so I can relax myself completely.How do you keep balance between research and family?For a person, family is always very important. Therefore, it is very essential for one to keep balance between research and family. For me, I do not think that there is a contradiction between staying with family and working. Since I was young, I have always paid great attention to the efficiency of studying or working, rather than the length of time. In addition, I really enjoy the time with my family, which makes me more focused when I work.Who influences you mostly in your life?In my life, many people have had important influences on me, including my family, my teachers, my friends, and so on. It is very hard to say who has the greatest influence on me. If I have to choose one, it should be my mother. I was the youngest child in the family. I have never been to kindergarten, I spent a lot of time with my mother during my childhood. Although my mother had almost no education, she taught me a lot of important principles to be a man. In addition, she is very hardworking and persevering, which influences me to work hard and persevere.

Evidence and consensus-based clinical practice guidelines for management of overweight and obesity in midlife women: An AIIMS-DST initiative.

Evidence and consensus-based clinical practice guidelines for management of overweight and obesity in midlife women: An AIIMS-DST initiative.