Engineering

 Agricultural sensors, as the source of information in smart agriculture, are the core technology of smart agriculture and play a vital role in acquiring information and intelligent control, which is essential in promoting agricultural development. This special issue is aimed at agricultural sensors, gathering the latest research work in this area. The special issue focuses on five major themes, including agricultural envi#ronment sensors, animal and plant sensors, agricultural product quality and safety sensors, and miniaturization and chipization of agricultural sensors. The call for papers includes but is not limited to the following fields:  • Sensitive materials for agricultural sensors  • New sensing mechanisms for agricultural objects  • Intelligent signal processing of agricultural sensors  • Agricultural wireless sensor networks Manuscript submission information The submission portal will be available on 31-May-2023; The deadline for submission: 31-Dece...

 Wu Jiaming, Editorial Department of Engineering , Wuzhen Report (April 11, 2023) The Summit on Quality Development of Traditional Chinese Medicine in the New Era and the 2nd High-Quality Development Conference of Traditional Chinese Medicine was successfully held from April 10th to 12th, 2023 in the picturesque Wuzhen. This important event was sponsored by the Chinese Academy of Engineering. The conference brought together leaders of relevant departments, academicians, experts, and business representatives to discuss and exchange ideas on the theme of high-quality development of Traditional Chinese Medicine. The main topics that were focused on included evidence-based medicine, cross-disciplinary innovation, brand building, and industrial promotion. The Summit was a platform for driving innovation, intellectual development, and academic leadership, thus promoting the inheritance, innovation, and development of Traditional Chinese Medicine. "The Summit encouraged us to strive towa...

Myocardial infarction is accompanied by abnormal glucose and lipid metabolism in most patients, but its mechanism remains unclear. In this special issue on glucose and lipid metabolism, researchers report that a new cardiomyocyte pyroptosis-associated lncRNA (CPAL) is an important regulatory molecule of myocardial glucose and lipid metabolism dysfunction, and that targeted inhibition of the CPAL-mediated NFκB–caspase-1 signaling pathway improves glucose and lipid metabolism dysfunction and inhibits cardiomyocyte pyroptosis after myocardial infarction. This finding may promote the research and development of drugs for the treatment of myocardial inflammation and disorder of glucose and lipid metabolism after myocardial infarction. Yafei Wu, Guijun Qin, Guixia Wang, Libin Liu, Bing Chen, Qingbo Guan, Zhongshang Yuan, Xu Hou, Ling Gao, Chao Xu, Haiqing Zhang, Xu Zhang, Qiu Li, Yongfeng Song, Fei Jing, Shizhan Ma, Shanshan Shao, Meng Zhao, Qingling Guo, Nanwei Tong, Hongyan Zhao, Xiaomin X...