Facing the increasingly fierce international competition, it has been the core of higher education to explore how to cultivate college students with innovative ability. College students’ innovative ability is mainly composed of basic ability, innovative thinking and innovative actions. In conformity to the above composition, the cultivation pattern should include learning basic knowledge, train...

I am delighted to introduce this Special Issue of Inorganics; the first themed issue of the journal and one dedicated to Innovative Inorganic Synthesis. Synthesis is the crucial creative step by which new compounds are made. It is also the means by which important chemicals are formulated and processed from initial laboratory experiments to industrial scale production. Inorganic compounds demon...

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The Innovative Retail Laboratory (IRL) is an applicationoriented research laboratory of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) run in collaboration with the German retailer GLOBUS SB-Warenhaus Holding in St. Wendel. In this living lab, we conduct research in a wide range of different domains, mostly related to intelligent shopping assistance. Our demonstrators range from ...

'Creating an innovative department' as an objective implies further improvements in organization, function, and progression of a surgical unit active in patient care, research, and education. It is of prime importance to stress here the mutual benefits of patient care, research (the basis for future patient care) and education (the channel for training health care professionals in future patien...

The Institute of Food Technologists has issued this Scientific Status Summary to inform readers of recent innovations in food packaging materials.