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With the rapid development of life science, laboratory animals play an important role in many fields, such as biomedicine. In recent years, the national reforms “to delegate power, streamline administration and optimize government services” continues deepen, the laboratory animals administrative departments have paid more attention to interim and post-event supervision, in which the safety management of laboratory animals is the key and challenging point in the supervision process. In this paper, the information regarding licenses for laboratory animals in Jiangsu, facility areas, animal production and usage, employees, and other information the past three years were introduced. Combined with legal administrative management in recent years, the potential safety risks in the production and use of laboratory animals were analyzed, such as risks in management systems, employees, facility operation, animal quality control, accidental injury and zoonosis, animal transportation, and waste disposal. Additionally, the current construction, daily management services, and the list of interim and post-event supervision of the laboratory animal safety management system were introduced. Based on this discussion, we proposed relevant safety management countermeasures and suggestions and provided support for further improvements to laboratory animal safety management.

This article investigates the administrative licensing data of laboratory animals in Jiangsu Province, summarizes the administrative licenses for laboratory animals in recent years, analyzes the status of the administrative management of laboratory animals in Jiangsu Province, and proposes corresponding countermeasures to provide a reference for the administration of laboratory animal industry in Jiangsu Province and other regions.

Mesoporous β-Ni(OH)2synthesized by a soft template method as a cathode material in a nickel based battery can provide higher specific discharge capacity in comparison with other micro/nanostructures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Mesoporous β-Ni(OH)2synthesized by a soft template method as a cathode material in a nickel based battery can provide higher specific discharge capacity in comparison with other micro/nanostructures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Mesoporous aluminum phosphate is described as possible candidate to substitute metal salts or other heterogeneous catalysts even in industrial applications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: Humans and robots are increasingly collaborating on complex tasks such as firefighting. As robots are becoming more autonomous, collaboration in human-robot teams should be combined with meaningful human control. Variable autonomy approaches can ensure meaningful human control over robots by satisfying accountability, responsibility, and transparency. To verify whether variable autonomy approaches truly ensure meaningful human control, the concept should be operationalized to allow its measurement. So far, designers of variable autonomy approaches lack metrics to systematically address meaningful human control. Methods: Therefore, this qualitative focus group ( n = 5 experts) explored quantitative operationalizations of meaningful human control during dynamic task allocation using variable autonomy in human-robot teams for firefighting. This variable autonomy approach requires dynamic allocation of moral decisions to humans and non-moral decisions to robots, using robot identification of moral sensitivity. We analyzed the data of the focus group using reflexive thematic analysis. Results: Results highlight the usefulness of quantifying the traceability requirement of meaningful human control, and how situation awareness and performance can be used to objectively measure aspects of the traceability requirement. Moreover, results emphasize that team and robot outcomes can be used to verify meaningful human control but that identifying reasons underlying these outcomes determines the level of meaningful human control. Discussion: Based on our results, we propose an evaluation method that can verify if dynamic task allocation using variable autonomy in human-robot teams for firefighting ensures meaningful human control over the robot. This method involves subjectively and objectively quantifying traceability using human responses during and after simulations of the collaboration. In addition, the method involves semi-structured interviews after the simulation to identify reasons underlying outcomes and suggestions to improve the variable autonomy approach., Competing Interests: The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest., (Copyright © 2024 Verhagen, Neerincx and Tielman.)