Towards Verifiable Federated Unlearning: Framework, Challenges, and The Road Ahead

The Road Ahead

This abstract accompanies the closing presentation of the IMAGE 2022 'Recent Advances and the Road Ahead' (RARA) Special Session. It is authored by the session organizers who invited a diverse group of speakers to the special session to make it an informative and inspiring event that can help with providing a positive perspective of the future to our exploration geophysics community. It is their hope that providing a positive outlook at a time of rapid change and disruption of our ways of working will be helpful. While there is no simple path towards a prosperous and meaningful future for all of us, there are many opportunities for those who embrace the concept of exploration as a relentless search for the discovery of new solutions to both old and new challenges.

BackgroundThere is a need for psychosocial interventions for men with prostate cancer to promote adaptive coping with the challenges and distress associated with diagnosis, treatment and recovery. In addition, interventions are needed that help to overcome barriers to psychosocial treatment such as limited face-to-face psychosocial support services, a shortage of adequately trained professionals, geographical distance, perceived and personal stigma and a preference for consumer-centric and self-directed learning. My Road Ahead is an online cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) intervention for prostate cancer. This protocol describes a randomised controlled trial (RCT) that will evaluate the efficacy of this online intervention alone, the intervention in combination with a moderated online forum, and the moderated online forum alone.Methods/designThis study utilises a RCT design with three groups receiving: 1) the 6-module My Road Ahead intervention alone; 2) the My Road Ahead intervention plus a moderated online forum; and 3) the moderated online forum alone. It is expected that 150 men with localised prostate cancer will be recruited into the RCT. Online measures will assess men’s psychological distress as well as sexual and relationship adjustment at baseline, post-intervention, 3 month follow-up and 6 month follow-up. The study is being conducted in Australia and participants will be recruited from April 2012 to Feb 2014. The primary aim of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of My Road Ahead in reducing psychological distress.DiscussionTo our knowledge, My Road Ahead is the first self-directed online psychological intervention developed for men who have been treated for localised prostate cancer. The RCT will assess the efficacy of this intervention in improving psychological well-being, sexual satisfaction, relationship satisfaction and overall quality of life. If successful, this intervention could provide much needed support to men receiving treatment for localised prostate cancer in a highly accessible manner.Trial registrationAustralian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry Identifier: ACTRN12611000278932

The road ahead always starts from where it began. For the field of interventional cardiology, the road began 30 years ago this past September, when a 38-year-old physician treated a 38-year-old man for symptomatic coronary artery disease. After this “disruptive” experience, using “disruptive” technology, by a “disruptive” young physician, the landscape has never been the same. Andreas Gruentzig, that physician, revolutionized the practice of modern cardiovascular care, not just with the introduction of percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty, but even more with the concept that a person could work safely in an awake patient within a vascular tree to achieve a specific goal. This sentinel event spurred the development of an extensive family tree of discipline, including intravascular ultrasound; angioscopy; percutaneous treatment of structural heart disease, including among others valvular heart disease, hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy, and atrial fibrillation; ablation; and treatment of carotid and peripheral arterial disease and, more recently, stroke. In addition, Dr Gruentzig can be said to have encouraged the development of less invasive surgical revascularization approaches, such as “mid-cab” coronary bypass graft surgery. Now that we have broken the barrier of working therapeutically within the vascular tree, the road ahead will include continual assignments and miniaturization of techniques for identification, prevention, and treatment of disease. That road ahead will only be limited by our ability to imagine and create and then our ability to document improved outcome for society, in both individuals and as a whole.

Medical Laboratory Accreditation - The Road Ahead

The World Bank's report, Adjustment in Africa, Reforms, Results, and the Road Ahead (hereafter A in A), provides the most comprehensive data so far on policy changes and results for adjusting Sub‐Sahara African countries. The report selectively uses data to prove that adjustment is working, payoffs to policy reforms are large, and the region is on the road to a sustained, poverty‐reducing growth path. A re‐evaluation of the report's own data suggests that there is sufficient evidence to be concerned about the sustainablity of adjustment results. After many years of experience with adjustment policies, growth rates are still low, as are saving and investment rates — even for the strong adjusters. Modest GDP, agricultural and industrial growth rates, combined with a deterioration in social services all cast doubt on the region's prospect for checking the growth of poverty before the next two or three decades.

The purpose of this chapter is to summarize in a homogeneous way the previous chapters. The summaries are structured in a way to formulate the basic messages with headlines, followed by the summary of each chapter. At the end of each summary, the essential conclusions are given under the heading “Lessons Learnt. In a general synthesis from all chapters, nine golden rules are formulated in the section “The Road Ahead”. Those rules should give the reader in a concise form the essentials for safety and health in the society, corporations, SMEs and individuals. While Chapters 3 and 4.3 deal with health and safety mainly in the context of environmental issues, the summaries and the nine golden rules are rather made in the perspective of occupational health and safety.

Clinical ThyroidologyVol. 31, No. 12 Thyroid CancerThe Long Road Ahead: A Phase 2 Study of Pembrolizumab Combined with Chemoradiotherapy as Initial Treatment for Anaplastic Thyroid CancerJochen H. LorchJochen H. LorchDepartment of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, U.S.A.Member, International Oncology Thyroid Group (ITOG)Search for more papers by this authorPublished Online:9 Dec 2019https://doi.org/10.1089/ct.2019;31.537-539AboutSectionsView articleView Full TextPDF/EPUB Permissions & CitationsPermissionsDownload CitationsTrack CitationsAdd to favorites Back To Publication ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmail View articleFiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Volume 31Issue 12Dec 2019 InformationCopyright 2019 American Thyroid Association, Inc.To cite this article:Jochen H. Lorch.The Long Road Ahead: A Phase 2 Study of Pembrolizumab Combined with Chemoradiotherapy as Initial Treatment for Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer.Clinical Thyroidology.Dec 2019.537-539.http://doi.org/10.1089/ct.2019;31.537-539Published in Volume: 31 Issue 12: December 9, 2019PDF download

The Journey to Teaching Online: A Case Study of Faculty Preparation and Experiences in Online Teaching

How often have futurologists ever succeeded in making accurate global predictions? Bell’s utopian vision of a leisure-laden ‘Post-Industrial’ society now seems hopelessly naive; Fukuyama’s ‘End of history’ thesis was arguably just a fleeting Reaganite delusion about the stabilization of post Cold War politics. Notwithstanding the failure of such widely hailed prophesies, and despite the lack of any well-attested laws about the historical development of information technologies, a brazenly upbeat futurology pervades many debates on new IT. This is most obviously the case in Bill Gates’ recently updated The Road Ahead. To challenge Gates’ prognostications about the future of information technologies, I will argue for the importance of users (vis-à-vis producers) in the social shaping and ‘consumption’ of IT, especially the power of many (if not necessarily all) such users to resist falling into futures that others prescribe for them. I contend that the non-passivity of IT users undermines the cogency of any claims about the inevitability of technological change, and helps to explain why so many past ‘futures’ of IT have never fully materialized.

A Note: National Mission on Libraries – Road Ahead

I. Introduction to Strategic Alliances 1. The Alliance Puzzle: Known Terrain, Boxes, and the Road Ahead - Oded Shenkar and Jeffrey J. Reuer II. Theoretical Foundations 2. Strategic Alliances: A Survey of Issues from an Entrepreneurial Perspective - Mark Casson and Michael J. Mol 3. How Alliances Reshape Competition - Benjamin Gomes-Casseres 4. Opportunism in Cooperative Alliances: Conditions and Solutions - Yadong Luo 5. Understanding Partnering Processes and Outcomes: The Contribution of Evolutionary Theory - Prashant Kale and Maurizio Zollo 6. What Does a Real Options Perspective Add to the Understanding of Strategic Alliances? - Anju Seth and Tailan Chi 7. Networks of Strategic Alliances - Gordon Walker III. Alliance Management: Opening the Black Boxes 8. Structuring and Restructuring Alliances: A Theory-Based Process Model - Stephen Tallman and Anupama Phene 9. Alliance Contractual Design - Africa Arino and Jeffrey J. Reuer 10. Interorganizational Trust - Akbar Zaheer and Jared Harris 11. Exploring Dark Corners: An Agenda for Organizational Behavior Research in Alliance Contexts - Kwok Leung and Steven White 12. Alliance Forms and Human Resources Issues - Randall S. Schuler and Ibraiz Tarique 13. Learning and Knowledge Development in Alliances - Marjorie A. Lyles and Siegfried P. Gudergan IV. Cross-Border Collaborations 14. Alliances and International Business Theory - Andrew Delios 15. Nurturing Successful Alliances Across Boundaries - Piero Morosini 16. International Joint Ventures in Emerging Economies: Past Drivers and Emerging Trends - Jaideep Anand and Prashant Kale V. Nontraditional Strategic Alliances 17. Alliances in the New Economy - Lalit Manral and Kathryn Rudie Harrigan 18. Entrepreneurial Alliances and Networks - R. Duane Ireland, Michael A. Hitt, and Justin W. Webb 19. Strange Bedfellows: Alliances Between Corporations and Nonprofits - Ted London, Dennis A. Rondinelli, and Hugh O'Neill VI. Alliance Research Methodologies 20. Research Methods in Alliances - Arvind Parkhe 21. Research Outside the Core: Opportunities in Alternative Approaches and Methods for Studying Cooperative Alliances - Jane Salk and Davina Vora 22. Modeling and Measuring the Performance of Alliances - Paul Olk 23. The Legitimacy of Messiness: Interdisciplinary Research, Systems of Innovation, and Strategic Alliances - Mark de Rond and Sonja Marjanovic Index About the Editors About the Authors

Background and ObjectivesInjuries and violence remain leading causes of avoidable death and disability across Europe, yet their burden is often underestimated in public health agendas. The Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion Section of the European Public Health Association (EUPHA INJ) is dedicated to strengthening injury prevention within European and translate the evidence into global health policy. This presentation outlines the mission of the section, highlights achievements to date, and sets priorities for the future.MethodsThe section’s work and strategic focus is structured around four pillars: strengthening surveillance and data systems; translating evidence into practice across healthcare and non-healthcare sectors; promoting cross-sectoral collaboration; and advocating for stronger integration of injury prevention into public health. Activities include pre-conference workshops, policy briefs, and collaborations with partners at EU and global level. Looking ahead, future priorities are aligned with the European Commission’s strategies and the WHO Global Action Plan for Violence and Injury Prevention (2022–2030). These include: harmonization of injury surveillance, embedding injury prevention into preparedness frameworks, equity in access to interventions and trauma care, and harnessing digital innovations such as real-time surveillance. Sustained political and financial commitment is considered as essential.ConclusionsEUPHA’s Injury Section plays a key role in ensuring that injury prevention and reducing the disease’s burden in the national healthcare systems, and becomes a cornerstone of Europe’s public health security.Key Messages• Harmonized data, equity, and digital innovation are central to future injury prevention.• Aligning EU priorities with WHO’s global action plan creates a coherent agenda to reduce injuries by 2030.

Chapter 10 - The Road Ahead and Other Thoughts

This article introduces four papers that were presented at a payments conference “Retail Payments: Mapping Out the Road Ahead,” which was held at De Nederlandsche Bank in Amsterdam in April of 2016. These papers focus on various behavioral aspects of consumers and merchants in their choice and acceptance of payment instruments and payment activity. End-user behavior has implications for how the retail payment landscape is likely to evolve and, therefore, will need to be considered by policymakers charged with overseeing the development of retail payments.