6th Congress Research Articles

Title page: 16th Congress of the Portuguese Transplantation Society and the 20th Luso-Brazilian Transplantation Congress

Title page: 16th Congress of the Portuguese Transplantation Society and the 20th Luso-Brazilian Transplantation Congress

Vietnam's participation in political innovation and international integration

Political renewal and international integration are two strategic tasks, two issues with reciprocal dialectical relationship, promote each other in the process of realizing the common goal of building and developing the country according to the socialist orientation in Vietnam. The purpose of the article is to clarify the relationship between political reform and international integration in Vietnam over the past time. Highlight achievements in the process of political reform and international integration in Vietnam; thereby presenting the problem that Vietnam faces in resolving the relationship between political reform and international integration today. Based on the analyzed results, solutions are proposed for resolving the relationship between political reform and international integration in Vietnam, including meeting the requirements of ensuring political stability in Vietnam in the coming period according to the 13th Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam. The relationship between political innovation and international integration is a dialectical one; is a major relationship that needs to be addressed synchronously and systematically in Vietnam. With the achievements of the Doi Moi in the process of political reform and international integration over the past time, it has been confirmed that the leadership line of the Communist Party of Vietnam is correct and suitable for the times. In the coming period, Vietnam will continue to offer solutions to enhance its position in the international arena, creating new positions and forces for this country.

중국 반독점법 2022년 개정법의 실체법적 개정사항

On June 24, 2022, at the 35th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress, the amendment to the Anti-monopoly Law of the People's Republic of China was passed. It was decided to go into effect on August 1st. This is the first amendment to China's Anti-monopoly Law since its implementation in 2008. A new purpose was proposed in maintaining an orderly market system. This amendment adds innovation encouragement to the legislative purpose of the Anti-monopoly Law, in line with Xi Jinping's leadership's keynote on state affairs, which has emphasized technological innovation. It is specified in this law that it is responsible. In the 2018 central organizational reorganization, the newly established State Administration for Market Regulation, the Anti-monopoly Bureau, which was in charge of anti-monopoly work that had been distributed among the Ministry of Commerce, Development and Development, and the General Administration of Industry and Trade, was separated into a vice-ministerial level organization and upgraded to the State Anti-monopoly Bureau. The amendment bans monopoly, exclusion, and competition restrictions that abuse administrative power, and strengthens the level of punishment, such as significantly increasing the level of fines and linking antitrust penalties with credit records. Clarify the criteria for screening and classifying managers to strengthen screening of managers related to the national economy and livelihood, while introducing a safe harbor rule to exclude managers from sanctions if they prove that their market share is lower than the anti-monopoly standards made with In addition, managers who provide “substantial help” in concluding and implementing monopoly agreements are also subject to sanctions. The amendment is a review of China's anti-monopoly law enforcement over the past 10 years during the deliberation of the revision of the Chinese anti-monopoly law, and can be seen as a summary of legal practice experience. This is a demand inherent in the development of China's socialist market economy, and can help meet the objective demand of the new development pattern. It is conducive to introducing Chinese anti-monopoly law supervision and strengthening anti-monopoly law enforcement, which will be scientifically and objectively conducive.

Once again on the roman military equipment in Barbaricum near the Roman Dacia

This paper is an up-to-date research on the Roman military equipment found in Barbaricum beyond the Dacian limes previously dealt with in a lecture published in 1999 in the Proceedings of the 17th Congress of the Frontier Studies. The discussion of other 10 items gave the opportunity to draw additional conclusions and find more evidence for the already made statements. So, nine pieces (nos. 1-9) were discovered in the autochthonous settlements concentrated in the central part of the historical region of Wallachia (Fig. 1). Among them there are only two weapon accessories (nos. 4 and 8) and the rest of the items (nos. 1-3, 5-7, 9) are belt and baldric fittings. All the military equipment pieces date from the end of the 2nd century AD until c. AD 260. The origin of the items found at Mătăsaru (nos. 7-9) is almost certain in Roman Dacia. The others (nos. 1-6) discovered along the roads linking the southern Danubian bank with the main part of Roman Dacia placed inside the Carpathian Mountains probably originate in Moesia Inferior. The earlier piece (no. 10) unearthed in the Vandal settlement at Medieșu Aurit was obviously imported from Dacia Porolissensis. Both weapon accessories belong to types distributed throughout the Roman Empire. No. 6 is a representative of the eastern variant of the ring-buckles met in Syria, Dacia and Moesia and the rest of the belt and baldric fittings belong to variants diffused only in the Danubian provinces.

Abstracts of the 6th World Parkinson Congress, July 4-7, 2023, Barcelona, Spain.

Abstracts of the 6th World Parkinson Congress, July 4-7, 2023, Barcelona, Spain.

Dinamika Partai Nahdlatul Ulama dalam Konstelasi Politik di Kabupaten Cirebon Tahun 1952-1955

Nahdlatul Ulama is an Islamic organization founded by traditional ulama in Surabaya in 1926. During its development, NU had implemented organizational development by establishing NU branches throughout Indonesia, one of which was Cirebon succeeding in holding the 6th Congress in 1931. NU's existence in Cirebon livened up the organization exchange in this area because in the previous years religious organizations such as SI and PUI had existed. At its inception, NU only focused on religion and education, but in its development, NU has participated in national political movements. The aim of this research is to describe the history and development of the NU branch of the Cirebon Regency. Methods conducted in this research are historical methods, namely heuristics, criticism, interpretation and historiography. The results of this study reveal that a number of important facts that the presence of the local kiai determines the extent to which NU can develop and even become the main actor in NU's victory in the 1955 elections in Cirebon Regency as the winning party and the only branch in West Java that won the most votes. Kata Kunci: Cirebon, Nahdlatul Ulama, Islamic party

Abstracts of the 19th World Congress of Basic & Clinical Pharmacology 2023.

Abstracts of the 19th World Congress of Basic & Clinical Pharmacology 2023.

Statement: Multisectoral actions to build trust at the local and community level to promote vaccine acceptance

On 12 September 2022, attendees of the 16th Vaccine Congress in Riva del Garda, Italy were invited to attend a roundtable session entitled multi-sectoral actions to build trust at the local and community level to promote vaccine acceptance to participate in a discussion aimed at defining strategies and recommendations to support efforts that build community vaccine confidence. Presenters from the Vaccine Confidence Project and the New York Vaccine Literacy Campaign shared research and data point on the current state of vaccine confidence worldwide as well as global examples of “success stories” to prompt discussion. The group’s key recommendations include prioritizing multi-sectoral responses and trust-building through policy and legislation, engaging with trusted local stakeholders, improving convenience, combating misinformation and empowering healthcare professionals to improve vaccine confidence. This report summarizes the considerations, recommendations, and suggested strategies discussed during the session, as prepared by the presenters.

Mixture regression modelling based on the shape mixtures of skew Laplace normal distribution

Modelling skewness and heavy-tailedness in heterogeneous data sets is a compelling problem, particularly in regression analysis. The main goal of this study is to propose a mixture regression model based on the shape mixtures of skew Laplace normal (SMSLN) distribution for modelling skewness and heavy-tailedness simultaneously. The SMSLN distribution has been introduced by Doğru and Arslan [Finite mixtures of skew Laplace normal distributions with random skewness. 11th International Statistics Congress (ISC2019); Bodrum/Turkey; Finite mixtures of skew Laplace normal distributions with random skewness. Comput Stat. 2021;36(1):423–447] as a flexible extension of the skew Laplace normal (SLN) distribution and includes an extra shape parameter that controls skewness and kurtosis. The maximum likelihood estimators for the parameters of interest with the help of the expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm are obtained. The performance of the proposed mixture model is demonstrated via a simulation study and a real data example.

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Urban Governance Research in China (2012-2022): Progress and Reflections

Since the 18th Party Congress, urban governance has gained more and more academic attention. By combing through the Chinese urban governance research literature in the last decade (2012-2022), this paper aims to describe the current status of research in this field and point out the development direction of future research. After screening 519 core Chinese journals, a comprehensive analysis of qualitative and quantitative methods was conducted with the help of the software Cite Space. The results of the analysis show that, in terms of the construction of "invisible academy" and academic community, the participation in the field of urban governance research is on the rise, but the construction of cooperative network of researchers and research institutions needs to be improved. In terms of research themes, the number of theoretical and motivational studies has increased significantly and accounted for a large number of studies, while value-level studies have received less attention and have limited content; in terms of research types, there are more exploratory and descriptive studies and fewer explanatory studies. Overall, during this decade, the academic community of urban governance research has been gradually improved, the research themes have been refined, and the research types have been enriched. However, there is still a need to further improve the value-level and interpretive research on urban governance and to enhance interdisciplinary communication.

Can Executives with Overseas Experience Effectively Improve the Quality of Internal Control in Companies

The report of the 20th Party Congress emphasizes the importance of "attracting talents" and the importance of introducing high-quality talents. The relationship between returnee executives, as the key target of talent introduction, and the significance of internal control in enterprises has been little studied in the literature, and the relationship between the two needs to be further explored as internal control has reached a critical stage in China. This paper selects data of A-share listed companies in Shanghai and Shenzhen from 2011-2021, and explains the relationship between overseas experience of executives and the quality of internal control of enterprises using theories such as branding theory and principal-agent theory, and finds that: overseas experience of executives is significantly and positively related to the quality of internal control of enterprises, and the quality of internal control of enterprises can be improved through two paths: "accelerating the digital transformation of enterprises and suppressing financing constraints". The study found that the overseas experience of executives is significantly and positively related to the quality of internal control, and the quality of internal control can be improved through two paths: "accelerating the digital transformation of enterprises and curbing financing constraints. Further study finds that the effect of returnee executives on internal control quality is more pronounced in state-owned, highly competitive and larger enterprises. This paper enriches the literature on returnee executives and internal control, and inspires companies to pay attention to the overseas experience of executives in order to improve the quality of internal control and respond to the national strategy of "strengthening the country with talents".

Study on the Impact of Financial Decentralization on China's Green Welfare

The 20th Party Congress pointed out that development should be planned on the basis of the harmonious coexistence of human beings and nature. A reasonable allocation of financial resources is a crucial guarantee for achieving the growth of green welfare. This paper empirically examines the impact of financial decentralization on green welfare based on panel data of 30 Chinese provinces from 2005 to 2019. Results demonstrate that: (1) Financial decentralization significantly promotes regional green welfare, and the effect is more significant in the eastern region than in the central and western region; (2) In terms of specific sub-welfare dimensions, financial decentralization can significantly foster economic welfare, social welfare and environmental welfare, but not resource welfare; (3) Furthermore, political incentive cannot enhance the contribution of financial decentralization to green welfare, and fiscal incentive can significantly reduce the contribution. The findings of this paper provide a new reference for deepening the financial decentralization system reform, ameliorating the assessment system of local governments and upgrading the level of green welfare of Chinese residents.

Using credible failure rates for SIS ensures process safety: A summary of the panel discussion

AbstractOn March 13, 2023, in conjunction with the 19th Global Congress on Process Safety, four of the authors gathered to participate in a panel session. The discussion centered on the premise that many individual device failure rates published by some manufacturers and some certifying agencies are deemed—by members of the panel, many safety instrumented system (SIS) designers, and practicing engineers in the field—to be too low. This is especially true for mechanical final elements. A SIS designed using these unrealistic failure rates often results in estimated safety integrity levels (SILs) for the individual safety instrumented functions (SIFs) comprising the SIS, which would be achievable only under the most optimistic assumptions regarding installation, operation, and maintenance. These estimated SILs are unlikely to be achieved in the field. The panel discussed the underlying causes of this serious safety issue and proposed some possible solutions. This paper summarizes the panel discussion among four of the authors. Relevant graphics shown during the discussion and some panelists' quotations are included.

No Turning Back? Assessing China’s Intent to Use Force to Resolve the Taiwan Issue After 2018

This paper collects and analyzes the speeches of top Chinese leaders on Taiwan, the relevant remarks of Taiwan-related ministries and commissions, and important documents concerning Taiwan. It takes the visit of U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan as an example to observe China’s current policy toward Taiwan and its intent to employ force. This paper argues that although the outside world has repeatedly emphasized that “Taiwan is the most dangerous place on earth” and that China will invade Taiwan by force, peaceful unification is still the main axis of its strategy toward Taiwan. Military force is an avenue for China to force unification and prevent international interference in the Taiwan issue. The results of our analysis of Taiwan-related remarks by top Chinese leaders and relevant ministries and commissions are also highly consistent with the political report of the 20th Party Congress, and there are two noteworthy points. First, China has linked “opposing independence” with “opposing interference by external forces” and the principle of “never renouncing the right to use force over Taiwan.” From Beijing’s perspective, the Taiwan issue is no longer one simply involving cross-strait relations but is embedded in China’s domestic national rejuvenation and the strategic competition between itself and the United States. Moreover, Xi Jinping is the most critical factor affecting cross–strait relations. As a strong leader with a historic mission, how Xi regards the Taiwan issue will affect both the destiny of Taiwan and the security of the entire Asia-Pacific region.

Professor Johannes Vester, President of the Academy for Multidisciplinary Traumatology: Adapted Interview from the 20th AMN Congress (May 12-13), Krakow, Poland.

Professor Johannes Vester, President of the Academy for Multidisciplinary Traumatology: Adapted Interview from the 20th AMN Congress (May 12-13), Krakow, Poland.

Errata: "Stability in the Taiwan Strait after the 20th Party Congress of the Chinese Communist Party"

Errata: "Stability in the Taiwan Strait after the 20th Party Congress of the Chinese Communist Party"

Xi Jinping’s Consolidation of Power at the 20th Party Congress: Implications for Chinese Foreign Policy

The 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in October 2022 secured Xi Jinping’s third term as General Secretary and secured a team of supporters amid socioeconomic woes and increasingly hostile global circumstances. While leadership matters in all political systems, it matters much more in totalitarian and authoritarian ones. Political leaders in democracies are constrained by electoral cycles, term limits, and approval ratings, but the leaders of the PRC’s single-party system that emphasizes discipline, hierarchy, and democratic centralism operate relatively unchecked by bureaucracy, opposition forces, or public opinion. Its leaders possess the ultimate decision-making authority in national security and strategic policies (Zhao, 2022, p. 5).The consolidation of Xi’s power has far-reaching implications for China’s foreign policy. As a feared, sycophantically revered, and ruthless emperor confident in his country’s military power and economic clout, Xi feels equipped to accomplish his mission of making China great again. He has also inherited a pervasive insecurity of pushback from Western powers that threatens his authoritarian rule. He has therefore upheld the security of the regime beyond Deng Xiaoping and his decades of prioritizing growth. Proactively stifling any opposition to his rule and cracking down on any hint of a “color revolution” at home in connection with foreign forces, Xi has strengthened the military and reorganized the economy in preparation for a possible showdown with the United States. He has required Chinese diplomats to act as “wolf warriors” in diplomatic battles and fight criticisms of the regime even at the cost of escalating international tensions. While his team of supporters has maximized his power to implement his policies, this has also prevented his colleagues from counseling against any mistakes they may anticipate or discover. Intentionally or not, he has minimized opportunities to correct his mistakes and increased the stakes and the risks they present, raising the potential for his country to become embroiled in a foreign adventure of no return.

Abstracts from the 20th Congress of the European Society for Dermatology and Psychiatry.

Abstracts from the 20th Congress of the European Society for Dermatology and Psychiatry.

Changes in political discourse related to technology in the reports of the 20th and 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China: A critical discourse analysis based on corpus linguistics

The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) provides important guidance for the country's future work in the next few years. Understanding this report is of great significance for us to comprehend the current state of the country's work and its future plans. Therefore, this study, based on the knowledge of corpus linguistics and the theory of critical discourse analysis, uses the language analysis tools WordSmith6.0 and LancsBox6.0 to investigate the discourse related to technology in the text of the reports of the 20th and 19th CPC National Congress, and analyze the construction and changes of the discourse of "talents," "technology," and "innovation" in the past five years and in the future, in order to explore the domestic and international background of China at this important historical stage, as well as the focus of government work.