33rd International Conference Research Articles

Frontiers in plant RNA research in ICAR2023: from lab to innovative agriculture.

The recent growth in global warming, soil contamination, and climate instability have widely disturbed ecosystems, and will have a significant negative impact on the growth of plants that produce grains, fruits and woody biomass. To conquer this difficult situation, we need to understand the molecular bias of plant environmental responses and promote development of new technologies for sustainable maintenance of crop production. Accumulated molecular biological data have highlighted the importance of RNA-based mechanisms for plant stress responses. Here, we report the most advanced plant RNA research presented in the 33rd International Conference on Arabidopsis Research (ICAR2023), held as a hybrid event on June 5-9, 2023 in Chiba, Japan, and focused on "Arabidopsis for Sustainable Development Goals". Six workshops/concurrent sessions in ICAR2023 targeted plant RNA biology, and many RNA-related topics could be found in other sessions. In this meeting report, we focus on the workshops/concurrent sessions targeting RNA biology, to share what is happening now at the forefront of plant RNA research.

Unheard voices speak up: the Arabidopsis community and the representation of researchers from the Global South.

Abstract In June 2023, the Arabidopsis community met in Makuhari, Chiba, Japan, for the 33rd International Conference in Arabidopsis Research (ICAR). The meeting, at which more than 1200 researchers gathered, spanned the course of 5 days showcasing three keynote lectures, six plenary sessions, 11 workshops, and 33 concurrent sessions, in addition to two poster sessions.

Complexities, similarities, and differences in circadian regulation in the green lineage: A session concerning circadian regulation in unpredictable environments, at the 33rd International Conference of Arabidopsis Research, Makuhari Messe, Chiba, Japan, 5-9 June 2023.

Complexities, similarities, and differences in circadian regulation in the green lineage: A session concerning circadian regulation in unpredictable environments, at the 33rd International Conference of Arabidopsis Research, Makuhari Messe, Chiba, Japan, 5-9 June 2023.

The 33rd International Conference on Arabidopsis Research (ICAR2023).

The 33rd International Conference on Arabidopsis Research (ICAR2023) was held at Makuhari Messe International Conference Hall in Chiba prefecture from June 5 to 9, 2023. This annual conference, which rotates among hosts in North America, Asia-Oceania, and Europe, covers the full range of plant biology research involving Arabidopsis and other plant species. The conference hosted more than 1200 participants, including approximately 800 international attendees from 42 countries (or regions), and featured about 900 oral and poster presentations. Reflecting the conference theme, "Arabidopsis for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)," there were numerous exemplary presentations regarding basic plant science using Arabidopsis and translational research conducted to achieve SDGs by exploiting the knowledge gained from Arabidopsis to improve crop production. The conference concluded on a high note, with more than 99% of survey respondents expressing their general satisfaction with ICAR2023. This report aims to summarize the organization, objectives, and outcomes of the conference.

A kernel Stein test for comparing latent variable models

Abstract We propose a kernel-based nonparametric test of relative goodness of fit, where the goal is to compare two models, both of which may have unobserved latent variables, such that the marginal distribution of the observed variables is intractable. The proposed test generalizes the recently proposed kernel Stein discrepancy (KSD) tests (Liu et al., Proceedings of the 33rd international conference on machine learning (pp. 276–284); Chwialkowski et al., (2016), In Proceedings of the 33rd international conference on machine learning (pp. 2606–2615); Yang et al., (2018), In Proceedings of the 35th international conference on machine learning (pp. 5561–5570)) to the case of latent variable models, a much more general class than the fully observed models treated previously. The new test, with a properly calibrated threshold, has a well-controlled type-I error. In the case of certain models with low-dimensional latent structures and high-dimensional observations, our test significantly outperforms the relative maximum mean discrepancy test, which is based on samples from the models and does not exploit the latent structure.

Guest Editorial Special Section on the IEEE 33rd International Conference on Microelectronic Test Structures (ICMTS)

This special section of IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing presents extended versions of papers originally presented as part of the IEEE 33 <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">rd</sup> International Conference on Microelectronic Test Structures (ICMTS) which was hosted at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Originally planned to take place at the University’s South Hall Complex in April 2020, the impact of the global pandemic led to the difficult decision to move to a fully virtual conference held between 4 <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">th</sup> – 18 <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">th</sup> May 2020. The guest editors for this special section, who were honoured to act as the General Chair and Technical Chair of the conference, would like to thank all of those involved in making the virtual conference a success, not least the digital events team from the IEEE who made it possible.

Advances in Theory and Applications of Artificial Intelligence

The 33rd International Conference on Industrial, Engineering, and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems was held in Kitakyushu, Japan on 22 to 25 September 2020. This report provides an overview and summary of the conference.

The 33rd International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent (2019)

The 33rd International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent (2019)

Bringing IHL Home: Guidelines on the National Implementation of International Humanitarian Law

In December 2019, the 33rd International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent (International Conference) adopted Resolution 1 (33IC/19/R1), entitled “Bringing IHL Home: A Road Map for Better National Implementation of International Humanitarian Law” (Bringing IHL Home Resolution).

Combined Power Ratio Calculation, Hadamard Transform and Least Mean Squares Algorithm for Channel Mismatch Calibration in Time-Interleaved ADCs

This paper presents a method for all-digital background calibration of multiple channel mismatches including offset, gain and timing mismatches in time-interleaved analog-to-digital converters (TIADCs). The average technique is used to remove offset mismatch at each channel. The gain mismatch is calibrated by calculating the power ratio of the sub-ADC over the reference ADC. The timing skew mismatch is calibrated by using Hadamard transform for error correction and LMS for timing mismatch estimation. The performance improvement of TIADCs employing these techniques is demonstrated through numerical simulations. Besides, achievement results on the field-programmable gate array (FPGA) hardware have demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed techniques.&#x0D; KeywordsTime-interleaved analog-to-digital converter (TIADC), channel mismatches, all-digital background calibration&#x0D; References[1] Melamed and S. 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33rd international mammalian genome conference: meeting highlights.

Scientists from 12 countries met at the International Mammalian Genome Conference (IMGC) to share advances in mammalian genetics and genomics research. The event was held in Strasbourg, France and represents the city’s second time hosting the IMGC. A diverse attendance of pre-doctoral and post-doctoral trainees, young investigators, established researchers, clinicians, bioinformaticians, and computational biologists enjoyed a rich scientific program of 63 oral presentations, 65 posters, and 5 workshops in the fields of epigenetics, system genetics, developmental biology, cancer, human disease modeling, technical advances, and bioinformatics. This report presents selected highlights of this meeting which illustrate how recent advances in mammalian genetic approaches have improved our ability to decipher complex biological mechanisms.

The 33rd International Conference of the European Council for Modelling and Simulation

The 33rd International Conference of the European Council for Modelling and Simulation

33rd International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent, Geneva, 9-12 December 2019 People not politics: Reflections on the 33rd International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent

The International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent (International Conference) is the supreme deliberative body of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement (the Movement). Established in 1867, it is a global forum that highlights the privileged dialogue and relationship between the components of the Movement (namely the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), and 191 National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (National Societies)) and States Parties to the Geneva Conventions. Together, these bodies examine and decide upon humanitarian matters of common interest and any other related matters.

Guest Editors’ Introduction to the Special Section on the 33rd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2017)

The papers in this special section were presented at the 33rd International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE 2017, that was held in San Diego, California, during April 19-22, 2017.

Minimizing Ratio of Monotone Non-submodular Functions

In this paper, we investigate the problem of minimizing the ratio of normalized non-negative monotone non-submodular set function f and normalized non-negative monotone set function g. We take advantage of the greedy technique and get a performance guarantee depending on the generalized curvature and inverse generalized curvature of f, as well as the submodularity ratio of g. Our results generalize the works of Bai et al. (Algorithms for optimizing the ratio of submodular functions. In: Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Machine Learning, 2016) and Qian et al. (Optimizing ratio of monotone set functions. In: Proceedings of the 26th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2017).

Software Maintenance and Evolution and Automated Software Engineering

This issue’s column reports on the 33rd International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution and 32nd International Conference on Automated Software Engineering. Topics include flaky tests, technical debt, QA bots, and regular expressions.

33rd International Conference of The Polymer Processing Society (PPS-33)

33rd International Conference of The Polymer Processing Society (PPS-33)

33rd International Conference on Digital Printing Technologies (NIP)

33rd International Conference on Digital Printing Technologies (NIP)

33rd International Conference on Digital Printing Technologies (NIP)

33rd International Conference on Digital Printing Technologies (NIP)

Introduction to the 33rd international conference on logic programming special issue

This special issue of Theory and Practice of Logic Programming (TPLP) contains the regular papers accepted for presentation at the 33rd International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP 2017), held in Melbourne, Australia from the 28th of August to the 1st of September, 2017. ICLP 2017 was colocated with the 23rd International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP 2017) and the 20th International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing (SAT 2017). Since the first conference held in Marseille in 1982, ICLP has been the premier international event for presenting research in logic programming.