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In Memoriam: XU Hong (1963-2021)

1. The Chinese Journal of International Law mourns the passing on 7 March 2021 of Ambassador Dr. XU Hong, an Honorary Editor of this Journal and Executive Vice-President of the Chinese Society of International Law, formerly Ambassador of China to the Netherlands and Permanent Representative of China to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, and Director-General of the Department of Treaty and Law in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China. 2. Ambassador Xu’s professional and scholarly achievements have been told elsewhere and will be told in the future, we are sure. Here in this academic forum, we do not repeat those efforts, but would like to express our gratitude to Ambassador Xu for his strong efforts to strengthen the interaction between his colleagues in the government and academia. During his term as Director-General of the Department of Treaty and Law, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China...

Advancements in urban logistics toward smart, sustainable reforms in developing enabling technologies and markets

PurposeThe research article's primary purpose is to understand the advancements in urban logistics and allied fields over time along with a consideration of its enabling technologies.Design/methodology/ApproachAn initial review is used to build a keyword vocabulary, combinations of which were then applied to the Scopus, ScienceDirect, Emerald Insights, the Web of Science (WOS), Elsevier, Taylor and Francis, Wiley, Inderscience, Springer, Google Scholar and IEEE Xplore for extracting academic publication collection. The first part includes bibliometric analysis; network analysis is done based on the finally selected 645 papers (only those articles include either of the keywords mentioned above in title, abstract, and keywords). The second part conducts a review of the existing literature review studies (only 21 literature review studies out of 645 articles). The last one discusses the advancement in the topics based on the selected research articles.FindingsThis research discussed the advancement of the urban logistics and allied field, key academic forums and key researchers. It is evident from the analysis that the research related to key emerging themes like implementing innovative concepts and sustainability; application of green technologies; data collection, visualization, monitoring and sharing; and automatic logistic systems are still in the nascent stage. However, these research areas gained momentum in the recent past.Research limitationsUrban logistics are essential and play a crucial role for such rapidly growing cities to function. Despite playing a vital role, urban ecosystem logistics is often neglected in formal urban planning. Hence, as a response to customer and business demand, private entities regularly invest in new technologies and solutions. Since such investments are toward profits, various environmental, social and economic challenges arise.Originality/valueThis research investigates the advancements in urban logistics toward smart, sustainable reforms in developing enabling technologies and markets. The obtained research articles are subjected to bibliometric, descriptive, network and content analysis to present a rundown of advancements, relationships and trends in emerging research gaps.

Becoming, belonging, and the fear of everything Black: autoethnography of a minority-mother-scholar-advocate and the movement toward justice

ABSTRACT The compartmentalization of (dis)ability from race and ethnicity, and other identity markers serves to maintain these constructs at a safe distance from one another. Beyond these broader socially constructed categories, there are also the subtler messages about normativity that manifest in gradients of ability, color, behavior, capital, expression and power. Even more restrictive is the creation of a narrow space for parent advocacy that is culturally-subtractive and bureaucratic, serving to privilege the already privileged while silencing the marginalized. In this paper, I use autoethnography with DisCrit as a framework in order to to trace my journey to becoming Minority-Mother-Advocate, un/belonging within community and academic forums. The centerpiece of my counternarrative is the transition of my own advocacy from valuing my son to addressing others’ fears of him as a Black male whose visible (dis)ability doesn’t fit neatly into prescribed norms. A reframing of parent advocacy is imperative, moving beyond the individualistic, unintentionally exclusive aims toward one of collective justice.

From the (skin) doctor's office to the lecture hall: An innovative, practice-oriented, media-supported teaching project with supra-regional interdisciplinary usage options.

The transfer of practical knowledge and skills is the focus of modern medical teaching (master plan medical studies 2020). The aim of the teaching project is to provide medical students with important dermatological learning goals and contents by using innovative methods. As part of a teaching project funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) at the Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein in Kiel, various new, partly media-supported teaching modules were developed in addition to curricular teaching and optimized by regular acceptance evaluations during the development process. (1.) Professionally created instructional movies present essential techniques for diagnosis and therapy: standardized dermatological whole-body examination, wound smear sampling, performing of biopsies, curettages and excisions as well as skin suturing techniques on exercise material and on patients. (2.) Tutor-based courses offer students the ability to practice these techniques independently. (3.) Seminar lectures show different clinical pictures in university medicine and doctor's offices as well as the important interaction between clinic and doctor's practice in patient care. (4.) One-day internships in a teaching practice convey the activity in this setting. (5.) Seminars on psychodermatology provide insight into the stress caused by the skin disease using the "bio-psychosocial disease model". So far, 282 students have participated in the modules. In 88-100% of the evaluations, there was a desire for further expansion of the new courses and integration into curricular teaching. Our innovative teaching modules resulted in great acceptance by the students. The freely available instructional films were successfully used by other university locations due to networking in the Academic Teaching Forum. One perspective is the supra-regional and sustainable use of our teaching modules and the transfer of the concept to other departments and faculties.

Preface

The virtual 4th International Conference of Agroindustry and Bioeconomy (ICGAB) 2020 has been successfully held and the IOP Conference Proceeding Series: Earth and Environmental Science has been completed. This year ICGAB is special, it is the first virtual conference organised due to the Covid-19 global pandemic which hit us in early 2020. The conference was held virtually because of the travel restriction and social distancing policy of the Republic of Indonesia Government. In order to maintain an academic atmosphere and keep providing an academic forum for the students, academicians, researchers, and professionals despite the pandemic condition, the committee decided to hold the conference virtually.The current ICGAB 2020 is organised by the Faculty of Agricultural Technology, Universitas Brawijaya (Malang, Indonesia) on the 25th of August 2020. The organiser collaborated with MSAE (Malaysian Society of Agriculture and Food Engineers), AUCFA (ASEAN Universities Consortium on Food and Agro-based Engineering & Technology), Forum Komunikasi Perguruan Tinggi Teknologi Pertanian Indonesia (FKPT-TPI), International Association of Agro-based Engineering and Technology (IAAET), and Advances in Food Science, Sustainable Agriculture and Agroindustrial Engineering (AFSSAAE) with the theme on “Emerging Technology and Integrated Information System for Sustainable Agroindustry”.This conference is aimed to communicate and disseminate research experiences, technology innovation, research and technology advances, as well as case studies related to sustainable agroindustry. This event provides a scientific platform enabling both local and international academia, researchers, policymakers, industry leaders, professionals, and other stakeholders to build networks, share ideas, and create research collaboration. The ICGAB 2020 is hopefully offering all participants to engage with the practices and/or implementation of advanced technology and information system to further develop the green economy in Indonesia through the creation of sustainable agroindustry.Since 2017, ICGAB has been successfully attracting more than 300 participants from different countries to each event. This year we proudly conducted the 4th ICGAB virtually. The conference consisted of the plenary and parallel sessions. The speakers and presenters came from six countries (Australia, Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia). The virtual conference was held using the Zoom Meeting Platform. The conference organiser managed the conference from Malang, Indonesia, while the participants and speakers joined the conference virtually from their respective location in several cities in Indonesia and other countries (i.e. Malaysia, Philippines, Japan, Australia, and South Korea). The prominent resource persons invited as the keynote speakers were Rossana Marie Amongo, PhD (University of the Philippines Los Baños, Los Baños, the Phillipines), Ir. Mohd Fazly bin Mail P.Eng., M.I.E.M (Malaysian Agricultural Research and Development Institute, Malaysia), Assoc. Prof. Grause Guido (Tohoku University, Japan), Assoc. Prof. Yasmin Sultanbawa (The University of Queensland, Australia), and Prof. Teti Estiasih (Universitas Brawijaya, Indonesia).The parallel session of ICGAB 2020 was well attended with 13 (thirteen) topics covered; all presenters did an outstanding job of sharing their expertise and experiences, beneficial to support the creation of a circular economy in Indonesia. There 243 participants from 6 countries presented and discussed during the conferences. The parallel sessions were conducted in ten different Zoom conference rooms. Each room was led by a chairperson and co-chairperson. Each participant was given seven minutes to present the paper followed by a discussion session led by the chairperson. The parallel sessions run very well. The participants were actively engaged during the discussion sessions. The technical areas and applications covered by the proceedings, namely:1. Food Safety and Security2. Agricultural Engineering3. Agricultural Product Technology4. Agroindustrial Production System Management and Regulation5. Renewable Energy and Biorefinery6. Waste and Environmental Management7. Health, Nutrition and Medical Microbiology8. Industrial Biotechnology and Bioprocessing9. Food Microbiology10. Agro Forestry and Biodiversity11. Fisheries and Marine Resources Technology12. Animal Welfare and Technology13. Bioeconomy and BiobusinessDespite some minor limitations, thanks to the support of innovation and advancement of virtual technologies, it was possible for us to hold the conference on time and excellently.Among the presented papers, 191 manuscripts have been gone through the peer review process and 152 manuscripts have been accepted to be included in this IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science ICGAB 2020 Proceeding. Acknowledgment is due to all participants, reviewers, editors, committees and all who contributed to this event. We hope that this conference proceeding could contribute to the advancement of agricultural technology in the world. We also hope to see you at the 5th ICGAB 2021!CONFERENCE COMMITTEE, Scientific Committee, Steering Committee, Editors, ORGANIZER, SPONSOR and this titles are available in this pdf.

Telaah Kritis Terhadap Konsep Hasan Al-Banna Tentang “Nasionalisme Islam”

Abstract
 The theme of Islamic nationalism is always interesting to be studied in several academic scientific forums, especially among Islamic thinkers, academics, students, santri and kyai. However, until now, it seems that there has been no clear format and is still debatable regarding the many variations in understanding and paradox of implementation. Islam is standardized, but the implementation of nationalism is still in contradiction.
 Hasan Al-Banna, an Egyptian warrior and thinker cleric, has views and concepts about Islamic nationalism which is then carried out through the Islamic movement within the Ikhwanul-Muslimin forum.
 (I M). Hasan Al-Banna offers the unity of the Islamic ummah in living the life of the nation and state with the principles of Islamic law as its foundation. However, this idea received a lot of resistance from several communities of scholars and other Islamic thinkers.
 
 Keywords: islam naionalism

Anesthesiology and Critical Care Response to COVID-19 in Resource-Limited Settings: Experiences from Nepal.

It is difficult to predict the future course and length of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, which has devastated health care systems in low- and middle-income countries. Anesthesiology and critical care services are hard hit because many hospitals have stopped performing elective surgeries, staff and scarce hospital resources have been diverted to manage COVID-19 patients, and several makeshift COVID-19 units had to be set up. Intensive care units are overwhelmed with critically ill patients. In these difficult times, low- and middle-income countries need to improvise, perform indigenous research, adapt international guidelines to suit local needs, and target attainable clinical goals.

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Welcome to 2020 2nd International Conference on Energy, Power, Environment and Computer Application (ICEPECA2020). Sincerely invite all scholars and scientists to join in the academic forum to share and discuss their innovative opinions on the areas of Energy, Power, Environment and Computer Application. Warmly expect for your actively participation!Due to the severe impact of the COVID-19 outbreak and travel restrictions, it has been difficult for authors to attend the offline meeting. Therefore, the ICEPECA2020 virtual conference is a better way to achieve the goal of ensuring the safety and health of all participants. It is great honor to inform you that ICEPECA2020 was successfully held November 23, 2020 in a way of virtual conference. On behalf of the organizing committee, we sincerely appreciate it for your actively participation and powerfully support!ICEPECA2020 was conducted virtually through the platform “VooV Meeting”. Before the official meeting, the organizing committee has opened a test room for all keynote speakers and authors to test the Zoom whether the operation is normal or not. Such as, video, audio, the screen and so on. The whole online meeting consists of three parts. The first part is the Keynote Speech. Prof. Zan Wu from Lund University, Sweden had 40 minutes to give his speech on Experiments and Modelling of Pool Boiling Heat Transfer on Micro/Nanostructured Surfaces; the second part is Oral Sessions, all the participants had 8-10 minutes to present their latest academic research findings one by one. Besides, there is a Q&A discussion after every presentation; the third part is Poster Sessions, some authors choose the poster report to show their academic results. All the positive academic exchanges and interactions in ICEPECA2020 online conference made a great success and promote the academic innovation and prosperity in the related fields of energy, electricity, environment and computer applications.All the submissions for ICEPECA2020 will go through the double-blind peer reviewing by the Technical Committee in order to ensure a high quality of the proceeding and the conference. It will be reviewed by at least two experts in the related fields to review it, according to the aspects of originality, significance, usefulness, technical soundness, reference to related literature, structure, English and more aspects. Besides, ICEPECA2020 uses the iThenticate software to detect instances of overlapping and similar text in all submitted papers.Finally, ICEPECA2020 has received 92 papers before the final submission deadline. After the detailed reviewing, we have accepted 34 submissions. It is great honor for ICEPECA2020 to receive all the excellent articles in the relevant fields of Energy, Power, Environment and Computer Application.At last, ICEPECA2020 is willing to express the sincerest appreciation to all the active authors with innovative research findings, to the sponsor of Science and Engineering Research Center, Hong Kong, IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science with effective publication for all the excellent paper submissions, all the members and reviewers in ICEPECA2020 Technical Program Committee with professional and constructive reviewing. Sincerely hope all of the participants got a lot of benefits from academic forum. Kindly hope we can have more cooperation in the future.ICEPECA2020 Organization Committees

Minutes of the 11th academic forum on basic science & applied technology for prevention and control of infectious diseases

Minutes of the 11th academic forum on basic science & applied technology for prevention and control of infectious diseases

Análisis de las habilidades de pensamiento crítico en los foros académicos virtuales

El presente estudio tiene el propósito de analizar las habilidades de pensamiento crítico, a través de la participación en los foros virtuales del curso Ecología Humana en la plataforma Moodle de CECAR. Se utilizó una metodología cualitativa, con trabajo de campo basado en la lectura de contexto de las instituciones educativas, a partir del análisis del contenido del texto, atendiendo al enfoque fenomenológico hermenéutico, orientando el análisis de la descripción e interpretación de la experiencia que vivieron los estudiantes. El análisis de las habilidades de pensamiento crítico se realizó a través de las dimensiones planteadas por Halpern (2006) razonamiento verbal, análisis de argumentos, comprobación de hipótesis, probabilidad de incertidumbre, toma de decisiones y solución de problemas, a través de una matriz de análisis desde las categorías relacionadas con las prácticas ambientalistas y la articulación de la dimensión ambiental en el currículo escolar. Se analizaron las habilidades de pensamiento crítico, logrando las siguientes consideraciones: los estudiantes en los diferentes análisis de los microrrelatos realizan afirmaciones que están respaldadas por evidencias, lo cual, permite generar conclusiones justificadas para la toma de decisiones y la solución de problemas, evidenciando las habilidades de pensamiento crítico para la construcción de diálogos argumentativos y pragmáticos.

The Antithesis of the Accusatory System. A proposal on the regulation of the Informal and Justified preventive prison towards a digital justice and according to the Human rights

Last August of this year, the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, through the Law School, by initiative of the College of Professors of Criminal Law, in response to the suspension of academic activities, as a result of the pandemic that afflicts the world arising from the SARS-Cov2 virus, taking advantage of digital platforms available to people at this time as a tool to use to communicate at a distance, organized the First International Virtual Congress of Criminal Law. In this event, more than 130 academics from different Latin American Universities participated as speakers, who presented on topics of the criminal legal reality, both substantive and adjective, in the panels that were organized by themes that addressed different concepts in these specialties. The Congress was embellished by Magisterial Conferences issued by Masters Emeritus and Deans of the Faculty of Law of the UNAM and other law schools of invited countries.The importance of the Congress surprised the Academic Forum, almost twenty thousand people registered and approximately two million of them accessed the event that was transmitted and broadcast on social networks through the Facebook platform “Live streaming”. From the approaches that were most emphasized in the presentations, the concern of the present article is born. Specifically, it highlights concerns about exercise, it highlights the concern about the arbitrary exercise of criminal law due to its punitive nature and the importance of limiting the excess in its application, respecting in general the human rights of individuals and, in particular, those recognized for the parties in the procedural rules, this in equity with the Fundamental Principles of the Prosecution Systems in the accusatory model, already adopted in practically all democratic countries in Latin America. This highlights the need for a new definition of preventive prison, conceived now as a precautionary measure and its intimate relation with the principle of the “Presumption of Innocence”, in whose application there must be absolute communion, a necessary condition in order to have a profound and definitive vision in the protection of Human rights.

Income Convergence in the European Union: National and Regional Dimensions

With advancement of the European integration process, income convergence has become a debated topic that has challenged both the academic forums andthe decision-makers’ community. With the first waves of the EU enlargement, it has become indisputable for the European leaders that in order to ensure economic and political stability, the European Union has to promote convergence between countries and regions. The main purpose of this paper is to study income convergence in the European Union by taking into consideration both the national and regional dimensions. In this respect, we have examined (absolute) β- and         σ-convergence between 2000 and 2018, finding evidences in favour of the neoclassical growth model assumptions. The results of our study confirm the β-convergence hypothesis as the poorer countries and regions from Central and Eastern Europe experienced higher growth rates than the developed ones. In the second part of our paper, we have tried to examine the key drivers of economic growth in the European Union (conditional β-convergence). Our study suggests that variables such as gross fixed capital formation, real labour productivity and labour force participation rate had a positive impact on convergence. In contrast, the growth rates in the European Union were hampered by over-indebtedness, high rates of inflation and unemployment. These internal vulnerabilities together with external challenges threaten the stability and prosperity of the European continent. Consequently, the European Union needs more than ever to reconsider its growth model in order to ensure long-term convergence and to avoid the polarisation between its Members.

Review of the Hydra Conference on Concurrent and Distributed Computing Hydra 2020

Hydra is a premier Russian conference on Concurrent and Distributed Computing (https:// hydraconf.com). It is a one-of-a-kind conference, whose goal is to bring together people from academia and industry. At the same time, it is a forum for academics to present their groundbreaking recent research, while engineers present problems and solutions which appear in practice, and share tips-and-tricks. The conference mixes academia and software development. So far, this appears to have been to be very interesting for both sides of the concurrency and distributed systems community.

Maternal Impulses in ‘The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire’

In this article, I examine Arthur Conan Doyle’s treatment of motherhood in ‘The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire’ (1924) and, in so doing, argue for the insights that it imparts on the mature writer’s creative vision. The story advocates better communication amongst the Fergusons, between husband and wife, and between parents and children, for the family’s regeneration. In its exploration of the maternal experience, parent-child relationships, and sibling relations, Conan Doyle’s story is at home in the Mapping Maternal Subjectivities, Identities and Ethics network, a project on which I am proud to have worked as an intern while completing my Ph.D. in English Language and Literature at University College London. Victorian literature, the area of my expertise, is replete with examples of troubled maternal figures, and they tell us much about nineteenth-century social and cultural life. Over the past decade, Studies in the Maternal, the network’s peer-reviewed journal, has championed pioneering scholarship on motherhood, operating as an important forum for academics, writers, and creative artists internationally, and expanding the critical and theoretical vocabulary with which we approach characters such as Mrs Ferguson.

Preface

On behalf of the organizing committee of the 3rd TICATE 2020, I would like to welcome all delegates to attend this international conference with great pleasure. In the concern of COVID-19 pandemic, this international conference is being held virtually from August 3rd – 4th, 2020 from Campus I of Universitas Tarumanagara at Jl. Letjen S. Parman No. 1, Jakarta 11440, Indonesia. The 3rd TICATE 2020 is organized by Universitas Tarumanagara and technically sponsored by IOP Publishing. The reason why this conference was changed to virtual format is that due to COVID-19 Pandemic, there are travel restrictions and social distancing ruled by almost all governments in the world, including Indonesian government. We still hold partially the physical presentations regarding the healthy protocols suggested by World Health Organization.Instead of being postponed, we still hold this international conference virtually using Zoom Meeting because this conference is a forum for engineers, academics, practitioners, and students to exchange their experiences and knowledge. Many innovations and developments are being created from the last event to this one. These need to be shared among stake holders in the field of engineering and technology. Therefore, there is an urgent need to publish the newest results of researches in the conference proceedings.The 3rd TICATE 2020 has attracted many academicians, scientists, engineers, postgraduates and other professionals from many countries. This conference accepted 217 papers from 5 different countries, those are Australia, Taiwan, India, Malaysia, and Indonesia. The aim of the conference is to promote exchange of ideas among engineers, researchers, and scientists active in the related areas of technology and engineering.Our special thank goes to our Rector, Prof. Dr. Ir. Agustinus Purna Irawan, who has initiate this international conference, to our Plenary Speakers, Prof. Ir. Dr. Lee Sze Wei from Tunku Abdul Rahman University College, Malaysia, and Prof. Dr. Ir. Tresna P. Soemardi, S.E., M.S. from Universitas Indonesia, Indonesia, and to our Invited Speakers, Dr. Ayub Ahmed Janvekar from VIT University, Chennai, India and Prof. Ir. Dr. Mohd Zulkifli Abdullah from Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia. Each keynote speaker will be given 30 minutes to hold his presentation and followed by 15 minutes Q&A session. At the parallel sessions, each presenter is given 15 minutes to present his/her work followed by 10 minutes Q&A session about the related topic. The parallel sessions are opened to all participants. The participants, including presenters at the parallel sessions, are attending this virtual international conference from Indonesia (Jakarta, Bandung, Medan, Yogyakarta, Aceh, Depok, Surabaya, etc.), Kuala Lumpur, Pulau Pinang (Malaysia), Australia, Taiwan, and India.The virtual format of the 3rd TICATE 2020 still provides very satisfying overall technical quality of the conference, e.g. in presenting the articles. Because we used Zoom Meeting as the platform and a good internet connection to hold this virtual conference, the conference can be attended by about 500 participants from 5 countries without any problem.We would like also to thank our partner international and national Universities in contributing and participating in this international conference. To all individuals and organizations such as the members of international editorial board, the conference organizers, the reviewers and the authors, for their contribution in making the 3rd TICATE 2020 as a successful international conference and a memorable gathering event. I am also grateful for the support of publication service of IOP Publishing.We hope that the conference could present you wonderful memories to bring home in addition to new insights and friendship congregated during the event. We truly value your participation and support for the conference. We hope that you will gather many experiences and benefits from this event.Dr. Hugeng, S.T., M.T. (SMIEEE)

Social reproduction as social infrastructure

The term social infrastructure is increasingly being discussed in academic literature, policy reports and public forums. We might even go so far as to say it is the latest buzzword. Feminist economists understand social infrastructures as encompassing all aspects of social reproduction, but these ideas are routinely sidelined in wider debates. This article provides a critical reading of key trends in the ways the term social infrastructure is currently being defined and deployed: namely, as being equivalent to social spaces and spaces of sociability, such as community centres, parks and libraries, rather than being understood in terms of labour, gender and social reproduction. Part of the reason for this is the association between social reproduction and the home, which leads to a dismissal of reproductive work in communities at large. In writing about infrastructures more generally, it is not uncommon for gendered labour, care and reproduction to go completely ignored, or at least to only be discussed in relation to physical infrastructure. This simultaneous erasure and co-optation of feminist ideas has the effect of diminishing, diluting and marginalising the role of social reproduction as the foundation of our economy and society. It is therefore also a form of depoliticisation. In the article's conclusion, the case is made for recognising and reclaiming social reproduction as social infrastructure: an infra-structural approach could help alleviate long-standing tensions in definitions of social reproduction as both process and practice, and as operating on multiple scales.

Academic Failure: Unspoken Experiences by International Postgraduate Students in a Malaysian University.

© 2020, The International Academic Forum (IAFOR). All rights reserved. Malaysia aspires to become a regional and international hub of higher education through an international student mobility initiative. Existing scholarly work on international students is skewed towards understanding the general challenges faced by international students, but limited work has been conducted in exploring the impact of severe supervision challenges on international postgraduate students’ experiences in a Malaysian research university. Hence, this paper explores the evidence of academic failure experienced by international postgraduate students by drawing on semi-structured interviews with 33 international postgraduate students. Academic failure experiences were faced by international postgraduate students as a result of two major challenges: supervision issues, and faculty mismanagement. The experience of academic failure has impacted the students’ enthusiasm, motivation and inspiration in progressing in their research work and has also impacted them psychologically. The implications for developing significant and profound strategies to assist international postgraduate students in achieving positive educational outcomes are also discussed.

Oikean kokoinen kaupunki?

Our study stems from the ongoing public discourse on urbanisation, especially as it pertains to growing and declining regions. Regional development and policies reflect narratives that are based on different value judgements. The growth narrative, which justifies centralising regional policies, has gained an almost paradigmatic standing. On the other hand, the place-based narrative, presently on the rise in academic and political forums, draws attention to local geographies and institutions as development potentials for regions and municipalities of all sizes. The study looks at both of these two narratives, with a focus on the latter. We briefly analyse recent research and policy papers with an aim to find answers to our main question: What kind of conceptual means do we need to interpret and implement place-based regional strategies? On this basis, we introduce a model of multilevel socio-technical networks for dealing with regional and urban development that is complex and uneven.

Sprouting "sustainability" in chemical sciences curriculum.

The purpose of this paper is to present a new viewpoint on how the curricula for higher education chemistry courses can be restructured, so that students understand the various dimensions of the sustainability concept and are equipped to work chemical sciences in a profitable, clean and societal friendly way, that is synthesis of materials (which collates CHNOPS—atomic symbols) in desired architecture and disperse them after their intended use, back into their natural reservoirs. A very novel idea of “sustainable chemical science facility”, encompassing a teaching module capable of imparting strong fundamental Chemistry concepts, a virtual environment for undergoing the basic industrial training and a production unit with modular reactors for resource funding is proposed here. Often research is restricted to academic qualification, and a substantial band gap exists between the microscopic realm of academic research and the macroscopic domain of industrial chemistry, which thrives on research application. This band gap can be overcome by arming young chemists with training, tools and experience to possess complete control (synthetic and functional) on the materials they produce. The conceptual facility if turned into reality will definitely be the right step towards achieving materials with sustainable functionalities. We will have learning, training and production under one roof. Students will receive theoretical, practical and real-life experience of the production in industries, making them efficiently employable at a very young age. The idea is to bridge some critical engineering concepts with core chemistry, but with a clear distinction between chemical reactor engineering and core chemistry. This paper is a brainchild of the author and is more of a policy paper, needed to be elaborately discussed in academic and industrial forums.

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Great honor to receive your support of 2020 International Conference on Applied Mechanics, Materials and Civil Engineering (ICAMMCE2020). It will offer an open academic forum for all the participants in the field of Applied Mechanics and Engineering Mechanics, Material Science, Civil Engineering and the other related fields to exchange their latest research findings. On behalf of the organizing committee, we would like to thank for your actively participation and powerfully support!Under the background of the severe impact of COVID-19 and the travel restrictions, most of the authors can’t attend the conference physically. So the organizing committee of ICAMMCE2020 actively responses to the call of the government, reducing the population’s gathering and ensuring the safety and health of all the participants in the conference. Hence, the virtual conference is a better choice for ICAMMCE2020.It was held virtually via the platform “VooV Meeting” on September 20, 2020. First of all, the organizing committee has opened a test room for all keynote speakers and authors to test the VooV, including video, audio and the screen before the opening. The conference procedures include three parts, including Keynote Speeches, Oral Sessions and Poster Sessions. In the first session of Keynote Speeches, the speakers were allowed 40 minutes to deliver their speeches. In the second session of Oral Sessions, the participants had 10-15 minutes to share their presentation one by one. And the 10-15 minutes Q&A discussion after every presentation was indispensable to achieve a better academic atmosphere.It is great honor to invite two senior experts at here to share their keynote speeches to us. The first expert is Prof. Jianqin Ma from Chang’an University, Xi’an, China. The second expert is Prof. Igor Ivitsky from National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”, Ukraine. Some participants have put forward some interested questions about these keynote speeches, and the experts have clearly explained it. These interaction results in a favorable academic atmosphere. Some excellent oral presenters were awarded for their profound and impressive speeches. All of them has contribute to a huge success of ICAMMCE2020 online conference.All the submissions in ICAMMCE2020 have gone through a double-blind peer reviewing, the editors and reviewers were responsible to make sure the scientific equality, verification and high standard. There are 108 relevant professors and experts join in the Technical Program Committee for paper reviewing and checking. In view of the main theme and topics, each submission was reviewed by at least two or three experts under a critical reviewing process for scientific paper publication based on the paper contents, topic relevance, structure, language standardization, originality and more aspects. ICAMMCE2020 uses the iThenticate software to detect instances of overlapping and similar text in all submitted papers. Finally, ICAMMCE2020 has received 32 excellent papers, selected from 106 submissions before the final submission deadline. ICAMMCE2020 proceeding contains these following parts:1. Applied Mechanics and Mechanical Engineering2. Materials Science and Materials Processing Technology3. Civil and Structural EngineeringIn the end, ICAMMCE2020 want to express the sincerest appreciation to all the active authors with outstanding and valuable academic papers, to the sponsor of Advanced Science and Industry Research Center, Hong Kong, IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering with effective publication for all excellent paper submissions, all the members and reviewers in ICAMMCE2020 Technical Program Committee with careful reviewing response, for the impressive results of the conference.ICAMMCE2020 Organization Committees