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43rd Vietnam National Conference on Theoretical Physics (NCTP-43)

PrefaceThe 43rd Vietnam National Conference on Theoretical Physics (NCTP-43) was held during 30 July - 2 August 2018 in Quy Nhon, Viet Nam.The NCTP-43 was by the Institute of Physics, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (IOP-VAST) under the auspices of the Vietnamese Theoretical Physics Society (VTPS), and belongs to a series of annual conferences that started in 1976.The conference covered a wide range of theoretical physics topics from 4 major fields:• Particle, nuclear and astro- physics,• Molecular physics, quantum optics and quantum computation,• Condensed matter physics,• Soft matter, biological and interdisciplinary physics.118 participants have participated in the conference. 2 invited talks, 23 oral and 69 poster contributions were presented.This volume contains selected papers contributed by the participants.Editors of the NCTP-43 ProceedingsTrinh Xuan Hoang, Hoang Anh Tuan and Vu Ngoc TuocOrganizers, Sponsors, Honorary Chair, Chair, Organizing Committee, Program Committee, Secretariat and List of Participanys are present in this PDF.

Developing a High-speed Imaging Set-up for Small Herbaria: a case study from a national herbarium of Nepal (KATH)

The Himalayan region is recognised as one of the ‘hottest’ global Biodiversity hotspots, with a third of all species within its range occurring in Nepal. The documentation of the Flora of Nepal is therefore of great importance both nationally and internationally (National Herbarium & Plant Laboratories (KATH) 2019). The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) leads the Flora of Nepal project in collaboration with the Department of Plant Resources (DPR, part of the Ministry of Forests and Environment), Nepal Academy of Science and Technology (NAST), Central Department of Botany, Tribhuvan University (CDB-TU) and the Society of Himalayan Botany, Tokyo (SHB) (Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh 2014). The National Herbarium and Plant Laboratories (KATH), Kathmandu, Nepal – part of DPR – contains approximately 165,000 herbarium specimens, representing 50% of vascular plant species and 25% of lower plant species known to exist in Nepal. The digitisation of herbarium specimens held at KATH will facilitate access to specimen data, expedite the flora writing process, and make it possible to update species distributions to inform conservation priorities. The existing rate of digitisation was slow with 70-75 specimens being fully digitised a day by three digitisers. Specimen collection labels were fully databased in a Microsoft Access database and imaged at 600 PPI using a single Herbscan. At the current rate of digitisation it will take 7 – 8 years to completely digitise the KATH herbarium. As part of the Darwin Initiative project: Science-based interventions reversing negative impacts of invasive plants in Nepal (http://www.darwininitiative.org.uk/project/23031), a new camera imaging set-up and workflow was devised at RBGE, with installation and staff training provided on-site at KATH herbarium (Fig. 1). This has almost tripled the rate of digitisation to 180-200 specimens per day. The decision making processes that took place regarding hardware and software are discussed including: speed versus quality, some on-site considerations, the installation process and the proposals put forward to further improve the rate of digitisation.

Assessment of the ecological quality status of sediment at the organic shrimp farming ponds in Ca Mau province by applying the abundance/biomass comparison (ABC) method on nematode communities

Nematode communities in the Tam Giang’s organic shrimp farming ponds, Nam Can district, Ca Mau province were investigated in three seasons (March - dry, July - transfer and November - rainy season). Results showed that the average abundance (inds/10 cm2) ranged from 221.67 ± 122.08 to 2539.33 ± 1403.33 in the dry season. The tranfers and rainy season also showed a high density, from 1020.00 ± 354.30 to 7254.67 ± 5454.39, 822.00 ± 1086.17 – 4608.33 ± 1302.02, respectively. Total dry biomass (µg/10 cm2) of nematode communities in Tam Giang’s organic shrimp farming ponds varied from 51.11 ± 28.64 to 450.87 ± 49.53 in the dry, from 412.93 ± 291.87 to 1607.25 ± 507.42 in the transfer and ranged 49.54 ± 39.36 to 1874.09 ± 3033.16 in the rainy season. The following results were also recorded that abundance/biomass comparison (ABC) method has been used successfully for detecting the ecological quality status of sediment (EcoQ) in Tam Giang’s organic shrimp farming ponds. The results indicated that unfavourable deflections (stress) in EcoQ of Tam Giang’s organic shrimp farming ponds throughout the dry - transfer - rainy season. More specifically, the EcoQ of Tam Giang’s organic shrimp farming ponds has been classified as lightly stressed in most seasons, excpet for the transfer season which has been recognized as the highest EcoQ depending on its ABC curves and W values. Although EcoQ in the Tam Giang’s organic shrimp farming ponds has always been clear, information on Received 05-01-2017, accepted 14-08- 2017, published 12- 9-2018 Author: Tran Thanh Thai, Nguyen Thi My Yen, Ngo Xuan Quang- Department of Environmental Management and Technology, Institute of Tropical Biology, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Le Dieu Linh - Ton Duc Thang University - thanhthai.bentrect@gmail.com the main cause effected biomass between natural stress or pollution stress remains uncertain.

Features of the distribution of abnormal gas geochemical fields in the Red River rift (Gulf of Tonkin, South China Sea)

This paper reports the results of the third Russian–Vietnamese expedition (POI FEB RAS and the Institute of Marine Geology and Geophysics, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology) in the Gulf of Tonkin, South China Sea (April 2016) and field work outcomes from 2016-2017. The studies revealed new specific features of the distribution and origin of gas-geochemical fields in sediments within the rift zone of the Red River along a 150-km profile. Four zones with high amplitude anomalies of hydrocarbon gases, helium, hydrogen, carbon dioxide, and carbon monoxide were revealed. The distribution of the anomalies reflects the tectonic structure of the area and points to the presence of several lithospheric sources of gases including gases of deep origin. The studies were carried out within the scope of the Joint Vietnamese–Russian Laboratory for Marine Geosciences (POI FEB RAS and the Institute of Marine Geology and Geophysics, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology). The article is dedicated to the year of friendship between Russia and Vietnam.

Introducing the Academy of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology, Japan

The Academy of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology, Japan (APSTJ) has contributed to advances in pharmaceutical sciences and progress in formulation technologies. The APSTJ has some 2000 individual members including pharmacists, researchers, technologists, and representatives of regulatory authorities. Remarkably, more than 800 individual members are from the industry. The APSTJ holds an annual meeting and several conferences or seminars on pharmaceutical technologies and skills. It has also set up 13 focus groups (FGs), including some working energetically on medical pharmacy research. For example, the FG on "personalized formulations" aims to develop a suitable dosage form for each individual patient to confirm the concept of personalized medication. To provide opportunities to hear the voices of patients and understand their medical needs, another FG has started a hospital-based internship program for industrial researchers. Furthermore, as an activity of the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development, an industry-university joint consortium for "pediatric drug formulations" was organized within an FG to develop suitable formulations for pediatric use. The mission of the APSTJ is to provide safe, effective, user-friendly drug products based on pharmaceutical science and technology and cooperation with clinical researchers and medical staff.

Special issue: Cephalopods through time

In March and April 2018, the 10th International Symposium Cephalopods—Present and Past (ISCPP) was held in Fes, Morocco. Meeting and the post-conference fieldtrip were organized by representatives of the Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat, Munster, the Mohammed V University of Rabat and Hassan II Academy of Sciences and Technology, the University Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah, Fes, University Hassan II, Casablanca, and the University of Zurich. We dedicate this proceedings volume to the memory of Prof. Dr. Jurgen Kullmann, who passed away in 2018.

Sample checklist of Gastropoda and Bivalvia in Cham Islands, Vietnam.

BackgroundCham Islands (Cu Lao Cham) is a group of 8 small islands in the Quang Nam province, Central Vietnam. There is only one study that mentioned the diversity of marine molluscs in this area. However, the data on species composition have not been digitised and not stored or shared for other purposes. Our paper aims to share the checklist of marine mollusc species (Bivalvia and Gastropoda) species that we collected from the littoral zone of Cham Islands in May 2017. This is the first digitised and online data of marine molluscs in Vietnam. It is very important for researchers in various fields such as the structure and function of ecology and biodiversity monitoring.New informationThis study provides a checklist of the marine bivalves and snails in the Cham Islands of Vietnam. Moreover, this first widely shared data of biodiversity in Vietnam can trigger biodiversity data papers in this data-poor country.The data of this study will be important inputs for better understanding biodiversity on the Cham Islands and Vietnam as well as for forming the basis for monitoring, exploitation and conservation of biodiversity in this area.In total, 145 taxa were recorded, 46 bivalve taxa and 99 snail taxa, from which 128 were identified to the species level and 17 were identified to the genus level. There are 116 new species records for the Cham Islands.The specimens are currently deposited in the Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources (IEBR), Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST).

Features of the Distribution of Abnormal Gasgeochemical Fields in the Red River Rift (Gulf of Tonkin, South China Sea)

This paper reports the results of the third Russian–Vietnamese expedition (V.I. Il'ichev Pacific Oceanological Institute, Far East Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Marine Geology and Geophysics, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology) in the Gulf of Tonkin, South China Sea (April 2016). The studies revealed new specific features of the distribution and origin of gasgeochemical fields in sediments within the rift zone of the Red River along a 150-km profile. Four zones with high-amplitude anomalies of hydrocarbon gases, helium, hydrogen, carbon dioxide, and carbon monoxide were revealed. The distribution of the anomalies reflects the tectonic structure of the area and points to the presence of several lithospheric sources of gases including gases of deep origin. The studies were carried out within the scope of the Joint Vietnamese–Russian Laboratory for Marine Geoscience (V.I. Il'ichev Pacific Oceanological Institute, Far East Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Marine Geology and Geophysics, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology).

Design and Research of Integrated Platform for Practical Teaching of Data Science and Big Data Technology

Technology is ahead of science and data makes the technology to develop. Beijing City University is the third academy of data science and big data technology in Ministry of Education Department, which explores mode of talent training of interdiscipline. This paper design integrated platform for practical teaching on basis of this subject connotation, which including four level training for engineering, resources of experiment and practical training and extracurricular practice base.

An improved space domain algorithm for determining the 3-D structure of the magnetic basement

The paper presents an improved algorithm based on Bhaskara Rao and Ramesh Babu’s algorithm to invert magnetic anomalies of three-dimensional basement structures. The magnetic basement is approximated by an ensemble of juxtaposed vertical prisms whose bottom surface coincides with Curie surface with the known depth. The computer program operating with the proposed algorithm is built in Matlab environment. Test applications show that the proposed method can perform computations with fast and stable convergence rate where the results also coincide well with the actual model structure. The effectiveness of the method is demonstrated by inverting magnetic anomalies of the southeast part of Vietnam continental shelf. The calculated magnetic basement relief of the study area provides useful additional information for studies in the aim of dealing with the geological structure of the area.References Beiki M., 2010. 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Aiming at Sustainable APSTJ (Academy of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology)

Aiming at Sustainable APSTJ (Academy of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology)

Women in marine science in Australia

Two broad initiatives provide a backdrop to this special issue of Marine and Freshwater Research, which highlights women in marine science in Australia. The first is that Australia is currently piloting the Athena Swan accreditation framework from the United Kingdom, which is raising awareness of gender equity and diversity issues. The current focus of the Science in Australia Gender Equity (SAGE) initiative is on the Bronze Institutional award for higher education and research institutions. This initiative stemmed from recognition of the need for a more coordinated national approach to improving gender equity in STEMM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine) disciplines. Launched in 2015, to date there has been one round of awards to cohort 1 members, with a further two cohorts underway. Further, Australia has just released the Women in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) decadal plan (Australian Academy of Science 2019). Both the Australian Academy of Science and the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering authored this decadal plan, which was overseen by an expert working group. The plan recognises the strong demand for STEM skills and the need to maximise the attraction, participation and retention of both women and men in the workforce (Australian Academy of Science 2019).

Optimization of blending operation for Aswan phosphate mines using linear programming

This research was partially supported by (ASRT http://www.asrt.sci.eg/ Academy of Scientific Research and Technology – Egypt). We thank our colleagues from Mining and Petroleum Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering (Al-Azhar University, Egypt) who provided insight and expertise that greatly assisted the research.

The use of financial policy in adjusting the mobilization of high-quality science and technology human resources in the context of international integration (Case study of the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology)

Di động xã hội của nhân lực khoa học và công nghệ (KH&CN) là một hiện tượng tự nhiên, là nhu cầu của cá nhân nhà khoa học. Trong bối cảnh hội nhập kinh tế quốc tế, đặc biệt là hội nhập về khoa học và công nghệ, cùng với sự phát triển của công nghệ thông tin, các luồng di động xã hội của nhân lực KH&CN đặc biệt là nguồn nhân lực trình độ cao đang diễn ra rất sôi động, đa dạng và phức tạp. Trên cơ sở khảo sát thực trạng của các luồng di động tại Viện cũng như các nỗ lực của Viện trong việc đề ra các chính sách nhằm đảm bảo công tác quản lý nhân lực KH&CN phát triển đội ngũ cán bộ cả về chất và về lượng, điều chỉnh các xu hướng biến động về dòng chảy “chất xám”, khai thác hiệu quả nguồn chất xám hiện có. Bản chất quản lý nhân lực trong điều kiện kinh tế thị trường là định hướng di động xã hội. Để định hướng di động xã hội của nhân lực KH&CN có nhiều biện pháp nhưng luận văn tập trung vào sử dụng chính sách tài chính để điều chỉnh di động xã hội, đặc biệt di động xã hội của nguồn nhân lực trình độ cao theo những hướng nhất định như di động từ nghiên cứu cơ bản sang nghiên cứu ứng dụng; sử dụng đa dạng hóa hoạt động để khai thác tối đa năng lực của nhân lực khoa học và công nghệ.

Fostering Entrepreneurship among Academia: A Study of Vietnamese Scientist Commercialization

Commercialization of scientists’ inventions greatly contributes to the development of a country, yet the success ratio of this process is very low. Besides, research results on commercialization in developed countries are not readily applicable to Vietnam where the market institution has not been well functioning. This research examines the commercialization of scientists’ inventions in Vietnam (hereafter, scientist commercialization). The objectives are to identify factors that influence Vietnamese scientist commercialization. Drawing on networking, leadership, and motivation theories and data from a sample of scientists working at the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, the study shows that access to research funding, networking with businesses, leaders’ experience, and pecuniary and prosocial motivation are positively related to commercialization. The results shed light on the theoretical development of commercialization in developing countries. The research also discusses practical implications for promoting scientist commercialization in Vietnam.

CREATIVE WORK OF PROMINENT SCIENTIST AND ARTIST (to the anniversary of KOMISAROV Oleh, professor of the National pedagogical university of the name of M.P. Dragomanova, corresponding member of the Ukrainian technological academy, honoured worke

Bright creative achievements of Komisarov Oleh are related to fruitful labour in the National musical academy of Ukraine of the name of P.I.Chaykovskogo (1993-2007) on positions of professor, manager of the department of musical pedagogics, helper of rector of the National musical academy of Ukraine of the name of P.I.Chaykovskogo, academician of the National academy of arts of Ukraine, folk artist of Ukraine, professor Timoshenko O. From 2009 and to this day Komisarov Oleh is a professor of department of surdopedagogiki faculty of korekciynoy pedagogics and psychology of NPU of the name of M.P.Dragomanova.

Demonstrating the Efficacy of the Health Sciences and Technology Academy: Using Archival Standardized Test Scores to Analyze an OST College-Preparatory Program for Underserved Youth.

To combat educational and health disparities, out-of-school-time (OST) STEM enrichment programs provide services to underserved youth to encourage them to pursue college and health careers. This article describes a study conducted to determine if the Health Sciences and Technology Academy (HSTA) program participants who receive year-round educational interventions to prepare them for STEM and health sciences majors performed better on the West Virginia Educational Standards Test (WESTEST2) than non-participants. This study provides descriptive and inferential statistics, specifically one-way ANOVAs with one-to-one matching based on grade level, gender, race, and GPA at the end of the 8th grade year for 336 students. Statistically significant differences were found favoring HSTA participants on the WESTEST2 math and reading/language scores.

Quaternion lifting scheme applied to the classification of motion data

In this study, a new method of classification of skeleton-based motion data has been introduced. In the first stage, we performed multiscale feature extraction of rotational data. It is based on the proposed linear quaternion lifting scheme, with respect to the rotations coded by unit quaternions, which computes each scale based on the spherical linear interpolation (SLERP) prediction function and preserves the average signal value on each scale. Consequently, motion descriptors are extracted as quaternion attributes on different scales. The final recognition is performed by the nearest neighbor and minimum distance classifiers, adapted to support nonscalar features. Because of dimensionality of obtained descriptors, an attribute selection with respect to the multiresolution data has been proposed. It takes into consideration a specified number of resolutions, which is similar to low-pass filtering of the frequency domain. This method is utilized to solve the gait-based human identification problem. To validate such an application, a database containing data from 30 subjects was collected at the Human Motion Laboratory of the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology (PJAIT). The obtained results were found to be satisfactory. In the best case, over 96% precision with only seven misclassified gaits of 178 samples was achieved.

Analysis of Difference between the VO<sub>2max</sub> Values in Field and Laboratory Tests

Purpose of this study is to determine whether there is a difference between the VO2max values in field and laboratory test. 96 students, studying at the Sports Academy of Sports Sciences and Technology of the Pamukkale University, have participated to the study on voluntary basis. While during the field test, the 12-minutes Cooper test has been utilized, as determinant in the laboratory test the Bruce Treadmill test has been used. The data obtained in result of the applied tests were calculated using formula advised for the test. For the statistical analysis of the data, the IBM SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences) 21.0 pack program has been used. In order to define the data distributions, an Identify in Statistics has been performed. For the comparison of two variables on the same group, the Paired Sample t-test has been used. Results have been submitted as average (X) and standard deviation (SS). The value P<0,05 has been found to be significant. Consequently, a statistically significant difference has been determined between the Field test (Cooper) and Laboratory test (Bruce). And this shows that the VO2max value in the applications of the laboratory environment is higher than the VO2max value in the applications of the field test.

Rigoberto Advincula elected to National Academy of Science and Technology

Rigoberto Advincula elected to National Academy of Science and Technology