Access Principles Research Articles

ECBD: European chemical biology database.

The European Chemical Biology Database (ECBD, https://ecbd.eu) serves as the central repository for data generated by the EU-OPENSCREEN research infrastructure consortium. It is developed according to FAIR principles, which emphasize findability, accessibility, interoperabilityand reusability of data. This data is made available to the scientific community following open access principles. The ECBD stores both positive and negative results from the entire chemical biology project pipeline, including data from primary or counter-screening assays. The assays utilize a defined and diverse library of over 107000 compounds, the annotations of which are continuously enriched by external user supported screening projects and by internal EU-OPENSCREEN bioprofiling efforts. These compounds were screened in 89 currently deposited datasets (assays), with 48 already being publicly accessible, while the remaining will be published after a publication embargo period of up to 3 years. Together these datasets encompass ∼4.3 million experimental data points. All public data within ECBD can be accessed through its user interface, API or by database dump under the CC-BY 4.0 license.

GROWING MIDWIFERY IN MANITOBA

This si a personal narrative of the story of midwifery in Manitoba and of some recent events leading ot regulation. I have been involved with midwifery in this province for nearly 15 years, first as a consumer advocate, then as a mother who chose midwifery care for the birth of her four children, and later as a member of the Midwifery Implementation Council. This si the first and second of aseries of four papers that wil document some of the events and decisions that shaped the practice and availability of midwifery in Manitoba, with afocus on the efforts made, and the challenges encountered, in keeping the process and results women-centred. Part 1 provides a brief overview and sets the context for the following three papers. Part 2 looks at steps and challenges in including equity and access principles in the regulation process. Parts 3 and 4 wil tel the stories of the education and integration.

Northern Ireland and the United Kingdom Internal Market

Post-Brexit Northern Ireland occupies a unique position in the internal market of the United Kingdom due, primarily, to the Protocol on Ireland / Northern Ireland, or Windsor Framework. Agreed as part of the UK-EU Withdrawal Agreement, the Protocol/Windsor Framework provides that EU Single Market rules concerning the free movement of goods, customs, VAT, state aid and energy markets, continue to apply in Northern Ireland, despite it having formally left the EU along with the rest of the UK. To allow for the domestic implementation of the novel arrangements for post-Brexit Northern Ireland, set out in the Protocol/Windsor Framework, the UK Internal Market (UKIM) Act 2020 includes a series of specific provisions that except goods entering and leaving Northern Ireland from the ‘market access principles’ established by the UKIM Act 2020 in certain circumstances. This commentary introduces the UKIM Act 2020 then presents a review of its provisions that are specifically dedicated to post-Brexit Northern Ireland. Written in September 2023 the analysis then provides an assessment of the implications of measures agreed between the UK and EU laid down in the Windsor Framework texts which were published in February of this year. Based on the analysis of the UKIM Act 2020 set against the backdrop of the Protocol, then Windsor Framework, the commentary argues that the position of Northern Ireland post-Brexit is not only newly unique but also newly consequential for those both inside and outside its borders.

The market access principles and the subordination of devolved competence

The United Kingdom (UK) Internal Market Act 2020’s ‘market access principles’ are capable of disapplying devolved legislation. Because that process qualifies the effectiveness but not the validity of that legislation, the UK Government contends that it leaves devolved competences intact and, therefore, respects the devolution settlement. However, this article argues that the use of disapplication to mechanise the market access principles has a deeper subordinating effect on devolved competence. This is because it suggests that devolved legislation is second-class, even within competence, and it implies that the settlement offers no protection for the effectiveness of devolved legislation, in stark contrast to the position accorded to Westminster. Further, disapplication also points to a less autonomous model of devolution, undermines legal certainty, and conceals significant constitutional changes from view. As such, far from neutralising the Act’s centralising tendencies, disapplication only exacerbates them.

Next-Generation Threat Detection and Mitigation in 6G Wireless Networks Using IAM, ZTNA and Advanced Security Mechanisms

As the deployment of 6G wireless networks looms on the horizon, the imperative to fortify their security infrastructure becomes increasingly pressing. One way to achieve this is through Identity and Access Management (IAM) frameworks to implement strong authentication and authorization mechanisms. Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) architectures advocate for a shift towards continuous verification and least-privileged access principles. Secure network segmentation and behavior anomaly detection systems limit the scope of potential breaches. Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems (IDPS) detect and block cyber threats. These advanced security mechanisms improve the resilience of 6G networks and ensure the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of critical network assets. IAM protocols exhibit fast user authentication speeds with average authentication time of 0.5 seconds. ZTNA frameworks ensure high network security with a 98% detection rate of abnormal network behaviors

Next-Generation Threat Detection and Mitigation in 6G Wireless Networks Using IAM, ZTNA and Advanced Security Mechanisms

As the deployment of 6G wireless networks looms on the horizon, the imperative to fortify their security infrastructure becomes increasingly pressing. One way to achieve this is through Identity and Access Management (IAM) frameworks to implement strong authentication and authorization mechanisms. Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) architectures advocate for a shift towards continuous verification and least-privileged access principles. Secure network segmentation and behavior anomaly detection systems limit the scope of potential breaches. Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems (IDPS) detect and block cyber threats. These advanced security mechanisms improve the resilience of 6G networks and ensure the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of critical network assets. IAM protocols exhibit fast user authentication speeds with average authentication time of 0.5 seconds. ZTNA frameworks ensure high network security with a 98% detection rate of abnormal network behaviors.

Open access and open licensing by Russian journals

In the circumstances of transforming institution of intellectual property, the journals have to find balance between the open science initiatives and legal regulations. The purpose of the study is to define whether Russian academic journals conform to open science initiatives and, in particular, to the open access principles and open licensing terms. The author discusses the findings of the study encompassing 450 journals in the Russian Science Citation Index database (as of December 1, 2022) using the following criteria: journal allocation site, archive depth, access principle, license terms and the website section on licensing terms. Based on the obtained data systematization and analysis, the trends for Russian academic journals are formulated: in general, they are ready for introducing open access principles. By choosing open licensing, most of the Russian academic journals are ready to offer maximum freedom in using their publications. The author developed several recommendations for the journals as the sites of scientific data exchange, and for the researchers as the users, generators and disseminators of these data.

How Can Sports Market Access Principles Standardize and Empower the Development of Professional Sports Industry

How Can Sports Market Access Principles Standardize and Empower the Development of Professional Sports Industry

Implementation and impact of the global access principles at the University of British Columbia: current successes and future challenges.

In 2007, the University of British Columbia (UBC) was the first university in Canada to establish and adopt global access (GA) principles. Toward implementing these principles, UBC then identified a set of strategies for providing affordable access to new UBC-developed technologies throughout low- and middle-income countries and among vulnerable populations. In this perspective, we provide an update of UBC's progress over the past 15years made on several technologies that fall under the GA principles. The technologies reported on are wide-ranging, including an oral medication for the treatment of leishmaniasis; peptides for potential use against malaria, and various bacterial, viral and fungal infections; a portable vaccine cooler; a diagnostic technology to detect severe sepsis; and an SMS Messaging System to monitor and support patients with HIV, TB and COVID-19. We identify challenges faced by the researchers in implementing the GA principles for these technologies and potential solutions for overcoming them through creative licensing and partnerships with public and private sectors, governments, local companies, and communities. As the UBC example illustrates, universities across the globe have an opportunity to make a significant social impact on improving global health of vulnerable populations and on supporting local infrastructures for sustaining these improvements.

Towards a standardised cross-sectoral data access agreement template for research: a core set of principles for data access within trusted research environments.

Trusted Research Environments (TREs) are secure computing environments that provide access to data for approved researchers to use in studies that can save and improve lives. TREs rely on Data Access Agreements (DAAs) to bind researchers and their organisations to the terms and conditions of accessing the infrastructure and data use. However, DAAs can be overly lengthy, complex, and can contain outdated terms from historical data sharing agreements for physical exchange of data. This is often cited as a cause of significant delays to legal review and research projects starting. The aim was to develop a standardised DAA optimised for data science in TREs across the UK and framed around the 'Five Safes framework' for trustworthy data use. The DAA is underpinned by principles of data access in TREs, the development of which is described in this paper. The Pan-UK Data Governance Steering Group of the UK Health Data Research Alliance led the development of a core set of data access principles. This was informed by a benchmarking exercise of DAAs used by established TREs and consultation with public members and stakeholders. We have defined a core set of principles for TRE data access that can be mapped to a common set of DAA terms for UK-based TREs. Flexibility will be ensured by including terms specific to TREs or specific data/data owners in customisable annexes. Public views obtained through public involvement and engagement (PIE) activities are also reported. These principles provide the foundation for a standardised UK TRE DAA template, designed to support the growing ecosystem of TREs. By providing a familiar structure and terms, this template aims to build trust among data owners and the UK public and to provide clarity to researchers on their obligations to protect the data. Widespread adoption is intended to accelerate health data research by enabling faster approval of projects, ultimately enabling more timely and effective research.

The Kenya National Open Science Dialogue: Open Access Principles and Practices in East African Community Partner States

The Kenya National Open Science Dialogue: Open Access Principles and Practices in East African Community Partner States

Confidential Computing: Elevating Cloud Security and Privacy

Confidential Computing (CC) fundamentally improves our security posture by drastically reducing the attack surface of systems. While traditional systems encrypt data at rest and in transit, CC extends this protection to data in use. It provides a novel, clearly defined security boundary, isolating sensitive data within trusted execution environments during computation. This means services can be designed that segment data based on least-privilege access principles, while all other code in the system sees only encrypted data. Crucially, the isolation is rooted in novel hardware primitives, effectively rendering even the cloud-hosting infrastructure and its administrators incapable of accessing the data. This approach creates more resilient systems capable of withstanding increasingly sophisticated cyber threats, thereby reinforcing data protection and sovereignty in an unprecedented manner.

Open Access Principles Implementation in Ukraine: Current State and Future Perspectives

The purpose of the article is to conduct a comprehensive, objective and critical analysis of the results of research on open access in Ukraine to assess the current state of the topic and identify the aspects which require deeper study in order to develop an effective mechanism for implementing the principles of open access in practice. Research methods. The method of narrative literature review with a defined search strategy and criteria for selecting publications in four databases, such as Dimensions, Scopus, Web of Science and the depository of electronic copies “Scientific Periodicals of Ukraine” was used. The inclusion criteria were articles published by authors affiliated with Ukrainian institutions. The scientific novelty lies in the fact that the literature analysis helped to expand and deepen knowledge about the thematic areas of open access research in Ukraine; to identify previously unknown links and contradictions between studies; and to identify areas that require further studies, which include, in particular, the analysis of factors and barriers that facilitate or prevent Ukrainian authors from disseminating their works in open access, the dynamics of growth and peculiarities of the distribution of the share of open access publications by year and field of study. Conclusions. Open access is one of the main components of Open Science. It serves as a tool for accelerating knowledge sharing, developing science, helping to eliminate inequality, and helping to solve several global problems. The research of Ukrainian scientists focuses on four primary areas of open access research: the development of open access policies at the level of institutions and the state, the introduction of institutional repositories, the launch of open access journals, and the regulation of copyright in open scientific communication.

Faculty participation in open access repositories (OARs) based on their individual traits

Purpose The number of open access repositories (OARs) has been growing globally, but faculty members have been reluctant to embrace OAR and submit their work. While there are studies that looked at sociotechnical factors that affect faculty participation in OARs, this study aims to explore how the individual characteristics of faculty might impact faculty willingness to deposit their work in an OAR. Design/methodology/approach The survey was distributed to all faculty at a large public university in the USA who were identified as having their primary job responsibilities in teaching and research. This study used a correlational analysis between faculty individual characteristics (i.e. age, rank, status and academic discipline) and their willingness to deposit their work. Findings The findings show that there is a difference in faculty familiarity with open access (OA) principles and faculty awareness of OA policy based on individual characteristics. Furthermore, these individual characteristics have a significant impact on faculty willingness to participate in OARs. While this study reveals a significant correlation between the faculty intent to deposit and the respondent’s academic discipline, rank and status, there are other factors that affect faculty intent to participate in OAR, such as familiarity with OA principles and awareness of institution’s OA Policy. Research limitations/implications There were no significant responses from the Colleges of Science or Health and Public Service and, therefore, did not yield any statistically significant results. Measuring the university’s promotion system was outside the scope of this research. Practical implications Results of this research can provide insight on how individual characteristics of faculty might impact their willingness to embrace OA publishing in general and OARs in particular. Social implications The findings from this research will be a valuable source of information for librarians and OA staff in developing more effective outreach programs to increase faculty participation in OA and OARs. Originality/value This study reveals that individual faculty traits do have an impact on faculty willingness to participate in OARs. The academic discipline was found to make the most significant difference in faculty intent to deposit their work in an OAR. However, due to the ever-changing landscape of OA publishing and the ongoing outreach efforts by librarians, the faculty members’ perception and participation in OARs is likely to evolve.

An innovative model of psychological service delivery in primary healthcare: the Single-Session Intervention

BackgroundIn Canada, the demand for mental health care exceeds the provision of services. This exploratory study aimed to assess the feasibility and impact of a new service delivery model for psychological consultations in primary care settings: the Single-Session Intervention (SSI), inspired by Advanced Access (AA) principles for appointment scheduling. The specific objectives were to examine whether the SSI increases accessibility to psychological consultations, to measure the effects of the intervention on different self-reported measures, and to assess users’ consultation experiences.MethodsParticipants were recruited in a University Family Medicine Group in Quebec (Canada), and the SSI was delivered by the on-site psychologist. No referral or formal diagnosis was needed to attend, and participants could promptly obtain an appointment. Participants rated the intensity of their problem, their level of psychological distress and their well-being, before and after the SSI. They also rated their satisfaction with their consultation experience. There was a follow-up 4 to 6 weeks later.ResultsOf the N = 69 participants who received SSI, 91% were able to obtain an appointment in less than 7 working days. The number of patients who were able to benefit from a psychological consultation was about 7 times higher after the implementation of SSI compared to previous years, when a traditional model of service delivery was in place. After SSI, participants felt that the intensity of their problem and psychological distress were lower, and that their well-being was increased, as indicated by significant pre-post test clinical measures (p < 0.0001). The observed effects seemed to be sustained at follow-up. Moreover, 51% of participants said that one session was sufficient to help them with their problem. Participants rated SSI as a highly satisfying and helpful consultation experience (92,9% overall satisfaction).ConclusionsSSI, offered in a timely manner, could be an innovative and cost-effective intervention to provide mental health services on a large scale in primary healthcare. Further research is needed to replicate the results, but these preliminary data seem to indicate that psychological distress may be quickly addressed by SSI, thereby preventing further deteriorations in patients’ mental health.Trial Registration2019–393, 26 March 2019.

Secrecy and Transparency in Substantive Due Process Litigation

A few years before the recomposed Court rejected abortion rights in Dobbs, it sustained several healthcare providers’ challenge to Louisiana abortion restrictions in June Medical. History will remember that 5–4 decision mostly as one of the last major cases to interpret and apply the Casey framework. But in the little-noticed background of the June Medical litigation, a significant dispute over sealed court records boiled over. On one side, plaintiff physicians sought anonymity and confidentiality in light of potential threats to their physical safety and patient privacy. On the other side, Louisiana asserted the public’s longstanding right to access court records and its own right to include information from June Medical companion cases in its Supreme Court briefing. Ultimately, the Fifth Circuit agreed with Louisiana, vacating the sealing order. June Medical evokes a larger dispute simmering in federal and state courts over public access to litigation information. Modern commerce and contemporary life generate an unprecedented volume of data. American civil discovery provides litigants with tools to discover and collect much of it. And courts have long recognized the public’s First Amendment and common law rights to inspect and copy public court files. Moreover, the internet and advent of electronic filing have transformed once obscure paper court files into easily accessible databases. Proponents of expanded sealing and secrecy contend that this status quo threatens litigants’ privacy and intellectual property. Proponents of more transparency posit that public access to the evidence underlying court action is essential to the integrity and proper functioning of the judiciary, as well as to public health and safety. This Article examines a largely unexplored angle of this debate: How should courts treat the unique privacy interests of litigants asserting substantive due process claims in the context of the public’s right to access litigation information? Part II explains the public’s court-access rights. Part III first considers whether forced identity revelation might infringe substantive due process rights. After concluding that infringement is possible, but recognizing that courts will often avoid the constitutional privacy questions posed by these scenarios, Part III goes on to consider the use and effects of subconstitutional privacy and access principles in rights cases where parties seek to proceed pseudonymously.

Performance of CSI-Based Power Control and NOMA/OMA Switching for Uplink Underlay Networks With Imperfect SIC

In a multiuser underlay uplink network, we show that despite the fact that the transmit powers are constrained by the interference temperature limit (ITL) imposed by the primary network, allowing upto two users to concurrently transmit using non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) principles ensures better performance than when only a single user is picked in an orthogonal multiple access (OMA) scheme. To deal with the large variation in the link SNRs in underlay networks, an optimal channel state information (CSI) based ITL apportioning scheme is suggested for the first time in literature that carefully controls the transmit powers of the selected users to maximize throughput. CSI-based throughput-optimal strategies are evolved for user selection and NOMA/OMA switching. We analyze the throughput performance of the uplink with NOMA/OMA switching, optimal user selection, and CSI based ITL apportioning, taking successive interference cancellation (SIC) errors into account. Useful bounds on performance are also derived. It is shown that when the ITL is broadcast in every coherence interval, and the ITL can also be channel dependent, large thoughput gains accrue. Computer simulations confirm accuracy of the derived expressions.

복합매체 활용 미술표현을 통한 융합형 인재 양성 교육에 관한 고찰

Objectives This study examines the direction of convergence education in connection with the expansion of convergence thinking through Art Expression using Complex Media as a way to realize convergence talent training, which is a key keyword in our field.&#x0D; Methods To this end, the concept and meaning fusion were explored in connection with the resort of Deleuze and Guatart, the characteristics of the complex media and effects of the art expression on the human resources development of the convergence. Composite media expression induces multidimensional access and expression through connection and connection of various media, and this process can contribute to expanding convergent thinking by promoting student's internal changes as well as producing works in the educational field.&#x0D; Results Art expression using complex media helps students develop convergence education capabilities naturally in the process of producing works by demonstrating convergence thinking through infinite connection and access principles. This experience gives learners an opportunity to reflect on the true meaning and value of convergence education, to explore their own practical capabilities, and to suggest directions.&#x0D; Conclusions In order to realize desirable convergence talent training, active participation of educational parties, cooperation and cooperation of teachers, educational content reflecting social phenomena, and establishment of educational infrastructure are required, and continuous convergence education programs are needed through implementation classes for various grades.

Uavnoma: A UAV-NOMA Network Model under Non-Ideal Conditions

Uavnoma is a set of Python functions and a front-end script for modeling, studying, and analyzing the communication system composed by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and two ground users. We assume that the UAV acts as an aerial base station to serve the users according to non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) principles. For more practical insights, residual hardware impairments (RHI) and imperfect successive interference cancellation (ipSIC) are considered. More specifically, <strong>uavnoma</strong> allows the modelers to study and visualize the system performance in terms of achievable rate and outage probability. Additionally, the package produces figures and tables showcasing results from the specified performance metrics.

Open Science &amp; Open Access Principles and Practices in East African Community Partner States

Open Science &amp; Open Access Principles and Practices in East African Community Partner States