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Abstracts of The 39th Annual International Symposium on Acupuncture, Electro-Therapeutics, & Latest Advancements

Abstracts of The 39th Annual International Symposium on Acupuncture, Electro-Therapeutics, & Latest Advancements

Spectacular Innovations and Global Outreach

AbstractThis issue of Information Display continues to highlight key technologies and industry trends in the in‐depth reports from Display Week 2023. At the 60th annual international symposium and exhibition organized by the Society for Information Display (SID), Display Week once again lived up to its longstanding status as the premier global forum to experience the future of displays, imaging, and related technologies.

Gout, Hyperuricemia and Crystal-Associated Disease Network (G-CAN) Conference 2022: Early-Career Investigators’ Abstracts

The eighth annual international G-CAN research symposium was held in Alexandria, VA on 21st and 22nd October 2022. This hybrid meeting, live face-to-face and virtual live symposium, was attended by over 150 participants. Over 20 research abstract submissions were received from early-career investigators, for plenary oral and poster presentations. Here, we present the accepted, lightly-edited abstracts from the presenters consenting to have their materials published. We thank and congratulate the presenters for their work and contributions to the meeting.

Proceeding of The 6th International Symposium on Green Technology for Value Chains (GreenVC) 2022

November 22–23, 2022Bandung, West JavaIndonesia.Organized by:Research Center for Environmental and Clean TechnologyNational Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) Preface The sixth International Symposium on Green Technology for Value Chains (GreenVC) 2022 was held on November 22–23, 2022 as a virtual event in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia. The fundamental goals of this symposium were to exchange ideas and information, encourage technology development, and strengthen networking and collaboration among all attendees. The symposium was organized by the Research Center for Environmental and Clean Technology, National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN).The GreenVC 2022 is an annual international symposium that was first held in 2016. This year’s theme is Recent Innovations in Sustainable Environment Facing 5.0 Society. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic situation and travel restrictions, the symposium should be held as a virtual event. On the positive side, we could gather six keynote speakers, 119 presenters, and participants who joined the symposium from various places including Japan, Korea, Zambia, the USA, United Kingdom, and of course Indonesia to share knowledge, exchange experiences, and information through meaningful discussions on the latest innovation and technologies in environmental issues.The proceeding of GreenVC 2022 presents the original and unpublished results in all areas of interest. In total, 112 papers have been selected to be published based on the originality of the research and the relevance with the symposium topics: waste treatment and valorization; environmental monitoring, modelling, and assessment; climate change mitigation; environmental remediation and reclamation; environmental nanotechnology; green materials and process; and water, sanitation, and hygiene.We would like to express our sincere gratitude to our Advisory Board, Scientific Board, Editorial Board, and Scientific Reviewers for their positive contribution to keeping the quality of the articles presented in this proceeding. We also would like to appreciate all participants attending this symposium as well as the Organizing Committee, who made the symposium a success.Dr. Widyarani, M.Sc. Chief Editor Venue and Date The sixth International Symposium on Green Technology for Value Chains (GreenVC) 2022 was held on November 22–23, 2022 virtually from Bandung, West Java, Indonesia via Zoom platform. Organized by:Research Center for Environmental and Clean Technology, National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN)List of Committee, Symposium Schedule and Participants, Symposium Documentation, Sponsorship are available in this pdf.

SID Display Week: Celebrating 60 Years of Innovation

THIS YEAR'S DISPLAY WEEK, THE ANNUAL International Symposium, Seminar, and Exhibition organized by the Society for Information Display (SID), is being held May 21–26 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. It's occurring 60 years after the first annual event was held in the same city. On this anniversary, I want to reflect on where we are today. All around us, we are witnessing transformations in the ways we interact with technologies and devices. Today's human-technology interfaces are more natural, intuitive, and interactive than ever before, with visual displays at the center. We've seen the evolution of human inputs from joysticks, to mice and keyboards, to touchscreens. Now voice and vision are emerging as the next wave. With continued developments in artificial intelligence (AI), natural interfaces based on touch, voice, and vision are poised to become the primary ways that we interact with devices. New products and markets have been driven by innovators who capitalized on new human-technology interaction paradigms. A driving force in the widespread proliferation of personal computers was the advent of the mouse and keyboard, and modern smartphones were largely made possible because of touch interfaces, among other key enabling technologies, including flat-panel displays. Now virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) devices are emerging, benefiting from computer vision innovations in inside-out tracking and natural gesture control interfaces. The significance of this continuing transformation for the industry that SID serves cannot be overstated. It's no longer about just designing and manufacturing a display screen that shows information. The entire system must be considered together—from vision, voice, and touch sensors that see, hear, and feel human inputs, to AI algorithms that understand human intention and enable the system to respond through the display. Engineers must understand the entire information flow and architect integrated systems from sensors to displays. The value that SID provides to our members is in supporting them in delivering greater value to their customers, so we owe it to them to expand our focus to encompass end-to-end imaging and vision technologies. I explained this drive to “redefine the ‘I’ in SID” in the last issue of Information Display (ID). With that as a backdrop, I would like to share some highlights of the Display Week 2023 program. Display Week is well known for its expansive exhibition and international symposium, and this year is no exception. The International Technical Symposium will feature top scientists, researchers, and academics with presentations and hundreds of papers from around the world. Special topics include AR/MR/VR, machine learning, and outdoor displays, as well as sensors integration and multifunctional displays—a new topic for 2023 in line with our expanding focus. We also are debuting the SID Imaging and Vision Special Event with speakers from organizations such as Meta, Microsoft, Sony, UCLA, HKU, and OpenCV. The event will focus on advances in image sensing, computer graphics, AI-aided computer vision, and machine learning techniques that enable new intelligent and interactive systems and applications. On the exhibition floor, the largest display and imaging companies will demonstrate advances in AR/VR, OLED, microLED, miniLED, LCD, quantum dots, automobile technology, wearables, digital signage, ePaper, vision sensors, and more. In the Innovation Zone (I-Zone), attendees can see prototypes and pre-market products from small companies, startups, and research organizations. An amazing part of Display Week is how it honors people who have made significant contributions to the industry. The 2023 Honors and Awards will be presented to a select group of innovators who have furthered research, pushed the boundaries of discovery, and improved technology. To read more about the prizes and honorees, see the March/April 2023 issue of ID. Other special events and programs include the SID/DSCC Business Conference, CEO Forum, Women in Tech event, Young Leadership Conference, SID Job Fair, and much more. There is something for everyone in the ecosystem. Looking to the next 60 years, SID will continue to evolve as the world evolves, and Display Week will continue to be the place to experience the latest innovations in electronic displays and imaging technologies. We're excited to bring these important developments to our community. Please reach out with ideas and comments to [email protected]. I hope to see you at Display Week! Achin Bhowmik is the president of the Society for Information Display. He can be reached at [email protected].

Abstracts of The 38th Annual International Symposium on Acupuncture, Electro- Therapeutics, & Latest Advancements

Abstracts of The 38th Annual International Symposium on Acupuncture, Electro- Therapeutics, & Latest Advancements

AP-S Young Professionals Activities at the 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation [Young Professionals

This year, the annual IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and U.S. National Committee for the International Union of Radio Science Radio Science Meeting was held in Denver, CO, USA, on 10–15 July. This conference was special because it was the first in-person conference after the two virtual conferences, in 2020 and 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Many students, Young Professionals (YPs), engineers, researchers, and professors met in person. The IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) YPs Committee (YPC) <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref1" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">[1]</xref> conducted important educational and networking activities at the conference. AP-S YPs ambassadors <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref2" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">[2]</xref> led the way in the development of several new YPs activities, establishing them as an inspirational influence for the Society. Highlights of the YPs activities ( <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig1" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">Figure 1</xref> ) are summarized in the following.

Founders and Past Presidents Luncheon: 2022 IEEE EMC+SIPI Symposium, Spokane, Washington

One of the historical highlights of the annual IEEE International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility, Signal and Power Integrity (EMC+SIPI), is the luncheon held on Wednesday noon for Founders and Past Presidents. The luncheon in 2022 was well attended by Past Presidents but no Founders were able to make it. To the best of our knowledge, we have only two Founders still alive from the 1957 origin of the Society: Milton Kant and Vince Mancino. Fortunately, we have 17 Past Presidents that are still “moving and shaking.”

The Radiation Oncology Education Collaborative Study Group 2020 Spring Symposium: Is Virtual the New Reality?

Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Radiation Oncology Education Collaborative Study Group (ROECSG) hosted its annual international symposium using a virtual format in May 2020. This report details the experience of hosting a virtual meeting and presents attendee feedback on the platform.

Analysis of INCOSE Systems Engineering journal and international symposium research topics

AbstractThe pressure on systems engineering is ever‐increasing to support the development and implementation of systems that meet a complex environment's demands. As a growing discipline, systems engineering requires insight into past research to identify opportunities for future growth. Analyzing the bibliometric data on published research provides valuable information on a scientific discipline's past progress and future prospects. Therefore, this paper extracts the research topics published in INCOSE's journal Systems Engineering and the annual international symposium proceedings to analyze their composition and allocation to papers. The implemented process applies natural language processing and topic modeling to extract the main topics from these papers' titles and abstracts. Analyzing these research topics' composition and mapping them to processed articles helps to understand their relative importance. The analysis's output confirms the importance of modeling in systems engineering, as it is the most popular topic. The additional focus of research papers on the systems engineering process, practice, and methodologies also indicates that the field is still growing and evolving. Some important topics to systems engineering, which were not found as prominent topics, are humans' roles in systems, verification and validation, and other specialty fields. This new knowledge about the structure of research into systems engineering can identify future research project opportunities to continue growing the field.

Abstracts of The 36th Annual International Symposium on Acupuncture, Electrotherapeutics, &amp; Latest Advancements

Abstracts of The 36th Annual International Symposium on Acupuncture, Electrotherapeutics, &amp; Latest Advancements

Chapter Chatter

It's summertime and that means it's time for our annual IEEE International Symposium on EMC+SIPI. This year's virtual symposium (held jointly with EMC Europe) will take place 26 July - 20 August 2021 - that's over four weeks of exciting content for all of us to enjoy!

The Radiation Oncology Education Collaborative Study Group 2020 Spring Symposium: Is Virtual the New Reality?

Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Radiation Oncology Education Collaborative Study Group (ROECSG) hosted its annual international symposium using a virtual format in May 2020. This report details the experience of hosting a virtual meeting and presents attendee feedback on the platform. The ROECSG symposium was hosted virtually on May 15, 2020. A postsymposium survey was distributed electronically to assess attendee demographics, participation, and experience. Attendee preference and experience were queried using 3-point and 5-point Likert-type scales, respectively. Symplur LLC was used to generate analytics for the conference hashtag (#ROECSG). The survey was distributed to all 286 registrants, with a response rate of 67% (191 responses). Seventeen nonattendee responses were omitted from this analysis, for a total of 174 included respondents. Eighty-two attendees (47%) were present for the entire symposium. A preference for a virtual symposium was expressed by 78 respondents (45%), whereas 44 (25%) had no preference and 52 (30%) preferred an in-person meeting. A total of 150 respondents (86%) rated the symposium as "extremely" well organized. Respondents who had not attended a prior in-person ROECSG symposium were more likely to prefer the virtual format (P = .03). Seventy-eight respondents (45%) reported a preference for the virtual platform for reviewing scholarly work, and 103 (59%) reported a preference for an in-person platform for networking. On the day of the symposium, #ROECSG had 408 tweets and 432,504 impressions. The 2020 ROECSG symposium was well received and can serve as a framework for future virtual meetings. Although the virtual setting may facilitate sharing research, networking aspects are more limited. Effort is needed to develop hybrid virtual and in-person meetings that meet the needs of participants in both settings. Social media is a significant avenue for dissemination and discussion of information and may be valuable in the virtual setting.

50-25-10 years ago: A review of EMC society newsletters

TO THE READERS: The cover page of the Newsletter contained a picture of George R. Ufen, the Chairman of the 1970 International Symposium on EMC. In the accompanying article, he said, "On behalf of the Symposium Committee, may I extend a personal invitation to the 12th Annual International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility. This will be held July 14, 15, and 16, 1970 at the world's most modern Convention Center in Anaheim, California.

Case records from the 13th annual international symposium on ventricular arrhythmias

A 60-year old male with a history of nonischemic cardiomyopathy and the high burden of premature ventricular contractions (PVCs) was evaluated for possible PVC-induced cardiomyopathy.

Best Practices for Conducting Observational Research to Assess the Relation between Nutrition and Bone: An International Working Group Summary

ABSTRACTDiet is a modifiable factor that can affect bone strength and integrity, and the risk of fractures. Currently, a hierarchy of scientific evidence contributes to our understanding of the role of diet on bone health and fracture risk. The strength of evidence is generally based on the type of study conducted, the quality of the methodology employed, the rigor and integrity of the data collected and analysis plan, and the transparency and completeness of the results. Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are considered to be the gold standard from a clinical research paradigm, but there is a dearth of high-quality diet-related intervention trials with bone as the primary outcome, forcing the use of observational research to inform research and clinical practices. However, for observational research to be of the most utility, standardization and optimization of the study design, accurate and reliable measurement of key variables, and appropriate data analysis and data reporting are paramount. Although there have been recommendations made in relation to RCTs in the field of nutrition, no clear rubric exists for best practices in conducting observational research with regard to nutrition and bone health. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to describe the best practices and considerations for designing, conducting, analyzing, interpreting, and reporting observational research specifically for understanding the role of nutrition in bone health, amassed by a global panel of scientific experts with strengths in bone, nutrition epidemiology, physical activity, public health, clinical and translational trials, and observational study methods. The global panel of scientific experts represents the leadership and selected participants from the 10th annual International Symposium for the Nutritional Aspects of Osteoporosis. The topics selected and best practices presented reflect expert opinion and areas of scientific expertise of the authors rather than a systematic or comprehensive literature review or professional reporting guidelines.

Exploring Various Levels of Parallelism in High-Performance CRC Algorithms

Modern processors have increased the capabilities of instruction-level parallelism (ILP) and thread-level parallelism (TLP). These resources, however, typically exhibit poor utilization on conventional cyclic redundancy check (CRC) algorithms. In this paper, various levels of parallelism in high-performance CRC algorithms are investigated. The main idea of the proposed algorithms is to make full utilization of modern processors, from the perspective of both instruction-level and thread-level parallelism. First, a fine-grained algorithm executes the CRC computation in an interleaved manner, so that multiple independent data flows can be processed simultaneously. This algorithm allows instruction-level parallelism, which triples and doubles the performance of the existing slicing-by-4 and slicing-by-8 algorithms, respectively. Second, a coarse-grained algorithm can ideally deal with data in a parallel way by parallelizing a family of serial CRC generating algorithms. Therefore, this algorithm allows thread-level parallelism, which can make full use of multi-core computing capability. As a result, it achieves a speedup that is almost equal to the number of threads used. In addition, both fine-grained and coarse-grained algorithms can be applied together to achieve high throughput further. (This is an extended version of a paper that appeared at the 28th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC) in Montreal, QC, Canada, in 2017.).

301 Do doctors treating menopausal women and andropausal men talk about sexual health in patient-treatment? Igls-SexMed-Survey-Program, doctors' self-assessment results at the Vienna Congress for Meno-/Andropause, Anti-Ageing, December 2017, Vienna

According to the Igls-Sex-Med-Survey-Program’s results in 2017, Medical University Vienna, “meno/ andropause” were rated leading occasion to address sexual health actively by doctors. Thus, at the annual international symposium for “meno/andropause, anti-ageing”, Vienna, December 2017, the medical doctors participating in the sessions “menopause” and “andropause” were invited in this self-assessment-program in order to share their perspective. A 3-parted questionnaire was used in order to self-assess: the patients treated, the health care structures and the professional profile of the survey’s participants. 92 doctors participated in the andropause-session. Sadly only 6 participants filled out the questionnaire and returned it, return-rate less than 15% and thus not publishable. 102 doctors participated in the menopause-session, 20 filled out and returned (rate 20,6%). 55% of the menopause-sessions’ participants were female, 35% male, 50% aged between 51-60 years, 30% older than 60 years, 90% were professionally active in practice, 70% clinically experienced more than 21 years in the field of meno-/andropause, anti-ageing. 40% addressed in up to 20% of the patients sexual health issues, 30% in between 21 and 40% of the patients. 55% of the doctors were asked by up to 20% of their patients about troubled sexuality. 40% of the participants assessed they suggested their patients having troubled sexuality without actively asking them. 70% of the doctors rated other topics being more important and this being the main reason for not bringing up this topic during medical consultation. 70% assessed menopause being one occasion to address sexual problems actively by medical doctors. In spite of this 40% of the doctors asked only up to 20% of the patients and 30% of them ask up to 40% of them. 45% evaluated ‘lack of patients’ motivation’, 40% ‘patients’ age’ and 25% rated ‘lack of sexual medicine experience’ reducing patients’ success of treatment.

Conference Report: 6th Annual International Symposium on Regenerative Rehabilitation.

The 6th International Symposium on Regenerative Rehabilitation, hosted by the Alliance for Regenerative Rehabilitation Research and Training (AR3T), included a preconference meeting of institutional representatives of the International Consortium of Regenerative Rehabilitation, keynote talks from distinguished scientists, platform and poster presentations from experts and trainees, panel discussions and postconference workshops. The following priorities were identified: increasing rigor in basic, preclinical and clinical studies, especially the use of better controls; developing better outcome measures for preclinical and clinical trials; focusing on developing more tissue-based interventions versus cell-based interventions; including regenerative rehabilitation in curricula of professional programs like occupational and physical therapy; and developing better instruments to quantify rehabilitative interventions.

ISWC 2017: Riding the Waves of Wearables

The annual International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC) is the flagship conference on all topics related to wearable computing and the ideal venue to present and learn about cutting-edge research in the field. The authors share their observations from the most recent gathering, held in September 2017 in Maui, Hawaii.