Conference In Barcelona Research Articles

Analysis of dynamic methods for calculating NPP building structures

Introduction. The present article concerns the seismic performance of various building structures, including NPP objects. The provided materials generalize the results of the author’s longstanding work connected with the dynamics of building structures.Aim. To analyze the seismic performance of various building structures, including NPP objects, and represent the author’s material on the dynamics of building structures.Materials and methods. The presented materials include a definition of the dynamics concept, computational modeling of dynamic processes, main correlations of dynamic analysis methods, and a description of impacts (accelerograms). In addition, the concepts of resonance and vibration diagnostics in the dynamic analysis, assessment of the building strength and stability, as well as the description of applied software systems are provided. Some of the presented materials are characterized by the scientific novelty. The following methods were used in the study. The method of nonclassical modal superposition for determining the response of a structure under dynamic impacts together with floor response spectra were presented by the author at the ABAQUS (SIMULIA) International Conference in Barcelona, 2011. The essence of the method consists in the reliable account for a “soil” damper, modeling the energy outflow into the soil during the vibrations of a building, which ensures reliable results. A fundamental solution for accounting the ductility of the foundation slab under seismic impacts was applied. This method ensures the seismic response of the structure to be reliably determined, as well as the floor response spectra to be obtained in the conditions of the aircraft crashing for buildings, whose impact on the equipment is transmitted through the foundation slab. Additionally, the method of accounting the dynamic characteristics of building fragments (floor/ wall), obtained using the vibration diagnostic results, was applied to verify computational models, as well as to analyze the strength and floor response spectra. The appendix includes the realistic test problem of the seismic analysis, developed by the author.Results. The provided materials generalize the results of the author’s longstanding work in the field of NPP building structures. In addition to the scientific novelty, the materials are widely applied in the development of NPP designs both in the Russian Federation and abroad.Conclusion. The materials, presented in the article, can be used to prepare the “Introduction to Dynamics” lecture course, including, for newcomer countries that are at the beginning of the nuclear facility (NF) construction.

Student Development in Higher Education in the Era of the Agenda 2030 and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals: Towards SDGs 2.0

The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Higher Education Conference in Barcelona was an occasion for the authors of this article to reflect on the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in general and SDG 4: education, specifically, pondering over its role and impact on student development in the Global South and North. The authors are indeed glad that UNESCO is taking the initiative to revitalize the role of higher education in sustainable development. But the authors are also concerned and question the extent to which higher education institutions (HEIs) are enabled and encouraged by the discourse of the 2030 Agenda to contribute toward the achievement of the SDGs and the type of challenges they may encounter, particularly with regard to developing students’ capacities as global and engaged citizens within the boundaries of the SDGs and SDG 4.

Traduire les voix de la nature / Translating the Voices of Nature (= Vita Traductiva 11)

In response to increasing worldwide interest in eco-translation, or the ecology of translation—fed above all by the pressuring effects of climate change and increasing concern for the environment, as well as a new awareness of the role of translation in the fight for a better, more sustainable future—Kristiina Taivalkoski-Shilov and Bruno Poncharal have produced a valuable overview of some of the central themes in the field. The volume is certainly timely, considering the increased interest in eco-translation in recent years, at least since Cronin’s (2017) seminal work, and the number of conferences and panels dedicated to the topic (most recently at the IATIS 2021 conference in Barcelona).

On Islamic Feminist Texts and Women Activism

In the early nineteen nineties, when Arab and Muslim women in the diaspora began to speak of the linguistic construct “Islam” and “feminism,” the two terms were not yet closely connected. The discourse was rather about Islamic feminism as a trend or as a different form of gender awareness and renewal in Islamic thought (Badran, 2009). With the start of the twenty first century, a large group of Muslim women scholars and activists working on feminist issues, researchers on Islam, theologians, and social scientists from Senegal, Pakistan, Indonesia, Iran, Morocco, Malaysia, France, and the United States met for a conference in Barcelona (October 26-30, 2005) under the title “Junta Islamic Catalonia”. The Iranian Ziba Mir-Hosseini, Pakistani Refaat Hassan, Afro-American Amina Wadud, Pakistani Asma Barlas, and many other voices were heard officially discussing “Islamic feminism”, knowing that the phrase itself was used earlier in the journal Zenan, in post-revolutionary Iran.

The challenge of Euro-Mediterranean integration for Campania agribusiness sustainability

This work aims to investigate whether and for which products the Campania region, as compared to other Italian regions, has managed to exploit the opportunities resulting from the gradual opening of MTC (Mediterranean third countries) markets which took place following the 1995 Euro-Mediterranean Conference in Barcelona. The results obtained through the use of a relative specialisation index show that Campania, compared to other Italian regions, enjoys a competitive advantage resulting from relative specialisation in the sale of processed and preserved fruit and vegetables and of bakery and flour products on MTC markets. Of great interest is the result, that the performance recorded by Campania with reference to the MTCs regarding the production of processed and preserved fruit and vegetables did not entail the repositioning of the same region on other European markets. Ultimately, the results highlight a strong specialisation and competitiveness of Campania in the production of processed and preserved fruit and vegetables and how the region has managed to fully exploit the gradual opening of MTC markets positioning itself on the markets and without being affected by the other main markets of MTC competition.<br />

Polarization, thin-film optics, ellipsometry, and polarimetry: Retrospective

As plenary speaker at the 2019 ICSE-8 Conference in Barcelona, Spain, the author was invited to review several of his published contributions to polarization optics of interfaces and thin films, ellipsometry, and polarimetry over the past 50 years. This paper is an abridged account of his oral presentation. The author reconsiders the reflection of p- and s-polarized and unpolarized light at dielectric-dielectric and dielectric-conductor interfaces and obtains interesting results. For example, the author shows how the retrieval of the reflection phase shift of s-polarized light from p and s intensity reflectance data enables the determination of the complex dielectric function of an absorbing medium on a wavelength-by-wavelength basis without ellipsometry or Kramers–Kronig analysis. Novel achromatic and angle-insensitive single- and four-reflection wave retarders are presented that are particularly suited for the near IR. The author also shows how binary-thickness thin-film optical coatings on a high-index substrate can generate binary spatial and temporal polarization modulation by reflection. Finally, O'Bryan's 1936 vacuum ellipsometer is revisited and the author shows how it can be adapted for the measurement of the optical properties of absorbing liquids using attenuated total reflection spectroscopic ellipsometry.

P2.16-40 Acknowledging Social and Economic Inequities Experienced by Canada’s Inuit: Implications for Diagnosis and Treatment of Lung Cancer

The Inuit living in Canada’s north have the highest rates of lung cancer in the world. Barriers to care are numerous and exist at all phases of the lung cancer journey. Beginning with difficulty in accessing the diagnostic phase of care through to treatment at a tertiary cancer centre located over 2000 km away and little to no palliative care available locally, this population experiences obstacles at each step of their lung cancer journey. The Inuit in Canada’s arctic experience dramatically higher rates of social and economic inequity than the rest of Canada with only one hospital serving a land mass similar to the size of Mexico, access to or from many communities is by air only. This means that diagnosis and treatment for lung cancer is provided thousands of kilometres away from family, community and culture, often for months at a time. Along with geographic barriers to care, Inuit peoples also have a historical mistrust of government and mainstream health care services owing to past encounters with colonization and marginalization. A lack of awareness of Inuit specific culture from health care providers (i.e. discrimination) further compounds this lack of trust. These end result of these traumas contribute to the significant health disparities experienced by the Inuit as compared to other Canadians and may in part explain why approximately 30% of Inuit diagnosed with lung cancer between 2000-2010 did not access cancer care. To better meet the needs of this population, TOHCC hired an Indigenous Nurse Navigator in 2016 with a goal to provide culturally safe care for Inuit patients and their families. Collaborative relationships have been built with key stakeholders in Inuit communities through consistent efforts which in turn have garnered awareness of Inuit specific issues within TOHCC and the surrounding city. In depth semi-structured interviews with Inuit patients, caregivers and community leaders. The Indigenous nurse navigator will interview participants either in person or by video during April and May 2019. The results of these interviews will be presented at the 2019 World Lung Cancer Conference in Barcelona. There is still much work to do in breaking down barriers to accessing care at all phases of the lung cancer journey for the Inuit of Canada’s North. This presentation offers the opportunity to hear directly from a marginalized community who potentially have the greatest lung cancer needs of any population in the world.

Regulatory, Policy, and Operational Considerations for Outcomes-Based Risk-Sharing Agreements in the U.S. Market: Opportunities for Reform.

Although interest in outcomes-based risk-sharing agreements (OBRSAs) and other value-based contracts (VBCs) continues to grow, the number of VBCs in the United States is still limited. A better understanding of the evolving and fluid context of policies, regulations, and operational factors affecting their uptake in the United States is needed in order to lower or obviate barriers and advance OBRSAs. To (a) identify and recognize priorities among policies, regulations, and other factors that are most likely to influence the feasibility, design, and execution of OBRSAs and (b) suggest opportunities for reform and other modifications that may advance OBRSAs in the United States. Across 18 months during 2017-2018, we reviewed health policy literature, examined stakeholder group communications, and conducted semistructured interviews with representatives of 12 diverse stakeholder organizations. Across these, and incorporating real-time contextual changes, we identified priorities for enabling and improving OBRSAs. Regulatory and policy priorities most often cited by manufacturers were Medicaid best price rule, Medicare Part B average sales pricing, FDA restrictions on communications, and the Anti-Kickback Statute. While recognizing these, health plans were more concerned about operational barriers, particularly associated with data collection and analysis, selection of outcomes that are feasible to assess, bandwidth for managing OBRSAs, and implementation costs relative to return on investment. Most recognized limitations on access to personal health information, target population turnover, and insufficient information sharing of OBRSA experiences. Noteworthy were asymmetries of administrative burden and cost management: individual manufacturers may pursue OBRSAs for 1 or a few products per year, while health plans are approached by multiple manufacturers about OBRSAs for their respective products; manufacturers focus on drugs, while health plans must manage broader costs of care. While all stakeholders express interest in OBRSAs, health plans tend to consider them as a narrower priority than manufacturers. Solving operational barriers, in addition to addressing policy and regulatory barriers, is essential for aligning efforts to advance OBRSAs. Doing so depends on collaboration to improve decisions about when and how to pursue OBRSAs, with attention to data management, modeling and piloting OBRSAs, and information sharing. These findings pertain to companies operating in the United States and some likely extend to certain value-based arrangements in other countries. This analysis was funded by Merck Sharp & Dohme (MSD), a subsidiary of Merck, as a component of the Learning Laboratory for Advancing Value-Based Healthcare, which is a multiyear collaboration of MSD and Optum, a health services, technology, and data company. The manuscript underwent an internal review by the sponsor. The Lewin Group (Lewin) is a subsidiary of OptumServe. OptumServe is wholly owned by UnitedHealth Group (UHG). Neither OptumServe nor UHG or its subsidiaries review the work products of Lewin. Lewin operates with editorial independence and provides its clients with health care and human services policy research and consulting services. Goodman and Villarivera are employees of Lewin; Gregor is an employee of Optum; and van Bavel is an employee of MSD. Goodman and Villarivera report fees from UHG, unrelated to this study. A poster presentation based on this manuscript was accepted and presented at the ISPOR Europe 2018 Conference in Barcelona, Spain, on November 13, 2018.

Weryfikacja planu leczenia, zaawansowane metody obrazowania - perspektywy. Na podstawie prezentacji ustnych podczas konferencji ESTRO 37 w Barcelonie.

Celem pracy jest przedstawienie najważniejszych aspektów metody wyboru planu leczenia w codziennej praktyce klinicznej oraz zaawansowanych metod obrazowania na podstawie doniesień z konferencji ESTRO 37 w Barcelonie.

Najnowsze osiągnięcia w radioterapii adaptacyjnej MRgRT w świetle doniesień zaprezentowanych podczas konferencji ESTRO 37

Celem niniejszej pracy było omówienie najnowszych doniesień o radioterapii adaptacyjnej na podstawie prezentacji ustnych oraz plakatowych zaprezentowanych podczas 37. konferencji Europejskiego Towarzystwa Radioterapii i Onkologii - ESTRO (ang. European Society for Radiation and Oncology).

Evidence-based Nurse Staffing: ICN's New Position Statement.

Evidence-based Nurse Staffing: ICN's New Position Statement.

European Breast Cancer Council manifesto 2018: Genetic risk prediction testing in breast cancer

European Breast Cancer Council manifesto and supporting article on genetic risk prediction testing in breast cancer, presented at the 11th European Breast Cancer Conference in Barcelona, Spain.

Reflections on the ‘Sound Health-An NIH-Kennedy Center Partnership’

It’s been a busy season for the international community of music and medicine. An inspiring, beautifully executed conference in Barcelona this past Summer rendered some evolving global themes of Music Therapy and Medical Practitioners-and how those whose work in hospitals and clinics in cities and countries near and far, have influenced the growth of our community...

Market Access for African Agricultural Exports: Assessment of the AoA and SPS Agreements

Agriculture plays a critical role in the majority of African Countries’ economy. The sector is not only a major employer but also a significant source of export earnings and hence it has a high multiplier effect. This very fact makes agricultural market access issues of major concern to African countries.This paper aimed at assessing the agricultural market access challenges of African countries through reviewing pertinent literature, WTO Agreements on agriculture (AOA) and the Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) measures and recent developments at the Doha round of trade negotiations.While through the adoption of the AoA, WTO members have brought agricultural trade to a new phase of remarkable reform, African agricultural exports still face significant challenges (both tariff and non-tariff). Particularly, African small holder farmers’ exports hardly penetrate into major export markets due to ever increasing complex nature of SPS measures administered by those markets although a number of preferential market access regimes are available to them. It also appears that the Doha round, on the basis of the different modalities in motion, offers little to most of African countries, leaving “aid for trade” as an important supplementary policy for the round to be pro-development, as it purports to be. Presented at the SIEL 2010 Conference in Barcelona.

Update on Development of a national Framework and Implementation plan for Self management Support for Chronic conditions: COPD, Asthma, Diabetes and Cardiovascular disease

Introduction: An Irish national framework for self management support (SMS) for chronic conditions ( COPD, Asthma, Diabetes & Cardiovascular disease) has been developed over the last two years and implementation will start in 2017. The initial steps in the development of the framework were presented at the IFIC conference in Barcelona in 2016. Since then a national consultation was carried out on the draft framework, and further work done to incorporate the findings of consultation into the final framework, and to develop an implementation plan. This presentation will give an overview of the key findings from the national consultation; changes made to the framework; and outline the planned Implementation actions over the next 3 years. Description of policy context and objective: Ireland, like other developed countries, needs to re-orientate its health services, in light of its ageing population and chronic disease prevalence, in order to ensure the sustainability of health services into the future. While national guidelines recommend SMS for specific chronic conditions, this has not been implemented widely despite patient views that it should be a priority. Healthy Ireland: A Framework for Improved Health and Wellbeing 2013 – 2025 (DOH 2013) recognises the need to implement a model for the prevention and management of chronic illnesses, empowering people and communities, with an emphasis on partnership and cross-sectoral work to increase the proportion of people who are healthy at all stages of life. Arising from this, the HSE committed to finalising a framework and implementation plan for SMS for COPD, Asthma, Diabetes and Cardiovascular disease in 2016. Targeted population: People living with chronic conditions, initially COPD, Asthma, Diabetes and Cardiovascular conditions Highlights: the consultation on the draft framework gave rise to themes in relation to the content of the framework, communication issues, and implementation issues. Themes included: a high level of support for provision of SMS among patients, staff and HSE senior management the need for a ‘patient friendly’ version of the framework to help everyone to understand the concept of SMS and what should be provided Lack of resources in primary care were identified as a major barrier: this approach requires a high level of collaboration across the boundaries of primary care, community health organisations and hospital groups Implementation will require coordination at national and local level, training of healthcare professionals, information provision, communications plan, increased provision, access and standardisation of disease specific programmes; provision of peer and social support; a whole system approach Comments on transferability: While some areas have developed SMS services of varying types, there is inconsistent and fragmented provision - the national framework needs to guide development and coordination at national and local level. Conclusions: Main points from the consultation findings, the framework - a whole system model, and planned implementation actions over a 3 year period will be presented.

Surveillance and the Formation of Public Policy

SSN Outstanding Achievement Award 2016Surveillance & Society Biennial Conference, Barcelona. This article is based upon a keynote lecture delivered at the Surveillance Studies Network Conference in Barcelona, April 22nd, and a public lecture delivered at The London School of Economics and Political Science, May 19th, 2016.

Bridging generation gaps in medical education: a “light bulb moment” at the Association for Medical Education in Europe annual conference in Barcelona

Generation gaps have been described before and so have ways to deal with them. But they were mainly focused on the teachers. We would like to bridge these generation gaps, not only by creating awareness but also by learning from each other. This leads to better equipped doctors across all generations and promotes lifelong learning instantaneously.

Asymptotic analysis of reaction-diffusion-advection problems: Fronts with periodic motion and blow-up

This is an extended variant of the paper presented at MURPHYS-HSFS 2016 conference in Barcelona. We discuss further development of the asymptotic method of differential inequalities to investigate existence and stability of sharp internal layers (fronts) for nonlinear singularly perturbed periodic parabolic problems and initial boundary value problems with blow-up of fronts for reaction-diffusion-advection equations. In particular, we consider periodic solutions with internal layer in the case of balanced reaction. For the initial boundary value problems we prove the existence of fronts and give their asymptotic approximation including the new case of blowing-up fronts. This case we illustrate by the generalised Burgers equation.

Editorial

Special issue has a special editorial written by the guest editors. If not all papers in the issue belong to the special theme, an editorial aside or a mini-editorial for the remaining few papers, is called for. Or is it? The present streamlining of academic publications has already entered the era of Big Data. Management of periodicals is linked to the filling of online slots by robotized and computerized procedures. The publishing side is still run by commercial organizations, which fear the fate of brick-and-mortar bookshops and the editorial side is still managed by individuals with university credentials, who fear the end of the peer review magic. The authors still keep coming, mainly because they fear that without publications duly noted by the evaluation and performance assessment routines – their individual career mobility will be threatened. But this meeting place of the authors willing to communicate, editors willing to evaluate and publishers willing to supply the libraries and data bases becomes unhinged. My British colleague and a fellow Editor-in-chief, Martin Parker, had already noted some of the consequences of this longcycle change in academic communications a while ago. He left the post of an editor-in-chief and enjoyed the escape from the status and favors game. But the larger picture is much more serious – we are not in a game of status only. We are in a game of totally transformed rhetoric of academic communications. It happens, that all the papers, which accompany special issue papers on rhetoric and narrative methods in business studies, an interesting tradition of international conferences and workshops in Barcelona’s ESADE, deal with topics directly related to these forthcoming changes in rhetoric, which will probably change the way, in which we communicate and allow knowledge clusters to drift through our social interactions. The first paper, by Christina Oberg and Seppo Leminen – “Gap analysis for innovative firm acquisition – acquirer and acquired party perspectives” – testifies to an attempt to render the human, humanist, ethical aspects of a process of organizational change visible and accessible for a relatively unbiased discussion. Veni, vidi, vici? Not necessarily. The second paper, on “Grasping the business value of online communities,” has been written by Zilia Iskoujina, Malgorzata Ciesielska, Joanne Roberts and Feng Li. The process of a rapid penetration of online communities by all kinds of commercial agents is, indeed fascinating, and it is quite likely that in future, companies of the past – say – Googles, Amazons, Ubers, Facebooks and the like – will be viewed primarily as the first crude attempts to cash in on sociability, socializing and social airs and graces. The third, with a longer title – “A revelation of employee feelings of alienation during post-mergers and acquisition: an outcome of perceived organizational justice” – has been submitted by Anjali Bansal and it tackles the problem of fairness in the management of business companies increasingly managed, coached, transformed and consulted by professional organizations. No amount of rhetoric can hide the perceived unfairness – no PR can cover all injustices nor can it sugarcoat the ideological assault upon common sense and the injuries of unjust exercise of power. Finally, last not least, the paper by Joseph Samuel Schultz, Endre Sjovold and Beate Andre is entitled “Can group climate explain innovative readiness for change?” and with the concept of climate we are entering one of these levels of analysis, which are potentially promising for the understanding of the new rhetoric of academic and corporate communications. The two are not so far away as one might suspect. In fact, they overlap (having sat for 20 years on a jury of the master’s thesis prize for the best theses written by graduating students of corporate communications master at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam I feel entitled to venture this opinion). Thus, we are entering the mid-2017 issue 3 of JOCM with the bunch of papers on rhetoric and narrative methods in management studies and with accompanying papers, which are not linked to the conference in Barcelona, but which share the newly found focus on the rhetoric and ethics.

Editorial introductions

Current Opinion in Organ Transplantation was launched in 1996. It is part of a successful series of review journals whose unique format is designed to provide a systematic and critical assessment of the literature as presented in the many primary journals. The field of organ transplantation is divided into 18 sections that are reviewed once a year. Each section is assigned a Section Editor, a leading authority in the area, who identifies the most important topics at that time. Here we are pleased to introduce the Section Editors for this issue. SECTION EDITORS Philip J. O’ConnellPhilip J. O’ConnellAfter completing his clinical training in Nephrology in Sydney, Philip J. O’Connell undertook a PhD in endothelial cell adhesion molecules with Professor Tony d’Apice at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. He then had further training in transplant immunology as a post-doctoral research fellow with Professor Terry Strom, Harvard Medical School. It was here that he developed an interest in islet transplantation and following two and a half years in Boston he took up a position as a transplant nephrologist at the National Pancreas Transplant Unit, Westmead Hospital. It was here that he set up a research group investigating the mechanisms of islet xenograft rejection and developed the laboratory skills necessary of clinical grade islet isolation. In 2003 he initiated the first successful clinical trial of clinical islet transplantation in Australia. He is Director of the Australian Clinical Islet Transplant Consortium, which undertook Australia's first multicentre clinical trial of islet transplantation and now provides a national clinical service for patients with unstable type 1 diabetes. He maintains a strong research interest in the use of genomics as a marker of renal allograft dysfunction. Currently he is a clinical professor in Medicine at the University of Sydney and Director of Transplantation at Westmead Hospital. He is also Director of the Centre for Transplant and Renal Research, The Westmead Institute of Medical Reseach where his major research focus has been the development of pancreatic islet transplantation as a main stream treatment for type 1 diabetes. His research group still has a strong research program in islet xenotransplantation. He is immediate Past-President of The Transplantation Society and Past-President of the Transplantation Society of Australia and New Zealand. Stefan SchneebergerStefan SchneebergerCurrently, I am serving as the Vice Chair and Head of Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgery and Associate Professor of Surgery at the Department of Visceral, Transplant and Thoracic Surgery at the Innsbruck Medical University in Austria. I received my medical degree at the Leopold Franzens University in Innsbruck/Austria in 1999, and completed residency in general surgery at the Innsbruck Medical University. I was then appointed a faculty position at the Innsbruck Medical University/Department of Visceral, Transplant and Thoracic Surgery. The emphasis of my clinical work is solid organ transplantation and hepatobiliary surgery while the particular focus of my basic science as well as translational research efforts are vascularized composite allotransplantation, rejection and ischemia/reperfusion injury. In 2006, I was appointed Research Assistant Professor of Surgery at the Division of Plastic Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, USA and later served as the Director of the Composite Tissue Allotransplantation Program in Pittsburgh until 2010. Commuting between Baltimore and Innsbruck, I served as Associate Professor of Surgery at the Innsbruck Medical University and Visiting (later Adjunct) Associate Professor part-time at the Johns Hopkins Medical University in Baltimore, USA until end of 2013. In 2014, I completed an Executive MBA Program in General Management at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland. Currently, I am at Innsbruck full time. Awards received include the Roche Austrotransplant Award in 2004, the Young Investigator Award from the American Society for Transplantation in 2005, the Austrotransplant Award in 2008, the American Society for Reconstructive Transplantation Achievement Award in 2010 and the Pichlmayr Preis in 2013. I was the Founder and first President of the American Society for Reconstructive Transplantation as well as the ESOT Composite Tissue Allotransplantation Committee. I am President Elect of the European Society for Organ Transplantation (ESOT) and Co-Chair the Scientific Program Committee for the upcoming ESOT conference in Barcelona in 2017 together with Josep Grinyo. The list of publications I have worked on includes over 110 original articles, 14 review articles, 24 book chapters and over 350 published abstracts. I have presented 97 invited lectures and served as chair or key member of the organizing committee of several international conferences.