Biannual International Conference Research Articles

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4th International Interdisciplinary Conference on Green Development in Tropical Regions (4th IICGDTR) “Governance Challenges of Green Development in Tropical Asia” Virtual Conference The Graduate Program – Universitas Andalas, West Sumatera, Indonesia 7 – 8 July 2021 The 4th International Interdisciplinary Conference on Green Development in Tropical Regions (4th IICGDTR) has successfully held virtually on 7 – 8 July 2021 organized by the Graduate Program, Universitas Andalas, West Sumatera, Indonesia.IICGDTR is the biannual international conference on Green Development in Tropical Region (ICGDTR). This 2021 conference is the 4th interdisciplinary ICGDTR which held virtually due to the covid-19 pandemic, with the theme “Governance Challenges of Green Development in Tropical Asia”. The main objective of this international conference is to enhance the discourse and discussion on various aspects of green development in tropical regions, especially on the issue of governance challenges of green development in tropical regions.Since the early 21st century, conventional development strategies have been questioned by various development analysts, especially those concerned with issues and conflicts surrounding its environmental, human and socio-economic impacts. The debate on issues surrounding degradation of natural resources, forest, coastal, and agricultural land, along with understanding climate change, has led to the new proposition of the green development paradigm. The conceptual understanding of the green development paradigm is concerned with the strategy and planning of all aspects including environmental planning, rural and urban planning, regional development planning, agriculture and industrial development planning.The tropical region of Asia, covering South, Southeast, and part of East Asia, is a region with a large population, rich biodiversity, and also high growth. More importantly, this is a culturally rich region. Tropical Region of Asia (TRA) is the most dynamic region and is in a constant effort to balance its development path. Much of the region’s economic growth is supported by the exploitation of common-pool natural resources, i.e., forest, land, water. Agriculture is still a dominant livelihood strategy with very slow technological adoption. But the region also utilizes its ecosystem services for the tourism sector to diversify livelihood. Rural and urban development is still not balanced but instead is urban biased. Unfortunately, housing and settlement development in urban areas sometimes threatens agricultural land.List of Committee is available in this Pdf.

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The 5th International Conference on Empathic Architecture (ICEA) is a biannual international conference organized by the Department of Architecture, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Planning, Petra Christian University. The 1st ICEA was initiated on 11-12 September 2014. The 2nd ICEA was held as an International Joint Conference with the 17th SENVAR on 1-2 March 2017. The 3rd ICEA was conducted on 25-27 April 2019, in which all papers presented were published in the IOP Conference Proceeding: Earth and Environmental Science Volume 490. During the pandemic, the 4th ICEA was held online on 26 February 2021.The 5th ICEA was held at Petra Christian University, Surabaya, Indonesia, on 19-20 October 2023, with the theme “Architecture for Health and Wellbeing.” The 5th International Conference on Empathic Architecture (ICEA) aims to gather researchers, scholars, and practitioners to share and exchange their knowledge and breakthroughs in architecture, especially for health and wellbeing. It is important to seek a holistic understanding of the impact of architecture, with its design features, on human health and wellbeing. Thus, an architectural design should be responsive to user needs, inspire, motivate, give meaning, and be spirit caring.The 5th ICEA was honored to present four reputable keynote speakers: (i) A. Ray Pentecost III, DrPH, FAIA, FACHA, LEED AP from UIA-Public Health Group, USA (ii) Dr. Yuan Chao from National University of Singapore, (iii) Ir. Adi Utomo Hatmoko, M. Arch., a professional architect in hospital design from Indonesia, and (iv) Dr. Ruzika Bozovic from the National University of Singapore.The subtopics of the conference include Healing Architecture, Inclusive Architecture Design, Architecture and Perceptual memory, Lighting for well-being, Building Thermal Performance, Indoor Air Quality, Building Envelope for Wellbeing, and Wellness in an Urban Environment. Through these topics, papers from authors have been presented during the conference days as a manifestation of empathy for users and the environment through Architecture and Built Environment. After the inspiring keynote sessions and discussions during the parallel sessions, the papers were curated once more before publication in this IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science.We would like to appreciate all keynote speakers, scientific committee, moderators, conference coordinators, and participants who have contributed to this conference. Finally, we hope this 5th ICEA proceeding could encourage the development of an architecture that empathizes with the user’s health and wellbeing.The 5th ICEA Editorial Teamhttps://5thicea.petra.ac.id/homeList of Scientific Committee, Organizing Committee are available in the pdf

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the 3rd International Conference on Law, Economics, and Governance (ICOLEG 2023) organized by the Law Faculty, Universitas Diponegoro. This year ICOLEG held on July 11-12, 2023 at Patra Semarang Hotel & Convention. This international conference is divided into two forms of agenda as follows: Plenary Sessions; and Scientific Sessions which separated into three chambers. Faculty of Law, Universitas Diponegoro organizes this conference every two years (biannual international conference) as a forum to exchange ideas and experiences on law, economics, and governance issues. This conference invites speakers whose international reputation and call for papers to national or international law lectures, undergraduate and postgraduate law students from national or abroad, practitioners, government officers, and environmental activists or staff of Non-Government Organizations (NGO) to present their papers according to ICOLEG Theme in 2023, namely “Progressive Law in The Midst of Climate Change” with the topic :1. Environmental Law, Economic, and Governance2. Climate Justice and Sustainable Development3. Blue and Green EconomicWe invited several reputable speakers from various universities to discuss these issues. They are: Prof. Dr. Petra Minnerop (Professor of International Environmental Law and Climate Change, Durham Law School, British), Assoc Prof. Constatinos Yiallourides (Macquarie University, Sidney), Assoc. Prof Salawati Mat Basir (Faculty of Law, Universitas Kebangsaan, Malaysia), Assoc Prof. Dr. Johan Shamsudin bin Sabarudin (Faculty of Law, University of Malaya), Prof. M.R. Andri Gunawan Wibisana (Faculty of Law, Universitas Indonesia), Prof. Dr. F.X. Adji Samekto (Faculty of Law, Universitas Diponegoro), Dahliana Hasan, Ph. D (Faculty of Law, Universitas Gadjah Mada) and Iman Prihandono (Faculty of Law, Universitas Airlangga).This conference provided an academic opportunity for dialogue among the academician, officers, NGO, and other parties to solve the environmental issue. Every submitted paper has reviewed by our Scientific Committee who consists of ten experts from several universities around the world, namely : (1) Taylor’s Law School, Malaysia; (2) Australian Catholic University, Australia; (3) Universitas Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia; (4) Universitas Airlangga, Indonesia and (5) Universitas Diponegoro, Indonesia. The Scientific Committee will select the paper based on high quality standard to be published on proceeding.We would like to express our sincere gratitude and immense appreciation the honorable speakers, the participants, and also many people who are involved. We realize that the international conference would not be successfully conducted without their contribution.Hopefully this proceeding could provide the new insights and solutions regarding the climate change issues from the scientific perspective. The Editorial Team ICOLEG 2023 List of COMMITTEE are available in this pdf.

ON PERIODICITY OF RECURRENT SEQUENCES OF THE SECOND AND THE THIRD ORDER

Among other sequences of integers Fibonacci numbers and Lucas numbers are cituated in the central place. In spite of great amount of literature dedicated to Fibonacci and Lucas sequences, there are still a lot of intriguing questions and open problems in this direction, see, for instance, the ''The Fibonacci Quarterly'' journal or materials of the Biannual International Conference organized by Fibonacci Association.Among other sequences of integers Fibonacci numbers and Lucas numbers are cituated in the central place. In spite of great amount of literature dedicated to Fibonacci and Lucas sequences, there are still a lot of intriguing questions and open problems in this direction, see, for instance, the ''The Fibonacci Quarterly'' journal or materials of the Biannual International Conference organized by Fibonacci Association. We are motivated by the following simple observatoin. Consider the classical Fibonacci sequence defined by the rule $$ F_{n+2}=F_{n+1}+F_n, n=0,1,2,\dots $$ with the initial values $F_0=0$, $F_1=1$: $$ 0,1,1,2,3,5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55,\dots $$ If we consider a little bit another sequence $$ G_{n+2}=G_{n+1}-G_n, n=0,1,2,\dots, $$ then for $G_0=0$, $G_1=1$ the sequence $(G_n)_{n=0}^\infty$ is of the form $$ 0,1,1,0,-1,-1,0,1,1,0,-1,-1,\dots. $$ In other words, this sequence is periodic with period of the length $6$. Therefore, the next questions follow naturally from the previous observation:(i) under which conditions on its coefficients the reccurent sequence is periodic? (ii) How long may be a period of the reccurent sequence and how it depends on coefficients? (iii) Does the length of a period depends on initial values of the reccurent sequence? In the given paper we answer to these questions for the reccurent sequences of the second and the third order. We obtain necessary and sufficient conditions on coefficients $u_i$ for the periodicity of a recurrent sequence defined by the rule $a_{n+k}=u_{k-1}a_{n+k-1}+\dots+u_0a_0$ for $n=0,1,\dots$ and $u_i\in\mathbb R$, $i=0,\dots,k-1$, in the case of $k=2,3$.

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Joint International Conference of The 2nd International Conference on Industrial and System Engineering (IConISE) and The 7th Annual Conference on Industrial and System Engineering (ACISE) Basic InformationIConISE is a biannual international conference organized by the Industrial and Systems Engineering Department of Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember, Surabaya. At the same time, ACISE is an international conference which has been conducted annually by the Industrial Engineering Department of Diponegoro University.The theme of this joint conference is “Big Data Analytics: A competitive Tools toward Smart Industrial System”. As may all of us realize, in the last decade, industries experienced a massive shift towards digitalization. As the benefit of digitalization, a vast amount of data could be collected almost effortlessly throughout the operational activities within companies and organizations. Due to the advancing information technologies, a company or organization also can access a huge amount of external data. The internal and external big data can be capitalized further to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the industrial systems or in another word, make the industrial systems smarter.This fascinating forum is dedicated to discussing the role and issues of big data analytics in every significant aspect of the industrial system. The joint organizing committee has received over 200 submissions from Indonesia, Malaysia, Italy, Philippines, Taiwan, United Kingdom and Japan. After the double-blind review process, 149 papers were accepted, then presented and discussed in the parallel session. Selected papers were then published in IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, a Scopus-indexed proceeding.List of Committee Information are available in this pdf.

Introduction to Special Collection Eight on Children’s Well-Being from Different Angles

Introduction to Special Collection Eight on Children’s Well-Being from Different Angles Dagmar Kutsar and Heili Pals Introduction The papers included in this Special Collection originate from–or were inspired by–the 7th conference of the International Society for Child Indicators (ISCI) ‘Children of the Worlds: The Touch of Change. Research, Policy, and Practices,’ held on 27–29 August 2019 in Tartu, Estonia. International Society for Child Indicators (ISCI, established in 2005) incorporates senior researchers and professionals internationally who develop and support indicators to measure and monitor the well-being of children and apply the collected data to influence and formulate policies. ISCI holds biannual international conferences since 2007. The ISCI conferences aim to gather researchers, practitioners, policy makers and child advocates from across the world to share and discuss the latest research on child indicators and their implications for policy and interventions. The current Special Collection presents examples of children’s well-being research from different angles, such as measurement of child poverty, a debate over applying the notion of child well-being in children’s rights law and research, and empirical evidence of children’s rights and well-being from adults’ and children’s perspectives. The ten articles included in the Collection capture analyses of children’s subjective well-being from Bangladesh, Estonia, France, Indonesia, Nigeria, Poland, and Russia. They are authored by different scholars (sociologists, psychologists, educational scientists, childhood and well-being scholars, faculty of law), but also by an advisor to the Chancellor of Justice of Estonia, UNICEF senior adviser, and head of the Analysis and Statistics Department at Estonian Ministry of Social Affairs. The ISCI conferences carry ideas of children as a separate social group and a part of the society, also known in academic literature as a ‘new’ understanding of children and childhood. The emergence of a ‘new’ understanding of childhood as a social phenomenon, and of children being active social actors in their own right within a generational order, has given rise to a paradigmatic advancement in the field of reshaping studies in children and childhood, since its development in the mid-1980s (Qvortrup 1985; Qvortrup, Sgritta, and Wintersberger 1994; Alanen 1994). The paradigm rapidly gained popularity with the fresh view it contributed to the development of new theories regarding children and childhood (e.g., Corsaro 1997; James, Jenks, and Prout 1998; and others). [End Page 195] The new approach differed significantly from the prior one, as it viewed a child not as a future adult but as an active social actor and a subject in the here and now. An international group of researchers studying social indicators of children’s well-being (Ben-Arieh et al. 2001) admitted that administrative data collected on children so far and the so-called simple counting of children (e.g., how many drop out of school, how many have a certain disease, etc.) is not enough to explain how children themselves think they are doing and to what extent their rights are secured. It became clear that the assessments of adults about children are not always adequate and correct. The assessments of children and adults cannot be the same because they are representatives of different generations and, as such, they fulfil different roles in the society as well as towards each other (e.g., Casas 2011; Casas et al. 2013; Gilman and Huebner 2000). If a child is considered as a subject, not an object, it should also be believed that the child has age-appropriate social competence and ability to provide subjective evaluations about different aspects of one’s life (Ben-Arieh 2005; Casas et al. 2013; Mason and Danby 2011). This new viewpoint in the child well-being research is important in both policy formulation as well as for official statistics, because it can significantly alter the statistical picture. Moreover, new theoretical considerations about children and childhood pave the way for discussions about children’s rights (e.g., Carvalho 2008; Doek 2014; Mayall 2015; and others), and the normative framework of the understanding of a child’s well-being (Kosher and Ben-Arieh 2016). Internationally, the interest in data collected from children started with the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of...

Editorial

WSOM+ 2017 was the 12th in a series of biannual international conferences started with WSOM '97 in Helsinki under the initiative of Prof. Teuvo Kohonen. WSOM + 2017 conference has been held in the renowned city of Nancy, world famous for its group of architectural masterpieces inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage and for the highly creative twentieth century “Art Nouveau” movement. Conference was co-organized by SAMM laboratory, Paris Sorbonne and LORIA laboratory, Nancy. The 12th edition of the WSOM conference was for the first time extending its scope from the traditional domain on Self-Organizing Maps and Learning Vector Quantization to the general domain of Unsupervised Learning, as well as to the promising and hot research domain of Visualization.

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The Fourth International Conference on Civil Engineering Research (ICCER) is a biannual international conference hosted by Department of Civil Engineering of Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology with the theme of Towards a Safe and Sustainable Construction using Advanced Materials and Technology for Structural Failures Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Retrofitting. Departing from the theme, variety of topics related are presented by five keynote speakers to address the common challenges in building and infrastructure development as well as critical assessments which are interrelated with technological advancement both in materials and structures.With the world facing unprecedented global CoVid-19 pandemic which is still undergoing and ramping up considerably, however, it is not possible–if not too risky–to hold an international conference in a conventional way. Gathering keynote speakers, presenters, and participants from around the world are considered harmful as it would trigger a higher possibility of people getting imposed by the Coronavirus. The situation is also exacerbated by the current travel restrictions applied by the majority of the countries which hence prevent the participants, either local or international, to travel from their origin country or region. Given that the situation of CoVid-19 in Indonesia and beyond is still uncertain with the cases growing drastically and not showing any sign of decreasing shortly, the possibility of the face-to-face conference is extremely low even when being postponed at later dates. Also, pressing the conference on hold by an uncertain amount of time would have knock-on effects on the upcoming ICCER conferences in the future. Therefore, it is of sensible (right) call that we organise this year Fourth ICCER in a virtual format.The Fourth ICCER was held in two days on exact dates of 22 to 23 July 2020. It was run virtually from the server of the Department of Civil Engineering at Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology in Surabaya, Indonesia, a similar location as of the organising committee. The technology used to deliver the conference was license ‘Zoom Video Conferencing’ software which was personally preferred due to comprehensive tools and user-friendly interface. Accordingly, Zoom is also known as the leader in modern enterprise video communications, with an easy and reliable cloud-based platform for video and audio conferencing, thereby making it suitable for the optimised virtual conference that the organising committee envisaged.In the Fourth ICCER, a total of 174 participants were sighted on Zoom with 94 identified as authors, whilst 80 recognised as the audience. The location of participants varied with the majority was from Indonesia, while others were from the United Kingdom, Thailand, Japan, Malaysia, Australia, and Prague. The conference model was generally similar to that of the conventional (face-to-face) method where there was an opening ceremony, sponsorship sessions, keynote sessions, plenary sessions, and a closing ceremony. In keynote sessions, the typical time allocated for keynote speaker was 60 minutes for presentation followed by 30 minutes for question and answer (Q&A) session. In plenary (parallel) sessions, 15 virtual rooms (links) were provided; each of which was detailed with information of scheduled presentations which typically consisted of 9 authors/presenters. Each presenter was given 10 minutes to disseminate their research with the video and screen share on as a means of drawing people attention, thereby creating a more active virtual environment. After the presentation, a 5-minute Q&A session was led by the moderator of the room in which all the questions from the audience were read from the chatbox. For more information on the technical quality and success of delivery of the virtual conference, please visit our website (iccer.ce.its.ac.id).Last but not least, please allow us to thank you all for participating in the ICCER conference. Despite organising in a virtual format, we hope that the essence of this conference is much as similar in many respects as the conventional conference.With kind regardsChair of Organising CommitteeProf Priyo SuproboSepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology, Indonesia

The 3rd International Conference on Biosciences (The 3rd ICoBio)

INTRODUCTION OF The 3rd ICoBio 2019 It is undeniable that Biosciences play a pivotal role in every aspect of life. Currently, biosciences have been translated into various inter and trans-disciplinary fields which in turn lead to practical solutions to global issues occurs in the disruptive era of industrial revolutions 4.0. Indeed, today we are facing serious issues including food and feed security, energy scarcity, healthcare issue, global warming, and others. Integration of biological field with engineering, information technology, economy, and social sciences may serve as potential strategies to combat such challenging issues.The International Conference on Biosciences (ICoBio) is a biannual international conference organized by the Department of Biology, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, IPB University, Indonesia, since 2015. This conference is designed to facilitate academicians, researcher, students, and practitioners related to the field of biosciences worldwide to gather and share information, ideas, knowledge, and research results as well as to strengthen research network and collaboration in a fruitful scientific environment. The 3rd ICoBio 2019 was taking the theme “Innovation in Biosciences towards Industrial Revolution 4.0”. The 3rd ICoBio 2019 was held on August 8th, 2019 in Bogor, Indonesia. This conference was intended to gain insight into current trends in research and development related to biology, such as interdisciplinary approaches that are important for understanding the biology and its applications. This 3rd ICoBio 2019 event also became the framework of an existing collaboration between Department of Biology, IPB University with Kasetsart University, Thailand; Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia; and Georg-August Universität Göttingen, Germany. It also served as a step towards building collaboration with Flinders University, Australia and Keio University, Japan.The 3rd ICoBio 2019 was attended by speakers and participants from several countries including Thailand, Malaysia, Germany, Australia, Japan, and Indonesia. Twenty hundred and three participants attended the event and among them presented their research interests via oral (87) and poster (60) presentations. The presenter’s manuscripts were bases and reviewed into 84 published papers in IOP Proceeding Series. Research topics were divided into six main groups focusing on Biodiversity, Conservation Ecology, Climate Change (Group A), Bioactive Compounds, Bioprospecting, Drug Discovery (Group B), Sustainable agriculture, farming technology (Group C), Industrial Biology, Bioprocess, Biosensors (Group D), Techno-biology, Bioengineering, Epigenetics (Group E), Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, Synthetic Biology (Group F).The 3rd ICoBio 2019 was also supported by the Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education, and the International Collaboration Office of IPB University for financial support. There were also contribution from the company partners such as PT Pandu Bioscience, PT Biogen Scientific, PT Genetika Science, and PT Elokarsa Utama.

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The biannual International Conference on Mathematics and Natural Sciences (ICMNS) is a series of inter-disciplinary conference specially organized to celebrate the birthday of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Institut Teknologi Bandung, officially founded on the 6th of October 1947. In 2018, it was the 7th ICMNS that was held at the campus of Institut Teknologi Bandung, on November 2-3, 2018. The particular character of this conference is still maintained, i.e., to promote multi-and inter-disciplinary researches in sciences and their applications. So it should cover ‘broad-but-related’ topics in science. Besides to disseminate recent research results in the field of sciences and mathematics, the 7th ICMNS also called special theme, i.e., to encourage the development of sciences and technologies for food, health, and sustainable energy.In order to create strong interactions of multi-disciplinary areas, we distribute the topics in 11 different areas covering Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, Material Science, Computational Science, Medical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Life Sciences, Environmental Sciences, Science of Renewable Energy, Earth and Space Science. As we learned from previous experiences, this should also allow people from faculty of engineering could participate in this conference and make collaboration with those from other related fields.For the 7th ICMNS, we are mostly honored to have several distinguished invited speakers for selected fields. Therefore, we are indebted to Professor Hans Z. Munthe-Kaas (University of Bergen, Norway), Chair of CIMPA Scientific Council and Chair of Abel Prize Committee and Professor Juan Bisquert (Universitat Jaume I, Spain), Director of Institute of Advanced Materials, as keynote speakers, and several distinguished scientists as plenary speakers, that is, Dr. Ilya Shadrivov (Australian National University College of Science, Australia), Dr. Hadi Susanto (University of Essex, UK), Dr. Avan Suinesiaputra (The University of Auckland, New Zealand), Prof. Matthew Colless (Australian National University, College of Science, Australia), Veinardi Suendo, Ph.D. (Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia), for their special contribution. They have presented recent development in their respected fields to inspire many young scientists, in particular, and all participants in this conference. Accordingly, it is expected to generate cooperation among them.To facilitate active interaction, like previous event in this series, we also organized mini-symposia, to gather more people in the fields sharing their ideas. The mini-symposia focused themes on: (1) Coastal and Ocean Dynamics, discussing issue related to oceanographic operational system, forecasting and prediction with data assimilation, and numerical modeling result related to coastal and ocean dynamics; (2) Building Indonesian Observatories Network, regarding that some new observatories with permanent telescope building (dome) have been constructed, then it is about the right time for these enthusiasts to share their experience and plan for the future, in this mini-symposium; (3) Various Aspects in Combinatorics, aiming to introduce recent progress of various aspects in Combinatorics to broad audiences, in particular to combinatorialists; (4) Optics, Photonics and Their Applications, intended as forum of scientific communications and interactions among scientists working in optics and photonics science covering a broad spectrum from theory and modeling to biomedical applications; (5) Nonlinear Phenomena, dealing with the dynamics and bifurcations in a system; (6) Science and Technology of Solar Energy Conversion, intended to facilitate a forum for the researchers in this field to share their results and new research ideas.We noted that there were 355 registered participants and about half of them are graduate students. The organizer has reviewed 310 abstract accepted as contributed papers, either in oral or poster presentations. For the written versions, after being reviewed and revised, we also regrouped the accepted papers into several categories, and in this edition of physical sciences, we have accepted 94 papers to publish.Last, but certainly not least, we are extremely grateful to all participants who made the collaborative spirits always high and enjoyable, and we apologize for all shortcomings in the organizations of the conference. The organizing committee appreciates very much all the helps from the SOC as well as the hard work of the LOC.April 2019Editors/Organizers

19th International Conference on Extended Defects in Semiconductors (EDS2018)

FOREWORDThis Proceedings is a collection of peer-reviewed papers presented at EDS2018, a biannual International Conference on “Extended Defects in Semiconductors”, which was held June 24-29, 2018 in Thessaloniki, Greece. Nineteenth in the series of EDS conferences, the scope of EDS2018 was twofold: to assess the current state of knowledge on the properties of heterophase interfaces in the presence of defects and to consider the impact of this knowledge on low-dimension nanostructures and on the design of devices influencing their electronic, opto-electronic, magnetic, and mechanical properties.The conference covered new results with emphasis placed on research addressing the role of extended defects on limiting device performance, new developments in methodologies and tools for defect engineering in semiconducting materials, and advanced characterization techniques. Invited lectures dealing with materials science fundamentals and methodology added educational content especially directed to doctoral and post-doctoral students.It is hoped that this Proceedings provide the reader with a timely standpoint on the fast-evolving subject of Extended Defects in Semiconductors.List of Organisation and Conference Photo are available in this PDF.

La Función De La Investigación-Acción En La Transformación Social: Memorias Y Proyecciones

The conference “Coping with the future: Business and Work in the digital age – A cross disciplinary conference” (Agder University, Norway, on October 8-10, 2018) had one section dedicated to “The role of action research in social transformation”. The text contextualises the theme within the trajectory of the International Journal of ActionResearch, and more particularly of the biannual international conferences organised with the support of the journal. It was prepared for opening for the work of this section of the conference, and served as introduction to the presentation of other papers published in this issue.

Label-free optical imaging technologies for rapid translation and use during intraoperative surgical and tumor margin assessment.

The biannual International Conference on Biophotonics was recently held on April 30 to May 1, 2017, in Fremantle, Western Australia. This continuing conference series brought together key opinion leaders in biophotonics to present their latest results and, importantly, to participate in discussions on the future of the field and what opportunities exist when we collectively work together for using biophotonics for biological discovery and medical applications. One session in this conference, entitled "Tumor Margin Identification: Critiquing Technologies," challenged invited speakers and attendees to review and critique representative label-free optical imaging technologies and their application for intraoperative assessment and guidance in surgical oncology. We are pleased to share a summary in this outlook paper, with the intent to motivate more research inquiry and investigations, to challenge these and other optical imaging modalities to evaluate and improve performance, to spur translation and adoption, and ultimately, to improve the care and outcomes of patients.

Martin AitkenFRS,FSA (11 March 1922 - 15 June 2017)

Martin Jim Aitken was born on 11 March 1922 and educated at Stamford School, Lincolnshire. He went up to Wadham College, Oxford, to read physics, but his studies were interrupted by the Second World War, in which he served as a Technical Radar Officer in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) and Burma (Myanmar). After completion of his Oxford doctorate, he undertook research in nuclear physics, using a small electron synchrotron. In 1957, he joined the university's newly formed Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art (RLAHA), founded two years earlier by Teddy Hall with the support of archaeologist Christopher Hawkes and the physicist Lord Cherwell, as its second Deputy Director (the first Deputy Director was Dr Stuart Young). He began to apply magnetic methods to both the dating and location of archaeological kilns and hearths. In 1958, at the invitation of the archaeologist Graham Webster, he undertook the first archaeological proton magnetometer survey, on the Roman city of Durobrivae, near Water Newton, Cambridgeshire, detecting a kiln amongst other features. His instrument was a version of the device that had been tested by the Army for the detection of plastic mines. Also in 1958, the Oxford laboratory published the first volume of the journal Archaeometry, originally subtitled the Bulletin of the Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, Oxford University, but including international contributions from Volume 3 onwards. He was an editor until 1989. His first book, Physics and archaeology, was published in 1961. In 1962, Martin organized a day meeting for archaeologists who had purchased proton magnetometers, which became an annual meeting. The scope of the meetings broadened in 1969 to become the ‘Symposium on Archaeometry and Archaeological Prospection’, held in Oxford until 1975. In 1976, with the meeting in Edinburgh, it became the ‘International Symposium on Archaeometry and Archaeological Prospection’, and in 1980 (Paris) the ‘International Symposium on Archaeometry’, which continues to this day as a biannual international conference. As well as proton magnetometers, he also developed the use of fluxgate magnetic gradiometers for the detection of buried remains, and was involved (with Derek Walton) in the development of the first SQUID cryogenic magnetometer (a device capable of measuring extremely subtle magnetic fields) to be used in the United Kingdom. From the 1960s, he was involved in the development of thermoluminescence dating (TL), to date ceramic materials such as pottery, brick and tiles. He further developed the method by using blue/green light or infrared radiation instead of heat. This optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating has become one of the most powerful methods for the dating of sediments in both archaeological and environmental contexts. He published a book on thermoluminescence dating in 1985, and an introduction to optical dating in 1998. His best-known book, Science-based dating in archaeology (1990), became the standard undergraduate text on the subject. He became a Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford, in 1965 and Professor of Archaeometry in 1985. He continued his interests in archaeomagnetism and luminescence dating up until his retirement in 1989, publishing, in addition to his books, more than 150 scientific papers. He won the Gemant Award from the American Institute of Physics, and the Pomerance Award for Scientific Contributions to Archaeology of the Archaeological Institute of America. In recognition of his scientific achievements, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1983—a tribute not only to his outstanding ability as a scientist who chose to work in archaeology, but also a recognition of the fact that science in archaeology had come of age. He has almost single-handedly promoted the view that archaeology is part of a wider scientific endeavour, perhaps best encapsulated in his contribution to the 1981 Smithsonian round table discussion on Future directions in archaeometry, which he entitled ‘Archaeometry does not only serve archaeology’. He was truly one of the ‘founding fathers’ of archaeometry. He married Joan Killick, with whom he had four daughters and a son. In retirement, he and his wife moved to a house near Clermont Ferrand in France. An account of his contribution to the subject was published in 1990, following his retirement from RLAHA in 1989 (Sayre, E. V., and Tite, M. S., 1990, On the retirement of Teddy Hall and Martin Aitken, Archaeometry, 32, 3–6).

(Invited) Pulsed Current Deposition: From Nano-Crystalline to Multi-Functional Coatings

The electrochemical deposition of metals and alloys using alternating uni- and bipolar current profiles, in short Pulse Plating technologies, has found the interest of both researchers and companies worldwide in recent years. The use of a modulated current deposition opens a wide field of new possibilities in electrochemical surface finishing as has been discussed at many occasions such as the biannual international conference “European Pulse Plating Seminar” and the Interfinish 2012. While the starting point often has been the aim for nano-crystallinity of deposited coatings, being still one major advantage of pulse plating in the technical awareness of the users, there are nowadays different approaches enabling a combined functionality beyond the nano-crystallinity. Any pulsed electrodeposition process should be based on a fundamental knowledge of the deposition mechanisms and thus requires for the initial set up a profound study of electro kinetics, mass transport limitations and electro-crystallization effects. Electrochemical measurements at laboratory scale and structural analysis of the electrodeposits in dependence on the plating parameters applied will enable the definition of suitable pulse plating sequences. This presentation will discuss the possibilities and applications of generating multi functional layer systems based on the concept of depositing nano-crystalline layers via pulse plating techniques. The electrochemical parameters and concepts for achieving nano-crystalline layers will be explained supported by electrochemical fundamentals. Advantages and limitations of such nano-crystalline coatings will be briefly discussed. Using the results of several (international) fundamental and applied research projects, funded by the European Union strategic research programs, more sophisticated benefits of pulse plated metal alloy coatings will be presented. This will include the incorporation of nano-particles in the metal coating (nano-dispersion coatings), alloy deposition and surface property adjustment. Beside electrochemical experiments for gaining a profound knowledge of the electrolyte properties and the reaction mechanisms, the only way to quantify field line distribution and potential fields, even in a local resolution, are numerical simulation tools. Based on the characteristic electrode kinetics, possible resistive effects at the electrode surface, the general plating conditions (e.g., electrolyte temperature) and the electrolyte properties (e.g., conductivity) a numerical simulation software tool has been used, allowing the exact calculation of current field line distribution and potential fields between two electrodes. Pulse plating with its numerous possibilities to control electrochemical conditions directly at the (substrate) surface, will allow to precisely control the alloy composition of deposited binary and ternary alloys just by adjustment of the pulse parameters. Thermal, electrical properties as well as magnetic properties of the resulting coatings can be adjusted by this method. The underlying nano-crystallinity will additionally increase the resulting layer hardness. The incorporation of particles to form a (nano) dispersion coating will provide hardness and wear resistance better and more stable than pure nano-crystalline coatings. This presentation will be complemented by several examples of the industrial use of pulse plating for high-tech components and mass production parts.

14th High-Tech Plasma Processes Conference (HTPP 14)

PrefaceThe High-Tech Plasma Processes Conference (HTPP) is a bi-annual international conference based in Europe with topics encompassing the whole area of plasma processing science. This conference is open to all the international community in the world involved in plasma science and plasma technology. The aim of the conference is to bring different scientific communities together, facilitate the contacts between science, technology and industry and provide a platform for the exploration of both fundamental topics and new applications of plasmas.For this edition of HTPP, as was the case for the last, we have achieved a well balanced participation from the communities of both thermal and non-thermal plasma researchers. 75 people from 17 countries attended the conference with the total number of contributions being 74, consisting of 19 invited talks and 55 poster contributions.As a HTPP tradition a poster competition has been carried out during the conference. The winner of the poster competition was Fabrice Mavier from Université de Limoges, France with his paper “Pulsed arc plasma jet synchronized with drop-on-demand dispenser”All the participants also ejoyed the social program including an “unconventional” tour of the city, the visit to the famous Hofbräuhaus and the dinner at the Blutenburg, a beautiful inner-city castle.We have received papers corresponding to the contributions of HTPP-2014 that have been submitted for publication in this volume of Journal of Physics: Conference Series. Each submitted contribution has been peer reviewed and the Editors are very grateful to the referees for their careful support in improving the original manuscripts.In total, 18 manuscripts have been accepted for publication covering a range of topics of plasma processing science from plasma fundamentals to process applications through to experiments, diagnostics and modelling. We deeply thank the authors for their enthusiastic and high-grade contributions and we are convinced that this volume of Journal of Physics: Conference Series will be interesting for our community.Finally, we would like to thank the conference chairmen, the members of the steering committee, the international scientific committee, the local organizing committee, the organizing secretariat and the financial support from the conference sponsors that allowed the success of HTPP-2016.The Editors of the HTPP-2016 ProceedingsDr. Dirk Uhrlandt, head of the ISCProf. Philippe TeuletProf. Jochen ScheinNeubiberg, 6th of March 2017

Focus issue on polyphenols

Polypenols are the major group of plant secondary metabolites, structurally extremely diverse and involved in numerous functions in plants. Among them, polymers, such as lignin, which is essential for the structure and for a physical barrier of higher plants, and tannins, involved in plant defense, are particularly important both quantitatively and qualitatively. Other classes include flavonoid subgroups such as anthocyanins (i.e. red and blue pigments, playing a role in plant pollination and defense), flavonols (yellow pigments involved in UV protection) or isoflavones, and non-flavonoids, e.g. lignans, stilbenoids, curcuminoids, etc. All these molecules are important dietary constituents, due to their occurrence in fruits, vegetables, tea, wine, chocolate, spices, etc., and attract considerable interest because of their potential benefit for human health. Moreover, they find new applications for the development of bio-based materials. Polyphenol research, expanding to simpler plant phenolics such as phenolic acids, is very active, covering a wide range of topics and areas. Promoting this research is the aim of Groupe Polyphenols, an International Society founded in 1972 (http://www.groupepolyphenols.com/). This is achieved in particular through the organization of the bi-annual International Conferences on Polyphenols (ICP) and edition of Recent Advances in Polyphenol Research (RAPR), containing chapters written by ICP plenary lecturers and other invited contributors selected to convey the most significant advances in the field. Another series of conferences, the Tannin conferences with a specific focus on tannin research, has been initiated in 1988 by Pr. R. Hemingway and is held periodically since. The XXVIIth International Conference on Polyphenols and the 8th Tannin Conference have been held jointly for the first time in their history in Nagoya, Japan, in September 2014. This joint meeting has provided scientists of both communities worldwide (35 countries represented) with a unique forum to exchange ideas and present novel findings on plant polyphenol research, including biosynthesis, genetics and metabolic engineering, functions in plants and ecosystems, physical–chemical properties and biological properties related to health benefits as well as various applications in food, nutrition, natural medicine, or material science. Some of the cutting-edge contributions are presented in this issue of Planta. & Stefan Martens stefan.martens@fmach.it

“Who is the Society?”: A Critical Look on the Constituent of Creative-Community through Artepolis Papers 2006-2012

The bi-annual International Conference Arte-Polis in Bandung Indonesia has been representing an academic venue for the discourse of creative culture, creative city, creative industry and creative community since 2006. This of this paper is to reflexively examine the constituent of “creative community, in Indonesia context. This paper explored the assumption about society and their nature of involvement by reading the Artepolis papers collection as published in the proceeding of Artepolis 1 (2006), 2 (2008), 3 (2010) and 4 (2012). The object of study is the selected papers written by Indonesian authors. Overall the reading and examinations concluded that the notion of the creative community varied and proved deviations or differentiation from the original reference - Creative Class. At last, there were three kind of understanding identified in the text of Artepolis: Creative Class, Creative Milieu, and Creative Survivor.

Introduction to the “Best of ACII 2013” Special Section

The papers in this special section were presented at the 6th Biannual International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2013), held from September 2-5, 2013, in Geneva, Switzerland. These papers reflect the diversity of affective computing research, ranging from physiological models for affect detection, methodological issues, computational models of affect, and human perceptions of affective virtual agents.

Clinical Trials of Cancer Cachexia Therapy, Now and Hereafter

In the article accompanying this editorial, a clinical trial of melatonin for the treatment of cancer cachexia is reported by Del Fabbro et al. Melatonin can be purchased over the counter or on the internet and thus is one of the many putative therapies for cancer cachexia that can be freely obtained by patients without consultation with a health care professional. The vast majority of such integrative therapies lack any evidence in support of their efficacy, other than anecdotal findings. The results of Del Fabbro et al are important because patients use these therapies at some expense and potentially some risk. The absence of either positive or negative findings at least means that patients are unlikely to experience any detriment from undertaking melatonin therapy, and at best these placebo-controlled and double-blinded findings would discourage their future use. Cancer anorexia in particular is subject to substantial placebo effects, and it cannot be underestimated how important it is to conduct well-stratified, randomized, blinded, and controlled trials. The context of the Del Fabbro et al study was within a program where there was excellent attention to pain and symptom management while patients were evaluated for eligibility and eventually included in the trial. This means that the standard of care for symptom management was not as much of a wild card as they might otherwise have been, especially as in multicenter studies with disparate standards of care. The melatonin story is a good example of how optimistic results in open label and uncontrolled trials are deflated by the first controlled investigation. Preclinical studies may also inflate the hopes for a new cachexia therapy. On the surface of it, the evidence in animal models sounds quite compelling for pleiotropic beneficial actions of melatonin on appetite, intestinal transit, nutrient absorption, inflammation, and even antitumor effects. However, several of these findings were observed in healthy animals, in nonmalignant disease or a single cancer model. Indeed, there was no evidence as to whether melatonin has these effects in the presence of tumor and systemic inflammation, or whether it would be equally effective at early, intermediate, and late stages of cachexia. During the time the study in the current report was developed and completed, there has been a thoughtful reconsideration of cancer cachexia by within the clinical cancer research community. This introspection has in part been motivated by the fact that there have been approximately 100 randomized clinical investigations of therapies for cancer cachexia and anorexia, yet many of them, like the present one, have been negative and have not resulted in approved therapies. Research on the underlying biology of cancer cachexia has expanded dramatically, especially in relation to its characteristic pronounced catabolism of skeletal muscle. Cachexia is now the subject of a series of biannual international conferences, a journal, and a Society on Cachexia and Wasting Disorders. International consensus groups have convened to address lack of consistency in defining cachexia, in the use of diagnostic criteria for cachexia and in the design of cachexia-related clinical trials. These consensus building efforts herald a paradigm shift in the design of clinical trials on cancer-associated cachexia. Here are some of the new concepts that current and future cancer cachexia clinical trials are incorporating into their designs: