Cash Prize Research Articles

ВПЛИВ КОНКУРСІВ НА РОЗВИТОК КАР’ЄРИ СКРИПАЛЯ

The article analyzes the impact of competitions on the development of a violinist’s career. Competitions play a significant role in the development of a violinist’s career. They provide musicians with the opportunity to show their talents, gain recognition, expand their network of professional contacts and increase their reputation. Preparation for the competition often requires intensive and detailed study of the repertoire, which improves the musician’s technical skills. Winning or participating in well-known competitions can draw attention to a musician from professional colleagues, conductors, agents and music critics. Successful contestants often get the opportunity to perform on prestigious stages and participate in various music festivals, which can greatly expand their audience. Many competitions offer significant cash prizes and scholarships that can help musicians financially support their education and further development. It has been proven that competitions are often a place to meet other musicians, teachers, producers and other professionals of the music industry, which can become an important factor in a future career. Participating in competitions helps musicians develop endurance, stress resistance and the ability to perform in front of an audience, which are essential skills for a professional career. Separately, competitions are an important stage in the professional formation of violinists, providing them with many opportunities for development and improvement. It is considered which technical, musical and personal qualities are the most important for achieving high results at competitions. Achieving these goals will help to better understand the importance and impact of competitions on the professional path of violinists, as well as to develop practical recommendations for improving this process. Studying the impact of competitions on the career development of violinist shows that they are an important tool for professional growth. It is important to support musicians at all stages of preparation and participation in competitions, including technical, psychological and financial assistance. Contest organizers should pay special attention to the objectivity of evaluation and ensuring equal opportunities for all participants.

Research highlights - The 2024 Richard Perham prize shortlist.

In this issue, we highlight the papers shortlisted for the 2024 Richard Perham prize. The papers discussed here were published in The FEBS Journal in 2023 and received prize nominations from the Editorial Board based on their scientific excellence, timeliness and broad appeal. The winning paper will be announced later this year, and authors will receive a cash prize. This batch of outstanding nominees spans original articles on a broad range of topics related to the molecular life sciences. Image created using Wordclouds.com.

The Best Time to Play the Lottery

The best time to play the lottery is when the jackpot has rolled over several times and grown large, but not so large that you must share the prize if you win. We examine maximizing the expected value of a winning ticket as well as that in a random ticket. The derived optimality criteria depend on the prize elasticity of ticket demand. A regression analysis on data obtained from the Mega Millions® and Powerball® multi-state lotteries suggests ticket sales grow quadratically in the size of the advertised lump-sum cash jackpot prize. With quadratic growth, the best time to play is when ticket sales are 1.25–2.5 times the jackpot odds, currently about 300 M to one for these two lotteries. Since ticket sales are not known to ticket buyers, we invert the regression function to prescribe the best time to play in terms of the cash prize. It turns out that these lotteries offer a (pretax) fair wager with positive expected value in a surprisingly wide interval of jackpot prizes. That is a good time to play; the best time is in the neighborhood of the nearly 1 $B record cash jackpot awarded in these lotteries in recent years.

After The Queen’s Gambit (2020): The Rise of chess.com and the Chess #MeToo Movement

In 2020, the chess industry saw an unprecedented and exponential spike in player interest due to two key factors: the runaway success of The Queen’s Gambit (2020) limited series on Netflix and worldwide pandemic lockdowns. Lockdowns saw the rise of online chess popularized by chess.com, which after several key acquisitions, sponsor deals, and investments, now holds a near monopoly on the chess industry, surpassing 100 million users in December 2022 and becoming the most popular free gaming app on the Apple Store in twenty eight countries on February 2, 2023. Despite this newfound surge of interest in chess worldwide, women remain at best tokenized and more often, systematically excluded by the chess industry. This essay will act as a wide survey of the proliferation of deeply rooted sexism in multiple aspects of modern chess culture, beginning with gender imbalances inherent in the rules of chess, as well as the canonized ‘openings’, before moving to issues of male gaze in The Queen’s Gambit and online chess streaming celebrities. The tokenizing politics of Chess.com and FIDE (Fédération Internationale des Échecs) will also be analyzed as attempts to cater to a perceived male demographic for capitalistic gain. Additional focus will be allotted to the smaller cash prizes and diminished advertising for women’s chess competitions. In light of this discrimination, the industry’s repetitive claim that chess is a true meritocracy will be refuted.

ACM SIGMETRICS 2023 Student Research Competition

Every year, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) spearheads a series of Student Research Competitions (SRCs) at ACM-sponsored or co-sponsored conferences. These SRCs provide graduate (Masters or PhD program) and undergraduate students an opportunity to present their original research to a panel of judges. Participating students present posters and oral presentations of their research for the opportunity to win cash prizes. In each category (graduate and undergraduate), the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners receive prizes of 500, 300, and 200, respectively. Additionally, first place undergraduate and graduate student winners from the SRCs held during the year are invited to present their work at the SRC Grand Finals, where a different panel of judges evaluates these winners against each other.

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Aperiodic 2022, the 10th International Conference on Aperiodic Crystals, was held as a hybrid type conference on June 20-24, 2022, in Akira Suzuki Hall of Sapporo campus at Hokkaido University, Japan. Aperiodic 2022 is the latest in a series of conferences supported by the Commission on Aperiodic Crystals (CAC) of the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr). These conferences were held essentially every three years, with the most recent meetings in Ames Iowa (the USA, 2018), Prague (Czech Republic, 2015), Cairns (Australia, 2012), Liverpool (UK, 2009), Zao (Japan, 2006), Belo Horizonte (Brazil, 2003) and Nijmegen (The Netherlands, 2000). Aperiodic 2022 was the second of this series held in Japan. The Aperiodic conference series is itself the successor to a series of Conferences on Modulated Structures, Polytypes and Quasicrystals (MOSPOQ), which were held in Marseilles (France, 1984), Wroclaw (Poland, 1986), Varanasi (India, 1988) and Balatonszeplak (Hungary, 1991). This time, Aperiodic 2022 was held under the auspices of Hypermaterials project, running in Japan since 2019 for 5 years, that includes studies of quasicrystals, approximants and incommensurate structures (https://www.rs.tus.ac.jp/hypermaterials/en/index.html).Although under difficult circumstances, with the COVID19 pandemic was not yet fully contained, Aperiodic 2022 attracted 114 participants from 16 countries (37 onsite and 77 online). A particular feature of the Aperiodic Conference series is its interdisciplinary character. The range of disciplines of participants included mathematics, physics, crystallography and materials science.The program, which ran from Monday morning until Friday afternoon, was scheduled by considering the time difference between Japan and Europe. It comprised 14 invited and 36 contributed talks, and 36 posters (10 onsite). The Student Award for Outstanding Oral Presentation at the 10th International Conference on Aperiodic Crystals was given to Chiara Moretti (ENS de Lyon, France) for her presentation Self-assembly of nanoparticles: from periodic superlattices to quasicrystal phase. The prize came with a cash prize of 30,000 JPY with honorable certificate.It was not possible to organize Aperiodic 2022 without help and support of many people. We would like to express our sincere thanks to all the member of Local Organizing Committee, Program Committee, Commission on Aperiodic Crystals of IUCr and Hypermaterials Project, we would also like to extend our special thanks to the reviewers for their help in the paper view process. Last but not least, we would like to thank all the participants, onsite or online, for their beautiful presentations and exciting discussions. Aperiodic 2022 was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number JP19H05817.Hiroyuki Takakura and Ryuji TamuraList of Organizing Committees are available in this Pdf.

SVINnovation Challenge: Fostering Innovation in Vascular and Interventional Neurology

SVINnovation Challenge: Fostering Innovation in Vascular and Interventional Neurology

Putting Teams into the Gig Economy: A Field Experiment at a Ride-Sharing Platform

The gig economy provides workers with the benefits of autonomy and flexibility but at the expense of work identity and coworker bonds. Among the many reasons why gig workers leave their platforms, one unexplored aspect is the lack of an organization identity. In this study, we develop a team formation and interteam contest field experiment at a ride-sharing platform. We assign drivers to teams either randomly or based on similarity in age, hometown location, or productivity. Having these teams compete for cash prizes, we find that (1) compared with those in the control condition, treated drivers work longer hours and earn 12% higher revenue during the contest; (2) the treatment effect persists two weeks postcontest, albeit with half of the effect size; and (3) drivers in hometown-similar teams are more likely to communicate with each other, whereas those in age-similar teams continue to work longer hours and earn higher revenue during the two weeks after the contest ends. Together, our results show that platform designers can leverage team identity and team contests to increase revenue and worker engagement in a gig economy.This paper was accepted by David Simchi-Levi, behavioral economics and decision analysis.Funding: Financial support from the platform through the Michigan Institute for Data Science is gratefully acknowledged.Supplemental Material: The e-companion are data are available at https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2022.4624 .

Drag Race to the Bottom

Drag Race to the Bottom Ariel Munczek Edelman (bio) On the morning of May 10, 2022, standing in front of stock tickers for some of the world's most valuable companies, drag queen Monét X Change proclaimed: "On behalf of RuPaul, World of Wonder, and queer people far and near, it's time to ring the bell, honey!" On cue, seven winners of RuPaul's Drag Race—the hit reality competition TV series, which had just finished its fourteenth season—reached across a logo-strewn podium to announce the daily opening of the world's second-largest stock exchange. "We represent what scholars will one day call the drag revolution," Shea Coulee, the winner of one of Drag Race's many spinoff shows, added. "I want to thank NASDAQ." I started watching Drag Race early in my first year of college. The Emmy Award-winning program puts its drag queen contestants through a gauntlet of challenges, from walking the runway and writing original songs to impersonating celebrities and making costumes from scratch. The competing artists' ingenuity and glamour drew me to the form with a ravenous hunger. I began attending local drag shows and, soon after, performing in drag myself, first for other students and then in bars in Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and Prague. Drag Race has led more people than ever to appreciate art that plays with gender expression, myself included. Drag's unique flexibility allows performers from across the globe to combine breathtaking looks with lip syncs, stand-up comedy, [End Page 11] circus arts, experimental fashion, live music, and endless other art forms. But even as a fan of the show, it didn't take long for me to realize that Drag Race's influence was not entirely benevolent. While some Drag Race alumni leverage their success to pay off student loans or buy a home, others leave the competition with tens of thousands of dollars in debt. Unlike most other reality programs, Drag Race contestants must self-fund the plethora of cosmetics, costumes, wigs, and props needed to compete on the show. As one contestant, Kameron Michaels, recounted, "I spent more coming into this competition than I did as the down payment on my house." As Drag Race's rewards reach new heights—the winner of the most recent season of the spinoff RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars won a cool $200,000, ten times the size of the cash prize for the first season—work for most drag artists remains so precarious that they frequently take on several other jobs to stay afloat. The so-called drag golden age is really a gilded age, where the runaway success of a few is made possible at the expense of the many. And if economic insecurity wasn't enough, local performers increasingly face threats of extremist violence from the right. Even the most diehard drag fans should cast a critical eye on Drag Race and its architects, who have built an unequal drag performance economy while remaking the art of drag in the show's own image. ______ In the late 2000s, superstar drag queen RuPaul Charles felt it was time for a drag competition show. "The Obama movement was happening," he told New York in 2017, "and I could feel it in my bones that it was time." Viacom's LGBT television network, Logo TV, rejected Drag Race several times, out of fear that it would make the network appear too gay. It acquiesced in 2009, however, when RuPaul's production company, World of Wonder, agreed to downplay drag's role in gay nightlife. The reality television genre that emerged in the decades leading up to Drag Race had already proved its value to American network executives: it nearly eliminated writing and acting costs and was less prone to strikes and shutdowns than scripted programs. Early reality programs like The Real World, Road Rules, and Big Brother centered on charismatic, low-paid workers who did labor that previously took several actors or crew members to carry out. Shows like Queer Eye for the Straight Guy and American Idol extended the possibilities of the format with vote-by-texting features, interactive websites, and fan...

South Korea's Household Debt Crisis and Its Impact on Korean Society

South Korea’s household debt crisis was brought to the forefront of the minds of millions of people around the world due to the hugely popular Netflix series Squid Game. In Squid Game, individuals with large amounts of personal debt engage in childhood games like “Red Light, Green Light” but with a macabre twist: they must risk their lives and the lives of others to win a cash prize that could relieve themselves of crushing debt. This paper examines the major economic, financial, and societal factors that contribute to the ever-worsening household debt crisis in South Korea. In the past 25 years, South Korea has endured several major economic and financial crises, notably the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis, the 2017 Global Financial Crisis, and the Covid-19 Pandemic. In particular, the Asian Financial crisis in 1997 brought about significant changes to South Korea’s financial, corporate, and labor sectors, primarily due to reforms imposed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Furthermore, run-away housing prices, elevated levels of self-employment, and societal structures and behaviors unique to Korea have exacerbated the household debt crisis. All these factors have contributed to the growth and the continuing trend of extreme household debt that disproportionately impacts South Korea’s youth, self-employed, and part-time workers.

Biochemical Society Science Communication Prize 2022

For the past 11 years, the Biochemical Society has looked to identify and celebrate outstanding science communication by bioscience students with an annual Science Communication Prize. This year, the competition was open for creative and engaging entries aimed at the general public, in both written and media categories.We would like to congratulate all the entrants and winners on their fantastic pieces submitted for the Science Communication Prize this year. The Biochemical Society was delighted with the entries, which came from across the globe and covered a broad range of diverse topics, from the microbiome to HIV. The winners were selected by a panel of five judges with knowledge and expertise across the science communication sector: Agnese Abrusci (Media Editor at Nature), Dr Emma Yhnell (Senior Lecturer in Neuroscience at Cardiff University and Science Communicator), Dr Heather Doran (Public Engagement Manager, Leverhulme Centre for Forensic Science at University of Dundee; Science Editor, The Biochemist), Nikolaus Muldal (Education and Public Outreach Manager for the UK Atomic Energy Authority) and Dr Güneş Taylor (Postdoctoral Training Fellow at The Francis Crick Institute and freelance science communicator). Güneş said:The winners of each category received a cash prize – £300 for the first prize, £200 for the second prize and £100 for the third prize. The winning article entries in the written category also win the opportunity for their piece to be published in The Biochemist. Competition judge Emma Yhnell said:This year, the written category saw a range of entries on the molecular aspects of cancer, alcohol, love and the wonder of plants, to name a few. The first prize went to Zuzana Osifová (Charles University, Czech Republic), for a powerful and thought-provoking article on anorexia nervosa, titled ‘Meanwhile in an anorexic mind’. Zuzana is currently studying for a PhD in NMR spectroscopy, and when asked why she chose to write about anorexia nervosa, Zuzana said:Zuzana also generously donated half of her cash prize to a charity in Czech Republic that helps eating disorder sufferers.The judges were impressed with Natural Sciences undergraduate Natalie Bicknell’s (University of Leeds, UK) truly original and engaging newspaper entry on the fascinating internal clock of plants, titled ‘Breaking news: plants can tell the time!’ When asked about her chosen topic, Natalie said:We strongly encourage readers to view Natalie’s piece in the supplemental material to this article, where it can be seen in full.Undergraduate microbiology student Iris Floria (University of Glasgow, UK) submitted an eye-opening (and sometimes horrifying!) piece on cannibalistic microbes and the fight against antibiotic resistance, titled ‘Microbial predators: an unlikely ally?’ When asked why she chose to enter the competition, Iris said:For Iris, participation certainly paid off as she was awarded third prize in the written category.The media category of the competition allows entrants to explore a variety of creative visual techniques to communicate their chosen topic. This year’s entries certainly delivered.The first prize in the media category went to Biomedical Sciences undergraduate Rosanna Culver (University of Edinburgh, UK), for her inventive video using a roll of toilet paper to describe how vaccines work, titled ‘Rolling out vaccines: the fight against COVID-19’. When asked about entering the Science Communication Prize, Rosanna said:Recent PhD graduate Leonardo Feletto (University of Leicester, UK) received the second prize for his timely video on ‘How COVID-19 spiked the interest for structural biology’, using animations and special effects to highlight the key role that structural biology has on combating the COVID-19 pandemic. Leonardo said:The third prize in the media category went to PhD student Martyna Kasprzyk (University of Edinburgh, UK), for her animated video on ‘Deciphering the code of protein folding’. Of opting to enter the media category, Martyna said;Congratulations again to the six winners, and don’t forget to visit our website to watch and read the outstanding winning entries in full: Science Communication Prize – Biochemical Society.

SIGHPC Dissertation Award Winner Tackles Irregular Computations

The winner of the 2022 SIGHPC Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award is Dr. Maciej Besta (ETH Zürich). This annual award recognizes the best doctoral dissertation completed in high performance computing (HPC) in the previous year, and includes a $2,000 cash prize, a plaque, and recognition at the Supercomputing Conference in November. Nominations were evaluated on technical depth, the significance of the research contribution, the potential impact on theory and practice, and overall quality of work.

Environment Aspects in Moondraam Ulagappor Novel

"Moondram Ulaga Por" is a novel written by the Great Poet Vairamuthu on Global warming and its threats. It was chosen as the best novel among the World Tamil novels by Dutto Sri Soma Trust and was awarded a cash prize of 10,000 American Dollars. The novel throws light on the ill effects of population explosion, materialism, modernism, excessive use of automobiles which pollutes the environment. Karuthamayee, Ishimoora, Chinnapandi and Emily are the main characters of the novel. Karuthamaayee is introduced as a proud farmer and he is depicted as a familiar character from our neighbourhood. Chinnapaandi is an efficient young man who has been graduated in Agriculture. He inspires the youngsters of his village with his knowledge and vigour. The writer tries to implore the readers by emphasizing on the fact that discipline and environmental sustainability are possible only if there is change individual's behaviour. The writer produces statistical evidences thereby creating awareness to the selfish society. This article focuses on the eco-critical reading of the novel as environmental sustainability is the need of the hour and more over it is the social responsibility of each and every individual.

Effective Approaches to Combat Vaccine Hesitancy.

Effective Approaches to Combat Vaccine Hesitancy.

Editorial Preface

The 23rd Russian Youth Conference on Physics of Semiconductors and Nanostructures, Opto- and Nanoelectronics (RYCPS) was held in Saint Petersburg on November 23 – 26, 2021. It was organized by Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University.The program of the Conference included semiconductor technology, heterostructures with quantum wells and quantum dots, bulk properties of semiconductors, opto- and nanoelectronic devices and new materials. Given the restrictions on meetings of a large number of people associated with COVID-19, the organizing committee of the conference decided to hold it in a virtual format. The oral sessions were held on the Zoom platform, and the poster session was organized using the Miro online whiteboard and the Skype platform. This provided an opportunity for valuable discussions between the conference participants and experienced scientists.The conference included two invited talks given by leading scientists from Ioffe Institute, devoted to actual problems and major advances in physics and technology. The keynote speakers were Anton Vershovskii (presentation "Optical quantum sensors based on thermal atoms and atom-like structures") and Mikhail Glazov (presentation "Spin noise in semiconductors"). Students, graduate and postgraduate students presented their results on plenary and poster sessions. The total number of accepted abstracts published in Russian (the official conference language) was 105. Here we publish 24 selected papers in English.Like previous years, the participants were involved in the competition for the best report. Certificates and cash prizes were awarded to a number of participants for the presentations selected by the Program Committee. Alexey Kuznetsov (Alferov University, Saint Petersburg) was awarded for the best presentation among students with a report "Influence of plasmonic effects on the localization of electromagnetic waves in GaP nanowires". Sergey Savchenko (Ural Federal University, Yekaterinburg) was awarded for the best presentation among postgraduate students with a report "Thermal quenching of luminescence of excitons and defect centers in InP/ZnS quantum dots". Works with potential applications were recommended for participation in the following competition for support from the Russian Foundation for Assistance to Small Innovative Enterprises in Science and Technology.List of Editors, Organizers, Sponsors, Program Committee, Organizing Committee are available in this pdf.

Biochemical Society Science Communication Prize 2021

For over a decade, the Biochemical Society has looked to identify and celebrate outstanding science communication talent in molecular biosciences with an annual Science Communication Competition. In 2020, to mark the 10th anniversary of this scheme, the Biochemical Society renamed its Science Communication Competition as the ‘Biochemical Society Science Communication Prize’.The prize has always attracted an international portfolio of engaging and creative voices, and the 2021 edition was no exception. Entries had to be bioscience themed and aimed at the general public and were accepted as written pieces of up to 1500 words or in a media format – such as video or audio, 2–5 minutes long – across two categories: one open to foundation/undergraduate students and another to postgraduate students.The Biochemical Society and the prize judges were impressed with the number of very high standard entries, making competition for this year’s prize as fierce as in previous rounds. These entries were judged by a panel of four experts across science communication practice: Dr Heather Doran (Public Engagement Manager at the Leverhulme Centre for Forensic Science, University of Dundee, and Science Editor for The Biochemist), Dr Sorrel Bunting (Head of Communities and Engagement at Springer Nature Group), Dr Anthea Lacchia (freelance science writer and journalist, audio producer and science communicator) and Joe Burton (Education and Public Engagement Manager at the Linnean Society).The Society is pleased to celebrate the 2021 Biochemical Society Science Communication Prize winners, all of them video entries! The winners of each category receives a cash prize – £300 for the first prize, £200 for the second prize and £100 for the third prize – and access to a mentoring session with an experienced science communicator who can provide advice based on their own career experiences. This prize follows a continued recognition from the Biochemical Society of the importance of science communication and outreach practice and training, which includes the Scientific Outreach Grants and the Introduction to Public Engagement and Science Policy online course.The winning entries in the foundation/undergraduate category covered biomolecular topics as wide as painkillers and the answer to the age-old question ‘How much coffee is too much?’ Resorting to an impressive array of creative techniques, from digital to stop-motion animation, these videos showcased clear and engaging science with remarkable media mastery.The first prize in the foundation/undergraduate category went to Faye Singleton, a third-year undergraduate studying biomedical sciences at the University of York. On receiving the prize, Faye commented: “I've been making YouTube videos since I was 10 years old and have built my audience to 25,000 subscribers. I now focus my videos on all aspects of student life. I wanted to create a topic on something that could be useful to the general public. After some research I found a news article surrounding the adverse effects of Paracetamol. I felt the mechanism to how the drug works as well as the potential dangers of it, were not so commonly known within the general public. This was my gap! I decided to illustrate the complexity of this painkiller into an easy-to-understand narrative, hoping to inform my audience. I was over the moon to find I had received first place in this competition. I'm hoping to pursue a career in medical science communications and hopefully this is just the beginning!”The postgraduate category comprised another inspiring set of prize-winning videos. The first prize went to Madeleine Ball, a PhD student at the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge. On her prize-winning entry, Madeleine said: “I decided to make my video about the Sonic Hedgehog gene because I had heard about it before even going to university – it made me smile and realise that science wasn’t just about very serious academic pursuits, but that there was light-heartedness and a human-side behind scientific work also.”Madeleine also added: “I love science, and getting the chance to communicate what I’m so passionate about is something that I’ve always wanted to do – this competition was the first time I ever made any video, or piece of science communication aimed at the public and I’m thrilled it went so well! Winning this prize has motivated me to continue making science videos, and has reminded me that no matter where my scientific career may take me, I can embrace the human side of research and keep having fun with it.”The six winning entries can be viewed on the Science Communication Prize webpage hosted on Biochemical Society website.

ACM SIGMETRICS 2021 Student Research Competition

Every year, the Association for Computation Machinery (ACM) spearheads a series of Student Research Competitions (SRCs) at ACM-sponsored or co-sponsored conferences. These SRCs, which are sponsored by Microsoft Research, provide undergraduate and graduate students an opportunity to present their original research to a panel of judges. Participating students present posters and oral presentations of their research for the opportunity to win cash prizes. In each category (graduate and undergraduate), the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners receive prizes of $500, $300, and $200, respectively. Additionally, first place undergraduate and graduate (Masters or PhD program) student winners from the SRCs held during the year are invited to present their work at the SRC Grand Finals, where a different panel of judges evaluates these winners against each other. To date, Microsoft Research has generously provided $120,000 per competition year since 2003.

Lisa T. Su Wins 2021 IEEE Robert N. Noyce Medal: She is the first woman to receive the honor [WIE From Around the World

Congratulations are in order for Lisa T. Su, who was named recipient of the 2021 IEEE Robert N. Noyce Medal, sponsored by Intel Corporation, at the start of this year. The president and CEO of AMD Technologies, Su is the first woman to receive this award, underscoring her innovation as an engineer and skills as a leader. Upon being bestowed with the honor, Su donated her cash prize of US$20,000 from the Noyce Medal to the IEEE Women in Engineering Fund through the IEEE Foundation. The medal was granted for Su’s “leadership in ground-breaking semiconductor products and successful business strategies that contributed to the strength of the microelectronics industry.” Largely credited with AMD’s emergence as a leader in high-performance computing since she took the helm in 2014, Su is the first woman to become CEO of a major chip company. According to a Bloomberg article by Emily Chang and Ian King in May 2021, “the executive has restored AMD’s reputation and performance at a critical juncture for the industry [because] the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated demand for remote computing via the Internet and for devices needed to support study and work at home.”

Un oscuro 'perché' della conservazione dei boschi, risultanza da alcune fonti inedite d'archivio del XIX secolo

In the past centuries, woods were protected to safeguard some of the human basic needs. However, there was a hidden benefit which was pursued against law. Indeed, with the aim of gaining economic benefits over time through captures and kills, while governments encouraged wolf extinction with cash prizes, hunters protected the predator's vital environment to maintain its presence. This study deals with this topic thanks to some unpublished archival documents referring to Cicolano, an internal area in the province of Rieti (Italy).