Closing Ceremony Research Articles

IUPAC’s Role in the International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development and the Closing Ceremony

IUPAC’s Role in the International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development and the Closing Ceremony

Emerging Negative Soft Power: The Evolution of China’s Identity in the 2008 and 2022 Beijing Olympics Opening and Closing Ceremonies

ABSTRACT By hosting the Olympics in 2008 and 2022, Beijing became the first city to organise both the Summer and Winter Games. These events offered the People’s Republic of China (PRC) an opportunity to present itself to the world and enhance its attractiveness. However, between the two editions, Chinese self-perception has experienced significant transformations, as has its vision of the world, resulting in the national attitude shifting from adaptation to, to contestation of pre-established norms and paradigms. The symbols, images, scenes and discourses exhibited during the opening and closing ceremonies of the Beijing 2008 and 2022 Olympics mirror the broader international communication strategies deployed by the PRC under the Hu Jintao and Xi Jinping presidencies as part of their implementation of negative soft power.

Preface

Since its inception in 2018, ICPMS (International Conference on Physics, Mathematics and Statistics) were successfully held for the last five years, Shanghai (2018), Hangzhou (2019), and online (2020, 2021, 2022), attracted delegates from more than 10 countries and regions including China, Thailand, Japan, the United States, South Korea. As an annual international conference, ICPMS aims at being a fast and efficient platform for researchers and scholars worldwide to discuss recent developments in the area of Physics, Mathematics and Statistics.The Fifth International Conference on Physics, Mathematics and Statistics (ICPMS2022) was successfully held on May 21-22, 2022. Under the effect of COVID-19, the conference was chosen to be online, which gave everyone access to attend. This year the online meeting was composed of three sessions: Keynote Speeches, Oral Presentations and Poster Presentations, attracted about 50 delegates from all over the world. Details about the presentations can be found in the Conference Overview part.This conference proceedings included 33 accepted articles selected from 71 submissions, all the papers have been through rigorous review and process to meet the requirements of International publication standard. We would like to express our gratitude to the reviewers of these manuscripts, who provided constructive criticism and stimulated comments and suggestions to the authors. We are extremely grateful as organizers, technical program committee and editors and extend our most sincere thanks to all the authors for their excellent contribution and work. Our sincere gratitude also goes to the IOP Publishing editors and managers for their helpful cooperation during the preparation of the proceedings.On behalf of the Organizing Committees of ICPMS2022.List of Technical Program Committee, Conference Overview, Conference Schedule, Keynote Speeches, Oral Presentations, Poster Presentations and Closing Ceremony are available in this pdf.

MAINTENANCE AND OTHER OPERATING EXPENSES (MOOE) AND SCHOOL-BASED MANAGEMENT (SBM) PERFORMANCE OF SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN SAMAR ISLAND

The study investigated the extent of Maintenance and Other Operating Expenses (MOOE) utilization relating to School-Based Management (SBM) performance of public secondary schools in Samar Island for school years 2016-2019. A mixed-method, explanatory research design was employed utilizing 159 school heads. Focus Group Discussion (FGD) was conducted for selected School heads, disbursing officers or bookkeepers and teacher representatives from six divisions in Samar Island. Quantitatively, this study made use of percentages, weighted mean, and Pearson r for the correlative data; while thematic analysis enriched the qualitative investigation. Findings of this study highlight a high extent of Maintenance and Other Operating Expenses utilization to ensure students’ access to complete basic education; priority for school ceremonies like the Moving Up of the Junior High School, Closing Ceremonies, and Recognition Programs; to support the needs of the learners for their learning activities; to fund the rentals and minor repairs of tools and equipment that are important to classroom activities; and to fund the expenses related to graduation rites. The results showed that the least priority in the expenses were for the Internet connection of the school, telephone bills, salaries for the janitors, and the security guards. In addition, it was also found out that the School Based Management performance of the schools have improved in the past three years, from Good to Better. Finally, no substantial connection prevailed between the extent of utilization of Maintenance and Other Operating Expenses and School Based Management performance of secondary schools in Samar Island.

The 2020 Chinese National Symposium on Systematic and Evolutionary Botany

On 26–28 November 2020, the Chinese National Symposium on Systematic and Evolutionary Botany (also known as the 14th Young Scholar's Symposium) was held at Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG), the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in Menglun, Yunnan Province, China. The symposium was sponsored by the Botanical Society of China (BSC), and was organized by Professor Yao-Wu Xing from XTBG. The series has been held every other year regularly in the last decade. More than 500 participants from 141 institutes/universities gathered in XTBG to attend the symposium in person, and there were also more than 200 online participants. The symposium brought together the plant systematics and evolutionary biology community in China to discuss the advances in systematics, biodiversity resources and conservation, and evolutionary biology in general. Four workshops were launched on 25 November, covering “Taxonomy of tropical plants”, “Inference of divergence times”, “Organelle genome assembly and analyses”, and “Plant evolutionary genomics”. At the Opening Ceremony on 26 November, Professor Jin Chen (Director of XTBG), Professor Xiao-Quan Wang (Vice Chairman of BSC, and Director of Institute of Botany, CAS), and Professor De-Yuan Hong (Academician of CAS) addressed the symposium. The symposium also included four colloquia on “Plant taxonomy and resources”, “Paleobotany”, “Phylogenetics and biogeography”, and “Speciation and adaptive evolution”, in four concurrent sessions. There were 130 contributed oral presentations and 47 posters. Before the Closing Ceremony on 28 November, ten young investigators presented plenary talks in addition to the three plenary speeches delivered by more established scientists. In closing, Professor De-Zhu Li (Kunming Institute of Botany, CAS) provided a summary on the symposium, and Professor De-Yuan Hong made an appeal for innovative evaluation of the basic sciences, inspiring young botanists to confront the challenges facing the discipline of plant taxonomy. The symposium was very successful and well attended by many young systematists and evolutionary biologists (Fig. 1). Throughout the three days, there were very active exchanges in the form of questions/answers, discussions, and comments. The next Chinese National Symposium on Systematic and Evolutionary Botany was proposed to be held in South China Botanical Garden, CAS in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China in 2022.

Maintenance and other Operating Expenses (MOOE) and School Based Management (SBM) Performance of Secondary Schools in Samar Island

The study investigated the extent of Maintenance and Other Operating Expenses (MOOE) utilization relating to School Based Management (SBM) performance of public secondary schools in Samar Island for school years 2016-2019. A mixed method, explanatory research design was employed utilizing 159 school heads. Focus Group Discussion (FGD) was conducted for selected School heads, disbursing officers or bookkeepers and teacher representatives from six divisions in Samar Island. Quantitatively, this study made use of percentages, weighted mean, and Pearson r for the correlative data; while thematic analysis enriched the qualitative investigation. Findings of this study highlights a high extent of MOOE utilization to ensure students’ access to complete basic education; priority for school ceremonies like the Moving Up of the Junior High School, Closing Ceremonies, and Recognition Programs; to support the needs of the learners for their learning activities; to fund the rentals and minor repairs of tools and equipment that are important to classroom activities; and to fund the expenses related to graduation rites. The results showed that the least priority in the expenses were for the Internet connection of the school, telephone bills, salaries for the janitors, and the security guards. In addition, it was also found out that the SBM performance of the schools have improved in the past three years, from Good to Better. Finally, no substantial connection prevailed between the extent of utilization of MOOE and SBM performance of secondary schools in Samar Island.

YI01.03 Making the Most of WCLC: A Guide for First Time Attendees

YI01.03 Making the Most of WCLC: A Guide for First Time Attendees

IMS2014 Opening and Closing Plenary Sessions

The opening Plenary Session officially kicks off the International Microwave Symposium (IMS) at 5:00 p.m. on Monday, 2 June 2014, in the convention center. During the opening session, you will hear from the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT?S) and IMS organizing committee leadership, have a chance to congratulate colleagues being recognized with prestigious MTT-S awards, and hear a thought-provoking keynote talk on the future of wireless connectivity and the impacts and opportunities for industry and academia. Our keynote speaker Dr. Vida Ilderem, vice president at Intel Labs and director of Integrated Computing Research (ICR) for Intel Corporation, will offer her insights on these trends that impact everyone in the IMS community. The IMS Closing Ceremony, scheduled for Thursday 5 June 2014 at 3:00 p.m., is another event not to be missed. Kyle Maynard, a motivational speaker, author, entrepreneur, and athlete will present his own incredibly inspirational story.

Whose home; which island?

‘My Island Home’ has become a well-known musical assertion of Australian identity. Written in 1985 by Neil Murray, the song originally described the situation of the lead singer of the predominantly Indigenous Warumpi Band, George Burarrwanga, who had moved from Elcho Island in Arnhem Land to Papunya, a community west of Alice Springs. The song was subsequently popularized to a mainstream, settler Australian audience in two versions released by Christine Anu, who sang a revised version which identified Australia itself as the island home at the Sydney Olympics Closing Ceremony in 2000. This article tracks the history of versions of ‘My Island Home’ up to that by Tiddas which closes the film Radiance, released in 1998. The article argues that central to the growing popularity of ‘My Island Home’ among both Indigenous and settler Australians was the increasing recognition of land rights and, correspondingly, the anxieties this caused among the dominant population.

The “Stuff” That Games Are Made Of: Sharon E. Secord’s Work for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Opening and Closing Ceremonies

This interview with Sharon E. Secord (Head of Wardrobe for the Opening, Victory, and Closing Ceremonies of the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games) took place on the two-year anniversary of her participation in the event (12 February 2012). The article presents excerpts that have been edited and reorganized with an effort to develop a vocabulary for what Sharon articulates as the “stuff” of her work. Three broad categories related to the labour conditions of Secord's efforts (contracts, space, and collaboration) take the focus in this conversation, and mark an attempt to shift scholarly emphasis away from the aesthetic artifact and towards the development of a language that can discuss the politics implicit in the means of producing large-scale events like the Olympic ceremonies.

The "Stuff" That Games Are Made Of: Sharon E. Secord's Work for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Opening and Closing Ceremonies

Sasha Kovacs in conversation with Sharon E. Secord about the distinct experience and logistics of costuming 3000 volunteers.

The Reliability Design and Analysis of the Control System in 29th Olympics Opening and Closing Ceremony

Conventionally, partial redundancy is applied at frail or crucial parts in most control system. As for the significant occasion of the Olympics Opening and Closing Ceremony, any fault of the control system may result in immeasurable losses. In this paper, we focus on redundancy policies and introduce the realizing of two different redundancy systems: the basic whole redundancy system, and the Hetero-type whole redundancy system, viz. two different control kernels (the PLC and its corresponding software and network) used in the same system. These two redundancy control systems are implemented at examination place and the National Stadium individually. These control systems set a successful example of the redundancy system implemented in mechanical control system at important occasions. By analyzing and comparing the reliability of the two redundancy systems, we get the results that the Hetero-type whole redundancy system has higher reliability than the basic whole redundancy system.

CLOSING CEREMONY, SESSION 74: AWARD AND CLOSING CEREMONY, Wednesday 6 July 2011 16:00 - 17:00

CLOSING CEREMONY, SESSION 74: AWARD AND CLOSING CEREMONY, Wednesday 6 July 2011 16:00 - 17:00

In situ measurements of SO 2, NO x, NO y, and O 3 in Beijing, China during August 2008

The measurement of SO 2, O 3, NO, NO 2, and NO y mixing ratios was conducted from Jul 28, 2008 to Sep 2, 2008 at the Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IAP, CAS) station, which is 2 km southwest to the Beijing National Stadium (Bird's Nest/Olympic Stadium). Photochemical pollution was detected during the measurement on Aug 2, 2008, and the maximum hourly average [O 3] reached 128 ppbv, caused by both the local photochemical reactions and regional transportation of pollutants. The NO x Ozone Production Efficiency (OPE (NO x)) values were 6.9 and 20.2 on Aug 2 and Aug 24, 2008 respectively, which were the two days with highest O 3 pollution. The OPE (NO x) of 6.9 on Aug 2 was within a typical range in city area, and it implied that the high O 3 could be due to local sources. While OPE (NO x) of 20.2 on Aug 24 was larger than the typical value in the region, but lower than that of the surrounding clean area during 2008 Beijing Olympics Closing Ceremony. It indicated that the pollution was because of regional transportation of pollutants. In addition, 60% of the extent of the Smog Production Model (SPM) data was less than 0.6 and the rest was slightly larger than 0.6, with maximum of 0.78. It indicated that the sensitivity of O 3 generated was volatile organic compounds (VOCs) control during the observation period. The SPM results also implied that O 3 product in high-O 3 day is a transition state from VOCs sensitivity to NO x sensitivity. Lastly, the analysis of the wind direction and extent of SPM showed that the photochemical pollution of this region was mostly subject to the influence of southeastern air flow in the summer.

Feasibility study for the application of air inflated membrane structure in China National Stadium

China National Stadium, also known as “Bird’s Nest”, is the main stadium of the 29th Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008, which has successfully held not only the Opening and the Closing ceremonies but also the track and field events. A new problem of rain preventing is brought out to improve the utilization of the Bird’s Nest after the Olympic Games. The scheme of installing an air inflated membrane at the opening of the steel structure is proposed in this paper to solve the rainproof problem of the Bird’s Nest. The form-finding and mechanical analyses of the air inflated membrane are carried out. Comparison between the mechanical performance and dynamical character before and after installing the air inflated membrane structure is given. To verify the analysis results, based on the practical structure of the Bird’s Nest, a test of a 1:20 model membrane is worked out.

Chapter III: Closing Ceremony 1994 August 24

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Printed Circuit World Convention IV June 2–5, 1987 Tokyo, Japan

Printed Circuit World Convention IV, which took place at the Tokyo Prince Hotel, Tokyo, Japan, from 2–5 June 1987, will be reported in two parts. Part 1, in this issue, covers an introduction to the event, the Opening Ceremony, Social and Accompanying Spouse Programmes, Closing Ceremony and some reflections on peripheral activities. In Part 2, in the next issue, a report on the technical sessions will be published, focusing on the highlights of the technical programme.