Society Conference Research Articles

Nurses at the United Nations.

There is an urgent call to redesign health care to be more equitable, to address the climate change crisis, and to implement the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for the health of the global community. Now is the time for nurses to get involved in leading these necessary changes. In 2019, the authors were chosen to present a concurrent session at the 68th United Nations Civil Society Conference. The conference focused on SDG 11, Building Inclusive and Sustainable Cities and Communities. The experience convinced the authors that nurses have unique knowledge and skills to contribute to the mission of the United Nations.

46th Annual Conference of the German Neuropediatric Society (GNP) and 17th GNP Training Course Academy.

After the long break in 2020 due to the pandemic, we are pleased to once again offer not only a professional exchange on the latest developments in child neurology but also social networking opportunities at this year's Annual German Neuropediatric Society (GNP) Conference in Salzburg from November 5 to 7, 2021. In early 2020, we were eagerly putting the finishing touches on the planned 46th Annual GNP Conference in Dornbirn, when the developments of the pandemic forced us to cancel the meeting. Over the last year, we all had to show a lot of flexibility in our everyday lives, and we learned to appreciate the possibilities of virtual participation. According to the motto “Turning the crisis into an opportunity,” the 46th Annual GNP Conference and 17th GNP Training Course Academy were therefore also designed as hybrid events to avoid having to completely cancel everything again in these uncertain times. In Salzburg, the three main tracks of the scientific program will be livestreamed so that the planned topics can reach a large virtual audience. Moving the originally planned venue from Dornbirn to Salzburg is to help create an incentive for attending in person. Unfortunately, the GNP's popular “Skills Lab” with its practical training has fallen victim to the pandemic again this year due to the necessary safety concept.

Pre-exposure Prophylaxis Uptake, Adherence, and Persistence: A Narrative Review of Interventions in the U.S.

Since 2012, HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) has been available to prevent HIV transmission; yet, uptake, adherence, and persistence to PrEP have been suboptimal. This narrative review examines the latest interventions and programs to improve all 3 stages of PrEP adherence and reviews ongoing studies to promote effective PrEP use. From 2017 to 2020, a total of 20 studies analyzed different individual- and structural-level approaches to increase PrEP adherence, including behavior change interventions, technology-based interventions (e.g., short message service messages and mobile applications), and alternate delivery strategies (e.g., pharmacy-based PrEP, integration with other services, and home delivery). Most published interventions involved men who have sex with men, although 3 assessed women (2 transgender, 1 cisgender). Randomized, controlled data support 3 behavioral change interventions and 1 technology-based intervention. Alternate delivery strategies seem promising, although more robust study designs are generally needed. In addition, data on the alignment of ongoing HIV risk and PrEP persistence (i.e., prevention-effective adherence) were limited. The authors also identified 20 ongoing studies that are promoting PrEP adherence. Future work should be inclusive of all at-risk groups in the U.S., including African American and Latinx heterosexual populations and people who inject drugs. Proven and promising approaches may work well in combination and may also need to be adapted with the introduction of long-acting pre-exposure prophylaxis formulations. Collectively, this body of work indicates considerable progress toward understanding the role PrEP adherence will play in Ending the HIV Epidemic in the U.S. that will be bolstered by the outcomes of ongoing trials.

Dynamic perspectives on technology transfer: introduction to the special section

Theoretical frameworks acknowledge the dynamic and evolving nature of technology transfer. However, there is a scarcity of empirical work in the field incorporating a dynamic and longitudinal perspective. Several literature reviews call for technology transfer research agendas to include longitudinal studies. In response to such calls, this special section comprises selected contributions to the 2018 Technology Transfer Society (T2S) Conference which address this gap from different angles. The three qualitative and three quantitative works chosen contain research questions and methodologies related to dynamic aspects of technology transfer. We argue that historical and processual studies offer additional new directions.

Transcultural Nurse Views on Culture-Sensitive/Patient-Centered Assessment and Care Planning: A Descriptive Study.

Culture-sensitive (CS) and patient-centered (PC) care are considered essential to achieve high-quality equitable care. The purpose of this study was to determine how expert nurses incorporate CS/PC care into their assessment and care planning practices, especially for culturally diverse and marginalized patients. Using a qualitative, descriptive design, we conducted a focus group at the October 2019 Transcultural Nursing Society Conference. Participants (n = 9) discussed how they instilled cultural sensitivity and patient-centeredness into their assessment and care planning skills. Participants revealed attitudes, knowledge, and skills associated with CS/PC assessment and care planning. They also identified specific strategies for translating CS/PC theory into assessment and care planning practices. Three principles and many pragmatic strategies for incorporating CS/PC care into daily practice emerged from the data. Nurses may find these principles and strategies helpful in integrating CS/PC care into their daily care of patients in busy clinical settings.

Preface

The 11th Conference of Asian Rock Mechanics Society (ARMS11) was held on October 21-25, 2021, in Beijing, China. ARMS is a series of bi-annual congress on rock mechanics and geotechnical engineering held in Asia. The technical program of ARMS11 focused on advances and innovative applied research on rock mechanics and rock engineering. It provided a showcase of recent developments and advances in rock mechanics and innovative applications in rock engineering. It also offered an international forum for exchanging new ideas and exploring the future directions in rock mechanics and engineering. Short courses, workshops, industrial exhibitions and technical visits were also organized. It has been organized by Chinese Society for Rock Mechanics & Engineering in cooperation with International Society for Rock Mechanics & Rock Engineering and a number of other cooperating organizations.List of Conference Chairs, Organizing Committee are available in this pdf.

Vaccine Safety

We are now near the end of the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, and it has been a year since the first International System Safety Society (ISSS) Conference coronavirus presentation. This past year has seen the development and distribution of several vaccines, as predicted in the previous publication about the pandemic. These new weapons against disease will save millions of lives all over the globe in the next few years — and they were developed faster than any vaccine in medical history. Yet these same vaccines have been the victim of numerous allegations from the start. In fact, their strongest virtue — the speed with which they were developed and distributed — is seen by their critics as a fault, possibly resulting in an unsafe or insufficiently tested product. Is there any truth to these claims? How do these vaccines work? And how are they made? Vaccine Safety.
 In order to establish an orderly, technically accurate, objective, and comprehensive record of the events of these times that is accessible to the general public and of some use to posterity, this second publication has been prepared. It is also hoped that this report will mitigate some of the concerns that people have about vaccine safety.

The Chosen and the Beautiful

The Chosen and the Beautiful

2022 IEE-Japan Industry Applications Society Conference —Conference Information and Call for Papers—

2022 IEE-Japan Industry Applications Society Conference —Conference Information and Call for Papers—

Alexander William Robert Bevan, July 25, 1951–February 11, 2021

Alexander William Robert Bevan, July 25, 1951–February 11, 2021

6th Molecular Oncology Society Conference: Improving patient survival by molecularly targeted therapies

6^th Molecular Oncology Society Conference: Improving patient survival by molecularly targeted therapies

Selected Abstracts from the VIIth Biennial Conference of African Society for Immunodeficiencies (ASID): ASID VII Online, Khartoum, October 1-2, 2021

Selected Abstracts from the VIIth Biennial Conference of African Society for Immunodeficiencies (ASID): ASID VII Online, Khartoum, October 1-2, 2021

Leading the charge toward a world without depression: perinatal depression can be prevented.

This manuscript is based on a keynote address presented at the 2020 Marcé Society's Conference celebrating the Society's 40th anniversary. The address described a 50-year perspective on prevention research, current evidence that perinatal depression can be prevented, and how digital tools could be used to disseminate perinatal depression prevention interventions throughout the world. We utilized the Mothers and Babies Course as a case study to illustrate these goals. The article reviews the gradual progress of depression prevention research, from the time when the state of the science was such that it was believed that the onset of major depressive episodes could not be prevented until the present day. In addition, the article recounts the three consensus reports on prevention of mental disorders published by the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, culminating in the 2019 report, which calls on the field to implement known interventions for the prevention of depression and other mental disorders, and to scale up their administration to reduce the prevalence of these disorders in the general population. The paper presents the 2019 recommendations of the US Preventive Services Task Force, which instructs the health system to provide routine referrals to perinatal depression prevention interventions (e.g., the Mothers and Babies Course) to perinatal persons at risk for depression. We now have the knowledge to prevent approximately half of episodes of perinatal depression. It is time to implement this knowledge and begin to do research on how to prevent the remaining half.

Perfect DD* Molecular Prediction Matching the T cc Observation at LHCbSupported by the China National Funds for Distinguished Young Scientists (Grant No. 11825503), the National Key Research and Development Program of China (Grant No. 2020YFA0406400), the 111 Project (Grant No. B20063), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11975033, 12070131001, and 12047501).

In 2012, we investigated the possible molecular states composed of two charmed mesons [Phys. Rev. D 88 (2013) 114008; 2012 arXiv:1211.5007 [hep-ph]]. The D*D system with the quantum numbers of I(JP ) = 0(1+) was found to be a good candidate of the loosely bound molecular state. This state is very close to the D*D threshold with a binding energy around 0.47 MeV. This prediction was confirmed by the new LHCb observation of [see Franz Muheim’s talk at the European Physical Society conference on high energy physics 2021].

Comparing the Digital Footprint of Pulmonary and Critical Care Conferences on Twitter.

Background: Pulmonary and critical care societies, including the American Thoracic Society, the American College of Chest Physicians, and the Society of Critical Care Medicine have large memberships that gather at academic conference events, attracting thousands of attendees.Objective: With the growth of social media use among pulmonary and critical care clinicians, our goal was to examine the Twitter presence and digital footprint of these three major medical society conferences.Methods: We used Symplur Signals (Symplur, LLC) to track the tweets and most active participants of the 2017–2019 annual conferences of American Thoracic Society, American College of Chest Physicians, and the Society of Critical Care Medicine. Attendance records of participants were obtained from each society.Results: During the study period, there was growth in the number of tweets, participants, and impressions for all three society conferences. Across all conferences, the amount of original content generated was less than the retweets, which comprised 50–72% of all tweets. Individuals physically attending each conference were more likely to post original content than those not in attendance (53–68% vs. 32–47%). For each society and at each meeting, clinicians made up the largest group of participants (44–60%), and most (59–82%) were physicians. A small cohort of participants was responsible for a large share of the tweets, with more than half of the participants at each conference for each society tweeting only once and only between 5–8% of participants tweeting more than 10 times. Seventy-eight individuals tweeted more than 100 times at one or more of the conferences. There was significant overlap in this group, with 32 of these individual participants tweeting more than 100 times at two or more of these conferences.Conclusion: Growth in conference digital footprints is largely due to increased activity by a small group of prolific participants that attend conferences by multiple academic societies. Original content makes up the smallest proportion of posts, suggesting that amplification of content is more prevalent than posting of original content. In a postpandemic environment, engagement of users producing original content may be even more important for medical societies.

2022 IEE-Japan Industry Applications Society Conference —Conference Information and Call for Papers—

2022 IEE-Japan Industry Applications Society Conference —Conference Information and Call for Papers—

‘Clothes Maketh the Man' Costume Society Conference October/November 2022 Online

‘Clothes Maketh the Man' Costume Society Conference October/November 2022 Online

Special Issue on PHM for Human Health and Performance II

This special issue was conceived during the 11th Annual Conference of Prognostic and Health Management Society’s Panel session on the September 25th at Scottsdale, AZ, USA. We would like to thank the panel members and their colleagues in their participation in this special issue focusing on engineered technologies for older adults. This work was partially funded by the NSF ERC seed grant from an interdisciplinary group of researchers from Iowa State University, Arizona State University, Georgia Tech, Florida State University, Chapman University and the University of California Irvine who are engaged in developing a large-scale grant proposal that will be focused on integrated technologies to promote resilient aging and reducing healthcare costs.The manuscripts exemplify our research focus and illustrates contributions in the fields of wearable smart sensors, sensor-data-fusion, machine learning and data mining, prediction and diagnosis, and electronic health records and databases - all in the context of prognostics and health management for human health and performance.We would like to thank the PHM Society for providing an opportunity to publish in their premier journal, and importantly, we are grateful for help of the Editor-in-Chief – Marcos Orchard, Ph.D. for his countless hours to edit and make it best possible of this special issue. Finally, we would like to express sincere appreciation to all the reviewers who have contributed their time and thoughtful feedback to making this special issue publication a success.

'As a surgeon, I am obliged to every single patient': evaluation of focus group discussions with transplantation physicians on the allocation of donor organs.

Organ transplantation is the last resort for many patients. The ubiquitous shortage of suitable donor organs raises the question of best-justifiable allocation worldwide. This study investigates how physicians would allocate donor organs. Focus group discussions with a total of 12 transplant surgeons and 2 other transplant-related physicians were held at the annual conference of the German Transplantation Society (Oct 2019). Three groups discussed aspects of 'egalitarianism', 'effectiveness/benefit', 'medical urgency', 'own fault', 'medical background' and 'socio-demographic status'. It was observed that physicians often find themselves confronted with conflicts between (a) trying to advocate for their individual patients versus (b) seeing the systemic perspective and understanding the global impact of their decisions at the same time. The groups agreed that due to the current shortage of donor organs in the German allocation system, transplanted patients are often too sick at the point of transplantation and that a better balance between urgency and effectiveness is needed. The aspects of 'effectiveness' and 'urgency' were identified as the most challenging issues and thus were the main focus of debate. The dilemmas physicians find themselves in become increasingly severe, the larger the shortage of suitable donor organs is.

2021 IEE-Japan Industry Applications Society Conference —Conference Information and Registration—

2021 IEE-Japan Industry Applications Society Conference —Conference Information and Registration—