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Preface: 2nd International Conference on Biomedical Engineering, Healthcare and Disease Prevention (BEHDP 2022)

The 2022 2nd International Conference on Biomedical Engineering Health Care and Disease Prevention (BEHDP 2022) was successfully held during May 28-29, 2022 as a virtual conference due to the growing concerns over the coronavirus outbreak (COVID-19), and in order to protect the well-being of our attendees, partners, and staff as our number one priority.
 BEHDP 2022 is an annual research conference dedicated to smart medicine and health that will bring together scientists, technologists, clinicians and professionals. Hospitals, health systems and pharmaceutical companies around the world are all under the same roof. This conference is supported by numerous universities and research institutes around the world. The focus of this conference is to establish an effective platform for institutions and industries to share ideas and to present the works of scientists, engineers, educators and students from all over the world. The organizing committee of conference is pleased to invite prospective authors to submit their original manuscripts.
 BEHDP 2022 brought together more than 120 researchers in related fields and the conference was divided into three sessions, including oral presentations, keynote speeches, and online Q & A discussion. In the first part, some scholars, whose submissions were selected as the excellent papers, were given about 5-10 minutes to perform their oral presentations one by one. And in the second part, keynote speakers were each allocated 30-40 minutes to hold their speeches. Their insightful speeches had triggered heated discussion in the sessions of the conference.
 The BEHDP 2022 proceedings are a compilation of the accepted papers and represent an interesting outcome of the conference. All the papers have been through rigorous review and process to meet the requirements of international publication standard. We would like to thank the organizing committee for their valuable inputs in shaping the conference program and reviewing the submitted papers.
 The Conference Committee of BEHDP 2022
 Xiamen, China

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The Military Technical College, sponsored by the Egyptian Ministry of Defense, is honored to organize the ninth International Conference on Mathematics and Engineering Physics in the period of March 29 - 31, 2022.The conference provides a valuable opportunity to all the research people in Egypt and all over the world to exchange and update their knowledge in the designated fields of interestList of Conference Committee, Contributors, Conference Program, Location of Conference Rooms, Part I: Scientific Sessions, Part II: Keynotes, Workshops and Seminars, Authors Index and Reviewers are available in this pdf.

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We are glad to welcome you to the proceedings of 2022 The 15th International Conference on Computer and Electrical Engineering (ICCEE 2022), which was held on June 24-26, 2022. Due to the cases increasing recently in China, in addition to the travel restriction and in respect of the willingness of all participants, ICCEE 2022 was entirely transferred as online conference instead of in Shenzhen University, China as scheduled.ICCEE was held annually and covered a broad range of topics related to Computer and Electrical Engineering. This year, presenters have presented and discussed topics in their respective research areas. The conference was held for 3 days including the online test sessions on ZOOM on the first day, and then followed with a wonderful array of 6 guest speeches along with 5 technical sessions during June 25-26. The authors’ presentations cover topics on Computer Science and Information Engineering; Computer and Control Automation; Machine Vision and Image Processing; Modern Electronic Information Technology and Application; Electrical Engineering and Automation. 15 minutes for each presentation, including 2 minutes for the Q&A. Delegates had a wide range of sessions to choose from and had enough time in deciding which sessions to attend.After the peer-review of all submissions, 40 full papers were accepted and included in the proceedings. All papers in these proceedings were peer-reviewed by conference technical committee members and international reviewers. We’d like to recognize the hard work of the entire committee for their enormous contribution. Our special thanks go to our speakers as well as all the authors for sharing their latest research results. We hope these talks interest and inspire all of you.Computer and Electrical Engineering have had a successful history. This field has pushed the frontiers of fundamental research, led to the emergence of entirely new disciplines, and revolutionized our daily lives. It extended to all walks of life, from the design of a switch to the research of aircraft. We do hope researchers in this field can create innovative, practical solutions as well as invent, design and build technologies and products that matter in the future.The proceedings will be successful only if these papers could motivate some of you. We look forward to meeting all of you next year at the conference in person.Best regards,Conference Program ChairChengwen Luo, Shenzhen University, ChinaList of Committees are available in this pdf.

ACM WSDM 2022 report

The 15 th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2022) was successfully held on 2/21 - 2/25/2022 online. It was originally planned to be held in Tempe, Arizona and changed to a virtual format due to the surge of Omicron. It was a five-day event with the middle 3 days dedicated to keynote speeches, single-session presentations, poster sessions, and sponsor talks. This brief report provides an overview of WSDM 2022 with organization and program details and statistics from Conference Chairs and Program Committee Chairs, as well as a message from the WSDM Steering Committee Chair to call for future WSDM conferences in the US (2024) and Europe (2025). Further details can be found at https://www.wsdm-conference.org/2022/. At the end of this report, we express our deep gratitude to authors, volunteers, special interest groups (SIGs), steering committee, and sponsors.

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2022 7th International Conference on Sustainable and Renewable Energy Engineering (ICSREE 2022) was held virtually during May 5-7, 2022 via Zoom platform due to the pandemic of COVID-19 and most participants choose to attend the conference online. The ICSREE conferences were organized every year. Following the success of the 1st ICSREE 2016 in Seoul, South Korea, the 2nd ICSREE 2017 in Hiroshima, Japan, the 3rd ICSREE 2018 in University of Salamanca, Spain, the 4th ICSREE 2019 in Beijing, China, the 5th ICSREE 2020 in Paris, France (Virtual Conference) and the 6th ICSREE 2021 in Strasbourg, France (Virtual Conference). We hope to bring another exciting conference this year 2022.The ICSREE 2022 conference series were initiated to promote sustainable and renewable energy engineering, to disseminate the most recent research work and to facilitate exchange of ideas. The conference provided a platform for discussions on real problems in the fields of sustainable and renewable energy engineering. The conference program was composed of 2 keynote speeches and 1 invited speeches which are about 45 minutes including 40 minutes for speech and 5 minutes left for Q&A, and 40 oral presentations which are about 15 minutes including 13 minutes for presentation and 2 minutes left for Q&A. The best oral presentation was selected for each session by the session chairperson.The conference proceeding of ICSREE 2022 provides information regarding research activities in various countries since the authors of these papers are from Poland, France, China, India, UK, Morocco, Spain and so on. They were selected based on their quality and relevancy to the themes of the conference. All papers have been peer-reviewed by either conference committee members or international reviewers.I would like to thank all the participants for their participation and strong support to this conference. Special thanks go to the technical committee members and reviewers for their efforts in the reviewing process. Hope this conference proceeding would be useful to the researchers and scholars.Conference Chair:Prof. Monica Siroux, INSA Strasbourg ICUBE, University of Strasbourg, FranceOn behalf of the ICSREE Conference CommitteeMay 5-7, 2022List of Conference Committee is available in this Pdf.

Средства массовой информации – основное оружие информационных войн против России

The article is dedicated to the problem of the information war against Russia carried out by the mass media. The relevance of the article lies in the growing interest of researchers exploring the fake news about Russian political stance. The aim of the study is a comprehensive analysis of the information warfare algorithm used by foreign countries based on the past cases (the Finnish issue) and the present (Ukrainian issue). To achieve this goal the author used dialectical materialistic, general scientific and special methods of legal research. In the course of the study the author analyzed clippings from foreign newspapers, magazines, conference programs, leaflets on the Finnish issue first introduced into scientific circulation. The author carried out a comprehensive analysis of the views of E. N. Berendts, foreign press, Finnish and Swedish scientists on the legal status of the Grand Duchy of Finland in the Russian Empire. The author offers the insights on the information warfare, the views on the causes of the conflicts and ways to eliminate them.

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Arab Rebublic of EgyptMinistry of DefenceMilitary Technical College11th International Scientific Conference of The Military Technical College 29 - 31 March, 2022Conference Program of The 20th International Conference on Applied Mechanics and Mechanical Engineering, (AMME-20)Cairo 2022The military Technical College has the pleasure to organize the 20th International Conference on Applied Mechanics and Mechanical Engineering, (AMME-20) which is sponsored by the Ministry of Defense in the period 29-31 March, 2022.List of Conference Committees, Contributors, Conference Program, Locations of Conference Rooms, Part I: Scientific Sessions, s, Part II: Keynotes, Workshops and Seminars, Authors Index and Reviewers are available in this pdf.

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Introduction The First International Conference on Environmental Science and Engineering for Sustainable Development (ESESD 2022) was held successfully on March, 9th and 10th, 2022 at the University of Technology and Applied Sciences, Suhar, Sultanate of Oman. The University organised this conference as part of its mission and vision to contribute to the local and international community issues by bringing together local and international researchers and practitioners from academia, industry and governmental authority (The Omani Environment Authority) to focus on understanding the challenges facing the world towards achieving a sustainable environment, using scientific concepts and modern technologies to find/innovate sustainable solutions for important environmental issues as well as fostering new collaborations in these areas.Successfully, the conference attracted +130 participants from 13 countries, including the Sultanate of Oman. 171 abstracts were submitted to the conference. 77 abstracts were accepted for oral presentation in addition to 55 accepted for poster presentation. On top of that, the conference program contained two Plenary Lectures, three Keynote speeches and four Invited Speakers, as detailed below. The conference used a hybrid of face-to-face and online approaches, with all sessions streamed live online to allow participants from all around the world to participate and present their work. Overall, the conference included a wide range of subjects from many perspectives to research environmental sustainability. Among the subjects are:• Nanotechnology for environmental issues,• Renewable energy utilisation in environment sustainability,• Material science in environmental issues,• Engineering design in sustainable development,• Artificial intelligence (AI) applications in the environment and sustainable development,• Internet of Things (IoT) for sustainable development,• Biology and environmental sciences for sustainable development,• Impact of human behaviour and sociology on environmental sustainability.List of Conference Program, Conference Proceedings Editors, Organising Committee are available in this Pdf.

SPE Board Announces Nominees for 2024 President and 2023 Directors

2024 SPE President Terry Palisch is the vice president of technology and engineering at CARBO Ceramics in Richardson, Texas. He began his career with ARCO, during which he served 4 years in Algeria and 10 years as a senior petroleum engineer in Alaska. Palisch joined CARBO in 2004 and in his current position leads a team of technologists developing and championing new products and services and advising clients on completion and fracture optimization. Palisch has been an active SPE member serving in various roles, including past chairman of the SPE Dallas Section, past chair of the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition (ATCE) technical program and former SPE Completions Technical Director. He is an SPE Distinguished Member and received the award for Distinguished Service, as well as the SPE Mid‑Continent Regional Completions Optimization and Technology Award and the Regional Service Award. In 2013, he was named one of the Top 15 Best Engineers by the Texas Independent Producers and Royalty Owners Association, and in 2015 he was named the SPE Dallas Section Engineer of the Year. He has authored more than 50 SPE technical papers and holds several patents. Palisch holds a bachelor’s degree in petroleum engineering from University of Missouri‑Rolla (now Missouri University of Science and Technology) and was recently recognized as a Distinguished Alumnus. North America Regional Director Robert C. Martinez is president and CEO of Titan Rock Exploration & Production and president of Alpine Gas. He has more than 23 years of experience developing and optimizing oil and gas assets throughout the US, including conventional assets, unconventional horizontal development programs, and enhanced oil recovery projects. Middle East and North Africa Regional Director Mohamed Al Marzouqi is senior vice president of development at ADNOC Upstream Directorate. He has been with ADNOC since 2005. He joined ZADCO (ADNOC Offshore) as a petroleum engineer in field development to head the maximum-reservoir- contact (MRC) well-design team during which first production began through MRC wells from an artificial island. As a senior manager for reservoir development at ZADCO, he developed reservoir management strategy to redevelop a multibillion-dollar project in the Upper Zakum field through artificial islands. He led the team in the development of integrated reservoir management for ADNOC Group. Drilling Technical Director Robin Macmillan is the chief sales officer at Data Gumbo. He was previously senior vice president for business development at NOV, manager of Schlumberger drilling and measurements in Canada, and president at drill-bit company ReedHycalog. In his early career he worked in offshore and onshore drilling operations in several countries across North and Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, and Europe. He is the current vice president of drilling services and a member of the Executive Committee at the International Association of Drilling Contractors, where he is also Chair Emeritus of the Advanced Rig Technology Committee and a member of the Drilling Engineering Committee. Health, Safety, Environment, and Sustainability Technical Director Susan (Sue) Staley is the sustainability director for vPSI Group LLC where she leads the company’s sustainability practice. Prior to joining vPSI, she was the general manager of soil and groundwater technology at Shell and held various positions there during her 18-year tenure. Prior to Shell, she worked as a consultant at ERM. Staley has been an environmental and safety engineer for 30 years.

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XXII International conference on Computational Mechanics and Modern Applied Software Systems CMMASS 2021 September 4-13, 2021 Preface This issue comprises selected works presented on the 22nd International Conference on Computational Mechanics and Modern Applied Software Systems (CMMASS 2021) held from 4 September to 13 September 2021 in Alushta (The Republic of Crimea). The Conference was hosted by Moscow Aviation Institute (national research university) in cooperation with the Laboratory «Space flight mechanics» of the Moscow Aviation Institute, the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, the Russian National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics.The objective of the Conference is to raise and discuss up-to-date questions relating to computational mechanics problems, modern software systems, parallel computing problems, far-reaching numerical approaches and various aspects of application of computational tools to solve problems in mechanics of a deformable solid, fluid dynamics, aerospace mechanics, nanomechanics and other fields. Also during the Conference the problems of software and database support with analysis of instruments for data processing and data visualization and new achievements from researches are considered.The Conference became a workspace for participants from Russia, the People’s Republic of China, Japan, Australia, India, Poland, Serbia, France, Italy, Armenia, Republic of Kazakhstan.List of Conference Committee, Co-Chairs, Deputy Chairman and Program Committee are available in this pdf.

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The ICMSET 2022 is the 6th International Conference on Material Science and Engineering Technology (6th ICMSET 2022) was planned in Jeju Island, Korea during March 25-27, 2022. But currently, the entire world is struggling against the virulent pandemic COVID-19, so that the ICMSET 2022 conference changed the presentation method from Oral presentation to Remote Video Presentation to help with Global Quarantine Activities.The Virtual of ICMSET 2022 was held on Incheon National University at Video Conference Meeting Room on March 25-27, 2022. The ICMSET 2022 Committee members attended conference at on-site and also authors attended the conference as Video Meeting. The conference program covered Invited Keynote Speech, Oral, and Poster Presentations, they presented their presentation 15 minutes including Q&A time.The committee of ICMSET 2022 expresses their sincere thanks to all authors for their high-quality research papers and careful presentations. All reviewers are also thanked for their careful comments and advices. Thanks, are finally given to IOP Publication as well for producing this volume.The Organizing Committee of ICMSET 2022Committee ChairProf. Mosbeh KaloopIncheon Disaster Prevention Research CenterIncheon National UniversityList of Sponsors and Lists of Committees are available in this pdf.

COVID-19 SALGINININ, ÇALIŞANLAR ÜZERİNE ETKİLERİ: HAVACILIK, LOJİSTİK, FİNANS, TEKSTİL VE SAĞLIK SEKTÖRLERİ BAĞLAMINDA BİR DEĞERLENDİRME

The study aims to examine in depth how the employees representing five independent sectors, namely Finance, Logistics, Aviation, Health, and Textile, which may be affected differently by the epidemic process due to their unique dynamics, are affected by the epidemic process. In the study, the data collected through 10 different group focus meetings held with the zoom conference program from a total of 48 participants, 21 women and 27 men, representing five different sectors, were analyzed with the MAXQDA 2021 package program. The most important contribution of the research is to reveal the importance of technological opportunities and information resources in terms of determining the working environment, and accordingly, to reveal the paradigm change experienced by the employees who had to stay in their homes during the epidemic. The findings obtained by the analysis of the data sets collected from the interviewees in this study revealed the existence of a strong relationship between "Technology" and "Information Sources", which are among the themes used in the research.In the study, it was observed that the measures taken to combat the epidemic could not be institutionalized, and accordingly, the rules that came into force to cope with the epidemic by the employees were not fully internalized.

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The International Russian Conference on Ecology and Environmental Engineering (RusEcoCon-2022) was organized by South Ural State University (national research university), Chelyabinsk, Irkutsk National Research Technical University, Irkutsk, Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin, Yekaterinburg, Ural State University of Architecture and Art, Yekaterinburg and lnterCon LLC, Chelyabinsk on 16-20 of May, 2022 in Sochi, Russia.The conference program encompassed a wide range of topics and was divided into 4 sections: Sustainable Urban Environmental Development, Resources and Environment Engineering, Energy Science, Green Technology and eco-innovation, Technology potential for Environmental Management 4.0.The spread of the coronavirus COVID-19 made still adjustments to our live in this year, including the organization of our conference. Participants could take part in the conference as in a traditional face-to-face format and as format of video conference remotely.The conferees represented 29 cities from Russian and other countries. The international program committee has selected totally 65 papers for publishing in IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science (EES) (IOP Publishing Ltd.).On behalf of the Organizing Committee we express appreciation to our colleagues who participated in the review procedure of the papers and especially thank members of International Program Committee, who helped us to organize this conference.We express our gratitude to the participants for the active work at the conference sections and look forward to meeting at RusEcoCon-2023 next March in Sochi, Russia. Editors: Prof. Dr. Andrey A. Radionov,Prof. Dr. Dmitriy V. Ulrikh,Prof. Dr. Svetlana S. TimofeyevaProf. Dr. Vladimir N. Alekhin

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In order to meet the health and safety needs of our attendees and staff, 2022 International Symposium on Sensor Technology and Control (ISSTC 2022) which was scheduled to be held in Shijiazhuang, China was held virtually online during May 27 to 29, 2022. Being different from the traditional gatherings we all know, this virtual conference allows us to connect in new ways while keeping expenditure saving and maintaining social distancing. Presentations of presenter from different countries are accessible to hundreds of researchers effectively. There were 70 individuals who attended this online conference, represented many countries including Poland, Pakistan, India and China.The conference mainly focused on Sensor Technology and Control, and related fields. The purpose of the conference is to provide a platform for experts, scholars, engineering technicians, and technical R&D personnel engaged in the research of Sensor Technology and Control to share scientific research results and cutting-edge technologies, understand academic development trends, broaden research ideas, strengthen academic research and discussion, and promote cooperation in the industrialization of academic achievements. We sincerely invite experts and scholars from domestic and foreign universities and research institutions, businesses, and other related personnel to attend the conference.During the conference, the conference model was divided into three sessions, including oral presentations, keynote speeches, and online Q&A discussion. In the first part, some scholars, whose submissions were selected as the excellent papers, were given about 5-10 minutes to perform their oral presentations one by one. Then in the second part, keynote speakers were each allocated 30-45 minutes to hold their speeches. In the second part, we invited two professors as our keynote speakers. Prof. Huolin Huang, Dalian University of Technology. His current research interests include the growth and fabrication of wide-bandgap semiconductor power devices and sensors. And then we had Prof. Dahu Zhu, Wuhan University of Technology, China. He delivered a wonderful speech: Robotic grinding of complex components: A step towards efficient and intelligent machining – challenges, solutions, and applications. Their insightful speeches had triggered heated discussion in the third session of the conference. Every participant praised this conference for disseminating useful and insightful knowledge.The proceedings are a compilation of the accepted papers and represent an interesting outcome of the conference. Topics include but are not limited to the following areas: Sensor/Actuator Systems, Wireless Sensors and Sensor Networks, Optical Sensing and more related topics. All the papers have been through rigorous review and process to meet the requirements of international publication standard.We would like to acknowledge all of those who supported ISSTC 2022. The help and contribution of each individual and institution was instrumental in the success of the conference. In particular, we would like to thank the organizing committee for its valuable inputs in shaping the conference program and reviewing the submitted papers.The Committee of ISSTC 2022List of Committee member is available in this Pdf

Mindfulness in Medical Education: The Changing Landscape of Mindfulness in Medical Education Conference 2022 Proceedings.

Mindfulness in Medical Education: The Changing Landscape of Mindfulness in Medical Education Conference 2022 Proceedings.

New Russian Modernist Studies

New Russian Modernist Studies Edward Waysband Leonid Livak, In Search of Russian Modernism. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018. ix + 375 pp. Irina Shevelenko, ed. Reframing Russian Modernism. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2018. xii + 259 pp. Leonid Livak’s and Irina Shevelenko’s books reflect a growing interest in, and need for, new theoretical reassessments of Russian modernism and its post-Soviet theorizations made possible by the fall of the Soviet Union. Whereas Anglo-American studies of modernism are an intellectual growth industry, a collective hothouse of innovative approaches and ideas, research on the issue is still marginalized in Russian studies in the West and in international modernist studies.1 Russian modernist topics feature but rarely in the programs of annual conferences of The Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) or of The Modernist Studies Association (MSA) conferences. Leonid Livak, in particular, reflects on circumstances that have led to the conceptual “belatedness” of studies of Russian modernism and avowedly aims to synchronize their theoretical basis with that of their more up-to-date Western counterparts. If anti-modernist Soviet ideology created a special form of cultural disruption, late- and post-Soviet efforts to reclaim the modernist “lost time,” along with their unquestionable empirical accomplishments, have often uncritically espoused the value system and fixed canon self-servingly codified by specific literary figures. Aiming to de-ideologize the field, Livak’s book includes a revision of a range of entrenched assumptions of the “old” Western studies of modernism, associated with “the New Criticism and the Marxist tradition running from Georg Lukács and the Frankfurt school to Fredric Jameson” (4). Livak draws inspiration for this two-fold revisionist task from “new modernist studies” which emerged in Anglo-American literary scholarship in the 1990s and are embodied in its flagship journal, Modernism/modernity. He accepts the major theoretical assumption on modernism as a range of ambivalent responses to the challenges of modernity and reconsiders the concept epistemologically. Drawing on Clifford Geertz’s understanding of culture as a mechanism for organizing information and Virgil Nemoianu’s studies of Romanticism, Livak proposes [End Page 357] to consider “modernism”2 not as a fixed number of canonical works but as “culture” or a “cultural process,” i. e. “an evolving system of values, ideas, practices, and conventions . . . suffusing human experience with meaning” (7). This cultural synthesizing approach results in major reconsiderations of Russian modernism’s taxonomy, chronology, and geography, as well as of their interrelationships. No less important is Livak’s engagement with Pierre Bourdieu’s work in the field of cultural production, which yields important insights in regard to the socio-economic evolvement of Russian modernism. Taking as his main working metaphor the notion of cartography, Livak exposes distortions and blind spots in previous “maps” of cultural communities of modernity and proposes more accurate delineations. The titles of the book chapters reflect this cartographical metaphorics. The first three chapters propose a careful rethinking of the entrenched methodological premises (or distorted “maps”) concerning Russian and, by extension, international modernism. The fourth and fifth chapters propose two new “maps” of Russian modernism, demonstrating the possibilities of more inclusive research, involving extra-aesthetic phenomena, primarily social and economic. In chapter 1, “The Toponymical Labyrinth of Russian Modernist Culture,” Livak deliberately downplays various aesthetic lines of demarcation among multiple segments of modernist culture, viewing them as expressing the intrinsic modernist predilection for collective/ group self-definitions rather than as signifiers of any essential significance. Livak questions the universalization of general terms and definitions that were used at the turn of the century through the end of the 1920s by actors and contemporary observers of various artistic enterprises to define the evolving cultural and literary processes and self-organization. While this “intense onomastic activity” (40) was then substantialized by scholars, Livak stresses its functional and situational character in constant literary feuds and fights for artistic self-legitimization. Undermining the essentialist character of such concepts as Symbolism, Decadence, novoe iskusstvo (new art), Acmeism, Futurism, Cubo-Futurism, LEF, RAPP, and others, Livak, however, considers “modernism” as “the least bad option for a generic umbrella term denoting, in shorthand, a Russian cultural formation that existed from the turn of...

Female representation in oncology leadership in Africa: Analysis of trends in the African organization for cancer research and training in cancer (AORTIC).

11052 Background: Board membership in oncology organizations and invitation to speak at major oncology conferences is an established indicator of gender disparities in oncology leadership. Recent studies note an upward trend in female board membership and female speakers at oncology conferences in European and American contexts. However, little is known about trends of female representation in board membership and at oncology conferences in Africa. AORTIC is the premier African cancer organization and hosts a biennial conference, during which its council members are elected for a two-year term. The conference hosts over 1000 participants and is highly regarded internationally. As the largest gathering of African oncologists, the conference presents a unique opportunity for insight into workforce disparities and trends. This study presents an analysis of female council membership and speaker participation at the 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2021 AORTIC conferences. Methods: AORTIC conference programmes and AORTIC elections for council membership in 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2021 were analyzed for gender representation. Speakers were divided into categories including keynote speakers, facilitators, session speakers, panelists, and oral abstract presenters. For each AORTIC session, data was collected on speaker name, gender, and affiliated country. Participants who presented multiple times were counted multiple times, as their role often varied between sessions. Personal data and country affiliation was determined through online biographies of speakers and/or visual confirmation of professional photographs. A simple descriptive analysis of the data and trends is presented here. Results: Since 2015, the proportion of female speakers and council members at AORTIC has increased. In 2015, females accounted for 44% of speakers, in contrast to 55% in 2021. In 2021, females made up over 50% of all speaker categories except keynote. The proportion of female council members also increased, from 42% in 2015 to 69% in 2021. Trends in geographic representation of speakers were also analyzed for gender, revealing an increase in female speakers residing in Africa. (Table) Conclusions: The proportion of female speakers and council members at Africa’s largest cancer conference has increased significantly since 2015. Female speaker participation was higher than in North America and Europe in 2017 and surpassed 50 % in 2021. In addition, female council membership in AORTIC has surpassed 50%, up to 69% in 2021. These trends suggest a rise in female leadership in cancer research and training on the continent, indicating that strengthening local platforms in LMIC may be associated with improved gender assimilation. [Table: see text]

Announcement conference program.

Announcement conference program.

Co-Production of an Online Medical Student Conference: Inspiring Interest in Psychiatry

AimsThe aim of this project was to create a Pan-London event to increase awareness and enthusiasm of medical students for Psychiatry as a specialty. In addition to a longer term goal of ultimately increasing recruitment to the specialty once students qualify, this event aimed to bring Mental Health to the forefront of the minds of future doctors.MethodsPsychiatry Teaching Fellows from different trusts created a virtual educational event targeted at medical students in all years across London universities. It was co-produced with the student Psychiatry Societies across the London Universities. This encouraged student engagement from the ground level and fostered an environment of collaboration between students and Doctors. The event was free to attend and was supported by the Royal College of Psychiatry, London Division. The conference programme showcased the various facets Psychiatry has to offer from a global perspective, including Women's Mental Health, Forensic Psychiatry, research and volunteering around the world.ResultsThe conference welcomed 263 attendees. 92 of the attendees completed a feedback questionnaire at the end of the session. The majority of respondents were from London universities and fairly evenly distributed amongst medical school year groups. 99% of those completing the questionnaire found the session interesting (scoring 3 or more out of 5 on a 5 point Likert scale). 98% of respondents reported that they found the session widened their view of Psychiatry. 78% were already considering a career in Psychiatry. 96% felt more likely to pursue a career in Psychiatry following the conference (scoring 3 or more out of 5 on a 5 point Likert scale). Open-text feedback indicated that attendees had found the sessions interesting and particularly valued the range of topics.ConclusionExtra-curricular events are a fantastic chance to broaden medical students’ views of the specialty of Psychiatry. A virtual platform creates opportunities for audiences to hear from a vast array of expert speakers, which might not otherwise be possible in person, and creates a community of like-minded students in a safe environment. Whether or not students go on to pursue the field themselves later on in their training, events such as this bring awareness of Psychiatry and its impacts to the foreground. It is hoped that, in future, further co-produced events between the Royal College of Psychiatry and university Psychiatry societies, can continue to inspire medical students.

Adaptive and automated deep recommender systems

Dr. Xiangyu Zhao is an assistant professor of the school of data science at City University of Hong Kong (CityU). Prior to CityU, he completed his PhD (2021) at MSU under the advisory of Dr. Jiliang Tang, MS (2017) at USTC and BEng (2014) at UESTC. His current research interests include data mining and machine learning, especially (1) Personalization, Recommender System, Online Advertising, Search Engine, and Information Retrieval; (2) Urban Computing, Smart City, and GeoAI; (3) Deep Reinforcement Learning, AutoML, and Multimodal ML; and (4) AI for Social Computing, Finance, Education, Ecosystem, and Healthcare. He has published more than 30 papers in top conferences (e.g., KDD, WWW, AAAI, SIGIR, ICDE, CIKM, ICDM, WSDM, RecSys, ICLR) and journals (e.g., TOIS, SIGKDD, SIGWeb, EPL, APS). His research received ICDM'21 Best-ranked Papers, Global Top 100 Chinese New Stars in AI, CCF-Tencent Open Fund, Criteo Research Award, Bytedance Research Award and MSU Dissertation Fellowship. He serves as top data science conference (senior) program committee members and session chairs (e.g., KDD, AAAI, IJCAI, ICML, ICLR, CIKM), and journal reviewers (e.g., TKDE, TKDD, TOIS, CSUR). He serves as the organizers of DRL4KDD@KDD'19, DRL4IR@SIGIR'20, 2nd DRL4KD@WWW'21, 2nd DRL4IR@SIGIR'21, and a lead tutor at WWW'21/22 and IJCAI'21. He also serves as the founding academic committee members of MLNLP, the largest AI community in China with 800,000 members/followers. The models and algorithms from his research have been launched in the online system of many companies.