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Timing, delays and pathways to diagnosis of endometriosis: a scoping review protocol

IntroductionPathways to diagnosis for women with endometriosis are frequently characterised with delays. Internationally, women face significant barriers and times to diagnosis. The prolonged time without a diagnosis may result in...

Factors Influencing Implementation of Performance Management Programmes in South African Universities

Performance management is a concept that helps in the improvement of results by providing the means for individuals to perform well within an agreed framework of planned goals, standards and competency requirements. It includes developing an understanding about what needs to be achieved and how it must be achieved. Hence, the aim of this study was to review the factors influencing implementation of performance management programmes in South African Universities. This study was a conceptual study that examined the factors that influence successful implementation of performance management programmes, and classified the importance of a performance management system in South African Universities. An archival investigation was used to conduct the study through in-depth study of past literatures, such as textbooks, newspaper articles, company websites, journals and conference publications. This approach was chosen because it was the most effective method to carry out an informative review of the factors that influence successful implementation of performance management programmes, and classify the importance of a performance management system in South African Universities. In this study, the researchers reported that performance management implementation is influenced by a number of factors which include but not limited to shortage of staffs in the human resource department. In addition, human resource personnel require training on how performance management should be implemented. The study also reported that there is only a partial trust in the relationship between managers and the staffs. In other words, employees often resist the implementation of performance management and are either ready or educated about the performance management system. However, if properly adopted, the study suggested that effective implementation of performance management system will improve employees and organisational performance. Such policy must be discussed with all stakeholders so that they will not be caught unaware. Hence, performance management needs to be piloted before final implementation. Keywords: Organizational Performance, Performance Management, Business Policy, Stakeholders, Human Resources, Literature Review.

Measuring Patient Preferences at the FDA Center for Devices and Radiological Health: Reflections and Projections

ObjectivesPatient preference information (PPI) is a way to incorporate the patient voice in the evaluation of medical devices. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) has been working to encourage the voluntary inclusion of PPI throughout the medical device lifecycle for nearly a decade. This article reflects CDRH's efforts to encourage collection of PPI and offers perspectives on the future of PPI in the evaluation of medical devices. MethodsCDRH regulatory guidance, public meetings, and collaborations relating to PPI were explored. ResultsSince 2012 when CDRH issued guidance on how PPI can be used as scientific evidence in the benefit-risk regulatory submission, CDRH has issued 5 subsequent guidance documents expanding on the use of PPI in medical device evaluations. CDRH remains committed to advancing the science and application of PPI in the medical device ecosystem through many collaborations with professional organizations, patient advocacy groups, and academic institutions. By hosting and actively participating in multiple scientific and regulatory public meetings and conferences, CDRH fosters a continuous learning environment where the experience of using PPI in regulatory submissions can be shared. A September 2020 meeting cosponsored by FDA and International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) discussed the state of PPI in regulatory applications and beyond. ConclusionThis article describes these pivotal events that have helped to increase the use of PPI in medical device evaluation as well as discusses future applications of PPI.

ECB language and stock returns – A textual analysis of ECB press conferences

This paper examines the language used by central bank officials in public press conferences and how it influences stock returns in the euro area. By proposing a sentiment mining approach that accounts for grammatical and syntactical cues, a distinction is drawn between (i) the general tone, (ii) uncertainty, and (iii) constraint expressed by ECB officials. The results show that as constraining language is often used to express policy commitment, press conferences with higher fractions of constraining language are associated with positive intraday stock price movements in times of unconventional monetary policy. In addition, we conclude that in times of crises, intraday returns are more sensitive towards the general tone of ECB officials as market participants may find it harder to grasp the future path of monetary policy. In further analyses, a distinction is made between sections within the press conferences that specifically address either the monetary analysis or the economic outlook. The results indicate that market participants interpret uncertain language in the economic outlook as a signal of expansive monetary policy decisions going forward as indicated by positive intraday stock returns. Finally, by proposing a novel rule-based approach to identify forward-looking statements of ECB press conferences, first evidence is provided in this paper that forward-looking answers given by ECB officials in the Q&A Sessions significantly affect euro area stock returns.

What is known about factors improving physiotherapists' adherence to high value interventions in nonspecific low back pain? A scoping review protocol.

Despite multiple guidelines providing best practice treatment recommendations for managing low back pain (LBP), current evidence suggests that physiotherapists across the world often provide costly, ineffective, unnecessary, even harmful care. The purpose of this scoping review is to establish the body of evidence regarding factors that improve or hinder physiotherapist's adherence to high-value interventions in the management of non-specific LBP. This scoping review will be conducted based on the methodological framework for scoping review recommended by Arksey& O'Malley's and Levac. Three electronic databases will be searched: MEDLINE, CINAHL and SPORTDiscus. A search of grey literature will also be performed. The search will cover studies published in English from the inception of each database to the present date. The reference lists of all included reports and articles will be hand-searched for additional results. Two independent reviewers will screen titles and abstracts for assessment against the eligibility criteria. Data will be extracted and presented in tabular form and a narrative summary that aligns with the review's aim. This scoping review does not require ethics approval. Results of this scoping review will be disseminated via conference presentation and/or publication in a scientific journal. We will also disseminate the results as part of stakeholder meetings with physiotherapists including clinicians, academicians, researchers and administrators managing non-specific LBP. A summary of the key results will be shared across social networking sites in the form of infographics.

Preface

INNOVATIVE MINING TECHNOLOGIES IMTech 2020 Scientific and Technical Conference 2 – 6 November 2020 Due to severe pandemic restrictions, caused by the SARS – CoV2, an electronic form of the conference was offered. The conference covered a broad spectrum of scientific, research and technical subjects, enabling an exchange of knowledge and professional experience among representatives of academia, research institutes, producers of mining machines and equipment as well as end – users from mines.The IMTech 2020 Conference was oriented mainly onto innovative mining technologies in the aspect of safety, reliability and efficiency.During twelve conference sessions forty – four papers, concerning work safety in the mining industry, minerals’ extraction systems, state–of–the–art control, monitoring and diagnostics systems of machines and equipment, cyber – security, new solutions of hydraulic systems, new generation, highly efficient haulage assemblies for longwall systems, hoisting machines, recovery of minerals, preparation systems, an improvement of mining personnel’s qualifications and an internationalization of the Polish circum–mining sector were presented.In total about 4000 on-line participants took part in the conference. It is worth mentioning that 830 people followed the session simultaneously translated into English. Foreign participants were from Australia, Chile, India, Romania and Slovenia. This conference publication contains only a few selected articles of innovative character, presenting occupational health and safety issues, innovative concepts of minerals’ production, as well as test results and analyses of systems applied in mining machines and equipment.List of titles Editors, Scientific Committee of the conference, EDITORIAL STAFF are available in this Pdf.

Peer review declaration

All papers published in this volume of IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science have been peer reviewed through processes administered by the Editors. Reviews were conducted by expert referees to the professional and scientific standards expected of a proceedings journal published by IOP Publishing.• Type of peer review: Single-blind• Conference submission management system: Easychair.org• Number of submissions received: 98• Number of submissions sent for review: 93• Number of submissions accepted: 90• Acceptance Rate (Number of Submissions Accepted / Number of Submissions Received X 100): 91.83%• Average number of reviews per paper: 2• Total number of reviewers involved: 35• Any additional info on review process: Step 1. Selected papers are reviewed by two or three experts in the research area. Each reviewer is required to fill in a form to report the review results.Step 2. The peer review forms are reviewed by the editors. The editors will decide whether the reviews are satisfactory or unsatisfactory.Step 3. Accepted review reports are given to the authors.Step 4. Authors are required to revise their paper based on the recommendations given by the reviewers. The revised version is sent back to the editors with a revision summary to justify whether the author accepts or rejects the recommendation made by reviewers.Step 5. The editors will make the final decision of accepting/rejecting the papers based on the revised version, author’s revision summary, reviewer’s recommendation and the conference publication requirements.• Contact person for queries: Name : Dr. Aqilah Awg Abdul RahmanAffiliation: Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (Pagoh Campus), KM 1, Jalan Panchor, 84600 Panchor, Johor, Malaysia. Email : aqilah@uthm.edu.my

Peer review declaration (3rd ICOSA 2020)

All papers published in this volume of IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science have been peer reviewed through processes administered by the proceedings Editors. Reviews were conducted by expert referees to the professional and scientific standards expected of a proceedings journal published by IOP Publishing.• Type of peer review: Double-blind (Double-anonymous: author and reviewer identities are hidden to each other)• Describe criteria used by Reviewers when accepting/declining papers. Was there the opportunity to resubmit articles after revisions? Reviewers have criteria to accept or declining papers including:1. similarity check (percentage of similarity detected),2. content check (reviewer comment and suggested feedback)3. paper format check (setting of margins, title, authorship, abstract, body text, section, table and figure, and citation/reference style)Authors should revise and resubmit paper no later than two weeks after receiving the result of paper review from reviewers.• Conference submission management system: Conference submission management system via website account, as well as email correspondence between conference committee members.• Number of submissions received: 94 papers• Number of submissions sent for review: 94 papers• Number of submissions accepted: 59 papers• Acceptance Rate (Number of Submissions Accepted/Number of Submissions Received X 100): 59 papers/94 papers ×100 = 62,76 %• Average number of reviews per paper: 3 reviews per paper• Total number of reviewers involved: 19 reviewers• Any additional info on review process (ie plagiarism check system): Plagiarism found by Turnitin.• Contact person for queries: Genesiska (Person in Charge for Post conference publication) Email: genesiska@umy.ac.id, and icosa@umy.ac.idDepartment of Agrotechnology, Faculty of Agriculture, Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta

Akwenda intervention programme for children and youth with cerebral palsy in a low-resource setting in sub-Saharan Africa: protocol for a quasi-randomised controlled study

IntroductionCerebral palsy (CP) is the most common childhood-onset motor disorder accompanied by associated impairments, placing a heavy burden on families and health systems. Most children with CP live in low/middle-income...

Extraperitoneal versus transperitoneal approach for robot-assisted radical prostatectomy: An updated systematic review and meta-analysis.

261 Background: Extraperitoneal RARP (EP-RARP) has recently become a popular surgical approach and is often compared to the transperitoneal RARP (TP-RARP). We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of the available literature to evaluate the differences in peri-operative characteristics, oncological and functional control, and surgical complications between EP-RARP and TP-RARP. Methods: A comprehensive search of PubMed, Embase, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), ClinicalTrials.gov, Google Scholar, and select conference abstract publications was performed for eligible studies comparing outcomes between EP-RARP versus TP-RARP. This was conducted in accordance with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines and was prospectively registered with PROSPERO. A leave-one-out sensitivity analyses was performed to control for heterogeneity and risk of bias. Results: A total of 16 studies (three randomized controlled trials, five prospective, and eight retrospective studies) were included with a total pooled population of 3897 patients including 2201 (56.5%) EP-RARPs and 1696 (43.5%) TP-RARPs. When compared to TP-RARP, EP-RARP offers faster operative time (MD: -14.4 minutes; 95% CI: -26.3, -2.3; p = 0.02), decreased length of post-operative stay (MD: -0.9 days, 95% CI: -1.3, -0.4, p < 0.0001), decreased rates of post-operative ileus (RR: 0.2, 95% CI: 0.1, 0.7, p = 0.009) and inguinal hernia formation (RR: 0.2, 95% CI: 0.1, 0.5, p = 0.001). There were no significant differences in total complications, estimated blood loss, positive surgical margins, or urinary continence at 6 months post-RARP. Conclusions: Based on the available evidence, EP-RARP delivered similar oncological and functional outcomes, while also offering faster operative time, decreased length of post-operative stay, and decreased rates of post-operative ileus and inguinal hernia formation when compared to the TP-RARP. These findings provide evidence-based data for surgical approach optimization and prompts future research to examine whether these findings hold true with recent advances in single-port RARP and outpatient RARP.

VIS30K: A Collection of Figures and Tables From IEEE Visualization Conference Publications.

We present the VIS30K dataset, a collection of 29,689 images that represents 30 years of figures and tables from each track of the IEEE Visualization conference series (Vis, SciVis, InfoVis, VAST). VIS30K's comprehensive coverage of the scientific literature in visualization not only reflects the progress of the field but also enables researchers to study the evolution of the state-of-the-art and to find relevant work based on graphical content. We describe the dataset and our semi-automatic collection process, which couples convolutional neural networks (CNN) with curation. Extracting figures and tables semi-automatically allows us to verify that no images are overlooked or extracted erroneously. To improve quality further, we engaged in a peer-search process for high-quality figures from early IEEE Visualization papers. With the resulting data, we also contribute VISImageNavigator (VIN, visimagenavigator.github.io), a web-based tool that facilitates searching and exploring VIS30K by author names, paper keywords, title and abstract, and years.

The effects and acceptability of different exercise modes on glycemic control in type 2 diabetes mellitus: A protocol for systematic review and network meta-analysis.

Introduction:Exercise has been believed to have positive effects on blood glucose control in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. However, few medical evidences have been found to ascertain which type of exercise has the best effect on blood glucose control in diabetes and which type of exercise is more acceptable. The purpose of this study is to compare the effects and acceptability of different exercise modes on glycemic control in type 2 diabetes patients by using systematic review and network meta-analysis.Methods and analysis:Relevant randomized controlled trial studies will be searched from PubMed, EMbase, CochraneCENTRAL, CNKI, VIP, and Chinese medical paper libraries. Primary outcome indicators: glycosylated hemoglobin and dropout rate of the research (number of dropouts/numbers of initially enrolled subjects). Secondary outcome measures: fasting blood glucose, body weight, total cholesterol (TC), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL), high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, triglycerides (TG), diastolic pressure, systolic pressure (SBP). Two reviewers are arranged to screen Title, , and then review full text to further extract data. Standard meta-analysis and network meta-analysis of the data are performed afterward. Methodological quality assessment is planned to be conducted using Cochrane risk of bias tool. The outcome will be analyzed statistically according to Bayesian analysis methods. After that, subgroup analysis is conducted on the duration of intervention, whether there is supervision of intervention, frequency of intervention per week, age, gender, and medication use.Trial registration number:PROSPERO CRD42020175181Discussion:The systematic review and network meta-analysis include evidence of the impact of different exercise modes on blood glucose control in type 2 diabetes mellitus. There are 2 innovative points in this study. One is to conduct a classified study on exercise in as much detail as possible, and the other is to study the acceptability of different exercise modes. The network meta-analysis will reduce the uncertainty of intervention and enable clinicians, sports practitioners, and patients to choose more effective and suitable exercise methods.Ethics and dissemination:The findings of the study will be disseminated through publications in peer-reviewed journals and scientific conferences and symposia. Further, no ethical approval is required in this study.

Technologies for fostering intergenerational connectivity and relationships: Scoping review and emergent concepts

BackgroundThe growing capabilities of technology are enabling increased support for communication and meaningful interactions that span distance, cultures, and generations. Interactions between youth (people younger than 19 years old) and older adults (people over 50 years old) have been shown to provide many benefits for both populations. Technology has a significant potential role to play in supporting intergenerational connectivity, however, little research has been done to specifically explore what role technology might have. This scoping review examines the literature to establish what technologies have been created or used to foster intergenerational interactions to infer overarching themes and propose directions for future research. MethodsA structured search was conducted through MEDLINE (PubMed), IEEE, CINAHL (EBSCOhost), ACM, and Scopus databases. Identified articles were screened first by title, then by abstract, and finally by full paper screening. Inclusion criteria were: written in English, contained both youth below 21 and adults over 50 years of age, peer-reviewed primary research (e.g. journal and conference publications) or published theses/dissertations, and presented design or use of a technology with the specific intention of fostering intergenerational connectivity. An inductive analysis was performed to identify emergent concepts related to the reviewed literature. ResultsA total of 36, 707 articles were identified; 77 were included in the review after the screening process. Five emergent concepts were identified: 1) Technology for intergenerational connectivity is an emerging field, 2) Interventions are primarily games-focused, 3) Research has been discipline-centric, 4) Lack of consistent vocabulary, and 5) Lack of consistent methodologies. ConclusionsThis review is the first of its kind to scope the body of research related to technology fostering intergenerational connectivity. The breadth of methods reflects the new and multidisciplinary nature of this field and underscores the importance of creating shared approaches and vocabulary to increase knowledge sharing. This, in turn, could support more rapid and targeted progress in this field.

Protocol combinators for modeling, testing, and execution of distributed systems

Abstract Distributed systems are hard to get right, model, test, debug, and teach. Their textbook definitions, typically given in a form of replicated state machines, are concise, yet prone to introducing programming errors if naïvely translated into runnable implementations. In this work, we present Distributed Protocol Combinators (DPC), a declarative programming framework that aims to bridge the gap between specifications and runnable implementations of distributed systems, and facilitate their modeling, testing, and execution. DPC builds on the ideas from the state-of-the art logics for compositional systems verification. The contribution of DPC is a novel family of program-level primitives, which facilitates construction of larger distributed systems from smaller components, streamlining the usage of the most common asynchronous message-passing communication patterns, and providing machinery for testing and user-friendly dynamic verification of systems. This paper describes the main ideas behind the design of the framework and presents its implementation in Haskell. We introduce DPC through a series of characteristic examples and showcase it on a number of distributed protocols from the literature. This paper extends our preceeding conference publication (Andersen & Sergey, 2019a) with an exploration of randomized testing for protocols and their implementations, and an additional case study demonstrating bounded model checking of protocols.

Controle social: as ações do Observatório Social (OSFI) em Foz do Iguaçu (PR/Brasil)

Constituição Federal brasileira autoriza uma série de iniciativas de ente público, que viabilizam o controle social por parte da população, tais como os conselhos de políticas públicas e as conferências. Por outro lado, há ações mobilizadas pela sociedade civil organizada, tais como os Observatórios Sociais do Brasil. O objetivo desta pesquisa é analisar as ações do Observatório Social de Foz do Iguaçu (OSFI), em relação ao controle e monitoramento da aplicação de recursos financeiros no município de Foz do Iguaçu nos últimos cinco anos (2014-2019). Para investigar as ações do OSFI utilizou-se o enfoque de pesquisa qualitativa de estudo de caso e, para a coleta dos dados, os métodos de análise de conteúdo e entrevistas semiestruturadas. Analisou-se o website do OSFI, os relatórios das atividades e, foram realizadas entrevistas com voluntários e contratados da organização. Os entrevistados relataram a falta de transparência por parte dos órgãos governamentais, o que dificulta maior acesso da população aos dados públicos, o que impede o controle social. Quanto ao OSFI, os entrevistados relatam que há impacto positivo do Observatório na cidade, especificamente, no que diz respeito ao monitoramento das licitações e obras públicas, assim como, nas ações que visam o aprimoramento da gestão pública e accountability no município.

Digital Public History Inside and Outside the Box

The relationship between history and information technology is long and troubled. Many projects have opened and closed, many pioneering initiatives have achieved success and attention, but often they have not ‘taught’ or left a fruitful legacy. These experiments, studies and conferences have built a rich basis for the relationship between the disciplines, but the difficult connection needs to be further explored. Although no digital history research centres exist in Italy nowadays, it is possible to look at several Italian projects in order to discuss the strange position of the digital issue within public history conferences, the place of history in the large digital humanities environment and finally the definition itself of digital history.

Acupuncture and related therapies for treating stable angina pectoris: A protocol of an overview of systematic reviews and meta-analysis.

Background:Stable angina pectoris (SAP) is a global health challenge. Multiple previous systematic reviews (SRs) have been conducted to assess the effectiveness of acupuncture and related therapies on SAP. We will carry out a comprehensive overview to map, synthesize, and assess the all the available evidence of acupuncture and related therapies on SAP.Methods:We will search 7 databases, including China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) and Chinese Biomedical Literature Database (CBM), WanFang Database, the Cochrane Library, PubMed, EMbase, MEDLINE. SRs and meta-analyses (MAs) of acupuncture and related therapies on SAP will be screened for eligibility. Systematic reviews, qualification evaluation, data extraction, methodological quality, and evidence quality evaluation will be conducted in pairs. The outcomes of interest include: frequency of angina attack, changes in nitroglycerin use, intensity of anginal pain, depression assessment, changes of the electrocardiogramme (ECG), anxiety assessment, results of the Six-Minute Walk Test (6-MWT), overall effectiveness, the Seattle Angina Questionnaire (SAQ), and adverse events. Where appropriate, the evidence will be synthesized based on the outcomes and patient subgroups.Results:This overview will be published in a peer-reviewed journal.Conclusion:This overview is expected to provide a reliable and valuable evidence of acupuncture for treating SAP.Ethics and communication:Given that this is an overview of published research, patient consent and ethical approval are not needed. The findings of this study will be disseminated through conference presentations and publication in peer-reviewed journals.PROSPERO registration number:CRD42020164466.

Infrared thermography in the diagnosis of musculoskeletal injuries: A protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Background:Musculoskeletal injuries (MSDs) have become a major public health problem worldwide. Current diagnosis techniques for MSDs are often associated with radiation exposure, expensive cost, or contraindication. Infrared thermography (IRT) is becoming a proposed tool to assist in diagnosing MSDs, but current evidence is inconclusive. Thus, herein we aimed to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of IRT for MSDs.Methods:We will search EMBASE, MEDLINE, EBSCO, Cochrane Library, SCOPUS, Web of Science, CNKI, SinoMed, and Wangfang. Two researchers will independently screen eligible studies. Study quality will be evaluated based on the Quality Assessment of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies (QUADAS-2) tool. Data synthesis will be completed using STATA 14.0 software. A bivariate random-effects analysis will be utilized to estimate the pooled estimation of the diagnostic odds ratio (DOR) and the summary receiver operating characteristics (SROC) curve. Subgroup analyses will be performed to determine heterogeneity sources.Results:This systematic review and meta-analysis will provide reliable evidence about the diagnostic accuracy of IRT for MSDs.Conclusion:The conclusion of this study will be published in a peer-reviewed journal.Ethics and Communication:Given that this is a systematic review of published research, patient consent and ethical approval are not relevant. The findings of this study will be disseminated through conference presentations and publication in peer-reviewed journals.Prospero registration number:CRD42020184867.

About the book of Valerio Olgiati - Bas Princen

As editor of scopio Editions it is a great honour to be writing this closing text about the upcoming book which communicates our last Duelo/Dueto session of Architecture, Art and Image (AAI) series that had as invited authors Valerio Olgiati and Bas Princen. I will start by talking about the book as a privileged medium for Architecture, Art and Image and then go on focusing on this book in particular and its authors. This conference series had from the start planned a publication for each session with the contribution of the invited speakers and the organization because we believe that the physical book, without prejudice towards the potential of digital publications, is still a tool of paramount importance for preserving and building knowledge, not just for students and academics, but also for all professionals and non-scholars. The physical book somehow allows the understanding of what was discussed and debated in Duelo/Dueto sessions in a different manner, encouraging and giving the right time to each viewer for a deeper thinking. The reading of these sessions also means that these events of rich exchange of ideas and personal experience between significant authors coming from AAI universe are preserved for future studies. In this way, they can be shared with a larger audience, opening the mind of many to these events and encouraging critical thinking toward a vast horizon of issues related to AAI universe. It is worth referring also that the specific potential of the physical book as a unique medium to communicate Architecture, Art and Image1 was explored in this publication, which adds to its uniqueness and makes it more an author´s book than the customary conference or roundtable publication. It was possible to create a visual narrative where the sum is greater than the parts, which we believe has as a result an innovative reading and a more insightful understanding about the thoughts, work and artistic strategies of both authors. Thus, we believe that this book, the second of this series of four publications focused on each session, will foster a significant critical debate related to Architecture, Art and Image, as already happened with our first published book on this series. [...]

Recommendation system based on semantic scholar mining and topic modeling on conference publications

Recommendation systems are of great assistance to online in computer science in various aspects of the Internet portals such as social networks and library websites. There are several approaches to implement recommendation systems. Latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) is one of the popular techniques in topic modeling. Recently, researchers have proposed many approaches based on recommendation systems and LDA. Regarding the importance of the subject, in this paper, we discover the trends of the topics and find a relationship between LDA topics and Scholar-Context-documents. We apply probabilistic topic modeling based on Gibbs sampling algorithms for semantic mining from eight conference publications in computer science from the DBLP dataset. Based on the obtained experimental results, our semantic framework can be effective to help organizations to better organize these conferences and cover future research topics.