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II Всероссийская научно-общественная конференция «Адмирал Федор Ушаков: уроки истории и вызовы современности» (г. Ярославль, 28 февраля 2020 г.)

II Всероссийская научно-общественная конференция «Адмирал Федор Ушаков: уроки истории и вызовы современности» (г. Ярославль, 28 февраля 2020 г.)

Investigating outcome measures for assessing airway clearance techniques in adults with cystic fibrosis: protocol of a single-centre randomised controlled crossover trial

IntroductionAirway clearance techniques (ACTs) are a gold standard of cystic fibrosis management; however, the majority of research evidence for their efficacy is of low standard; often attributed to the lack...

NOTES FROM ROME 2019–20

This gazette presents to the reader outside Rome news of recent archaeological activity (June 2019 – June 2020) gleaned from public lectures, conferences, exhibitions, and newspaper reports.

Developing patient-centric medicines for older people: Reflections from the draft EMA paper on the pharmaceutical development of medicines for use in the older population.

Increased global longevity requires a re-evaluation of current structures in society to adapt to the consequential demographic shift. As (very) old people are prone to impaired human organ and body functions resulting in, for example, multimorbidity, polypharmacy, hospitalisation and problems in medication management, it is increasingly acknowledged that re-evaluations should include the suitability of pharmaceutical patient care as one of the cornerstones of public health. Following the 2011 European Medicines Agency (EMA) Geriatric Strategy, in 2017 the EMA published the draft "Reflection paper on the pharmaceutical development of medicines for use in the older population". The draft paper was opened for public consultation and specific attention and feedback (either supportive or with a proposal for revision) was asked on three design aspects: tablet breaking, drug administration through enteral feeding tubes and medication management. Following publication, the draft paper was presented at two public conferences attended by participants from different disciplines. This manuscript is intended to draw the attention of different stakeholder parties to the urgent need to collaborate on the emerging issues arising from increasing longevity and multimorbidity, and especially those associated with pharmaceutical patient care and drug product design, including the need for collaborative research into existing or emerging knowledge gaps. The manuscript focuses on the three aforementioned aspects of pharmaceutical development (tablet breaking, drug administration through enteral feeding tubes and medication management) as these highly relate to medication safety and efficacy and constitute persistent and typical challenges for older people, caregivers and healthcare professionals in daily clinical practice.

Preface

VIII International Scientific Conference Transport of Siberia – 2020 took place in Novosibirsk, Russia on May 22-27, 2020.The conference was organized by Siberian Transport University, Novosibirsk, Russia.Leading experts in the field of transport met in Novosibirsk to exchange the latest scientific achievements, strengthen the academic relations, create favorable conditions for collaborative research and implement collaborative projects in the field of transport.Within the conference, the participants discussed a wide range of issues related to Design and Construction of Transport Infrastructure Objects, Freight and Logistics, Intelligent Transportation Systems, Materials in Transportation Industry, Transport and the Rural Economy, Transport Planning and Management, Transportation and Economic Development, Transportation and Society, Vehicle Systems Engineering.The participants and guests of the conference visited university labs and got acquainted with the advanced teaching methods and educational materials applied by experts in the field of transport.The authors submitted 600 qualified papers to Transport of Siberia – 2020 conference. Of these, 250 papers were accepted. All papers passed a strict scientific, technical and grammatical review. Doctor of Science, Professor Aleksey Manakov was a guest editor of this collection of conference proceedings.Within the framework of the review, all papers were thoroughly checked for the following attributes:1) for compliance with the subject of the conference.2) for plagiarism. Acceptable minimum of originality was 90%.3) for acceptable English language. All papers were reviewed by a native speaker.4) at the same time, papers were checked by a technical proofreader for quality of images, absence of Cyrillic, etc.).The conference included several workshops and plenary sessions dedicated to the issues of road transportation, railroad transport, road engineering complex, air transport, public transport, transport and logistics complex, road safety, etc.The members of our organizing committee warmly thank the team of IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering for the help given to us within the whole process of preparing the proceedings of our conference for publication. We kindly appreciate your support and hope for further cooperation.Conference Organizing Committee

Perioperative management for people with chronic kidney disease receiving dialysis undergoing major surgery: a protocol for a scoping review.

IntroductionPeople with chronic kidney disease receiving dialysis (CKD G5D) have an increased risk of poor postoperative outcomes and a high incidence of major surgery. Despite the high burden of these combined risks, there is a paucity of evidence to support tailored perioperative strategies to manage this population. A comprehensive evidence synthesis would inform the management of these patients in the perioperative period and identify knowledge gaps. We describe a protocol for a scoping review of the literature to identify existing perioperative strategies, protocols, pathways and interventions for people with CKD G5D undergoing major surgery.Methods and analysisWe will conduct a scoping review in accordance with the Joanna Briggs Institute methodology and report per the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for scoping reviews. In February 2020, we will complete our search of MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL Plus, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, and Cochrane Controlled Trials Registry for published literature from inception to present. All study types are eligible for inclusion, without language restriction. Studies reporting a perioperative intervention in adult patients with CKD G5D are eligible for inclusion. Studies in prevalent kidney transplant patients or patients with acute kidney injury, and studies that report on surgical approaches without consideration of perioperative management strategies, will be excluded. Reviewers will independently assess abstracts for all identified studies in duplicate, and again at the full-text stage. Following published literature searches, a search of the grey literature will be developed. We will extract and narratively report study, participant and intervention details. This will include a summary table outlining the strategies employed, organised into post hoc developed perioperative domains.Ethics and disseminationEthical considerations do not apply to this scoping review. Findings will be disseminated through relevant conference presentations and publications.

Making Your Conference Visit Worthwhile

Regardless of whether you are a student, researcher, or early career faculty member, as long as you are in academia, attending conferences is inevitable. I wrote more than 20 conference publications while I was a graduate student at the University of Colorado Denver and as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada. Because I like traveling, conferences never bothered me. But that might not be the opinion you hear from everybody. One general question is, how does one get the most out of a conference?

Surveyed impact of intellectual property training in STEM education on innovation, research, and development

AbstractThis paper analyzes the findings of an international survey questionnaire to which responses were received from over 500 members from different technical societies of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). The survey is primarily intended to uncover members' perceptions of patent filing and research‐driven innovation. Our thesis statement is twofold. First, the introduction of basic intellectual property (IP) courses to university Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics curricula would teach students valuable basics of IP and associated issues, technology protection; and possibly stimulate novel/innovative R&D outcomes. Second, studying relevant active/lapsed/expired patent documents could provide stimulating input for ongoing academic research. After analyzing the survey results we conclude that IP coursework could be a catalyst for students and researchers to explore patent opportunities related to their specific interests. The resulting knowledge would further enable researchers to prepare more compelling funding applications. In our experience, IEEE conference publications are often closely aligned with inventions to solve pressing technical problems. Conference papers typically comprise of cutting‐edge research/industry findings, with a short time between paper submission and presentation. Furthermore, conference organizers choose themes representing the forefront of technologies that often lead to inventions. These could fuel patent developments, but academic research environments often provide little if any incentives for academic researchers to prepare and file patent applications. Indeed, the attainment of high impact journal publications remains the primary metric by which research activity is judged and future academic tenure achieved.

Open access at the national level: A comprehensive analysis of publications by Finnish researchers

Open access (OA) has mostly been studied by relying on publication data from selective international databases, notably Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus. The aim of our study is to show that it is possible to achieve a national estimate of the number and share of OA based on institutional publication data providing a comprehensive coverage of the peer-reviewed outputs across fields, publication types, and languages. Our data consists of 48,177 journal, conference, and book publications from 14 Finnish universities in 2016–2017, including information about OA status, as self-reported by researchers and validated by data-collection personnel through their Current Research Information System (CRIS). We investigate the WoS, Scopus, and DOI coverage, as well as the share of OA outputs between different fields, publication types, languages, OA mechanisms (gold, hybrid, and green), and OA information sources (DOAJ, Bielefeld list, and Sherpa/Romeo). We also estimate the role of the largest international commercial publishers compared to the not-for-profit Finnish national publishers of journals and books. We conclude that institutional data, integrated at national and international level, provides one of the building blocks of a large-scale data infrastructure needed for comprehensive assessment and monitoring of OA across countries, for example at the European level.

The prophylactic effects of vitamin K supplementation on coagulopathies associated with type 2 diabetes mellitus: A protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Background:The impact of vitamin K in ameliorating diabetes-associated complications, especially those linked with platelet activation and coagulation remains unclear. The current study aims to systematically explore and discuss the available evidence on the impact of vitamin K on the diabetes-cardiovascular disease (CVD)-associated complications.Methods:A systematic review of studies published on the MEDLINE (PubMed), EMBASE, and Google Scholar electronic database will be conducted. The review will include studies published from inception until May 25, 2020, reporting on the effect of vitamin K on CVD-related markers, especially coagulation factors and platelet activation in type 2 diabetes mellitus. Before the full-text screening, all studies will be screened by title, abstract, and keywords. The Downs and Black checklist will be used to assess the quality of the studies. Additionally, the Cochrane collaboration tool will also be used to evaluate the risk of bias across the included studies. Kappa Cohen's calculator will be used to assess the level of agreement between the authors.Discussions:This systematic review will not require ethical approval, and the results will be distributed through conference and peer-reviewed publications. Our results will assist current and future research scientists on the potential use of vitamin K as a protective therapy against CVD-related complications.Systematic review registration:This protocol is registered on the International Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews (PROSPERO) registration number: CRD42020151667.

Trans Justice and the Law: From Then to Now, From There to Here: A Conversation between Dr. Viviane Namaste and Dalia Tourki

The following is an edited transcription of the keynote presentation at the SSHRC-funded conferenceOn the Margins of Trans Legal Change.This public conference was hosted by McGill University’s Faculty of Law and Institute for Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies, in partnership with Thompson Rivers University’s Faculty of Law. The keynote presentation was a conversation between Dr. Viviane Namaste and Dalia Tourki, where they asked each other questions.

ECB Language and Stock Returns – A Textual Analysis of ECB Press Conferences

We examine how the language used by central bank officials in public press conferences influences stock returns in the euro area. In line with the concept of Odyssean Forward Guidance, we find that using constraining language to express policy commitment increases the effectiveness of Forward Guidance in times of unconventional monetary policy. In further analysis, we provide strong evidence that market participants interpret higher levels of uncertain language in the economic outlook as a sign of Delphic Forward Guidance, indicated by positive intraday stock returns. In addition, we find that in a period of high economic uncertainty, tone sensitivities of financial market participants increase as they find it hard to grasp the future path of monetary policy. Finally, by proposing a novel rule-based approach to identify forward-looking statements of ECB press conferences, we provide first evidence that forward-looking statements in the answers given by ECB officials in the Q&A Sessions significantly affect Euro area stock returns.

Connectivity guided theta burst transcranial magnetic stimulation versus repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for treatment-resistant moderate to severe depression: study protocol for a randomised double-blind controlled trial (BRIGhTMIND)

IntroductionThe BRIGhTMIND study aims to determine the clinical effectiveness, cost-effectiveness and mechanism of action of connectivity guided intermittent theta burst stimulation (cgiTBS) versus standard repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) in...

7th International Centre of Research and Information on the Public, Social and Cooperative Economy (CIRIEC) International Research Conference on Social Economy “Social and Solidarity Economy: Moving Towards a New Economic System”, Bucharest, Romania, June 6-9, 2019

The 7th CIRIEC International Research Conference on Social Economy called “Social and Solidarity Economy: Moving Towards a New Economic System” was organized in Bucharest, Romania, on June 6-9, 2019. The conference gathered more than 140 paper’s presentations about social and solidarity economy in 35 parallel sessions. The paper aims to present the structure of the conference, the main topics of the parallel and of the plenary sessions.

Editor's Introduction to the 1988 AIDS Edition

Editor's Introduction to the 1988 AIDS Edition Arien Mack the papers in this issue were presented at a public conference entitled "In Time of Plague: The History and Social Consequences of Lethal Epidemic Disease," sponsored by Social Research. It was held in January at the New School for Social Research and was the first in what we hope will be a series of such conferences. The conference was made possible by the generous support of the Rockefeller Foundation and the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation. The initial plans for this conference emerged at a planning meeting in the fall of 1986 attended by Gert H. Brieger, William H. Welch Professor of the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins; John Hollander, poet and professor of English at Yale University; Shirley Lindenbaum, anthropologist and colleague at the Graduate Faculty of the New School; Dorothy Nelkin, professor, Program on Science, Technology and Society, Cornell University, currently Clare Boothe Luce Visiting Professor, Department of Sociology, New York University; Kenneth Prewitt, political scientist and vice president of the Rockefeller Foundation; Susan Sontag, novelist and critic; Paul Starr, sociologist and professor at Princeton University; Jamie Walkup, editorial associate and co-organizer of the conference, and myself. An exhibit, "In Time of Plague: Five Centuries of Infectious Disease in the Visual Arts," was held at the American Museum of Natural History in conjunction with the conference. It was made possible by a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. Its curators were Daniel Fox, professor of humanities in medicine, State University of New York, Stonybrook, and Diane R. Karp, art historian and freelance curator. The exhibit was jointly sponsored by the American Museum of Natural [End Page xxxv] History and the New School for Social Research. The medal pictured on the cover is one of the artifacts from that exhibit. The conference was organized with the expectation that an open discussion among scientists and scholars might help to place the current alarming outbreak of AIDS in perspective by considering it in the context of the social history of past lethal epidemics. We thought that focusing attention on the many ways in which diseases, particularly catastrophic infectious and contagious diseases, are and have been both biologically and socially defined might help lead the way to a calmer and more effective public response to the problem. Why, you might well ask, if we hoped the conference and this subsequent issue of Social Research might help create the possibility of a calmer and more reasoned response to AIDS, did we give it so ominous and threatening a title as "In Time of Plague"? There are at least two reasons. First, for good or ill the word "plague" effectively captures the emotional associations frequently engendered by reports about AIDS. The word acknowledges the unfamiliar fears it has awakened. After decades of dividing our time between apocalyptic fears of nuclear holocaust and private fears of personal ruin, we now face a threat that is profoundly social, requiring a public, community response. Most of us until recently have assumed, perhaps without thinking, that the number of life-threatening infectious diseases was finite, soon to be cured and prevented by medical science. So the study of plagues was delegated exclusively to medical and social historians. Now it appears that this idea that we stand outside our own history, that we, unlike our forebears, are immune to widespread medical disasters, is very doubtful. The word "plague" appears in the title for a more specific reason as well. Its presence points the way to the problem that must be addressed. In fact, the problem we face can be seen in the very considerations that made the word seem appropriate, for the exotic connotations of the term exercise their influence over our emotions, even when the word itself is not spoken. The fact is that the past is both too much and too little with us in our public deliberations about [End Page xxxvi] AIDS; its images of disease affect us precisely because we so rarely take them into account. The hope is that these scholarly discussions will allow our present and our past to speak with each other. With luck they may permit us to discern the similarities between...

Capturing Hearts: The Coverage of Iran's Charm Offensive during the 2015 Nuclear Deal Negotiations in the American and Israeli Press

ABSTRACT This paper focuses on the “charm offensive” of the Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif during the 2015 Iranian nuclear deal negotiations with the United States. Charm offensives are strategic public relations campaigns that political leaders use to shift their countries’ reputation swiftly and temporarily in the global arena. Based on visual and textual analysis of the journalistic coverage of Zarif's charm offensive in the American and the Israeli press, we show that in his interactions with the American team and announcements to the press, Zarif focused on the future in contrast to the confusing past; he aimed at a calm and narrowly focused process of negotiations and preferred closed-door discussions among experts and one-on-one conversations with Secretary of State Kerry over public press conferences. He warmly welcomed photographers with smiles and presented a persistent readiness for “friendly” interaction. Western journalists enthusiastically covered these “unexpected” features of the Iranian diplomacy, and ultimately helped Zarif achieve a favorable international media environment conducive to making the deal. Bringing together literatures in communication studies, sociology, political science and international relations, we argue that in the form of a “charm offensive” political leaders can thus utilize the press for momentary country image transformation internationally.

Scientometric Analysis of Computer Science Publications in Journals and Conferences with Publication Patterns

Scientometric Analysis of Computer Science Publications in Journals and Conferences with Publication Patterns

COVID-19 special issue: Intelligent solutions for computer communication-assisted infectious disease diagnosis.

COVID-19 (Corona Virus Disease 19) is an infectious disease which is having a significant health and economic impact across the world. The primary source for the transmission of the disease, its detection and treatment methods are still unknown. Hence, a scientific response to this new corona virus is being hampered by a lack of knowledge on how it spreads, possible prevention measures and vaccinations, which all need to be investigated further. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and computer communication networks have a role to play, especially Machine Learning (ML) due to its learning-from samples capability and applicability over distributed computer systems and networks. Such intelligent techniques have the potential to achieve an effective diagnosis of COVID-19 and similar infectious diseases, potentially surpassing current physicians' capability, according to recent reports, due to their ability to analyse vast numbers of possibilities and exchange findings in real time. Current computer communication infrastructures include smart devices having the sensing and data routing capabilities to communicate with each other using various protocols, potentially allowing disease updates to be accessed anytime from anywhere, and on which innovative ML-powered services could be developed. Due to their advanced technical capabilities, intelligent communication paradigms are making their way into the detection and treatment of COVID-19 and similar diseases: crisis reaction and coordination, open or private infrastructure control, and urban monitoring and treatment systems, are all examples of medical diagnosis areas in which intelligent communication systems may play an important role very soon. This Special Issue aims to solicit original research which contributes to the state of the art on the application of ML techniques to the problem of computer communication-assisted diagnosis of COVID-19 and similar diseases: we are interested in the latest theoretical developments, real-world applications and future perspectives on this topic. This Special Issue will bring together a broad multidisciplinary Expert Systems community, aiming to integrate ideas, theories, models and techniques from across different disciplines on intelligent solutions/systems, to inform how cognitive systems in Next Generation Networks (NGN) should be designed, developed, and evaluated while exchanging and processing critical health information. The topics of interests include, but are not limited to • Deep Learning for the medical diagnosis of COVID-19 and similar diseases. • Neural Network for medical diagnosis of COVID-19 and similar diseases. • Integration of Image Progressing and ML for medical diagnosis of COVID-19 and similar diseases. • Integration of Computer Communication and ML for medical diagnosis of COVID-19 and similar diseases. • Use cases of computer-assisted detection systems for COVID-19 and similar diseases. • COVID-19 patient care and treatment using ML-oriented systems. • Emerging networks solutions for improved medical diagnosis of COVID-19 and similar diseases. • Intelligent hardware solutions for medical diagnosis of COVID-19 and similar diseases. • Effective use of computer communication and ML for solving open medical problems. • Next Generation Networks (NGNs) and ML solutions for medical diagnosis. Prof. Fadi Al-Turjman, Near East University, Nicosia. Prof. Ahmed E. Kamal, Iowa State University, USA. Assoc. Prof. Fabrizio Granelli University of Trento, Italy. Prof. Dr. Fadi Al-Turjman received his Ph.D. in computer science from Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, in 2011. He is a full professor and a research center director at Near East University, Nicosia, Cyprus. Prof. Al-Turjman is a leading authority in the areas of smart/intelligent, wireless, and mobile networks' architectures, protocols, deployments, and performance evaluation. His publication history spans over 250 publications in journals, conferences, patents, books, and book chapters, in addition to numerous keynotes and plenary talks at flagship venues. He has authored and edited more than 25 books about cognition, security, and wireless sensor networks' deployments in smart environments, published by Taylor and Francis, Elsevier, and Springer. He has received several recognitions and best papers' awards at top international conferences. He also received the prestigious Best Research Paper Award from Elsevier Computer Communications Journal for the period 2015-2018, in addition to the Top Researcher Award for 2018 at Antalya Bilim University, Turkey. Prof. Al-Turjman has led a number of international symposia and workshops in flagship communication society conferences. Currently, he serves as an associate editor and the lead guest editor for several well-reputed journals, including the IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials (IF 22.9) and the Elsevier Sustainable Cities and Society (IF 4.7).

“Bringing the plague”: Groundwork for a transformative outreach of psychoanalysis

ABSTRACT The authors lay the groundwork for a theory and technique of transformative outreach of psychoanalysis, a process of group building of a shared emotional experience by way of a discourse on issues of psychoanalytic relevance. The subject of interest is the public conference, where the “outreach session” is defined as a situation built on the basis of a well-defined setting, which allows the unfolding of the informative process to the best effect. Being able to grasp the quality of the experience that one is creating, while respecting individual differences, is a specific analytical capacity. To the audience, being able to feel that someone minds how it may experience being there, in that moment, means being able to experience in person the containing and transformative capacity of psychoanalysis. This frame of mind can be maintained much more easily if the speaker shows up without a written speech: “placing a sheet” between him or herself and the audience shields his or her perceptual-receptive capacity, which is necessary to give space to the waking dream activity. As theoretical background, the recent developments of the Bionian perspective proposed by Ogden and Ferro seem the most suitable to root our proposed ideas for good psychoanalytical outreach practices.

What are the links between evidence-based medicine and shared decision-making in training programs for junior doctors? A scoping review protocol

IntroductionPatient-centred care is pivotal to clinical practice and medical education. The practice of evidence-based medicine (EBM) and shared decision-making (SDM) are complementary aspects of patient-centred care, but they are frequently...