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Guest editorial of virtual special issue: The eighth international conference on very high cycle fatigue (VHCF8), held online from July 5 to 9, 2021, and distributed from Sapporo, Japan

Guest editorial of virtual special issue: The eighth international conference on very high cycle fatigue (VHCF8), held online from July 5 to 9, 2021, and distributed from Sapporo, Japan

Algorithms for Computational Biology: Eighth Edition

This special section of <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics</i> presents extended versions of some of the best papers accepted at the Eighth International Conference on Algorithms for Computational Biology, AlCoB 2021, held online due to the COVID-19 pandemic on November 9-11, 2021. The conference was organized by the Department of Computer Science at the University of Montana and the Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice - IRDTA, Brussels/London.

The Eighth International Conference GEOMETRY, DYNAMICS, INTEGRABLE SYSTEMS — GDIS 2022 Dedicated to the Memory of Alexey V. Borisov June 5–11, 2022, Zlatibor, Serbia

The Eighth International Conference GEOMETRY, DYNAMICS, INTEGRABLE SYSTEMS — GDIS 2022 Dedicated to the Memory of Alexey V. Borisov June 5–11, 2022, Zlatibor, Serbia

U LANCU MIJENJAJUĆIH PARADIGMI BOSANSTVA - UZ KNJIGU SENADINA LAVIĆA Diskurs o bosanstvu (Sarajevo: Fakultet političkih nauka, 2020) / WITHIN THE CHAIN OF CHANGING BOSNIANHOOD PARADIGMS - WITH THE BOOK Discourse on Bosnia BY SENADIN LAVIĆ (Sarajevo: Faculty of Political Sciences, 2020)

The book Discourse on Bosnianhood (Sarajevo: Faculty of Political Sciences, 2020), by Senadin Lavić, is the reason behind the Fifth Roundtable Discussion Sarajevo in Contemporary Interpretations of European History, within the Culture and Politics of the Eighth International Conference Sarajevo and the World, held in Sarajevo on 16 May 2022.

The New Education Fellowship, the Progressive Education Association, and the US Department of State: South America as part of a complex entanglement

ABSTRACT In 1943, a report sent to the executive board of the New Education Fellowship (NEF) informed the board that, during a trip to South America in 1942, Carleton Washburne had formed sections in Colombia, Ecuador, Chile, Paraguay, and Brazil on the NEF’s behalf. In some publications, Washburne mentions that it was a study trip commissioned by the US Department of State but does not refer to the NEF. These documents lead to different narratives when analysed separately, but they reveal unexpected connections when confronted together. In 1941, the NEF’s Eighth International Conference was held in the USA in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The conference in the USA was a unique opportunity to strengthen the bonds with Latin American countries that, until that moment, had barely participated in NEF activities. However, the conference also coincided with the US political agenda related to the Good Neighbour policy. Some months later, Washburne started his trip to South America, which was commissioned by the Division of Cultural Relations, a division of the US Department of State. Between April and September 1942, he visited schools, met political authorities and renowned educators, and delivered lectures on the New Education. Based on Washburne’s trip to South America, the following article explores how the New Education Fellowship, Progressive Education Association, and US Department of State were intertwined. Thus, using the vestiges and traces left in different documents such as correspondence, reports, magazines and newspapers, I explore the notion of networks while turning the scales of analysis towards a connected history.

Preface: Eighth International Conference on Plasma Medicine

Preface: Eighth International Conference on Plasma Medicine

A Redefinition of the Entrepreneurial Function Concept

This work is presented in the context of the Eighth International Conference of The Austrian School of Economics in the 21st Cen- tury, held in Vienna. Throughout it, I reflect on the concept of entrepreneurial function (which is the well-known backbone of the Austrian school of economics’ entire theoretical arsenal) and propose a redefinition that best fits the state of current thinking about it.&#x0D; The redefinition is based on two basic pillars: (1) the evolution that has taken place throughout thought within the Austrian school of economics and (2) theoretical reconsiderations on some of the fundamental characteristics of entrepreneurial function (creativity, human action as a function, and its relationship with ethics).

\u201cDisplaced archives\u201d: proposing a research agenda

In the opening keynote speech at the Eighth International Conference on the History of Records and Archives (I-CHORA 8) in Melbourne, Australia, the author provided an overview of archival displacement as an historical phenomenon, before concentrating on postcolonial cases and arguing for a fuller global history of the displacement of archives during decolonisation. The talk concluded with some thoughts on future directions for research on displaced archives. Understanding the term “displaced archives” to refer to any records that have been removed from the context of their creation and whose ownership is disputed, this short article elaborates further upon a potential research agenda for displaced archives, which remains an under-researched area in archival studies.

Computers take art in new directions, challenging the meaning of “creativity”

In an experiment carried out in early 2017, researchers from Rutgers University, Facebook, and the College of Charleston in South Carolina asked 18 volunteers to look at hundreds of images and rate them on characteristics such as “novelty,” “complexity,” and “structure.” Some of the images showed paintings created by human artists. The rest had been generated by new artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms, trained on more than 80,000 paintings from the past few hundred years, that had been developed to generate new visuals in a variety of styles. Digital artist Paul Brown’s prints include Reconfigurable Painting ( Left ), a work that has been reconfigured on occasion by the artist and even visitors; Wrapping Paper ( Center ), an unfinished work that explores different color combinations by using a single tile; and Long Loop ( Right ), which shows precompiled graphic sprites that were played back like a multipage flip-book, under the control of the generative program. Image credit: Paul Brown and Kevin Allen (photographer). The experiment’s participants, recruited from Amazon’s Mechanical Turk crowdsourced worker program, were also asked to decide if each artwork on the screen had been created by a human or a computer. That classification task suggests a sort of artistic Turing test for creativity. Namely, can an algorithm autonomously generate art that is indistinguishable from art made by people? And if so, does that mean the computer is “creative”—actually producing something new rather than merely emulating human artists? The researchers hypothesized that the participants would rank human-made art higher than machine-made in every category. They were wrong. In June 2017, at the Eighth International Conference on Computational Creativity in Atlanta, the researchers reported that, on average, participants rated computer-generated artworks as being more novel, complex, and surprising than the paintings made by people (1). The art generated by the algorithm was attributed more …

FRILUX-ing

New practices and innovation are changing the culture at the University of Oslo Library. This has resulted in consistently using user experience/UX methods to put the user needs at the very center when new services are developed.&#x0D; The paper will outline why there is a need of a UX strategy at a leadership level in service and user centric organizations, like academic libraries, and show the value of UX as a competitive advantage. Our case study is from a Norwegian University Library, which has evolved over a period of six year to now be at the forefront in Scandinavia when it comes to using UX into the academic library. Thanks to the support of he Norwegian National Library and the continued efforts of many “UX-librarians” at our library, we are now using design tools in different contexts to create user-friendly services. UX has evolved over time and staff now uses it as an active part of different practices in the organization. In addition, the leadership has included the use of UX-methods in projects in their strategic plan for the library to ensure that the user perspective is taken in account in the services delivered by the library. In this paper we will also explain why we do not have a UX group, and why we instead use a hub approach to gather different, but relevant, staff for each project. Findings, like relevant activity in the organization or new services, will be presented. Furthermore, the paper will give a long term perspective on the use of UX, emphasizing the need for constant evolvement (Gasparini &amp; Culén, 2017), user research and ethnography (Gasparini, 2015a) in order to enhance the user experience of the library (Gasparini, 2015b). Finally we wish to introduce Frilux (www.frilux.no). Frilux is a platform for sharing UX experience. We will outline how we have arrived at this new platform, why we wish to share it with other libraries, and why Frilux is a useful tool for libraries who want to: &#x0D; • Apply UX and Design Thinking (Brown, 2008)for library development• Use UX methods when working together in the organization across subjects and system• Share their experiences with others• Meet like-minded&#x0D; ReferencesBrown, T. (2008). Design Thinking. Harvard Business Review, 86(6), 84–92.Gasparini, A. (2015a). A Holistic Approach to User Experience in the Context of an Academic Library Interactive System. In A. Marcus (Ed.), Design, User Experience, and Usability: Interactive Experience Design (pp. 173–184). Springer International Publishing. Retrieved from http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-20889-3_17&#x0D; Gasparini, A. (2015b). Perspective and Use of Empathy in Design Thinking (pp. 49–54). Presented at the ACHI 2015, The Eighth International Conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions. Retrieved from http://www.thinkmind.org/index.php?view=article&amp;articleid=achi_2015_3_10_20121&#x0D; Gasparini, A., &amp; Culén, A. (2017). Temporality and Innovation in Digital Humanities: The Case of Papyri from Tebtunis. Interaction Design &amp; Architectures(s) IxD&amp;A, (34), 161–184

Keeping the Lid on the Financial Pressure Cooker: Scattered Thoughts on Satya Gabriel’s Insights into the Chinese Financial Structure

Satyananda Gabriel sees the world from his own unique and informed perspective. China and its persistently oblique financial system present a conundrum that resists facile explanations. This essay, initially presented by proxy at the Eighth International Conference of Rethinking Marxism, reflects on Dr. Gabriel’s approach to unraveling the mysteries of Chinese financial development.

Report of the eighth international conference on biliary tumors in Gansu province

Report of the eighth international conference on biliary tumors in Gansu province

Report on the Eighth International Conference on Computational Creativity

The Eighth International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC '17) was hosted at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, June 19–23, 2017. The ICCC'17 organizing committee consisted of Ashok Goel (general chair), Kazjon Grace (workshop cochair), Matthew Guzdial (media chair), Mikhail Jacob (local chair), Anna Jordanous (program cochair), Ruli Manurung (workshop cochair), and Alison Pease (program cochair). This report summarizes the main topics addressed.

Audio fingerprint hierarchy searching strategies on GPGPU massively parallel computer

ABSTRACTAudio fingerprint was developed for representing the audio based on the content of waveform. With the audio fingerprint database, we can easily manage the song/music with high reliability and flexibility. However, with the well-developed Internet of today, the audio data have become bigger and bigger which make the management of audio/music data more difficult. There are two problems that we need to solve when the audio fingerprint database turn into bigdata: the size of the database needs to be sufficient for storing 10 millions of audio fingerprint and the strategies for searching the nearest song in acceptable time for thousands of queries at once [Nguyen Mau, T., & Inoguchi, Y. (2016). Audio fingerprint hierarchy searching on massively parallel with multi-gpgpus using K-modes and lsh. Eighth international conference on knowledge and systems engineering (KSE) (pp. 49–54). IEEE]. In this research, we propose the methods for storing the audio fingerprint using multiple GPGPU and nearest song searching strategies based on these databases. We also showed that our methods have the significant result for deploying the real system in the future.

Editor's Re: Marks

Editorial| November 01 2017 Editor's Re: Marks The Mark Twain Annual (2017) 15 (1): v–viii. https://doi.org/10.5325/marktwaij.15.1.v Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Editor's Re: Marks. The Mark Twain Annual 1 November 2017; 15 (1): v–viii. doi: https://doi.org/10.5325/marktwaij.15.1.v Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectivePenn State University PressThe Mark Twain Annual Search Advanced Search It's in the air. Can you smell it? No, I'm not talking about the pungent odor of this past season's political machinations. What I am talking about is the lingering, sweet aroma of this past summer's Elmira 2017 Twain conference. For three days in early August, several hundred Twain scholars from around the world gathered for the Eighth International Conference on the State of Mark Twain Studies: “The Assault of Laughter.” Kudos to conference planners Joe Lemak, Kerry Driscoll, and Ann Ryan for another successful conference that featured more than fifty papers from a variety of scholars, three full days of fine food and fellowship, as well as the not-to-be-missed traditional closing picnic at Quarry Farm, replete with the ritual cigar-smoking ceremony and confab at the former study site. Cigar smoke from that night may still be lingering.Although “Elmira Unplugged,” as I like to call it, began in 1989,... You do not currently have access to this content.

Eighth International Conference on Low Cycle Fatigueに参加して

Eighth International Conference on Low Cycle Fatigueに参加して

The diverse roles of Hsp90 and where to find them.

The Eighth International Conference on the Hsp90 Chaperone Machine took place in November 2016 at the Seeon Abbey in Germany. This year's program focused on a variety of topics, reflecting Hsp90's diverse roles in cellular and physiological function. The highlights included structural insights into the Hsp90 folding mechanism and conformational dynamics, post-translational modifications, client protein maturation, Hsp90 cochaperone function and Hsp90's role in disease physiology.

‘New Life Sciences: The Road Ahead’ Report on the BioVisionAlexandria 2016 Conference

The Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA) has organised its eighth international biennial conference, BioVisionAlexandria (BVA) 2016 on 12-14 April 2016 in Alexandria, Egypt. The theme of BVA 2016 was 'New Life Sciences: The Road Ahead', where cutting-edge relevant research topics at the forefront of science were presented by a variety of world-wide renowned speakers. BVA 2016 hosted around 2000 participants and speakers of diverse backgrounds, creating a multi-disciplinary arena for dialogue to explore the opportunities, benefits, and controversial threats.

Uncertainty management in enroute air traffic control: a field study exploring controller strategies and requirements for automation

The management of uncertainty is a critical aspect of current as well as future air traffic control operations. This study investigated: (1) sources of uncertainty in enroute air traffic control, (2) strategies that air traffic controllers adopt to cope with uncertainty, (3) the trade-offs and contingencies that influences the adoption of these uncertainties, and (4) the requirements for system design that support controllers in following these strategies. The data were collected using a field study in two enroute air traffic control centres, involving "over the shoulder" observation sessions, discussions with air traffic controllers, and document analysis. Three types of uncertainty coping strategies were identified: reducing uncertainty, acknowledging uncertainty, and increasing uncertainty. The RAWFS heuristic (Lipshitz and Strauss in Organ Behav Hum Decis Process 69:149---163, 1997) and anticipatory thinking (Klein et al. in Anticipatory thinking, Proceedings of the eighth international NDM conference, Pacific Grove, CA, 2007) were used to identify reduction and acknowledgement strategies. Recent suggestions by Grote (Saf Sci 71:71---79, 2015) were used to further explore strategies that increase uncertainty. The study presents a new framework for the classification of uncertainties in enroute air traffic control and identified the uncertainty management strategies and underlying tactics, in context of contingencies and trade-offs between operational goals. The results showed that controllers, in addition to reducing and acknowledging uncertainty, may deliberately increase uncertainty in order to increase flexibility for other actors in the system to meet their operational goals. The study describes new tactics for acknowledging and increasing uncertainty. The findings were summarized in the air traffic controller complexity and uncertainty management model. Additionally, the results bring to light system design recommendations that allow controllers to follow these different coping strategies, including (1) the design of alerts, (2) the transparency of prediction tools, and (3) system flexibility as a requirement for acknowledging and increasing uncertainty. The results are particularly important as uncertainty is likely to increase in future operations of enroute air traffic control, requiring automation support for controllers. Implications for future air traffic management scenarios as envisioned within the SESAR Joint Undertaking (SESAR JU in European ATM Master Plan, 2 eds, 2012) and NextGen (FAA in FAA's NextGen implementation plan, 2014) operational concepts are discussed.

8th International Conference on Inertial Fusion Sciences and Applications (IFSA 2013)

PrefaceThe Eighth International Conference on Inertial Fusion Science and Applications was hosted on 8-13 September 2013 at the Nara Prefectural New Public Hall, organized by the Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University. It brought together 394 participants from 19 countries. The common goal was to share the latest advances in the fields of inertial fusion energy, laser and particle beams and fusion technology as well as high-energy density physics and applications. There were 393 presentations in total including three Keynote lectures, two Teller lectures, 17 plenary talks, 132 orals and 236 posters. Three IAEA-TM joint papers were presented during the Conference week. The proceedings collected in this volume underwent a rigorous peer-review process for which the Editors are thankful to the many referees who worked very hard to finalize the publication. They also thank the TPC members whose work made such a wonderful Conference program.Among the tremendous achievements presented, the great progress in experiments on NIF aimed at ICF ignition was one of the most important highlights. Significant progress in high-energy density science was another important topic in this IFSA2013.Of course many other excellent papers on various subjects were presented showing the continuous growth of the related fields.The Teller Award was bestowed during IFSA2013 on two key contributors to ICF science, J. Hammer and R. Petrasso. The student prize was awarded for six excellent papers presented by students from various countries.On behalf of the various Committees, we are glad to thank again everyone who helped make IFSA2013 a great success.Hiroshi AzechiHiroyuki Shiraga