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Meeting abstracts from the 21st European Symposium on Radiopharmacy and Radiopharmaceuticals

Meeting abstracts from the 21st European Symposium on Radiopharmacy and Radiopharmaceuticals

Poaceae Pollen as the Leading Aeroallergen

The relevance of aerobiological topics is evidenced by the fact that from July 1 to July 5, 2024, an unusual event was held in Vilnius (Lithuania), including the 8th European Symposium on Aerobiology (8th ESA), the 12th International Congress on Aerobiology (12th ICA) and the 5th International Ragweed Conference (5th IRC). World Aerobiology 2024 is an event of unprecedented scale. It discussed the use of artificial intelligence (AI) for calculating and interpreting aerobiological monitoring data. But so far, AI cannot identify all taxa, so careful counting and identification of plant pollen and fungal spores is only possible for a human researcher. Aerobiological monitoring using volumetric traps remains the gold standard of research. In the world community, there are networks of biological monitoring of air quality with the study of the concentration of plant pollen and fungal spores in the air. Through an application on a mobile phone, you can find out the forecast of periods of maximum risk, during which patients with hay fever are exposed to the main aeroallergens. Popular queries from Internet users relate to the complex problem of climate change, environmental pollution and aeroallergens. There is no National Aerobiological Monitoring system in Kyrgyzstan, but the Meteonova service has launched a pollen forecast application for mobile phones, which is still in the testing stage and does not reflect the real features of the aerobiological spectrum. It is known that in the world there are more than 12,000 species in the Poaceae family, classified into 771 genera belonging to 12 subfamilies. In Kyrgyzstan, 300 anemophilous species of annual perennial plants grow, releasing a huge amount of pollen into the atmosphere in the spring and summer. Poaceae pollen is still one of the top ten global aeroallergens, being the leading cause of hay fever, by predominant size, classified as biological pollutants (PM10). The concentration of cereal pollen was consistently observed in the air of Karakol during all seasons of the study and ranged from 167 to 174 days. Its daily maximum concentrations were detected in June-July; the distribution of pollen in the air is unimodal. The influence of the anthropogenic triad on fluctuations in the concentration of cereal pollen was established: climate change (temperature) and land use systems, as well as environmental pollution, which manifested itself in the degradation of pollen grains and the appearance of damaged and unidentified biological particles. The purpose of this article is to study the concentration of cereal pollen in the air, their integrative contribution to the aerobiological spectrum in the city of Karakol as dominant pollen allergens.

Multi-fidelity reinforcement learning with control variates

In many computational science and engineering applications, the output of a system of interest corresponding to a given input can be queried at different levels of fidelity with different costs. Typically, low-fidelity data is cheap and abundant, while high-fidelity data is expensive and scarce. In this work we study the reinforcement learning (RL) problem in the presence of multiple environments with different levels of fidelity for a given control task. We focus on improving the RL agent’s performance with multifidelity data. Specifically, a multifidelity estimator that exploits the cross-correlations between the low- and high-fidelity returns is proposed to reduce the variance in the estimation of the state–action value function. The proposed estimator, which is based on the method of control variates, is used to design a multifidelity Monte Carlo RL (MFMCRL) algorithm that improves the learning of the agent in the high-fidelity environment. The impacts of variance reduction on policy evaluation and policy improvement are theoretically analyzed by using probability bounds. Our theoretical analysis and numerical experiments demonstrate that for a finite budget of high-fidelity data samples, our proposed MFMCRL agent attains superior performance compared with that of a standard RL agent that uses only the high-fidelity environment data for learning the optimal policy. 22This article is an extended version of a paper originally presented at the ESANN (European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks) conference in 2023.

Book of Abstracts - 2nd European Symposium on Phytochemicals in Medicine and Food

Book of Abstracts - 2nd European Symposium on Phytochemicals in Medicine and Food

Preface to the Proceedings of the 5th European Academic Symposium on EAF Steelmaking

The European Academic Symposium on EAF Steelmaking (EASES) is a series of events targeted at researchers and doctoral candidates working with different aspects of electric arc furnace (EAF) steelmaking. Previously, four events were organised in 2015, 2016, 2018, and 2021 in Aachen, Germany. The 5th European Academic Symposium on EAF Steelmaking (EASES 2023) was organised jointly by the RWTH Aachen University (Department for Industrial Furnaces and Heat Engineering) and University of Oulu (Process Metallurgy Research Unit) and held at the University of Oulu in Oulu, Finland on 5-7 June 2023. A total of 29 presentations were held at the event, out of which 13 featured an accompanying full paper. After the symposium, the authors of the full papers were invited to submit their manuscripts to be included in the proceedings. The proceedings consist of a total of 12 peer-reviewed papers published in the IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering. Based on the presentations, the development of modelling and monitoring tools for process optimization, the use of biochar to replace fossil carbon for slag foaming, and the use of hydrogen as an alternative burner fuel were identified as current hot topics. In the future, the importance of the EAF process is expected to increase further due to the increasing availability of scrap and plans for ore-based production routes based on hydrogen direct reduction.

10th European Calcium Society symposium: The Ca2+-signaling toolkit in cell function, health and disease.

The 10th European Calcium Society symposium, organized in Leuven, Belgium on November 15-17, 2023, focused on the role of Ca2+ signaling in cell function, health and disease. The symposium featured six scientific sessions, 16 invited speakers - of whom two were postdoctoral researchers - and 14 short talks. The talks covered various aspects of intracellular Ca2+ signaling and its implications in pathology. Each session was opened by one or more invited speakers, followed by a series of presentations from speakers selected from submitted abstracts. Through short talks, poster presentations, awards, and sustainable travel fellowships, the symposium also fostered opportunities for the active participation of early-career researchers. At least half of the short talks were allocated to early-career researchers, thereby offering a platform for the presentation of ongoing work and unpublished results. Presentations were also broadcast in real-time for online attendees. In this Meeting Review, we aim to capture the spirit of the meeting and discuss the main take-home messages that emerged during the symposium.

Gamify: Gamification in Software Development, Verification,and Validation

In this paper we report the outcomes of the 1st and 2nd edition of the International Workshop on Gamification in Software Development, Verification, and Validation (Gamify 2022 and Gamify 2023) which were held as part of the 30th and 31st ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2022, in Singapore, November 17, 2022 and ESEC/FSE 2023, online workshop, December 4, 2023).

Proceedings of the 14th European immunogenicity platform open symposium on immunogenicity of biopharmaceuticals.

Biologics have revolutionized disease management in many therapeutic areas by addressing unmet medical needs and overcoming resistance to standard-of-care treatment in numerous patients. However, the development of unwanted immune responses directed against these drugs, humoral and/or cellular, can hinder their efficacy and have safety consequences with various degrees of severity. Health authorities ask that a thorough immunogenicity risk assessment be conducted during drug development to incorporate an appropriate monitoring and mitigation plan in clinical studies. With the rapid diversification and complexification of biologics, which today include modalities such as multi-domain antibodies, cell-based products, AAV delivery vectors, and nucleic acids, developers are faced with the challenge of establishing a risk assessment strategy sometimes in the absence of specific regulatory guidelines. The European Immunogenicity Platform (EIP) Open Symposium on Immunogenicity of Biopharmaceuticals and its one-day training course gives experts and newcomers across academia, industry, and regulatory agencies an opportunity to share experience and knowledge to overcome these challenges. Here, we report the discussions that took place at the EIP's 14th Symposium, held in April 2023. The topics covered included immunogenicity monitoring and clinical relevance, non-clinical immunogenicity risk assessment, regulatory aspects of immunogenicity assessment and reporting, and the challenges associated with new modalities, which were discussed in a dedicated session.

13th European Symposium on Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry (ESTAC13)

13th European Symposium on Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry (ESTAC13)

Editorial for European Symposium on Analytical Spectrometry and Czech-Slovak Spectroscopic Conference

Editorial for European Symposium on Analytical Spectrometry and Czech-Slovak Spectroscopic Conference

Preface: CEST 2023

The Central European Symposium on Thermophysics (CEST) 2023 is a 5th scientific meeting whose scopes are thermophysical properties of materials, heat transfer, and the measurement of thermophysical and other transport properties of materials. It is a successor of the international conference Thermophysics that was organized annually since 1996. While Thermophysics was well-established and of long tradition, CEST provides a novel format in which one of the four co-chairs (R. Černý, Á. Lakatos, Z. Suchorab, and A. Trník) acts each year as the CEST chair and organizes the symposium in a different country. In 2023 it is jointly organized by• Department of Physics, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Informatics, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Slovakia.List of Committees, Organizers are available in the pdf.

1st European Symposium on Animal Reproduction, 21st - 23rd September 2023, Nantes, France.

1st European Symposium on Animal Reproduction, 21st - 23rd September 2023, Nantes, France.

Highlights from the 1st European cancer dependency map symposium and workshop.

The systematic identification of tumour vulnerabilities through perturbational experiments on cancer models, including genome editing and drug screens, is playinga crucial role in combating cancer. This collective effort is known as the Cancer Dependency Map (DepMap). The 1st European Cancer Dependency Map Symposium (EuroDepMap), held in Milan last May, featured talks, a roundtable discussion, and a poster session, showcasing the latest discoveries and future challenges related to the DepMap. The symposium aimed to facilitate interactions among participants across Europe, encourage idea exchange with leading experts, and present their work and future projects. Importantly, it sparked discussions on future endeavours, such as screening more complex cancer models and accounting for tumour evolution.

Abstracts from the 20th European symposium on radiopharmacy and radiopharmaceuticals

Abstracts from the 20th European symposium on radiopharmacy and radiopharmaceuticals

Announcements.

Free AccessAnnouncementsPublished Online:June 02, 2023https://doi.org/10.1027/0227-5910/a000913PDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInReddit SectionsMoreThe Annual Meeting 2023 of the International Society for the Study of Self-Injury (ISSS) is taking place in Vienna, Austria, June 21--23, 2023. For more information go to https://www.meduniwien.ac.at/web/ueber-uns/events/2023/isss-2023-annual-conference/The 32nd World Congress of the International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP) is taking place September 19–22, 2023, in Piran, Slovenia. For more information go to https://www.iasp.info/piran2023/ Abstract submissions are now open: https://www.iasp.info/piran2023/abstract-submission/The 2023 IASR/AFSP International Summit on Suicide Research is taking place in Barcelona, Spain, October 15–18, 2023. For more information go to https://suicideresearchsummit.org/The 20th European Symposium on Suicide and Suicidal Behaviour will take place in Rome, Italy, August 27–30, 2024. Further information will be provided 2023.The IASP Pan-American Conference will take place in Orlando, FL, USA, November 9–11, 2024. For more information go to https://www.iasp.info/panamericaconference2024/TO BE AT THE FOREFRONT OF GLOBAL SUICIDE PREVENTION EFFORTSJoin as an individualJoin as an organizationBenefits include: Special Interest Groups, Membership Network, IASP Early Career Group, Congresses, Conferences, Symposiums & Workshops, the Crisis journal, and the IASP AwardsIASP is a nonprofit organization for those interested and working in suicide prevention. The membership consists of individuals (clinicians, researchers, crisis workers, volunteers and people who have lost a family member or friend to suicide) and community, national and international organizations. The membership currently extends over 80 countries and is affiliated with the World Health Organization as the key organization concerned with suicide prevention.IASP membership is open to all individuals and organisations interested in suicide prevention: from academics, clinicians, volunteers, and survivors to community, national, and international organizations.Sign up now at www.iasp.info/become-a-member-or-renewIASP Executive Committee 2023–2026PresidentProf. Rory O'Connor (UK) 2021–2024Vice President 1Prof. Thomas Niederkrotenthaler (Austria) 2021–2024Vice President 2Prof. Jo Robinson (Australia) 2023–2026Vice President 3Prof. Lai Fong Chan (Malaysia) 2023–2026General SecretaryProf. Annette Erlangsen (Denmark) 2021–2024TreasurerProf. Maurizio Pompili (Italy) 2023–2026IASP Council of National Representatives 2023–2026Co-ChairsProf. Charity Akotia (Ghana) 2021–2024 & Associate Professor Vita Postuvan (Slovenia) 2023–2026For a current listing of the IASP Council of National Representatives please refer to www.iasp.info/iasp-national-regional-representatives/FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Volume 44Issue 3May 2023ISSN: 0227-5910eISSN: 2151-2396 InformationCrisis (2023), 44, pp. 255-256 https://doi.org/10.1027/0227-5910/a000913.© 2023Hogrefe PublishingPDF download

Editorial: European symposium on electrochemical engineering

The European Symposium on Electrochemical Engineering ESEE is organized by the Working Party on Electrochemical Engineering (WPEE) of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering every 3 years. The 12th ESEE, on June 14–17 2021, was planned at Wetsus European Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Water Technology in Leeuwarden but had, unfortunately, to be held online due to the COVID 19 pandemic. The focus of the event was on “Electrochemistry for electrification and energy transition toward a sustainable future.” It captures the aims of the WPEE to showcase scientific advances in physical, chemical and biochemical routes toward a future where electrochemical engineering is part of a sustainable society, closing resource cycles and contributing to zero-pollution mobility and manufacturing. All around the rapid electrification of our society can be found, changing how we recover valuable resources in a more sustainable way, make chemical products, store energy, provide energy to our houses, and go from place to place. Increasingly we move from molecular building blocks and processes toward a world where the electron is the carrier of energy and information and is the key building block to create new materials. The scientific program of the conference covered over 140 oral presentation and 25 posters, two tutorials and a match making session for academic and industrial researchers. Two important prizes of the WPEE were given and accompanied by award lectures: “Recognition for a Life Devoted to Electrochemical Engineering 2020 Award” to Professor Christos Comninellis and the “Carl Wagner Medal 2020” to Dr Emmanuel Mousset. Overall it was a very successful event, although we unfortunately could not meet in person and not visit beautiful Leeuwarden. This Special Issue is bringing together a small selection of contributions presented during the event. It was prepared thanks to collaboration of the journal editorial office and authors of the contributions and we hope, you will enjoy reading it. We also would like to invite you to the 13th ESEE, which will be held in Toulouse from 26th to 29th of June 2023. Focus of the event is on the Electrochemical Engineering as the key enabling to overcome current societal problems regarding energy, environment, and life. The authors declare no conflict of interest.

Announcements.

Free AccessAnnouncementsPublished Online:March 24, 2023https://doi.org/10.1027/0227-5910/a000904PDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInReddit SectionsMoreAAS23: American Association of Suicidology Annual Conference is taking place April 19--22, 2023, in Portland, OR, USA. For more information go to https://suicidology.org/aas23/The National Suicide Prevention Conference held by Suicide Prevention Australia is taking place May 1–4, 2023, in Canberra, Australia. For more information go to https://www.suicidepreventionaust.org/our-events#national-conferenceThe 32nd World Congress of the International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP) is taking place September 19–22, 2023, in Piran, Slovenia. For more information go to https://www.iasp.info/piran2023/ Abstract submissions are now open: https://www.iasp.info/piran2023/abstract-submission/The 20th European Symposium on Suicide and Suicidal Behaviour will take place in Rome, Italy, August 27–30, 2024. Further information will be provided early 2023.IASP AwardsThe International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP) provides awards for those who have contributed in a significant way to the furthering of the aims of the association. The awards are presented at the IASP biennial conference.On behalf of the five award committees, we are pleased to announce that the nomination process is now open. Members of the International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP) are invited to nominate suitable persons for the below mentioned awards. Self-nomination is permitted.The Stengel Research Award, instituted in 1977, is named in honor of the late Professor Erwin Stengel, one of the founders of IASP. This award is for outstanding active research with at least 10 years of scientific activity in the field, as evidenced by number and quality of publications in internationally acknowledged journals and indicators of esteem and reputation.The Ringel Service Award, instituted in 1995, honors the late Professor Erwin Ringel, the Founding President of IASP. This award is for distinguished service in the field of suicidology.The Farberow Award was introduced in 1997 in recognition of Professor Norman Farberow, a founding member and driving force behind the IASP. This award is for a person who has contributed significantly to the field of work with suicide survivors.The De Leo Fund Award honors the memory of Nicola and Vittorio, the beloved children of Professor Diego De Leo, IASP Past President. The award is offered to distinguished scholars in recognition of their outstanding research on suicidal behaviors carried out in developing countries.The Andrej Marušić Award is dedicated to young researchers who are invited to submit a research proposal related to suicidal behavior and prevention.For full details and selection criteria, please refer to the IASP website at https://www.iasp.info/awards/ or email to wendycliff@iasp.infoNominations will close May 1st, 2023.JOIN IASP TO BE AT THE FOREFRONT OF GLOBAL SUICIDE PREVENTION EFFORTSJoin as an individualJoin as an organizationBenefits include: Special Interest Groups, Membership Network, IASP Early Career Group, Congresses, Conferences, Symposiums & Workshops, the Crisis journal, and the IASP AwardsIASP is a nonprofit organization for those interested and working in suicide prevention. The membership consists of individuals (clinicians, researchers, crisis workers, volunteers and people who have lost a family member or friend to suicide) and community, national and international organizations. The membership currently extends over 80 countries and is affiliated with the World Health Organization as the key organization concerned with suicide prevention.IASP membership is open to all individuals and organisations interested in suicide prevention: from academics, clinicians, volunteers, and survivors to community, national, and international organizations.Sign up now at www.iasp.info/become-a-member-or-renewIASP Executive Committee 2023–2026PresidentProf. Rory O'Connor (UK) 2021–2024Vice President 1Prof. Thomas Niederkrotenthaler (Austria) 2021–2024Vice President 2Prof. Jo Robinson (Australia) 2023–2026Vice President 3Prof. Lai Fong Chan (Malaysia) 2023–2026General SecretaryProf. Annette Erlangsen (Denmark) 2021–2024TreasurerProf. Maurizio Pompili (Italy) 2023–2026IASP Council of National Representatives 2023–2026Co-ChairsProf. Charity Akotia (Ghana) 2021–2024 & Associate Professor Vita Postuvan (Slovenia) 2023–2026For a current listing of the IASP Council of National Representatives please refer to www.iasp.info/iasp-national-regional-representatives/FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Volume 44Issue 2March 2023ISSN: 0227-5910eISSN: 2151-2396 InformationCrisis (2023), 44, pp. 173-174 https://doi.org/10.1027/0227-5910/a000904.© 2023Hogrefe PublishingPDF download

Sub-exponential Time Parameterized Algorithms for Graph Layout Problems on Digraphs with Bounded Independence Number

Fradkin and Seymour (J Comb Theory Ser B 110:19–46, 2015) defined the class of digraphs of bounded independence number as a generalization of the class of tournaments. They argued that the class of digraphs of bounded independence number is structured enough to be exploited algorithmically. In this paper, we further strengthen this belief by showing that several cut problems that admit sub-exponential time parameterized algorithms (a trait uncommon to parameterized algorithms) on tournaments, including Directed Feedback Arc Set, Directed Cutwidth and Optimal Linear Arrangement, also admit such algorithms on digraphs of bounded independence number. Towards this, we rely on the generic approach of Fomin and Pilipczuk (in: Proceedings of the Algorithms—ESA 2013—21st Annual European Symposium, Sophia Antipolis, France, September 2–4, 2013, pp. 505–516, 2013), where to get the desired algorithms, it is enough to bound the number of k-cuts in digraphs of bounded independence number by a sub-exponential FPT function (Fomin and Pilipczuk bounded the number of k-cuts in transitive tournaments). Specifically, our main technical contribution is a combinatorial result that proves that the yes-instances of the problems (defined above) have a sub-exponential number of k-cuts. We prove this bound by using a combination of chromatic coding, inductive reasoning and exploiting the structural properties of these digraphs.

MSR4P&S 2022 Workshop Summary

The 1st edition of the workshop on Mining Software Repositories for Privacy and Security (MSR4P&S 2022) was held virtually on November 18th, 2022, co-located with the 30th ACM Joint Meeting on European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2022), which took place in Singapore. MSR4P&S received a total of five submissions from diverse geographic locations, which were all included in the program after a rigorous peer-review process. The program also featured a keynote by M. Ali Babar on the quality of data mined for security research. This report summarises the event and insights stemming from the keynote and presentations in the workshop's two sessions.

1st European Symposium on Phytochemicals in Medicine and Food—Insight into the conference

AbstractThe University of Belgrade was chosen to host an international conference “1st European Symposium on Phytochemicals in Medicine and Food”, that was successfully held on 7–9. September 2022 in Belgrade, the capital city of Serbia. The main goals of the conference were to promote the scientific achievements of researchers in the field of natural products and their implementation in food and medicine, as well as to bring together well recognized scientists from all around the world and young researchers that are starting their careers in the research fields covered by the conference topics. In that respect 1‐EuSPMF fulfilled the expectations of the participants and the organizers.