Global Workshop Research Articles

Periodontitis Treatment by Scaling and Root Planing with Antimicrobial and Anti-Inflammatory Solutions in a Patient with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

Introduction: Systemic Lupus Erythematosus is a chronic autoimmune disease of unknown cause in which patients regularly consume immunosuppressants, causing a decrease in body fluids of proteins such as mucins, immunoglobulin A and G antibodies, which causes destruction of periodontal tissue. Objective: To report a clinical case on the benefits of scaling and root planing (srp) with solutions based on hypochlorous acid (HOCl) and modified diallyl disulfide oxide (mddo) in the periodontal inflammatory process in a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus patient, tubulointerstitial nephritis and periodontitis. Case presentation: A 32-year-old woman, with systemic lupus erythematosus, tubulointerstitial nephritis and, according to the 2017 global workshop on the classification of periodontal diseases and conditions, was diagnosed with Stage 2 and Grade B periodontitis. Periodontal assessment revealed a high overall dental plaque index, with high-risk plaque being the most prevalent. srp treatment was carried out by quadrants, applying a HOCl solution during periodontal debridement and periodontal pockets were irrigated with mddo solution to disinfect them. Conclusions: The antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory solutions used as adjuvants to srp in this novel periodontal irrigation therapy helped to reduce gingival inflammation and high-risk plaque, which favoured healing of periodontal tissues in a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus.

A global workshop to advance the implementation of the global conservation strategy for coffee genetic resources

A global workshop to advance the implementation of the global conservation strategy for coffee genetic resources

Implementation of a formalized evaluation and planning tool to improve pediatric oncology outcomes in Kenya.

Survival from pediatric cancers in low middle-income countries is often very low compared to that of high-income countries due to multifactorial etiologies, including late presentation, delayed diagnosis, difficulty with accessing healthcare, drug unavailability, and treatment abandonment. The St. Jude Pediatric Oncology Facility Integrated Local Evaluation Tool (PrOFILE) was developed to map and evaluate childhood cancer healthcare delivery in individual institutions and entire countries, identifying the strengths and weaknesses, as well as opportunities for advancement of care. Using the PrOFILE self-assessment tool, selected Kenyan pediatric oncology facilities entered data into 12 modules: national context, facility and local context, finances and resources, personnel, service capacity, service integration, diagnostics, chemotherapy, supportive care, surgery, radiation therapy, and patients and outcomes. These modules are grouped into five specific components, including Context, Workforce, Diagnostics, Therapy, and Patients and Outcomes. The St. Jude PrOFILE team analyzed the data and organized the first hybrid workshop, containing both in-person and virtual components. Multidisciplinary stakeholders prioritized recommendations for improving care and developed smart objectives to accomplish identified goals over the following 2years. Strengths and weaknesses of conducting a hybrid global workshop were identified. We demonstrated successful use of the PrOFILE tool to conduct a hybrid workshop and identify strategies to improve pediatric oncology care in Kenya. The voluntarily structured work groups will methodically aim to achieve outcome-oriented goals moving forward.

Indigenous Peoples’ Food Systems and Biocultural Heritage: Addressing Indigenous Priorities Using Decolonial and Interdisciplinary Research Approaches

The food systems and territories of Indigenous Peoples sustain much of the world’s biodiversity, cultivated and wild, through agroecological practices rooted in Indigenous cosmovision and cultural and spiritual values. These food systems have a critical role to play in sustainability transformations but are widely threatened and have received limited research attention. This paper presents the results of four virtual workshops with Indigenous Peoples: a global workshop and local workshops with communities in coastal Kenya, northeast India and southwest China. Indigenous participants highlighted the role of their food systems in resilience to climate change, nutrition, sustainability and resilience to pandemics, and threats from agriculture, development and conservation policies. They called for research on the rapid loss of Indigenous knowledge; Indigenous Peoples’ land rights and food sovereignty; and the impacts of industrial agriculture on Indigenous food systems, stressing the need for decolonial approaches to revitalise Indigenous knowledge. The paper presents a decolonial and interdisciplinary framework for action-research on Indigenous food systems past and present, from farm to plate, drawing on the virtual workshops, Andean decolonising methods and historical approaches. It concludes that decolonising action-research, led by Indigenous Peoples, is urgently needed to reverse the rapid loss of food-related biocultural heritage.

Advanced vaccinology training globally: Update and impact of the COVID-19 crisis

The rapid development of innovations and new technologies, the focus on the life-course approach to immunization and equity, and the prevalent hesitancy towards vaccines requires immunization staff to be well-trained and updated regularly in order to deliver quality immunization services to the public. The need for advanced vaccinology training is therefore paramount. In preparation for a second Global Workshop on Advanced Vaccinology Training that took place in March 2022, this paper presents the results of a survey aiming to provide a thorough update of a landscape analysis on advanced vaccinology courses conducted in 2018 and a look at the impact of the COVID-19 crisis. Thirty-three course organizers responded to a survey to provide information on their respective course. Of those, 17 courses are short courses, 11 post-graduate courses and 5 are Master level courses. Most courses are organized on an annual basis. Even though some courses were not sustained overtime, the number of courses has been increasing during the last few years, and at least one vaccinology course is now being offered in each WHO region. Although the training capacity has increased tremendously, the need still exceeds the capacity and many courses have way more applicants than they can select. The most frequent challenges reported included sustainable funding and identifying faculty. The COVID-19 pandemic impacted the delivery of several vaccinology courses, which have been postponed or reformatted to an online or hybrid training event. An e-portal of the global collaboration has been established to facilitate communication between the different courses and to assist future course participants to identify the most suitable course for their needs.

The Benefits of International Student Perspectives in a Global Cancer Workshop

A recent opportunity to facilitate a faculty and student workshop in Global Health and Cancer Prevention allowed us, an international group of graduate students, to reflect on cancer disparities in our home countries as well as our understanding of these differences. This included discussing the complexity of achieving equitable cancer prevention globally, and learning from our shared and disparate experiences of public health systems across the world. It became clear through this process that being an international student, and working with other international students with distinct backgrounds, can result in an enriched learning environment. Our discussions highlighted gaps in our knowledge regarding other cultures, and gave each of us a new perspective on aspects of our own cultures, related to cancer, cancer- related risk factors, and more broadly. This forum demonstrated to us the benefits of the diversity international students can bring to the learning space.

Human-specific approaches to brain research for the 21st century: a South American perspective

The 21st century paradigm in toxicology, which emphasizes mechanistic understanding and species-relevant modeling of human biology and pathophysiology, is gaining traction in the wider biosciences through a global workshop series organized by the BioMed21 Collaboration. The second of this series, entitled Emerging Technology Toward Pathway-Based Human Brain Research, was held in Brazil in 2017, bringing together leading South American and international scientists, research funders and other stakeholders. The aims were to foster strategic scientific dialogue and identify actionable consensus recommendations as a first step toward a roadmap for 21st century, human-specific health research and funding in the region.

Selected papers from the Third Global Workshop on Proximal Soil Sensing 2013

Selected papers from the Third Global Workshop on Proximal Soil Sensing 2013

China Over/Under: Exploring Urban China's Informal Markets

China's political and industrial leaders are striving to transform the most populous country in the world from the 20th century's “global workshop” into the 21st century's “global innovator”. In sharp contrast to these lofty ambitions, each day a force of 260 million migrant laborers (equal to the population of the world's ten largest cities combined) struggles simply to put food on the table while still having enough income to save or send home to their families. When work becomes too scarce, however, one of the only options left is to take to the streets to try and sell whatever and wherever possible. This is a visual journey through how an illegal street market in 21st century China looks, sounds, and feels, where listeners will meet some of the people that rely upon them for survival and come to understand the forces that threaten their existence.

Global optimization workshop 2012

The Global Optimization Workshop 2012 (GOW 2012) was the eleventh of a series of meetings, organized to be a forum for both academic and industrial communities to present and discuss the latest results and challenges in global optimization

Current status and expected future direction of the prosthodontic speciality in India: JPS Global Workshop Kyoto 2012

A person with a basic bachelors degree, BDS, from a college/university recognized by the Dental Council of India (DCI) becomes eligible for a Master of Dental Surgery (MDS) in prosthodontics at a college/university recognized by DCI. For this three (3) years Programme of Master of Dental Surgery course with a dissertation, the student/resident has to go through a syllabus as set by the university and approved by the DCI. The continued official approval/certification thereafter is not present in India but all dentists have to get 20 Continued Education points every year for renewal of their DCI registration (though it's only on trial basis right now). Although prosthodontists are officially approved in India but still the common man does not recognize who a prosthodontist is because of lack of awareness. Most general dentists do their prosthetic work themselves, only a small number of them ask for a prosthodontist. Referral to another office is rare, usually the prosthodontist visits the GP's office for consultation and treatment. There is undoubtedly need of continuous certification/evaluation system of the prosthodontists and so is the need of making the masses aware of presence and role of such specialists in India. The Indian Prosthodontic Society is taking initiative to address this issue.

The Second GRF-SPaC Conference: global transitions to sustainable production and consumption systems Fudan University, Shanghai, China June 8–11, 2014

s for papers, essays, and session proposals should be uploaded to the conference website by Friday, November 1, 2013. Abstracts should not exceed 500 words and will be reviewed by an international scientific committee. See https://www.confmanager. com/main.cfm?cid1⁄42724 for further details and submission instructions. Discounts are available for participants from developing countries and retirees. Please contact the conference secretariat. 4. Conference organizers The Global Research Forum on Sustainable Production and Consumption (GRF-SPaC) held its first successful global workshop in June 2012 in Rio de Janeiro, see http://grfscp.wordpress. com. Its mission is “.to strengthen the community of researchers and practitioners engaged in research on the worldwide transition to sustainable production and consumption systems”. The GRF-SPaC flagship project is the IGES-funded “Absolute Reductions” project. The Fudan Tyndall Center research program “Exploring the Role of High-Emitting Groups in Accelerating the Transition to a LowCarbon Society” (HEGiATLCS) started in 2012. The research is focusing on the increasing consumptive carbon emissions during urbanization and social transitions, analyzing the carbon behaviors of different population groups, and the inequality of carbon emission among different population groups. The research will make suggestions on advocating carbon behavioral transitions toward a low-carbon society. The GRF-SPaC/Tyndall Fudan Conference Organizing Committee The GRF-SPaC/Tyndall Fudan Conference Scientific Advisory Board The GRF-SPaC/Tyndall Fudan Conference Local Organizing committee The GRF-SPaC Organizing Committee

A REPORT ON THE SHANGHAI THEATRE ACADEMY WINTER INSTITUTE 2013: “SHANGHAI ENCOUNTERS”

On January 10–20, 2013, the Shanghai Theatre Academy (Shanghai xiju xueyuan 上海戲劇學院; hereafter STA) held its second annual Winter Institute, an eleven-day global theater institute and workshop co-sp...

Consensus statement from JPS Global Workshop Kyoto 2012

Consensus statement from JPS Global Workshop Kyoto 2012

Pharmaceuticals and personal care products in the environment: Cultural and spiritual perspectives

Pharmaceuticals and personal care products in the environment: Cultural and spiritual perspectives

Proceedings of the Third Global Workshop on Chronic Myeloid Leukemia.

Tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) therapy has resulted in unprecedented responses and survival rates in Philadelphia chromosome-positive chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) that are durable for years. However, a third of patients either fail to respond or respond suboptimally to imatinib therapy, while some others are intolerant to imatinib. Increased understanding of the molecular basis of imatinib resistance has led to rational development of second-generation TKIs as effective second-line treatment options for imatinib-resistant patients. However, persistence of minimal residual disease (MRD) and development of resistance against TKI therapy are proving to be significant challenges. Treatment options are evolving for patients with CML and the promising results with several novel agents showing activity in CML, including in patients with the T315I mutation, are encouraging advancements in the field. Recently, a panel of global experts in CML deliberated on the imminent approval of second-generation TKIs in the frontline setting, ways to improve on frontline therapy, integration of new agents in current treatment algorithms, and design of future clinical trials; the proceedings of the discussion are summarized in this article.

Meeting Report from the Third Global Workshop on Melanoma

1 Department Oncology and Hematology, St. Luke's Cancer Center, Bethlehem, PA, USA, 2 Division of Melanoma and Muscle-Cutaneous Sarcomas, IEO – European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy, 3 Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Boston, MA, USA, 4 Division of Dermato-Oncology, Department of Dermatology, University Medical Center T bingen, T bingen, Germany, 5 Department of Dermatology, SainteMarguerite University Hospital, Marseille, France, 6 Center for Melanoma Research and Treatment, California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute, San Francisco, CA, USA, 7 Department of Medicine and Dermatology, Clinical Research Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 8 Melanoma and Skin Cancer Program, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 9 Melanoma and Cutaneous Oncology Program, Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah Health Sciences Center, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, 10 Departments of Pathology and Cell Biology and Dermatology, University of South Florida College of Medicine, Tampa, FL, USA, 11 Department of Cutaneous Oncology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL, USA, 12 Melanoma Program, The Angeles Clinic and Research Institute, Santa Monica, CA, 13 Department of Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA, 14 Division of Hematology and Oncology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA, 15 Departments of Oncologic Sciences and Surgery, University of South Florida College of Medicine, Tampa, FL, USA

State of the art and prospects of digital soil mapping: The results of the third global workshop (Logan, USA, 2008)

State of the art and prospects of digital soil mapping: The results of the third global workshop (Logan, USA, 2008)

News from the front line: reports from the Global Workshop on the Stewardship of Neonicotinoid Insecticides, Honolulu, Hawaii, 5–6 June 2008

BACKGROUND AND INTRODUCTION The 1st Global Workshop on Stewardship of Neonicotinoid Insecticides – ‘‘Promoting Sustainability’’ was attended by 29 participants evenly divided between the public and private sectors. The main objective of the workshop was to promote sustainability of neonicotinoids, since there was agreement among the participants that we are at a point with the neonicotinoids equivalent to the one we faced with synthetic pyrethroids in the mid-1980s, i.e. resistance threats are growing as a result of greatly increased use of the class, and there are few alternatives available in many systems. In their introductory presentations, Ralf Nauen (Bayer CropScience, Germany) and Caydee Savinelli (Syngenta, USA) set the scene for the workshop and highlighted the history, uses and importance of neonicotinoids. This is the 3rd largest group of insecticides in terms of sales with a turnover of $ 1.7 billion dollars in 2006, representing 18% of world insecticide sales, and use is still growing fast. Seven different neonicotinoids are marketed as 530 products in 123 countries and are used in all major cropping systems, urban pest control and animal health. Although some important examples of resistance are known and described, most target pests are currently without resistance problems. However, there is a tangible threat of resistance development especially in major markets where loss of this chemistry would have severe negative consequences to insect and disease control.

Estimation of chlorophyll-A concentration using an artificial neural network (ANN)-based algorithm with oceansat-I OCM data

An artificial neural network (ANN) based chlorophyll-a algorithm was developed to estimate chlorophyll-a concentration using OCEANSAT-I Ocean Colour Monitor (OCM) satellite-data. A multi-layer perceptron (MLP) type neural network was trained using simulated reflectances (~60,000 spectra) with known chlorophyll-a concentration, corresponding to the first five spectral bands of OCM. The correlation coefficient(r2) andRMSE for the log transformed training data was found to be 0.99 and 0.07, respectively. The performance of the developed ANN-based algorithm was tested with the global SeaWiFS Bio-optical Algorithm Mini Workshop (SeaBAM) data (~919 spectra), 0.86 and 0.13 were observed asr2 andRMSE for the test data set. The algorithm was further validated with thein-situ bio-optical data collected in the northeastern Arabian Sea (~215 spectra), ther2 andRMSE were observed as 0.87 and 0.12 for this regional data set. Chlorophyll-a images were generated by applying the weight and bias matrices obtained during the training, on the normalized water leaving radiances (nLW) obtained from the OCM data after atmospheric correction. The chlorophyll-a image generated using ANN based algorithm and global Ocean Chlorophyll-4 (OC4) algorithm was compared. Chlorophyll-a estimated using both the algorithms showed a good correlation for the open ocean regions. However, in the coastal waters the ANN algorithm estimated relatively smaller concentrations, when compared to OC4 estimated chlorophyll-a.