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Editorial introductions

Designing Bali tourism model through the implementation of tri hita karana and sad kertih values

As an icon of tourism in Indonesia, Bali has developed to be one of the world-top tourist destinations. In 2017, Bali gained an award to be the world’s best tourist destination by TripAdvisor, the world largest travel site. As a result, the award would also boost the gov­ern­ment’s endeavors to reach the tar­get of 20 mil­lion for­eign tourists by 2019. In fact, this award and a number of other awards that had been attributed to the island of God are achieved due to the unity of the movement of the implementation of Tri Hita Karana (THK) and Sad Kertih (SK) values ​​as local wisdom ​​in maintaining Balinese balance. This study aims at investigating the implementation of THK and SK values in designing Bali tourism model in the context of community services of Indonesian higher education. By applying the descriptive qualitative research method, the data, both primary and secondary, were collected through participant observation in 7 seven villages of different regency in Bali Province, interview, and literature study.

Serving those Who Served: Outcomes from the San Diego Veterans Treatment Review Calendar (SDVTRC) Pilot Program

Veterans Treatment Courts (VTCs) are a type of specialty treatment, problem-solving, criminal court. Though the number of VTCs has increased over the past decade, few research studies have examined their effectiveness. This paper examines the data collected concerning a particular VTC experience, the first 82 Veterans enrolled in the Veterans Treatment Review Calendar Pilot Program conducted by the California Superior Court of the county of San Diego from February 2011 until July 2014 (SDVTRC.) The evidence presented herein concerns the nature of this cohort’s population, the SDVTRC program structure in which these Veterans participated, and the outcomes of participation. SDVTRC participants showed a significant decrease in symptoms on 11 of 12 clinical measures from baseline to 12 months. Particular outcomes of the SDVTRC program were related to factors of military service, such as length of service, number of awards, and discharge status. There were also significant relationships between symptom decrease and court process factors, such as length of time in program and sanctions imparted. This court has a 0% recidivism rate, which is believed to be related to its systematic data collection process that was used to inform individualized treatment plans for participants. Implications for other VTCs are provided.

Through the Eye of a Fly: Action Research as a Support for the South African National Literacy Campaign

Globally and across the African continent, the past decade has seen an increase in the commitment to reducing adult illiteracy, inspired among other things by the Education for All (EFA) drive to halve the incidence of illiteracy among adults and youth by 2015. While literacy campaigns were less common during the 1990s, the last decade saw a new impetus for mass adult literacy campaigns as a way of improving national literacy levels. This paper examines the South African endeavour to meet its EFA target through the implementation of the South African Kha Ri Gude Mass Literacy Campaign, which was launched by the South African government in 2008 with the aim of enliterating 4,7 million adults who had little or no education as a result of the apartheid legacy. The Campaign was deemed successful receiving a number of South African awards for best practice and its work in rural and impoverished communities including the international UNESCO Confucius Prize for Literacy (UNESCO 2016). This article focuses on how the campaign utilised action-oriented processes, specifically the methods of participatory action research (PAR), to enhance the achievement of its goals. The methods of PAR were embedded in the campaign structure, comprising clusters of communities of practice (COPs) which provided fora for educators to voice and address challenges. Moreover, since the Campaign was implemented in post-apartheid South Africa, the article shows how the Campaign operations were guided by the ethos of ubuntu as necessary for redress and empowerment.

Trends in sinusitis research: a systematic review of extramural funding.

Innovation represents a core value of the American Rhinologic Society (ARS), with multiple efforts to promote research in the advancement rhinologic care. We therefore sought to identify trends in extramural sinusitis funding and underutilized sources of support to facilitate future efforts. A systematic review of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Research Portfolio Online Tools (RePORTER) database (fiscal year 1993 to 2017) was completed with the search strategy: ("chronic sinusitis" OR rhinosinusitis). All identified studies were accepted for review, with comparison to ARS membership rolls to identify studies supported by ARS investigators. Foundation awards were surveyed to identify and characterize additional sources of support. The systematic review identified 958 projects receiving NIH funding, of which 120 remain active. The percentage of sinusitis-related awards and total funding relative to all NIH awards increased over the past 10 years (2006 to 2016) from 0.06% (8 / 9128) and 0.09% ($2,151,152 / $3,358,338,602) to 0.87% (86 / 9540) and 0.90% ($37,201,095 / $4,300,145,614). Among active studies, 9 investigators maintain membership in the ARS and serve as principal investigator or project leader in 12 (10%) studies. ARS investigators received the greatest number of awards from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disrders (n = 8,66.7%), while only receiving 2.2% of awarded funding from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases ($607,500/$26,873,022), the largest source of awards for sinusitis research. Support for sinusitis research is significantly growing, with the largest source of active funding not being fully utilized by members of the ARS. Further efforts to promote funding priorities among extramural sources is necessary to facilitate increased funding for ARS member initiatives.

Ageing of the Working Population and Disability Insurance: An Economic and Demographic Analysis on the Disability Benefit in Italy

The aim of the study is to estimate the number of beneficiaries of disability benefits and the relative costs for chronic-degenerative pathologies (CDP). Furthermore, we analyze the demographic structure of the people who receiving for the first time a disability benefit as well as the association between the number of disability insurance awards (DIA) and the aging working population. We analysed the database about the DIA and the mean cost for benefit of the National Institute of Social Security (INPS) for three types of social security benefits: incapacity pensions (for people without work ability), disability pensions and disability benefits (for people with reduced work ability). Also, we collected data for sex and age for the main groups of chronic-degenerative diseases. The model estimated for CDP a mean yearly cost for disability pensions from 2009 to 2015 of €4.7 billion with a decrease from 2009 to 2015 of 41.2%; a mean yearly cost of €2.4 billion with an increase of 34.1% for disability benefits and a mean cost of €856 million with an increase of 25.4% for incapacity pension. Age-specific rates of the older ages shows significant increases in all the period.A comparison of standardized rates reveals that demographic changes in the considered period have had a strong impact on the trend of the DIA, particularly for musculoskeletal disorders and cancer (CA). The most important indirect costs in Italy from 2009 to 2015 was represented by disability pensions (59% of the total cost), followed by disability benefits (29% of total indirect cost). Analysis and elaborations show a general tendency to increase the number of DIA between 1995 and 2015, particularly for CA. Both groups include highly disabling diseases that may continue to grow due to the population aging and absorb a growing amount of economic resources from the social security system.

Looking to the Future of Drug-Induced Liver Injury: An Interview With Paul B Watkins

Paul Watkins talks to Francesca Lake, Head of Open Access Publishing: Paul is The Howard Q Ferguson Professor in the Eshelman School of Pharmacy at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC, NC, USA), and an expert in drug safety and drug-induced liver injury (DILI). Since its formation in 2009, he has been the director of the University of North Carolina Institute for Drug Safety Science. He is also Director of the DILI-sim Initiative and Chairman of the Board of Directors for the spin-off company, DILIsym Services, Inc. He is chair of the steering and genetics committees for the US Drug-Induced Liver Injury Network supported by the NIH and has been the recipient of a number of awards.

The design and application of spider track on the research performance evaluation of Fuwai hospital

Objective The 'Spider Track Map (Fuwai)’is an innovative tool for comprehensive evaluation of scientific research performance. It was developed jointly by the Science & Research department and Medical Research & Biometrics Center in Fuwai Hospital. This tool aims to evaluate the development of scientific performances in 3 consecutive years of targeted departments, which will be considered to assess the technological competitiveness of each department. Methods The key variables were the number of projects, funding, awards, publications and patents during the last three years. After standardization, the weighted sum of those variables was calculated. Then the 'Spider Track Map (Fuwai)’ could be generated and the evaluation conclusion would be obtained after stratification. Results The 'Spider Track Map (Fuwai)’ method had been used to evaluate the scientific research performance in 2015. The excellent research departments had been successfully elected and rewarded. Conclusions Beside the excellent department election, the method can also identify different feature of performance including improved, retrogressive, high efficiency or no changes. This multidimensional tool provides the reference to administrators for scientific commendation and reward and also the guiding and alerting for specific department. Key words: Scientific research performance evaluation; Spider Track Map; Spider Diagram

Cluster Preface: Catalytic Aerobic Oxidations

Shannon S. Stahl was an undergraduate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a graduate student at Caltech (PhD, 1997), where he worked with Professor John Bercaw. He was an NSF postdoctoral fellow with Professor Stephen Lippard at Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1997–1999. He is currently a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he began his independent career in 1999. His research group specializes in catalysis, with an emphasis on aerobic oxidation reactions and oxygen chemistry related to energy conversion. Tomislav Rovis was born in Zagreb in former Yugoslavia but was largely raised in southern Ontario, Canada. He earned his PhD degree at the University of Toronto (Canada) in 1998 under the direction of Professor Mark Lautens. From 1998–2000, he was an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University (USA) with Professor David A. Evans. In 2000, he began his independent career at Colorado State University and was promoted in 2005 to Associate Professor and in 2008 to Professor. His group’s accomplishments have been recognized by a number of awards including an Arthur C. Cope Scholar, an NSF CAREER Award, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a ­Katritzky Young Investigator in Heterocyclic Chemistry. In 2016, he moved to Columbia University where he is currently Professor of Chemistry.

The emergence of science communication in Aotearoa New Zealand

The history of science communication in Aotearoa New Zealand starts with the stories told by the indigenous Māori people and has often been rooted in large, controversial environmental or technological issues. Although science communication in New Zealand began with a culture of wise men informing an uneducated public, by the 1990s it had begun to explore ideas of public outreach and engagement. Driven in part by the country's landscape and unique wildlife, media such as film documentary have risen to take centre stage in public engagement with science. Public radio also features in discussion of scientific issues. New centres for the training of science communicators have emerged and there is governmental and public support for science communication in New Zealand, as demonstrated by the number of awards and funding opportunities offered annually, for those who achieve. However a more critical and strategic approach to science communication in the future is needed if New Zealand wants a more science-literate public, and a more public-literate science community.

UK Secretary of State for Health proposes new model for compensating the victims of adverse outcomes resulting from medical/midwifery errors during childbirth.

On Monday 17 October 2016, Jeremy Hunt, the UK Secretary of State for Health, acknowledged in a press release the medico-legal crisis in maternity care. In August 2016 the National Health Service (NHS) Litigation Authority (www.nhsla.com) reported that the annual cost of settling legal claims had reached £1488.5 million pounds ($1816 million; lawyers take 36% of the total). Of the £2896 million claims received in the financial year 2015/16, 42% were for negligence in maternity care: £1216.5 million (with £989.7 million for cerebral palsy cases alone). Compensating claimants now costs about 20% of the maternity budget (about £800 for each birth); however, Hunt allocated just £8 million for multidisciplinary training, which is 20% less than the current maximum award for a single cerebral palsy case (£10 135 511; T versus Kings College Hospital NHS FT High Court 22 January 2015). The Health Secretary ‘will also consult on a new Rapid Resolution and Redress (RRR) scheme to give eligible families a thorough and independent investigation, and the option to join an alternative system of compensation that offers support and regular payments without the need to bring a claim through the courts’. His proposal was foreshadowed by the National Maternity Review, published in February 2016 (www.england.nhs.uk/2016/02/maternity-review-2/). This suggests that ‘Where the harm was caused by acts or omissions related to care during term labour, a financial settlement should be provided to support the baby's care… Such a scheme would pay out for birth injuries without families needing to go to court and prove negligence in a lengthy and difficult process. Removing the threat of individual clinicians being branded negligent would improve the effectiveness of serious incident investigations, and help ensure that similar mistakes were avoided’. However, it is difficult to envisage a system where an individual who makes a serious error of judgment is not in some way held to account or subjected to a practice review. Local investigation of those involved can be hampered by a reluctance to criticise colleagues. Moreover, the problems with this approach were recognised in the second report of the Parliamentary Health Committee almost 25 years ago (Winterton Report, 1992), to which I was an advisor. They opined that ‘no-fault compensation might reduce the number of awards, but would still leave the problem of accountability for mistakes… it would also fail to address the problem of equity, for only a small proportion of longterm handicap can be attributed to medical or midwifery error. Thus even a no-fault system of compensation would only ameliorate the lot of a small fraction of children needing special provision’. They recommended ‘improving education of maternity care givers’ and ‘improving care for disabled children and adults so that multi-million pound settlements are not seen as the only way to ensure their longterm protection’. At present, costs of care are based entirely on care in the private sector. Allowing judges to take into account the available NHS provision would allow considerable reductions in compensation; however, lawyers are probably still a long way from losing their income from mistakes in maternity care. None declared. Completed disclosure of interests form available to view online as supporting information. Linked article This article is comment on by SL Clark, p. 1334 in this issue. To view this mini commentary visit https://doi.org/10.1111/1471-0528.14621. Please note: The publisher is not responsible for the content or functionality of any supporting information supplied by the authors. Any queries (other than missing content) should be directed to the corresponding author for the article.

Scrutinising the argument for reducing penalty rates

The issue of weekend penalty rates has been an important area of contention in Australian industrial relations in recent times, with employers seeking reductions in penalty rates or their elimination altogether. In its recent review of Modern Awards, the Fair Work Commission decided to reduce Sunday penalty rates in a number of awards. The decision was in part informed by a recent review by the Productivity Commission, which had gone so far as to recommend that penalty rates on Sundays be made equivalent to Saturdays. In this article, we examine two of the main justifications for reductions in Sunday penalty rates. We begin by examining the question of whether Sundays are still ‘special’ in a sense likely to warrant penalty rates additional to those on a Saturday. We find that Sundays remain the least preferred day to work, are most valued by employees, and occupy a particular role in time shared with family. We also examine the key claim by the Productivity Commission – accepted by the Fair Work Commission – that a reduction in penalty rates would necessarily result in increased employment in the industries considered. We find that there is little direct empirical evidence for this, and that minimum wage studies have been largely unable to find a net employment effect. The relationship among wages, policy and unemployment is complex in a way that defies simple predictions. There is a need for more direct evidence of the effects of penalty rates on employment.

Determinan Pengungkapan Islamic Social Reporting pada Bank Umum Syariah di Indonesia

This study aims to examine the determinants of the disclosure of Islamic Social Reporting (ISR) in the Indonesian Islamic banking industry. We used profitability, award and type of ownership as the determinants of Islamic Social Reporting. Profitability was proxied by the ROA, while the award was identified by a number of awards for CSR performance for one year, and the type of ownership was classified into four: government, family, foreign, and institutional ownership. The samples were Islamic banks (IB) in Indonesia, which had published annual report for the period of 2010-2014. The data were 53 annual reports of 12 IBs. Hypotheses were tested using multiple linear regression analysis. The results showed that profitability, award, and the type of ownership partially did not affect the disclosure of ISR. Further analysis was conducted to test the effect of all the variables on each theme in the index ISR. The results indicated that award had a positive effect on the social and corporate governance themes, and lastly type of ownership had an effect on the financial, product, human resources, social and governance themes.

The Integrative Level of the Hierarchical Spatial Orientation System in Animals

This review of the literature analyzes knowledge of the higher, integrative level of the physiological system by which animals orient themselves in space. Studies of the patterns of operation of the system at this level are relevant as impairments may underlie degradation of the ability to orient in space (spatial agnosia), an important sign of a number of brain diseases, particularly Alzheimer’s disease. Studies over recent decades have identified the main functional components of the system integrating information on an animal’s spatial position. The significance of these findings is reflected in a number of prestigious awards and honors, including the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine.

British Ornithologists’ Union Godman Salvin Prize

Pat's research has addressed an impressively broad range of questions emanating from her core interest in understanding the causes and consequences of life-history trade-offs and resulting life-history variation. She has provided ground-breaking and much needed insights into key physiological and genetic mechanisms that underlie life-history variation, and is unusual in the degree to which she has retained a clear-sighted view and commitment to injecting her research into applied ecology and conservation policy. Although Pat's studies have involved insects, amphibians, fish and mammals, birds have proved an ideal model for addressing her questions of interest, and so ornithology is her natural home. After graduating in Zoology at the University of Glasgow in 1973, Pat moved to Durham undertake a PhD on Herring Gull Larus argentatus ecology, supervised by John Coulson (awarded the Goldman Salvin Prize in 1992). She then returned to a Lectureship in Glasgow, and through the rest of her career has played a pivotal role in the development of ornithological science in Glasgow, the UK and beyond. Pat's early research continued to focus on seabird ecology, with a developing emphasis on interdisciplinary studies into issues such as disease transmission by wintering gulls. These studies continued through the 1980s, including research on emerging conservation issues that showed that seabird declines were being driven by reductions in the local availability of their sandeel prey. Those studies in Shetland illustrate a theme that has underpinned much of Pat's subsequent work, where she has successfully demonstrated fitness consequences of the varied responses that different animals have to environmental change. Building upon those field studies, in which environmental variation provided her with natural experiments, Pat identified a series of systems where experimental manipulations could be used on wild populations. This led to investigations into the constraints on maternal investment, and how maternal condition influenced egg quality, sex ratios and offspring fitness. Her interest in the longer-term consequences of variation in early condition led Pat to develop increasingly elegant experiments with laboratory species such as Zebra Finches Taeniopygia guttata. Collaborating with a diverse group of modellers, physiologists and molecular biologists, these laboratory studies have revealed how early growth conditions, relating both to nutrition and social environments, can influence a range of biological characteristics in later life. Alongside this work on captive species, she has successfully identified opportunities to explore these questions in wild populations, collaborating with colleagues such as previous Goldman Salvin medallists Mike Harris and Sarah Wanless, and further demonstrating the value of the long-term individual-based studies of seabirds on the Isle of May. Together, these studies highlight how Pat has used ornithology to address fundamental questions of broad biological interest. Yet at the same time, she retains an active research interest in avian conservation, particularly in the way that she has driven the science underpinning the Scottish Chough Study Group's major impact on current conservation strategies for this species. Pat's research has resulted in over 200 scientific papers and contributions to many books and popular science articles. Her work is highly cited, and has had an important influence across ornithology and other disciplines. Arguably, however, her greatest legacy is the enormous impact she has made as a research leader through her absolute commitment to scientific rigour and excellence, and her unquestionable integrity and commitment to fairness in society. She has contributed these attributes through her supervision and mentoring of students and early-career scientists, and her contributions to numerous bodies and panels, including the Royal Society and the Leverhulme Trust. Your career will have been directly or indirectly influenced by Pat, whether you know it or not. Pat has supervised over 40 PhD students, almost all of whom have carved successful scientific careers in roles that range from independent academics to senior conservation managers. Pat contributes to all the key programmes that now promote women in science. More critically, she has been an exceptional role model and mentor for young female scientists since the very beginning of her career, culminating in her becoming the first woman to be appointed to Glasgow's Regius Chair in Zoology. Directly and indirectly, she has undoubtedly contributed to the high numbers of women now working in ornithology within the UK. Pat's professional services have also involved extensive work within government and learned societies, where her achievements have been recognized through her appointment as President of both the International Society for Behavioural Ecology and the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour. These activities have resulted in a number of awards, notably her election as a Fellow to the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1997, and the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour Scientific Medal in 2015. The strength and breadth of her work within ornithology now makes her an outstandingly deserving recipient of the BOU Goldman Salvin Prize.

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Buick at a Crossroads: Building Brand Momentum

Few cases allow the student to understand the relationship between brand strategy, marketing strategy, implementation, and analysis. While some conceive of the process as being sequential, this case demonstrates that in fact, this process is more fluid, and that implementation and analysis impact subsequent strategy. This field-based case provides a rare glimpse into the turnaround of a brand that was all but dead. After Buick suffered more than five decades of declining business results and an inferior brand image versus all rivals, few thought that the brand could be resuscitated. This case provides a valuable under-the-hood look at how the Buick team, over time, progresses through a series of marketing improvements all anchored on an evolved strategy. Specifically, Buick introduced a shift in brand strategy behind an evolved brand essence statement (i.e., brand positioning), improved product lineup, new-to-the-world innovation, enhanced dealership service, and more compelling advertising. The results led to a record number of product awards, significantly improved advertising measures, improved service ratings, and better business results. Despite significant improvement across multiple dimensions of the business, Buick still trailed key competitors on one of the most important measures Buick tracked—the brand momentum rating—suggesting that there was still more work needed to complete the brand turnaround. The case introduces Molly Peck, the new marketing director on Buick, who is wondering what more, if anything, Buick should do. The material allows for instruction around marketing strategy and the process of converting it into implementation through the use of a creative brief. Excerpt UVA-M-0907 Rev. Sept. 27, 2019 Buick at a Crossroads: Building Brand Momentum In the summer of 2014, Molly Peck, US marketing director for Buick, had been given responsibility for leading marketing initiatives for the brand. Her boss, Tony DiSalle, and the Buick team had improved the product, created a lineup that was more relevant for today's consumers, improved service, and effectively reengaged the North American market. The product was strong and service was stellar. As Peck thought about this success, she was impressed by the turnaround that the brand team had accomplished. As a 20-year General Motors (GM) veteran who had previously led Chevrolet's advertising team, Peck now had to determine the strategic direction that would build on the current momentum and close the gap with competitors. With significant improvements in product, service, messaging, and the overall consumer experience, Peck was under pressure to identify the right marketing lever to pull to improve brand image, and, more immediately, specify the strategy against which Buick should execute its next advertising campaign. Peck's team was running out of time to convert the brand essence statement into a creative brief so that the advertising agency, digital agency, PR agency, and so on, could create new messages with which to communicate with consumers. Should the team stick with the strategic direction that helped fuel Buick's successful turnaround? Should it focus on changing that direction, or on doing something entirely different? The Highly Competitive US Automobile Industry . . .

Career Development Awards in Emergency Medicine: Resources and Challenges.

In the United States, emergency medicine (EM) researchers hold proportionately fewer federal career development awards than researchers in other specialties. Others hypothesize that this deficit may partly be attributed to lack of mentors, departmental resources, and qualified applicants. Our objectives were to examine the association between departmental and institutional resources and career development awards and to describe the barriers to conducting research and btaining grants in EM. We conducted an online, cross-sectional survey study of vice chairs for research and research directors at academic emergency departments in the United States in January and February 2016. Participants provided quantitative information regarding their department's demographics, available research resources, number of funded independent investigators, and number of career development awards. They were also asked about the perceived adequacy of departmental and institutional resources and perceived barriers to research and grant success. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and multivariable linear regression, as appropriate. Of 178 eligible participants, 103 (58%) completed the survey. Most departments reported some infrastructure for research and grant submission, including research coordinator(s) (n=75/99; 76%, 95% confidence interval [CI]= 66%-84%), research associates (69/99; 70%, 95% CI= 60%-79%), and administrative/secretarial research support (79/101; 78%, 95% CI= 69%-86%). The majority of departments (56/103; 49%, 95% CI= 44%-64%) had no R01-funded researchers, and only 15 (15%, 95% CI= 8%-23%) had three or more R01-funded researchers. The most frequently reported challenge to junior faculty applying for grants was low motivation for applying (62/103; 60%, 95% CI= 50%-70%), followed closely by insufficient mentorship (50/103; 49%, 95% CI= 39%-59%) and discouragement from low funding rates (50/103; 49%, 95% CI= 39%-59%). In the multivariable model, only the number of departmental R-level-funded researchers was associated with the number of departmental career development awards (coefficient= 0.75, 95% CI= 0.39-1.11; R2 =0.57). While more multiple departmental and institutional resources correlated with a greater number of funded career development awards, the single greatest predictor was the number of R-level-funded researchers in the department. Low motivation and insufficient mentorship were the most frequently reported barriers to junior faculty applying for career development awards. Further studies are needed to describe junior faculty perspectives on these issues and to explore strategies for overcoming these barriers.

III International Conference on Small Angle Neutron Scattering dedicated to the 80 anniversary of Yu.M. Ostanevich

Preface“Among the many well-known fundamental and applied consequences of neutron discovery, one of the first was the emergence of structural neutron diffraction - one of the methods for studying the spatial structure of condensed matter at the atomic level. Investigating the dynamics of biological macromolecules by neutron diffraction methods is an area that is almost untouched. We believe that also in this direction one should expect rapid progress.”Yu.M.Ostanevich and I.N.Serdyuk Uspekhi Fizicheskih Nauk (1982)More than 30 years after Ostanevich and Serdyuk reviewed the then 50 years from the neutron discovery, we are happy to support their statement and prediction by reporting on the further progress in the field of neutron scattering research. Frank Laboratory of Neutron Physics has organized the III International Conference on Small Angle Neutron Scattering (YuMO2016) that was – not coincidently – dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Ostanevich.Yuriy Mechislavovich Ostanevich (1936–1992) has had a determinative and crucial contribution to the construction of spectrometers at the pulsed reactor IBR in Dubna, Russia. He contributed in particular to the development of time-of-flight small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) technique, and the selection of advanced scientific areas for its application. The SANS instrument at the IBR-2 reactor is called YuMO in his honour. The Ostanevich’s leadership and outstanding scientific achievements in SANS studies of polyelectrolytes, small molecules, fractals, metallic glasses, macromolecules, polymers, etc., were recognized also by a number of awards including the State Prize of the Russian Federation in 2000. To this end of course, we should not forget mentioning the contribution of close collaborators of Ostanevich: Laszlo Cser, Josef Plestil as well as Alexander Kunchenko, Vadim Bezzabotnov and Nikolay Gorski.The YuMO2016 conference focused on providing opportunities to discuss various possibilities of exploiting the SANS technique in the many aspects of condensed matter research as once appreciated and predicted by Ostanevich, and perhaps even surpassing his predictions. The FLNP have had an opportunity to welcome more than 110 participants from 14 different countries and 3 continents comprising Europe, North America and Australia. The scientific program was filled with 43 oral presentations extending over 930 minutes, while more than 60 posters were presented during the poster sessions and breaks.The content of the conference and its proceedings are fully commensurate with world-wide trends in neutron scattering applications. The contribution dedicated to the SANS methods and instrumentation describes for example a role of polarized neutrons in the localization of free radicals in the structural biology. It is hard to imagine another probe than neutron, and another technique than small-angle scattering that have such many utilization possibilities in the studies of drug delivery systems, neurodegenerative diseases, and other aspects of biomembranes and soft matter in general, to name but a few.Besides the neutron’s sensitivity to the light elements, and H/D differentiation making the hydrogen-rich biomaterials an innate target, magnetism is accessible to neutrons too. Our proceedings document studies where neutron scattering techniques come to the rescue when other methods have failed, and/or provide examples of synergy between the various methods. Atomic force microscopy, NMR, Raman spectroscopy, molecular dynamics simulations, and X-ray scattering are clearly the complementary methods of choice for condensed matter research. It is a matter of time, and already happening future in some cases, for the studies concerning nanoparticles and nanocomposites to spin-off into advanced and industrial applications.It is more than intriguing to realize the role of neutrons and/or small angle scattering method in such studies across various scientific fields. The neutron history is written by those who touched the neutron. Let us pay a tribute to one of them. We are fortunate to open our collection of YuMO2016 conference dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Yu.M. Ostanevich by the very personal commemorations of his close colleague and friend Dr. Laszlo Cser.NORBERT KUČERKA, MARIA BALASOIU, AND ALEXANDER I. KUKLINFrank Laboratory of Neutron Physics, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, RussiaApril 2017

Conversando con... Kathryn Gustafson

<p>Kathryn Gustafson es una paisajista norteamericana reconocida a nivel internacional. Tras estudiar arte y diseño de moda, se formó como paisajista en Francia, en la Escuela de Versalles. En este país realizó sus primeras obras, entre las que destacan los mágicos Jardines de L´Immaginaire. Actualmente, Kathryn Gustafson desarrolla su práctica profesional a través de dos estudios diferentes: Gustafson Porter, afincado en Londres, y Gustafson Nicol Guthrie, con oficinas en Seattle. Entre sus obras más relevantes podemos citar el parque cultural de la Westergasfabriek en Amsterdam o el Lurie Garden, en el Millenium Park de Chicago, el memorial de la princesa Diana en Hyde Park, su propuesta para la 11ª Bienal de Venecia y el proyecto ganador del concurso para Union Square, en el National Mall de Washington.</p><p>La obra de Kathryn Gustafson ha sido ampliamente publicada internacionalmente, y ha obtenido un número impresionante de premios y distinciones. Algunos de los más recientes son el Arnold Brunner Memorial Prize in Architecture de 2012, de la Academia Americana de Artes y Letras, en reconocimiento a su contribución a la arquitectura como arte, y el premio Obayashi en 2014. Kathryn Gustafson recibió en 2015 un Doctorado Honoris Causa por la Universitad Politècnica de València.</p><p>Kathryn Gustafson ha tenido siempre una voz propia dentro del paisajismo contemporáneo, una voz relevante, innovadora y significativa en muchos aspectos. Esta voz destaca, especialmente, por la forma en que aborda el modelado del terreno en sus proyectos, un modelado escultural y sensual, que podemos apreciar también en su proyecto para el Parque Central de Valencia, un proyecto que surge como resultado de un concurso internacional, en el que Gustafson Porter, junto con las Ingenierías Nova y Grupotec y el estudio Borgos Pieper, presentó una propuesta que recibió el primer premio, suscitando después una opinión favorable absolutamente unánime.</p>