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An Enemy of the People

An Enemy of the People

PREFACE

We are honored to bring you this collection of articles from the 2020 10th International Conference on Future Environment and Energy (ICFEE 2020) which was held in Kyoto, Japan from January 7 to 9, 2020. ICFEE 2020 is dedicated to issues related to Future Environment and Energy.The primary focus of the conference is to bring together academic scientists, engineers, and industry researchers to share their experiences and research results, and discuss the practical challenges encountered and the solutions adopted. The ICFEE 2020 served as a good platform for the scientific community where more than 100 participants met, exchanged ideas and research results, and examined the way forward regarding future environment and energy.ICFEE 2020 Conference Chair Prof. Kondo Akira Osaka University, Japan did the Opening Remarks and delivers his keynote speeches titled “Evaluation on current and future air quality in Continental Southeast Asia by using WRF/CMAQ”; also there were two other Keynote Speeches. They are Prof. Jae K. Park from University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) presented Keynote Speech titled “Innovative Upcycling of Scrap Tires for Pollutant Abatement” on 8th January. This was followed by Keynote Speaker Prof. Rodney Stewart, form Griffith University, Queensland, Australia who spoke on “Role of Intelligent Sensor Networks and Big Data Informatics for Managing Urban Water and Energy Resources”. All the three keynote speakers focused on the latest information and most innovative developments in their respective expertise areas on future environment and energy. For the conference proper, there were nine sub-sessions and one poster session with various interesting topics as follows: Environmental Management and Sustainable Development, Atmospheric Monitoring and Water Quality Analysis, Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Building Energy Efficiency and Energy Management, Life Cycle Analysis of Photovoltaic Solar Panels, Combustion Science and Power Engineering, Urban Engineering and Transportation Engineering, Battery Technology and Photovoltaic System Optimization, Geological and Civil Engineering.ICFEE 2020 was indeed a golden opportunity for academics, students, researchers and engineers to interact with the experts and specialists to get their advice or consultation on state-of-the-art developments in future environment and energy, technical matters, as well as research methodologies and innovative strategies in the field of environmental and energy management. On the third day of the conference, we had a one-day visit in Kyoto city.This proceeding presents a selection from papers submitted to the conference from participants from universities, research institutes and industry. All papers were subjected to peer-review by conference committee members and international reviewers. The papers selected were based on their quality and their relevancy to theconference. The volume tends to present to the readers the recent advances in the field of Future Environment and Energy and various related areas, such as Energy and Environment, Renewable Energy, Advanced Energy Technologies, Fuels and Combustion, Benefits of the Conference, etc.Finally, it is appropriate that we record our thanks to our organizing committees and reviewers for their work in securing a substantial input of papers from 15 countries and in encouraging participation from those areas. We are also indebted to those who served as Keynote Speakers, Conference Chairmen and Session Chairmen. Without their support, the conference could not have been as successful as it was. We also acknowledge the authors who have contributed to this volume, without whose expert inputs, this compilation of proceedings would not have been possible. We would like to thank all the conference participants for their support to ICFEE 2020.Prof. Kondo Akira Osaka University, Japan April 23, 2020

Populism and Democracy in Turkey: The Case of the Republican People s Party

This study will examine the main opposition party in Turkey, the Republican People’s Party (CHP) and discusses the constitutive role of populism in the party’s discourse. Therefore, this study will highlight and compare the major cornerstones of the CHP’s populist discourse and its current manifestation. For this purpose, after some opening remarks on the historiography of populism in Turkey, this article will move on to analyze the three historical periods that have shaped the party’s populist appeal: the single-party era of 1923–1946; the 1970s, which saw the rise of left-populism in the party; and the social-democratic opening of the party in the late 1980s under the name of, first, the Social Democratic Party (SODEP) and subsequently the Social Democratic Populist Party (SHP). The final section will provide an analysis of the party’s current performance and its discourse on contemporary Turkish political issues, to offer a critical debate on the continuity and ruptures within the CHP’s populist discourse and the potential for democratic left-populism in Turkish politics.

The psychological impact of COVID-19 and the subsequent social isolation on the general population of Karnataka, India

The psychological impact of COVID-19 and the subsequent social isolation on the general population of Karnataka, India

Legal agreements: barriers and enablers to global equitable COVID-19 vaccine access

Law can serve as both an enabler and a barrier to global health, equity, and justice.1 The impact of legal determinants of health on the COVID-19 pandemic is evident where law is being used as a mechanism to enable or prevent global equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines. Barriers to equitable access are partly driven by vaccine nationalism2 with governments seeking to use law to secure priority access to future vaccines through Advance Purchase Agreements (APAs) with vaccine manufacturers. These bilateral legal agreements can be in a nation's interest, but given the uncertain success of individual COVID-19 vaccine candidates and the global spread of SARS-CoV-2, APAs are a gamble and erode collaboration between countries. Importantly, such bilateral legal agreements are likely to contribute to inequities and potentially extend the pandemic's time frame. By contrast, multilateral legal agreements could be the path back to global health security and justice by re-establishing norms of international solidarity, committing to global equitable vaccine access initiatives, and laying a foundation for a post-pandemic era built on multilateralism and cooperation.

Data protection during the coronavirus crisis.

Smartphone apps to track SARS-CoV 2 infections need to fulfill certain minimal requirements to guarantee privacy and justify their use under data protection laws.

Why the United States failed to contain COVID-19.

Why the United States failed to contain COVID-19.

Relationships Between p-values and Pearson Correlation Coefficients, Type 1 Errors and Effect Size Errors, Under a True Null Hypothesis

The American Statistical Association (ASA) published a statement in 2016 in The American Statistician for “researchers, practitioners and science writers who are not primarily statisticians” on the proper use and interpretation of p-values. Three years later, the ASA acknowledged that telling researchers what not to do with p-values was insufficient. Consequently, 3 years later an open access, special issue appeared with 43 papers proposing various novel and sophisticated alternatives to classical p-values for use with scientific methods in the twenty-first century. In the opening remarks, the editors stated that “no p-value can reveal the plausibility, presence, truth, or importance of an association or effect” and banned statistical significance: “don’t say it, don’t use it.” This paper questions both statements with a simulated data study. It is shown that p-values are strongly related to correlation coefficients under a true null hypothesis; hence, can reveal the “importance of an association or effect.” Furthermore, it demonstrates why a cut point for statistical significance is still a viable, ancillary tool for assessing the substantive significance of statistical effects with small sample sizes (n < 1000).

Diagnostic Stewardship: An Essential Element in a Rapidly Evolving COVID-19 Pandemic

Diagnostic Stewardship: An Essential Element in a Rapidly Evolving COVID-19 Pandemic

Solidarity in the wake of COVID-19: reimagining the International Health Regulations

Amid frenzied national responses to COVID-19, the world could soon reach a critical juncture to revisit and strengthen the International Health Regulations (IHR), the multilateral instrument that governs how 196 states and WHO collectively address the global spread of disease.1, 2 In many countries, IHR obligations that are vital to an effective pandemic response remain unfulfilled, and the instrument has been largely side-lined in the COVID-19 pandemic, the largest global health crisis in a century. It is time to reimagine the IHR as an instrument that will compel global solidarity and national action against the threat of emerging and re-emerging pathogens. We call on state parties to reform the IHR to improve supervision, international assistance, dispute resolution, and overall textual clarity.

Legal Discontinuities — Opening Remarks

The law inevitably draws lines, but why do the lines have such dramatic effects? Being a bit too incautious can turn what would have been lawful conduct into a million dollar claim for negligence. Being a bit unreasonable in assessing danger can turn what would have been justified self-defense into murder with a life sentence. Many have the intuition that as we gradually cross some boundary from permissible conduct into tortious or criminal conduct, the legal consequences should also change gradually. Yet laws often have all-or-nothing effects even when they could be gradual. To better understand these and related phenomena, we convened an international group of scholars with diverse interests in the law, spanning property, tax, torts, crimes, contracts, and more, for the Legal Discontinuities Conference. The event was held at Tel Aviv University Law School’s Cegla Center for Interdisciplinary Research of the Law from December 29-30, 2019. Contributing papers will be published in a special open access issue of Theoretical Inquiries in Law. This short paper is adapted from my opening conference remarks.

Huck (Hound) and Jim (Crow): Syndicated Television Cartoons and Southern Segregation

Huck (Hound) and Jim (Crow): Syndicated Television Cartoons and Southern Segregation Christopher P. Lehman In 1953, a Democratic Alabama state legislator named Sam Englehardt, Jr., was worried for the future of segregation. The US Supreme Court had just convened to hear arguments in Brown v. Board of Education, and the lawyers advocating for the plaintiffs were proposing that “separate but equal”—the legal principle that served as the foundation of Jim Crow—had no constitutionality in public schools. In addition, the opening remarks in the land’s highest court came just one month after the Republican Party had won national contests in the executive and legislative branches of government, victories achieved when the South was solidly a Democratic region. The country had even elected its first Republican president in two decades. President-Elect Dwight Eisenhower was noncommittal on civil rights, but his two most recent predecessors in the White House had approved desegregation of the defense industry and the US military. Meanwhile, the congressional elections had resulted in a Republican majority after four years of a Democratic Congress. The prospect of the demise of segregation in public schools thus added insult to these injuries for Englehardt and other southern, segregationist Democrats.1 Englehardt sought salvation in the new medium of television. In January 1953, he stood at the Alabama Capitol to deliver a proposal: establish a state-owned television system to broadcast public school curricula into the homes of schoolchildren (effectively, a mid-20th-century version of online education). If the Supreme Court were to ban segregation, all children (but particularly whites) could still receive an education without having to physically attend a desegregated public school. “There would be no problem of segregation if instruction were beamed directly into people’s homes,” he reasoned, with seeming magnanimity. He also called for “TV school reception centers” (akin to the “Internet Cafes” of the late 1990s and early 2000s) across the state for people who could not afford television sets, allowing for even the poorest of children to avoid integration.2 At the time, television stations throughout the country catered to children mainly by providing animated-film entertainment for them. Cartoons were among the earliest programs on the air in the late 1940s and early ’50s, and both black and white children in the segregated South saw them simultaneously, but of course separately. Motion-picture studios offered their animation libraries to television syndication companies, who then contracted with individual television stations for the broadcasting of the films. These programs usually aired on weekday afternoons, and children watched them at home after dismissed from their segregated schools. Most of the cartoons themselves belonged to pre-segregation television culture, filmed in black-and-white instead of [End Page 4] Technicolor—a decade older than the children viewing them on television. The Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board decision in May 1954 became the context in which some people expressed concern for how southern television programming affected its white juvenile viewers, because many young white southerners, often not even in the Deep South, expressed intense hostility about the verdict’s outlawing of segregated public schools. When a new academic year began that fall, European American students of seven schools in southern Delaware boycotted the facilities over integration. Meanwhile, mobs protested and rioted in several cities in West Virginia. The film trade periodical Hollywood Reporter printed a rare political commentary in response, in November, and in doing so the newspaper was one of the few media journals to speak out against the violence. The Reporter warned that stereotyped films caused potential harm to European American children. Noticing a link between “the behavior of these teenage Americans” and “all the agencies contributing to their education,” the periodical asked, “Does the characterization of Negroes in movies and television shows aid or hinder the realization of the Supreme Court’s decision on segregation?” The Reporter specifically named animation as part of the problem. “Negro actors and entertainers…appear often, and in vicious stereotype, in the old movies, shorts, and cartoons that fill the bulk of TV time,” the journal complained, and the “so-called ‘children’s programs,’ which depend on ancient movie product, are the worst offenders...

Industry sponsored harm reduction conference courts Indigenous peoples in Canada

In November 2019, Jeff Gaulin, Director External Affairs with Rothmans, Benson & Hedges Inc (RBH) opened a conference in Calgary, Canada. RBH was not listed on any of the promotional...

COVID-19 in Spain: Transplantation in the midst of the pandemic.

Spain has been one of the most affected countries by the COVID‐19 outbreak. As of April 28, 2020, the number of confirmed cases is 210 773, including 102 548 patients recovered, more than 10 300 admitted to the ICU, and 23 822 deaths, with a global case fatality rate of 11.3%. From the perspective of donation and transplantation, the Spanish system first focused on safety issues, providing recommendations for donor evaluation and testing, and to rule out SARS‐CoV‐2 infection in potential recipients prior to transplantation. Since the country entered into an epidemiological scenario of sustained community transmission and saturation of intensive care, developing donation and transplantation procedures has become highly complex. Since the national state of alarm was declared in Spain on March 13, 2020, the mean number of donors has declined from 7.2 to 1.2 per day, and the mean number of transplants from 16.1 to 2.1 per day. Increased mortality on the waiting list may become a collateral damage of this terrible pandemic.

Welcome to Pathfinder

Some opening remarks on the publication of our first regular issue including brief explanation of our name and founding principles and listing of persons to whom thanks are most certainly due.

In the frame, road map for Australian sport on an uncertain journey through COVID-19

In the frame, road map for Australian sport on an uncertain journey through COVID-19

Nurturing care home mental health amid COVID-19 outbreak

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Not a luxury: a call to maintain sexual and reproductive health in humanitarian and fragile settings during the COVID-19 pandemic

Not a luxury: a call to maintain sexual and reproductive health in humanitarian and fragile settings during the COVID-19 pandemic

Inflammatory Bowel Diseases and COVID-19: The Invisible Enemy

Inflammatory Bowel Diseases and COVID-19: The Invisible Enemy

Global coalition to accelerate COVID-19 clinical research in resource-limited settings

Global coalition to accelerate COVID-19 clinical research in resource-limited settings