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Report on the 4th Joint Workshop on Bibliometric-Enhanced Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing for Digital Libraries at SIGIR 2019

The 4 th joint BIRNDL workshop was held at the 42nd ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2019) in Paris, France. BIRNDL 2019 intended to stimulate IR researchers and digital library professionals to elaborate on new approaches in natural language processing, information retrieval, scientometrics, and recommendation techniques that can advance the state-of-the-art in scholarly document understanding, analysis, and retrieval at scale. The workshop incorporated different paper sessions and the 5 th edition of the CL-SciSumm Shared Task.

Gender distribution of speakers on panels at the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES) annual meeting.

Speaking invitations are used by faculty promotion committees as evidence of external recognition. However, women are underrepresented as speakers at specialty society conferences despite the rise in women physicians. The purpose of this study was to estimate to what extent the gender of session conveners is associated with the gender distribution of invited speakers at SAGES meetings. A retrospective audit of annual SAGES meeting programs during 2009-2018 was performed. All invited panel speakers, defined as faculty delivering a prepared oral presentation in a session under the organization of one or more chairs, were identified. The gender of speakers and chairs/co-chairs was determined. Hands-on courses, paper sessions, military symposia, mock trials, and jeopardy sessions were excluded. We compared the proportion of all-male panels in sessions with all-male conveners versus sessions with at least one woman convener. Statistical analysis was performed using Chi-square and t tests. There were 3405 speakers and 459 panels identified. After applying inclusion and exclusion criteria, 2836 invited speakers on 402 panels were analyzed. Women represented 15% of all speakers, increasing from 9 to 19% (2009 to 2018). This reflects the rise in the proportion of women overall members (11% in 2010 to 19% in 2018). The proportion of panels with at least one woman convener increased from 12 to 58%. All-male panels represented 40% of all panels (n = 163) and their proportion significantly decreased over time from 50 to 31% (p trend < 0.000). Sessions with all-male conveners had 52% all-male panels, while sessions with at least one woman convener had 19% all-male panels (p < 0.001). The proportion of women invited speakers at the annual SAGES meeting has significantly increased over time. All-male convener sessions were more likely to convene all-male speaker panels. Including a woman chair/co-chair increased the number of women speakers and is a successful strategy to achieve gender balance in conference planning.

Drivers of Employment Elasticities in Kenya

The relationship between output growth and employment elasticities has been of intense debate among many economists. Though there is no conflict between the two objectives, the question that arises is the rate at which employment growth responds to economic growth. The policy focus on employment in Kenya is manifested by the sheer number of employment targeted development plans and Sessional papers that have been formulated. Basically, all the policy documents developed by the government have premised employment creation on economic growth. The purpose of the study was therefore to determine the drivers of employment elasticities in Kenya. Empirical findings indicated that the first lag of employment elasticity, average wage, inflation rate, labour force participation rate, first and second lags of labour force participation rate, population density, first and second lags of foreign direct investment to be the short run drivers of employment elasticity. Empirical findings also indicated that exchange rate, foreign direct investment and population density were the long run drivers of employment elasticity in Kenya. The study recommends that policy measures to control inflation should be tightened and more efforts to attract foreign direct investment to be undertaken. The study further recommends that a stable exchange rate should be maintained. Lastly, the government should harmonize the salary scale framework to regulate the wages in the country. This could be realized through salary adjustments based on a periodical and systematic evaluation of wage parameters in the public sector and taking cognizance of the prevailing economic dynamics. Keywords: Employment elasticities, Drivers, Kenya DOI: 10.7176/JESD/10-16-04 Publication date: August 31st 2019

Editorial RSD6

The sixth Relating Systems Thinking and Design Symposium (RSD6 2017) was held at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design in Norway in October 2017. The central theme of the symposium was “Environment, Economy, Democracy: Flourishing Together”, and called for contributions on democratic participation and policy innovation, sustainable business innovation, flourishing communities, and related systems-thinking-oriented approaches to architecture, settlements and the built environment. A wide range of contributions addressed themes, such as social impact in flourishing and change programs, health and population wellness, ecological design and bioregion development, human-scaled and regional economies, related sociotechnical and technological systems, etc. Yet, while the five earlier symposia did receive a number of papers that were focused on architecture and urban design, RSD6 was the first RSD symposium with a dedicated paper session on architecture and urban design. This special issue of Formakademisk collects together five of the papers that focus on architecture and urban design from a linked systems-thinking and design-thinking perspective. Each article pursues a distinct theme concerning the development of the profession, performance-oriented architecture and urban design, the role of exterior space in rethinking the architectural envelope, and questions of participation and community building. This breadth of themes in the selected articles indicates the increasingly deep impact of systems-thinking in the fields of architecture and urban design.

Publication rate of presentations at Korean plastic surgery meetings: The R&R Forum, KSAPS, and KSPRS (2011-2015).

BackgroundSince the initial Research and Reconstruction Forum (R&R Forum) in 2011, the R&R Forum, Korean Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (KSAPS), and Korean Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons (KSPRS) have held annual meetings. This study was conducted to provide updated information on the publication rate of presentations at those meetings.MethodsPlastic surgery–related abstracts presented at the R&R Forum, KSAPS, and KSPRS between 2011 and 2015 were collected. The sessions were divided into free papers, posters, and e-presentations (or e-posters) for each annual meeting. publication status was confirmed through PubMed, Google Scholar, the KCI-Korean Journal Database, and the KMbase database.ResultsIn total, 2,335 abstracts were presented in the free paper, poster, and e-presentation sessions. Of these, 622 (26.6%) were published. The overall publication rates were 240 of 684 abstracts (35.1%) presented at the R&R Forum, 56 of 216 abstracts (25.9%) presented at the KSAPS meetings, and 326 of 1,435 abstracts (22.7%) presented at the KSPRS meetings. In terms of specific annual meetings, the 2014 R&R Forum had the highest publication rate (39.9%), followed by the 2015 KSAPS (31.0%) and the 2015 KSPRS (28.8%).ConclusionsScientific researchers present diverse results at these professional meetings, with a focus on innovative surgical techniques and improved surgical outcomes. This is our second study on this topic. Despite its limitations, this study indirectly shows that the recognition of Korean plastic surgeons and the quality of the annual meetings of Korean societies of plastic surgery have risen to the global level.

Call for papers: 2019 MWRM

submissions are being accepted for the 2019 Midwest Regional Meeting (MWRM), which will be held Oct. 16–19 at the Wichita Marriott Hotel, in Wichita, Kansas. The symposium will highlight advances in macromolecular chemistry and its intersections with diverse scientific and technological domains. In addition to 14 technical symposia and 8 poster sessions, the symposium will feature a plenary lecture by 2016 Nobel laureate Sir Fraser Stoddart. The meeting will also feature undergraduate and graduate student research symposia, undergraduate and high school teacher programs, 6 general paper sessions, a safety workshop for educators of chemistry, and an instrument exhibition. The final program summary will be published in C&EN in the fall; the online program will be available on Sept. 2. Abstracts are open till July 15. To submit an abstract, visit ACS’s Meeting Abstracts Programming System at maps.acs.org. For more information, visit www.wichita.edu/mwrm2019.

Paper session: Resilience and intervention science oral presentations: Time: Friday, 07/Sep/2018: 1:30pm–3:30pm

Paper session: Resilience and intervention science oral presentations: Time: Friday, 07/Sep/2018: 1:30pm–3:30pm

Paper session: Translational science oral presentations: Time: Friday, 07/Sep/2018: 1:30pm–3:30pm

Paper session: Translational science oral presentations: Time: Friday, 07/Sep/2018: 1:30pm–3:30pm

Paper session: Diversity science oral presentations: Time: Friday, 07/Sep/2018: 1:30pm–3:30pm

Paper session: Diversity science oral presentations: Time: Friday, 07/Sep/2018: 1:30pm–3:30pm

Report on the 3rd Joint Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing for Digital Libraries (BIRNDL 2018)

The 3rd joint BIRNDL workshop was held at the 41st ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2018) in Ann Arbor, USA. BIRNDL 2018 intended to stimulate IR researchers and digital library professionals to elaborate on new approaches in natural language processing, information retrieval, scientometrics, and recommendation techniques that can advance the state-of-the-art in scholarly document understanding, analysis, and retrieval at scale. The workshop incorporated three paper sessions and the 4th edition of the CL-SciSumm Shared Task.

Greg Higby Reflections

I first met Greg Higby in the mid 1980s when he was the acting director of the American Institute of the History of Pharmacy. It was at an APhA annual meeting and I had some time on my hands and decided to sit in on one of the history paper sessions. It was a period when many of the giants of the

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Guest Editorial Special Section on Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems

This Special Section was inspired by the 2016 IEEE International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems (MFI 2016), see mfi2016.org, which took place 19–21 September 2016 in Baden-Baden, Germany. The conference was sponsored by the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) and the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES). Several of the papers in this Special Section build upon papers presented at the conference. While a total of 106 papers were presented at MFI 2016, we invited only the authors of the highest-ranked papers to submit an extended version of their respective conference papers to this Special Section. Besides contacting these selected authors, an open call for papers for this Special Session was published to broaden the scope and to allow for papers not presented at MFI 2106. For extended conference papers, an important constraint was to include substantially novel aspects, such as added theoretical work or new experimental results. Authors are required to cite their original conference papers and clearly specify the novel contribution of the journal paper with respect to the conference paper. All papers, those building upon previously presented MFI 2016 papers and additional papers submitted related to the open call for papers, underwent the same rigorous review process as regular submissions strictly according to the guidelines of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (TII). A total of 58 papers were submitted to this Special Section of the IEEE TII. After a careful review process, eight papers were finally selected for publication. We have grouped the eight accepted papers into four sections. The papers are briefly summarized here.

Report on the 2nd Joint Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing for Digital Libraries (BIRNDL 2017)

The large scale of scholarly publications poses a challenge for scholars in information seeking and sense-making. Bibliometrics, information retrieval (IR), text mining, and NLP techniques could help in these activities, but are not yet widely implemented in digital libraries. The 2nd joint BIRNDL workshop was held at the 40th ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2017) in Tokyo, Japan. BIRNDL 2017 intended to stimulate IR researchers and digital library professionals to elaborate on new approaches in natural language processing, information retrieval, scientometric, and recommendation techniques that can advance the state-of-the-art in scholarly document understanding, analysis, and retrieval at scale. The workshop incorporated three paper sessions and the 3rd edition of the CL-SciSumm Shared Task.

AGU Editor Picks for 2018 Ocean Sciences Meeting

Recommendations from AGU’s journal editors of some of the most interesting paper and poster sessions at this year’s Ocean Sciences Meeting.

Organisation of 44th Annual National Conference of IAPSM at Science City, Kolkata

Most important event in this year was the organisation of 44th IAPSM Annual National Conference at Science City Kolkata on 10-120February, 2017. Pre conference CME was also organised on 9th February, 2017.Dedicated work by the member of the organisation made it a grand success. Throughout the year members were involved in various activities. Organisation committee and different Subcommittee had large number meetings to make it a success.The inaugural ceremony was graced by Dr (Mrs).Sashi Panja, Minister of State for Health, and Minister, Women and Child Development, Govt. of West Bengal. Other dignitaries were (Retd) Justice Shyamal Kumar Sen, Dr. Dilip Mahalanobis -a noted paediatrician and public health researcher. The National President and Secretary- General of the Central Body of IASM were also present.The conference was attended by over 950 delegates. During the conference a series of oration/seminar/panel discussion were organized in different halls of the Science city. Scientific papers were presented in the four different award sessions, more than 250 oral papers were presented in the free papers session and more than 300 posters were presented in the different halls during the three days conference. Scientific session were held on topic –Sustainable development, HR reform, New Vaccine introduction, Hand Washing, Tuberculosis, Urban Health, National Mental Health Survey, Iodine deficiency disorder etc.Conference was sponsored by National and international organisation and State and central government organisation and Pharmaceutical companies.Pre conference CME was organised on GIS, Newer Vaccine, health Economics and Operational Research in Public Health. On 2nd day of the conference, a” WALK FOR HEALTH” was organized in the morning.During all three days of the conference food was served in the conference venue. On second night gala dinner was organised at Swabhumi. Cultural programme was also organised.

AGU Editor Picks for 2017 Fall Meeting, Part II

AGU's journal editors give their recommendations for some of the most interesting paper, panel, and poster sessions coming up at this year’s meeting.

AGU Editor Picks for 2017 Fall Meeting, Part I

AGU's journal editors give their recommendations for some of the most interesting paper, panel, and poster sessions coming up at this year’s meeting.

Organ reform at South Bend

A conference-concert festival ‘Reformations and the Organ, 1517–2017’, held on 10 to 13 September 2017 at the University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, explored the organ, from the historical models used by European and American reformer-builders to the completed instruments and associated repertories and sound-worlds. Organized by Craig Cramer and Annette Richards in conjunction with the Westfield Center for Historical Keyboard Studies, this event celebrated the inauguration in 2017 of organ-builder Paul Fritts & Co.’s op.37 in South Bend, with two masterclasses by Christophe Mantoux, nine recitals on four different organs, a harpsichord and a fortepiano, six pairs of paper sessions, and a final discussion. The concerts and papers were of very high quality. In the keynote address, Kerala Snyder applied the multiple meanings of the word ‘reformation’ to 19 stages in the history of the organ going back from the Fritts op.37 to Martin Luther’s Reformation of 1517. The stages included the Holtkamps at the Universities of Notre Dame and Yale, initially valued but later white elephants; the Von Beckerath tracker with slider chests on which Bach’s ‘Neumeister’ chorales discovered at Yale were premiered; and the Yale Taylor & Boody organ of 2007. She then surveyed a series of American organs on European models—at Wellesley by Fisk (1981), at Oberlin by Brombaugh (1981), at Cornell by Yokota (2011), at Eastman by GOArt/Yokota (2008)—before moving to the Gothenburg GOArt/Yokota (2000), and then organs in Hamburg by Schnitger (1693), Ahrend (1993) and Hans Henny Jahnn (1930). This last instrument led Snyder to discuss Jahnn’s (d.1959) role in the German organ reform movement and early music revival. His Ugrino press made Baroque organ works available in the 1920s (and its Buxtehude edition would later be transferred to Broude and continued by Snyder). Snyder’s reverse chronology highlighted the problems builders confronted in unique and even chance situations.

Correction to: Abstracts : 29th European Congress of Pathology.

In Oral Free Paper Sessions, the first-author name was missing from the authorship group originally listed for Abstract OFP-04-012 (page S14), entitled "Differentiating primary pulmonary squamous cell carcinoma from squamous cell carcinoma of the cervix metastatic to the lung: Histological and immunohistochemistry study".