Research Conference Research Articles

A Systematic Literature Review of Automation Quality of Service in Computer Networks: Research Trends, Datasets, and Methods

The article is a systematic literature review of the use of automation for quality of service (QoS) in computer networks. It summarizes the research trends, datasets, and methods used in the field and provides an overview of the current state of the art. The focus of the review is on the use of automation for QoS management and improvement in computer networks, including the use of machine learning, artificial intelligence, and other computational techniques. The review highlights the need for further research and development in this area and provides insights into future directions for the field. The review covered a wide range of studies, including research papers and conference proceedings, and involved a comprehensive database search of the Scopus database covering journals and proceedings such as the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Xplore, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Digital Library, Springer, and ScienceDirect databases between 2017 and September 2022. From these databases, 1856 metadata were found, which eventually became seventy-three metadata after going through the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) protocol.

Abstracts of the 16th UK Neuromuscular Translational Research Conference, 29th and 30th March 2023.

Abstracts of the 16th UK Neuromuscular Translational Research Conference, 29th and 30th March 2023.

The impact of background music on learners: A systematic review and meta-analysis

This meta-analysis integrates outcomes of experimental and quasi-experimental studies to analyze the effects of background music (BM) on learning. Research articles, dissertations, and conference proceedings published in or before 2021 were examined. Seventy-one effect sizes from 47 studies were integrated using a random-effects model and subgroup analyses. Five key results were found: (a) a small and positive mean effect size ( d = 0.314) in favor of the BM condition, (b) a positive and medium effect size for studies that implemented BM before the learning assessment, (c) a positive and small effect size for factual knowledge retention, (d) a positive and small effect size for classical music compared with other music genres, and (e) individuals’ age can potentially moderate the impact of BM on learning. The results suggest a revised explanation of how the BM may affect learning, refuting existing cognitive load and multimedia learning theories that discourage the use of BM during instruction.

Optimizing the Use and Evaluation of the Results of Operational Investigative Activities as Evidence

The current criminal procedure legislation provides a sufficiently detailed regulation of the process of proof in criminal cases. The object of proof, its means, the procedures of collecting, investigating, verifying and evaluating evidence are quite clear. However, both researchers and practitioners in the sphere of criminal court proceedings are still arguing about the rules of evaluating the results of operational investigative activities. Scholarly discussions at round tables and research conferences demonstrate that it is necessary to work out simpler algorithms for using operative information as evidence in a criminal case. Nevertheless, the procedural law still remains “at a standstill” and provides a rather superficial regulation of the evidentiary value of the results obtained during operational investigative actions. The author presents her opinion regarding the necessity of improving and optimizing means of proof by simplifying the procedural formalities of giving operational information the strength of evidence.

Population Challenges in a Changing World: An Overview of the 22nd Annual Research Conference of the Population Association of Pakistan

The Population Association of Pakistan (PAP), established in 2000, continues to emphasize the crucial relationship between population and development. The population and development programs in Pakistan have not progressed as steadily as in most of the countries in the region or other Muslim-majority countries such as Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, and Turkey. PAP provides a platform that offers an opportunity to bridge the various social sciences disciplines including economics, public and social policy, statistics, demography, public health, sociology, geography, and anthropology to deliberate upon solutions for pressing population and development related issues of Pakistan in this changing world

A health systems research conference – A role for GPs?

A health systems research conference – A role for GPs?

An objective test to measure evidence-based practice knowledge and skill competency of acute care nurses: Apsychometric validation study.

Few objective measures of evidence-based practice (EBP) knowledge/skill exist. The Fresno Test, one objective method, was validated first with medicine, followed by versions for physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech therapists, social workers, dietitians, pediatric nurses, and health care students. The Fresno Test was adapted and tested with cohorts of acute care nurses. Six of the 14 items required revision to achieve acceptable psychometrics. The aim of this second validation study was to revise and validate a new version of the test, The Modified Fresno Test-Acute Care Nursing (MFT-ACN), to determine if it could distinguish EBP knowledge/skills among acute care nurses. A panel of eight EBP experts were engaged in multiple Delphi rounds to revise items. Individual-content validity indices (CVI) ranged from 0.83 to 1.0, with scale-CVI 0.92. Using a cohort design, a cross-sectional sample of 90 novice, master, and expert nurses were recruited via national listservs or snowball sampling to complete the revised test. Two doctorally prepared EBP experts independently scored tests using the standardized rubric. The MFT-ACN yielded strong psychometric properties (intra-class correlation coefficients > 0.80; item discrimination indices > 0.20; item-total correlations > 0.30). One poorly performing item was dropped per a priori cut-off values. The final test included 13 items, with a Cronbach's alpha=0.77. Item difficulty was moderate to high. Most items discriminated well between cohorts. Mean total scores were positively correlated with age, years since graduation, years of acute care experience, and formal EBP or research workshops or conferences or courses or immersions. Perceived level of EBP expertise was not associated with mean scores. Further research is recommended with a larger sample to assess the tests' responsiveness to change in EBP knowledge/skills over time and enhance its acceptability and feasibility. Additional research should further evaluate construct and concurrent validity against other objective assessments of EBP knowledge/skills. The validated 13-item MFT-ACN can be used to evaluate EBP competencies of acute care nurses in academic and practice settings. It can also be used by nurse scientists to build a stronger evidence base on types of educational programs that excel in advancing the critical competency of EBP among our nursing workforce.

Synchrony 2022: Catalyzing Research and Treatments to Benefit Individuals with Neurodevelopmental Disorders including Autism Spectrum Disorders

A unique translational medicine conference for research into treatments that can benefit individuals with neurodevelopmental disorders (NDD), including autism spectrum disorder (ASD), has been developed and hosted by The BRAIN Foundation (Pleasanton, CA, USA) since 2019 [...].

Andaiye and Audre Lorde’s Black Transnational Sisterhood; or, “I Want You in This World”

So many Black revolutionaries lived with and died from cancer. How did they make sense of their vulnerability when confronted with this illness? How did they balance fighting for the world and for themselves? When modern medicine could neither ameliorate their pain nor eliminate the disease, to whom did they turn for support? This essay centers letters from 1989 to 1990 that Andaiye sent to Audre Lorde shortly after they met at the Caribbean Association for Feminist Research and Action conference in 1988. Drawing on these letters, a tribute titled “Sister Survivor” that Andaiye wrote for Lorde following her death, a copy of A Burst of Light that Lorde sent to Andaiye, and Black feminist scholarship on how listening constitutes care work, the author explores what Andaiye and Lorde taught each other about the possibilities for living with cancer and listening across differences.

Recent trends in medicinal chemistry and enabling technologies. Highlights from the Society for Medicines Research Conference. London - December 8, 2022

Recent trends in medicinal chemistry and enabling technologies. Highlights from the Society for Medicines Research Conference. London - December 8, 2022

Ecologies of Embodiment: Video Essays II

Dominique Rivoal, "The Shared Space of Hackney Marshes" (9:04). My aim as the filmmaker is to develop a somatically informed film-making practice, investigating how attending to soma while operating my camera, can further reveal aspects of relationality within the filmmaker and mover dyad and environment that contains us. // Daniel Portelli, "What the River Doesn't Say About Itself" (9:55). Along a river surrounded by branches and root systems of a mangrove forest, musicians drift on a boat performing music and engaging in eco-acoustical awareness, sensory activation, and perceptual openness. This video essay inquiries into the relationship between cinematic art and how we experience ecology. // Florian Goeschke, "Of Speeds and Slownesses: Co-composing with a Giant Snail" (6:18). The video essay reflects the process of co-composing with a giant snail. What began as a lecture in the context of an online conference for Artistic Research turned out to be a multi-layered phenomenon in dealing with the question of one's own time and temporality and that of another species. // Fani Kostourou and Takako Hasegawa with Theatrum Mundi and Dancing Architects, "Embodied Understanding of Spatial Transformation" (8:55). This is an excerpt montage from a longer film work documenting the choreographic movement research and spatial observation experiments that took place during Theatrum Mundi’s Movement Lisbon Lab in October 2021, to address Lisbon’s uneven and seemingly inaccessible urban landscape.

"EMERGING TRENDS IN DIGITALTRANSFORMATION AND THEIR IMPACT ONTHE WORKPLACE: A REVIEW OF THELITERATURE"

“Digital transformation” is a progressive mode that rapidly transforms traditional business models, practices, and operations via digital technologies. In the digital age whole world is deeply affected by DT and it has a significant impact on employees and their well-being which enforce us to do this study. This study aims to explore emerging trends in DT and examine the impact of DT on the workplace and workforce. The conceptual framework presented in the study throws light on understanding the key drivers and their impact associated with DT. This study has used a qualitative approach and the research design is exploratory where we have studied existing literature. The methodology involves analyzing the theoretical and empirical research papers, journal articles, and conference proceedings through inductive reasoning. The review of the literature examines the emerging trends and their impact on the workplace and workforce. The study is significant as it aims to inform the future research and practices which rapidly occur in the evolving field. Results suggest that AI integration in HR analytics and cybersecurity concerns are important factors while creating new business models and investing in human capital and training which are practical solutions to challenges posed by digitalization. Business strategy has a significant role in mitigating the impact of DT on organizations. The study's practical implications focus on the high urgency from the leaders to change their behavior in order to create mental stability and eradicate the threats to the employee’s emotional and mental health. Effective digital transformation among human capital should consider technology adoption with suitable skills, resilience in the working atmosphere and adaptability, team communication, and collaboration. The theoretical implications of the study highlight the need for planning for DT at all levels. AI in HR analytics improves workplace well-being and social protection.

Teaching science to students with special educational needs: a systematic review of science teaching-learning approaches in regular and special education settings

ABSTRACT In this systematic review, a series of didactic proposals and experiences that have been developed over recent years in formal education are presented with the common purpose of ensuring that students with special educational needs learn science. Initially, only 54 publications on the topic were identified, which underlines the scarce research over the last 20 years and the small percentage of papers published in research journals and conference proceedings within this area. From among those publications, our review is focused on the 27 that report the implementation of didactic interventions: 11 at specific special education centres and 16 at regular educational centres. Explicit instruction was considered a fundamental strategy in the first group, while varied experiences and methods were among the most relevant approach in the second group. In addition, both educational environments involve learner-centred teaching approaches, with the implementation of inquiry-based and hands-on activities, in line with the general results of research in Science Education that does not specifically deal with SSEN. Ensuring that all learners have the opportunity to learn science requires more specific and complementary studies that consolidate the evidence of these results, taking into account the diversity of learners in classrooms for the benefit of all.

Dr. Oliver Dreesen

Dr. Dreesen is a Senior Principal Investigator and Head of the Laboratory for Cell Aging at the Agency for Science，Technology & Research（A*STAR）in Singapore. He served as President of the Skin Research Society（Singapore）from 2019-2021 and was Chair of the Japan-Singapore Skin Research Conference that took place in Singapore from April 10-12，2019.

Innovative new pharma and biotech partnerships: How is the landscape transforming? Highlights from the Society for Medicines Research Conference. Stevenage - July 7, 2022

Innovative new pharma and biotech partnerships: How is the landscape transforming? Highlights from the Society for Medicines Research Conference. Stevenage - July 7, 2022

Population Challenges in a Changing World: An Overview of the 22nd Annual Research Conference of the Population Association of Pakistan

The Population Association of Pakistan (PAP), established in 2000,continues to emphasize the crucial relationship between population anddevelopment. The population and development programs in Pakistan have notprogressed as steadily as in most of the countries in the region or other Muslimmajoritycountries such as Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, and Turkey. PAP provides aplatform that offers an opportunity to bridge the various social sciencesdisciplines including economics, public and social policy, statistics,demography, public health, sociology, geography, and anthropology todeliberate upon solutions for pressing population and development relatedissues of Pakistan in this changing world.
 The 22nd Annual Population Research Conference of PAP was held atthe National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad from7th to 9th December 2021 in a hybrid mode encompassing both virtual and inpersonparticipation at the NUST. The theme of the Conference was“Population Challenges in a Changing World” with three specific sub-themes:I. Population, Universal Health Coverage, and Family Planning, in thecontext of COVID 19.II. Social, Economic, and Demographic Implications of High PopulationGrowth; andIII. Opportunities and Challenges for Resilience to Climate Change.
 Spanning these three sub-themes, divided across technical and plenarysessions, 18 research papers were presented and discussed in the technicalsessions, while in the four plenary sessions key population challenges inPakistan were discussed by the experts. Findings of 13 additional researchstudies were displayed on posters, which provided the respective authors anopportunity to interact directly with conference participants.2 All these sessions

The Whitworth: a place for Industry and Art

The Whitworth has been making art useful since 1889. Originally founded in the memory of the pioneering engineer Sir Joseph Whitworth (1803–87), the gallery was built for ‘the perpetual gratification of the people of Manchester’. As the Whitworth celebrated its 130th year, the gallery hosted a major exhibition which explicitly explores and acknowledges the history of the Whitworth institute, gallery and park. A proponent of standardisation, Sir Joseph revolutionised precision engineering through his development of interchangeable parts in machinery. While he maintained a natural interest in technical education throughout his life, less is known about whether this support extended to the fine and decorative arts. Conversely, today the Whitworth is celebrated for its internationally significant collections of art and design and its contemporary exhibitions programme, but for many visitors the gallery’s association with the great Victorian mechanical engineer is less clear. This paper, which was presented at the Science Museum Group Research Conference 2019: The Place of Industry, reflects on research that was first carried out in preparation for the exhibition ‘Standardisation and Deviation: the Whitworth Story’ (14 December 2019–January 2022). It is not intended to be an original piece of research nor to provide a comprehensive history of the gallery. What follows is a reflection on some of the original source material and research papers that were consulted in preparation for curating the exhibition. Together they have been used to illustrate how the history of the Whitworth provides an object lesson in how art and technology unite.

Teaching Kitchen Research Conference October 18-19, 2022.

Journal of Integrative and Complementary MedicineVol. 29, No. 2 Invited CommentaryTeaching Kitchen Research Conference October 18–19, 2022David M. EisenbergDavid M. EisenbergAddress correspondence to: David M. Eisenberg, MD, Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 665 Huntington Avenue, Building 2, Boston, MA 02115, USA E-mail Address: deisenbe@hsph.harvard.eduDepartment of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.Search for more papers by this authorPublished Online:8 Feb 2023https://doi.org/10.1089/jicm.2023.0003AboutSectionsView articleView Full TextPDF/EPUB Permissions & CitationsPermissionsDownload CitationsTrack CitationsAdd to favorites Back To Publication ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmail View articleFiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Volume 29Issue 2Feb 2023 InformationCopyright 2023, Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishersTo cite this article:David M. Eisenberg.Teaching Kitchen Research Conference October 18–19, 2022.Journal of Integrative and Complementary Medicine.Feb 2023.63-68.http://doi.org/10.1089/jicm.2023.0003Published in Volume: 29 Issue 2: February 8, 2023Online Ahead of Print:January 27, 2023PDF download

Accountability Mechanism and Academics’ Research Output: Lessons for Uganda Management Institute (UMI)

The paper examined institutional research practices that promote academics’ motivation to engage in writing and publication. The idea was prompted by enormous effort and financial support UMI has committed on various research and publication-related programs and activities, including; annual research cluster grants, conference funding, graduate supervision, and guest scholars that are periodically engaged to facilitate in the areas of; research, supervision, scholarly writing, publication, grant proposal writing, etc. Every year (save for the pandemic period), the institute disburses funds to academics that respond to research grant calls in a timely fashion. Similarly, there were newly graduate doctoral candidates, still with fresh and novel publishable research ideas. It was revealed that academics are recognized for graduate supervision to completion, instead of co-publication efforts. The paper concludes that the lack of “price-tags” for research uptake, and the current accounting system that focuses on the usage of funds, instead of the outcomes has continued to diminish academics motivation to publish. Similarly, the practice to settle for the “raw research reports” instead of publications as a way of accountability had affected academics’ desire to publish. Further, collegial cooperation had affected implementation of personnel decisions related to research. Lastly, the delayed performance feedback on individual publication statuses affected their publication acumen. The paper recommends that institutions need to devise accountability systems for funded research activities as a way of sustaining academics’ research passion and motivation. Similarly, the institution should use the detailed “quarterly performance output reports” to regularly update members on their research uptake situation, other than waiting for the expiry of the five-year employment contract.

All-Ukrainian Research and Practical Conference "Ukrainian Studies in the System of National Education, Science, State Humanitarian Policy"

All-Ukrainian Research and Practical Conference "Ukrainian Studies in the System of National Education, Science, State Humanitarian Policy"