Seventh International Conference Research Articles

Adult Learning and Education in Digital Environments: Learning From Global Efforts to Promote Digital Literacy and Basic Skills of Vulnerable Populations

The pervasive role of digital technologies in adult learning and education (ALE) was a prominent theme throughout the deliberations of the Seventh International Conference on Adult Education (CONFINTEA VII) held June 15-17, 2022 in Morocco. CONFINTEA VII embodied the worldwide interest in digital technologies through the use of a hybrid format with appointed delegates participating both virtually and on site. To highlight the importance of digitalization and digital skills, CONFINTEA VII not only devoted a plenary session to “Adult Learning and Education in Digital Environments,” but discussions about the role of digitalization and the need to support adults in developing digital skills also permeated other sessions such as “Preparing Adults for the Future of Work.” CONFINTEA VII sessions discussed challenges that vulnerable populations have in accessing digital tools and strategies for providing more equitable acccess and professional development to address this digital divide. This article describes learnings from CONFINTEA VII and related efforts at the national, regional, and local levels to support adult learners’ use of digital technologies to develop their literacy, numeracy, and occupational skills and the resources that are critical to those efforts. Also discussed is the need for data, research, and monitoring to understand how digital technologies can be effective in adult learning and education and in preparing adults to embrace a culture of lifelong learning.

Thinking spatially in computational social science

Deductive and theory-driven research starts by asking questions. Finding tentative answers to these questions in the literature is next. It is followed by gathering, preparing and modelling relevant data to empirically test these tentative answers. Inductive research, on the other hand, starts with data representation and finding general patterns in data. Ahn suggested, in his keynote speech at the seventh International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2) 2021, that the way this data is represented could shape our understanding and the type of answers we find for the questions. He discussed that specific representation learning approaches enable a meaningful embedding space and could allow spatial thinking and broaden computational imagination. In this commentary, I summarize Ahn’s keynote and related publications, provide an overview of the use of spatial metaphor in sociology, discuss how such representation learning can help both inductive and deductive research, propose future avenues of research that could benefit from spatial thinking, and pose some still open questions.

«Provinciae». Sarajevo, 22-24 Settembre 2022

Abstract - The city of Sarajevo recently hosted the Seventh International Conference of the Balkan Association of Roman law and Roman Legal Tradition «Societas pro Iure Romano» («SIR.»). The title of the event was ‘Provinciae’, a multi-layered and versatile theme, which was well grasped by more than forty participants. The contributions, grouped in three thematic areas – private law, public law and Roman civilization – allowed us to deepen our socio-legal knowledge of many provincial realities.

Preface

Preface

Preface

EEEP (International Conference on Energy Engineering and Environmental Protection) is an annually held conference for all researchers home and abroad since 2016, aiming to provide a good platform for scholars and researchers in the field of energy and environmental protection to discuss the latest developments and achievements, work out good solutions, and make contributions.The Seventh International Conference on Energy Engineering and Environmental Protection (EEEP2022) was planned to be held in Zhuhai, China on November 19-21, 2022. For public health consideration during epidemic, the event had to be changed from onsite to online during November 19-20, 2022 for academic exchanges & discussions.There were over 50 participants from 5 different countries and regions, including China, Australia, Italy, Korea and Indonesia, attending EEEP2022. Conference program was divided into 3 sessions: keynote speeches, oral presentations and poster presentations. We greatly appreciate Prof. Wenzhe Tang from Tsinghua University, who presided over the conference, and all participants for attending and sharing!We are honored to invite 5 experts to give the impressive keynote speeches: A/Professor Farhad Shahnia from Murdoch University, Australia; Prof. Fushuan Wen from Zhejiang University, China; Prof. Wenzhe Tang from Tsinghua University, China; Asso. Prof. Gangtao Liang from Dalian University of Technology, China and Prof. Benedetto Nastasi from Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.Following the keynote speakers, 6 scholars made oral presentations respectively in the afternoon. And 9 poster presentations came after it. Reporters shared their latest research findings and audiences were actively involved in discussions.We would like to express our gratitude to the reviewers of these manuscripts, who provided their time and expertise to review papers and facilitate the smooth running of EEEP. We are extremely grateful for organizers, technical program committee and editors and extend our most sincere thanks to all the authors for their excellent contribution and work and participants for their active attending. Our sincere thanks also go to the IOP Publishing editors and managers for their helpful cooperation during the preparation of the proceedings.On behalf of the Organizing Committee of EEEP 2022.List of Technical Program Committee is available in this pdf.

Messages from the seventh international conference on clinical metagenomics (ICCMg7)

Clinical metagenomics (CMg), referring to the application of metagenomic sequencing of clinical samples to obtain clinically relevant information for the diagnosis and management of infectious diseases, has been rapidly evolving these last years. Following this trend, we held the seventh International Conference on Clinical Metagenomics (ICCMg7) in Geneva in October 2022. During the two-day conference, cutting-edge advances and new discoveries using CMg were presented which we summarize in the present paper. During this ICCMg7, we kept on following the progresses achieved worldwide that cover reproducibility in CMg, the advent of new technologies applied to the field of infectious diseases, innovative research in the field of the gut microbiota, and finally the expansion of CMg in the fields of clinical epidemiology with surveillance studies on emerging and known pathogens, but also on antibiotic resistance genes, in the environment and in the animal reservoirs.

THE SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SMART CITY APPLICATIONS: PREFACE

THE SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SMART CITY APPLICATIONS: PREFACE

Summary of geotechnical activities in response to the 2011 Tohoku earthquake; follow-up of my TC203 Ishihara Lecture in 2019

The devastating earthquake in Tohoku Region of Japan in 2011 caused many geotechnical problems and the recovery from them was an unforgettable experience. This paper describes first the seismological background of that extreme event whose return period was longer than 1000 years, producing unprepared situation among people. The geotechnical effect of this earthquake consists mainly of collapse of sea walls due to overtopping of tsunami water and liquefaction-induced damage of levees and residential lands, while landslide was fortunately of minor scale. Much efforts were made after the earthquake on establishing hazard assessment methodology for residential land and ground improvement under existing houses. The recovery from the nuclear incident is still going on. These issues were presented during the 2019 Ishihara Lecture during the seventh International Conference on Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering in Rome organized by the Technical Committee 203 of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering and were published in the conference proceedings. However, there is a tradition that every Ishihara Lecture has been published in this International Journal of Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering. In view of this, the original publication was totally rewritten and new information was added so that a second publication might be possible as a follow-up.

Announcement

Announcement

Bringing together monitoring approaches to track progress on adult learning and education across main international policy tools

This article critically examines how monitoring strategies currently track progress on country commitments to adult learning and education (ALE). These commitments are laid out in three main international initiatives and policy tools: (1) the Belém Framework for Action (BFA); (2) the 2015 Recommendation on Adult Learning and Education (RALE); and (3) relevant targets in the fourth Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 4). The two monitoring approaches tracking progress on these commitments are the Global Report on Adult Learning and Education (GRALE) and SDG 4 monitoring strategies for Targets 4.3 (quality vocational and tertiary education, including university), 4.4 (technical and vocational training), 4.5 (equal access), 4.6 (youth and adult literacy and numeracy), 4.7 (global citizenship and sustainable development) and 4.c (qualified teachers). The author of this article presents and reviews these two monitoring approaches, highlighting their strengths and weaknesses. Her analysis aims to identify opportunities for synergies that can support strengthening coverage and efficiency of ALE monitoring through more collaboration. Her suggested ways of bringing these two monitoring approaches closer together provide insights which will be valuable for informing upcoming discussions at the Seventh International Conference on Adult Education (CONFINTEA VII).

Rethinking literacy from a lifelong learning perspective in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals and the International Conference on Adult Education.

Despite general agreement that a 21st-century learning society must also be a literate society, there is still a long way to go to achieve a broad consensus on how to achieve this within an explicit lifelong learning vision. The Seventh International Conference on Adult Education (CONFINTEA VII – June 2022) is an excellent opportunity to rethink literacy from a lifelong learning perspective in order to fully tap its transformative potential in the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). By using a theoretical framework of lifelong literacy, this article analyses the main challenges associated with applying the lifelong learning principle to literacy, in particular in the context of aligning CONFINTEA’s review and improvement of adult learning and education (ALE) strategies with SDG processes. The authors demonstrate that a limited understanding of literacy as part of lifelong learning still prevails, and that literacy promotion suffers from ambiguity and dissonances. They also provide analyses of literacy policies, strategies and programmes that have been successful in adopting a lifelong learning approach, drawing out some important lessons on how this can be achieved. In particular, the authors argue, more attention needs to be paid to the demand side of a literate environment and to motivation, enabling continuity of learning by making literacy part of people’s broader learning purposes. To contribute to the ongoing discussion on reframing literacy from a lifelong learning perspective in the context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the potential development of a new “framework for action” during CONFINTEA VII, this article offers three fundamental considerations that should inform policy and strategic planning with regard to conceptual orientation, programmatic responses and institutional connections.

The Sixth World Professional Forum “The Book. Culture. Education. Innovations” – “Crimea–2021”. The review

The work of the Sixth World Professional Forum “The Book. Culture. Education. Innovations” (June 5–13, 2021, Sudak, Republic of Crimea, Russian Federation) is reviewed; its themes and topics are discussed: library mission in the digitization era; pandemic impact on libraries; prospects for library and information community; national information systems; libraries collaboration with research and educational organizations; modern competences of library specialists; partnerships of national libraries, etc. The focus is made on the following events: The Twenty Seventh International Conference «Libraries and information resources in the modern world of science, culture, education and business», The Third Scientific and Educational Symposium “Building and developing the modern digital environment for education and science”; The Fifth Industry Conference “Book publishing and libraries: Vectors of cooperation”. The authors also give overview of discussions and presentations at the open press conference, the work and conclusions of the central discussion site, Day of Crimean Libraries, Day of Rospatent, The Third Scientific Conference “Scientometrics, bibliometrics, open data and publications in science”, The Third International Conference on the global ecological problems, the research and practice events held within the framework of the Forum, as well as the opening and closing ceremonies, and Forum plenary session.

Exploring the Factors Associated with Unemployment Rate

Exploring the Factors Associated with Unemployment Rate

Algorithms for Computational Biology: Seventh Edition

The papers in this special section were presented at the Seventh International Conference on Algorithms for Computational Biology, AlCoB 2020, held in Missoula, Montana on November 8-11, 2021 merged with AlCoB 2021. The conference was organized by the Department of Computer Science at the University of Montana and the Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice - IRDTA, Brussels/London. AlCoB 2020 was the seventh event in a series dedicated to promoting and displaying excellent research using string and graph algorithms and combinatorial optimization to deal with problems in biological sequence analysis, genome rearrangement, phylogeny reconstruction, and structure prediction.

Seventh International Conference on Advances in Energy Research (ICAER 2019) – Selected Articles

"Seventh International Conference on Advances in Energy Research (ICAER 2019) – Selected Articles." Particulate Science and Technology, 39(5), p. 616

Preface

The Seventh International Conference on Recrystallization and Grain Growth is the continuation of a conference series that was initiated in 1990 with Recrystallization ’90, organized in Wollongong, followed in 1991 by ’Grain Growth in Polycrystalline Materials”, organized in Rome. Since 2001, both conference series were merged with the organization of the ‘1st International Conference on Recrystallization and Grain Growth’ in Aachen, which has ever since been a regularly recurring triannual event.During the three decades that have passed since its launch, this conference series has shaped an active and versatile research community with active participation from fundamental and applied research groups and industrial R&D organizations. Recrystallization and grain growth are defining factors in shaping the microstructure of both structural and functional polycrystalline materials, metals and nonmetals alike, and therefore of paramount importance for a wide variety of microstructurally sensitive material properties. Thus, an intensive and mutually fruitful collaboration has emerged between applied R&D groups, often associated with industrial organizations, and more fundamentally oriented scientists. Other scientific fields, such as geology, mineralogy and archeology have increasingly studied microstructures that ensue from thermally activated processes such as recrystallization and grain growth, which may provide clues as to how materials were created and what circumstances prevailed during their history.A more detailed understanding of the basic mechanisms of recrystallization and grain growth also contributes to the development of new materials with improved and more versatile functional properties. For newly emerging processing technologies, such as additive manufacturing, a better knowledge on recrystallization and grain growth, particularly in far out-of-equilibrium conditions, is of crucial importance for microstructural control of 3D printed metal objects and hence for the successful introduction of additive manufacturing to all its potential markets.

Guest Editorial SPACE 2017 Special Issue in the Journal of Hardware and Systems Security (HaSS)

This special issue of Hardware and Systems Security contains six papers shortlisted from the Seventh International Conference on Security, Privacy and Applied Cryptographic Engineering (SPACE 2017) conducted in Goa, Indian, December 13–17, 2017. SPACE 2017 was organized in cooperation with the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR) and Cryptology Research Society of India (CRSI).

Events: Steel Construction 4/2018

Abstract3rd Annual conference on Steel and Structural EngineeringCASP2019 – Corrosion and Surface Protection for SteelCongress on Numerical Methods in EngineeringSEMEC 2019 – Seventh International Conference on Structural Engineering, Mechanics and ComputationThe international Colloquium on Stability and Ductility of Steel Structures SDSS201917th International Probabilistic WorkshopNordic Steel Construction Conference 2019Green Engineering for Infrastructure and Safety against Hazards 7th International Conference of Euro Asia Civil Engineering Forum

Strategic management in Latin America: Challenges in a changing world

The Seventh International Conference on Strategic Management in Latin America (SMLA), co-sponsored by Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez and the Journal of Business Research, was held on January 5 and 6, 2017, in Santiago, Chile. The theme of the conference was Challenges for Latin American Firms in a Changing World. Technological innovation, digital networks, in addition to changes in national business settings, have led to significant transformations in business models, innovation processes, corporate strategy, and global strategy in Latin America. The scale and scope of these changes question the traditional notions of strategic management research and practice as we know them. Naturally, these changes require that organizations in the Latin American region develop new resources and capabilities for their success and survival. With the objective of increasing our understanding about how organizations from Latin America can leverage their competitive position in a changing world, this article reflects on the theme of the conference and introduces some of the best research that was part of the conference's program.

Events: Steel Construction 3/2018

AbstractSteel Bridges 9th International symposium on Steel bridges 5th European Steel Bridges AwardsESaT2018 – 3rd International Conference on Engineering Sciences and TechnologiesCASP2019 – Corrosion and Surface Protection for SteelCongress on Numerical Methods in EngineeringSEMEC 2019 – Seventh International Conference on Structural Engineering, Mechanics and ComputationSDSS 2019 – Stability and ductility of steel structuresNordic Steel Construction Conference 2019