Sixth International Symposium Research Articles

Proceeding of The 6th International Symposium on Green Technology for Value Chains (GreenVC) 2022

November 22–23, 2022Bandung, West JavaIndonesia.Organized by:Research Center for Environmental and Clean TechnologyNational Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) Preface The sixth International Symposium on Green Technology for Value Chains (GreenVC) 2022 was held on November 22–23, 2022 as a virtual event in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia. The fundamental goals of this symposium were to exchange ideas and information, encourage technology development, and strengthen networking and collaboration among all attendees. The symposium was organized by the Research Center for Environmental and Clean Technology, National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN).The GreenVC 2022 is an annual international symposium that was first held in 2016. This year’s theme is Recent Innovations in Sustainable Environment Facing 5.0 Society. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic situation and travel restrictions, the symposium should be held as a virtual event. On the positive side, we could gather six keynote speakers, 119 presenters, and participants who joined the symposium from various places including Japan, Korea, Zambia, the USA, United Kingdom, and of course Indonesia to share knowledge, exchange experiences, and information through meaningful discussions on the latest innovation and technologies in environmental issues.The proceeding of GreenVC 2022 presents the original and unpublished results in all areas of interest. In total, 112 papers have been selected to be published based on the originality of the research and the relevance with the symposium topics: waste treatment and valorization; environmental monitoring, modelling, and assessment; climate change mitigation; environmental remediation and reclamation; environmental nanotechnology; green materials and process; and water, sanitation, and hygiene.We would like to express our sincere gratitude to our Advisory Board, Scientific Board, Editorial Board, and Scientific Reviewers for their positive contribution to keeping the quality of the articles presented in this proceeding. We also would like to appreciate all participants attending this symposium as well as the Organizing Committee, who made the symposium a success.Dr. Widyarani, M.Sc. Chief Editor Venue and Date The sixth International Symposium on Green Technology for Value Chains (GreenVC) 2022 was held on November 22–23, 2022 virtually from Bandung, West Java, Indonesia via Zoom platform. Organized by:Research Center for Environmental and Clean Technology, National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN)List of Committee, Symposium Schedule and Participants, Symposium Documentation, Sponsorship are available in this pdf.

Recap of the sixth international symposium on intrauterine devices and systems for women's health

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Sixth International Symposium on Intrauterine Devices and Systems for Women's Health was held as a series of seven 2-hour webinars between May 28, 2020, and June 22, 2021. This Symposium featured 48 different presenters and moderators covering a wide range of topics to highlight new IUD issues and update general IUD knowledge, just as it was done in previous symposia dating back to 1962 [1–5]. A total of 1346 people attended remotely to observe the events live. In this article, we share summaries of the presentations from the sixth symposium. These summaries, provided by the presenters, are meant to archive the symposium. This article gives the reader an overview of the topics and identifies the sessions’ moderators and speakers charged with providing the content. Those interested in further detail, references, and information about the speakers can find more information on the conference website: www.iud2020.com. After the summaries, we share ideas for future IUD research and programmatic needs, as provided by Symposium's presenters and organizers. The authors’ summaries are personal opinions and do not necessarily reflect the perspectives of the Symposium's organizers or the medical community at large. The Symposium was recorded and the sessions are available for viewing free of charge at the website, www.iud2020.comor on YouTube. As of July 2022, approximately 1700 visitors have viewed the recordings.

Philippe II et les dieux

Macedonian kings kept close bonds with the divine sphere. They considered themselves as Heraklids (and, in consequence, they traced back their lineage to Zeus himself) and the kingship kept noteworthy religious functions. Philip II made wide use of this religious side and it became a key element of his public image and propaganda, both inside and outside the kingdom of Macedonia. It was especially important the relation Philip established with Panhellenic shrines, like Delphi and Olympia, in close connection with his aspiration for hegemony all over Greece. Philip also regarded his coinage as useful political tools and the religious motives engraved are very telling about the king's claims and objectives. Originally published in Ancient Macedonia / Archaia Makedonia VI (Papers Read at the Sixth International Symposium held in Thessaloniki by the Institute of Balkan Studies (Greece): Le Bohec 2002a. Published in Karanos by kind permission of the author and the Institute for Balkan Studies.

Selected Papers from the Sixth International Symposium on Marine Propulsors

This Special Issue is following up the success of the latest Symposium on Marine Propulsors (www [...]

The sixth international RASopathies symposium: Precision medicine-From promise to practice.

The RASopathies are a group of genetic disorders that result from germline pathogenic variants affecting RAS-mitogen activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathway genes. RASopathies share RAS/MAPK pathway dysregulation and share phenotypic manifestations affecting numerous organ systems, causing lifelong and at times life-limiting medical complications. RASopathies may benefit from precision medicine approaches. For this reason, the Sixth International RASopathies Symposium focused on exploring precision medicine. This meeting brought together basic science researchers, clinicians, clinician scientists, patient advocates, and representatives from pharmaceutical companies and the National Institutes of Health. Novel RASopathy genes, variants, and animal models were discussed in the context of medication trials and drug development. Attempts to define and measure meaningful endpoints for treatment trials were discussed, as was drug availability to patients after trial completion.

Editorial

This editorial, my last as Editor-in-Chief, is somewhat later than expected. I had wanted to tell readers at the end of last year that I would be standing down at the end of March 2019 as planned when I took on the position 4 years ago. However, I decided to wait until we knew who my replacement would be. We now know: the new Editor-in-Chief will be Professor Jennifer Dungait. She and I have started the transfer, during which she will begin to deal with new scripts that are ready for editing and I shall complete those that I have already started. You will notice a considerable change in the format of the journal from May (Issue 3) onwards as the journal moves to more automated typesetting. This should reduce the effort required by both authors and editors, and it obviates the need for scripts to be submitted in precisely the correct format as in the past. Some papers are already on Early View in this format. There have been some ‘teething problems’ with the new format, but these should be resolved in the next few months. My time as editor-in-chief has been an enriching one with so much new knowledge coming through to the journal and exciting new developments in many aspects of our science. Many of these have been stimulated by new types of equipment or by the use of equipment already well established in other fields, such as X-ray computed tomography (CT) scanning. The use of gene technology has extended our knowledge in microbiology considerably; it remains an exciting open-ended field of research. Advanced methods have also enabled a resurgence of interest in soil aggregation and its relations with organic matter. We have continued with the Landmark Series of papers; the one for this year by Burgess & Webster, published first in 1980 and which opened the Pedometrics special issue, was particularly poignant for me because it started me on the path of geostatistics. Over the past 4 years I have broadened the scope of the journal by introducing a section on soil and human health, which also includes ecosystem services. Later this year there will be a small special section on soil and human health. This will probably be published in the same issue as the much larger special section on soil organic matter with papers from the Sixth International Symposium on Soil Organic Matter in 2017, for which Jenni Dungait was the Chair. In addition, we have introduced Short Communications, which I had wanted to do for some time. They can play a valuable role. I am sad to report the untimely death of Lily Pereg, the main guest editor for the special section on soil and health. Eric Brevik, who was also a guest editor on this special section, has kindly offered to take the lead on this, and Fangjie Zhao, one of our Associate Editors, has joined Eric to finalize it. I have thoroughly enjoyed getting to know authors by e-mail and to meet some of them at conferences. I have tried to develop a close relation with our team of Associate and Deputy Editors, without whom papers would not get through to fruition. The Associate Editors give their time freely and they do an outstanding job for the journal, and I thank them for their support. The Deputy Editors and staff at PrePress have also helped me in many ways over the past 4 years and I thank them for their unstinting support. I shall be sad to lose the contacts that I have made through the journal, and I hope that some of you will keep in touch. There are many new developments in publishing, in particular the use of social media, and the journal needs to move in this direction to keep up with them. The journal is going be in capable new hands, and I wish Professor Dungait every success in the future.

Treatment and prognosis of mature (non-anaplastic) T- and NK-cell lymphomas in childhood, adolescents, and young adults.

Paediatric non-Hodgkin lymphomas (pNHL) are a diverse group of malignancies characterised by nodal and/or extranodal involvement. Less common pNHL forms include those derived from mature T- and natural killer (NK) cells. Much of our current understanding of paediatric mature (non-anaplastic) T/NK-cell lymphomas with respect to pathogenesis, diagnosis and treatment is extrapolated from adult literature. At the Sixth International Symposium on Childhood, Adolescent and Young Adult Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, convened September 26-29, 2018 in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, some important aspects on diagnosis and outcomes of mature (non-anaplastic) T/NK-cell lymphoma in children and adolescents were discussed and will be reviewed in here.

Preface: Special issued on the Sixth International Symposium on Networking and Computing

Preface: Special issued on the Sixth International Symposium on Networking and Computing

Eastern Tethys meets Western Tethys – Sixth International Symposium of IGCP-589 and field excursion in Poland

Eastern Tethys meets Western Tethys – Sixth International Symposium of IGCP-589 and field excursion in Poland

Review of the Sixth International Symposium on Poetic Inquiry: Breaking Through the Abstract: Poetry as/in/for Social Justice

This is a review of the 6th International Symposium on Poetic Inquiry held at Bowling Green State University, and graciously hosted by Sandra Faulkner. This symposium meets biennially with presenters from many different areas of the world such as Nova Scotia, Canada, and New Zealand. The theme this year was poetry in/as/for social justice. In this review, I seek to think through some of the questions and uncertainties that arose over the course of the few days we met in November. We complicated meanings of social justice at this contemporary time and revisited formulations of social justice through past events. Within this review, I write a personal/theoretical piece embedded with citations from poets, and in the end compose a poem that is an amalgamation of language from presenters’ abstracts and my own ideas.

Insolvent ways of development of the modern theory of reinforced concrete

The aim of the work is to identify and analyze errors in the field of creep theory, where, as indicated by the leaders and authors of this theory, there is an “established consensus”. Here we are not talking about a different point of view or simplifications in standardization, since the elimination of the identified errors will significantly simplify the theory of longterm resistance of reinforced concrete. The analysis presented below is important not only for scientific theory, but also for the vast international practice of reinforced concrete construction. On the inconsistency of the theory of creep of reinforced concrete: this system arose and develops because of the construction of the theory on a set of erroneous principles, rules and unauthorized methods; it is aggravated by the numerous changes (random or deliberate) of the fundamental experimental properties of concrete; it is based on the inheritance of the principles of the inappropriate theory of Boltzmann elastic aftereffect. About the inconsistency of the theory of versatile and comprehensive evidence of: the presence of a system of gross mathematical errors; violations of the principles and rules of classical mechanics and Eurocodes; inconsistencies with wellknown experimental data; negative results of design practices, including world experience in designing unique structures by Ramboll institutions (UK). The main results were reported by the authors at the Sixth International Symposium on Life - Cycle Civil Engineering in Ghent (Belgium), IALCCE 2018, October 28-31.

Rotordynamic Stability Effects of Shrouded Centrifugal Impellers With Combined Whirl and Precession

Whirling (translational) and precession (tilt) motion of the shrouded centrifugal impeller are possible vibration sources that can cause rotordynamic instability problems. Whirling motion of shrouded impellers and seals has been investigated by test and theory in the literature. However, there has been little study of the effects of coupled motion of whirling and precession of a centrifugal impeller on rotordynamic forces and moments using computational fluid dynamics (CFD). In the present study, the CFD approach for calculating the moment coefficients of the precessing impeller is developed and verified by comparison with the measured data for a precessing centrifugal compressor by Yoshida et al. (1996, “Measurement of the Flow in the Backshroud/Casing Clearance of a Precessing Centrifugal Impeller,” Sixth International Symposium on Transport Phenomena and Dynamics of Rotating Machinery, Honolulu, Hawaii, Vol. 2, pp. 151–160). A full set (4 × 4) of rotordynamic coefficient matrices is calculated, using two separate models of (a) a precessing impeller with a tilt angle and (b) a whirling impeller with dynamic eccentricity to investigate the stability of the impeller. Rotordynamic stability is evaluated by using the whirl frequency ratio of the coupled motion, obtained from the full rotordynamic coefficient matrices, to show that the precession motion has a significant impact on rotordynamic stability. A similar conclusion is reached based on the whirling plus precession response of a finite element (FE) structural rotordynamic model including the 4 × 4 rotordynamic coefficient matrices. A stability analysis using the rotordynamic coefficients indicates that the precession motion with the positive tilt angle increases the tendency toward destabilization of the rotor.

Hebrew of the Late Second Temple Period: Proceedings of a Sixth International Symposium on the Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Ben Sira, written by Eibert Tigchelaar and Pierre van Hecke

Hebrew of the Late Second Temple Period: Proceedings of a Sixth International Symposium on the Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Ben Sira, written by Eibert Tigchelaar and Pierre van Hecke

Poster Abstracts from the Sixth International Symposium on Gait and Balance in Multiple Sclerosis

Poster Abstracts from the Sixth International Symposium on Gait and Balance in Multiple Sclerosis

Proffered Papers and Posters Presented at the Sixth International Symposium on Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer—BRCA: Challenges and Opportunities

A substantial proportion of women who undergo BRCA1/2 testing learn that they carry a variant of uncertain significance[...]

Editorial note for the special issue “Dynamics and physiological processes of tree roots”

Plant roots are well known to have key roles in water and nutrient acquisition from soils. Recent studies using molecular techniques have facilitated our understanding of these physiological processes in tree roots (Mclean et al. 2011; Alber et al. 2012; Laur and Hacke 2013). On the other hand, a number of studies in the past decades have focused on tree roots as essential in carbon dynamics in terrestrial ecosystems, in which fine roots are a key component of below-ground carbon flux, whereas coarse roots function as a carbon reservoir (Brunner and Godbold 2007). In addition, recent studies have started to examine the effects of biodiversity on root dynamics or interactions between roots and other organisms, which are important topics to deepen our comprehensive understanding about ecosystem functions of tree roots (Brassard et al. 2013; Meier et al. 2013). Although studying roots that are hidden in the soil is often difficult, new techniques such as non-destructive imaging have been applied to better understand the dynamics of tree roots (Nakaji et al. 2008; Hirano et al. 2012). In September 2014, the ‘‘Sixth international symposium on physiological processes in roots of woody plants’’ was held at Nagoya University, Japan. In this symposium, current woody root studies were reported by 37 oral and 77 poster presentations. The topics discussed in the symposium were quite diverse including root growth dynamics, water and nutrient uptake, below-ground carbon allocation and biological interactions (e.g. symbiosis, biodiversity effects). This special issue ‘‘Dynamics and physiological processes of tree roots’’ was provided by 21 excellent papers, most of which were from the symposium in Nagoya. In the first part of this special issue, CO2 flux in roots and effects of elevated atmospheric CO2 on root dynamics were highlighted. Although a number of papers were published on root dynamics related to below-ground carbon flux in the past decades as mentioned above, there are still many uncertainties. Bloemen et al. (2016), in their review, showed that a substantial proportion of CO2 derived from root respiration remained in root systems and was transported through the transpiration stream. Although these findings were obtained from a limited number of species so far, this phenomenon could impact our current understanding of carbon dynamics in terrestrial ecosystems or CO2 metabolism in trees. Agathokleous et al. (2016) and Wang et al. (2016) reported results obtained by free-air-CO2 enrichment (FACE) experiments using deciduous broadleaved species (Betula and Quercus species) in Hokkaido, northern Japan. They examined the effects of elevated CO2 on the trees grown on two different types of the soil [fertile brown forest soil (BF) and immature volcanic ash soil (VA)]. Agathokleous et al. (2016) showed that elevated CO2 increased the growth of whole roots in nutrient poor VA soil, but not in fertile BF soil. Wang et al. (2016), on the other hand, reported that elevated CO2 decreased standing crop of fine roots and increased their life spans especially in the VA soil. The responses of tree roots to elevated CO2 varied with factors such as soil resource availability and periods of CO2 fumigation (Eissenstat et al. 2013; Pritchard et al. 2014). In their case, not only soil fertility, but also other factors such as soil porosity or growth stage of the trees may have affected the responses to CO2 fumigation. & Kyotaro Noguchi kyotaro@affrc.go.jp

Review and Implications of the AutoCarto Six Retrospective Project

A previous IJAGR paper, using the Retrospective Approach to Commemorate AutoCarto Six (Wellar, 2014), presented the reasons for using a retrospective approach to re-visit papers that were published 30 years ago (1983) in the proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on Automated Cartography. This paper addresses four important topics that arise from producing AutoCarto Six Retrospective. First, in response to requests for more information about the “retro experience”, the research design of the retrospective project is reviewed in terms of lessons learned. Second, the contribution that the retrospective approach makes to “the literature” on the evolution of automated cartography, geographic information systems, computational geography, and related fields is explored. Third, several implications of the retrospective approach for the literature search and review component of theses, dissertations, academic productions, and research proposals, as well as plan, program, and policy evaluation processes in both the private and public sectors are outlined. And fourth, comments are made about applying the AutoCarto Six Retrospective experience to other commemorative events.

The ecology and conservation of butterflies and moths

In 2011, we published the proceedings of Butterfly Conservation’s Sixth International Symposium ‘2010 and beyond for Lepidoptera’ (volume 15:1–365). That meeting attempted to assess whether the Convention on Biological Diversity’s aspiration to significantly reduce the rate of biodiversity loss in the Lepidoptera had been achieved. Sadly the conclusion was that it had not. Nevertheless, the papers in that Special Edition were not uniformly concerned with doom and gloom and many reported important insights into species’ ecology and approaches which could lead to improvements in the future. Now, 4 years on, we publish the written contributions to the Seventh Symposium held in April 2014. The Symposium title was deliberately less focussed than that held in 2010 to attempt to capture a broad snapshot of work on Lepidoptera from around the world—in that it was successful, with over 80 presentations from 28 countries. The Journal is proud to present 20 written papers from that intense and exhilarating 3-day long meeting. Nineteen papers are presented in this edition, one has already been published (Maes et al. 2014). Inevitably the preoccupation of many authors was with the ongoing impacts of climate change and how to overcome them. Parmesan et al. (2015) examined elevational range and hostplant shifts in the quino checkerspot Euphydryas editha quino whilst Wilson et al. (2015) examined turnover, habitat quality and microclimate changes at a contracting range margin of the Apollo Parnassius apollo in the Sierra de Guadarrama mountains of Spain. Indeed, microclimate was something of a theme: Curtis and Isaac (2015) examined the impact of microclimate heterogeneity on the Glanville fritillary Melitaea cinxia, Hindle et al. (2015) scrutinised the value of topographical variation to the marbled white butterfly Melanargia galathea, whilst Suggitt et al. (2015) studied the influence of microclimate in buffering the effects of climate change and contributing to landscape-scale persistence of butterflies and moths. Dispersal studies were also evident ranging from an investigation of threats to the scarce copper (Lycaena virgaureae) from development in Sweden (Haaland 2015) and the impact of altitude (Cassacci et al. 2015). Several papers were concerned with population trends (Swengel and Swengel 2015a, b; Curtis et al. 2015) including monitoring approaches (Roy et al. 2015) or conservation at very different spatial scales such as South Africa (Edge and Mecenero 2015) and the vineyards of Washington State in the USA (James et al. 2015). Autecological studies are always welcome; Edge and Bazin (2015) contributed an indepth study of the Knysna skolly Thestor brachycerus brachycerus, Celik et al. (2015) a paper on the habitat quality determinants for the false ringlet Coenonympha Oedipus, whilst Tjornlov et al. (2015) focussed on & John W. Dover J.W.Dover@staffs.ac.uk

Program verification and testing technologies

Program verification and testing techniques are crucial in fruitfully analyzing and validating complex software systems. This is an active research area and has produced various promising techniques in the last decade. However, many challenges lie ahead. We review the research area and summarize six papers selected from the Sixth International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Software Engineering (TASE 2012).

Using the Retrospective Approach to Commemorate AutoCarto Six

This paper outlines the bases for using a retrospective approach to re-visit papers published 30 years ago (1983) in the proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on Automated Cartography. “AutoCarto Six”, as it is popularly known, is credited with making numerous, significant contributions to the evolution of automated cartography, geographic information systems (GIS), and a number of related fields. In these remarks I discuss how comments by authors on such topics as Thoughts shaping the design of the papers, Derivative attributions, Original contributions, Impacts, What was new in the papers?, and What was different in the papers? represent an innovative, insightful and instructive way to commemorate conference proceedings and other significant productions.