Standing Committee Research Articles

Article X, Trial Use, and the History of Liturgical Authorization in the Episcopal Church

The eightieth General Convention passed Resolution 2022-A059, the first reading of a complete revision to Article X of the Constitution, the section which establishes the Book of Common Prayer. The impetus for this proposed revision springs from the realization of the Standing Committee on Liturgy and Music that the church had been “working without a canonical net” with respect to certain widely used liturgical texts. In the first half of this article, I give a detailed history of the authorization of liturgical texts in the Episcopal Church, which discloses the many ways the General Convention has acted beyond the parameters of the Constitution and Canons. In the second half, I explain the revision to Article X at the 2022 Convention, the wholesale revision of Article X that also was proposed in 2022, and the deep flaws in both. I conclude with an alternative proposal to revise Article X.

Maritime Traffic Law of the People’s Republic of China and its implications in international law

In April 2021, the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress of the People’s Republic of China, through order no. 79, has revised its Maritime Traffic Laws (Maritime Traffic Laws Revision-2021), which was then enforced on September 1 2021. The revised law contains ten chapters and 122 articles that comprehensively deal with maritime traffic safety and strengthens China’s maritime traffic management. It applies in the waters within the jurisdiction of China, which is not limited to the territorial sea, and regulates Chinese ships at sea. Some revised provisions put forward new requirements, such as pre-notice for foreign vessels in some sea areas, which brings significant legal influence. As a state practice, this new revision can be seen as an interpretation of certain ambiguous concepts of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. It is also important in improving the international maritime order based on the rule of law.

Statement on the revised targeted risk assessment for certain maximum residue levels for nicotine.

In accordance with Article 43 of Regulation (EC) No 396/2005, the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) of Ireland requested EFSA to re-evaluate the acute (short-term) risk for European consumers related to nicotine exposure via residues in rose hips (code 0154050), teas (Camellia sinensis, 0610000) and capers (0850020) at the level equal to the temporary maximum residue level (tMRL) established in Reg. (EU) 2022/1290 and the tMRL recently voted in the Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed (PAFF Committee). The requestor asked EFSA to perform the calculation with a revised version of EFSA PRIMo rev. 3.1, in which the Irish children consumption data for tea should be replaced with consumption data for tea from another EU Member State, since the Irish consumption data implemented in EFSA PRIMo rev. 3.1 were not confirmed by the Food Safety Authority of Ireland. In the present assessment, EFSA confirmed the previously identified potential acute exposure risks for the intake of nicotine through rose hips jam containing residues at the current EU MRL of 0.3mg/kg. The new tMRL for rose hips of 0.2mg/kg is unlikely to pose a risk to consumers. For the consumption of tea and capers containing residues at the levels of the current and the recently voted tMRLs, a consumer health risk is unlikely.

Multimedia Standing Committee: A New Venue Aimed at Educating the Next Generation of Engineers [My View

The Multimedia Standing Committee in the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES) was conceptualized as a vehicle to enhance the educational mission of the IES. The underlying goal of this committee is to foster new links among practicing engineers, graduate students, and academic/industrial leaders in the technical areas covered by the IES. With this mission in mind, starting in 2020, the Multimedia Committee started to provide multiple venues to collect and publish topics related to the state of the art in online and offline formats. In addition to Distinguished and Frontier Lecture presentations as well as selected keynote and tutorial presentations at major conferences, such as IECON, ISIE, and ICIT, Society-level online webinars supported by various technical committees were also made available to all members of the IES and beyond. Furthermore, it is planned that spontaneous contributions by IES members will be included by invitation in the near future to create a continuous stream of knowledge in cutting-edge technology and science for our members in industry and academia. The posted contents can be found at the IES resource center ( <uri xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">https://resourcecenter.ies.ieee.org/</uri> ), IES channel at IEEEE.tv ( <uri xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">https://ieeetv.ieee.org/channels/ies</uri> ), or through the IES YouTube channel ( <uri xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">https://www.youtube.com/@ieee-ies/featured</uri> ).

Uptake of HPV vaccination among boys after the introduction of gender-neutral HPV vaccination in Germany before and during the COVID-19 pandemic

BackgroundHPV vaccination has been recommended and reimbursed for girls in Germany since 2007. In June 2018 the German Standing Committee on Vaccination (STIKO) recommended the gender-neutral vaccination of adolescents aged 9 to 14 years with catch-up through age 17. Objectives of this study were to describe the uptake of vaccination in boys before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.MethodsThe study used data from a proprietary electronic medical record database and a database with information on nationally dispensed vaccine doses. The monthly number of first doses of HPV vaccinations in boys and girls aged 9–17 years in the period from 01/2018 to 12/2021 was determined. In addition, for boys the cumulative vaccination rates were calculated for initiated and completed vaccination series.ResultsFour months after the introduction of mandatory reimbursement for boys, the monthly numbers of first doses were comparable to that of girls. Compared to the same month in 2019, the number of first doses declined by up to 49% (girls) in 2020 and 71% (boys) in 2021. At the end of 2021, the vaccination rate for 15-year-old boys (2006 birth cohort) reached 44.4% for initiated and 26.4% for completed series.ConclusionAfter an initial dynamic increase in HPV vaccinations in boys, the impact of COVID-19 was particularly strong in the second year of the pandemic. At the end of 2021 vaccination rates were still low. Efforts are needed to catch-up on adolescents that missed doses during the pandemic and to increase uptake.

Der Einfluss der SARS-CoV-2-Pandemie auf die Arbeit der STIKO und Vorschläge zur Vorbereitung auf die nächste Pandemie

An analysis of the indications/vaccines the Standing Committee on Vaccination (STIKO) worked on in the period 01.01.2015 to 30.06.2022 allows a comparison of the average quantity by number and intensity between the pre-pandemic years 2015 to 2019 and the pandemic years 2020 and 2021. It turned out that the activity of the STIKO in 2020 and especially in 2021 was massively dominated by the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. The STIKO needed to focus on COVID-19, and the work on other indications decreased. The pandemic is a challenge for STIKO as a volunteer body. As a success-critical infrastructure of pandemic management, STIKO should be structurally prepared to deal with future pandemics. For this purpose, the creation of a crisis response reserve is proposed, which can be activated temporarily in case of overload in order to reinforce and relieve the regular members. When activated, staff support from the RKI should be increased to the same extent.

IEEE ComSoc Women in Communications Engineering

IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) is committed to taking on the path to position the Society as a leader in diversity, equity, and inclusion. Therefore, IEEE ComSoc signals its female members and the next generation of diverse engineers that it values their membership and participation in IEEE ComSoc activities. Women in Communications Engineering (WICE) is an IEEE ComSoc Standing Committee under the Member & Global Activities Council (MGA-C), and its mission is to promote the visibility and roles of women communications engineers and to provide a venue for their professional growth. In this President's Page, I am pleased to introduce Dr. Baek-Young Choi, the Chair of Women in Communications Engineering for 2022–2023, to share with us the status of WICE and related activities.

Wetland Protection Law of the People’s Republic of China: New Efforts in Wetland Conservation

Abstract In June 2020, legislation on the protection of wetlands was included in the 2020 legislative work plan of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress of the People’s Republic of China. After three deliberations by the National People’s Congress, the ‘Wetland Protection Law’ (WPL) was approved on 24 December 2021, and officially entered force on 1 June 2022. The WPL consists of seven chapters and sixty five articles, including but not limited to resource management, protection and utilisation for wetland resources, wetland restoration, supervision and inspection, and legal responsibilities. This article reviews this new law with a focus on its main institutional content and innovations.

Scientific and targeted prevention and control measures to optimize COVID‐19 response

AbstractSince the outbreak of the COVID‐19 pandemic, under the strong leadership of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and President Xi Jinping, China has made firm decisions to prioritize people's lives and health. Efforts have been made to avoid foreign imported infection and domestic rebound of COVID‐19 cases; the “dynamic zero COVID” policy has been executed without wavering; and the prevention and control measures have been optimized and improved in response to changing circumstances, actively responding to the impact caused by multiple waves of COVID‐19 surge globally. China has made extraordinary efforts to safeguard people's lives and health. Meanwhile, prevention and control measures were timely updated to coordinate with economic and social development. On November 10, the Standing Committee of the Central Political Bureau held a meeting to discuss the latest situation of the COVID‐19 pandemic in China. Twenty measures (referred to as “the 20‐point measures“) were officially announced to further optimize the COVID‐19 response. The latest prevention and control measures involve the requirements and guidance for isolation at home, high‐risk area delineation, nucleic acid testing, international inbound flights and travelers, vaccination rollout, medical resource preparedness, and protection for special places and vulnerable population.

Is delayed regulation of yoga and naturopathic medicine in India breeding quackery?

The combined discipline of Yoga & Naturopathy (Y&N) constitutes one of the official indigenous medical systems under the Ministry of Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha, Sowa-Rigpa, and Homoeopathy (AYUSH), Government of India (GoI). The GoI has recently regulated all the systems under AYUSH, except Yoga & Naturopathy, through the National Commission for Indian System of Medicine (NCISM) Bill, 2020 [1]. However, Y&N has been left out from the NCISM Bill, despite the recommendations of the Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on the National Commission for Indian System of Medicine Bill, 2019 [2: p 20], and NITI Aayog [3: p 15]. On the contrary, GoI has proposed a board for regulating Y&N without defining its statutory value or timeline.

A Submission on the Public Health (Tobacco and Other Products) Bill 2023 (Cth) and Accompanying Regulations: Senate Standing Committee on Community Affairs - Legislation Committee

A Submission on the Public Health (Tobacco and Other Products) Bill 2023 (Cth) and Accompanying Regulations: Senate Standing Committee on Community Affairs - Legislation Committee

One nation one election: Indian perspective

Democracy is the best form of government and it is the society in which citizens are sovereign and control the government. Election plays an important role to make democracy strong and free and fair is the key of Democracy. Election process is the fundamental characteristic of democratic society, as it ensures the participation of citizens in the development of the nation. We know in India, Elections are held generally every year in some of the States, and due to this development process is slowed down due to the code of conduct. The idea of One Nation¬ One Election, has the potential to stop election during the whole year, the main idea of One Nation¬ One Election is to conduct the election for the Loksabha and Legislative assemblies and local bodies simultaneously. According to 79th report of Parliamentary Standing committee 2015, One Nation One Election theory save the millions of rupees in election costs of the government when Loksabha and state legislative assemblies held at the same time. In this paper, the author investigate the concept of One Nation, One Election be related to India.

Access To Justice Through Virtual Courts In Current Indian Scenario

A relatively recent idea in the Indian legal system is the virtual court. Mostly as a result of the difficulties brought on by the continuing epidemic, it gained attention. The Delhi High Court and the Supreme Court of India were the first to hold virtual hearings for cases in an effort to end the pandemic-related delays in the legal system. After the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Personnel, Public Gripes, Law and Justice stated in its report dated September 11, 2020 that Virtual Courts should continue even after the pandemic is over, it raised many concerns in the minds of litigants as well as the general population of this nation. This essay examines the system of virtual courts that has recently been implemented as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak. The author has specifically attempted to explain the recent changes made to the nation’s judicial system. The directions issued by the Supreme Court, as well as the adjustments and innovations adopted by individual courts in reaction to the epidemic, have all been studied by the author. It focuses on the difficulties that the courts are now experiencing as a result of the movement in work culture towards the virtual format. These difficulties include making the technology used in virtual courts accessible to the judges, litigants, interested parties, and other parties concerned. In order to assist us better comprehend the concerns highlighted, the document also makes reference to a few past Supreme Court rulings and precedents. Also, some information is provided on the current state of the virtual court system globally and the likelihood that it will remain in use in the future. The study concludes with a brief conclusion and a few suggestions that, if implemented, may strengthen and improve the system of virtual courts.

Submission to The Standing Committee on Industry and Technology on Bill C-27, An Act to enact the Consumer Privacy Protection Act, the Personal Information and Data Protection Tribunal Act and the Artificial Intelligence and Data Act and to make consequential and related amendments to other Acts

Submission to The Standing Committee on Industry and Technology on Bill C-27, An Act to enact the Consumer Privacy Protection Act, the Personal Information and Data Protection Tribunal Act and the Artificial Intelligence and Data Act and to make consequential and related amendments to other Acts

Контуры новой музейной этики в теоретической и практической музеологии

Currently, museology experts are involved with an intensive discussion aimed at the revision of the principles of museum ethics. To a significant extent, this discussion is related to the revision of the Museums’ Code of Ethics, which is moderated by the ICOM Standing Committee on Ethics. The suggestion could be made that the declared criteria and methods of working on the provisions of the Code of Ethics are associated with the new Museum definition introduced to ICOM statute in 2022. The ethical components of the new Museum definition are related to the changing values and key issues of modern culture. Attempts to revise museum ethics are also defined by the change in the current mission of a museum. The issue under discussion is the relationship between professional and institutional museum ethics. Substitution of the classical ethical paradigm of the museum with the concept of new museum ethics became an essential factor. The connection between the concept of the new museum ethics and museum activism is obvious. Criteria for radical transparency of museum collections and social responsibility to communities are becoming increasingly influential in practical and theoretical museology.

Child-Friendly Cities: What is Possible and What is Feasible?——A Study on the Path of Child-Friendly Transformation of Urban Public Space in Jinan City

In order to reduce the cost of childcare and increase citizens' motivation to have children, the Resolution of the Standing Committee of Jinan People's Congress on Promoting the Construction of Child-Friendly Cities was adopted in August 2022, proposing the construction of child-friendly cities in the context of Jinan's reality. This paper explores the issue of how to accelerate the transformation of child-friendly public spaces in Jinan City. Based on the theory of child-friendly city and scene theory, the paper proposes countermeasures and suggestions for child-friendly transformation of public space in Jinan through the "1+2+3" model.

Place and importance of the German language in the work of the Standing Commission on Language Control

Place and importance of the German language in the work of the Standing Commission on Language Control

Development of morbidity and mortality of SARS-CoV-2 in nursing homes for the elderly in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 2020-2022: What protective measures are still required?

Nursing-home residents are among the highest risk group in the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. At the onset of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, the majority of all deaths from or with SARS-CoV-2 occurred in long-term care facilities (LTCFs), so that maximum protective measures were mandated for these facilities. This study analyzed the impact of the new virus variants and the vaccination campaign on disease severity and mortality among nursing home residents and staff through 2022 as a basis for determining which protective measures remain necessary and appropriate. In five homes in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, with a total capacity for 705 residents, all cases occurring in the facility among residents and staff were recorded and documented (date of birth and diagnosis, hospitalization and death, vaccination status) and were descriptively analyzed with SPSS. By 31st August 2022, 496 residents tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, 93 in 2020, 136 in 2021, and 267 in 2022; 14 residents presented with a second SARS-CoV-2 infection in 2022, having previously experienced an infection in 2020 or 2021. The percentage of hospitalizations decreased from 24.7% (2020) and 17.6% (2021) to 7.5% (2022), and the percentage of deaths decreased from 20.4% and 19.1% to 1.5%. In 2021, 61.8% of those infected were vaccinated (at least 2x); in 2022, 86.2% of residents had been vaccinated twice, 84% of whom had already had a booster vaccination. Hospitalization and death rates were significantly higher among the unvaccinated than the vaccinated throughout all years (unvaccinated 21.5% and 18.0%; vaccinated 9.8% and 5.5%; KW test p=0.000). However, this difference was no longer significant under the prevalence of the Omicron variant in 2022 (unvaccinated 8.3% and 0%; p=0.561; vaccinated 7.4% and 1.7%; p=0.604). From 2020 to 2022, 400 employees were documented as infected, with 25 having second infections in 2022. Only one employee showed a second infection in 2021 following the first in 2020. Three employees were hospitalized; no deaths occurred. Severe COVID-19 courses occurred with the Wuhan Wild type in 2020, with a high death rate among nursing-home residents. In contrast, during the waves in 2022 with the relatively mildly pathogenic Omicron variant, many infections but few severe courses and deaths were observed among the now mostly vaccinated and boostered nursing-home residents. Given the high immunity of the population and the low pathogenicity of the circulating virus - even in nursing-home residents - protective measures in nursing homes that restrict people's right to self-determination and quality of life no longer seem justified. Instead, the general hygiene rules and the recommendations of the KRINKO (German Commission for Hospital Hygiene and Infection Prevention) on infection prevention should be followed, and the recommendations of the STIKO (German Standing Commission on Vaccination) on vaccination not only against SARS-CoV-2 but also against influenza and pneumococci should be observed.

ЕТИЧНА ІНФРАСТРУКТУРА КУЛЬТУРНОГО ПРОСТОРУ КИЇВСЬКОГО НАЦІОНАЛЬНОГО УНІВЕРСИТЕТУ ІМЕНІ ТАРАСА ШЕВЧЕНКА: ВИКЛИКИ ЗАПРОВАДЖЕННЯ І ФУНКЦІОНУВАННЯ

The article deals with the ethical infrastructure of Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University cultural space, the peculiarities of its implementation and its functioning due to the challenges facing higher education in Ukraine today. The relevance of studying the ethical provision of university life is driven by the inevitable value transformations that the university as a cultural institution is experiencing today. By the method of case study, the implementation and functioning of the ethical infrastructure at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv is analyzed in the article as a real-time problematic situation. It is shown that the implementation of ethical infrastructure was demanded by the university community and has become a natural process. The thoughtfulness of this process was testified by the thoroughness of preparing the University community code of ethics, carrying out the procedures for its discussion and adoption, and preparing the work of the Standing Commission of the Academic Council on Ethics. It also testified to the moral maturity of the university community to comply with the provisions of the code of ethics, to signal violations of its norms and principles, and to seek the truth in the ethical commission. It is about the grassroots (democratic) way of the creation of the code of ethics. And the discussion, comments and proposals from the structural subdivisions are a kind of public examination of the ethical document. The code of ethics, thus adopted by the university community, has become an effective document that sets a coherent system of coordinates in the life of the university. The purpose of the ethical commission is to resolve controversial issues regarding compliance by members of the university community with the code of ethics. Its powers include advising on the usage of the code of ethics and applying its provisions in everyday university life.

The Report of the 2021-2022 Professional Affairs Standing Committee: Resource Guide for the Integration of Clinical Pharmacy Faculty in Professional Practice Settings

The 2021-22 Professional Affairs Committee was charged to (1) Develop a resource guide for member institutions and faculty regarding payment for the practice-related activities of pharmacy faculty; (2) Nominate at least one person for an elected AACP or Council Office; and (3) Consider ways that AACP can improve its financial health. This report describes the methodology and content utilized for the development of an online resource guide for member institutions, faculty, and practice sites regarding the integration of clinical faculties' patient care services into patient care settings, including models for payment and value-based payment structures that can be utilized to support the practice-related activities of faculty. The committee offers a revision to a current association policy statement, a proposed policy statement as well as recommendations to AACP and suggestions to colleges and schools of pharmacy pertaining to the committee charges.