Technical Workshop Research Articles

Invitation to participate in the ACM conference on equity and access in algorithms, mechanisms, and optimization (EAAMO'21)

The inaugural ACM conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization (EAAMO'21) invites participation from the SIGecom community. The conferrence aims to highlight work where techniques from algorithms, optimization, and mechanism design, along with insights from other disciplines, can help improve equity and access to opportunity for historically disadvantaged and underserved communities. The conference is organized by the Mechanism Design for Social Good (MD4SG) initiative, and builds on the MD4SG technical workshop series and tutorials at conferences including ACM EC, ACM COMPASS, and WINE. The conference will have both an archival publication track as well as a non-archival track that welcomes papers under submission or published in the previous year. Papers submitted to EC 2021 or that will be submitted to EC 2022 are welcome in the non-archival track.

Marine mammal strandings in the northern Palk Bay from 2009 to 2020

Globally, the marine mammal population has been under threat due to various human activities. Data on stranding of these animals that are important for effective conservation planning and management, however, are not available in most of the developing countries. This paper presents observations on marine mammal strandings in northern Palk Bay, the southeastern coast of India over the last decade. In total, 21 stranding events consisting of 23 marine mammals were observed from 2009 to 2020. These stranded mammals include a Humpback Dolphin, a Blue Whale, two Finless Porpoises, and 19 Dugongs. The evident reason for the death of the dugongs and the porpoise being fishing activities, regulations on fishing practices, and intensive monitoring of the existing dugong population and their habitats are necessary. This study recommends for establishment of conservation reserve, and setting up district-level marine mammal rescue and release units in Nagapattinam, Tiruvarur, Thanjavur, Pudukkottai, and Ramanathapuram districts, comprising fishers and line departments. These units need to be sufficiently equipped in terms of equipment and infrastructure, and periodical technical training and workshops on marine mammal rescue and release procedures to quickly respond and handle marine mammal strandings in the area.

The Influence of German Tubular Steel on Soviet Furniture at the VKhUTEMAS, 1927–1930

Abstract This article looks at the influence of German tubular steel furniture at the State Higher Art and Technical Workshops (VKhUTEMAS) in Moscow during the late 1920s. Tubular steel furniture was first introduced in 1925 at the Bauhaus and within a few years was perceived by progressive architects across Europe as the appropriate material for the modernist interior. While the Soviet Union sought to revive its industrial economy during the New Economic Policy (1921–28), VKhUTEMAS students and professors looked to Europe for technical and artistic guidance for the design of new furniture as the country became a socialist society. German design innovations reached Moscow through the dissemination of print material, international exhibitions, and travel, including student exchanges between the Bauhaus and VKhUTEMAS. Between 1927–30 VKhUTEMAS students Boris Zemliannitsyn and Alexandr Galaktionov designed new furniture that referenced German tubular steel furniture, while professors El Lissitzky and Moisei Ginzburg replicated German tubular steel designs in their models and renditions of standard proletariat dwellings. Although the Soviet economy could not support widespread steel manufacturing, the experimentation with tubular steel furniture at VKhUTEMAS highlighted the international influence of German modernism and exposed the derivative nature of Soviet socialist material culture.

Столетию основания Высших художественно-технических мастерских посвящается

В статье освещены мероприятия и события как иллю­страции структурной характеристики и фундаментальной роли выдающейся архитектурно-художественной школы ВХУТЕМАС. Педагоги Высших художественно-технических мастерских, в числе которых А. Веснин, Н. Ладовский, И. Леонидов, К. Мельников, А. Щусев, Э. Лисицкий, В. Тат­лин и многие другие, оказали колоссальное влияние на становление и развитие мировой архитектуры и искусства XX-XXI веков. Закономерно, что юбилейные мероприятия прошли под эгидой Комиссии Российской Федерации по делам ЮНЕСКО. В мероприятиях приняли участие высшие архитектурные школы России, зарубежные исследовате­ли из Германии, Италии, США и других стран, Российская академия художеств, Российская академия архитектуры и строительных наук, Союз архитекторов России и Союз мо­сковских архитекторов. В Музее Москвы, Музее архитектуры им. А. Щусева и на других площадках организованы вы­ставки, посвящённые становлению школы, организации и методике учебного процесса во ВХУТЕМАСе.

Combat Casualty Care Training: Implementation of a Simulation-Based Program in a Cross-Cultural Setting: Experience of the French Military Health Service in West Africa

In the French army, combat casualty care (CCC) training involves the use of simulation. The application of this pedagogic method in a cross-cultural environment has not previously been described. In this report, we explore the challenges highlighted by multiple training sessions for foreign medical providers in West Africa.We collected the data from six 2-week courses held in Libreville, Gabon. Our main objective was to describe the course; our secondary objective was to assess our trainees' progress in their knowledge of CCC.The first week involved lectures, technical workshops, and single-patient simulations. The second part emphasized multiple-victim simulations and interactions with combatants and was held in the Gabonese rainforest. Sixty- two trainees undertook the six sessions. Their knowledge improved during the course, from a median score of 4 (of a maximum of 40) before to 9.5 after (p < .05).Our study is the first to describe medical-level CCC training in a cross-cultural environment. Challenges are numerous, notably differences in the expected roles of instructors and trainees. Mitigating those difficulties is possible through cultural awareness and self-awareness. Our results are limited by the absence of evaluation of improvement in the actual management of patients.CCC training using medical simulation is feasible in a cross-cultural environment.

2021 Joint IEEE International Symposium On Electromagnetic Compatibility, Signal &amp; Power Integrity, and EMC Europe: Review of the Experiments and Demonstrations Program

Experiments and demonstrations (E&Ds) have always been a very special part of the EMC and Signal Integrity/Power Integrity (EMC+SIPI) symposia - and for a good reason. Within the broad range of technical presentations, workshops and tutorials, practical demonstrations deliver the unique opportunity to experience the variety of hands-on hardware and software applications, performed by EMC experts right there, right then. Witnessing the actual execution of an experiment from the first row provides a different type of learning quality expanding its fundamental understanding, teaching new tricks or solutions, or even for the sake of inspiration - after all, who doesn't enjoy seeing their favorite EMC concept being implemented in action?

The cost analysis of a leading optics business in Saudi Arabia

This study aims to use discrete event simulation (DES) to minimise the processing cost of a leading optics business in Saudi Arabia. Data is collected from three branches to calculate the operating cost and delivery time of the products. A proposed solution is developed to replace three technical workshops inside every branch with one central workshop in the city. Numbers of replications are carried out to reach the optimal solution. Cost analysis is done to compare the process cost, delivery time and idle working hours of the two options. A significant reduction is observed in the process cost and delivery time of the products besides increasing the idle working hours of the technicians. These improvements can be utilised to enhance the productivity and profitability of the organisations.

PENERAPAN LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM MELALUI MODUL DIGITAL, WORKSHOP, DAN PENDAMPINGAN DI MASA PANDEMI COVID-19

Perguruan tinggi perlu mempersiapkan pembelajaran daring sebagai jawaban atas tantangan kebutuhan revolusi industri 4.0. Selain itu, permasalahan eksternal bertambah di tahun 2020, salah satunya pemunculan virus corona yang menjadi pandemi. Situasi pandemi memaksa perguruan tinggi untuk segera beradaptasi di dalam kegiatan pembelajaran. Keputusan Menteri Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan adalah melanjutkan kegiatan pelaksanaan pendidikan jarak jauh (PJJ) secara daring hingga batas waktu yang tidak ditentukan. Situasi tersebut memunculkan beberapa permasalahan pada perguruan tinggi, diantaranya kesiapan sumber daya manusia, fasilitas, dan lainnya. Seiring berjalannya waktu, perkuliahan sudah dimulai, maka permasalahan ini harus segera diatasi agar tercapainya tujuan pembelajaran dan peningkatan kualitas pendidikan pada perguruan tinggi di saat krisis seperti sekarang ini. Peningkatan penguasaan LMS oleh dosen dan penyediaan modul dan standarisasi estetika merupakan salah satu upaya penyelenggara pendidikan untuk menyampaikan pelayanan yang berkualitas (reliability, assurance, tangible, empathy, dan responsiveness) dan memuaskan bagi penerima layanan (masyarakat/ mahasiswa). Kegiatan ini berhasil melaksanakan workshop teknis dan modul yang efisien dan efektif untuk peningkatan pemahaman penguasaan LMS dalam waktu singkat.

PEMBERDAYAAN TENAGA ADMINISTRASI SEKOLAH DALAM MENINGKATKAN KINERJA PELAKSANAAN TUPOKSI

This study aims to describe the process of empowering school administrative personnel which includes awareness, capacity building and empowerment. This study uses a qualitative approach with data collection techniques through interviews, observation and study of the documentation. The data analysis model used an interactive analysis model from Miles Huberman. The results show that the empowerment of school administrative personnel which included awareness, capacity and empowerment stages have been implemented quite successfully so that school administrative staff had various competencies (personality, social, technical and managerial). In the awareness stage, it is carried out to provide encouragement, motivation and communication to school administration staff to increase their adaptability to their main tasks and functions. At the capacitating stage, education and training are carried out in the form of upgrading, education and training, technical guidance and workshops. Meanwhile, at the empowerment stage, apperception and self-potential development activities are carried out. In this empowerment, there is also support from school leaders with full dedication and motivation to empower school administrative personnel. However, there is still a need for reasonably fundamental improvements in empowerment with respect to various constraints and conditions that are expected in the next empowerment process. For this purpose, it is necessary to review (remodify) empowerment programs, so that they are validative, varied, dynamic, evaluative, interesting and weighty, including the consideration of the needs of school administrative personnel.

Preface

Published by IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, indexed by Scopus (CiteScore 2019: 0.6) and organised by Ziggurat Publishing in London, the Ziggurat International Conference on Materials Science and Engineering (ZICMSE 2020) was held in London from 5th to 6th of October 2020.ZICMSE 2020 offers a fantastic opportunity to meet and make new contacts in the field of Materials Science and Engineering. It allows delegates to have issues addressed in Materials Science by recognised global experts who are fully acquainted with the latest developments in the Materials Science field as well as information on new techniques and technologies. The ZICMSE 2020 features world-renowned keynote speakers, plenary speeches, young research forums, technical workshops, and career guidance sessions.List of Organisers and Sponsors, Conference Organising Committee are available in this pdf.

‘openDS’ – Progress on the New Standard for Digital Specimens

In a Biodiversity_Next 2019 symposium, a vision of Digital Specimens based on the concept of a Digital Object Architecture (Kahn and Wilensky 2006) (DOA) was discussed as a new layer between data infrastructure of natural science collections and user applications for processing and interacting with information about specimens and collections. This vision would enable the transformation of institutional curatorial practises into joint community curation of the scientific data by providing seamless global access to specimens and collections spanning multiple collection-holding institutions and sources. A DOA-based implementation (Lannom et al. 2020) also offers wider, more flexible, and ‘FAIR’ (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) access for varied research and policy uses: recognising curatorial work, annotating with latest taxonomic treatments, understanding variations, working with DNA sequences or chemical analyses, supporting regulatory processes for health, food, security, sustainability and environmental change, inventions/products critical to the bio-economy, and educational uses. To make this vision a reality, a specification is needed that describes what a Digital Specimen is, and how to technically implement it. This specification is named 'openDS' for open Digital Specimen. It needs to describe how machines and humans can act on a Digital Specimen and gain attribution for their work; how the data can be serialized and packaged; and it needs to describe the object model (the scientific content part and its structure). The object model should describe how to include the specimen data itself as well as all data derived from the specimen, which is in principle the same as what the Extended Specimen model aims to describe. This part will therefore be developed in close collaboration with people working on that model. After the Biodiversity_Next symposium, the idea of a standard for Digital Specimens has been further discussed and detailed in a MOBILISE Workshop in Warsaw, 2020, with stakeholders like the GBIF, iDigBio, CETAF and DiSSCo. The workshop examined the technical basis of the new specification, agreed on scope and structure of the new specification and laid groundwork for future activities in the Research Data Alliance (RDA), Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG), and technical workshops. A working group in the DiSSCo Prepare project has begun on the technical specification of the ‘open Digital Specimen’ (openDS). This specification will provide the definition of what a Digital Specimen is, its logical structure and content, and the operations permitted on that. The group is also working on a document with frequently asked questions. Realising the vision of Digital Specimen on a global level requires openDS to become a new TDWG standard and to be aligned with the vision for Extended Specimens. A TDWG Birds-of-a-Feather working session in September 2020 discusses and plans this further. The object model will include concepts from ABCD 3.0 and EFG extension for geo-sciences, and also extend from bco:MaterialSample in the OBO Foundry’s Biological Collection Ontology (BCO), which is linked to Darwin Core and from iao:InformationContentEntity in OBO Foundry's Information Artifact Ontology (IAO). openDS will also make use of the RDA/TDWG attribution metadata recommendation and other RDA recommendations. A publication is in preparation that describes the relationship with RDA recommendations in more detail, which will also be presented in the TDWG symposium.

The New Living Atlases Community

The Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) is an online platform that aggregates and gives access to data about Australian biodiversity. For a few years, it has worked with international partners to enhance, translate, and export its robust and modular infrastructure to other institutions. Thanks to several projects and technical workshops, we have managed to make this community durable. Through our journey to create a more structured and sustainable community, we have completed two significant milestones. The first was the creation of the Management Committee, which included the hiring of a technical coordinator and an administrative coordinator. Both are working together to improve documentation, communication, and help participants with technical and non-technical issues or questions. This has resulted in six new deployments of the Living Atlases infrastructure. The second was the establishment of a Memorandum of Understanding to provide structure for the community and explain what we should expect from our participants, the coordinators, and the Management Committee. During this presentation, we will give an overview of what we have done, focusing particularly on what helped us grow in recent years, and our next steps to ensure that this community remains durable.

Policy dialogue and participation: a new way of crafting a national health financing strategy in Morocco

BackgroundPolicy dialogue for health policies has started to gain importance in recent years, especially for complex issues such as health financing. Moroccan health financing has faced several challenges during the last years. This study aims to document the Moroccan experience in developing a consolidated health financing strategy according to the policy dialogue approach. It especially considers the importance of conceptualising this process in the Moroccan context.MethodWe documented the process of developing a health financing strategy in Morocco. It concerned four steps, as follows: (1) summarising health financing evidence in preparation of the policy dialogue; (2) organising the health policy dialogue process with 250 participants (government, private sector, NGOs, civil society, parliamentarians, technical and financial partners); (3) a technical workshop to formulate the strategy actions; and (4) an ultimate workshop for validation with decision-makers. The process lasted 1 year from March 2019 to February 2020. We have reviewed all documents related to the four steps of the process through our active participation in the policy debate and the documentation of two technical workshops to produce the strategy document.ResultsThe policy dialogue approach showed its usefulness in creating convergence among all health actors to define a national shared vision on health financing in Morocco. There was a high political commitment in the process and all actors officially adopted recommendations on health financing actions. A strategy document produced within a collaborative approach was the final output. This experience also marked a shift from previous top-down approaches in designing health policies for more participation and inclusion. The evidence synthesis played a crucial role in facilitating the debate. The collaborative approach seems to work in favouring national consensus on practical health financing actions.ConclusionThe policy dialogue process adopted for health financing in Morocco helped to create collective ownership of health financing actions. Despite the positive results in terms of national mobilisation around the health financing vision in Morocco, there is a need to institutionalise the policy dialogue with a more decentralised approach to consider subnational specificities.

COMPUTERIZED TELECOM NETWORK SPARE PARTS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM.

To keep providing network services to subscribers without downtime cause by equipment failure, telecom operators must ensure spare parts are available and are properly managed. No telecom operators can survive without spare parts because it is the life blood for reliable and sustainable network services [1]. The research is focus on designing and developing a web system that will provide adequate information of faulty equipment at telecom base station, will allow online request for spares parts to be done, provide details of transmission media(fiber) faults and capture all faulty equipment due for repairs at the warehouse(technical workshop). Qualitative research approach will be adopted in the study and interview will be used to collect data (users requirements). The automated telecom network spares parts management system will provide efficient access to spares parts, reduce downtime of network services due to equipment failure and boost customers satisfaction.

Putting publication into practice: A summary of the impact of selected articles published in Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems

Abstract This article introduces a special issue of Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems (AQC) whose contributions demonstrate examples of the practical impact of the authors' previous AQC articles on the conservation of aquatic ecosystems. The submitting authors of all articles published in AQC since 2009 were invited to express their interest in writing an article for the special issue. The 20 articles selected for publication discuss 33 AQC articles published from 2004 to 2019, spanning a wide range of geographical locations, habitat types, species groups, and impacts on aquatic conservation. The two impacts reported most frequently are ‘Undertaking practical management of habitats and species’ and ‘Establishing partnerships’, closely followed by ‘Restoring habitats/reintroducing or translocating species’. Many authors demonstrate the importance of their articles in raising awareness across an extensive range of organizations. Some impacts occur soon after publication (e.g. introduction of conservation guidelines), whereas others (e.g. influencing policy) take far longer. Authors report a wide range of methods for disseminating research results appropriate for different audiences, such as technical handbooks, seminars, magazine articles, media broadcasts, and field workshops. To assess whether ‘conventional’ measures of impact match authors' perceptions, three metrics were calculated for the 33 AQC articles discussed in this issue: the number of citations, the number of downloads, and the Altmetric Attention Score. These metrics were not significantly higher for the 33 articles than the corresponding median metrics of the articles in the issues in which the 33 were published. The goal of AQC is to continue to encourage scientists to recognize and promote the application of their research to practical conservation and management. Given the growing threats to aquatic ecosystems, much remains to be done to make this process even more effective.

Clinical bioinformatics for microbial genomics and metagenomics: an ESCMID Postgraduate Technical Workshop

The European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) workshop on genomics and metagenomics was held in Lausanne from 9th to 12th September 2019. As many as 68 participants from 20 countries from all 5 continents participated to this postgraduate technical workshop. During 4 days, the participants shared their time between conferences on various topics related to the implementation of genomics and metagenomics in a clinical diagnostic laboratory. These included talks from the clinics and talks from bioinformatic experts. A significant time was also dedicated to practicals covering various aspects of the data analysis of NGS sequences (quality check, annotation of virulence and antibiotic resistance genes, taxonomic assignment of amplicons, strain typing, …). This ESCMID meeting co-organized by A Lebrand and G Greub, with the help of the European Study Group for Genomics ad Molecular Diagnostics (ESGMD) provided a unique opportunity to exchange knowledge and ideas on the most recent bioinformatic approaches, as well as how to report such NGS results in diagnostic laboratories. This meeting report summarizes the key messages of this meeting.

MOBILIZATION OF POLITICAL-RELATIONAL CAPACITIES BY STATE GOVERNMENTS: an analysis of the formulation of the state plan for solid waste in Tocantins

The National Solid Waste Policy provides for the elaboration of national, state, micro-regional, intermunicipal and municipal plans for integrated waste management (Brasil, 2010). Therefore, the objective was to analyze the political-relational capacities mobilized by the network formed by the actors/ participants in the Technical Workshop for the elaboration of the State Plan for Solid Waste of Tocantins (PERS/TO), which took place in October 2015 in Palmas. Reports were collected from the Secretariat of Environment and Water Resources (Semarh) and a questionnaire was applied to the participants of the technical workshop, which sought to identify the interests of the various actors and investigate the structure and function of the network. The data were analyzed with the support of the Visone 2.7 software.

The 2020 Women in IES Workshop in Argentina [Women in IES News

The 2020 IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES) Women in Engineering (WIE) Workshop in Argentina was held on 27 February 2020 during the IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT) 2020 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The aim of the technical workshop was sharing the experience of the invited professional women in their professional and family lives. A combination of excellent technical content in different engineering areas was presented.

Glassmaking in medieval technical literature in the Iberian Peninsula

ABSTRACT This paper examines glassmaking in medieval Iberia from the point of view of technical literature, especially recipe books and alchemical treatises, in an attempt to assess to what extent this literary genre (if it is to be defined as such) may have affected, or have been affected by, technological developments in glassmaking between the eighth and sixteenth centuries. Iberian technical literature on the making of glass is put in connection with broader European and Mediterranean trends in the transmission of technical knowledge, the nature of scribal culture and the impact caused by the dissemination of the printing press. Ultimately, the paper aims to review the relationship that exists between the authors of technical literature and contemporary workshop practice, not only taking the written word as evidence, but also using the understanding provided by other fields of research, such as the study of the chemical characterization of medieval glass.

SLP-based Technical Plant Layout Planning and Simulation Analysis

This paper analyzes the current situation and shortcomings of the assembly and the whole material flow in a technical workshop. Through the process analysis, this paper uses the SLP method to optimize, and combines the data analysis to adjust the unreasonable place, and gives the optimized layout plan. Finally, using Flexsim modeling, the whole process of the program is simulated, and the time-consuming reduction of the whole process is verified.