Twelfth International Conference Research Articles

Preface

The International scientific conference “Civil Engineering Design and Construction” (DCB) is the twelfth international conference organized by the Scientific and Technical Union of Civil Engineering in Bulgaria (NTSSB), strongly supported by the Chamber of Engineers in the Investment Design in Bulgaria, Bulgarian Construction Chamber, Federation of the Bulgarian Scientific and Technical Unions, the Varna Free University and “Evrika” Foundation. Special attention was paid to sustainable construction, digitalization in the construction industry and building information modeling (BIM).The conference is held every two years, starting in 2000 as a national conference of the Union of Bulgarian Construction Engineers and the Bulgarian Scientific and Technical Union of Civil Engineering. This conference is of special importance for Bulgaria, where scientists, researchers and experts present their achievements and share their experience or innovative ideas in various fields of design, construction and architecture. Since 2006, the DCB conference has been held as an international scientific forum for in-depth discussions and fruitful meetings.The conference was held in Varna Free University “Chernorizets Hrabar”, Bulgaria on September 08-10, 2022. The conference was partially held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The presentations of the participants presented on-site and those of the online participants were screened in the conference halls. The conference was held successfully with Zoom videoconferencing software.List of Scientific Committees are available in this pdf.

Preface

The BulTrans-2020 International Scientific Conference on Aeronautics, Automotive, Railway Engineering and Technologies is the twelfth international conference organized by the Transport Faculty at the Technical University of Sofia. The conference is part of the Science Days of the Technical University of Sofia and was held in the town of Sozopol, at TU Recreation Base Lazur on September 10-13, 2020. The conference was partially held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.The conference program included a plenary session and 7 thematic sessions. The duration of the plenary lectures was 30 minutes and of the thematic oral presentations - 15 minutes, followed by questions and answers sessions. The presentations of the participants present on-site and those of the online participants were screened in the conference hall. The conference was held successfully with Zoom videoconferencing software. The authors shared the screen and all attendees could discuss their work via the online platform. The chairpersons of all sections were present on-site in the conference hall, while some of the participants were online, including 13 presenting authors.All accepted papers were subject to peer-reviewing by the scientific editorial board and invited reviewers. The papers were selected on the basis of their quality and their relevance to the conference topics. The review process, as well as all communication between participants and organizers was conducted through the web-based conference management system process.bultrans.org. I would like to thank the reviewers and the scientific editorial board members for their time and advice, and the authors for taking into account the reviewers’ recommendations and for improving the quality of the papers selected for presentation at the conference and for publication in this volume. I would also like to thank the conference committee, chairpersons, sponsors, and all other conference participants for their support of BulTrans-2020.List of Scientific editorial board, Reviewers are available in this pdf.

Towards interactive QoE assessment of robotic telepresence

This article provides insights towards the Telepresence Robot (TPR) QoE research agenda and summarizes the findings of a TPR QoE study as provided in H. Z. Jahromi, I. Bartolec, E. Gamboa, A. Hines and R. Schatz, "You Drive Me Crazy! Interactive QoE Assessment for Telepresence Robot Control," 2020 Twelfth International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX), Athlone, Ireland, 2020, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/QoMEX48832.2020.9123117.

13th International Conference on Motion and Vibration Control (MOVIC 2016) and the 12th International Conference on Recent Advances in Structural Dynamics (RASD 2016)

This volume contains the papers presented at the Thirteenth International Conference on Motion and Vibration Control (MoViC), together with the Twelfth International Conference on Recent Advances in Structural Dynamics (RASD). MoViC is an event that started in Yokohama, Japan in 1992 and has been organised every two years alternating between Japan, USA and Europe. The eleven previous RASD conferences have been held every three years or so since 1980 primarily in Southampton, UK. The idea of joining the two conferences came quite naturally because of the common ground of the two conferences and the chances of cross-pollination between two otherwise separate research groups.This joint conference is devoted to theoretical, numerical and experimental developments in motion/vibration/structural dynamics, their control and application to all types of structures and dynamical systems. The conference reflects the state-of-the- art in these topics, and is an excellent opportunity to exchange scientific, technical and experimental ideas.The Conference Proceedings include over 250 papers by authors from over 20 countries, forty technical sessions and five plenary presentations. The five invited speakers are Professor Roger Goodall (Loughborough University, UK) presenting “Motion and vibration control for railway vehicles”, Professor Takeshi Mizuno (Saitama University, Japan) presenting “Recent advances in magnetic suspension technology”, Professor Kevin Murphy (University of Louisville, USA) presenting “Dynamics of Passive Balancing Rings for Rotating Systems”, Professor David Wagg (University of Sheffield, UK) presenting “Reducing vibrations in structures using structural control”, and Professor Kon-Well Wang (University of Michigan, USA) presenting “From Muscles to Plants - Nature-Inspired Adaptive Metastructures for Structural Dynamics Enhancement”.I would like to thank members of the Organising Committee for their help, over the last year or so, in shaping the conference and for their invaluable assistance in the paper review process. I would also like to thank the conference secretary, Glen Martin, without whom there would be no conference. Lastly, I would like to thank all delegates for supporting the conference.

Special Issue on: Twelfth International Conference on Ontologies, Databases, and Applications of Semantics.

Guest Editorial To foster the dissemination of the best ideas and results, the Journal on Data Semantics (JoDS) has a tradition to publish extended versions of the best papers from selected conferences whose scope encompasses or intersects the scope of the journal. This issue includes the extended versions of four selected best papers from the Twelfth International Conference on Ontologies, Databases, and Applications of Semantics (ODBASE 2013), which took place in September, 2013 in Graz, Austria. Originally, five papers from ODBASE 2013 were selected based on their quality, relevance and significance, and the viability of extending their results. All extended papers went through a strict peer review process, and the authors were required to revise the papers based on the concerns expressed by the reviewers. Finally, four papers were accepted and one was rejected. The first paper, by Lukasiewicz et al., introduces two models for “Preference-Based Query Answering in Probabilistic Datalog+/- Ontologies:” one representing user preferences and one representing the (probabilistic) uncertainty with which inferences are made. The paper proposes four specific operators and studies their semantic and computational properties. The paper also provides an algorithm for ranking answers based on the iteration of the well-known skyline answers to a query and shows that, under certain conditions, it runs in polynomial time in the data complexity. In collaborative and interoperable information systems it is frequently necessary to export a subset of an ontology, in particular to export all instances and axioms subsumed by a shared domain ontology. The second paper, by Kopke et al., proposes methods for “Efficient Projection of Ontologies.” These methods are based on a deep analysis of properties of axiom sets that can be used to efficiently filter redundancies during the export process and provide methods to further minimize redundancies in the result. The paper evaluates the performance of the approach using standard benchmarking ontologies with large Aboxes and a use case of the bio-medical domain. The third paper, by Wang et al., introduces methods for “Analysis and Prediction of User Editing Patterns in Ontology Development Projects.” The paper uses data mining technique, specifically the association rule mining, to investigate how to predict the next editing operation that a user will make based on the change history of two ontologies, ICTM and ICD-11, which have been developed in WebProtege, a web-based open-source ontology editing environment. The paper evaluates the impact of different training and testing window sizes on the prediction accuracies. The paper also evaluates prediction accuracies across different user groups and different ontologies. The fourth paper, by Geibel et al., introduces “Ontology-Based Information Extraction: Identifying Eligible Patients for Clinical Trials in Neurology.” The designed clinical research data warehouse makes use of information extracted from clinical documents like admission reports, radiological findings, and discharge letters. It is supported by clinical application ontologies, which enable the identification of main terms and their properties, as well as semantic search with synonyms, hypernyms, and syntactic variants. The paper provides a thorough evaluation of the deployed systems based on real data related to clinical trials conducted by the neurology departments. Guest Editors

The Twelfth International Conference on the long-term complications of treatment of children and adolescents with cancer

The Twelfth International Conference on the long-term complications of treatment of children and adolescents with cancer

The Twelfth International Conference on Progress in Vaccination Against Cancer (PIVAC 12), Nottingham, UK, 11-13 September 2012: insights into the dynamics of anti-tumour immunity and the development of cancer vaccines.

The 12th Annual Conference on Progress in Vaccination against Cancer (PIVAC) which was hosted by Nottingham Trent University attracted over 120 delegates from across the cancer immunology community for 3 days of engaging discussion on current opinions and future challenges in the field of cancer immunotherapy. This conference series has provided a continuing forum for discussing current research and showcasing the exciting new steps that are being taken towards the application of new immunotherapy-based treatments for cancer. PIVAC 12 highlighted the important role of the tumour microenvironment (TME) in suppressing local immunity, the need for combinatorial approaches for patient management, including chemotherapy, radiotherapy and immunotherapy, new approaches towards developing antitumour vaccines incorporating new epitopes, novel vaccine delivery vectors, modified, altered or multiple peptides, as well as engineered T cell receptors (TCRs) and T cells. This meeting also underlined improvements in dendritic cell (DC)mediated vaccine delivery and the emerging role of natural killer (NK) cells as key effector cells for tumour immunity. Orchestration of the tumour microenvironment: tipping the balance towards immunotherapy

Themed section: endothelin

This themed section of the British Journal of Pharmacology contains reviews on recent developments in endothelin research arising from the Twelfth International Conference on Endothelin (ET-12). It includes the emerging role for endothelin-2 in the cardiovascular system, ovarian development, immunology and cancer. The action of endothelin on two key targets is discussed: the paracrine or autocrine regulation of contractility and growth in the heart and the role of endothelin in renal disease. Epidemiological studies have demonstrated cardiovascular disease and circulating levels of endothelin-1 are lower in premenopausal women than in men and evidence is presented for the contribution of sex differences in responses to the peptide. Transcription is the primary level of regulation of the endothelin gene; and current research on the epigenetic regulation of the endothelin pathway, including the silencing of the EDNRB gene encoding the ET(B) receptor during tumourigenesis, is reviewed. This article is part of a themed section on Endothelin. To view the other articles in this section visit http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bph.2013.168.issue-1. To view the previously published paper by Dhaun et al. visit http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1476-5381.2012.02070.x.

The First Tomoh Masaki Award (2011)

Professor Tomoh Masaki, a Japanese physician-scientist born in 1934, is particularly known for the discovery of endothelium-derived peptide endothelin and its receptors, among many other scientific achievements. In recognition of his work, the Tomoh Masaki Award was established in 2011 by the Endothelin International Advisory Board of The International Conferences on Endothelin as a biannual scientific prize in recognition of Masaki's innovative and ground-breaking work that has led to new clinical applications. The inaugural Tomoh Masaki Award was presented at The Twelfth International Conference on Endothelin held in Cambridge, UK, to one his former graduate students, Professor Masashi Yanagisawa as the first recipient of this award, who played an instrumental role in the discovery of endothelin at the University of Tsukuba, Japan. The article summarizes the scientific achievements of Masaki and the awardee, Masashi Yanagisawa, also including personal reflections of two of Masaki's former graduate students on their teacher as well as on the awardee of The First Tomoh Masaki Award 2011 and their work as scientists and their role as mentors.

The Twelfth International Conference on Endothelin (ET-12), Cambridge 2011

The Twelfth International Conference on Endothelin (ET-12) was held at Clare College, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, from September 11–14, 2011, with researchers from basic and clinical science from nearly 20 countries attending. The conference featured a number of invited lectures, presentation of new research in several oral and poster sessions. It also featured newly introduced and well‐received interactive panel discussion reviewing results and challenges of clinical trials using endothelin receptor antagonists conducted in the past 20years. Evidence for new roles of endothelin in physiology and disease was presented, as well as new data from clinical trials in cancer and renal disease suggesting therapeutic efficacy of pharmacological modulation of the endothelin system.

The future of endothelin research: Scientific mentoring and beyond

Endothelium-dependent regulation of vascular tone was one of the key discoveries in physiology in the 1980s, including the characterization of endothelium-derived vasoactive factors such as endothelin. Young investigators, often while starting research as part of their PhD degree, have been instrumental in carrying out the work that led some of the most important discoveries in the endothelin field. This article reviews the importance of mentoring for research in general and for endothelin research in particular, including examples of outstanding young investigators that have been instrumental in some of the key discoveries in the endothelin field. Recognizing scientific excellence among young investigators has a long tradition in the history of the International Conferences on Endothelin. Winners of “Young Investigator Awards” of the past five endothelin conferences (ET-8, ET-9, ET-10, ET-11, and ET-12) are presented, as well as recipients of the “ET-12 Best Presentation Awards” established on the occasion of the Twelfth International Conference on Endothelin ET-12 in Cambridge in September 2011.

International conference on aluminum alloys ICAA12

The twelfth regular international conference on aluminum alloys ICAA12 took place in Yokohama, Japan, on September 5 – 9, 2010. The conference is conducted once in two years and is the largest and well-established world forum for specialists in the field of aluminum alloys. In 2010 it was attended by about 500 participants representing producer companies, universities, and research institutes from many countries.

Preface for Special Issue of Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures

The Second International Symposium on Computational Mechanics (ISCM II) and the Twelfth International Conference on the Enhancement and Promotion of Computational Methods in Engineering and Science...

Twelfth International Conference on Plasma Surface Engineering - PSE 2010

Twelfth International Conference on Plasma Surface Engineering - PSE 2010

Stimulated emission from ZnO nanorods

AbstractThe authors of our Editor's Choice [1] investigate ZnO nanorods by means of time resolved spectroscopy. Resonator and waveguide properties as well as the influence of gold nanoparticles at the nanorod/substrate interface are evaluated using numerical simulations.Part a) of the cover figure shows the intensity distribution of the electric field. As demonstrated in the right part of a), a higher refraction index step at the interface gold/GaN leads to an improved light confinement. Part b) is the cross section perpendicular to the growth direction, and c) a TEM picture of the interface with gold particles appearing as dark droplets.The first author Robert Hauschild is currently a member of the Graduate College “Collective Phenomena in Solids” to pursue a Ph.D. at the University of Karlsruhe (TH). Among his research interests are the optical properties of nano‐ and mesoscopic systems, including excitonic processes in ZnO nanorods and waveguides.This issue of physica status solidi (b) contains a collection of articles presented at The Twelfth International Conference on II–VI Compounds held in Warsaw, Poland, 12–16 September 2005. Further papers from II–VI 2005 are published in phys. stat. sol. (c) 3, No. 4 (2006).

Announcement: Twelfth international conference on composite structures ( ICCS/12) Monash Univesity, Melbourne, Australia, 17th-19th November 2003 Australian Society for Composite structures (ACCS) prize

Announcement: Twelfth international conference on composite structures ( ICCS/12) Monash Univesity, Melbourne, Australia, 17th-19th November 2003 Australian Society for Composite structures (ACCS) prize

Announcement: Twelfth international conference on composite structures ( ICCS/12) Monash Univesity, Melbourne, Australia, 17th-19th November 2003 Australian Society for Composite structures (ACCS) prize

Announcement: Twelfth international conference on composite structures ( ICCS/12) Monash Univesity, Melbourne, Australia, 17th-19th November 2003 Australian Society for Composite structures (ACCS) prize

Twelfth International Conference on Adaptive Structures and Technologies

Twelfth International Conference on Adaptive Structures and Technologies

Twelfth International Conference on Adaptive Structures and Technologies

Twelfth International Conference on Adaptive Structures and Technologies

Program, Twelfth International Conference

Program, Twelfth International Conference