Editorial: Special issue on the 10th World Conference on Experimental Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics (ExHFT-10)

This commentary synthesises insights from the 15th World Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion (Safety 2024) to propose an actionable agenda for researchers, practitioners and policymakers in injury prevention and violence reduction. Building on established injury prevention science, it translates emerging global challenges-climate disruption, precarious funding and commercial pressures-into concrete strategic priorities for the field.The Delhi Safety 2024 Conference highlighted that injuries are deeply rooted in societal, commercial and environmental factors, disproportionately affecting marginalised communities. Key themes were as follows: (1) Social Determinants and Community-Driven Solutions, (2) Climate Change as a Threat Multiplier: Integrating Safety into Planetary Health, (3) Sustainable Funding and Strategic Partnerships: Navigating the Current Landscape, and (4) Evidence, Advocacy, and Innovation: Driving Lasting Change.Planetary health-a framework recognising the interdependence of human health and natural systems-provides a critical lens for understanding how environmental degradation and climate change amplify injury risks. Equitable and sustainable implementation requires identifying evidence-based solutions for marginalised groups, aligning with planetary health agendas, developing strategic partnerships and driving policy change.This forward-looking synthesis bridges current practice with emerging priorities, providing stakeholders with a roadmap for action. By centring equity, embracing intersectoral collaboration and confronting commercial and environmental determinants, the injury prevention field can build more resilient and just systems that protect all communities.

The first World Conference of Science Journalists held in Africa was characterised by a conceptual focus on framing science journalism as a social justice practice. This reflection examines how the event interrogated the profession's role within a fractured global order. By foregrounding equity and accountability, WCSJ 2025 served as a renewal moment for the global community, challenging the field to move beyond scientific translation toward critical engagement in an era of systemic crisis.

This study reviewed radiotherapy-related studies on lung cancer presented at the 2025 major international conferences [American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), World Conference on Lung Cancer (WCLC), European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO), and American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO)] or published in high-impact journals. The studies were classified by pathological type [non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and small cell lung cancer (SCLC)] and analyzed according to different tumor stages. Research showed that the combination of immunotherapy and stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) failed to improve overall survival (OS) and progression-free survival (PFS) in early-stage NSCLC, so its combined application requires caution. In locally advanced NSCLC, EA5181 and SKYSCRAPER-03 trials identified that durvalumab administered concurrently with definitive chemoradiotherapy (dCRT) or atezolizumab + tiragolumab combination following concurrent chemoradiation therapy (cCRT) failed to improve PFS. The PACIFIC regimen remains the current standard treatment. R-ALPS trial indicated that, as consolidation therapy after dCRT, immunotherapy combined with anti-angiogenic agents achieved a prolongation of PFS with manageable treatment-related adverse events (TRAEs). In advanced NSCLC, NROG-002 and NorthStar trials demonstrated that epidermal growth factor receptor-tyrosine kinase inhibitor (EGFR-TKI) plus thoracic radiotherapy (TRT) or local consolidation therapy (LCT) can significantly improve patients' PFS. The results expanded the traditional "oligometastasis" definition from "oligo-sites" to "oligo-organs". For SCLC treatment, hypofractionated radiotherapy (HyPORT) has comparable efficacy to conventional radiotherapy, with a lower incidence of adverse reactions. NRG-CC003 trial indicated that hippocampal avoidance prophylactic cranial irradiation (HA-PCI) reduced neurocognitive function (NCF) failure in comparison with PCI. This review provides references for clinical decision-making in lung cancer radiotherapy and future research directions.

The reparations movement has emerged as a critical global force addressing the historical injustices of slavery, colonialism and underdevelopment. Grounded in the 2001 World Conference Against Racism, Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, the movement has gained momentum through regional bodies like the Caribbean Community Reparations Commission (CRC). This article examines the intersection of colonialism, enslavement and contemporary challenges related to health and the environment-highlighting the Caribbean as a focal point for reparatory and environmental justice. It underscores how legacies of depredation, including structural underdevelopment and path-dependent health inequities, exacerbate the region's vulnerability to climate change and its impacts, such as severe hurricanes and rising sea levels. The CRC's Ten-Point Action Plan offers a comprehensive reparations strategy, encompassing formal apologies, debt cancellation, cultural preservation and public health investment. We advocate for reparative and decolonial approaches to rectify historical wrongs while addressing present and future ecological crises.

Special Issue on 10th World Conference on Experimental Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics (ExHFT-10)

States across the world have adopted various mechanisms and institutional strategies to fulfil their obligations under domestic and international human rights law. Among these mechanisms, National Human Rights Action Plans (NHRAPs) have emerged as an important policy tool since the 1993 United Nations World Conference on Human Rights in Vienna, which encouraged states to develop national plans aimed at improving the promotion and protection of human rights. Following this global initiative, several countries, including the People’s Republic of China and the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, have implemented successive rounds of national human rights action plans. In recent years, both China and Ethiopia have introduced new action plans designed to consolidate earlier achievements, address emerging human rights challenges, and guide future improvements in governance and policy. Against this background, the present study offers a detailed comparative examination of China’s Fourth Human Rights Action Plan (2021–2025) and Ethiopia’s Second Human Rights Action Plan (2016–2020). The analysis focuses on several key aspects, including the sources and legal foundations of the plans, the level of participation during their preparation, the strategies adopted for implementation, and the mechanisms established for monitoring and evaluation. It also evaluates how these plans are aligned with broader national development objectives and identifies potential obstacles that may affect their implementation. Through this comparative approach, the study highlights both the strengths and limitations of the two action plans. While recognizing notable achievements in each framework, the paper also identifies areas that require further improvement. Ultimately, the study seeks to derive practical lessons that China and Ethiopia can learn from one another’s experiences in human rights planning. By examining the complementarities between the two approaches, the paper argues that reciprocal learning can help both countries address existing gaps and improve the effectiveness of their future human rights initiatives.

This article analyzes and characterizes the papers on socio-ecological issues delivered at the Joint World Conference on Social Work (April 2024, Panama). The conference is a space of planetary encounter that allows to approach exchanges of knowledge, visibilization of problems and establishment of interesting emerging issues for a disciplinary exploration. Out of a total of 899 papers available, 68 were on socio-ecological themes which were analyzed according to prevailing topics, geographical origin of the papers and declared roles. We find disciplinary narratives centered on the environmental crisis, with particular emphasis on climate change, socio-natural disasters, community action, and the Sustainable Development Goals as the main guiding framework. We conclude that Social Work narratives possess ethical and contextual opportunities articulated in a great professional versatility. However, they also confront hegemonic narratives that hyper climatize the debate and align it with the dominant environmental agenda invisibilizing the violence and conflictive of extractives colonialism. In response, Social Work must strengthen its ethical-political positioning by drawing on its theoretical and methodological capacities to advance toward an ecocentrism turn.

Announcing the 5th World Conference on Transformative Education be held in Coquimbo, Chile, October 7-9, 2026.

Women’s empowerment has been heard since 1980s throughout the globe. The UN’s Third World Conference on Women in 1985 defines the term ‘women empowerment’. In India it was started in 1840s by Savitribai Phule by establishing girl’s school. The political movement for women has been referred as feminist movement and this was the initial stage for women empowerment. Women empowerment is handing over the decision making to women. Women empowerment may have seven components like self-respect, power to control oneself decision and rights, power to make decision inside and outside the house, right to access to resources and opportunities, ability to influence the social, economic and political courses, right to be elected, and right to determined choices in free will. Women empowerment seeks to raise status through education and participation in political affairs. Women’s Reservation Act 2023 gave 1/3 of seat reserve at Lok Sabha, and State Legislative Assembly. This act is a pro-active step towards gender equality, increasing women participation in decision making or politics and empowerment. The attempt were made in 1996, 1998, 1999, and 2008 to make women reservation in the quest for women empowerment; then successfully comes up in 2023 in form Women’s Reservation Act. The argument is will this act can be a bludgeon for women empowerment in a patriarchal society imbedded with religious norms of women as a supporter to husband or the way around.

In February 2024 around 1000 culture and education stakeholders, including government ministers, policymakers, experts, NGOs as well as UN agencies, scholars and practitioners, gathered at the UNESCO World Conference on Culture and Arts Education in Abu Dhabi, to agree on a new global Framework for culture and arts education. The adoption of this global document marks a meaningful step in efforts to ensure that culture and arts education is appropriately developed and supported globally. As a side event WAAE- World Alliance for Arts Education, with other colleagues, organized a panel, where we discussed and presented the importance of monitoring of the implementation of such a valued document.

WFME World Conference 2025 Proceedings The World Federation for Medical Education (WFME) World Conference 2025 25-28 May 2025, Bangkok, Thailand.

Cancer in a drop: Liquid biopsy highlights from the World Conference on Lung Cancer (WCLC) 2025

Culture and development are two words which can never reach the goal without going hand to hand together. Culture can contribute to a better quality of life, the other name of which is ?Development?. Global development discourse increasingly acknowledges that culture is not a peripheral concept but a central determinant of economic, social and human development. International bodies such as UNESCO and UNDP recognize cultural diversity, cultural capital, and cultural freedom as drivers of sustainable development. A report by UNESCO Houses noted that cultural and creative industries contribute over 3.1% of global GDP and around 6.2% of global employment. Similarly, cultural tourism accounts for nearly 40% of global tourism revenue, generating millions of livelihoods in developing economies. In the World Conference of UNESCO on Cultural Policies and Sustainable Development - MONDIACULT 2022, a declaration was adopted affirming culture as a 'global public good'. These declarations have grounded culture at the heart of public policy and international cooperation by recognising its essential value for sustainable development. (UNESCO, 2023). This paper examines the multi-dimensional role of culture-including cultural values, traditional knowledge, cultural industries, creative economies, institutions and social norms-in influencing development outcomes. Drawing from literature and global data, the study argues that culture is not only a facilitator but often a precondition for inclusive and sustainable development.

ABSTRACT Background This article reports on the prevalence of registration of empirical studies presented at three editions of the World Conference on Research Integrity at the time of abstract submission. Methods During registration and abstract submission, applicants were invited to answer questions on registration of the study they presented and their academic background. Results Descriptive analyses of the responses regarding a total of 452 abstracts describing empirical studies showed that the prevalence of registration among presenters of empirical research did not increase across the three WCRIs, and was on average 28%. The verifiability of claims of registration did increase over time, however, from 44% to 88% of the abstracts of empirical studies claimed to be registered. Reasons given for not registering varied substantially, but little faith in its usefulness and unfamiliarity were frequently mentioned. Younger researchers tended to register more often than others, and researchers with a biomedical background registered more frequently. Conclusion We suggest simplifying the registration process and propose that funding agencies, research institutes, and scholarly journals should demand registration of empirical studies.

Gender, as a relatively new and complex concept, is enriched with new meanings over the years, which one is determined by the social, political, economic and cultural contexts of the existence of women and men. The implementation of Gender, as a system of values, norms and models of behavior of women and men, involves ensuring of equal rights and opportunities for both sexes in the state through the implementation of gender policy. The effectiveness of the implementation of the state policy is determined by the presence of the mechanism, the effectiveness of one is determined by appropriate legislation, public administration and financial resources. The article analyzes the international legal basis of gender-responsive budgeting. The principle of adequacy of funding for gender policy and concepts of “gender-responsive budgeting”/“gender-responsive budget” were proposed at the Fourth World Conference on Women (Beijing, 1995, September 4-15). 189 United Nations Member States, including Ukraine, adopted and signed the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, committing to promote gender equality through effective and efficient state policies and development programs. Currently, about 100 states have experience in implementing gender- responsive budget initiatives and using a gender-responsive approach in public finance management, which indicates the widespread application practice of providing budget support for the implementation of state gender policy measures. The national legal basis of gender-responsive budgeting are part of scientific interest. The legal regulation of gender policy in Ukraine is based on the established legislative framework in the Constitution of Ukraine, 28.06.1996 and the Law of Ukraine “On Ensuring Equal Rights and Opportunities for Women and Men”, 08.09.2005 No. 2866-IV. However, the application of a gender-responsive approach in the budget process has been hampered for a long time due to the lack of relevant norms in the relevant (budgetary) legislation. The recently adopted Law of Ukraine “On Amendments to the Budget Code of Ukraine Regarding the Update and Improvement of Certain Provisions”, 16.01.2025 No. 4225-IX (entry into force 05.03.2025) regulate the consideration of gender aspects by participants in the budget process during planning, implementation and reporting on the implementation of budget programs. At the same time, the issue of adapting gender-based budgeting to the conditions of martial law and post-war reconstruction of Ukraine requires studying. All of the above indicates the relevance, theoretical and practical significance of the conducted scientific research.

The Euro-American Consortium for Promoting the Application of Mathematics in Technical and Natural Sciences organized its 17th annual conference of the series AMiTaNS (Application of Mathematics in Technical and Natural Sciences). The event took place during June 24-29, 2025 in the Congress Centre of Black-Sea resort of Albena, Bulgaria. Its aim was to foster existing and new personal contacts, scientific discussion as well as to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas and experience between specialists in the fields of Mathematics, Physics, Biology, Ecology, Economics, Computer Science and Technology. The event became a world conference covering 15 time zones between Chile and Nebraska through Texas, Alabama, Florida, the UK, Europe, Cyprus, Turkiye, Russia, and China. The conference was managed from the Congress Centre in Albena where 30 participants, accompanying persons and delegates were present in person and the other 30 attended the event on-line via Zoom video platform. This year we registered around 70 talks and scientific reports, including 5 plenary lectures and 4 keynote talks, more than 60 participants – contributors and delegates from 14 countries around the world, representing the continents of Europe, North and South America, Asia, and Africa. About 30% of them attended the conference for the first time. The accepted talks were delivered and attended both on-location at the big hall and Corolla hall in Flamingo Grand hotel and on-line. Every day the morning sessions started by plenary lectures followed by keynote talks and contributed sessions on the following topics: Applied Analysis, Continuum Mechanics, Mathematical Physics, Numerical Methods, Scientific Computing, Mathematical Modeling in Economy and Finance, E-Learning. As part of the program, it was organized special session Interdisciplinary Frontier with 12 scientific reports. The reader can find comprehensive and detailed information about the talks and reports including their records on the conference website at http://2025.eac4amitans.eu. All contributed manuscripts were reviewed by anonymous independent referees via Morressier platform, and the approved revised manuscripts were accepted for publication in the present volume. The continued success of AMiTaNS enhances its reputation as an established annual meeting with an eminent and continuously growing core of contributors. Yet, the hybrid format turned out very flexible both for the organizers and contributors. It makes the conference accessible to all those who wish to attend either in person or remotely. We would like to thank the plenary and keynote speakers, who accepted our invitation and contributed to the conference through their elucidating lectures and talks. We would also like to thank the special session organizers, hosts and co-hosts for the high scientific quality of the talks they selected, and for ensuring the smooth running of the conference in hybrid format. We are deeply indebted to the scores of anonymous referees all over the world, who approached their duties very professionally and thoroughly, and helped us to maintain high scientific standards. We highly appreciate the involvement of the members of the Program Committee and Steering Committee, who supported AMiTaNS from its inception, and worked tirelessly throughout the intensive labors of advertising, arranging, organizing, and reviewing. Special thanks go to our colleagues from the University of Essex at Colchester, UK, who worked with dedication so that parallel Zoom conference sessions could be held completely on-line. List of Program Committee, Organizer, Sponsor and List of Participants are available in this PDF.

World Conference on Qualitative Research (WCQR) is an annual gathering that brings scholars from around the world. The conference continues to uphold the highest standards of freedom, ethical integrity, and transparency in the unwavering commitment to improve the quality in qualitative scholarship across national borders. The articles that comprise this issue navigate methodological challenges in qualitative research and seek to bring clarity when exploring and explaining truths of social phenomena. The proposed approaches to data collection and analysis demonstrate excellence in creative synthesis of techniques to decern questions of methodology, contributing to enhancements in trustworthiness of qualitative studies.

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The NGO sector is not only a contentious site in which global and national politics materializes, but also where precarity manifests itself unevenly in the gendered, racialized, and classed bodies that inhabit those spaces. In China, NGOs have become the major forms through which feminist and LGBT grassroots organizing take shape since the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995. This paper examines how state repression and the neoliberal logics of professionalization within NGOization politicize and precaritize feminist and LGBT rights-based work. Building on critical scholarship bridging analysis of precarity as a labor condition with the notion of ontological precariousness, this paper explores how feminist and LGBT activist-workers in China negotiate labor/work along the hierarchies of gender, sexuality, race, urbanity/rurality, and seniority. I argue that precarity is both material and affective, manifesting in the differential devaluation and exploitation of activist workers’ emotional and physical labor, particularly for those facing compounded forms of oppression due to their intersectional identities, as well as the silencing of difficult feelings by hierarchical relations within movement spaces. I suggest that the feelings that fuel the resistance—such as hope, desire, and camaraderie—often lead to structurally unrealizable aspirations and reproduce racial, class, and age disparities within NGOs. It produces unintended and contradictory affective consequences of mental fatigue, frustration, and feelings of betrayal that further perpetuate precarity. This paper contributes to advancing not only state-centered studies of feminist and LGBT activism but also global aid and development literature from perspectives of labor precarity, affect, and intersectionality.