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The development of modern societies is based on the latest concepts of the knowledge economy and knowledge society, which implies sectoral and disciplinary connection and integration of all available knowledge of a society and putting it into the function of achieving social goals (development). The purpose of this paper is to look at the scope of this concept in the world and make a comparison with the degree of knowledge application and integration of science in Serbia, with a focus on social sciences. Accordingly, an overview of general global trends and challenges in the field of social sciences, education, and the application of knowledge is given first. After that, examples of good practice and one case study (Social Science Research Park in Great Britain) are presented. Then the state of social sciences (and their practical application) in the Republic of Serbia was analysed. It was observed that there is a solid institutional framework for the development and networking of knowledge, but also that there are open questions and problems that need to be worked on in the future. In the final part of the work, potential solutions were offered for the identified challenges that could contribute to mitigating the observed problems and more effectively achieving the set goals.

Cyber-physical-social systems (CPSS) as an emerging computing paradigm are revolutionizing the relationship between humans, devices and physical environments and will be expected to have a fundamental impact and influence in our daily lives. In a typical CPSS scenario, plenty of nodes (or devices) often adopt wireless distributed contention protocols to transmit sensed environment states for decision making. Therefore, designing a high-efficient and collision-less contention protocol is of great importance for wireless networking. As is known, in the classic time-to-frequency (T2F) protocol, each node signals on one randomly chosen subcarrier for contention. Though reducing the conventional time-domain contention time, T2F leads to many contention collisions (i.e., multiple nodes choose the same subcarrier) when the number of nodes is large. Aiming at this challenge, in this paper, we propose M-T2F (where each node signals on multiple randomly chosen subcarriers for contention) and analyze its consensus achievement. Specifically, M-T2F supports more nodes for transmission but introduces less collision, benefiting from lots of multicarrier choice combinations. Since the subset relationship between subcarrier choices poses a challenge to reach a consensus among nodes, M-T2F enables all nodes to reach a consensus by excluding the subset relationship and reduces contention time by utilizing wireless broadcast characteristic

Der Beitrag untersucht auf der Basis einer qualitativen Feldforschung die Auswirkungen rechter Orientierungen und von damit verbundenen Kampagnenstrategien, Einflussnahmen und Angriffen auf unterschiedliche Beratungsfelder. Es handelt sich um eine erste Analyse von Expert:inneninterviews, die mit der Grounded Theory ausgewertet wurden. Die sich fortsetzenden Aktivitäten und die Etablierung rechter Orientierungen im Sinne einzelner Phänomene gruppenbezogener Menschenfeindlichkeit verändern die Beratungsarbeit, fordern sie zu mehrdimensionalen Vernetzungsaktivitäten auf und stellen Fragen an die zukünftige Ausgestaltung von Beratung. Based on qualitative field research, this paper examines the impact of right-wing orientations and related campaign strategies, influence and attacks on different fields of counseling. It is a first analysis of expert interviews, which were analyzed with Grounded Theory. The continuing activities and the establishment of right-wing orientations in terms of individual phenomena of group-related misanthropy change the work of counseling and challenge it to multidimensional networking activities and pose questions for the future design of counseling.

This document focuses on describing and analysing the use cases that will demonstrate and validate the technologies to be tested in the PREDICT-6G project and establish the system requirements necessary to achieve the project's goals. Each use case will be described, outlining the targets and KPIs, and analysing the technical components and systems, based on a common definition of the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that will be used to analyse and evaluate the technologies used in the project and a standard methodology to compare the uses case, which are described in this document. Taking this in account, a traffic characterization and the system requirements for the projects are also define in this document, as well as, an initial explanation of the architectural and security requirements.

ESnet provides a platform for moving large data sets and accelerating worldwide scientific collaboration. It provides high-bandwidth, reliable connections that link scientists at national laboratories, universities and other research institutions, enabling them to collaborate on some of the world's most important scientific challenges including renewable energy sources, climate science, and the origins of the universe. ESnet has embarked on a major project to provide substantial visibility into the inner-workings of the network by aggregating diverse data sources, exposing them via web services, and visualizing them with user-centered interfaces. The portal’s strategy is driven by understanding the needs and requirements of ESnet’s user community and carefully providing interfaces to the data to meet those needs. The 'MyESnet Portal ' allows users to monitor, troubleshoot, and understand the real time operations of the network and its associated services. This paper will describe the MyESnet portal and the process of developing it. The data for the portal comes from a wide variety of sources: homegrown systems, commercial products, and even peer networks. Some visualizations from the portal are presented highlighting some interesting and unusual cases such as power consumption and flow data. Developing effective user interfaces is an iterative process. When a new feature is released, users are both interviewed and observed using the site. From this process valuable insights were found concerning what is important to the users and other features and services they may also want. Open source tools were used to build the portal and the pros and cons of these tools are discussed

Continuing our series of conversations with female leaders in the global crop science community with Beatrice Elohor Ifie,Senior Research Fellow in Plant Breeding at the Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences (IBERS), Aberystwyth University.

In socioeconomic environments affected by high and persistent income inequalities and unemployment, there is a need for participative approaches to innovation in support of socioeconomic inclusion. This article explores the features of collective action, in support of socioeconomic inclusion, identified in South African maker communities. Drawing on data from interviews with participants in seven maker communities, the study explores the kinds of value that participants experience through being part of these communities. Value creation is assessed in terms of the five overlapping cycles of value that Wenger et al. (2011) propose are present in successful communities and networks: immediate value, potential value, applied value, realised value, and reframing value. The study finds that all five value cycles are present in the experiences expressed by the South African maker community participants. The value is found to be particularly pronounced in the immediate value and applied value cycles. In respect of socioeconomic inclusion, the findings point to strong currents of social inclusion in the immediate value cycle, and strong elements of both social and economic inclusion in the applied value, realised value, and reframing value cycles.

On Wednesday 30th November 2022, the CIMMYT Nairobi office held another successful Women in Crop Science coffee morning event (the third event for the group in 2022!). Different from the last two coffee morning events, we had the honor to welcome a guest speaker, the wonderful and brilliant Dr. Susan Kaaria, Director of the African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD). Through a fireside chat moderated by Dorine Odongo, the Senior Communication Manager at AWARD.

After the success of the first series of global Women in Crop Science coffee mornings held during September 2022, we organized a second global event series during the week of 20-24th March 2023. This had the same intention: to bring together women working in Crop Science! This time we had 20 hosts from 14 different countries organizing a local event within their organization, institution, or university. This report summarizes some of the discussions and recommendations from the coffee mornings.

My technical work and STS research are closely related as they both revolve around the importance of keeping users’ personal data safe and secure on the internet. My technical work improves the onboarding process of computer networking, which is the transfer and storage of personal data in a network. Meanwhile, my STS research explores the Facebook Cambridge Analytica scandal which involved the unethical sharing of personal data. Ultimately, both of these topics focus on and prioritize the importance of protecting user data with the same end goal to increase awareness of the necessity of user data protection and privacy measures. In my technical work, my capstone team and I made improvements to a cloud-based networking onboarding system by developing a user-friendly interface that enables users to efficiently and accurately automate their network. A network engineer works with an enterprise client by gathering and transferring data in the process of setting up a network, known as this onboarding phase. Our evaluation of the existing workflow revealed several issues and gaps including a lack of streamlined communication, disorganized task management, and an insufficient understanding of networking. As a result, our design introduced three novel features: 1) a task-based structure that centralizes resources, 2) a graphical map for evaluating the status of dependent tasks, and 3) embedded learning resources for furthering knowledge of networking. Thus, our newly designed interface effectively overcomes the challenges seen between enterprises and network engineers to allow for a more straightforward and successful onboarding process to occur. In my STS research, I explored the Facebook Cambridge Analytica scandal where the personal data of over 87 million Facebook users was exploited by Cambridge Analytica to target voters for political advertising purposes. Current analyses of the scandal are quick to blame all parties involved and fail to consider exactly how much of a role each of the parties individually contribute to the case. Therefore, when first identifying actors with Actor-Network theory, and second using the conditions for responsibility to assign blame to these actors, I argue that Facebook is morally responsible for the scandal because it meets all the necessary conditions for responsibility. Facebook’s ultimate mistake was its failure to prioritize and protect personal user data, exemplified by its lack of supervision on the third-party developers that have access to user data. These conditions for responsibility include engaging in wrong-doing, repeatedly contributing to the incident, being able to foresee the consequences, and having the freedom of action. In addition to Facebook, the other main actors include Cambridge Analytica, Aleksandr Kogan, and Facebook users, who all cannot be held entirely responsible for the incident since they individually fail to meet all four conditions for responsibility. Learning about the Facebook Cambridge Analytica scandal in parallel with developing a networking onboarding interface was beneficial to ensure our interface is intuitive and secure enough to prioritize the protection of user data. My STS research on the Facebook Cambridge Analytica scandal taught me the protection of user data should be considered in creating any system that holds personal data. On the other hand, my technical work allowed me to view the Facebook Cambridge Analytica scandal on the internal developers’ side instead of solely looking at the management and policies behind the scandal. Overall, the result of my technical work supported by my STS research encouraged me to consider the best practices behind keeping personal data safe and secure so it does not get into the hands of unauthorized entities.

White paper: Accelerating the adoption of the circular economy in the tourism and leisure sector: the 3-M Framework as the foundation of circular entrepreneurship The white paper proposed several recommendations that could be considered by tourism entrepreneurs to accelerate their adoption of circular economy solutions.The white paper proposed several recommendations that could be considered by tourism entrepreneurs to accelerate their adoption of circular economy solutions. Firstly, the white paper suggested that the entrepreneurs need to establish their own take on the meanings and purpose of being circular. This is essential in motivating their willingness to adopt circular solutions. Entrepreneurs’ meaning was associated with the entrepreneurs’ knowledge and concern with global challenges and their understanding of the many benefits that circular economy solutions can generate, both for the business, destination and for the global community. Yet, while it is the role of public sector led planning stakeholders to develop and promote awareness programmes, tourism entrepreneurs can still adopt actions that improve their understanding of challenges and the role of the circular economy. These actions were associated with the entrepreneurs’ effort to master their skills for a circular economy, such as by improving their understanding of the environmental footprint of their business operations, what circular economy solutions can be implemented, their benefits, and how they can be successfully managed. Moreover, it was deemed relevant – to the successful implementation and management of circular economy solutions - for the entrepreneurs to identify and prioritise sustainable promotional channels. Moreover, where necessary, it was highlighted the need to appoint a circular economy manager or extend responsibilities of existing staff, find and access alternative financing options, and support awareness campaigns on the circular economy within the organisation and the destination community. The white paper concluded by suggesting the importance for entrepreneurs to be part of innovative networks and communities which would allow them to gain and share knowledge and implement and manage circular economy solutions at the destination level. Therefore, working together is crucial for a successful circular economy in destinations. This white paper is the last of a series of three white papers published by the 2Seas Interreg project FACET. A First white paper provided recommendations to local authorities on how to support tourism entrepreneurs, and especially SMEs, in the implementation of circular solutions, and a second white paper, mainly targeted towards tourism SMEs presented reward-based crowdfunding as one of the available financing options to fund the implementation of a circular economy in tourist destinations.

Community health workers (CHW) can play an active role in providing integrated HIV and harm reduction services. We used social media to create a virtual network among Vietnamese CHW. This paper reports CHW's social media engagement and the relationships with other work-related indicators. Sixty CHW participated in an intervention for integrated HIV/drug use service delivery. Following two in-person sessions, Facebook groups were established for CHW to share information, seek consultation, and refer patients. CHW's levels of online engagements were tracked for six months and linked to their service provision confidence, interaction with patients and other providers, and job satisfaction. The CHW made 181 posts, which received 557 comments and 1,607 reactions during the six months. Among the 60 CHW, 22 (36.6%) had three or more posts, 19 (31.7%) had one or two posts, and 19 (31.7%) had no post. Comparing the baseline and 6-month follow-up data, we observed that those who posted three or more times showed better service provision confidence (p = 0.0081), more interaction with providers in other settings (p = 0.0071), and higher job satisfaction (p = 0.0268). Our study suggests using social media to engage CHW in virtual communications to improve service provision in communities.

Contains fulltext : 250295.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access) Previous research has shown that passive social media use does not have the same positive effects on well-being as active social media use. However, it is currently unclear whether these effects can be attributed to the benefits of active use, the costs of passive use, or both. The current article investigated the effect of active and passive Facebook use on feelings of social connectedness after being ostracized. In two preregistered experiments, participants were first ostracized on a faux social media platform, followed by a measurement of social connectedness. In Experiment 1 they were then instructed to either use Facebook passively, use Facebook actively, or use a non-social website (Wikipedia), after which social connectedness was measured again. Results indicated that active Facebook use can restore social connectedness after being ostracized as compared to using a non-social website. While passive Facebook use also restored social connectedness, it did not change social connectedness significantly more so than Wikipedia use. In Experiment 2, we replicated Experiment 1, now focusing only on passive Facebook use compared to a non-social website. Results showed again that passive Facebook use did not influence social connectedness more so than the use of Wikipedia. In exploratory analyses, we found that for participants who felt close to other Facebook users, passive Facebook use did increase social connectedness compared to using a non-social website. These experiments suggest that, even though passive social media use does not restore social connectedness in the same way that active social media use does, it also does not harm social connectedness, and it may actually promote social connectedness under certain circumstances. 11 p.

This document summarises the networking activities performed in the project to seek synergies and ensure cooperation with other related H2020 funded projects, in particular with those which are represented at the BRIDGE initiative, and with industrial groups through collaboration, liaison and clustering with industry platforms and H2020 projects. Moreover, it collates the marketing strategy and activities developed to create the PLATOON Community.

This document summarises the networking activities performed in the project to seek synergies and ensure cooperation with other related H2020 funded projects, in particular with those which are represented at the BRIDGE initiative, and with industrial groups through collaboration, liaison and clustering with industry platforms and H2020 projects. Moreover, it collates the marketing strategy and activities developed to create the PLATOON Community. This document is the second and final version of deliverable “D7.5 Report on Networking activities” which includes the updates concerning new collaborations with initiatives,/projects since V1 deliverable which was submitted in June 2021 (M18).

This document summarises the networking activities performed in the project to seek synergies and ensure cooperation with other related H2020 funded projects, in particular with those which are represented at the BRIDGE initiative, and with industrial groups through collaboration, liaison and clustering with industry platforms and H2020 projects. Moreover, it collates the marketing strategy and activities developed to create the PLATOON Community.

This document summarises the networking activities performed in the project to seek synergies and ensure cooperation with other related H2020 funded projects, in particular with those which are represented at the BRIDGE initiative, and with industrial groups through collaboration, liaison and clustering with industry platforms and H2020 projects. Moreover, it collates the marketing strategy and activities developed to create the PLATOON Community. This document is the second and final version of deliverable “D7.5 Report on Networking activities” which includes the updates concerning new collaborations with initiatives,/projects since V1 deliverable which was submitted in June 2021 (M18).

This document summarises the composition, objectives and action plan for PLATOON Community Portal. It also resumes the information (trends, news, events, technology news, funding opportunities), inspiration (exclusive content curated by experts and interlocutors: live chats, Q&As…), support (experts will advise, but members can also create synergies and build partnerships) and connections (by networking with people interested in the digitisation of the energy sector domain) given by the community portal to the project.

This document summarises the composition, objectives and action plan for PLATOON Community Portal. It also resumes the information (trends, news, events, technology news, funding opportunities), inspiration (exclusive content curated by experts and interlocutors: live chats, Q&As…), support (experts will advise, but members can also create synergies and build partnerships) and connections (by networking with people interested in the digitisation of the energy sector domain) given by the community portal to the project.

Ethical networks are an emerging form of social alliance based on collaboration between organizations that share a common ethical commitment. Grounded in a theoretical framework of virtue-based business ethics and focusing on nonprofit alliances, this study investigates the virtuousness of ethical networks; that is, how they trigger virtuous practices in their member nonprofit organizations. Adopting a qualitative grounded theory approach, the study focuses on one of the largest Italian ethical networks of nonprofit organizations operating in the social care sector. The findings show that shared ethical values and religious beliefs are positively associated with ethical network building. Based on these findings, a circular model of virtuousness is proposed in which ethical networks foster virtuous practices among their members at four levels: (1) the strategic orientation level, (2) the institutional level, (3) the organizational level, and (4) the relational level. At each of these levels, ethical networks foster a habituation to virtues and the propagation of virtuous behaviors among their members. Theoretical, practical, and social implications of the research findings are discussed.

В статье представлена модель STEAMS-подхода к созданию развивающей среды и профессионального самоопределения обучающихся. Актуальность проблемы определяется новизной подхода к организации профориентационной работы со школьниками, вариантами интеграции урочной и внеурочной деятельности для формирования компетенций профессий будущего у обучающихся, отражен опыт работы инновационной площадки. Предпосылками исследования стали следующие проблемы: высокая значимость внедрения в школы инновационных решений и обучения школьников новым профессиям будущего. Цель статьи: анализ существующей проблемы в фокусе современных вызовов и образовательной политики, социального партнерства и сетевого взаимодействия. В качестве методологического основания берется широкий контекст образовательных и социальных преобразований. Раскрывается модель STEAMS-подхода и сетевого взаимодействия инновационных площадок. Делаются выводы о результате экспериментальной работы и перспективах предложенной модели организационно-педагогического сопровождения профессионального самоопределения обучающихся как эффективной образовательной практики., The article presents the STEAMS model of the approach to creating a developing environment and professional self-determination of students. The relevance of the problem is determined by the novelty of the approach to organizing career guidance work with schoolchildren, options for integrating classroom and extracurricular activities to form the competencies of the professions of the future among students, reflects the experience of the innovation platform. The prerequisites for the study were the following problems: the high importance of introducing innovative solutions into schools and teaching schoolchildren new professions of the future. The purpose of the article is to analyze the existing problem in the focus of modern challenges and educational policy, social partnership and networking. The broad context of educational and social transformations is taken as a methodological basis. The model of STEAMS approach and network interaction of innovative platforms is revealed. Conclusions are drawn about the result of the experimental work and the prospects of the proposed model of organizational and pedagogical support for the professional self-determination of students as an effective educational practice.

Introduction: The Pan-African Consortium for the Evaluation of Anti-Tuberculosis Antibiotics (PanACEA) was designed to build tuberculosis (TB) trial capacity whilst conducting clinical trials on novel and existing agents to shorten and simplify TB treatment. PanACEA has now established a dynamic network of 11 sub-Saharan clinical trial sites and four European research institutions. Objectives: In 2011, a capacity development program, funded by the European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP), was launched with four objectives, aiming at strengthening collaborating TB research sites to reach the ultimate goal of becoming self-sustainable institutions: networking; training; conducting clinical trials; and infrastructure scaling-up of sites. Methods: Assessment in six sub-Saharan TB-endemic countries (Gabon, Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia) were performed through a structured questionnaire, site visits, discussion with the PanACEA consortium, setting of milestones and identification of priorities and followed-up with evaluations of each site. The results of this needs-based assessment was then translated into capacity development measures. Results: In the initial phase, over a four-year period (March 2011 – June 2014), the programme scaled-up six sites; conducted a monitoring training program for 11 participants; funded five MSc and four PhD students, fostering gender balance; conducted four epidemiological studies; supported sites to conduct five Phase II studies and formed a sustainable platform for TB research (panacea-tb.net). Conclusion: Our experience of conducting TB clinical trials within the PanACEA programme environment of mentoring, networking and training has provided a sound platform for establishing future sustainable research centres. Our goal of facilitating emergent clinical TB trial sites to better initiate and lead research activities has been mostly successful.

ZusammenfassungVirtuelles Netzwerken ist seit Beginn der Corona-Pandemie ein zentrales Mittel geworden, um sich zu vernetzen. Mit dem einschneidenden Ereignis von COVID-19 sind zahlreiche Alternativen zu traditionellen Netzwerkveranstaltungen wie Messen, Abendessen etc. entstanden. Hierbei traten jedoch auch viele Hürden auf, etwa die fehlende Menschlichkeit oder das zweidimensionale Erscheinungsbild im digitalen Raum. Ein Ansatz diese Herausforderungen zu überwinden, liegt in der Kombination von erweiterter Realität (engl. augmented reality (AR)) und Holografie. Um die technische Machbarkeit dieses Ansatzes zu überprüfen, haben wir mit AR-Experten und Kunden gesprochen und die Faktoren für und gegen die Nutzung von AR und Holografie zum Netzwerken diskutiert. Unsere Ergebnisse zeigen, dass die Experten und Kunden hohes Potenzial in der Kombination sehen. Doch mangelt es momentan noch an technologischen Lösungen, um dies breitenwirksam einsetzen zu können. Die Experten und Kunden sind sich resümierend einig, dass es, basierend auf den aktuellen technischen Entwicklungen im Bereich AR und Holografie, in naher Zukunft dafür Lösungen geben wird und die Kombination von AR und Holografie dann eine gute Alternative zum Netzwerken darstellen kann. Daraus folgern wir, dass ortsunabhängiges Netzwerken mit AR und Holografie eine Welt zum Wohlfühlen für die Nutzenden schafft und einen klaren Mehrwert darstellt.

Il networking è una strategia che ha come obiettivo la gestione della propria rete di conoscenze per acquisire informazioni in modo informale, in particolare, su possibili proposte lavorative non pubblicizzate mediante inserzioni. Senza una solida rete di contatti le persone in cerca di lavoro incontreranno maggiori ostacoli nel loro percorso. Nello specifico contesto italiano la maggior parte delle opportunità professionali sono nascoste e regolate da un processo di passaparola.Focus della presente ricerca è quello di descrivere come il networking venga percepito e utilizzato dai partecipanti a percorsi di outplacement per valutarne un suo possibile utilizzo come strategia per il reinserimento lavorativo. Il questionario prende in esame le tre dimensioni del networking (intensità, qualità e atteggiamento) oltre alle capacità comunicative, all'autoefficacia, alla personalitàproattiva e alla resilienza.La ricerca, svolta in collaborazione con Intoo, società leader nei servizi di outplacement in Italia, ha coinvolto 146 disoccupati attivi con un'età media di 46.94 anni.Differenze significative si sono riscontrate per due dimensioni del networking: per l'intensità in rapporto al genere e per l'atteggiamento con l'ultimo ruololavorativo ricoperto dai partecipanti.Non sono emerse differenze significative per quanto riguarda età, titolo di studio e periodo trascorso dall'inizio del percorso di outplacement e le dimensioni del networking. Tali dimensioni presentano tutte correlazioni positive e significative con i costrutti di personalità. Vengono discussi implicazioni e limiti dello studio.

International audience; New services with low-latency (LL) requirements are one of the major challenges for the envisioned Internet. Many optimizations targeting the latency reduction have been proposed, and among them, jointly rearchitecting congestion control and active queue management (AQM) has been particularly considered. In this effort, the L4S (Low Latency, Low Loss and Scalable Throughput) proposal aims at allowing both Classic and LL traffic to cohabit within a single node architecture. Although this architecture sounds promising for latency improvement, it can be exploited by an attacker to perform malicious actions whose purposes are to defeat its LL feature and consequently make their supported applications unusable. In this paper, we exploit different vulnerabilities of L4S which are the root of possible attacks and we show that application-layer protocols such as QUIC can easily be hacked in order to exploit the over-sensitivity of those new services to network variations. By implementing such undesirable flows in a real testbed and characterizing how they impact the proper delivery of LL flows, we demonstrate their reality and give insights for research directions on their detection.; De nouveaux services avec des exigences de faible latence constituent un des défis majeurs de l'Internet envisagé pour le futur. Beaucoup d'optimisations ciblant la latence ont été proposés, et parmi elles, la ré-architecture conjointe du contrôle de congestion avec la gestion active des files d'attentes a été particulièrement considéré. Dans cette optique, la proposition L4S (Low Latency, Low Loss and Scalable Throughput) vise à permettre la coexistence entre du trafic classique et du trafic faible latence au sein du même noeud réseau. Bien que cette architecture semble prometteuse pour l'amélioration de la latence, elle peut être exploitée par un attaquant réalisant des actions malicieuses ayant pour but de déjouer la garantie de faible latence, rendant de fait les services associés instables.Dans cet article, nous exploitons différentes vulnérabilités de L4S qui sont au coeur des attaques possibles et nous montrons que des protocoles de niveau applicatif tel que QUIC peuvent être facilement détournés dans le but d'exploiter l'hypersensibilité de ces nouveaux services aux variations réseaux. En implémentant de tels flux indésirables dans un banc de tests réaliste, et en caractérisant de quelle manière ils impactent la cadence de livraison des paquets des flux faibles latence, nous démontrons leur réalité et donnons des pistes de recherche pour leur détection.

We continue our Women in Crop Science conversation with one of the nicest individuals I know. I had the pleasure to ask some questions to Aparna Das, Technical Program Manager for the Global Maize Program at CIMMYT (International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center). But maybe more interesting, convenor of the WIRES (Women in Research and Science; https://gdi.cgiar.org/erg-hub/wires/) organizing group. WIRES is a vibrant new voluntary employee resource group that’s dedicated to championing and supporting women within the CGIAR.

Little is known on how students experience navigating the field between disciplinary boundaries and interdisciplinary educational contexts. Therefore, it is of great concern to explore how this kind of interdisciplinary doctoral education is perceived and can contribute to their preparation for interdisciplinary research on ageing and health. The overall ambition with this paper is, therefore, to describe the establishment and development of one novel interdisciplinary Research School by using The Swedish National Graduate School for Competitive Science on Ageing and Health (SWEAH) as case example. Moreover, to explore doctoral students' perceptions of being part of SWEAH and to provide implications and recommendations for institutions and supervisors to accomplish an interdisciplinary Graduate School aiming to prepare junior researchers for strong careers in interedisciplinary research on ageing and health. The aim is to describe the development of a novel interdisciplinary graduate school, using the Swedish National Graduate School for Competitive Science on Ageing and Health (SWEAH) as a case example. We explore doctoral students’ perceptions of being part of SWEAH and provide implications for practice. Written self-reports reflecting 78 students’ experiences and perceptions were analyzed using thematic analysis. The findings reveal that affiliation with SWEAH is highly valued. The students emphasized the tailored courses and learning activities and reported that it was instrumental in deepening their knowledge and broadening their research perspectives. The findings demonstrate how students navigate between disciplinary and interdisciplinary contexts and become enculturated with intellectual mindset and understanding of the importance of network building. The graduate school adds an interdisciplinary layer of learning, influenced by peers and researchers, and demonstrates the importance of community building within interdisciplinary environments and how it can be achieved.

Background The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has demonstrated the value of highly skilled and extensively trained specialists in clinical microbiology (CM) and infectious diseases (ID). Training curricula in CM and ID must constantly evolve to prepare trainees for future pandemics and to allow trainees to reach their full clinical and academic potential. Objectives In this narrative review, we aim to outline necessary future adaptations in CM and ID training curricula and identify current structural barriers in training with the aim of discussing possibilities to address these shortcomings. Sources We reviewed literature from PubMed and included selected books and online publications as appropriate. There was no time constraint on the included publications. Content Drawing from the lessons learnt during the pandemic, we summarize novel digital technologies relevant to CM and ID trainees and highlight interdisciplinary teamwork and networking skills as important competencies. We centre CM and ID training within the One Health framework and discuss gender inequalities and structural racism as barriers in both CM and ID training and patient care. Implications CM and ID trainees should receive training and support developing skills in novel digital technologies, leadership, interdisciplinary teamwork and networking. Equally important is the need for equity of opportunity, with firm commitments to end gender inequality and structural racism in CM and ID. Policy-makers and CM and ID societies should ensure that trainees are better equipped to achieve their professional goals and are better prepared for the challenges awaiting in their fields.

Leseprobe ----- Zusammenfassung Eine zentrale Erwartung an Familienzentren ist die Familienorientierung und diese geht mit der Aufforderung zu multiprofessioneller Kooperation und Vernetzung einher. Im Zentrum dieses Beitrags steht die Frage, wie Familienzentren ihre multiprofessionellen Kooperations- und Vernetzungsstrukturen angesichts dieser Erwartung gestalten. Das Phanomen wird dabei aus der Perspektive des Neo-Institutionalismus betrachtet und als Ubersetzungsprozess verstanden: Anhand zweier exemplarischer Falle wird aufgezeigt, dass Familienzentren ihr Handeln an dieser Erwartung ausrichten. Dabei werden allerdings Anpassungen sichtbar, welche aus den Handlungslogiken organisationaler Akteur*innen angesichts vielfaltiger institutioneller Erwartungen resultieren. Durch die Ubersetzungen zeigen sich zwei unterschiedliche Formen der Familienorientierung und Konstrukte von Multiprofessionalitat. Das organisationale Handeln im Kontext multiprofessioneller Kooperation und Vernetzung stellt somit ein vielschichtiges Phanomen dar, welches durch unterschiedliche institutionelle Erwartungen an das organisationale Feld der Familienzentren gerahmt wird. Gleiches gilt fur die Kooperations- und Vernetzungsstrukturen. Schlagworter: Familienzentrum, Multiprofessionalitat, Familienorientierung, Neo-Institutionalismus, Ubersetzung ----- Institutional expectations as a framework of multi-professional cooperation and network structures of family centers. Action logics of organizational actors Abstract A central expectation of family centers is family orientation. At the same time, this expectation is combined with the request for multi-professional cooperation and networking. This article focuses on the question of how family centers organize their multi-professional cooperation and network structures regarding this expectation. The described phenomenon is considered from the perspective of neo-institutionalism and is understood as a translation process: Using two exemplary cases, it can be revealed that family centers align their actions towards this expectation. However, in this process adaptations become visible that result from the action logics of organizational actors regarding diverse institutional expectations. The translations thereby reveal two forms of family orientation and different constructs of multi-professionalism. In the context of multi-professional cooperation and networking, organizational action represents a complex phenomenon that is framed by different institutional expectations of the organizational field of family centers. This also includes cooperation and network structures. Keywords: Family center, multi-professionalism, family orientation, neo-institutionalism, translation ----- Bibliographie: Schilling, Carina: Institutionelle Erwartungen als Rahmen multiprofessioneller Kooperations- und Vernetzungsstrukturen von Familienzentren. Handlungslogiken organisationaler Akteur*innen, Diskurs Kindheits- und Jugendforschung / Discourse. Journal of Childhood and Adolescence Research, 3-2021, S. 300-314. https://doi.org/10.3224/diskurs.v16i3.04

Purpose: The research aimed at investigating the pre-conditions and the decision-making process by which physician-entrepreneurs adopt CBHCS as part of their business. Method: The study uses the case method of investigation. Main results: Results showed that, in the cases studied, international experience and international networking are relevant characteristics of the physician-entrepreneur, besides country reputation, cultural and language similarities, and physician reputation. In addition, the decision processes of the physician-entrepreneurs in these organizations are based on an effectual logic. The offer of cross-border health care services was a combination of given means and contingencies, which helped the entrepreneurs to discover, or to create, the opportunity, and then develop it. Relevance/originality: The research combines the literatures on effectuation and inward internationalization to study the decision-making process of adopting CBHCS by medical clinics. Theoretical contributions: The study contributes to the literature by identifying certain pre-conditions and providing an in-depth analysis of the use of effectual logic by physician-entrepreneurs in their decision-making process of adopting CBHCS.

Continuing our series of conversations with female leaders in the global crop science community, I contacted Fernanda González, a Senior Scientist at CITNOBA CONICET, Argentina (@FerGGonzalez73). She is a researcher I have known for many years and someone who I hugely admire for her careful and engaging research. Following the interview format used (https://womenincropscience.org/interviews) we learnt about her research, motivations and some quick-fire questions too.

The ENLIGHT “Research and Innovation agenda with and for Society” (RISE) project aims at establishing foundations and initiating implementation of a common research and innovation (R&I) agenda within theENLIGHT European University Alliance. Work package 4 has two specific projects. 4.1 To plan a series of events to support networking/leadership skills for early career researchers (ECRs) and 4.2 is the Researcher Assessment working group. The first event, for 4.1 work package, was held on Tuesday 25th October 2022 between 12:00-14:00 CET, entitled ‘Networking Skills for Early Career Researchers’ and was held online. Professor Jane Walsh, University of Galway, and Dr. Janka Kottulová, Comenius University Bratislava, were the guest presenters.

During the week of 5-9th of September 2022, we co-ordinated a Women in Crop Science coffee morning around the world. Hosts from 24 different organizations, institutions and universities organized an event in their local area. The main goal of the coffee mornings was to bring women working in crop science together in an informal setting to spark discussion among peers, to connect women from different career levels and to create networking opportunities. This report summarizes some of the discussions and recommendations from the coffee mornings. Building on the success of the events we are planning the next Global Coffee Morning during the week of 20-24th March 2023.

Latin American and Caribbean countries face complex challenges to improve brain health and reduce the impact of dementia. Regional hubs devoted to research, capacity building, implementation science, and education are critically needed. The Latin American Brain Health Institute represent an important step to address many of these needs.

The digital transformation of the structural components of the state system forms new socio-organizational forms and practices of political interaction. The transformation process is based on the dialectical overcoming of existing elements of the old order, the development of new goals and the formation of new specific ways to achieve them. As a result of the digital transformation of the structural components of the state system, new socio-organizational forms and practices of political interaction are being formed. Before our eyes, the transition of initially networked social formations into political offline processes is unfolding, new power resources and mechanisms of influence on the political organization as a whole are emerging in society. These processes relate to social self-organization and are characteristic of the adaptive algorithm of social changes. At the same time, changes in system parameters do not violate the contours of the existing state system. However, in the conditions of deliberate stimulation by the authorities of the digital transformation of all spheres of society’s life, the limited ability of the political system and the state to ensure the manageability of social and political processes is more clearly manifested.The article considers the process of deformation of the state system caused by the digitalization of public relations, analyses changes in theoretical models of explaining social reality and related changes in the organization of the political system and political practices.The multi-component nature of the impact of the global ICT paradigm on the sphere of public administration of a particular state is noted. In the era of the diversity of broadcast information, the dominance of the mass media and social networks, the public becomes a mass / crowd and an object of manipulation. The impact of information and communication technologies on the functioning of society is manifested in maintaining the gap between formal and informal institutions, intensive introduction of innovations, launching new mechanisms of social inequality, and the like, as a result, the integrity of the social system is violated. The risk of loss of manageability of social processes increases due to the fact that the recommendations for authorities on digital transformation, as well as most scientific publications on the topic of digitalization of public administration do not contain a critical assessment of the ICT paradigm itself and the concepts, concepts and practices formed on its basis.

El objetivo de la investigación es identificar las estrategias que han utilizado las industrias culturales y creativas de Latinoamérica para la generación de competitividad y los procesos de difusión de sus bienes y servicios, mediante un diseño investigativo no experimental que permitió evidenciar la situación del sector cultural latinoamericano, con metodología cualitativa de acercamiento directo con 50 empresarios del sector creativo y cultural latinoamericano, a través de entrevistas en profundidad; como principal hallazgo se encontró que la estrategia más utilizada, frente a su presencia en el mercado y para el mejoramiento de la competitividad dentro del sector cultural, ha sido el networking de tipo cultural, ya que les ha permitido el reconocimiento y la retroalimentación de quienes mayor experiencia tienen en el sector, así como la capacidad para identificar escenarios de acción y tejer redes humanas de colaboración y conocimiento. Sin embargo, y como conclusión, esta estrategia no ha representado, para el sector, los resultados esperados, al ser de tipo autónomo y no una estructura establecida desde estándares estatales u organizacionales que soporten el sector cultural en cada uno de sus países, faltando así el apoyo del Estado y su reconocimiento como industrias representativas en la región.

Mentorship transforms careers. Yet, a lack of awareness of the need for a mentor is ironically, a pandemic. The pandemic has brought a host of challenges for the academic researcher. As bench work has come to a standstill, there is not just reduced productivity, but a significant increase in fear, anxiety, and depression amongst students. Our survey of -150 graduate students of Life Sciences courses confirmed the anecdotal observation that > 75% did not have a mentor other than their academic guide. Over the past six months, we have been exploring the requirements of mentee-mentor relationships during both normal times and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Written primarily from the mentee perspective, we have described the (i) criteria and roles of an ideal mentor and mentee, (ii) the problems faced by the mentee, and (iii) the solutions to address these challenges. We have described the experience of 10 mentees with a mentor during these challenging times, in which we discussed scientific, psychological, and practical support for each other. We provide some recommendations based on previous work in mentor–mentee interactions and explore the critical nature of this delicate relationship for a successful career. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s43538-021-00002-z.

Effekte von Laientheorien (Fixed vs. Growth Theory) auf das Networking-Verhalten zum Aufbau instrumenteller beruflicher Netzwerke.

This study aims to examine the relationship between gender stereotypes and characteristics perceived as necessary for successful networking. The engagement in networking behaviors is an important career management strategy. Prior research has reported positive relationships between networking behaviors and career outcomes such as total compensation and number of promotions (Forret & Dougherty, 2004; Wolff & Moser, 2009). Regarding the intensity of networking behavior, there are no gender differences (Forret & Dougherty, 2001; Wanberg et al., 2000; Wolff & Moser, 2006). Nonetheless, there is an impact of gender differences on the utility of networking behaviors as a career-enhancing strategy. For women, networking behavior is not as beneficial as it is for men (Emmerik et al., 2006; Forret & Dougherty, 2004). An explanation for these results could be provided by gender stereotypes. In research on stereotypes, the phenomenon “think manager – think male” examines the relationship between sex role stereotypes and characteristics perceived as necessary for management success using the Schein Descriptive Index. Results show that managers are perceived to possess characteristics more commonly ascribed to men in general than to women in general (Schein, 1973; Schein et al., 1996). By means of a shortened version of the Schein Descriptive Index, I will examine the relationship between gender stereotypes and characteristics perceived as necessary for networking success. Furthermore, social dominance orientation as a measure of stereotyping is included as it predicts a variety of gender biases (Fiske & North, 2015). To my knowledge, this is the first empirical study that examines gender stereotypes as an explanation for gender differences in the success of networking behavior.

This is a slide presentation in Portuguese from a training facilitated (Advocacy) by me. Pontos principais: O que é Advocacy? Levels de Advocacy Dica amiga o que você pode fazer? Que tipo de Advocacy podemos nos engajar?

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought into focus the complexity and interrelatedness of the range of health care delivery associated with translational cancer research. Importantly it highlights the potential fragility and also strengths of this ecosystem.

This article paper has been provided in the form of motivation being an entrepreneur aspirant in the future. With the topic based on the questions that do I think I already have the skills necessary to persuade and network with people when I establish my business. Perhaps, a tricky one but this is the very foundation in the competitive at large.

Perkembangan sistem informasi pada saat ini begitu pesat, sehingga mengakibatkan jumlah pengguna sistem online semakin meningkat pesat pula. Hal ini memberikan dampak terhadap kemampuan dari perangkat-perangkat penyedia layanan sistem online memberikan respon terhadap client yang semakin banyak. Salah satu perangkat yang paling terpengaruhi yaitu web server. Sehingga sekarang muncul teknologi baru untuk mengatasi permasalan tersebut salah satunya yaitu load balancing. Load balancing digunakan untuk mendistribusikan setiap permintaan client. Pada penelitian ini mengimplementasikan dua buah tools load balancing yaitu dengan Gobetween dan HAProxy. Selanjutnya dilakukan pengujian performansi pada web server, sehingga didapatkan hasil tools mana yang peroformanya lebih baik untuk implementasi load balancing pada web server. Pada implementasi pengujian ini akan menggunakan virtual machine, yaitu dengan sistem operasi Debian pada sisi web server dan load balancer.

Bringing new cancer therapies into routine cancer care is a long and complex process. Phase 1 clinical trials assess new cancer treatments in people for the first time. It is a critical step in the pathway. The aim of this project is to make the world of a cancer Phase 1 trialist and the value they bring, understandable to others. From those interested in careers in cancer clinical trials to stakeholders and partners seeking to innovate across the cancer control continuum, through a deeper understanding and insight of those involved.

The game development industry is one characterized by young workers and fast worker turnover. The popularity of using twitter as a professional tool within the video games industry presents a potentially insightful view port into a professional's informal network. Investigating characteristics of the social networks of newly graduated students in the game development industry may reveal what factors contribute to fast worker turnover and how certain cohorts may face additional barriers.

Para la presente actividad se desarrollar un ESCENARIO en el cual vamos a poner en práctica todos los conocimientos que hemos adquirido a lo largo de nuestro diplomado CISCO CCNP, configuraremos una red con unas especificaciones bien definidas el cual lo haré empleando el simulador GNS3 ya que hay algunos comandos que PACKET TRACER no los soporta. La red que se va a configurar en este caso está compuesta por una serie de dispositivos de capa 2 y de capa 3, ROUTERS, SWITCHES, PC, algunos de los cuales se conectan por medio de una red de área LOCAL LAN y otros emplean una red de área amplia WAN. Para la configuración del enrutamiento emplearemos tanto el direccionamiento IPV4 como el IPV6, en algunos casos emplearemos el direccionamiento estático y en otros empleamos el direccionamiento dinámico, además de esto para configurar cada uno de los dispositivos intermedios haremos el proceso desde cero con el fin de que el mismo sea lo más entendible posible. Para poder iniciar con la configuración debemos eliminar cualquier tipo de configuración de los dispositivos que pueda crear algún tipo de conflicto con los mismo. La configuración de los mismos la realizaremos a través de la IOS y a medida que se avance se realizará las pruebas respectivas con el fin de poder verificar el correcto funcionamiento de lo aplicado. Al finalizar nuestro proceso aplicaremos una serie de comando de verificación PING, TRACERT, etc., esto con el fin de constatar que lo hecho y cada uno de los comandos aplicados a la red sean los correctos. For this activity, a SCENARIO will be developed in which we will put into practice all the knowledge that we have acquired throughout our CISCO CCNP diploma, we will configure a network with well-defined specifications, which I will do by working with the GNS3 simulator since there are some commands that PACKET TRACER does not support. The network to be configured in this case is made up of a series of layer 2 and layer 3 devices, ROUTERS, SWITCHES, PCs, some of which are connected through a LAN LOCAL area network and others using a LAN. WAN wide area network. For routing configuration we will use both IPV4 and IPV6 addressing, in some cases we will use static addressing and in others we will use dynamic addressing, in addition to this to configure each of the intermediate devices we will do the process from scratch so that it is as understandable as possible. In order to start with the configuration we must eliminate any type of configuration of the devices that can create some type of conflict with them. The configuration of the same will be carried out through the IOS and as progress is made, the respective tests will be carried out in order to be able to verify the correct functioning of what has been applied. At the end of our process we will apply a series of verification commands PING, TRACERT, etc., in order to verify that what has been done and each of the commands applied to the network are correct.

Obfuscated data exfiltration perpetrated by malicious actors presents a significant threat to organizations looking to protect sensitive data. Socket layer protocol customization presents the potential to enhance obfuscated data exfiltration by providing a protocol-agnostic means of embedding targeted data within application payloads of established socket connections. Fully evaluating and characterizing this technique will serve as an important step in the development of suitable mitigations. This thesis evaluated the performance of this method of data exfiltration through experimentation to determine its viability and identify its limitations. The evaluation assessed the effectiveness of exfiltration via socket layer customization with various application protocols and characterized its use to determine the most suitable protocols. Basic host-based and network-based security controls were introduced to test the exfiltration method’s ability to bypass typical security controls implemented to prevent data exfiltration. The experimentation results indicate that this exfiltration method is both viable and applicable across multiple application protocols. It proved flexible enough in its design and configuration to bypass basic host-based access controls and general network intrusion prevention system packet inspection. Deep packet inspection was identified as a potential solution; however, the required inspection and filtering granularity might make implementation infeasible. Office of Naval Research, Arlington, VA 22203-1995 Outstanding Thesis Petty Officer First Class, United States Navy Approved for public release. Distribution is unlimited.

The internationalization processes of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) differ across economic and cultural environments. Creating an operationalizable and predictive framework to explain them has long been a challenging research task. This task is particularly relevant in an era of reconfiguration of globalization, which directly affects the small business sector. This study proposes a model which includes networking, attitudinal, cultural, and environmental factors as antecedents of the degree of SME internationalization. We collected data and tested this model in three distinct cultural environments: the USA, China, and Russia. The results suggest that attitudinal characteristics of managers, such as global mindset and relationship commitment, condition SMEs network involvement. The influence of network involvement on the degree of SMEs internationalization becomes stronger with increasing environmental turbulence. This study’s findings have practical implications for businesses operating in different countries, as well as governmental organizations and educational institutions.

Nowadays, Russian vocational education is overcoming a stage of profound transformations associated with the post-industrial society's peculiarities, which main characteristics are computerization and digitalization of the economy. Transformations in the digital economy determine new requirements for specialists' training, their competencies, and qualification. The rapid changes in socio-economic conditions cause the need to transform the vocational training system to meet the demands for specialists with competencies that correspond to the current technologies and methods of production. The solution to the relevant problems is facilitated by vocational education's devotion to "anticipation/advance" and "interaction" principles, which are being successfully implemented in the activities of advanced vocational training centers opened in Russia in 2019. The advanced vocational training ensures the development of new and promising professions in great demand by the regional economy. Simultaneously, the interaction principle's implementation allows ensuring interdepartmental coordination when performing the social order for vocational education made by the state, society, and individuals. The article considers forms and features of the interaction between educational organizations and partners, including social partnership, networking cooperation, public and private partnership, educational and technological clusters. The paper presents the Kemerovo region center's performance results for advanced vocational training concerning the creation of a regional network for educational organizations and enterprises involved in the joint development and implementation of advanced vocational training programs intended for specialist training.

Straipsnyje, remiantis mokslinių šaltinių metaanalizės, mišrios analitinės sintezės, interpretacinio modeliavimo metodais, bandoma atskleisti esmines tinklaveikos, kaip šiuolaikinio viešojo valdymo etapo, tipologijos raiškos formas, tyrimo dėmesį sutelkiant į kompleksinį naujojo viešojo valdymo pobūdį, įvertinant tinklaveikos tyrimų metodologinį reikšmingumą, veiklos metodologiją traktuojant kaip viešųjų struktūrų tyrimo ir veiklos valdymo logiką. Straipsnio autoriai aptaria naujojo viešojo valdymo evoliucijos procesus, kai vis svarbesnė tampa valdymo pokyčių kokybė, į rezultatus nukreipta veiklos vadyba, inovacinių valdymo sprendimų rengimas ir įgyvendinimas. In the evolution of public governance, the wide range of public governance changes and reforms require the consolidation of innovative ideology and practice. Therefore it is necessary to modify traditional governance values, to develop the options of incremental change models, to improve the functioning of social systems and subsystems, their activities and communication between them. In the modern era of globalization and development of information technology, many functions and processes are being implemented by using network systems. Networks are an essential structural form, which helps to seek the new knowledge, to exchange information and experiences, and networking ensures these processes and their results. Network and networking researches in recent decades have become important not only in informatics or economics, but also in other scientific fields such as political science, sociology and public administration. Innovative solutions, related to the development of networked forms in the governance of public sector organizations, become increasingly important in the evolution of new public governance doctrine. By the influence of networked forms of governance, the public sector becomes more decentralized, pluralistic and provides the opportunities to consolidate cooperation with non-governmental subjects. Networks are becoming an important alternative to hierarchy and control mechanisms. The problem of this research is the complexity of networking dimensional specification in the rapidly changing modern public governance. The purpose of the study is to identify the key concepts of networking constructions and practice opportunities in the environment of the public governance changes. The article analyzes the typology aspects of: network structures, which develop integration opportunities; network systems, models and types; networking processes and their efficiency, effectiveness, functional possibilities. The authors, based on the opportunities of interpretive methods and theoretical modeling, in the article seek to summarize the indicators of newly developed new public governance doctrine, in which public administration theorists distinguish different types of policy, management and economic networks systems, described as a network structures and networking. As important task, the authors of this article hold the necessity to disclose the positions of the various authors, analyzing the interactions between the networking participants’ quantitative and qualitative dimensions, normative and standardized elements of state institutions, as decision making, conflict regulation, the development of networks and networking as a systematic processes and organization performance management. The particular attention the authors distinguish to the social relations, i.e. the organizational functioning and cultural aspects of social networking, and the categorization analysis of social capital (in the context of the networking process). The authors conclude that modern public governance, influenced by global changes, has a multidimensional nature and the characteristics of cross-sectoral interaction and development of network structure formation. A special factor of new public governance becomes the development of hybrid organizations. These factors are the priority dimensions of scientific academic debates. [...]