Preface

Excellency, Drs. Bedjo Santoso, MT. Ph. D., Rector Universitas Islam Sultan Agung; Honorable, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mohd Ismid Bin Md Said, Pro-Vice Chancellor (International) UTM; Respectable, The distinguished guests and the participants, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the International Forum on Integrated Infrastructure Development (InFInID 2021) Hybrid Conference, which consists of 12th International Conference on Geotechnical Engineering in Tropical Regions (GEOTROPIKA), 2nd International Conference on Highway and Transportation Engineering (ICHITRA), and The 4th International Conference on Delta & Coastal Areas (ICCDA 4 2021), 21–22 September 2021. Due to the global health issue of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), InFInID 2021 is being held in mixed mode, offline and online. The conference is divided to Panel and Parallel session (7 parallel sessions, 3 rooms for 3 fields per session). I also want to inform that we will have ‘Best Paper’ Award for some topics and ‘Best Presenter’ Award for each session. For all presenters, do your best and catch the reward. The next step is publishing all paper to IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, Scopus Index. May the conference run smoothly and the goals will be achieved. And last, but not least, I would like to thank you, our shareholders, for continuing to support us, in good times, and in difficult ones. Hope that the pandemic will leave us soon, and we will have the opportunity to meet again face to face. My best wishes to you all! Prof. Dr. Ir. S. Imam Wahyudi, DEA Chairman of ICCDA 4 List of Patrons, Advisors, Chairmen, Secretaries, Reviewer are avilable in this pdf.

Preface to the International Scientific Conference on Communications, Information, Electronic and Energy Systems (CIEES’2021)

The International Scientific Conference on Communications, Information, Electronic and Energy Systems (CIEES’2021) was held virtually in Ruse, Bulgaria from 25 to 27 November, 2021. The CIEES’2021 was organized by the Association CIEES with the following partners: University of Ruse (Bulgaria), Politehnica University of Bucharest (Romania), the Union of Scientists in Ruse (Bulgaria) and Encon Services Ltd (Bulgaria). In light of the current situation related to the coronavirus (COVID-19) and regarding to the internal government regulations from the Bulgarian Ministry of Health, the Organizing Committee took the decision to turn CIEES’2021 in a virtual format – online conference on the same period. The goal of the CIEES’2021 conference is to provide an international forum for researchers, academics, people in industry, and students to address recent research results and to present and discuss their ideas, theories, technologies, systems, tools, applications, work in progress and experiences on all theoretical and practical issues arising in telecommunications, electronics, signal processing and applications, information technologies and energy. List of CIEES 2021 Organizing Committee, CIEES 2021 International Scientific Committee are avilable in the pdf.

Mental Health as a Priority of Modern Society: Results of the International Scientific and Practical Conference on Commitment to Mental Health

The article presents the chronology and results of the International Scientific and Practical Conference Commitment to Mental Health Issues, which was organized and conducted by the Department of Psychology and Pedagogy of the Philological Faculty of the Peoples Friendship University of Russia (Moscow, October 7, 2021). The international forum brought together psychologists, medical workers, teachers and students from various universities in Russia and foreign countries (254 participants in total), who discussed current problems of mental health and digitalization during the pandemic.

UFO: Unified Foundational Ontology

The Unified Foundational Ontology (UFO) was developed over the last two decades by consistently putting together theories from areas such as formal ontology in philosophy, cognitive science, linguistics, and philosophical logics. It comprises a number of micro-theories addressing fundamental conceptual modeling notions, including entity types and relationship types. The aim of this paper is to summarize the current state of UFO, presenting a formalization of the ontology, along with the analysis of a number of cases to illustrate the application of UFO and facilitate its comparison with other foundational ontologies in this special issue. (The cases originate from the First FOUST Workshop – the Foundational Stance, an international forum dedicated to Foundational Ontology research.)

The Journal of Applied Gerontology: An International Forum for Information

The mission of applied gerontology is to bridge science and practice to benefit the health and well-being of older persons, their families, their communities, and other contexts. This presentation will provide insights from the Journal of Applied Gerontology and its attempts to publish and disseminate scholarship that has international application. Following an overview of the growing internationalization of peer-reviewed submissions to the Journal of Applied Gerontology on a variety of topics and from a range of perspectives, the presentation will highlight key achievements as well as ongoing concerns and opportunities to better achieve the goals of applying gerontological scholarship to aging contexts worldwide. Concluding comments will examine how outlets for dissemination and authors themselves can better position their work to enhance their influence on aging in an international context.

ESPEN 2021 Congress Review: targeted nutritional therapy at all stages of patient recovery

С 9 по 14 сентября 2021 года состоялся ежегодный международный Конгресс ESPEN, организованный Европейской ассоциацией клинического питания и метаболизма (The European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism). В связи с продолжающейся пандемией COVID-19 этот главный международный форум диетологов и нутрициологов уже второй год проходит в онлайн-формате. В рамках Конгресса по сложившейся традиции обсуждались вопросы, связанные с ролью метаболических процессов в развитии и течении различных заболеваний, а также значимостью проведения целенаправленной нутритивной поддержки как важного компонента в комплексной терапии пациента на разных этапах его лечения и реабилитации. Представленные на Конгрессе данные клинических исследований свидетельствуют о том, что пациенты с COVID-19 по сравнению с больными «нековидного» профиля нуждаются в более активной и целенаправленной нутритивной терапии, которая, в частности, осуществляется с помощью специализированных продуктов – готовых к употреблению смесей для диетического лечебного и профилактического питания. Специализированная нутритивная поддержка способствует ускорению восстановления пациентов в период лечения и реабилитации при различных заболеваниях, в том числе после перенесенной коронавирусной инфекции, и является жизненно необходимой пациентам как во время пребывания в стационаре, так и в процессе дальнейшего восстановления, которое может занять до полугода и даже больше. The annual Congress of ESPEN (The European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism) was held from September 9 to 14. The Congress was organized by the European Association for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism. In connection with the COVID-19 pandemic, this main international forum of nutritionists has been held online for the second year. There were traditionally discussed issues related to the role of metabolic processes in the development and course of various diseases, as well as the significance of targeted nutritional support in the complex therapy of the patient at different stages of treatment and rehabilitation. The data of clinical studies presented at the Congress indicate that patients with COVID-19, in comparison with patients with a non-covid profile, need more active nutritional therapy, which, in particular, is carried out with the help of specialized products – ready-to-use mixtures for dietary therapeutic and preventive nutrition. The annual Congress of ESPEN (The European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism) was held from September 9 to 14. The Congress was organized by the European Association for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism. In connection with the COVID-19 pandemic, this main international forum of nutritionists has been held online for the second year. There were traditionally discussed issues related to the role of metabolic processes in the development and course of various diseases, as well as the significance of targeted nutritional support in the complex therapy of the patient at different stages of treatment and rehabilitation. The data of clinical studies presented at the Congress indicate that patients with COVID-19, in comparison with patients with a "non-covid" profile, need more active nutritional therapy, which, in particular, is carried out with the help of specialized products – ready-to-use mixtures for dietary therapeutic and preventive nutrition.

Democratic Governance as an Effective and Enduring Response to the Challenges Facing Latin America

The pandemic has highlighted longstanding shortcomings and challenges facing Latin America. We must make the most of this moment to bring about the historic transformations necessary to build a democratic governance that will bring peace, prosperity and social justice. The region requires structural change and this is, of course, nothing new. But now may be the most propitious moment in decades due to the electoral super-cycle that Latin America is experiencing from late 2020 until 2024, a period in which all presidential positions in the region are up for renewal, together with numerous legislative and subnational authorities. It is a unique opportunity that the region cannot afford to miss. This report was prepared by Jorge Máttar at the request of International IDEA under the direction of Daniel Zovatto. It is based on the minutes of seminars from The State of Democracy in Latin America project, implemented in 2020 by the Fundação Fernando Henrique Cardoso, the Fundación Democracia y Desarrollo, and International IDEA, and on the sessions of the International Forum of Santo Domingo on the Socioeconomic and Political Panorama for Latin America, held jointly with Funglode in January 2021. It also includes reflections, analysis and proposals produced together with Sergio Bitar (Bitar and Zovatto 2021), as well as those of Fernando Reyes Matta, Sergio Fausto and José Octavio Bordón. Other papers and empirical evidence have provided essential background for the preparation of this report.