Roadmapping of Nanoelectronics for the New Electronics Industry

This paper is dedicated to a review of the international effort to map the future of nanoelectronics from materials to systems for the new electronics industry. The following sections are highlighted: the Roadmap structure with the international teams, the methodology and historical evolution, the various eras of scaling, the new ecosystems and computer industry, the evolving supply chain, the development of SoC and SiP, the advent of the Internet of Everything and the 5G communications, the dramatic increase of data centers, the power challenge, the technology fusion, heterogeneous and system integration, the emerging technologies, devices and computing architectures, and the main challenges for future applications.

Leveraging the Intersection between Age-friendly Universities and Age-Friendly Communities

Age-friendly Universities represent a growing contribution to the worldwide age-friendly movement. For universities, the international effort aims to highlight the role higher education plays in responding to the opportunities associated with an aging population. The initiative outlines ten principles to engage older adults via collegiate mission pertaining to research, education and service. Shared practices suggest diverse and unique application of the guiding tenets across participating colleges and universities. However Age-friendly Universities are also part of a broader ecosystem, situated in geographic locales reflecting actual or prospective age-friendly community status. The global Age-friendly Community movement is a decade-old effort to improve the environments in which we age via a cyclical process. This paper identifies the intersection between Age-friendly University principles and Age-Friendly Community processes and discusses reciprocal considerations for mutual advancement of the broader movement.

How Well are We Measuring Snow Post-SPICE?

Accurate snowfall measurements are necessary for meteorology, hydrology, and climate research. Typical uses include creating and calibrating gridded precipitation products, the verification of model simulations, driving hydrologic models, input into aircraft deicing processes, and estimating streamflow runoff in the spring. These applications are significantly impacted by errors in solid precipitation measurements. The recent WMO Solid Precipitation Intercomparison Experiment (SPICE) attempted to characterize and reduce some of the measurement uncertainties through an international effort involving 15 countries utilizing over 20 types and models of precipitation gauges from various manufacturers. Key results from WMO-SPICE are presented herein. Recent work and future research opportunities that build on the results of WMO-SPICE are also highlighted.

Learning from each other: The role of libraries in the promotion of international understanding

ACRL’s vision is that of a future where academic and research librarians and libraries are essential to a thriving global community of learners and scholars.1 In today’s world, no community can exist alone. We live in an interdependent world. We need to understand each other, cooperate, and work towards mutual benefits.In such a context of interdependence, the current pandemic has shown that the COVID-19 virus knows no geographical or racial boundaries. The search for a vaccine to control the virus has also required a collaborative international effort. Businesses are involved in the import and export of products from many different countries. Education is a global business with students and scholars traversing national borders to seek and share knowledge. Similarly, libraries provide access to resources and services that may have originated or been developed in some countries, and users may be remotely accessing them from other countries. We live in a global community.

Integration of the SAR Payload on Board of the Meteor-M No. 2-2 Spacecraft into the COSPAS–SARSAT International Search and Rescue System

The present article addresses the results of the “Meteor-M” No. 2-2 SAR payload (RK–SM–MKA) commissioning campaign. The international effort was coordinated by Russia with the participation of technical teams from national administrations of the United States, Canada and France. In the course of testing, it was determined that the SAR payload performance was within technical expectations and that the SAR payload could be operationally used in the COSPAS–SARSAT system. Other matters of integrating the “Meteor-M” No. 2-2 (“Cospas-14” in Cospas-Sarsat terminology) SAR payload into the COSPAS–SARSAT system as well as the system’s readiness to accept the new spacecraft are discussed. The article also unveils the objectives addressed during the “Сospas-14” integration period and the benefits gained by the system, which were recently made public by the COSPAS–SARSAT Secretariat. The analysis performed by the Secretariat demonstrated that the addition of the new “Cospas-14” into the LEOSAR system significantly improves LEOSAR satellite latency due to the spatial diversity of the current SARSAT and “Cospas-14” orbits.