The Republic of Kazakhstan: Initiator Of The Organization Of Turkic States

The Cooperation Council of Turkic Speaking States (Turkic Council) was founded on October 3, 2009, in Nakhchivan as an international organization to promote comprehensive cooperation among the Turkic States. The founding members of the Organization of Turkic States are Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkey. The Organization of Turkic States was founded in November 2021 in the Turkic Council's 8th Summit in Istanbul. In this context, it is possible to say that the Organization of Turkic States has been the culmination of the "Heads of State Summits of Turkish Speaking Countries" since 1992. Kazakhstan is a distinguished member of the Organization of Turkic States. The stability and peace of Kazakhstan is of foremost importance not only in the context of Central Asia but also in terms of security and stability for the Turkic world. In this context, the developments that caused turmoil in Kazakhstan are closely followed by the Organization of Turkic States. We wish that the coming days will bring peace, tranquility and stability to Kazakhstan.

Salutogenesis Post-Graduate Education: Experience From the European Perspective on the ETC-PHHP Health Promotion Summer Schools (1991–2020)

In this chapter, the authors, representing The Netherlands, Spain, Germany, Italy, Norway, the United Kingdom and Poland, trace the development of higher education in salutogenesis in Europe, spanning 30 years. At this time, the annual summer schools of the European Training Consortium in Public Health and Health Promotion (ETC-PHHP) have trained more than 700 participants from 60 countries. Perhaps the most distinguished member of the summer school’s faculty – at least from the perspective of advancing salutogenesis as a theory for health promotion – is Aaron Antonovsky, who participated in the 1992 edition of the course in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Sourav Bhowmick Speaks Out on Drawing Your Queries, Ethics, and Drawing for Ethics

Welcome to ACM SIGMOD Record's series of interviews with distinguished members of the database community. I'm Marianne Winslett, and today I have here with me Sourav Bhowmick, who is a professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, better known as NTU. Sourav is an ACM Distinguished Member. He received the VLDB Service Award, and a Lecturer of the Year Award from NTU. Sourav is also a member of the Initiative on Diversity and Inclusion in Database Conference Venues. His PhD is from NTU. So, Sourav, welcome!

Defending Against Medical Error: Personal Reflections on the Legacy of John Senders

Objective To honor the legacy of John Senders, a distinguished member of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, by a short, personal history of him, but then to honor his legacy by extending it through our own professional opinions, with an emphasis on the study of human error and its implications for healthcare systems—two topics in which he excelled. Background The authors are familiar with the topic and subject matter. One was a friend of Senders for over 50 years. Another was a collaborator and joint author with Senders (as well as his stepdaughter). All three authors have extensive publications in the topic areas. Method, Results, and Conclusion The authors used personal accounts of interactions with Senders at conferences, experiences living and working with him, and a brief review of his most personal, notable publications in healthcare. The reflections indicate a strong resonance on Senders’ contributions to system design that are relevant today in healthcare’s most challenging period in its history.

New SPE President To Help Organization Evolve Through Pandemic and Energy Transition

Ever since Tom Blasingame was announced as the 2021 SPE president more than a year ago, he had been looking forward to the day he would officially assume the highest-ranking volunteer position within the organization. That moment finally came, but not quite as he or anyone else expected. “I can assure you, I had a grand plan,” he gently quipped during his inaugural speech. “But the pandemic pretty much wiped that slate clean and led me to focus on where we and how we are to continue.” Blasingame, an SPE Distinguished Member and petroleum engineering professor at Texas A&M University, officially assumed his new duties during a small ceremony attended by invited guests and SPE staff in Houston on 2 November. The event helped kick off SPE’s Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition (ATCE) in October. Reflecting one of the grand challenges facing the new president, the rest of ATCE is being held entirely online in response to the COVID-19 pandemic that swept across the world earlier this year. Donning a coat and tie instead of his trademark beige coveralls, Blasingame told attendees in the flesh and those joining via the online broadcast that the theme of his SPE presidency is “Survive, Revive, and Thrive.” Along these lines, his top priority will be to steer SPE through the recovery process “while also seeking to serve the traditional needs of our members.” Noting that the industry has a long history of weathering storms, Blasingame described the headwinds being faced today as a “near-perfect hurricane” brought on by a global pandemic, financial turbulence, and a historic drop in oil demand. But he highlighted another force that is reshaping the upstream industry, one that predates the pandemic and is certainly going to outlive it. Environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) criteria have in just a few short years risen from obscurity to become a major lens through which public stakeholders and global investors view upstream companies. “If you don’t know it, you’d better memorize it - put it on your pillow,” Blasingame said of the three-letter acronym.

Graph approximation on similarity based rough sets

Correlation clustering is a widely used technique in data mining. The clusters contain objects, which are typically similar to one another and different from objects from other groups. In the authors previous works the possible usage of correlation in rough set theory were investigated. In rough set theory, two objects are treated as indiscernible if all of their attribute values are the same. A base set contains those objects that are indiscernible from one another. The partition, gained from the correlation clustering, can be understood as the system of base sets, as the clusters contain the typically similar objects (not just to a distinguished member) and it considers the real similarity among the objects. In this work the extension of this study is presented, using the method to approximate graphs representing similarity relations.

Los archivos catedralicios y su importancia para los estudios prosopográficos. El deán Don Aparicio Sánchez, en el archivo de la Catedral de Sevilla = Cathedral Archives and their Importance for Prosopographical Studies. The Case of Dean Aparicio Sánchez in the Archive of the Cathedral of Seville

Hoy por hoy, puede resultar una obviedad resaltar la importancia de los archivos eclesiásticos para la investigación histórica, sea cual sea su enfoque historiográfico, dada la riqueza y variedad de sus fondos. Uno de estos grandes archivos es, sin duda, el Archivo de la Catedral de Sevilla, cuya extraordinaria documentación no sólo se refiere a la institución capitular y a sus componentes, sino que es fiel reflejo de toda la sociedad sevillana y su evolución histórica, en un arco temporal que va desde la conquista de la ciudad y la restauración de su sede, en la segunda mitad del siglo XIII, hasta nuestros días. Nuestra intención en este trabajo es destacar la enorme contribución de los archivos eclesiásticos –y concretamente del Archivo de la Catedral de Sevilla- para los estudios prosopográficos, tomando como modelo la figura del deán don Aparicio Sánchez, la cual abordaremos desde distintos puntos de vista, como la carrera eclesiástica, el patrimonio o las relaciones de poder con la nueva sociedad sevillana, nacida de la conquista, de la que él mismo era un distinguido miembro.AbstractRegardless of the history topic, the importance of ecclesiastical archives for historical research is indisputable thanks to the wealth and variety of the records they hold. One of these salient archives is, without a doubt, the Archive of the Cathedral of Seville, whose extraordinary documentary sources refer not only to the institution of the Chapter House and its members, but it is also a faithful reflection of the whole of Sevillian society. The archive covers a large part of the historical evolution of Seville: a chronological period which extends from the Christian conquest of the city and the restoration of its episcopal see, in the second half of the thirteenth century, to the present day. The purpose of this study is to highlight the enormous contribution offered by ecclesiastical archives ­–and specifically the Archive of the Cathedral of Seville– for prosopographical studies. As a case study, we will focus on the figure of its dean, don Aparicio Sánchez, from different points of view, including his ecclesiastical career, his estate, or the relations of power within the new Sevillian society born of the Christian conquest, of which he himself was a distinguished member.

The tenth Janet Doe Lecture, a forty-year perspective: still relevant after all these years

Erich Meyerhoff was an academic health sciences librarian and a distinguished member of the Medical Library Association when he was invited to present the Janet Doe Lecture in 1977. His lecture on the state of the association is considered one of the finest Doe lectures and is still relevant more than forty years later, not only from an historical perspective, but also for his projections for the future and his prescient comments about the future of hospital librarianship and the important role of women in the association. Key 1977 Doe lecture topics are reviewed and updated in the context of the current health sciences library environment.

Maciej Ziemierski, Testamenty krakowskiej rodziny Królików z XVII w.

17th century testaments of the Królik family from Krakow The article is dedicated to the Królik family from Krakow, who lived in the town from the late 16th century until the first years of the 18th century. The family members initially worked as tailors, later reinforcing the group of Krakow merchants in the third generation (Maciej Królik). Wojciech Królik – from the fourth generation – was a miner in Olkusz. The text omits the most distinguished member of the family, Wojciech’s oldest brother, the Krakow councillor Mikołaj Królik, whose figure has been covered in a separate work. The work shows the complicated religious relations in the family of non-Catholics, initially highly engaged in the life of the Krakow Congregation, but whose members gradually converted from Evangelism to Catholicism. As a result, Wojciech Królik and his siblings became Catholics. This work is complemented by four testaments of family members, with the first, Jakub Królik’s, being written in 1626 and the last one, Wojciech Królik’s, written in 1691.

Un arquitecto de origen español

Un arquitecto de origen español, Claudio Verdugo Lamarche, es una reflexión autobiográfica que recorre la vida profesional de un arquitecto español, nacido en Casablanca y de formación francesa, y que intenta profundizar en la propia profesión del arquitecto. El texto refleja los objetivos y valores de este profesional y consigue establecer un hilo no sólo cronológico, sino ético a lo largo de una dilatada trayectoria por los cuatro continentes. Destaca su participación activa en los Congresos Internacional de Arquitectura, siendo miembro destacado de la Unión Internacional de Arquitectos.An architect of Spanish origin, Claudio Verdugo Lamarche, it is a autobiographical reflection that goes through the professional life of a Spanish architect who was born in Casablanca and of French training, he tries to go in depth in the own architect profession. The text shows the aims and values of this professional, it also manages to establish a thread not only chronologically but ethically along an extensive trajectory for four continents. His active participation in international congresses of architecture is remarkable, being a distinguished member of the Architects’ International Union.