Research Foundation Review 2019

Research Foundation Review 2019 presents the offerings from CFA Institute Research Foundation during 2019. We start with an overview, summarize the year's output, and end with other relevant material, such as awards and recognition.

Master the fundamentals of planning, preparing, conducting, and presenting engineering research with this one-stop resource Engineering Research: Design, Methods, and Publication delivers a concise but comprehensive guide on how to properly conceive and execute research projects within an engineering field. Accomplished professional and author Herman Tang covers the foundational and advanced topics necessary to understand engineering research, from conceiving an idea to disseminating the results of the project. Organized in the same order as the most common sequence of activities for an engineering research project, the book is split into three parts and nine chapters. The book begins with a section focused on proposal development and literature review, followed by a description of data and methods that explores quantitative and qualitative experiments and analysis, and ends with a section on project presentation and preparation of scholarly publication. Engineering Research offers readers the opportunity to understand the methodology of the entire process of engineering research in the real word. The author focuses on executable process and principle-guided exercise as opposed to abstract theory. Readers will learn about: An overview of scientific research in engineering, including foundational and fundamental concepts like types of research and considerations of research validity How to develop research proposals and how to search and review the scientific literature How to collect data and select a research method for their quantitative or qualitative experiment and analysis How to prepare, present, and submit their research to audiences and scholarly papers and publications Perfect for advanced undergraduate and engineering students taking research methods courses, Engineering Research also belongs on the bookshelves of engineering and technical professionals who wish to brush up on their knowledge about planning, preparing, conducting, and presenting their own scientific research.

This book examines India-China relations throughout history as well as in the context of current business cooperation and competition. It also explores geo-political and societal factors, such as religion or class models, that influence and shape bilateral relations, and provides thorough analyses and comparisons of networks between the two countries. This book will appeal to researchers and graduate students interested in India-China relations as well as Chinese and Indian business ties.

Aging is an inevitable part of life and is becoming a worldwide social, economic and health problem. This is mainly due to the fact that the increasing proportion of individuals in the advanced age category have a higher probability of developing age-related disorders, such as type II diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular disorders, sarcopenia, and neurodegenerative conditions. New therapeutic approaches are still needed to decrease or slow the effects of such diseases. Advances in -omic technologies, such as genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics, have significantly advanced our understanding of disease in multiple medical areas, as the analysis of multiple molecular networks has simultaneously provided a more integrated view of disease pathways. It is hoped that emerging hits from these analyses might be prioritized for further screening as potential novel drug targets for increasing the human healthspan in line with the lifespan. In turn, this will lead to new therapeutic strategies as well as drug development projects by the pharmaceutical industry. This book presents a series of reviews describing studies that have resulted in identification of new potential drug targets for age-related disorders. Much of this information has come from -omic comparisons of healthy and disease states or from testing the effects of new therapeutic approaches. Authored by experts from around the globe, each chapter is presented in the context of specific chronic diseases or therapeutic strategies. This book is designed for researchers in the areas of aging and chronic disease, as well as clinical scientists, physicians and stakeholders in major drug companies.

Pituitary disorders may be associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular and metabolic complications and, in consequence, increased mortality. Excessive secretion of pituitary hormones provokes functional and systemic abnormalities which can be manifested by cardiovascular complications such as eg. arterial hypertension, heart failure, arrhythmia, as through metabolic disturbances, including obesity and diabetes. Subclinical effects of pituitary diseases, such as cardiac and vascular dysfunction, also modifies prognosis but due to its asymptomatic course are frequently diagnosed with significant time delay. Even successful surgery and pharmacological treatment of pituitary disorders do not guarantee that metabolic and cardiovascular comorbidities can be completely resolved after primary disease remission. This Research Topic aims to provide insights into the cross-talk between pituitary and cardiometabolic disorders in respect to effective diagnosis and targeted therapy. We also especially welcome studies that advance our knowledge on molecular mechanisms and pathogenic pathways explaining these phenomena. Another issue that still needs clarification is an effective model of interdisciplinary care focused on holistic approach to patients with pituitary disorders. We would like to turn on a light of attention towards the importance of psychological, dietary, and rehabilitation care. We aim to collect the up-to-date studies presenting novel results and future perspectives in this area. In this Research Topic, we welcome the submission of original research, reviews, and expert opinions, that include but are not limited to the following areas in pituitary disorders: • prevalence of cardiovascular and metabolic comorbidities • molecular mechanisms and pathogenic pathways of cardiovascular and metabolic complications • novel diagnostic tools and biochemical markers to detect early cardiovascular and metabolic complications • individualized treatment of cardiovascular and metabolic complications • reversibility of cardiovascular and metabolic abnormalities after biochemical control of primary endocrine dysfunction • optimal model of interdisciplinary care • diet, psychological support, rehabilitation

This two-volume set constitutes the proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, WISE 2021, held in Melbourne, VIC, Australia, in October 2021. The 55 full, 29 short and 5 demo papers, plus 2 tutorials were carefully reviewed and selected from 229 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: Part I: BlockChain and Crowdsourcing; Database System and Workflow; Data Mining and Applications; Knowledge Graph and Entity Linking; Graph Neural Network; Graph Query; Social Network; Spatial and Temporal Data Analysis. Part II: Deep Learning (1), Deep Learning (2), Recommender Systems (1), Recommender Systems (2), Text Mining (1), Text Mining (2), Service Computing and Cloud Computing (1), Service Computing and Cloud Computing (2), Tutorial and Demo.

Going Digital in Brazil analyses recent developments in Brazil’s digital economy, reviews policies related to digitalisation and makes recommendations to increase policy coherence in this area.