scholarly journals Editorial

2000 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-3
Keyword(s):  
Later Life ◽  
Editorial Team ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Production Cycle ◽  
Review Section ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The World ◽  
Rolling Production ◽  
Areas Of Interest ◽  
New Millennium

This, the first edition of Volume 20 of Ageing and Society, coincides with the start of a new decade, a new century and a new millennium. It is fascinating to observe how different organisations, groups and societies are reacting to the passing of this symbolic benchmark. The urge to reminisce and reflect is apparent on many fronts: centenarians reviewing the century; survivors of the great wars dwelling on their troubled memories; a series of generations each swopping stories about their particular cultural revolutions; and, of course, gerontologists and colleagues in the ageing enterprise, faced with the evident needs of later life set in the wider context of an ongoing demographic panic.For our part, we, the editorial team, are – as ever – engaged in the continuing tasks of receiving, reviewing and editing a stream of stimulating articles from all parts of the world and from a wide range of disciplines and perspectives. This is a highly rewarding occupation: from our privileged position we know that social gerontology is the focus of many exciting theoretical and empirical developments.The routines of editing the journal are dominated by a two-monthly rolling production cycle that is lodged within the more leisurely annual cycle. Fixed-length temporal cycles, of course, characterise many aspects of the experience of ageing. Occasionally things change, however, and this also applies to the journal. Regular readers will notice that, with this issue, the review section has changed in content with the appearance of ‘Ageing Updates’. This section will bring together the best features of the Abstracts, Progress Reports, Symposia and Review Articles of past volumes. Ageing Updates will review particular themes, areas of interest and current issues, and may include contrasting perspectives from different contributors. Each Ageing Update will be up to 2,000 words in length. Submissions should be sent to the Review Editors who will referee them in the first instance. If you would like to contribute please contact the Review Editors.The first Ageing Update – to start the new millennium – is written by Sarah Harper. She reviews the current gerontological scene in Britain. Based on her work for the Nuffield Foundation, Sarah reviews the themes of the last decade, discusses the changing research agendas, and identifies issues for future research.We would like to take this opportunity to thank all those who have contributed to the Abstracts section, producing high quality reviews over the first 19 volumes of the journal.

scholarly journals Why Beliefs About Emotion Matter: An Emotion-Regulation Perspective

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brett Q. Ford ◽  
James J. Gross
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Clinical Outcomes ◽  
Underlying Mechanism ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The World ◽  
Emotion Beliefs

The world is complicated, and we hold a large number of beliefs about how it works. These beliefs are important because they shape how we interact with the world. One particularly impactful set of beliefs centers on emotion, and a small but growing literature has begun to document the links between emotion beliefs and a wide range of emotional, interpersonal, and clinical outcomes. Here, we review the literature that has begun to examine beliefs about emotion, focusing on two fundamental beliefs, namely whether emotions are good or bad and whether emotions are controllable or uncontrollable. We then consider one underlying mechanism that we think may link these emotion beliefs with downstream outcomes, namely emotion regulation. Finally, we highlight the role of beliefs about emotion across various psychological disciplines and outline several promising directions for future research.

scholarly journals A Note from the New Book Review Editor

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-130
Author(s):  
Manlio Della Marca
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
Art History ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Review Section ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The World ◽  
Review Editor ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Selection Of

Starting with this issue, our journal will include a completely redesigned Book Review Section, featuring three to five high-quality reviews by leading and emerging scholars from around the world. As for the selection of the books to be reviewed, even though I am a literary scholar, it is my intention as Review Editor to consider books that engage with the U.S. and the Americas as a hemispheric and global phenomenon from a wide range of perspectives and disciplines, including anthropology, art history, and media studies.

E-Behaviour Trends and Patterns among Malaysian Pre-Adolescents and Adolescents

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 50-62
Author(s):  
Selvi Salome Gnasigamoney ◽  
Manjit Singh Sidhu
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
General Pattern ◽  
Routine Activity ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Age Group ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Different Parts ◽  
New Millennium

The threat of cyber-related crimes due to excessive usage of Internet and current e-behaviour amongst the younger children is not new in this new millennium but stays as an issue for consideration. This paper provide a general pattern of online related behaviours that seem to be taking place among Malaysian pre-adolescents and adolescents and its possible impact on their behaviours leading towards cyber-related crimes. Facts and finding from various researches conducted from different parts of the world, including Malaysia were reviewed. The results from various studies reveal that a great concern and strategies have to be put into place as the age group using the Internet has reduced and the routine activity of pre-adolescence and adolescence are changing and are based on Internet. Non-awareness of their current online behaviours and its possible link to cyber-related crimes may lead these young children to a greater threat when using e-Commerce or any other Internet dependent activities in the future. This paper focuses on the facts collected from various studies to justify the importance of having future research on this phenomenon.

Tēlainie domāšanas paņēmieni 1918. un 1919. gada laikrakstā „Kurzemes Vārds”

2020 ◽  
pp. 210-221
Author(s):  
Elīna Veinberga
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
Conceptual Metaphor ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Authentic Texts ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The World ◽  
Construction Of Meaning ◽  
Creating Meaning

The task of the article is to study the use of metaphors, metonymies, and other figurative patterns of thought in the available issues of “Kurzemes Vārds” of 1918 and 1919, exploring the construction of meaning. The theoretical framework of this article is based on cognitive linguistics and cognitive stylistics, where metaphors and other stylistic techniques are natural mechanisms of thought expression. Language reflects our experience and perception of the world, and metaphors are expressed in language because they originally reside in our minds (Lakoff and Johnson [1980] 2003, 3–5). “Kurzemes Vārds” is a newspaper intended for a wide range of readers, and it reflects the way of expression of thoughts in 1918 and 1919; thus, the analysis of authentic texts shows that figurative means of expression are not only imaginative or picturesque, but they are a natural, everyday phenomenon of language. Metaphors, metonymies, and other means of expression of figurative thought are easy to find in large numbers: almost every issue of “Kurzemes Vārds” has a considerable number of different figurative patterns of thought. In the analysed examples, the number of cases where, for example, metaphor or personification acts as the only figurative pattern of thought, creating meaning in one stylistic use, is twice less (four cases) than the combinations of figurative patterns of thought creating meaning together (eight cases), which leads to a conclusion that combinations are more common. In several cases of personification, it is a metonymy that reveals the connection of conceptual metaphor with personification. The question of combinations of figurative patterns and their interaction calls for future research.

Altmetrics

2020 ◽  
pp. 119-131
Author(s):  
Payel Biswas
Keyword(s):  
Peer Review ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Web Based ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The World ◽  
Areas Of Interest ◽  
Citation Metrics ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Citation Searching

According to information scientists, information is modified into knowledge by adding experience. Researchers need powerful and successful filters to help them stay abreast of literature in their field, as well as methods to track the impact of their own research in often very specialized areas of interest. Traditional mechanisms such as peer review and citation searching using bibliometrics are no longer sufficient tools to aid researchers. How can librarians become leaders and powerful allies in this new landscape? Enter the world of Altmetrics. Altmetrics, or alternative citation metrics, provides researchers and scholars with new ways to track influence across a wide range of media and platforms. Altmetrics are metrics and qualitative data that are complementary to traditional, citation-based metrics. Altmetrics is a field of web-based metrics that accounts for total author influence which also looks beyond journal and monographic citation counts to the social web. The aim of this chapter is to explain the concept of library and librarian involvement with altmetrics.

Psychiatric epidemiology— looking to the future

2003 ◽  
pp. 385-402
Keyword(s):  
Psychiatric Epidemiology ◽  
The State ◽  
Psychiatric Research ◽  
Editorial Team ◽  
Future Research ◽  
New Directions ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
New Methodologies ◽  
Research Specialty

The daunting objective for this chapter is to summarize issues which face the emerging specialty of psychiatric epidemiology, and to suggest broad directions for future research. Some of these have already been highlighted and we are grateful to contributing authors for providing their opinions as to the ‘state of play’, both in their own contributions and in communications solicited with respect to this chapter. Although the editorial team take responsibility for what is written here, we hope that it can be taken to reflect a wider body of opinion in this field. The issues raised are not intended to be exhaustive, although we hope that any specific omissions can be reasonably included within one or other of the broad themes identified. Psychiatric epidemiology is a relatively young research specialty. This creates both problems and opportunities. A problem is that it has ‘grown up’ heavily influenced by prevailing paradigms from other older fields—principally general epidemiology (regarding methodologies) and other areas of psychiatric research (regarding systems of classification and diagnosis). These are not automatically appropriate or helpful and may instead be a source for difficulties encountered in research. An advantage however for a young specialty is that it can perhaps more easily discard the trappings of tradition as it seeks to make its way in the world. Current issues will be considered under three broad headings. First, the need for new methodologies will be considered. Next, interfaces will be summarized both between psychiatric epidemiology and other specialties/agencies and within the specialty itself. Finally possible new directions for psychiatric epidemiology will be considered.

scholarly journals Longitudinal Research on Music Education and Child Development: Contributions and Challenges

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 205920432093722
Author(s):  
Beatriz Ilari
Keyword(s):  
Child Development ◽  
Music Education ◽  
Longitudinal Research ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Population Sampling ◽  
The Past ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Future Challenges ◽  
Areas Of Interest

Based on a comprehensive analysis of 39 studies published in academic journals in the past decade (2010–2020), this article discusses the strengths of current research and the challenges that lie ahead for researchers interested in conducting longitudinal research on music education and child development. Among the strengths of the reviewed studies are multi-year projects, diverse study samples and programs, and a wide range of areas of interest—cognitive and neural to socioemotional and musical development. Challenges for future research are described in relation to three main perspectives. The methodological, the first perspective, tackles future challenges in terms of research approaches, population sampling, randomization, replication, and the lack of cross-cultural longitudinal research. The second perspective, the conceptual-philosophical, focuses on how children, music, and music education have been defined—in deliberate or tacit ways—in longitudinal works, and their implications for both research and practice. The third perspective, the political, focuses on the extent to which research on the effects of music education may be interpreted by some as promoting a neoliberal educational agenda. I conclude the article with suggestions for future research.

E-Behaviour Trends and Patterns among Malaysian Pre-Adolescents and Adolescents

2014 ◽  
pp. 1144-1156
Author(s):  
Selvi Salome Gnasigamoney ◽  
Manjit Singh Sidhu
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
General Pattern ◽  
Routine Activity ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Age Group ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Different Parts ◽  
New Millennium

The threat of cyber-related crimes due to excessive usage of Internet and current e-behaviour amongst the younger children is not new in this new millennium but stays as an issue for consideration. This paper provide a general pattern of online related behaviours that seem to be taking place among Malaysian pre-adolescents and adolescents and its possible impact on their behaviours leading towards cyber-related crimes. Facts and finding from various researches conducted from different parts of the world, including Malaysia were reviewed. The results from various studies reveal that a great concern and strategies have to be put into place as the age group using the Internet has reduced and the routine activity of pre-adolescence and adolescence are changing and are based on Internet. Non-awareness of their current online behaviours and its possible link to cyber-related crimes may lead these young children to a greater threat when using e-Commerce or any other Internet dependent activities in the future. This paper focuses on the facts collected from various studies to justify the importance of having future research on this phenomenon.

scholarly journals BioHackathon 2015: Semantics of data for life sciences and reproducible research

F1000Research ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 136
Author(s):  
Rutger A. Vos ◽  
Toshiaki Katayama ◽  
Hiroyuki Mishima ◽  
Shin Kawano ◽  
Shuichi Kawashima ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Research And Development ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
Biological Data ◽  
Reproducible Research ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Biomedical Data ◽  
Data Types ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The World

We report on the activities of the 2015 edition of the BioHackathon, an annual event that brings together researchers and developers from around the world to develop tools and technologies that promote the reusability of biological data. We discuss issues surrounding the representation, publication, integration, mining and reuse of biological data and metadata across a wide range of biomedical data types of relevance for the life sciences, including chemistry, genotypes and phenotypes, orthology and phylogeny, proteomics, genomics, glycomics, and metabolomics. We describe our progress to address ongoing challenges to the reusability and reproducibility of research results, and identify outstanding issues that continue to impede the progress of bioinformatics research. We share our perspective on the state of the art, continued challenges, and goals for future research and development for the life sciences Semantic Web.

scholarly journals Challenges of Integrating and Curating Nomenclatural and Taxonomic Data in the World Checklist of Vascular Plants 

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Turner ◽  
Rafaël Govaerts
Keyword(s):  
Data Integration ◽  
Real World ◽  
Vascular Plants ◽  
Scientific Data ◽  
Editorial Team ◽  
Integration Process ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Plant Names ◽  
The World ◽  
Plant Families

The World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP) is the Royal Botanic Gardens (RBG) Kew’s global names and taxonomy output. The underlying data sources, the International Plant Names Index (IPNI), the World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP), and the World Checklist of Selected Plant Families – in Review (WCSP – In Review) are actively curated by a dedicated editorial team, who manage contributions from a wide range of international partners. WCVP is the intersection between IPNI and WCSP/WCSP-In Review and provides the names and taxonomy backbone for Plants of the World Online (POWO) – the web portal bringing Kew scientific data online. WCSP contains the peer reviewed taxonomic data covering about half of all vascular plant families. The taxonomy presented in WCSP is currently widely used, with most authoritative web resources on plants using the WCSP data either directly or indirectly. WCVP will bring this together with the remaining families currently in the ‘In-Review’ database. IPNI is a nomenclatural listing of all effectively published taxonomic acts for Plant Names (new species, new combinations, new names at rank of Family down to infraspecific). It is a project that has been continually compiling lists of new plant names since 1895. It provides the basis of many external plant names databases including Tropicos and GBIF and a point of contact for users to ask questions on plant nomenclature, with a public facing access to the nomenclatural expertise at Kew. The database is actively maintained, edited and added to daily. This presentation will cover: The integration of the resources and how the integrated product will be presented online How the integrated product supports outputs like POWO Experiences from the data integration process (the matching tools iteratively developed and tested in real world circumstances by dedicated staff) The development of programmatic API access and names matching tools The drafting of a data paper describing the WCVP (with access to a full download) The integration of the resources and how the integrated product will be presented online How the integrated product supports outputs like POWO Experiences from the data integration process (the matching tools iteratively developed and tested in real world circumstances by dedicated staff) The development of programmatic API access and names matching tools The drafting of a data paper describing the WCVP (with access to a full download)

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