scholarly journals Twenty is Plenty

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gareth J Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Editorial Team ◽  
Special Issue

In this introductory editorial, the journal's Editor-in-Chief reflects back on reaching the milestone 20th issue of Exchanges, at the end of a busy publication year. The piece moves on to introduce each of the articles in the issue in turn, providing a brief summary of each piece. Next the open calls for abstracts and papers are highlighted, with the current 'plurality of translation' special issue call given particular attention. After looking forward to future issues, and acknowledging the title's supporters, the editorial closes by highlighting the ways readers and contributors can engage in ongoing conversations with the journal and its editorial team.

Editorial: Team work and team talk as distributed and coordinated action in healthcare delivery

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Srikant Sarangi
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
Team Work ◽  
Editorial Team ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Coordinated Action

This special issue of Communication & Medicine is dedicated to the theme of teamwork and team talk in healthcare delivery.

scholarly journals Virtual and Other Learning Spaces: Introduction to the Special Issue

2016 ◽  
pp. 110-114
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Opportunity To Learn ◽  
Editorial Team ◽  
Proximal Development ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Multiple Perspectives ◽  
Learning Spaces ◽  
Access Management ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Physical Spaces

Welcome to issue 7(2) of SiSAL Journal, which is a special issue on virtual and other learning spaces. The idea for putting together this special issue arose for two reasons. Firstly, we were inspired by the of submissions for the Self-Access Stories project edited by Katherine Thornton whose aim was to “highlight specific experiences of various areas of self-access management in practice, with a view to providing multiple perspectives on each issue” (Thornton, 2015). Some of the submissions and the ensuing discussion on the topic of virtual and other learning spaces prompted the editorial team to do a further call for papers for this special issue. The second reason for putting together this issue reason is that our own institution is currently preparing for a move to a larger, brand new purpose-built facility and this has inevitably resulted in our reevaluating interpretations of self-access for our own context. We wanted the opportunity to learn from others and invite them to the conversation. Environmental factors play a role in students’ learning both inside and outside the classroom and through this special issue we hoped to explore physical spaces, virtual spaces, and even metaphorical spaces in learning, e.g. Vygotsky’s Zone of Proximal Development – ZPD, or Murphey’s Zones of Proximal Adjusting – ZPA (Murphey, 1996; 2013) from both the practical and theoretical perspectives. This issue contains four full papers, one discussion article edited by Hisako Yamashita, and three papers that form the fifth part of the language learning spaces column edited by Katherine Thornton.

scholarly journals Recent Trends in Coatings and Thin Film: Modeling and Application

Coatings ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 777
Author(s):  
Rahmat Ellahi
Keyword(s):  
Thin Film ◽  
Guest Editorial ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Editorial Team ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Geographically Distributed ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
Effective Organization ◽  
Mechanical Sensing

This special issue took this opportunity to invite researchers to contribute their original research work and review articles to this Special Issue on “Recent Trends in Coatings and Thin Film: Modeling and Application” to be published in Coatings. The goal of this Special Issue was to address challenges and current issues that either advance the state-of-the-art of experimental, numerical, and theoretical methodologies, or extends the bounds of existing methodologies to new contributions that are related to coatings and thin film containing whichever, magnetic, multiphase, material science, nanotechnology, surfaces, interfaces, and mechanical sensing properties. In response to the call for papers, a total of 58 papers were submitted for possible publication. After comprehensive peer review, only 27 papers qualified for acceptance for final publication. The rest of 31 papers could not be accommodated. The submissions may have been technically correct, but were not considered appropriate for the scope of this special issue. The authors are from 17 geographically distributed countries, such as China, Spain, Romania, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Malaysia, Abu Dhabi, UAE, Vietnam, Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Lebanon, Egypt, India, and Kuwait, etc. This reflects the great impact of the proposed topic and the effective organization of the guest editorial team of this Special Issue.

scholarly journals Introduction: Special Issue on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Education Abroad

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eduardo Contreras Jr. ◽  
Lily López-McGee ◽  
David Wick ◽  
Tasha Y. Willis
Keyword(s):  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Editorial Team ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Education Abroad ◽  
Equity And Inclusion

In late 2018, our editorial team set out on a multi-component project to provide a historical reference of established scholarship from Frontiers on diversity, equity, and inclusion in education abroad and to and solicit and present a set of new works in this Special Issue on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion of Frontiers. We began by creating a special “virtual” issue of existing Frontiers articles centered on diversity, equity, and inclusion which accompanied our call for papers for this Special Issue on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. In our introduction to the virtual issue we highlighted three gaps in past scholarship on these topics. We noted (a) limited focus on equity and success, (b) a dramatically changed student demographic, and (c) a need for critical examination of education abroad practice in order to make significant strides toward equity. In our process with this virtual issue we were pleased to see many new initiatives from masters’ and doctoral students and from those we corresponded with during this process. With this January 2020 Special Issue we endeavored to push beyond discussions of access and representation in the field, to critically examine inclusion throughout the education abroad process, and to consider equity in outcomes. We hope that the articles we are presenting as the culmination of our work in this Special Issue on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Frontiers will move theory, practice, and scholarship forward.

scholarly journals Introduction

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandy Campbell
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Health Sciences ◽  
Children's Health ◽  
Children’S Health ◽  
Editorial Team ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Other Information ◽  
Fountain Of Youth ◽  
The University

This special issue of the Deakin Review of Children’s Literature is dedicated to health fiction.  The concept for the special issue grew out of an interest in using fiction as a tool in health literacy and healing.  Many of us have had the experience of escaping in to a book as a place of refuge when the real world seems too tough or being moved and inspired by a story about someone coping with illness, injury, or disability.  We wondered whether or not fictional works that offer children similar benefits are readily available? The answer is ‘Yes’, to a large extent.  But as we started to read our way through the books in local libraries, we realized that a number of the books may be of questionable benefit. Many had flaws, from obvious content errors to subtle issues that you might not recognize unless you read the book closely or someone brought them to your attention.  We wanted to take the opportunity to use this issue of Deakin to showcase some of the high quality fiction that we would recommend to libraries and parents. The authors of the reviews are librarians or other information professionals, with strengths in children's literature, health librarianship, or both.  Many have children.  Most are experienced reviewers.   Even though we had done some pre-screening, several of the reviewers started reviews and then discarded them when they found that upon close examination, they could not recommend the books. The accompanying article describes the larger study that we undertook to thoroughly review current children's health fiction. The end products of this research were: 1) a checklist for selection of children's health fiction; 2) a list of readily available works in the area; 3) this special theme issue of the Deakin, and; 4) a joint exhibit of the reviewed books, at the University of Alberta’s Education and Health Sciences libraries, to complement the publication of this issue. In addition to the outcomes mentioned above, it is our hope that an additional benefit of this project will be an increased community awareness of the value of children’s health fiction and the knowledge that sometimes a good story is good medicine. Sandy Campbell and Maria TanSandy is a Health Sciences Librarian at the University of Alberta, who has written hundreds of book reviews across many disciplines.  Sandy thinks that sharing books with children is one of the greatest gifts anyone can give. Maria C. Tan is a medical librarian at the Abdul Khaliq Library in Alberta Health Services’ Cross Cancer Institute and a former editorial team member of the Deakin Review. She firmly believes that children's literature is an essential component in the fountain of youth.

scholarly journals Introduction to the Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence for Smart Cities and Industries

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-91
Author(s):  
Ashutosh Sharma ◽  
Pradeep Kumar Singh ◽  
Wei-Chiang Hong ◽  
Gaurav Dhiman ◽  
Adam Slowik
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Biological System ◽  
Review Process ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Industrial Condition ◽  
Editorial Team ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Geospatial Information ◽  
Double Blind ◽  
Data Arrangement

Smart Cities and Artificial Intelligence offers an intensive evaluation of how the smart city establishments are made at different scales through automated thinking headways, for instance, geospatial information, data examination, data portrayal, clever related things, and quick natural frameworks handiness. Progressing propels in electronic thinking attract us closer to making a persistent reproduced model of human-made and trademark structures, from urban regions to transportation establishments to utility frameworks. This continuous living model empowers us to all the bound to manage and improve these working structures, making them dynamically watchful. Keen Cities and Artificial Intelligence gives a multidisciplinary, joined procedure, using speculative and applied bits of information, for the evaluation of savvy city situations. This special issue shows how the mechanized and physical universes are associated inside this organic framework, and how nonstop data arrangement is changing the possibility of our urban as well as industrial condition. It gives a fresh sweeping perspective on the natural framework designing, advances, and parts that include the masterminding and execution of sharp city and industry establishments. This special issue also shows how the computerized and physical universes are connected inside this biological system, and how continuous information assortment is changing the idea of our urban and industry condition. It gives a crisp all-encompassing viewpoint on the biological system engineering, advances, and parts that involve the arranging and execution of keen city and industry foundations. After following double blind peer review for all the submitted manuscripts across the globe, and after the rigorous review process, revision and based on final recommendations of the reviewers and editorial team, finally 17 manuscripts have been accepted for publication.  

scholarly journals Special Issue on Remote Sensing of Ocean Color: Theory and Applications

Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (12) ◽  
pp. 3445
Author(s):  
Trevor Platt ◽  
Shubha Sathyendranath ◽  
Heather Bouman ◽  
Carsten Brockmann ◽  
David McKee
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Ocean Color ◽  
Color Theory ◽  
Editorial Team ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Ocean Color Remote Sensing

The editorial team are delighted to present this Special Issue of Sensors focused on Remote Sensing of Ocean Color: Theory and Applications. We believe that this is a timely opportunity to showcase current developments across a broad range of topics in ocean color remote sensing (OCRS). Although the field is well-established, in this Special Issue we are able to highlight advances in the applications of the technology, our understanding of the underpinning science, and its relevance in the context of monitoring climate change and engaging public participation.

scholarly journals Editor-in-chief’s Editorial. Full conference proceedings – for the first time in FormAkademisk

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Janne Beate Reitan
Keyword(s):  
Conference Proceedings ◽  
Editorial Team ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
International Conference ◽  
Special Editor ◽  
First Time ◽  
Current Special Issue

In the current special issue, FormAkademisk, for the first time, will publish the complete proceedings of a conference. We are proud to announce that this will be the 1st Biennial International Conference for the Craft Sciences (BICCS, 2021), held on the 4–6th of May 2021 online, initiated by the Craft Laboratory, affiliated with the Department of Conservation, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. As a result of the Covid-19 situation, the conference will be held completely online. The special editor of this issue is Camilla Groth, who is also a member of our main editorial team. In addition, Tina Westerlund and Gunnar Almevik are members of this special issue editorial team (Groth et al., 2021).

scholarly journals Letter from the Editors

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lee Sterling ◽  
Rachel La Selva ◽  
Shawn (Zhuo) Shao
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Family Medicine ◽  
Graduate Program ◽  
Editorial Team ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Many ◽  
Web Developers

To our readers, We are immensely proud to present this special issue of the McGill Journal of Medicine (MJM) focused on primary care in Quebec. In recent years the healthcare system in Quebec has gone through massive shifts, many of which have been focused on the role of family physicians and the organization of primary care within the province. These changes reflect a new understanding of the key importance of the previously ignored entry point into our advanced and increasingly complicated healthcare system.In this issue we have sought to bring together diverse perspectives in the ongoing conversation regarding the future of primary care in Quebec. We are proud to present reviews, editorials, original research, artwork and reflections from authors including Dr. Howard Bergman, the Chair of the Department of Family Medicine at McGill, as well as medical and nursing students. A special thank you to Dr. Gillian Bartlett-Esquilant, the Research and Graduate Program Director for the Department of Family Medicine, and Dr. Charo Rodriguez, Director of the McGill Family Medicine Educational Research Group, for contributing an editorial highlighting the importance of primary care research. The above editorials are only a subset of the many other fascinating pieces we are proud to publish in this Issue.This special issue would not have been possible without the incredible effort of the MJM 2016-2017 editorial team. Our editors, section editors, and web developers have worked incredibly hard to bring this project to fruition. As the MJM begins a third year after relaunching in 2015, we hope this Issue stands as a testament to its bright future. We hope you enjoy reading this issue, we have certainly enjoyed putting it together.Best, Lee H. Sterling, Editor-in-Chief, 2017-2018 Rachel La Selva and Shawn Zhuo, Editors-in-Chief, 2016-2017

scholarly journals Editor-in-Chief's Introductory Note

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dennis R. Young
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
National Level ◽  
Editorial Team ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Introductory Note ◽  
New Directions ◽  
The Government ◽  
British Commonwealth ◽  
Policy Forum

AbstractThis issue of Nonprofit Policy Forum is our first special issue and it is led by an editorial team of our partners in Sweden – Marta Reuter, Filip Wijkstrom and Johan von Essen. The issue analyzes a development of growing worldwide interest – the emergence and evolution of formal “compacts” between the nonprofit or voluntary sector and the government in a given country. As the authors here explain, the first compact was established in the United Kingdom in 1998 and has led to adoption and adaptation of compacts in many more countries since then. Moreover, the concept is being pursued not only at the national level, but also in local jurisdictions within federally structured countries as well. In addition, the compact idea has crossed over the boundaries of British commonwealth countries into countries with other policy and governance traditions, including Scandinavia, where the concept has taken on new directions and meanings.

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