scholarly journals Editorial for the Special Issue on “Emerging Trends in Phononic Crystals”

Crystals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 911
Author(s):  
Mostafa Nouh ◽  
William J. Parnell ◽  
Mahmoud I. Hussein
Keyword(s):  
Research Field ◽  
Phononic Crystals ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Structured Materials ◽  
The Past ◽  
Emerging Trends ◽  
The Creation

Over the past three decades, the study of phononic crystals (PCs) has rapidly evolved into a prominent research field offering a versatile platform for the creation of structured materials with salient properties [...]

Introduction: Adaptation and the Battle of, and for, and over, and within the Public Humanities

Adaptation ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Leitch
Keyword(s):  
Public Good ◽  
Culture Wars ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Public Figures ◽  
Ecological Implications ◽  
Theatrical Performances ◽  
The Creation

Abstract This introduction to the special issue of Adaptation devoted to adaptation and the public humanities focuses on the ways the once-anodyne term ‘public humanities’ has become more sharply politicized and contested over the past few years. In many ways, adaptation, which generates new versions and new readings of old texts instead of cancelling, erasing, or unpublishing them, offers the possibility of transcending the conflicts in contemporary culture. But the creation and the study of adaptations offer not a retreat from the culture wars but an array of new tools for waging them more productively by reframing them in ways that lead to more open and fruitful dialogue on the subjects proposed by the essays in this issue: theatrical performances cast for the public good, the costs of performing adapted versions of oneself or of encouraging adaptation-induced tourism, the ecological implications of adaptation, and the shifting valence of adaptation when it is practiced by public figures and posthuman agents.

Emerging Trends in Usable Security and Privacy

i-com ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 189-195
Author(s):  
Florian Alt ◽  
Emanuel von Zezschwitz
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
Future Trends ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Usable Security ◽  
Sensitive Data ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Emerging Trends ◽  
Holistic Understanding

AbstractNew technologies are constantly becoming part of our everyday life. At the same time, designers and developers still often do not consider the implications of their design choices on security and privacy. For example, new technologies generate sensitive data, enable access to sensitive data, or can be used in malicious ways. This creates a need to fundamentally rethink the way in which we design new technologies. While some of the related opportunities and challenges have been recognized and are being addressed by the community, there is still a need for a more holistic understanding. In this editorial, we will address this by (1) providing a brief historical overview on the research field of ‘Usable Security and Privacy’; (2) deriving a number of current and future trends; and (3) briefly introducing the articles that are part of this special issue and describing how they relate to the current trends and what researchers and practitioners can learn from them.

scholarly journals The Offshoring Of Accounting And Finance: Where Its Been And Where Its Going

2006 ◽  
Vol 5 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Richard Anderson ◽  
Richard N. Vita
Keyword(s):  
Venture Capital ◽  
Significant Cost ◽  
Entire Process ◽  
The Past ◽  
Emerging Trends ◽  
Business Functions ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Security Concerns ◽  
Start Ups

This article surveys the past and future of FAO finance and accounting outsourcing. It tries to identify why the offshoring of finance and accounting work has lagged three or four years behind most other business functions, in spite of its seemingly significant cost advantages. It then outlines some of the major emerging trends in the field, including its extension to mid-size firms, the proliferation of venture-capital financed offshore start-ups, the creation of dedicated environments to address security concerns, its expansion beyond India, the non cost-related advantages of offshoring, and the attempt to put an American face on the entire process.

scholarly journals Introduction: Memories of joy

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tea Sindbæk Andersen ◽  
Jessica Ortner
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Memory Studies ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Dominant Focus ◽  
Hegemonic Discourse ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future

This introduction argues that the field of memory studies needs to pay more attention to the role of joyful and positive types of memory. Quoting recent discussions, we propose that the dominant focus on traumatic and dark pasts within memory studies carries the risks that the research field ignores important aspects of collective memory and eclipses group memories that differ from societies’ hegemonic discourse about the past. Contemporary societies also need positive or hopeful memories in order to create alternative imaginaries for the future. This special issue sets out to explore what memories of joy may look like and how they can be studied.

EDITORIAL: Migration and competitiveness: Japan and the United States

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-124
Author(s):  
Philip L. Martin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Variable Cost ◽  
Fixed Cost ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Science And Engineering ◽  
The Past ◽  
Past Half Century ◽  
Key Sectors ◽  
Past Half

Japan and the United States, the world’s largest economies for most of the past half century, have very different immigration policies. Japan is the G7 economy most closed to immigrants, while the United States is the large economy most open to immigrants. Both Japan and the United States are debating how immigrants are and can con-tribute to the competitiveness of their economies in the 21st centuries. The papers in this special issue review the employment of and impacts of immigrants in some of the key sectors of the Japanese and US economies, including agriculture, health care, science and engineering, and construction and manufacturing. For example, in Japanese agriculture migrant trainees are a fixed cost to farmers during the three years they are in Japan, while US farmers who hire mostly unauthorized migrants hire and lay off workers as needed, making labour a variable cost.

Five Years and Count(er)ing: Memoir after Memoir

CounterText ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-32
Author(s):  
Norbert Bugeja
Keyword(s):  
Guest Editor ◽  
Arab Countries ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Terror Attack ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Past ◽  
Personal Perspectives ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Ongoing Project

In this retrospective piece, the Guest Editor of the first number of CounterText (a special issue titled Postcolonial Springs) looks back at the past five years from various scholarly and personal perspectives. He places particular focus on an event that took place mid-way between the 2011 uprisings across a number of Arab countries and the moment of writing: the March 2015 terror attack on the Bardo National Museum in Tunis, which killed twenty-two people and had a profound effect on Tunisian popular consciousness and that of the post-2011 Arab nations. In this context, the author argues for a renewed perspective on memoir as at once a memorial practice and a political gesture in writing, one that exceeds concerns of genre and form to encompass an ongoing project of political re-cognition following events that continue to remap the agenda for the region. The piece makes a brief final pitch for Europe's need to re-cognise, within those modes of ‘articulacy-in-difficulty’ active on its southern borders, specific answers to its own present quandaries.

Reframing the Sciences of the Long Eighteenth Century

2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 58-66
Author(s):  
Giuliano Pancaldi
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
History Of Science ◽  
Science Policy ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Half Century ◽  
The Past ◽  
Past Half Century ◽  
History Of ◽  
Long Eighteenth Century ◽  
Past Half

Here I survey a sample of the essays and reviews on the sciences of the long eighteenth century published in this journal since it was founded in 1969. The connecting thread is some historiographic reflections on the role that disciplines—in both the sciences we study and the fields we practice—have played in the development of the history of science over the past half century. I argue that, as far as disciplines are concerned, we now find ourselves a bit closer to a situation described in our studies of the long eighteenth century than we were fifty years ago. This should both favor our understanding of that period and, hopefully, make the historical studies that explore it more relevant to present-day developments and science policy. This essay is part of a special issue entitled “Looking Backward, Looking Forward: HSNS at 50,” edited by Erika Lorraine Milam.

The Scientific Value Of Research On Mirmukhsin Fikriy

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (08) ◽  
pp. 583-589
Author(s):  
Umriniso Rahmatovna Turaeva
Keyword(s):  
Political Environment ◽  
Continuous Development ◽  
The Past ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
Literary Heritage ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Scientific Value

The history of the Turkestan Jadid movement and the study of Jadid literature show that it has not been easy to study this subject. The socio-political environment of the time led to the blind reduction of the history of continuous development of Uzbek literature, artificial reduction of the literary heritage of the past on the basis of dogmatic thinking, neglect of the study of works of art and literary figures. As a result, the creation of literary figures of a certain period, no matter how important, remained unexplored.

Metal and Non-Metal Catalysts in the Synthesis of Five-Membered S-Heterocycles

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 258-275 ◽  
Author(s):  
Navjeet Kaur
Keyword(s):  
Organic Synthesis ◽  
Biological Activities ◽  
Reaction Times ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Environmentally Benign ◽  
Metal Catalyst ◽  
Efficient Synthesis ◽  
Heterocyclic Molecules ◽  
The Past ◽  
Harsh Conditions

Background:A wide variety of biological activities are exhibited by N, O and S containing heterocycles and recently, many reports appeared for the synthesis of these heterocycles. The synthesis of heterocycles with the help of metal and non-metal catalyst has become a highly rewarding and important method in organic synthesis. This review article concentrated on the synthesis of S-heterocylces in the presence of metal and non-metal catalyst. The synthesis of five-membered S-heterocycles is described here.Objective:There is a need for the development of rapid, efficient and versatile strategy for the synthesis of heterocyclic rings. Metal, non-metal and organocatalysis involving methods have gained prominence because traditional conditions have disadvantages such as long reaction times, harsh conditions and limited substrate scope.Conclusion:The metal-, non-metal-, and organocatalyst assisted organic synthesis is a highly dynamic research field. For ßthe chemoselective and efficient synthesis of heterocyclic molecules, this protocol has emerged as a powerful route. Various methodologies in the past few years have been pointed out to pursue more sustainable, efficient and environmentally benign procedures and products. Among these processes, the development of new protocols (catalysis), which avoided the use of toxic reagents, are the focus of intense research.

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