scholarly journals Editorial for the Special Issue on Micro-Manufacturing and Applications

Micromachines ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 851
Author(s):  
Atanas Ivanov
Keyword(s):  
Special Issue ◽  
Micro Manufacturing

This editorial is for collating the Special Issue on micro-manufacturing and applications, based on stringently selected papers presented to the editorial board of this Special Issue [...]

scholarly journals Editorial

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pamela Myles
Keyword(s):  
Treatment Fidelity ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Special Edition ◽  
Special Issue

Welcome to this Special Issue of tCBT. Our focus in this special edition of the journal is on supervision. Few would argue the vital role of supervision during CBT training and beyond to ensure treatment fidelity to evidence-based protocols. I would like to take this opportunity to thank Professors Derek Milne and Robert Reiser for kindly acting as guest editors. In addition, we are grateful for their fine contributions to the supervision literature in this particular edition of the journal. Thanks too to Professor Cory Newman from the tCBT editorial board for contributing to the overarching paper provided by Professors Milne and Reiser. Thanks also to all the authors for their fine contributions and to our reviewers who gave so generously of their time to comment on the submitted manuscripts. Our intention is to publish one Special Issue a year, next year we look forward to a special edition with a focus on ‘complexity’ with guest editors Dr Claire Lomax and Dr Stephen Barton from Newcastle University.

Introduction

1994 ◽  
Vol 25 (6) ◽  
pp. 559
Author(s):  
James W. Wilson ◽  
Catherine A. Brown ◽  
Carolyn Kieran ◽  
Frank K. Lester
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics Education ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Task Force ◽  
Board Members ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
25Th Anniversary ◽  
The Past ◽  
Look Ahead

This special issue of the Journal for Research in Mathematics Education was prepared to help celebrate the 25th anniversary year of the journal. President Mary Lindquist appointed an ad hoc task force to develop activities to mark this 25th year. Input was solicited from former editorial board members and editors and from others throughout mathematics education. We came to a recognition that doing something to reflect on the journal's journey over the past 25 years, while underscoring the scholarship that guides our work, would be a vehicle to help look ahead to the next 25 years.

Selected Papers VJFUZZY'2001

2002 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-1
Author(s):  
Nguyen Hoang Phuong*and Koichi Yamada** ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Language Processing ◽  
Fuzzy Systems ◽  
Wide Spectrum ◽  
Fuzzy Optimization ◽  
Case Based Reasoning ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Decentralized System ◽  
Control Rules ◽  
Data Querying

This special issue of the journal is devoted to Fuzzy Systems and their Applications. Today's fuzzy technology is like a mighty dragon: every year, every day, new applications appear that are more and more helpful in our peaceful life. One of the main objectives of the Second International Vietnam-Japan Symposium on Fuzzy Systems and Applications (VJFUZZY'2001) is to help this powerful technology to achieve even more. VJFUZZY'2001 was held in Hanoi, Vietnam on December 7-8, 2001. In VJFUZZY'2001, there was a wide spectrum of fuzzy research and applications, including sessions: "Fuzzy Mathematics", "Fuzzy Image/Signal Processing and Pattern recognition", "Fuzzy Optimization/Programming", "Fuzzy Data Analysis and its applications", "Towards Combining Fuzzy, probability and other techniques", "Learning, Neural Networks and Applications", "Fuzzy/Intelligent Control", "Natural Language Processing" etc. Many very interesting results were presented at the symposium. Among these various and excellent papers, this special issue offers a selection of nine papers that contribute to advances of computational intelligence in various aspects. The topics that the selected papers deal with are fuzzy relation with threshold, nonlinear optimization with convex polyhedral objective function, reinforcement learning of fuzzy control rules, learning of probabilistic causal models, data querying in fuzzy relational database, case-based reasoning in medial diagnosis, analysis of human brain activities for fuzzy and crisp calculations, fuzzy robust control of a decentralized system and image processing using fuzzy mathematical morphology. As editors of this special issue, we would like to express our thanks to all of the contributors for their interesting results, the anonymous referees for their thankless job and the Editorial Board of JACI, especially Prof. Kaoru Hirora, for the enthusiastic hospitality with which JACI agreed to have this special issue. Finally, we want to thank Prof. Hung T Nguyen and Prof. Michio Sugeno - for their supports to VJFUZZY'2001. Without their help, the VJFUZZY'2001 and then this special issue would not be impossible.

Special Issue on Assistive Technology Based on ICT/IRT for Aged Society

2013 ◽  
Vol 25 (6) ◽  
pp. 887-887
Author(s):  
Takayuki Tanaka ◽  
Yasuhisa Hasegawa ◽  
Takanori Miyoshi ◽  
Shunji Shimizu ◽  
Toru Ifukube
Keyword(s):  
Communication Technology ◽  
Assistive Technologies ◽  
Assistive Device ◽  
Worth Living ◽  
Elderly Persons ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Kinesthetic Feedback ◽  
Aged Society

Although Japan and many other countries are going to the super-aging society quickly prior to the world, according to the latest investigations, there are a lot of elderly persons who do not suffer instrumental activity of daily living (IADL). This special issue made a broad call for papers on research and development of assistive technologies to support and enhance their employment and daily-life activity based on information-communication technology (ICT) and information-robotics technology (IRT). The topics of the special issue include wearable assistive device, power/skill assist, mobility assist, locomotive assist, communication assist, kinesthetic feedback assist, sensor/actuator technologies for assistive system, robotics and mechatronics to support elderly persons. We finally believe that these assistive technologies greatly contribute to support many elderly persons and make their lives more worth living. We thank the authors for their fine contributions and the reviewers for their generous time and effort. In closing, we thank the Editorial Board of the Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics for helping make this issue possible.

Special Issue on Mobiligence: Emergence of Adaptive Motor Function Through Interaction Among the Body, Brain and Environment

2007 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 363-363
Author(s):  
Hajime Asama ◽  
◽  
Jun Ota ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Motor Function ◽  
Adaptive Behavior ◽  
Neurological Disorders ◽  
The Body ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Adaptive Function ◽  
Motor Functions ◽  
Sensory Motor

Animals behave adaptively in diverse environments. Adaptive behavior, which is one of intelligent sensory-motor functions, is disturbed in patients with neurological disorders. Mechanisms for the generation of intelligent adaptive behaviors are not well understood. Such an adaptive function is considered to emerge from the interaction of the body, brain, and environment, which requires that a subject acts or moves. Intelligence for generating adaptive motor functions is thus called mobiligence. This special issue features papers dealing with mobiligence. The 18 papers were selected after a thorough peer review. The scope of these papers extends from analytical studies close to biology to synthetic studies close to engineering. Subjects are diverse – insects, monkeys, human beings, robots, networks. All papers play a part in mobiligence studies. We thank the Editorial Board of Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics for giving us the opportunity for publishing this special issue. We also thank the authors for their perseverance and expertise, and deeply appreciate the timely and helpful comments of the reviewers.

Special Issue on Intelligent Integrated Systems for Human-Oriented Information Society

2000 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 501-501
Author(s):  
Michitaka Kameyama ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Intelligent Transportation System ◽  
Data Transfer ◽  
Image Sensor ◽  
Sensor Data ◽  
Service Robot ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Real World Data

Recent advance in the information technology makes our society very convenient from the viewpoint of human-to-human information communication. However, our new living style will require not only human-tohuman communication but also autonomous intelligent applications that support human beings such as an intelligent robot system, an intelligent transportation system, and a security/safe system as shown in Figure. These applications will contribute to human-oriented information society.Intelligent vehicle Home service robot Security The use of special-purpose VLSI processors capable of processing a large amount of real-world data is essential to make such applications realistic. In recent industrial trend, the special-purpose processors are called ""System LSIs"". One of the most important environmental informations in real-world applications is a vision information. The factor common to the applications is to catch an environment information moment by moment and to respond quickly with it. Therefore, it is important to make the response time from inputs to outputs very small. In this case, sensor data transfer bottleneck is not allowed as well as memory-to-PE (Processing Element) data transfer bottleneck. An image sensor signal processing VLSI together with image sensor devices is a key issue in such applications. From the above point of views, this special issue was planned to demonstrate the recent results of this area. Finally, I would like to express my appreciation to the authors for their efforts and contributions to this special issue and also the members of the Editorial Board for their cooperation.

Special Issue on Human Centric, Universal and Interactive Design for Robotics and Mechatronics

2014 ◽  
Vol 26 (6) ◽  
pp. 691-691
Author(s):  
Noriyuki Kawarazaki ◽  
Tadashi Yoshidome ◽  
Nobuto Matsuhira ◽  
Takayuki Tanaka
Keyword(s):  
Interactive Design ◽  
Elderly Persons ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Human Machine Interaction ◽  
Housing Environment ◽  
Aged Society ◽  
Machine Interaction ◽  
Human Support ◽  
Support Devices

According to the aged society in Japan, the expectation is high for the development of the human support robot or devices in daily life and in medical treatment and welfare. The human centered design and the universal design are very important concept for creating the useful human support devices. Human centric and universal designs are the designs of products and environments to be usable by all people, to the greatest extent possible, without the need for adaptation or specialized design. This special issue provides current researches and developments of human centric, universal and interactive design for robotics and mechatronics. Also, this special issue covers a broad range of research topics, such as human centric design, universal and interactive design, human machine interaction, transport system, housing environment system, rehabilitation devices, multi modal interface, evaluation of the usability, sensor/actuator technologies for assistive system, robotics and mechatronics to support elderly persons. We thank the authors for their fine contributions and the reviewers for their generous time and effort. In closing, we thank the Editorial Board of the Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics for helping make this issue possible.

Special Issue on Wearable Robotics and Mechatronics Technology

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 137-137
Author(s):  
Takayuki Tanaka ◽  
Yuichi Kurita ◽  
Keisuke Shima ◽  
Norihisa Miki
Keyword(s):  
Electronic Devices ◽  
Wearable Devices ◽  
Health Condition ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Generous Time ◽  
Level Of Activity ◽  
Wearable Systems ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Calculation Processing

Many wearable devices have been developed and are being currently used, owing to the miniaturization of computers and electronic devices and advancements in calculation processing algorithms. They have various uses and forms, for example, a power assist robot for reducing the burden of work, a wearable sensor for measuring the level of activity and health condition of people and animals, and so on. In Japan, wearable devices have attracted attention as an important technology in a human-centered society (Society 5.0) and can help realize economic development and address social problems. A society that can benefit from a wide range of wearable devices is being realized. This special issue covers robotics and mechatronics technologies for next generation wearable devices to realize such a society, including wearable systems and their elemental technology, AI, IoT, and other relative technologies. We sincerely thank the authors for their fine contributions and the reviewers for their generous time and effort. We would also like to thank the Editorial Board of the Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics for their help with this special issue.

Transforming Theory And Research With Women: Themes and Variations

1994 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 443-450 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Worell ◽  
Claire Etaugh
Keyword(s):  
Academic Community ◽  
Feminist Research ◽  
Personal Interest ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Psychology Of Women ◽  
Feminist Thought ◽  
Feminist Perspectives ◽  
Topical Area

We look at some of the ways in which feminist theorists and researchers apply new insights to established topics in psychology, as they explore the landscape of the unknown and unspoken in the lives of girls and women. The articles in this special issue present research and reflections by a group of feminist scholars, some of us from the editorial board of the Psychology of Women Quarterly and others from the larger academic community. Each contributor, selecting from a personal interest or expertise, reconceptualizes a topical area of psychology with the intent of reframing our understanding of its meaning, its impact on women's functioning, and/or its application to feminist research and theory. To provide a background, we review a sample of contributions of feminist thought to the contemporary revolution in science. We then ask the question: In what ways have feminist perspectives and scholarship transformed psychology in the particular areas addressed by these authors?

scholarly journals Trumpestilence

Konturen ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 47
Author(s):  
Michael J Stern
Keyword(s):  
Special Issue

Since the contributions to this Special Issue consist of relatively brief statements, the Editorial Board of Konturen has decided to forego abstracts this time around. Please click on "html" or "pdf" below for the full document of this essay.

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