Foreword for Special Issue “On the Subject of Gas Firing Engine and Its Surrounding Trends in Marine Engine”

The subject of evaluating foresight work has been around for almost as long as the professional practice itself has, but the field has done little to move closer to a systematic evaluation of its work. This special issue marks the second collection of articles on that project after a special issue of Futures in 2012 (Van Der Duin and Van Der Martin 2012). This issue takes a three-part approach: Part 1: evaluation of foresight in general and evaluation approaches and methods that can support designing an appropriate evaluation; Part 2: evaluation of foresight work in organizations and its impact on long-term thinking and decision-making; and Part 3: evaluation of specific foresight activities—an undergraduate learner foresight experience and a health sector scenario development exercise. The foreword ends with a reflection on the continuing issue of foresight and evaluation.

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Processing and Technology of Dairy Products: A Special Issue

Foods ◽

10.3390/foods9030272 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 9 (3) ◽

pp. 272

Author(s):

Hilton Deeth ◽

Phil Kelly

Keyword(s):

Subject Matter ◽

Dairy Products ◽

Special Issue ◽

The Subject

When this Special Issue was launched, we cast the net widely in terms of the subject matter we considered suitable for the papers [...]

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Aquatic biomonitoring: Lessons from the past, challenges for the future

Journal of Limnology ◽

10.4081/jlimnol.2017.1695 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 76 (s1) ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Rossano Bolpagni ◽

Mariano Bresciani ◽

Stefano Fenoglio

Keyword(s):

Adaptive Responses ◽

Special Issue ◽

The Past ◽

Quality Classification ◽

The Future ◽

The Subject ◽

Passionate Debate ◽

Main Message ◽

Special Symposium

This special issue stems from an increasing awareness on the key contribution made by biometrics and biological indices in the quality classification of aquatic ecosystems. This theme has been the subject of passionate debate during the 13th European Ecological Federation (EEF) and 25th Italian Society of Ecology’s (S.It.E.) joined congresses held in Rome in September 2015. In this frame, on the margins of the special symposium named “Biomonitoring: Lessons from the past, challenges for the future”, it was launched the idea of a special issue of the Journal of Limnology on the “aquatic” contributions presented at the conference. The present volume mainly reports these studies, enriched by few invited papers. Among the other things, the main message is the need of a better integration between sector knowledges and legislative instruments. This is even truer given the on-going climate change, and the necessity to record rapid changes in ecosystems and to elaborate effective/adaptive responses to them.

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Analytic Feminism: A Brief Introduction

Hypatia ◽

10.1111/j.1527-2001.1995.tb00734.x ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 10 (3) ◽

pp. 1-6

Author(s):

Ann E. Cudd

Keyword(s):

Analytic Philosophy ◽

Special Issue ◽

The Subject

This essay introduces the subject of this special issue by offering a characterization of analytic feminism in terms of its context, methods, and problem areas. I argue that analytic feminism is a legitimate sub-field both of feminism and of analytic philosophy. I then summarize the problems addressed by the essays of this issue.

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Special issue on Aspects of OV and VO order in the history of English

English Language and Linguistics ◽

10.1017/s1360674305001590 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

pp. 1-4 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

ANN TAYLOR ◽

WIM VAN DER WURFF

Keyword(s):

Large Body ◽

Special Issue ◽

Diachronic Syntax ◽

University Of Leiden ◽

History Of ◽

The Subject ◽

English Syntax ◽

The University ◽

Recent Monograph ◽

Detailed Picture

Whether judged by the amount of intrinsic interest, the number of knock-on effects, or the sheer volume of scholarly work devoted to it, it seems safe to say that one of the major issues in English historical syntax is the shift from object–verb (OV) to verb–object (VO) order. Over the last three decades in particular, a large body of literature has grown up that has resulted in an increasingly detailed picture of this change. No doubt in part because the recent introduction of electronic corpora has provided a boost to data-oriented work, the popularity of this change shows no imminent signs of abating. Evidence for the continuing popularity of this topic was demonstrated at two conferences held at the University of Leiden Centre for Linguistics in 2003 (the second Holland–York Symposium on the History of English Syntax in April 2003, and the Conference on Comparative Diachronic Syntax in August 2003). Although neither of the meetings had the shift from OV to VO in English as a special theme, the conference programmes together included no fewer than eight papers on the topic. Seven of these can be found in this special issue, which aims to illuminate selected aspects of the alternation between OV and VO order in the history of English; the collection of articles is rounded off by a review of a recent monograph on the subject.

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Research into Anxiety of Childhood: Playing Catch-up (to Olympic Standard)

Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy ◽

10.1017/s1352465808004566 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 36 (4) ◽

pp. 377-378

Author(s):

Sam Cartwright-Hatton ◽

Andy Field ◽

Cathy Creswell ◽

Shirley Reynolds

Keyword(s):

Great Britain ◽

Child Anxiety ◽

Special Issue ◽

Seminar Series ◽

The Usa ◽

The Subject ◽

Catch Up

This special issue is the culmination of an ESRC seminar series grant awarded to the authors of this editorial. We named the seminar series CATTS (Child Anxiety, Theory and Treatment Seminars) and it took the form of six highly stimulating, one-day seminars on the subject of child anxiety, with participants from clinical and academic backgrounds and from Great Britain, Europe, the USA and Australia. Most of the authors in this publication, and a sister special issue in Cognitions and Emotion (2008), participated in the CATTS series.

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Hybridity and the news: Blending genres and interaction patterns in new forms of journalism

Journalism ◽

10.1177/1464884916657520 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 18 (1) ◽

pp. 3-10 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Jelle Mast ◽

Roel Coesemans ◽

Martina Temmerman

Keyword(s):

Interaction Patterns ◽

Special Issue ◽

Theoretical Frameworks ◽

Individual Contributions ◽

Multiple Issues ◽

The Subject ◽

Methodological Approaches ◽

The Individual ◽

Different Levels ◽

Careful Assessment

This paper introduces the Special Issue’s central theme of ‘hybridity and the news’, defining the scope and setting the scene for the multiple issues and debates covered by the individual contributions in this collection. Opposing both relativist positions that discard hybridity as an analytically useless concept, and preconceived notions that construe hybridity as intrinsically negative or positive, it is argued to move beyond binary thinking and to approach hybridity as a particularly rich site for the analysis of forms and processes of experimentation, innovation, deviation and transition in contemporary journalism. In order to profoundly understand these developments, which come in many forms, manifest themselves on different levels, and serve multiple purposes, a comprehensive, multi- and interdisciplinary perspective is needed. The Special Issue aims to contribute to this research agenda by looking closely into blending categories and interaction patterns in journalistic forms, genres, and practices, encompassing theoretical frameworks and methodological approaches from various disciplinary backgrounds including political and communication sciences, sociology, linguistics, cultural studies, and history. While taking different angles on the subject and being variously located on the macro and micro levels of analysis, the articles assembled here all engage in a careful assessment of ‘hybridity and the news’ through profound conceptualizations and empirical analyses, connecting with and shedding new light on long-standing debates about the nature and meaning of journalism.

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Plants and processes in wetlands: A background

Marine and Freshwater Research ◽

10.1071/mf9941369 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 45 (8) ◽

pp. 1369 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

PI Boon ◽

MA Brock

Keyword(s):

Research Effort ◽

Grey Literature ◽

Wetland Ecology ◽

Scientific Journals ◽

Special Issue ◽

Inland Wetlands ◽

Considerable Research ◽

History Of ◽

Research Findings ◽

The Subject

It is easy to gain an impression from the recent contents of Australian scientific journals dealing with ecological research that little attention is paid to the botanical ecology of Australia's inland wetlands. Less than 1% of the papers published in key Australian ecological journals over 1987-93 dealt with some aspect of the vegetation ecology of these environments. Yet over the period 1982-94 research on this topic accounted for up to 23% of the papers presented at annual conferences of the two major Australian scientific societies to which Australian limnologists are likely to belong. This discrepancy indicates that wetland vegetation is the subject of a considerable research effort by Australian limnologists, but that few of their research findings are published in refereed Australian journals. Analyses of the references cited in key review articles suggests that refereed journals outside Australia cannot account fully for the 'missing' publications: we demonstrate that much research is placed in the largely inaccessible 'grey literature' published by government departments and the like. It is also possible that some research is destined never to be published. This imbalance between the intensity of the research effort and the history of publication in Australian refereed journals prompted local scientists involved in wetland research to participate in a Special Issue dedicated to the botanical and process-oriented aspects of wetland ecology.

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Maritime Archaeology and Capacity Development in the Global South

Journal of Maritime Archaeology ◽

10.1007/s11457-019-09244-x ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 14 (3) ◽

pp. 321-332 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Lucy Blue ◽

Colin Breen

Keyword(s):

Cultural Heritage ◽

Capacity Building ◽

Maritime Archaeology ◽

Capacity Development ◽

Global South ◽

International Congress ◽

Special Issue ◽

The Subject ◽

And Training ◽

Sixth International

Abstract The Honor Frost Foundation sponsored a session, ‘Maritime Archaeology, Capacity Building and Training in the Developing World’ at the Sixth International Congress on Underwater Archaeology (IKUWA VI) held in Freemantle, Australia, in November 2016, dedicated to capacity development in the context of maritime archaeology. The papers presented in this special issue of this journal represent an attempt to understand different approaches to capacity building and development within the sphere of maritime cultural heritage. This paper, by way of an introduction to the subject, and this special issue, aims to explore the nature of capacity building and development in relation to maritime cultural heritage.

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Global Health with Justice: Controlling the Floodgates of the Upstream Determinants of Health through Evidence-Based Law

Public Health Ethics ◽

10.1093/phe/phaa011 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 13 (1) ◽

pp. 4-9

Author(s):

John Coggon ◽

Lawrence O Gostin

Keyword(s):

Global Health ◽

Social Determinants Of Health ◽

Social Determinants ◽

Determinants Of Health ◽

Evidence Based ◽

Special Issue ◽

The Social ◽

Georgetown University ◽

The Subject ◽

Upstream Determinants

Abstract This article introduces a special issue on the legal determinants of health, following the publication of the Lancet–O’Neill Institute of Georgetown University Commission’s report on the subject. We contextualize legal determinants as a significant and vital aspect of the social determinants of health, explain the work of the Lancet–O’Neill Commission and outline where consequent research will usefully be directed. We also introduce the papers that follow in the special issue, which together set out in greater detail the work of the Commission and critically engage with different aspects of the report and the application of its findings and recommendations.

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