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Review of: ""Mealtime Hydration's Impact on Digestion": An Editorial Article"

Review of: ""Mealtime Hydration's Impact on Digestion": An Editorial Article"

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Review of: ""Mealtime Hydration's Impact on Digestion": An Editorial Article"

The role of physical activity in the treatment of type 2 diabetes – editorial article

Review of: ""Mealtime Hydration's Impact on Digestion": An Editorial Article"

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Neurodegenerative disorders encompass a spectrum of illnesses, such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and even schizophrenia, autism and potential mood disorders [1]. In parallel with this, a number of metabolic disorders – largely brought together under the term, metabolic syndrome (a conglomerate of several conditions, such as glucose intolerance/insulin resistance, hypertension, obesity, and dyslipidemia that, as a collection, elevate the risk of developing type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases) - can negatively impact human health and life span dramatically. Type 2 diabetes, like cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases, tends to progressively affect people as they age, particularly those with genetic and epigenetic pre-dispositions. Furthermore, like a number of other conditions, type 2 diabetes is clearly associated with over-nutrition and physical inactivity [2]. Affected individuals can be distinguished by a defect in insulin secretion together with a reduced response to insulin-stimulated glucose uptake in target tissues, including liver and adipose tissues - a disorder termed insulin resistance. With insulin secretion no longer able to compensate for rising peripheral insulin demand, the prediabetic state advances to diabetes and, although multiple mechanisms clearly underlie defective insulin secretion and resistance (for example, glucotoxicity, oxidative stress, lipotoxicity, endoplasmic reticulum stress, changes in gut microbiota, and others) [2], the contributions of each remain largely unknown and these same mechanisms can impact and induce dysfunction in other body systems – including the brain. It is widely accepted that neurodegenerative disorders, type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases are debilitating disorders impacting over one hundred million persons across the globe, regardless of continuous new discoveries in science and technology [3]. It is becoming increasingly clear that all of these disorders - and the aberrant biochemical cascades occurring in each - have the potential to promote the other disorders; and hence special attention is required by medical scientists to understand and develop strategies to remedy this. More and more links are being found almost daily between environmental factors, obesity, oxidative stress, inflammation, systemic maladies and central nervous system disorders like Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Huntington's and even some cancers [4-8] (Fig. 1). With this at the forefront, the current thematic issue of CNS & Neurological Disorders - Drug Targets was developed, and contributing authors were requested to shed light on important features deemed critical - like abnormalities in the level of key enzymes, hormones, peptides, inflammatory modulators, microbiota, bacterial/viral infections and the insulin signaling system in their articles (whether a review, original research, case report or letter). In this way, this special issue of CNS & Neurological Disorders - Drug Targets will hopefully move towards a greater understanding of the linkage between neurodegenerative conditions and other disorders with respect to cellular, molecular neurobiology, genetics, drug development and clinical aspects to promote progress towards effective management strategies for neurodegenerative disorders.On a personal level, I wish to end this editorial by thanking Stephen D. Skaper, the Editor in Chief, as well as Hina Wahaj, the Managing Editor, and all the contributing authors who have passionately responded to my request to provide interesting articles (Table 1). I additionally extend my thanks to all peer reviewers for their time and expertise in revising individual contributions to a consistently high level of excellence. Finally, I am grateful to Nigel H. Greig (Drug Design & Development Section, Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Aging, National Institute Health, USA) for kindly editing this ‘editorial article’ and for his continuous support in relation to my own research journey in Alzheimer's disease and type 2 diabetes.

This is a simple review which brings up the age-old topic of hydration and its impact on digestion. I would give credit to the author for the use of simple language, but it could have been made a stronger research article if

The role of the rehabilitation in the prevention and treatment of obesity – an editorial article

It is with immense pleasure and pride that I welcome you to the inaugural issue of IPI Letters, the official journal of the Information Physics Institute (IPI). As the Editor-in-Chief, I am thrilled to present this publication dedicated to advancing the frontiers of information science.

Dr. Evangelos Manolas’ name was inadvertently missed in the Editorial article which has been corrected in this erratum. Unfortunately, two article titles in the editorial are mentioned as they had been submitted during the review stage. The correct accepted article titles, as they should have been mentioned in the editorial article, are provided below: Instead of ‘‘Five Features for Enabling Sustainability in Higher Education in the UN Decade on Education for Sustainable Development’’ the title should be ‘‘UN decade on education for sustainable development (UNDESD): enabling sustainability in higher education’’. Instead of ‘‘Transforming higher education to support sustainability science for a resilient future: the influence of institutional administrative organization’’ the title should be ‘‘Transforming US higher education to support sustainability science for a resilient future: the influence of institutional administrative organization’’.

This journalistic paper presents the general ideas of hydration at the time of food intake. It could be improved by adding details of the impacts of hydration on the digestion of the meal. It would also be important to note that science has advanced somewhat since the 11th century, and it would be great to give contemporary ideas supported by scientific findings. Redaction of some sentences could be improved (e.g., mealtime hydration and warm constitution are not known terms; finding instead of funding).

At the Asia Pacific Journal of Management (APJM) we receive many queries from prospective authors about how to publish in APJM and the types of papers published. In response, we have been running a series of articles in APJM from 2010 to 2012 to assist prospective authors in that endeavor. In 2010, APJM published three editorial articles with some general recommendations on publishing in the journal and how to avoid some common mistakes that normally lead to a rejection at the editor’s desk (Ahlstrom, 2010a, b, c). In 2011 we published several more articles that can help authors to understand APJM’s general aims and scope (Ahlstrom, 2011a), some tips on organizing a paper (Ahlstrom, 2011b), and a summary of helpful sources for authors on key parts of a paper such as the literature review or the contributions section (Ahlstrom, 2011c). This editorial article will provide a quick reference to those works and answer the second part of the above author query about the types of papers typically published at APJM, as well as some we would like to receive a little more often.

Over the last few decades, the global economy has witnessed an unprecedented interest in Emerging Markets. They have become critical players in the global economy and contribute a significant proportion of the GDP in many countries. Indeed, most of the fast-growing economies today are Emerging Markets, and this trend will become more pronounced in the next decades. Some regions that were underrepresented in global economic forums because of their negligible economic influence are now emerging as promising destinations for foreign direct investments (FDI) and international trade. This is the case of the African region where some of the fastest growing Emerging Economies are located. The continent is projected to become a major economic hub by 2050, with more than 25% of the world’s population and consumers, the largest percentage of youth population and labor in the world, the largest reserves of mining and rare minerals, the largest reserves of underutilized water and arable land, and the largest Regional Economic Integration in the world, the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCTA) that was efective in 2019. With these considerations, it is unsurprising to notice a growing interest among researchers and academic journals in Emerging Markets, especially those in the African region. This is the case of the Journal of Comparative International Management (JCIM). Although this journal has focused on Emerging Markets for the last 25 years, it has reaffirmed its interest in Emerging Markets as one of its new strategic goals and is reinforcing its positioning in this regard with new leadership. I would like to mention that the second strategic goal of the journal is to raise its standard.
 The journal is fortunate to have a high-profile editorial team that I have the distinct honor to coordinate. The Editorial Board is comprised of 105 scholars from 25 countries located on five continents. Many of them are leading scholars, including a former president of the Academy of International Business (AIB), fellows of AIB, chairs of AIB regional chapters, and editors and associate editors of leading journals. I extend my heartfelt gratitude for their support. Not one of them hesitated to join the journal when I contacted them, which was immensely encouraging. Due to space limitations, I cannot name all of them here in this editorial article, but I thank the following colleagues for their exceptional support since the beginning of this new journey, and most importantly, for their contributions to this inaugural issue: Robert Grosse, former president and fellow of AIB; Elizabeth Rose, former president of ANZIBA (Australia and New Zealand International Business Association) and fellow of AIB; Gary Knight and Rebecca Piekkari, both fellows of AIB; Helena Barnard, former vice-president of AIB; and Tanvi Kothari, co-chair of AIB-US West and board member of Women of Academy of International Business (WAIB). Also, I extend special thanks to Nandini Lahiri of American University, Katherina Pattit of St. Thomas University, Malou Roldan of San Jose University, Richard Fletcher of the University of Western Sydney, Claudine Gaibrois of the University of St. Gallen, and Marijana Johansson of the University of Glasgow for their contribution to this inaugural issue. 
 I extend my heartfelt congratulations and sincere thanks to Prof. Basu Sharma, who founded JCIM 25 years ago and served as its Editor-in-Chief until passing this role to me recently. Serving as Editor-in-Chief is a time and energy consuming responsibility. Without the tenacity of Prof. Basu Sharma, JCIM would not have become the well‑established and ABDC ranked journal that it is today.
 This inaugural issue of JCIM contains six papers that focus on subjects related to Emerging Markets. These subjects vary from a new theory of the competition in Emerging Markets firms to women entrepreneurship in Emerging Countries, influence of the institutional environment on trust in Emerging Countries, Corporate Social Responsibility, marketing communication strategies in Emerging Countries, and finally, the impact of researchers’ paradigms on language-sensitive research in IB research. In this editorial article, I present these six papers by identifying their contributions and discussing the questions that they raise to inspire and enrich the conversation among International Business scholars.