Introduction to WISE theme issue, part II

The Anatomical Record Returns to the Sea: Exploring the Great Whales and Their Interesting Relatives.

PurposeThis paper aims to profile the Worldwide hospitality and Tourism Themes (WHATT) issue “What are the key innovative strategies needed for future tourism in the world?”, with reference to the experiences of the theme editor and writing team.Design/methodology/approachThis paper uses structured questions to enable the theme editor to reflect on the rationale for the theme issue question, the starting point, the selection of the writing team and material and the editorial process.FindingsThis paper provides a framework to facilitate discussions between international scholars in hospitality and tourism to re-define a buzzword. For this theme issue, the buzzword was “innovation”. Summaries of 13 papers written on innovative strategies in hospitality and tourism around the world were then analysed to fine-tune the definition.Practical implicationsThe theme issue outcomes provide lines of enquiry for others to explore and reinforce the value of WHATT’s approach to collaborative research and writing.Originality/valueThe collaborative work reported in this theme issue offers a unified but contrarian response to the theme’s strategic question. Taken together, the collection of articles provides a detailed picture of the key innovative strategies needed for future tourism.

Since 1998, five MODFLOW-themed conferences have been held, including ‘‘MODFLOW 98,’’ ‘‘MODFLOW 2001 and Other Modeling Odysseys,’’ ‘‘MODFLOW and More 2003: Understanding through Modeling,’’ ‘‘FiniteElement Models, MODFLOW and More 2004,’’ and ‘‘MODFLOW and More 2006: Managing Ground Water Systems.’’ This is the second theme issue of Ground Water to be derived from MODFLOW-themed conferences; the first was derived from the 2001 conference, as described by Hill et al. (2003). This theme issue is derived from the ‘‘MODFLOW and More 2003: Modeling through Understanding’’ conference held in September 2003 at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado. Chosen contributions have evolved and expanded beyond their original scope and content as presented at the 2003 conference. In spite of using MODFLOW as a working theme, both the conferences and related journal issues involve many different modeling approaches and simulation programs. This theme issue begins with a Software Spotlight column by Barlow and Harbaugh. The column summarizes some of the current directions for MODFLOW development being pursued by the USGS. There include simulation of coupled ground water/surface water systems, variable-density flow and solute transport modeling, unsaturated-zone flow simulation, parameter estimation, and ground water management optimization modeling. The next two articles are issue papers by Hill and Gomez-Hernandez that debate the merits and pitfalls of simplicity vs. complexity in developing ground water models. Hill argues that all ground water models should start out simple and modelers need to add complexity carefully as warranted by the complexity (1) supported by the available data and (2) important to the predictions. On the other hand, Gomez-Hernandez argues that aquifers are inherently complex and their representation is uncertain. Thus, complexity in models, based on the stochastic, multiple-realization Monte-Carlo approach, is a must for proper evaluation and prediction. The exchange of the simplicity vs. complexity viewpoints is complemented by a following technical commentary by Haitjema. He advocates that training in basic hand calculations is important in ground water modeling curricula because analytic solutions to elementary ground water flow problems provide something that often is lost when using sophisticated computer models: insight. Nine research papers constitute the remainder of the theme issue. The first three deal with modeling techniques in flow and solute transport. Mehl et al. review several local grid refinement (LGR) methods and identify their advantages and drawbacks. They also demonstrate how a new LGR method can be successfully implemented to model surface water–ground water interactions. Romero and Silver take advantage of MODFLOW’s integrated finite-difference formulation to obtain more robust solutions for distorted grids. Herrera and Valocchi investigate a well-known but difficult problem in solute transport modeling: the presence of negative concentrations in solute transport solutions arising from advection and cross-dispersion terms. They propose corrective schemes aimed at preserving positive simulated concentrations. The next two papers address model calibration. Zyvoloski and Vesselinov demonstrate that grid properties and resolution, and the computational scheme, can have large effects on forward model predictions and on inverse parameter estimates. They quantify these effects using a series of oneand two-dimensional synthetic cases representing saturated and variably saturated flow problems. Edington and Poeter explore the connection between stratigraphic processes and the character of flow systems. They conclude that geologic processes controlling the ratio of accommodation space to sediment supply have a consistent effect on hydraulic properties. This suggests that joint inversion of geologic and flow models could be useful in characterizing the magnitude and distribution of hydraulic properties important to ground water flow and transport. 1Department of Geological Sciences, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487; czheng@ua.edu 2International Ground Water Modeling Center, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO 80401; epoeter@mines.edu 3U.S. Geological Survey, Boulder, CO 80303; mchill@usgs.gov 4Watermark Numerical Computing, Corinda 4075, Australia; johndoherty@ozemail.com.au Copyright a 2006 The Author(s). Journal compilationa2006National GroundWaterAssociation. doi: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.2006.00270.x

Health Services Research (HSR) is pleased to announce a new feature called ''The Theme Series.''The journal will from to time issue a call for papers on a specific ''theme'' considered to be of particular significance to the field and importance for current health care policy.Manuscripts submitted for the Theme Issue will undergo the usual HSR peer review process

Stability, separation and close body interactions. Introduction.

PurposeExpanding upon the special issue entitled “The special issue: AAAJ and research innovation”, published in 2012, this introduction to the second special issue of the genre is concerned with selected thematic special issues of AAAJ appearing during the second decade of publication from 1998 to 2007. The paper explores research innovation by means of the thematic issues addressed from this decade.Design/methodology/approachThis paper provides a background to this special issue and an outline of the articles included. The issue features seven retrospective/prospective articles written by the guest editors of special thematic issues published during 1998 to 2007, supplemented where appropriate by other co-authors or, in one instance, by a new author team.FindingsThe guest editors and other contributing authors sought to identify and discuss the progression of each field since the AAAJ special issue was published, and to assess the impacts of the special issues to this progression, and to propose future research developments in the designated fields.Research limitations/implicationsThis commentary on articles published is no substitute for carefully reading these contributions. The papers provide a comprehensive review of key developments in the literature until most recently and explore the opportunities for further innovative interdisciplinary accounting research.Originality/valueThis AAAJ special issue, and the earlier 2012 prototype, constitute a different approach to producing special issues, where the original special issues are revisited with a view to assessing research trends and impacts and to identifying research developments which are ripe for pursuing in each of these interdisciplinary accounting fields.

Purpose This study aims to profile the Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes (WHATT) issue “What are the main trends, challenges and success factors in the Russian hospitality and tourism market in the experience economy era?” with reference to the experiences of the theme editors, contributors from industry and academia and the theme issue outcomes. Design/methodology/approach This study uses structured questions to enable the theme editors to reflect on the rationale for their theme issue question, the starting point, the selection of the writing team and material and the editorial process. Findings This study provides a framework to facilitate discussion between all stakeholders in Russia’s tourism and hospitality industry; it identifies ways of improving competitiveness as a tourist destination and contributes to thinking about sustainable development. Practical implications Reports on dialogue between Russian academics and industry practitioners related to the challenges, opportunities and success factors that are important for the development of the tourism and hospitality industry in Russia. Originality/value This is the first detailed assessment of the opportunities and mechanisms for creating memorable tourist experiences in Russia. The theme issue also identifies the main problems relating to the development of tourism and hospitality, the implications for industry and the solutions needed to address them.

Advancing racial and ethnic equity in science, medicine, and health: a call for papers

Editorial: theme issue on complex rheology in biological systems

Theme Issue and Hot Topics in Diabetes

The thematic issue on BAdvanced Modeling and Innovative Processes^ is a result of a kind invitation from the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Material Forming. Therefore, the Invited Editors would like to acknowledge the Editorial Board, in the person of the Editor-in-Chief Prof. Francisco Chinesta, the ESAFORMAssociation, in the person of its President Prof. Dorel Banabic and, last but not least, Springer Editions for this great opportunity. The idea of this thematic issue is to give a summary (but comprehensive) overview of the most recent and diversified topics in the field of advanced modeling techniques, when directly applied to innovative processes. One of the main challenges of Engineering, in general aspects, is to provide a link between fundamental mathematical/physical concepts and industrial applications, leading to economic development as well as scientific one. This thematic issue is devoted to this landmark. The contributions chosen to be included in the present thematic issue try to provide, as mentioned, a wide variety of examples where this link can be achieved. For instance, polymer crystallization phenomena are dealt with and simulated by means of numerical techniques including multi-scale effects. In other publication, also dealing with constitutive modeling, nonquadratic anisotropic criteria are considered for the correct simulation of metallic alloys. In order to achieve a higher level of efficiency in the numerical algorithms to be used in industrial applications, procedures for obtaining equivalent parameters from different yield criteria and hardening laws are studied and analyzed in another contribution. Directly related to industrial applications and constantly seeking for efficient, real-time computations, another contribution proposes innovative ways to choose optimum tool paths for incremental forming processes, based on sequencing and multi-step mesh morphing procedures. From the point of view of reliability and robustness of numerical simulation results, the thematic issue presents a paper dealing with an inevitable nonlinearity in forming processes: contact modeling, and its influence in results as coming from early stage decisions on the way to properly describe tools’ surfaces. Also related to metal forming tools, another contribution deals with and presents a set of experimental setups able to properly investigate the wear of coatings, with results that can provide valuable insights into process simulation techniques, afterwards. Another analysis of coatings’ wear, but this time applied to turning operations, is given in another contribution, widening the range of applications included in this thematic issue. Modeling and numerical analysis should also rely, when possible, on inverse techniques and optimization and a contribution is included in this issue dealing with an integrated approach for the SHPB test and ranging from numerical to experimental analysis. Another relevant field of study in the processes’ modeling is the prediction of crack initiation and, subsequently, the monitoring of its growth. This topic is seen in a contribution dealing with FSW joining/processing techniques and the analysis of process parameters in the appearance of fracture zones and crack propagation. Finally, and also with the goal to widen the range of * Robertt Valente robertt@ua.pt

Comments from the departing Editor.

Dynamics, control and information in delay-coupled systems: an overview

Contemporary biomedical research and clinical practice face a major challenge: the classic reductionist approach, which we successfully used for decades to dissect at more and more detail the components and mechanisms underlying the physiology and pathology of organism, is now showing its limits.

This Thematic Issue seeks to explore critical perspectives of an international nature on social innovation (SI), social enterprise (SE) and/or social solidarity economy (SSE). The aim is to examine the grand narrative, explore the ontological assumptions of the field, challenge the normative and present alternatives that draw attention to political economy, critical theory and critical management studies. Critical perspectives emerged in social innovation (SI) literature as a concerted effort sometime in 2008. A few voices sounded from the edges of the field much earlier. Ash Amin, Professor of Geography at Durham University, inspected the new favourite of public policy way back in 2002, discarded it as a "a poor substitute for a welfare state" and never returned to the subject. There were heated debates that challenged the grand narrative of SI at the International Social Innovation Research Conferences (ISIRC) (once called the Social Enterprise Research Conference before becoming ISIRC with the involvement of the social innovation theme from Skoll Centre). The Voluntary Sector Studies Network (VSSN) conferences picked away at the promise of unlimited performance and achievement of the upstart SE in a mature voluntary and charity network (