The life and work of Professor Ian Taylor: introduction to a "special" special issue

From specialized skin to sensing whiskers to unique depth perception mechanisms to novel eyes and much, much more: The distinctive ways marine mammals interact with their world are explored in a Special Issue of the The Anatomical Record.

The Journal of Alternative and Complementary MedicineVol. 25, No. 12 Call for PapersFree AccessCall for Special Focus Issue Papers: Integrative Palliative CareDeadline for Manuscript Submission: January 31, 2020Guest Editors: Shelley Adler and Delia ChiaramonteGuest Editors: Shelley AdlerSearch for more papers by this author and Delia ChiaramonteSearch for more papers by this authorPublished Online:16 Dec 2019https://doi.org/10.1089/acm.2019.29079.cfpAboutSectionsPDF/EPUB Permissions & CitationsPermissionsDownload CitationsTrack CitationsAdd to favorites Back To Publication ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmail Shelley Adler, PhDDirector, Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, UCSF Osher Foundation Distinguished Professor of Integrative Medicine Professor, Department of Family and Community MedicineDelia Chiaramonte, MDDivision Chief, Integrative & Palliative Care, Gilchrist, Greater Baltimore Medical CenterSpecial Issue Advisory Team:Jennifer Moore Ballentine, MAExecutive DirectorCSU Shiley Institute for Palliative CareStephanie Cheng, MDAssistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, Division of Palliative Medicine, UCSF Department of MedicineDanielle Josette Doberman, MD, MPHCourse Director, Palliative Care and Pain Clinical ElectiveAssistant Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins MedicineScott A. Irwin, MD, PhDDirector, Supportive Care Services, Cedars-Sinai Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer InstituteBrieze Robinson Keeley, MDIntegrative Palliative Care Physician, UCSF Osher Center for Integrative MedicineInstructor, UCSF Division of Palliative CareGabriel Lopez, MDMedical Director of the Integrative Medicine Center, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Department of Palliative, Rehabilitation, & Integrative MedicineRobin Majeski, PhD, RNClinical Associate Professor, The Erickson School, University of Maryland at Baltimore CountyMary Lynn McPherson, PharmD, MA, MDE, BCPS, CPEProfessor, Executive Director, Advanced Post-Graduate Education in Palliative Care, University of Maryland School of PharmacyThe fields of Palliative Care and Integrative Health have both advanced substantially over the past two decades. These movements share many fundamental values—patient-centeredness, respecting the body-mind-spirit whole person continuum, and supportive and complementary roles, yet the fields have grown in parallel rather than intentionally examining their shared mission. In 2020, JACM: Paradigm, Practice and Policy Advancing Integrative Health (The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine) will publish a Special Focus Issue on Integrative Palliative Care. The goal will be to enhance the natural synergy between integrative health and palliative medicine by drawing research and commentary that examine integrative palliative care. (For more reflection on the convergence, please see Adler et al. “Integrative Palliative Care: Enhancing the Natural Synergy Between Integrative Health and Palliative Medicine” JACM, March 2019).Guiding the special issue are guest editors Shelley R. Adler, PhD and Delia Chiaramonte, MD. Adler is Director of the University of California, San Francisco Osher Center for Integrative Medicine. She is a researcher and medical educator focusing on palliative and end-of-life care, with an emphasis on integrative health equity. Chiaramonte is an integrative palliative care clinician at Gilchrist/Greater Baltimore Medical Center and was previously an integrative educational leader with the University of Maryland School of Medicine where she was the Associate Director and Director of Education for the University of Maryland School of Medicine Center for Integrative Medicine. She teaches in the Palliative Care Master's Program at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy. Drs. Adler and Chiaramonte are supported by a Special Issue Advisory Team.We invite your submissions! We are seeking original research and reviews in these areas: integrative palliative methods, examinations of multimodal approaches, implementation-related studies including exploration of cost and business models issues, and education research. If you have ideas that you believe would be solid additions but are not explicitly called out here, please send us a query.Manuscript submission due date: January 31, 2020. When submitting your paper, please select the “Special Issue on Integrative Palliative Care” manuscript category to ensure it is considered for this special issue. Original manuscripts should be no longer than 3,000 words, and Systematic Reviews should be no longer than 4,500 words. Title, abstract, acknowledgments, disclosures, references, and figure/table legends do not count toward the word limit.Additional feature: As an additional feature in this JACM Special Focus Issue, we urge your submission of a 500-word commentary to reflect on next steps for integrative palliative care: controversies; unusual experiences (not case reports); models of care; educational models; etc. We will select from those submitted a set that will be published together to capture the challenges and opportunities for this moment for the field.If you have questions in this area, or ideas for other submissions that might strengthen the value of this special issue, please feel free to query us via Editor-in-Chief John Weeks at jweeks.jacm@gmail.com.Submit your paper for peer review online:http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jaltcompmedFiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Volume 25Issue 12Dec 2019 InformationCopyright 2019, Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishersTo cite this article:Guest Editors: Shelley Adler and Delia Chiaramonte.Call for Special Focus Issue Papers: Integrative Palliative Care.The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine.Dec 2019.1149-1150.http://doi.org/10.1089/acm.2019.29079.cfpPublished in Volume: 25 Issue 12: December 16, 2019PDF download

Contemporary Computer Supported Collaboration: Systems, Technologies, Algorithms, and Applications

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.

Welcome to the special issue on selected papers from the ELECO-2013 Conference!, the 8th International Conference on Electrical and Electronics Engineering, held 28–30 November 2013, in Bursa-Turkey. ELECO conferences go back to 1986, when it was initially organized as national ELMEKSEM Electromechanical Conference by the Chamber of Electrical Engineers (EMO) Bursa Branch and upon that success repeated in 1988 and 1993 and 1997. The Bursa Branch has further gone on to organize a series of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Conferences in Bursa. ELECO conferences are organized at international level in odd numbered years and as national conferences in even numbered years, such as ELECO’2013 is the eight international conference which participants coming from various countries, presenting papers from the wide spectrum of electrical and electronics engineering. ELECO 2013 is jointly organized by Uludag University, Bursa; Istanbul Technical University (ITU), Istanbul and the Chamber of Turkish Electrical Engineers (EMO) Bursa Branch. The IEEE Region 8, IEEE Circuits and Systems (CAS) Turkey section and The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey are co-sponsors of ELECO 2013. Taking the broad scope of the technical program, it is probably the largest electrical and electronics engineering conference ever held in Turkey. The scope of the conference covers topics ranging over electric power systems, electrical machines and drives, power electronics, high voltage techniques, electrical materials, electronics, circuits and systems, signal processing, electromagnetics, antennas and propagation, microwave theory, communication systems, mechatronics, control theory, control applications, automation systems, robotics and intelligent control systems. Two hundred and thirty five papers have been submitted for presentation and 138 papers have been accepted. If we look at the contributions with respect to geographical point of view, it is seen that ELECO 2013 contributions are coming from 17 different countries. Selected papers from previous international ELECO Conferences were invited to be published in extended form in special ELECO issues of international journals, under peer review. Three special ELECO issues appeared in the journal Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing containing selected papers from ELECO’2001, ELECO’2007 and ELECO’2011. Furthermore, four special ELECO issues appeared in the journal TJEECS: Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences where selected papers from ELECO’2003, ELECO’2005, ELECO’2007, and ELECO’2009 were published in extended form, respectively. This special issue on selected papers from ELECO’2013 contains extended versions of 12 papers presented at the conference, chosen among 19 recipients of the call for the papers for the special issue. All papers had to undergo the usual ALOG review process before they were finally accepted for this special issue. One of these papers is selected from invited talks given by world-known scientists during the conference. Six papers are selected from the papers presented in Special Session on Advances and New Design Possibilities for Analog Signal Processing. The other five are chosen from regular submitted manuscripts. H. H. Kuntman (&) S. Ozoguz O. Cicekoglu Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey e-mail: kuntman@itu.edu.tr

The Volume 11, 2015 of the European Journal of Biomedical Informatics (EJBI) brings many papers focused on electronic healthcare. EJBI provides immediate open access to peer-reviewed papers, which will be published in the running rst issue of EJBI during this calendar year. The second and third issues of EJBI in 2015 are special topic issues related to di erent electronic healthcare topics. The rst special topic issue edited by Bernd Blobel and Libor Seidl concerns with the topic Concepts, Models and Implementations for Innovative Interoperable eHealth Solutions. The second special topic issue edited by Francesco Pincirolli and Anne Moen concerns with Apps for Medicine, Health and Home Care. The second issue in 2015 deals with the important problem of interoperability. It presents selected papers of the 15th International HL 7 Interoperability Conference held in Prague, Czech Republic, February 2015. The inability to share information across systems and between care organizations is just one of the major obstacles towards quality, efciency, security and cost-e ectiveness of healthcare. There are many reasons for this state, including underinvestment in information technologies, lack of political will, fragmented markets with inadequate development of new systems, lack of standards, complexity of medical data, data entry problems, security and con dentiality. The gap between the demand for healthcare from an increasingly well-informed citizens and the ability of the government and healthcare organizations to meet this demand is widening all the time. The concept of interoperability has dramatically changed since the establishment of the Health level 7 standard for open communicaton between hospital organizational units in 1987 in the United States of America. This special topic issue tackles the entire spectrum including Electronic Health Record systems and the core application in electronic healthcare. The third issue in 2015 deals with Apps for Medicine, Health and Home Care. The published reviewed papers are based on contributions from the conference Apps for Medicine, Health and Home Care: Elements of Safety and E ectiveness, held in Milano, Italy, May 2014.The issue is a new challenge for many of the historically settled and widely relevant stakeholders active in the electronic healthcare area. They are challenged a speci c way, facing needs to nd out how new tools are instrumental for the proper accomplishment of their role. Currently it is the app user who takes the direct risks and responsibilities for possible outcomes that may not be perceived, undesired or unknown. Thus there is a compelling need for reports from well executed studies, which provide accessible and clear descriptions of requirements for ectiveness and safety of apps for medicine, health and home care. Nevertheless a scope like this is not easy. Performing an exhaustive evaluation of each available app is not a ordable by anybody. Even the level of the methods to be used for such evaluations asks for reliable suggestions. As contribution to such evolutionary framework the papers in this special Issue do the attempt to help, sometime as a vision, some other times at the practical level. In the year 2015 European Journal for Biomedical Informatics (EJBI) welcomes original articles dealing with topics in uencing electronic healthcare. Authors are not paying an article processing fee for the immediate release of peerreviewed articles, but a small nancial support is required in case that the support of projects or sponsors is acknowledged (see Instruction to authors). Due to the focus of the journal to semantic interoperability issues we ask authors for translation of structured abstract of their articles to at least one European language. EJBI provides immediate open access to peer-reviewed papers, which will be published in the running rst issue of EJBI during this calendar year. The other issues of EJBI are special issues related to di erent biomedical informatics topics. Topics for special issues can be proposed to editor-inchief of EJBI using the form Proposal of EJBI special issue for further processing. Topic for special issue is speci ed by an open call or by a special event. We invite you to propose special topics that would help to accelerate needed changes in electronic healthcare by easy transfer of a new information and knowledge for health care delivery.

The editors of Behavioural Pharmacology are pleased to announce that a Special Issue on The Behavioural Pharmacology of Opioids will be published in the spring of 2020. In each of the last 30 years, Behavioural Pharmacology has published at least one Special Issue, and we were surprised when reviewing this output to see that opioids as such have never been covered (albeit there have been Special Issues on opioid-related issues such as pain and addiction). Considering the current high levels of abuse of both illegal and legal opioids, it is timely to devote a Special Issue to the behavioural pharmacology of opioids. We now invite behavioural pharmacologists working in this area to submit reports of original, unpublished empirical studies, for inclusion in the Special Issue. Suitable submissions could address any area of opioid pharmacology, such as addiction, pain, reward, or drug development. Review papers are also welcome, but as the Special Issue may include a number of invited reviews, potential reviews should be discussed with the Editors at an early stage to avoid duplication. Also, please ask one of the Editors if you are uncertain whether a report of your research would be suitable for inclusion. All papers should be submitted online at http://www.editorialmanager.com/bpharm. Contributors are advised to submit as early as possible, and should aim to do so before the end of August 2019. Later submissions could be accepted, but the later your submission is received, the higher the likelihood that it might miss the publication deadline for the Special Issue. However, all papers – whether destined for hard-copy publication in Special or regular issues – are published online shortly after they are accepted. ALSO: As already announced, a Special Issue will be published in the autumn of 2019 on Behavioural Aspects of Neuroinflammation. We are still accepting submissions: both reviews and empirical studies concerning behavioural causes and consequences of neuroinflammatory phenomena are welcome. Contributors should aim to submit by the end of April 2019 (but we will remain open to later submissions). All papers should be submitted online at http://www.editorialmanager.com/bpharm. The editors welcome correspondence from potential authors, particularly in relation to review papers. If you are planning to prepare a paper for submission, do please let us know. Paul Willner (Editor) Jack Bergman (Associate Editor) Louk Vanderschuren (Associate Editor) Bart Ellenbroek (Reviews Editor)

Editorial Call for Papers for Special Topical Issues of Archives of Psychiatric Nursing

Language Learning Research at the Intersection of Experimental, Computational, and Corpus‐Based Approaches

As the ASCE’s first bilingual peer-reviewed technical journal publication, this special issue on engineering in the Americas represents a new era for ASCE publications. ASCE is a global organization with 15 international sections, 16 international groups, and thousands of international members. Through the publication of this bilingual issue, ASCE is developing a platform to collect and disseminate work on a global basis inmultiple languages. The hope is that this effort will pave the way for ASCE to develop other bilingual technical journal special issues and, eventually, journals dedicated to publishing in this format. This publication is a collaborative effort between many dedicated members of the civil engineering community. The ASCE International Activities Committee proposed the idea and made financial resources available for translations from the bequest of Robert B. Lea to support the “foreign relations activities” of the society. ASCE then partnered with the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile and their journal, Revista Ingenieria de Construccion (RIC), to turn the idea into reality. The Journal of Construction Engineering and Management (JCEM) and RIC editorial staffs took on additional work to pursue this endeavor. The JCEM provided an exceptional stage for this bilingual issue test case. Civil and construction engineers throughout the Americas are dealing with similar challenges in design, construction, operations, and maintenance of capital facilities, as will be discussed this October when ASCE conducts its 144th Annual Conference in Panama. Similarly, construction researchers in North and South America are addressing these challenges with a variety of unique approaches. By breaking down the language barriers that can inhibit publication opportunities and hinder the dissemination of research, the JCEM has opened new doors for authors to publish their work. As the Department of Construction Engineering and Management of the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile’s first collaborative peer-reviewed journal publication, this special issue represents a milestone in internationalization. Published since 1986 by the Department of Construction Engineering and Management of the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, RIC was the ideal platform for carrying out this effort because it has earned important international recognition, particularly among Latin American researchers. The collaboration agreement was the start, and the process then required a large number of peer reviewers from North and South America. This project became a reality only through this collaborative effort. To maintain the rigorous standards of the JCEM and RIC, a dual peer review process was undertaken through which authors from multiple countries were allowed to submit their work in their native language. Authors originally submitted papers in their native language for peer review. Accepted papers were then translated and reviewed again in the second language. Authors were required to address comments from both sets of reviewers. The papers were accepted for publication in this special issue only after being reviewed and approved by this dual review process. This special issue contains 14 pairs of papers that address a wide variety of research on engineering in the Americas. The articles cover an impressive scope of topics that are unified by their importance to the Americas. The issue publishes articles on earthquakes and the resulting structural responses, and others addressing knowledge management and sustainability. Construction design and methods, performance modeling, and reflections on how to improve engineering education are also included in this issue. We would like to thank Charles T. Jahren, who as Editor of JCEM in 2009, wholeheartedly supports this endeavored with the concurrence of Associate Editor (at the time) Jesus de la Garza and Senior Specialty Editor Carl Haas. The support of these individuals made this special issue possible. We would like to further thank Angela Cochran and Jennifer Parresol at ASCE journals, who worked tirelessly to overcome many obstacles in shepherding these first bilingual manuscripts through the peer review and publication process. We also thank Ximena Araya at RIC journals, who managed the Spanish peer review and translation process. As guest editors of this special issue, we hope that this journal breaks down barriers to publishing in multiple languages. We anticipate that this JCEM example will serve as a model of new avenues for authors to internationally disseminate their innovative research.

A New Strategy to Increase Scientific Publications and Facilitate Research Uptake in the Caribbean.

I am pleased to announce the inaugural special issue (Parts I and II) of the selected papers from the ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC) 2018, Quebec City, QC, Canada, Aug. 26–29, 2018. This special issue has been organized for the purpose of expediting the process of converting high quality ASME sponsored conference papers into submissions to the ASME Journal of Mechanical Design (JMD). The submission was by invitation only, based on the recommendations from the respective IDETC conference organizers.This year, the recommended list of papers from conference organizers represents roughly 15% of the IDETC papers from four conferences: (1) Design Automation, (2) Design Education, (3) Design for Manufacturing and the Life Cycle, and (4) Design Theory and Methodology. Power Transmission and Gearing Conference (PTGC) is held biannually, and there was no PTGC this year. Thanks to the hard work of the editorial board and the reviewers, the invited papers underwent an expedited review process which produced a good amount of high-quality papers for the special issue to be published in two parts: Part I in February 2019 and Part II in March 2019.In the past, it often took too long to reference the JMD version of an IDETC paper, which has a negative impact on the knowledge exchange in the field as well as the journal impact factor. I am pleased that with the special issue initiative this year, we have finished the review of invited IDETC papers within three months of the IDETC conferences. These accepted papers represent the state-of-the-art engineering design research in their respective topic areas, and they are made available online immediately after the final acceptance. I would also like to note that even if a paper is not among the recommended list from conference organizers, we continue to encourage authors to submit their work to the regular JMD issues whenever they feel ready. Please note that the IDETC conference paper copyright does not prevent authors from sending the same paper to the ASME Journal of Mechanical Design.The success of JMD is based on the scholarly contributions of authors, dedicated reviewers, staff members supporting the journal, and our board of Associate Editors who are leaders in their respective technical areas. Special thanks go to the following Associate Editors who played the critical role of coordinating the reviews of papers in this special issue: James Allison, Xiaoping Du, Scott Ferguson, Katja Holtta-Otto, Harrison Kim, Nam H. Kim, Gul E. Okudan Kremer, Mian Li, Christopher Mattson, Scarlett Miller, Samy Missoum, Tahira Reid, Carolyn Seepersad, G. Gary Wang, and Paul Witherell.As we learn from running this IDETC special issue for the first time in JMD, I look forward to hear feedback from the community and will work toward running the special IDETC issue again next year.

Third special issue on knowledge discovery and business intelligence

Special issues of scholarly journals have become more common during the last decade of management research. We review this trend and assess the effectiveness of special issues for knowledge dissemination. Methods include interviews with journal editors, compiling data on time to publication and on impact and quality of special issues for five mainstream management journals, and a case study chronicling the creation of the Organization Science special issue on “Knowledge, Knowing, and Organizations.” The findings show that journal special issue articles appear to be published more quickly than regular issue articles (time to publication), and for three of the five journals there is a significant difference in impact (measured as citation counts per article) when special and regular issue articles are compared. Further, we find evidence of greater variation in the quality of special issue articles compared to regular issue articles, although this reflects special issues publishing exceptional articles rather than the inclusion of substandard ones. The case analysis suggests that a series of preconferences on a common topic prior to a special issue did not appear to impact the type of papers submitted to or published in the special issue. We discuss the role of special issues and preconferences in knowledge development in organization science.

Introduction1.1 The papers in this special issue of Sociological Research Online were all presented at the BritishSociological Association Annual Conference, held at the University of York in March 2004. The conferencetheme was ‘Sociological Challenges: Conflict, Anxiety and Discontent’. As members of the organisingcommittee we wanted to ensure that a selection of the best papers was published in an accessible outlet.We are delighted to guest edit this special issue which show cases some of the most innovative andinsightful work in the field. We will be following this up with a further special issue next March focusing onthe theme of ‘Politics, Responsibility and Risk’.1.2 Tragically while this special issue was being assembled, one of the contributors, Sue Innes, died aftermany months of being diagnosed with a brain tumour. Sue was Research Fellow at the Centre for Researchon Families and Relationships, Glasgow Caledonian University in 2001 and again in 2004 and 2005. Shewas a founder of Engender, the Scottish women's research and information organisation and perhaps bestknown for her publication, Making It Work, which looked at the challenges facing women and work in the1990s. It is highly fitting that this special issue is dedicated to her memory.1.3 In this brief editorial we explain the intellectual rationale for this special issue and the significance of thechosen papers for current sociological debates. The 2004 conference was designed to focus upon how thetask of sociology is defined by the social conflicts that take place in modern societies. We wanteddelegates to consider how the sociological imagination is animated by issues of social division, economichardship, cultural disadvantage and political oppression and how under these circumstances, our disciplineis in constant debate, defining its social role and value. We sought to encourage debate in relation to theimpending ecological crisis, the negative consequences of neo-liberal capitalism, the extreme inequalitiesbetween the developed and developing world and the aggravated uncertainties associated with anintensifying experience of rapid social and technological change. In organising the conference we hoped toprovide opportunities for delegates to debate the sociological challenges that continue to define ourdiscipline, as well as those that are emerging as the core concerns for social life in the twenty-first century.We asked the question: how might sociology venture to identify its purpose and identity in the world itseeks to explain?1.4 We invited papers addressing the following themes:Embodied expressions and oppressionIntimacy, work and family lifePolitics, responsibility and neglectCulture, conflict and everyday lifeThe challenge to sociological theoryTeaching and learningSpecial plenary sessions were organised to provide the intellectual context for the shifting sociologicalagenda. Professor Sue Scott, from the University of Durham, presented a talk on ‘Sexuality, Anxiety andthe Challenge to Sociology’ which highlighted key sexual antimonies that characterise everyday life in the21st century. The final plenary was given by Professor Joan Busfield from the University of Essex, whotalked about ‘Pills, Power, People’ and how sociological analysis can further understandings of the growingimpact of the pharmaceutical industry on our lives. We also held two social theory roundtables‘Sociologists and their audiences’ and ‘The future of the social’, as well as a lively roundtable on risk,entitled ‘The social reality of risk’.1.5 Within this special conference issue, these ‘best papers’ are organised around the theme of ‘Intimacy,work and family life’ since this stream produced some of the most lively and significant contributions. Giventhe diverse range of papers the selection process for inclusion in this special issue was not an easy task.