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Meet Our New Associate Editor

Meet Our New Associate Editor

In Memoriam: Charis Eng MD PhD (1962–2024)

Matthew Ringel On behalf of the entire editorial team of Endocrine-Related Cancer, and personally as trainees and collaborators who at present serve as associate or senior editors of the Journal, it is with profound sadness that we write this memorial to Prof. Charis Eng, M.D., Ph.D who passed away on August 13, 2024. Prof. Eng served as Editor-in-Chief of Endocrine-Related Cancer from 2011-2021 and was dedicated to the Journal before, during, and after she served in that role. She had remarkable impact on Endocrine-Related Cancer moving the journal forward with great vision and energy while maintaining the strongest commitments to publishing the highest quality original research and reviews applying fair, ethical, and rigorous peer-review processes. Charis was a world-recognized leader in cancer genomics and clinical genetics medicine who enabled growth in Endocrine-Related Cancer in these and other areas critical for advancement of research and clinical care of endocrine cancers. She will be remembered by all of us as a superb and consequential researcher, editor, physician, leader, teacher, mentor, colleague, and friend.

COMONOTONICITY AND PARETO OPTIMALITY, WITH APPLICATION TO COLLABORATIVE INSURANCE

Two by-now folkloric results in the theory of risk sharing are that (i) any feasible allocation is convex-order-dominated by a comonotonic allocation; and (ii) an allocation is Pareto optimal for the convex order if and only if it is comonotonic. Here, comonotonicity corresponds to the so-called no-sabotage condition, which aligns the interests of all parties involved. Several proofs of these two results have been provided in the literature, all based on a version of the comonotonic improvement algorithm of Landsberger and Meilijson (1994) and a limit argument based on the Martingale Convergence Theorem. However, no proof of (i) is explicit enough to allow for an easy algorithmic implementation in practice; and no proof of (ii) provides a closed-form characterization of Pareto optima. In addition, while all of the existing proofs of (i) are provided only for the case of a two-agent economy with the observation that they can be easily extended beyond two agents, such an extension is far from being trivial in the context of the algorithm of Landsberger and Meilijson (1994) and it has never been explicitly implemented. In this paper, we provide novel proofs of these foundational results. Our proof of (i) is based on the theory of majorization and an extension of a result of Lorentz and Shimogaki (1968), which allows us to provide an explicit algorithmic construction that can be easily implemented beyond the case of two agents. In addition, our proof of (ii) leads to a crisp closed-form characterization of Pareto-optimal allocations in terms of α-quantiles (mixed quantiles). An application to peer-to-peer insurance, or collaborative insurance, illustrates the relevance of these results.Acknowledgements: The authors thank the Editor and two anonymous Referees for numerous suggestions which helped to improve the text compared to its previous versions. We are grateful to K.C. Cheung for comments on an earlier version of this paper, and to Christopher Blier-Wong for his excellent research assistance in the numerical example. We thank the Associate Editor and two anonymous reviewers for comments and suggestions. Michel Denuit and Jan Dhaene gratefully acknowledge funding from the FWO and F.R.S.-FNRS under the Excellence of Science (EOS) programme, project ASTeRISK (40007517). Jan Dhaene acknowledges the financial support of BOF KU Leuven (project C14/21/089). Mario Ghossoub acknowledges financial support from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada NSERC Grant No. 2018-03961 and 2024-03744).

New Associate Editor

New Associate Editor

A Conversation with Ana María Martínez

Abstract: In a video interview with Journal of Singing Associate Editor Melissa Treinkman on April 22, 2024, Ana María Martínez discussed her thirty-year operatic career that continues to flourish. She described her musical upbringing, shared advice regarding repertoire choice, and emphasized the importance of finding a sense of purpose. A QR code is included at the end of the article which contains the link to the recorded interview with Ana María Martínez, posted on the NATS YouTube channel.

Editor’s Note: In Defense of Freedoms: Decentralized Networks as a Shield Against AI-Powered State Surveillance in Smart Cities

Associate Editor Ahmed Alrawi discusses the advancement of AI-powered state surveillance in smart cities and how they have sparked concerns. Decentralized systems may present a solution. Dispersed dat and systems make it more difficult for government security agencies and urban administrators to conduct widespread surveillance but also empower individuals with greater control over their personal data.

TEMPORARY REMOVAL: Alan L. Zhang, M.D., F.A.A.O.S., F.A.A.N.A., Associate Editor, Arthroscopy Techniques

TEMPORARY REMOVAL: Alan L. Zhang, M.D., F.A.A.O.S., F.A.A.N.A., Associate Editor, Arthroscopy Techniques

Read and resonate: Welcome to this, the inaugural issue of Currere and Praxis

My thanks to Professors Sümer Aktan and Ünal Deniz for inviting me to serve as Editor-in-Chief of Currere and Praxis. My thanks, too, to Teresa Strong-Wilson and Wanying Wang for consenting to serve as Associate Editor and Managing Editor, respectively. My thanks also to those who agreed to serve on the Editorial Board. Thanks as well to those who submitted their manuscripts and, especially, to those whose scholarship and art appear in this inaugural issue. Thanks, finally, to those anonymous reviewers whose invaluable critiques of submitted manuscripts ensure the academic quality of the essays we publish. Thanks all around.

Sample Size in Qualitative Research Using In-Depth Interviews: A View from The Associate Editor 12 Years Later.

Sample Size in Qualitative Research Using In-Depth Interviews: A View from The Associate Editor 12 Years Later.

Focus on Miniatures

This is a regular feature written by the Associate Editor, Theresa Fraser. It is to highlight a specific miniature figure or symbol used in the sand tray. Sand therapists from around the world are invited to share how their clients use the figure. This issue is turtles.

Reflections from five associate editors on their role in the journal and on its future directions

Reflections from five associate editors on their role in the journal and on its future directions

Constructive Collaboration in the Voice Studio: Pedagogic Considerations for Building Contemporary Commercial Voices

Abstract: The challenges associated with teaching contemporary commercial vocal styles regularly depend upon a teacher’s ability and willingness to embrace a singer’s unique vocal footprint. Often contemporary commercial singers are reluctant to implement technical alterations which may impact their desired tonal aesthetic or overall sound. Associate Editor Justin John Moniz offers voice teachers pedagogic tools to assist in both technical assessment and collaborative approaches for building unique and sustainable practices with contemporary commercial singers.

A Conversation with Michael Maliakel

Abstract: In a video interview with Journal of Singing Associate Editor Melissa Treinkman on March 29, 2024, Michael Maliakel discussed his career and his experience playing the title role in the Broadway show Aladdin . A first place winner of the 2014 NATS National Musical Theatre Competition, Michael talked about the impact of his classical voice training on his Broadway career, the constantly ascending tessitura of musical theatre roles, and why he believes representation matters. A QR code is included at the end of the article which contains the link to the recorded interview with Michael Maliakel, posted on the NATS YouTube channel.

Women in academic publishing: Descriptive trends from authors to editors across 33 years of management science

Traditionally, leadership scholars often study snapshots of leaders in organizations. However, academic publishing offers a unique, more controlled context to study leadership with implications for leadership scholars and scholarship. Hence, we present a descriptive overview of women’s representation across 33 years in 11 top management journals across levels of leaders in academic publishing (i.e., editors, associate editors, and editorial board members) and authors. To do so, we curated an archival dataset tracking women’s representation over time and across these four levels (i.e., 21,510 authors and 4,173 leaders) with 51,360 data entries for the authors and 320,545 for the leaders. Overall, women’s representation increased over time, which was explained by simple time trend effects. Only 32 of 135 editors were women (i.e., 23.7 %), and the share of women associate editors showed particularly drastic fluctuations. We did not observe a “leaky pipeline” except from the associate editor to editor step, as well as notable fluctuations—particularly after new editor appointments—and between journals. We discuss the influential roles editors and publishers have on women’s representation in academic publishing and science more broadly as well as implications for future research and policy.

New Associate Editor Vivian Nguyen

New Associate Editor Vivian Nguyen

The TRIPOD-LLM Statement: A Targeted Guideline For Reporting Large Language Models Use.

DSB: Editorial, unrelated to this work: Associate Editor of Radiation Oncology, HemOnc.org (no financial compensation); Research funding, unrelated to this work: American Association for Cancer Research; Advisory and consulting, unrelated to this work: MercurialAI. DDF: Editorial, unrelated to this work: Associate Editor of JAMIA, Editorial Board of Scientific Data, Nature; Funding, unrelated to this work: the intramural research program at the U.S. National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health. JWG: Editorial, unrelated to this work: Editorial Board of Radiology: Artificial Intelligence, British Journal of Radiology AI journal and NEJM AI. All other authors declare no conflicts of interest.

In Discussion with Limnology and Oceanography Bulletin's Associate Editors

In Discussion with <scp><i>Limnology and Oceanography Bulletin</i>'s Associate Editors</scp>

Qualitative Research: An Interview with Margaret Roller

In this edition of “Interview the Expert,” we are joined by our Associate Editor Margaret Roller, a renowned expert in qualitative methodology and passionate supporter of mixed-methods research. Margaret is the lead author of the book she co-wrote with Paul Lavrakas “Applied Qualitative Research Design: A Total Quality Framework Approach,” which received the AAPOR Book Award in 2021. Margaret is a professional moderator and interviewer with a 40-plus-year career in qualitative research. She shares her expertise and knowledge on the many aspects of quality research design in her blog “Research Design Review” and delivers training in qualitative methods.

An Ode to a Mathematician: Commemorating Uri Leron

This is one of two contributions written to commemorate Professor Uri Leron, who became Associate Editor of what was then the International Journal for Computers and Mathematical Learning, a journal founded by Seymour Papert, and upon which Digital Experiences in Mathematics Education builds. One contribution includes memories from several current and former Editorial Board members. In this contribution, five former supervisees of Uri Leron share their stories.In addition to the personal and professional development of the storytellers, the stories reflect upon the distinguished career of Prof. Leron—a mathematician, an educator, a mentor and a colleague. These stories reflect a scholarly exchange devoted to the debate upon the nature of mathematical and computer science thinking and teaching. These topics are addressed from a variety of perspectives—cognitive, social and psychological—to highlight Uri’s interest in computing as a way to express and explore mathematical and logical ideas.

Commentary on “Welcome to Scatterplot”: Thoughts from Associate Editors

Commentary on “Welcome to Scatterplot”: Thoughts from Associate Editors