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Editorial note for few-shot learning for intelligent multimedia systems

Editorial note for few-shot learning for intelligent multimedia systems

Editorial Note: A Long-term Endeavor of Citations in the Global South Open Access Journals

Citations have become a “currency” of research quality. If the number of papers published is a parameter of scholars’ productivity, the number of citations received by each paper serves as an indicator of the quality of the research. The number of citations is often used to assess the quality of an article. In this bibliometric measure, papers that attract citations are considered to have a meaningful contribution. A high number of citations, especially when they come immediately after the papers are published, indicates that the paper is well accepted by scholars in the field and contributes to the advancement of science.

Maturation of a Discipline

In celebration of the ten-year anniversary of the journal, this brief editorial note reviews the ways the field of Islamic archaeology has developed in the last decade, and the ways in which the journal has generated growth, facilitated innovation and collaboration, and given visibility to the field.

Enough or not? Role of Federal Agricultural Marketing Authority (FAMA) as a Focal Point to Deal with Food Security Issues in Malaysia

There are a few reasons that can lead to food security, such as natural disasters, rising food prices, population growth, climate change, and wars between countries. FAMA is one of the government arms under the Ministry of Agricultural and Food Industries (MAFI) assigned to counter this issue. Indeed, FAMA has put forward some initiatives to balance this never-ending issue, but on the other side of the coin, there still exist imperfections that could hamper the initiative earlier if not dealt with carefully. This editorial note intends to examine the initiative and its shortcomings from the grassroots perspective.

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Editorial Note by Prof. Agustin Valera-Medina, Editor in Chief

Editorial note from the Editors-in-Chief

Editorial note from the Editors-in-Chief

La <i>ZfK</i> avança... Introducció al present volum

In this editorial note, the editors of the Zeitschrift für Katalanistik explain the on-going developments of the journal and, more specifically, of its electronic version which is planned to migrate to an OJS-based e-journal platform hosted by the library of Ruhr-Universität Bochum in 2023. The note also addresses concomitant editorial issues, such as updated guidelines for text submissions, and the future of the print edition.

Comics Strike Back! Digital Forms, Digital Practices, Digital Audiences

Digital comics, marked by their dynamic evolution, encompass a wide range of narrative styles, artistic techniques and interactive features. They hold the potential to transform how we engage with digital and virtual spaces, carrying significant implications for society, culture and politics. The investigation conducted in this Special Issue aims to shed light on the dynamic interplay between comics and digital technology, examining how it redefines traditional narratives and practices and contributes to a reshaping of our understanding of society and culture. This editorial note functions as an introduction to the topic of digital comics and it has the objective of outlining the rationale of the Special Issue, which is organized into three sections, focused on the forms, practices and audiences of digital comics. The first section delves into the historical and cultural context of digital comics, tracing their evolution from early computer-generated works to contemporary digital productions. The second section explores the creative aspects of digital comics, including the integration of multimedia elements and the challenges of translating digital formats into print. The final section investigates the relationship between digital comics and their audience, examining how social media and digital platforms influence the creation, distribution and reception of digital comics. We argue that the comprehensive analysis that this Special Issue proposes unravels and analyses the multifaceted nature of digital comics, making a valuable contribution to the ongoing discourse surrounding this dynamic medium. It underscores the necessity for the methodical combination of interdisciplinary research perspectives to navigate the complex interplay between analogue and digital practices, forms and technologies, cultural paradigms, and forthcoming developments.

Inaugural Editorial

It is a great honor for me to write an editorial note for the first edition of the Journal of Data Science and Intelligent Systems (JDSIS). JDSIS is an international, peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal that provides an academic platform for sharing your achievements in data science and intelligent systems with scientists and engineers across the world. A warm welcome to the inaugural issue of JDSIS, which is a new exciting title for Bon View Press portfolio journals for 2023. I am honored and fortunate to be part of JDSIS and take responsibility as Editor-in-Chief. At this moment, we are happy to launch the first issue in July 2023. This issue is composed of six articles on various interesting topics, including network-based risk assessment, analytic network process, quantum computing, artificial intelligence in COVID-19, and so on. For this achievement, we should appreciate our team led by Dr. Chao Wang, Ms. Yu Zhang, Ms. Shanshan Lin, and Ms. Lu Wang for their efforts, time, hard work, and significant contributions. Today, we have reached this important milestone because of their support and effort. I wish to close this inaugural editorial by showing heartfelt gratitude to all for your support as editors, authors, editorial board members, and reviewers who have helped ensure the quality of all articles included in this inaugural issue of JDSIS. Last but not least, I would like to thank the Publication Board, Bon View Press personally, and Managing Editor Shanshan Lin for their incredible help, unwavering support, and enthusiasm. Together, with your support, we can build an excellent journal to serve the research community.

UNCLOS and its contributions to the development of international law: An editorial note

This is an editorial note for the special issue: UNCLOS and Its Contributions to the Development of International Law. This special issue contains 11 papers focusing on both UNCLOS and more general developments of the international law of the sea. The papers can be roughly categorized into four topics: the development of UNCLOS by stakeholder contributions, the application of UNCLOS and its relations with general international law; marine environmental protection and sustainable development of marine resources; and emerging legal issues confronting the human community.

Editorial Note: June Issue

Editorial Note: June Issue

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Papers in Regional ScienceVolume 102, Issue 3 p. 463-463 EDITORIAL Editorial note First published: 18 June 2023 https://doi.org/10.1111/pirs.12747Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL No abstract is available for this article. Volume102, Issue3June 2023Pages 463-463 RelatedInformation

The value of the Wallacea Region: Considerations behind the changing scope of JPK Wallacea

The Editorial Board has issued this editorial note in the form of a review to inform contributors about changes to the scope of the Journal of Wallacea Forestry Research (JPK Wallacea) following the transfer of management from Balai Penerapan Instrumen Lingkungan Hidup dan Kehutanan Makassar to Hasanuddin University's Forest Conservation Study Program in 2023. JPK Wallacea is no longer limiting its scope to forestry and is expanded to cover biodiversity in general by incorporating the term Wallaceae, which is a biogeographical area located between the continents of Asia and Australia. This area is well known for its unique biodiversity both on land and in water. The Wallacea region's biodiversity is famed for its distinctiveness yet, it is on the verge of extinction. Thus, the Editorial Board chose to focus on the scope of JPK Wallacea on scientific, technological, and policy conservation features. This scientific publication is expected to make a substantial contribution to the biodiversity conservation effort in the Wallacea region and its surroundings.

Editorial note for the special issue

Editorial note for the special issue

Editorial Note for the Special Issue: Perspectives and Challenges in Doctoral Research—Selected Papers from the 10th Edition of the Scientific Conference of the Doctoral Schools from the “Dunărea de Jos”

This editorial note is dedicated to the 10th Scientific Conference which was held on June 2022 in Galati, Romania, and was organized by the Council of Doctoral Schools of the “Dunărea de Jos” University of Galati (SCDS-UDJG) [...]

Editorial: MCDM/A and AI as Drivers of Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Editorial Note

Editorial: MCDM/A and AI as Drivers of Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Editorial Note

Obscenity

Obscenity Editorial note: From Invocación a las mayorías silenciosas (Invocation to the silent majorities) (Letraversal, 2022). Translated by Lawrence Schimel (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution I'm terrified of my migrant parents,always with their eyes set on flight. Is that how you solve everything, Papá?Are you going to once more do what he tells you, Mamá? I'm more terrified by the wound of birth,I hide it in the oriental part of the HERE.What was so bad so as to abandon the THEREwhere one finds oneself at just twenty?How did they do it to reconstruct (themselves),to recompose (themselves),to resist? How to raise an offspring who curses a place thatshe has never visited,who dreams in a language she doesn't know,who lives in another one which will always be foreign to her? What is so good to justify staying?What European dream is beingthe Chinese woman who sells beer,the Chinese man of the village,the Chinese girl of El Hormiguero,the Chinese kid of Física o Química,the China girl of China boy? That is not my dream. My dream is to be the blood that flows from the migratory wound,the Valencian queen of the gunpowder blessed by my ancestors. My dream is that they don't separate me from my fatherand from my motherinto one line for foreignersand another for Europeans,that we embarkthrough the same gate,that we fly togetherto whereverpassports arean obscenity. Translation from the Spanish [End Page 8] Paloma Chen Paloma Chen (b. 1997, Alicante) investigated the Chinese diaspora in Spain in Crecer en 'un chino' and has contributed to El Salto, El País, and La Marea. She won the 2020 Viva #LdeLírica National Poetry Prize and has recited in such festivals as Irreconciliables in Málaga and in spaces such as the Fórum Social Europeu das Migrações and the Asia Europe Peoples' Forum. Lawrence Schimel Lawrence Schimel is a bilingual author and literary translator based in Madrid, working in and between English and Spanish. His translations have won a PEN Translates Award from English PEN (three times) and the Cliff Becker Book Translation Award. Copyright © 2023 World Literature Today and the Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma

Clara Luper, Freedom's Classroom, and the Civil Rights Movement: A Conversation with Marilyn Luper Hildreth

Clara Luper, Freedom's Classroom, and the Civil Rights MovementA Conversation with Marilyn Luper Hildreth Editorial note: The University of Oklahoma Press's new edition of Behold the Walls is forthcoming in August 2023. Click for larger view View full resolution Ebony Iman Dallas, Songs of Freedom (2021), acrylic and Ghanaian textiles on hand-carved birchwood / Portrait of activist and teacher Clara Luper singing with members of the NAACP Youth Council [End Page 14] BEARING WITNESS In his ongoing column, which appears in every other issue, Karlos K. Hill highlights the efforts of cultural figures doing works of essential good around issues of social justice. ON AUGUST 19, 1958, a high school history teacher named Clara Luper and thirteen members of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Youth Council, ranging in age from seven to fifteen, organized a sit-in at a segregated Katz Drug Store in downtown Oklahoma City. Within two days, the Katz Drug Company had desegregated not just this one local store but more than fifty locations in states across the Midwest. One of the first sit-ins of the civil rights movement, this peaceful protest by a small group of young activists would galvanize future demonstrators in Oklahoma City and throughout the nation. Over the next six years, Clara Luper and her students organized sit-ins, layins, and boycotts that would eventually lead to the desegregation of white downtown stores and restaurants in advance of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. By courageously fighting against injustice while simultaneously centering youth activism, Luper created an enduring legacy of nurturing social change through nonviolent civil disobedience. Clara Luper passed away in June 2011. On May 3, 2023, she would have turned one hundred years old. Additionally, August 19, 2023, will mark the sixty- fifth anniversary of the historic Katz Drug Store sit-in. In anticipation of these upcoming commemorations, I talked with Clara Luper's daughter, Marilyn Luper Hildreth, who participated in the Katz Drug Store sit-in, to help me understand its significance. Click for larger view View full resolution Karlos Hill: To start with a simple question, can you explain to readers who Clara Luper was to you? Marilyn Luper Hildreth: Clara Luper was my mother. And not only was she my mother, but she was a mother to many other children, both in our community and in our society. She would always make room for another child. Mom was a teacher before she became the Youth Council adviser, and she was really popular with her students. She enjoyed creating experiences for young people that they otherwise could never have had, and that was especially true in the classroom. She had a way of bringing history alive in her classes. For example, in order that they could better understand the functions of the government in Washington, DC, she had her students take part in mock elections, where they cast votes to elect fellow classmates as senators, members of the House of Representatives, and president. And for fifty years she took young people to the NAACP National Convention, including people who I call the "have-nots." They did not have a lot of money and did not have a lot of things, but she wanted to give them that opportunity, because she was able to see things in young people that others overlooked. [End Page 15] She believed that all children can learn, so she had to find out how best to teach those young people in order to motivate them to be the best that they could be. She remembered every one of her students for the rest of her life. She had a real concern for them and felt deeply committed to them, and they felt the same way about her. They knew that she would always be honest with them. Even when she was correcting them, they knew that she was trying to help guide them in the right direction. She tried to bring out the best in everyone she dealt with. Hill: Can you share a favorite story about your mother, perhaps a time when she helped to guide you in that same kind of way? Luper Hildreth: Mom...

Wasi

Wasi Editorial note: From Siyam Napu't Siyam na Ngalang Pinakamamahal Ko, copyright © 2020 by Stefani J Alvarez. English translation copyright © 2022 by Alton Melvar M Dapanas. Translated by Alton Melvar M. Dapanas (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution Earlier today, as our car was on queue along the Saudi-Bahrain causeway, he turned down the stereo volume for a moment. "What will happen to this Filipini?" The Mary Jane Veloso trial was broadcasted on the local radio newscast. "Death penalty." Then I sipped the iced Americano, as wintry as the airconditioning on low cool. "Inshallah, she will go to jannah." And he turned up the volume, the song seasoned with jazz variations. Now a car away from the passport window of Saudi Immigration, I placed the coffee in the cup holder. I handed him my passport. He skimmed through a few pages of it. Maybe he was scouring for a story. Maybe he was searching for a riddle. Translation from the Filipino Note on the text: "Mary Jane Veloso is a thirty-six-year-old Filipina woman incarcerated on death row in Indonesia for drug trafficking. [She] was subjected to shocking fair trial violations, notably inept defense counsel, and a translator who was unable to translate proceedings into a language that Mary Jane knew. Mary Jane was convicted of illegally importing heroin into Indonesia, but she maintains that she was targeted by drug traffickers and had no knowledge of her role. . . . Though her case has elicited much public sympathy, Mary Jane is stranded between two nations, each aggressively pursuing their own war on drugs, and her future is uncertain." Source: "Mary Jane Veloso: A Geopolitical Pawn in Southeast Asia's War on Drugs," Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide, Cornell Law School On the Dagli A Translator's Note by Alton Melvar M. Dapanas Within the tradition of Philippine literature written in Filipino, an oeuvre independent from Philippine literature in English and literatures of other local languages, the dagli is a short prose piece that may be flash fiction or flash nonfiction or prose poem, or all, or none of them (see Ang Dagling Tagalog: 1903–1936, 2007). It is a genre that proliferated in vernacular magazines, newspapers, and periodicals at the dawn of the twentieth century after the Philippine-American War and the Treaty of Paris, when the Americans occupied the Philippines and the English language and American literature was imposed by the state (see Meg Wesling, Empire's Proxy: American Literature and U.S. Imperialism in the Philippines, 2011). The Encyclopedia of Philippine Art (1994/2020) defines the genre loosely as "vignettes or sketches" that could be traced back to the Tagalog pasingaw, the Binisayâ pinadalagan or binirisbiris (sometimes called dinalídalí or pinadagan), and the Spanish instantanea or rafaga, as "short account[s] . . . spontaneous and hurried quality . . . [either as] an explicit expression of a man's love for a particular woman, but at other times . . . highly polemical, expressing anti-American, anti-clerical themes." My browsing of the 1900 through 1940s periodicals archive confirmed my initial observation that this genre ranges aesthetically from oratorically highfalutin speeches to musings of a heartbreak (or in mine and the author's native tongue, maoy), from societal treatises to narrative, arcless anecdotes of the quotidian (e.g., Manila's El renacimiento; Cebu's Ang suga, El boletín católico, and Ang camatuoran). Such are poles apart from the dominant Euro-American short-story form advocated by Iowa Workshop-schooled, Rockefeller Foundation-funded Filipinos who brought American New Criticism within our native shores in the 1960s. [End Page 18] Stefani J. Alvarez Stefani J. Alvarez (she/her) won the Philippine National Book Award for Ang Autobiografia ng Ibang Lady Gaga (2015) and was a finalist for her novel Kagay-an, At Isang Pag-Ibig sa Panahon ng All-Out War (2018). She is currently an Akademie Schloss Solitude fellow in Germany. Alton Melvar M. Dapanas Alton Melvar M. Dapanas (they/them), Asymptote's Philippine editor-at-large, has contributed to Modern Poetry in Translation, Oxford Anthology of Translation, Rusted Radishes, Tolka, and Reliquiae. Copyright © 2023 World Literature Today and the Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma...

Sitting on Ice

Sitting on Ice Editorial note: From Resistir: Antología de Poesía Latinoamericana 2020, a co-edition by Allpamanda (editions of the Rocío Durán-Barba Cultural Foundation) and Écrits des Forges. Published by arrangement with the editors. Translated by Daniel Simon (bio) I climb the wall because I no longer see the city. Stones, dark battlements, large gates sprout through the valley. Like us, each one in his cell, mouths full of lumps,sitting on ice, staring into space. Translations from the Spanish [End Page 49] Samuel González-Seijas Samuel González-Seijas (b. 1971, Caracas) is a Venezuelan publisher and poet. His books include Espesa marea (2015) and Salmos de la penuria (2018). Daniel Simon A poet, essayist, and translator, Daniel Simon is WLT's assistant director and editor in chief. Copyright © 2023 World Literature Today and the Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma