Inaugural Issue Research Articles

Progressions on the Coexistence of Neuronal and Glial Precursor Cells in the Cerebral Ventricular Zone.

Heterogeneity is defined as the quality or state of being diverse in character or content. This article summarizes the natural progression from my studies, reported in the first issue of the Journal of Neuroscience, that identified molecular heterogeneity in precursor cells of the developing primate cerebral cortex to the current state in which differences defined at the molecular, cellular, circuit, and systems levels are building data encyclopedias. The emphasis on heterogeneity has impacted many contributors in the field of developmental neuroscience, who have led a quest to determine the extent to which there is diversity, when it appears developmentally, and what heritable and nonheritable factors mediate nervous system assembly and function. Since the appearance of the article on progenitor cell heterogeneity in the inaugural issue of the Journal of Neuroscience, there have been continuous advances in technologies and data analytics that are contributing to a much better understanding of the origins of neurobiological and behavioral heterogeneity.

What's Wrong With Being Governed By the Talented?

This is an invited review essay of Michael Sandel, The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good? (FSG 2020), for the inaugural issue of The American Journal of Law and Inequality (R. Kennedy, M. Minow, C. Sunstein, eds.). Sandel makes three principal arguments: (1) meritocracy is deeply flawed because it worsens inequality and fills meritocracy's winners with hubris and losers with shame; (2) universities should introduce a lottery into the admissions process; and (3) this reform, coupled with increased emphasis on the dignity of labor, will repair the politics of resentment that now roil our country. I respond in the following ways. First, treating meritocracy as an ideology, I assess the underlying tension in Sandel's logic, which accords primary moral value to the form of politics over outcomes, and status over materiality. Given the complex culture of meritocracy, I question whether its excesses can be curbed, or gross inequality reduced, with an approach that fails to stress material outcomes. Second, I conclude that Sandel's proposal to reform university admissions could only be realistically implemented at a handful of highly selective and wealthy institutions. Even then, its impact on meritocratic faith or tangible inequality is likely to be exceedingly modest. Worse, randomizing distribution may in fact lead to a backlash among communities that have (over)invested in the means to compete for slots at elite universities and colleges, which would undermine Sandel's objectives. Despite these misgivings, his idea may still be worth a try. Third, I praise Sandel's concern that meritocracy is contributing to the broader politics of resentment. But I say that his approach to emotions in politics is incomplete, for it focuses too narrowly on white grievance in a single election, and we need to get better at assessing historical claims of anger and disillusionment from multiple communities across time. I conclude by suggesting that Trumpism was not a coherent attack on meritocracy, but one that tried to harness resentment to introduce meritocratic logic into new domains, such as immigration and refugee policy. If we want to reduce meritocracy's dominance in particular social domains, I argue, we must offer a potent substitute that can bring elites and everyday people together. In certain domains such as university admissions or border control where the politics are fraught, that alternative may be the rhetoric of fairness.

Editorial–Inaugural Issue of the IJCFATI

This article introduces the inaugural issue for the International Journal of Cyber Forensics and Advanced Threat Investigations. The article outlines the journal’s aims and scope and summarizes the articles published in the issue.

Progress and Obstacles in the Internationalization of Criminology

The contributors to this inaugural issue of International Criminology were asked to reflect on the present state of comparative criminology and to speculate on whether it will become more prominent in the future. Progress in developing a coherent research specialization in international criminology over the past half-century has been uneven, with some elements making more rapid progress than others. There have also been surprises, as well as disappointments. In this article, I briefly consider the modern history of efforts to develop a comparative study of criminology. I focus on cross-national comparative research which is largely quantitative. I look at the development of this research by considering its progress along six fronts: (1) developing larger, more representative samples; (2) developing more refined theoretical conceptual schemes; (3) applying more sophisticated research methods; (4) developing new international crime data sources; (5) building longitudinal models; and (6) engaging global organizations in support. I conclude with some general observations.

Technologies Supporting Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Application Development

Artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics have gone through three generations of development, from Turing test, logic theory machine, to expert system and self-driving car. In the third-generation today, AI and robotics have collaboratively been used in many areas in our society, including industry, business, manufacture, research, and education. There are many challenging problems in developing AI and robotics applications. We launch this new Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Technology to facilitate the exchange of the latest research and practice in AI and technologies. In this inaugural issue, we first introduce a few key technologies and platforms supporting the third-generation AI and robotics application development based on stacks of technologies and platforms. We present examples of such development environments created by both industry and academia. We also selected eight papers in the related areas to celebrate the foundation of this journal.

The inaugural issue of Ornithology

The inaugural issue of <i>Ornithology</i>

Paul Robeson's Smile

Paul Robeson's Smile Dan Berger (bio) Its pages are tattered and waterlogged, its cover barely intelligible. The smiling figure on the cover has become a victim, a white splotch blocking the joy in his eyes. This special issue of Freedomways celebrating the seventy-three-year-old artist and activist Paul Robeson had been recently published when the Attica Rebellion began on September 9, 1971. By the time investigators collected it as evidence after state troopers violently retook the prison four days later, the journal was, like the men of Attica, weathered and beaten. Freedomways, a "quarterly review of the freedom movement," had been publishing for a decade by the time of the Attica Uprising. At the center of its editorial direction lay legendary Black activists W. E. B. Du Bois, Shirley Graham Du Bois, and Esther Cooper Jackson. Begun as the modern civil rights movement accelerated its impact—the inaugural issue appeared around the time interracial freedom riders braved Southern roadways to challenge segregation—Freedomways bridged generations of Black radicalism. Its founding directors had come of age in earlier periods of struggle, often in tandem with the Communist Party. And the journal remained fiercely internationalist, connecting the civil rights movement to the national liberation struggles or newly independent governments on the African continent.1 Its broad, intergenerational mission was evident in the fall 1971 special issue dedicated to Robeson, "the great forerunner." Robeson, the consummate renaissance man, was nearing the end of his life in 1971. The Freedomways editors wanted to honor his trailblazing efforts invigorating a Black left international.2 In that, Robeson was indeed a forerunner to the Attica revolt. Robeson's booming voice echoed in L. D. Barkley's passionate declaration from D Yard that "we are men! We are not beasts, and we do not intend to be beaten or driven [End Page 17] Click for larger view View full resolution Cover of Freedomways magazine featuring image of Paul Robeson. new york state museum collection [End Page 18] as such." It was not just the timber but the content of Robeson's voice that echoed at Attica. When the Attica rebels initially demanded transport to a "non-imperialistic country," they channeled Robeson's commitment to the Third World. Robeson had been chair of the Council on African Affairs in the 1940s.3 He was one of the few U.S. participants of the legendary 1955 Bandung Conference, a gathering of African and Asian liberation movements that outlined a Third World solidarity outside the sphere of either the United States or the Soviet Union. "Peace in Asia is directly linked with the problems of freedom and full sovereign rights for the nations of Asia," Robeson greeted the conference. Surveying the rising tide of anticolonial movements sweeping the African continent, Robeson averred "this is the time of liberation, and Africa too shall shout in freedom and glory."4 The Attica Rebellion embodied Robeson's political presence. Shadows of his towering physique can be spied in Frank "Big Black" Smith, who headed the security detail during the uprising. And his willingness to risk personal safety for collective freedom was the guiding ethos of the uprising. Robeson's promising career as a singer and actor was cut short when he was blacklisted for his radical affiliations. Yet he embraced that sacrifice with a stoic piety. In the same issue of Freedomways found in the rubble of the Attica Rebellion, Robeson described "The People" as "the real guardians of our hopes and dreams."5 Similarly, the Attica rebels saw in their actions—both the uprising itself and the years-long trials and humiliations they were forced to endure afterward—as a commitment to upholding a global vision of emancipation. So, too, did their lawyers, one of whom, an aging veteran of the National Lawyers Guild named Ernest Goodman, had even represented Robeson.6 Robeson was not the only palimpsest at Attica. When police retook the prison, they uncovered a poem of rebellion etched into the walls. "If we must die" it began, and concluded "Like men we'll face the murderous, cowardly pack / Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back." What a Time journalist described as a "crude but...

The Diamond Anniversary: Sixty Years of Transportation, Logistics, and Supply Chain Research

AbstractTo celebrate 60 years and pay tribute to the many great authors, reviewers, and editors of Transportation Journal we revisit the articles that have contributed so much to our discipline. In doing so, we provide a systematic literature review of the articles published in the journal since its inaugural issue in 1961. This review summarizes the most cited articles, the most frequently published authors, the primary topics of interest by decade, and other useful analyses. We also provide reviews of the top five most cited articles from the journal’s past. In all, this examination of Transportation Journal archives has yielded interesting results providing a roadmap to the past, present, and future of transportation, logistics, and supply chain research.

A New Platform for Integrating and Improving Management Research and Practice

Management and Business Review (MBR) is not just a new journal, it is a new kind of journal, one that empowers business to change the world for the better by facilitating more and deeper communication between management professionals, scholars, and students. This bold aspiration raises many questions for discussion, which we will explore in future editorials. But there are three which we feel it important to address in this inaugural issue.

Lixiang Shiye Guifan: Xiqu Jiaoyu de Shiyan—Beiping Shi Sili Zhongguo Gaoji Xiqu Zhiye Xuexiao (Zhonghua Xixiao) (1930–1940) (Ideal, Vision, Norms: An Experiment in Traditional Theatre Education—Beiping Private advanced Vocational School of Traditional Theatre [Chinese Theatre School] [1930–1940]) by Li Ruru

Reviewed by: Lixiang Shiye Guifan: Xiqu Jiaoyu de Shiyan—Beiping Shi Sili Zhongguo Gaoji Xiqu Zhiye Xuexiao (Zhonghua Xixiao) (1930–1940) (Ideal, Vision, Norms: An Experiment in Traditional Theatre Education—Beiping Private advanced Vocational School of Traditional Theatre [Chinese Theatre School] [1930–1940]) by Li Ruru Siyuan Liu LIXIANG SHIYE GUIFAN: XIQU JIAOYU DE SHIYAN—BEIPING SHI SILI ZHONGGUO GAOJI XIQU ZHIYE XUEXIAO (ZHONGHUA XIXIAO) (1930–1940) (IDEAL, VISION, NORMS: AN EXPERIMENT IN TRADITIONAL THEATRE EDUCATION—BEIPING PRIVATE ADVANCED VOCATIONAL SCHOOL OF TRADITIONAL THEATRE [CHINESE THEATRE SCHOOL] [1930–1940]). By Li Ruru. Beijing: Zhongguo xiju chubanshe, 2019. 480 pages + DVD (appendixes: 420 & 805 pages). Paperback, $81.50. As one of the best-known jingju (Beijing opera) schools in Republican (1912–1949) China that produced some of the genre’s most prominent stars, including the author’s mother, Li Yuru (1924–2008), the Zhonghua Xiqu Xuexiao (Chinese Traditional Theatre School or Zhonghua Xixiao [Chinese Theatre School],1 1930–1940) has yet to receive the type of scholarly attention it deserves. Even in Chinese scholarship, the lack of in-depth research on the school forms a sharp contrast to that on Fuliancheng (1904–1948), often considered the standard bearer of Republican-era jingju education as a keban, the traditional name for a theatre school generally with a male-only student body and exclusive focus on skill transmission. By contrast, as Li Ruru argues in this Chinese-language monograph, the Chinese Traditional Theatre School was more of a hybrid product of both conventional skill transmission and modern, Western theatrical and pedagogical principles that captured the Republican-era spirit of experimentation, as aptly summarized in the book’s title: ideal (lixianng), vision (shiye), and norms (guifan). Following this guiding principle, Li devotes the first half of the book, Chapters 1–3, to contexts that determined the school’s ideal and vision. The opening chapter starts by arguing that kouchuan xinshou (transmitting from the mouth and teaching from the heart), the exclusive method of physically passing down performance techniques from master to student, was in reality an aberration from earlier [End Page 583] pedagogical principles that relied on both physical transmission and teaching manuals (although Li admits evidence for the latter is limited). Nevertheless, this focus on the importance of textual analysis in addition to physical transmission allows Li to highlight the Ming critic Pan Zhiheng’s (1556–1632) contention of the ideal order of actor training as “‘delineating the meaning’ (xun qi yi), ‘harmonizing the melody’ (he qi diao), and ‘formalizing the posture’ (biao qi shi)” (p. 33). Li argues the elimination of this primary attention to the text in late Qing/early Republican keban was accelerated by another contributing fact, the elimination, in the early Republican period, of siyu (private residence) culture of catering boy-actors to the literati, which had fostered cultured discourse among actors. Consequently, its eradication resulted in “the loss of incentive for many actors to elevate their cultural accomplishment. In short, by around the 1920s, cultural elements in traditional theatre had significantly diminished, with skill training as the sole remaining element” (p. 47). In contrast to Chapter 1’s diachronic approach, Chapter 2 zooms in on the synchronic context of modern reform efforts and innovations in several other xiqu institutions, including the school’s umbrella institute, the Zhongguo Xiqu Yinyue Yuan (Chinese Traditional Theatre Music Institute) established in 1929, together with its publication Juxue yuekan (Theatre Studies Monthly, 1932–1936). Li’s methodical examination of the institute’s seven foundational documents offers the reader a window into the aspirations of and financial hurdles to the institute’s establishment. Such aspiration/ideal is manifest in the institute’s journal that adopts the term juxue (theatre studies), as forcefully argued in the inaugural issue by Jin Zhongsun (1879–1945), the school’s second principal, who urged his fellow theatre practitioners to “fundamentally rectify the issue that ‘there has always been only the artistry of theatre and the profession of theatre, but not the study of theatre’ in China” (p. 110). This discussion of the school’s aspirations is further carried out in Chapter 3 on the four founders of both the institute and the school: Li Shizeng (1881–1973), Cheng Yanqiu...

New Workers' Literature

The Picun Literature Group has independently printed eight volumes of Picun literature since 2015 and released eleven volumes of the bimonthly literary magazine New Workers' Literature (Xin gongren wenxue) in electronic form since 2019. In his preface to the inaugural issue of New Workers' Literature, Peking University professor Zhang Huiyu, who is also the leading mentor of the Picun Literature Group, explains the meaning and significance of “New Workers' Literature” in relation to twentieth-century Chinese history and global capitalism.

IEEE Journal of Microwaves Inaugural Issue Table of Contents

IEEE Journal of Microwaves Inaugural Issue Table of Contents

Environmental Science: Atmospheres joins the Environmental Science journal family

Neil Donahue, Editor-in-Chief, and Anna Rulka, Executive Editor, introduce the inaugural issue of Environmental Science: Atmospheres.

Retro I: Return Forward

Retro I: Return Forward Alyson Cole and Kyoo Lee We thought we were going RETRO but then we could not proceed at all, and here we are beginning to return forward—still in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. Preparation for this inaugural issue on RETRO, delayed due to COVID-19, has been particularly challenging. The anxiety, emergency, sickness, devastation, death, growing precarity on every register … all of that disrupted many lives so radically and rapidly, not to mention critically impacting our usual “scholarly productions.” Now, time itself seems to have some cuttingly new meanings. These days it also seems to have become quite common to refer to the “before time” to designate pre-Covid, and to hesitantly broach the possibility of a post-Covid existence. For now, though, and for the foreseeable, there’s just this Covid-time, a liminal void beyond the time/space continuum. Looking back at our “pre-Covid” call for papers for the RETRO issue and re-registering the core idea behind it, we are struck by some of its retroactive resonance with the current mid-pandemic pause we are grappling with across the globe. With all the rage and uncertainty today, the current affect of the moment seems somewhat regressive—a falling back, pulling back, a sensation of perpetual déjà vu accompanying a sense of setback. What happened to and is coming after the post-isms? Rather than going “forward” with all things [End Page iii] post-modern, post-structuralist, post-racial, post-feminist, post-political, etc., we seem to have turned, in part, to looking backward, reflectively or not. This “feel” (temporal, affective) is about a directionality that is potentially resurrectional or else just retraceable. The concept RETRO seems to capture those modes, moves, and moods. Retro can be an overview (a “retro-spective”), leading to a reactive relapse and retreat, or a reframed reinvention, even both. Our editorial thinking is prompted by the distinctively retrograde politics and culture currently on display, including retro-fashion, where what is old becomes “new” again—epochally or apocalyptically, depending on whom you ask. Sometimes performed ironically and/or cynically in cyclical cultural ecology, sometimes enacted as a reinvigorated return to a certain agenda and/or emancipatory project, often with self-balancing irony muted or sharpened, retro has become superlatively alive these days, like it or not, and such de/re-generative retro taken as a modal engine for re-formative and re-creative engagements needs to be theorized more fully. Jessica Locke and David M. Peña-Guzmán’s article, “The Groundlessness of Philosophy: Critiquing the Identity of a Discipline,” concerns re-forming and re-engaging philosophy as an academic discipline. Questioning the problematic presumption that has been marginalizing “non-Western” philosophy since the eighteenth century, and seeking to go beyond a “diversity and inclusion” model that simply revises the standard canon, they propose a more radically effective re-turn, while exploring the transhistorical and transnational concept and power of “groundlessness.” Jami Weinstein’s “Vital Philology: On How to Foil the Immanent Extinction of Critique,” a meta-critique of the neoliberal political economy of certain philosophical trends embodied, for instance, in the figures of the hipster and the anthropocence as the author sees them, proposes a kind of counter-retro approach, a “critical, vital form of philology—figured as both a scholarly practice and a way of life.” If the first two articles are (meta-)critiques of philosophical normativity including currency, the piece by Tuhin Bhattacharjee, “Antigone/Mother: Second Death and the Maternal in Lacan and Cavarero” reexamines and reworks psychoanalytic normativity and its reproductive futurism by refiguring Antigone’s “nothingness” as “the maternal body in all its traumatic fecundity.” Speaking of nothing complicated, Ruthann Robson’s article, “An Epistemology of the Envelope,” turns to the pre-digital mode of letters-in-envelopes to point to its feminist epistemological subversive potentials, the power of “the indecipherable retro.” Postmaster General DeJoy’s mucking with the USPS had not been exposed when this essay was accepted for publication, yet the themes of enveloping and cross-dressing were already central to it. [End Page iv] The tranScripts section in this issue features two sets of retro...

In Publishing the Inaugural Issue of Food Supplements and Biomaterials for Health (FSBH)

In Publishing the Inaugural Issue of <i>Food Supplements and Biomaterials for Health</i> (<i>FSBH</i>)

Introduction to the IEEE Journal of Microwaves

The new <sc xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">IEEE</small> <sc xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">Journal of Microwaves</small> strives to be a broad-scoped publication serving the whole of the microwave community, both within and beyond the IEEE. This opening article outlines our philosophy and content, presents our editorial team, and introduces our special Inaugural Issue.

The Dictionary Society of North America: A History of the Early Years (Part IV)

The present article—in four parts, of which this is the final installment—is a history of the Dictionary Society of North America (DSNA) in its infancy and youth, and thus also a chapter in the history of the language sciences more generally, as well as a contribution to the sociology of organizations. Whereas the first three installments described the founding of DSNA, its leadership, and its membership during the society's early years, respectively, this installment focuses on its conferences and publications. DSNA originated in conferences of the early 1970s, and biennial conferences became central to DSNA's intellectual and social activity from 1977 throughout DSNA's history. Although it struggled to organize a publications program early on, the DSNA Newsletter has appeared twice annually since 1977, and the inaugural issue of the society's journal, Dictionaries, appeared in 1979. For a while, alongside these typical learned-society organs some of DSNA's leaders hoped to establish series of conference proceedings and monographs, but there performance, if not ambition, faltered. The newsletter and journal continue to thrive, but in those early years they faced challenges. This installment of the history explains how those challenges were resolved into what became the public identity of DSNA and celebrates the success of the scholarly activities in the society's early period—conferences, the newsletter, and the journal are all thriving today, and not by historical accident.

Foreword to first issue of the Aresty Undergraduate Research Journal

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Editorial

Welcome to the 1st and Inaugural issue of the Multidisciplinary Journal of Technical University of Mombasa (MJTUM) December 2020 edition. A long awaited dream that has finally come true. MJTUM publishes multidisciplinary scholarly articles and offers a platform for academics and researchers to contribute to current knowledge in their respective disciplines. The publishing of this 1st and Inaugural issue is envisaged to motivate and inculcate the art of writing and publishing to both inexperienced and experienced writers. There is no formula on how to become a good writer but the only way is to start writing now and allow perfection to take its course with time. In this 1st and Inaugural issue, we have featured six articles in the form of reviews and full length research papers covering disciplines in computer science, medical science and electrical engineering that are quite exciting to read and to cite in other new works. These published papers in this maiden issue will definitely contribute to new knowledge as we expect more articles to be published in the subsequent near future issues of the journal.&#x0D; Once again, I welcome all of you to contribute articles to MJTUM that will undergo a professional publishing process in the shortest time possible.

Inaugural Issue Editorial for ACM Transactions on Quantum Computing

Inaugural Issue Editorial for ACM Transactions on Quantum Computing