Inaugural Special Issue Research Articles

Special Issue: Spatial Omics

GEN BiotechnologyVol. 2, No. 2 Call for PapersFree AccessSpecial Issue: Spatial OmicsDeadline for Manuscript Submission: June 15, 2023Guest Editors: Rong Fan and Omer BayraktarGuest Editors: Rong FanYale UniversitySearch for more papers by this author and Omer BayraktarWellcome Sanger InstituteSearch for more papers by this authorPublished Online:18 Apr 2023https://doi.org/10.1089/genbio.2023.29076.cfp2AboutSectionsPDF/EPUB Permissions & CitationsPermissionsDownload CitationsTrack CitationsAdd to favorites Back To Publication ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmail Single-cell omics has revolutionized biological and biomedical research in the past decade despite the inability to measure single cells in the tissue context. Spatial omics, which allows for profiling a range of biomolecules with high spatial resolution across the central dogma of molecular biology directly in the tissue context, not only offers spatial information but unlocks unprecedented new opportunities to delve into clinical specimens for human biology research, therapeutic discovery, and translational medicine. Spatial omics is becoming one of the fastest-paced growth areas in the biotech industry and poised to drive the next wave of biology revolution with widespread and far-reaching impact in all major fields of life science and medicine.GEN Biotechnology is pleased to announce a call for papers for our inaugural special issue—Spatial Omics.This collection of research articles, reviews, and perspectives will be published in late 2023. We invite researchers to submit without delay manuscripts describing original research on any aspect of spatial and single-cell biological research. We will also consider relevant guest commentaries and review articles.Specific topics may include (but are not confined to): Sequencing based spatial omics (i.e., transcriptome, proteome, epigenome, genome).High-plex imaging of proteins, transcripts, or epigenomic/genomic featuresSpatial proteomics and metabolomicsSpatial multi-omics and multi-modality tissue profilingComputational methods and tools for spatial biology (machine learning, data deconvolution, mathematical modeling, data visualization)Spatial omics to profile tumor heterogeneity and microenvironmentsSpatial omics in neuroscience, neurological or neurodegenerative disease researchSpatial omics in aging, senescence, metabolic and chronic diseases.Manuscripts will receive prompt peer review and accepted articles will be published online (epub) ahead of print. Please refer to our Instructions for Authors at www.liebertpub.com/genbio before submitting your manuscript.Presubmission inquiries may be sent to GEN Biotechnology (editor@genbiotechjournal.com). This special issue will be published in late 2023.Advantages of publishing in GEN Biotechnology include:Rapid, high-quality peer review, and editorial oversightFast electronic submissionMaximum exposure: accessible in 170 countries worldwideHigh visibility: International press and social media outreachOpen Access options availableVisit the Instructions for Authors:www.liebertpub.com/genbioSubmit your paper for peer review online:https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/genbioFiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Volume 2Issue 2Apr 2023 InformationCopyright 2023, Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishersTo cite this article:Guest Editors: Rong Fan and Omer Bayraktar.Special Issue: Spatial Omics.GEN Biotechnology.Apr 2023.61-62.http://doi.org/10.1089/genbio.2023.29076.cfp2Published in Volume: 2 Issue 2: April 18, 2023PDF download

Special Issue: Spatial Omics

GEN BiotechnologyVol. 2, No. 1 Call for PapersFree AccessSpecial Issue: Spatial OmicsDeadline for Manuscript Submission: May 15, 2023Guest Editors: Rong Fan and Omer BayraktarGuest Editors: Rong FanYale UniversitySearch for more papers by this author and Omer BayraktarWellcome Sanger InstituteSearch for more papers by this authorPublished Online:15 Feb 2023https://doi.org/10.1089/genbio.2023.29076.cfpAboutSectionsPDF/EPUB Permissions & CitationsPermissionsDownload CitationsTrack CitationsAdd to favorites Back To Publication ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmail Single-cell omics has revolutionized biological and biomedical research in the past decade despite the inability to measure single cells in the tissue context. Spatial omics, which allows for profiling a range of biomolecules with high spatial resolution across the central dogma of molecular biology directly in the tissue context, not only offers spatial information but unlocks unprecedented new opportunities to delve into clinical specimens for human biology research, therapeutic discovery, and translational medicine. Spatial omics is becoming one of the fastest-paced growth areas in the biotech industry and poised to drive the next wave of biology revolution with widespread and far-reaching impact in all major fields of life science and medicine.GEN Biotechnology is pleased to announce a call for papers for our inaugural special issue—Spatial Omics.This collection of research articles, reviews, and perspectives will be published in late 2023. We invite researchers to submit without delay manuscripts describing original research on any aspect of spatial and single-cell biological research. We will also consider relevant guest commentaries and review articles.Specific topics may include (but are not confined to): Sequencing based spatial omics (i.e., transcriptome, proteome, epigenome, genome).High-plex imaging of proteins, transcripts, or epigenomic/genomic featuresSpatial proteomics and metabolomicsSpatial multi-omics and multi-modality tissue profilingComputational methods and tools for spatial biology (machine learning, data deconvolution, mathematical modeling, data visualization)Spatial omics to profile tumor heterogeneity and microenvironmentsSpatial omics in neuroscience, neurological or neurodegenerative disease researchSpatial omics in aging, senescence, metabolic and chronic diseases.Manuscripts will receive prompt peer review and accepted articles will be published online (epub) ahead of print. Please refer to our Instructions for Authors at www.liebertpub.com/genbio before submitting your manuscript.Presubmission inquiries may be sent to GEN Biotechnology (editor@genbiotechjournal.com). This special issue will be published in late 2023.Advantages of publishing in GEN Biotechnology include:Rapid, high-quality peer review, and editorial oversightFast electronic submissionMaximum exposure: accessible in 170 countries worldwideHigh visibility: International press and social media outreachOpen Access options availableVisit the Instructions for Authors:www.liebertpub.com/genbioSubmit your paper for peer review online:https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/genbioFiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Volume 2Issue 1Feb 2023 InformationCopyright 2023, Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishersTo cite this article:Guest Editors: Rong Fan and Omer Bayraktar.Special Issue: Spatial Omics.GEN Biotechnology.Feb 2023.3-4.http://doi.org/10.1089/genbio.2023.29076.cfpPublished in Volume: 2 Issue 1: February 15, 2023PDF download

Rethinking Visual Arts–Based Methods of Knowledge Generation and Exchange in and beyond the Pandemic

This inaugural special issue of ‘Beyond the Text’ brings together a collection of visual arts (animation, creative and fine art, film, photographs, and zines) produced by children, young people, families, artists, and academics as part of co-created research during the 2020–2021 coronavirus pandemic. Our aim, in making these pieces available in this new publication format, is to illustrate the potential of visual arts as a form of co-creation and knowledge exchange which can transcend the challenges of researching ‘at a distance’, enable participants and co-researchers to share their stories, and support different ways of knowing for academic, policy, and public audiences. This is not to suggest that such methods offer transparent windows into participants’ worlds. As the reflections from the contributing authors consider, visual arts outputs leave room for audience interpretations, making them vulnerable to alternative readings, generating challenges and opportunities about how much it is possible to know about another and what is ethical to share. It is to these issues of ethics, representation, and voice that this special issue attends, reflecting on the possibilities of arts-based approaches for knowledge generation and exchange in and beyond the coronavirus pandemic.

Contributors

Contributors

Editor's Updates: June 2021

Welcome to the June 2021 Edition of IEEE Communications Standards Magazine. This edition features the inaugural Special Issue in this magazine, the Special Issue on Ultra-low Latency and Reliable Communications for 6G Networks. It has been a great success with overwhelming responses from academia and industry. The Special Issue includes 16 articles, the largest number of articles ever published in a single edition of this magazine. Congratulations to the Editors, Shahid Mumtaz, Varun G. Menon, and Muhammad Ikram Ashraf, who introduce the articles in a separate editorial later.

Technology-Enhanced Learning Research In Higher Education: A recommendation System For creating Courses Using the Management Systems in the E-Learning 5.0

The purpose of this research was technology-enhanced research in higher education. Design-based research for creating courses using the management system in the E-Learning 5.0 has proven its promise as a tool useful for both research and design of technology-enhanced learning environments over the last decade (TELEs). In this article, we characterize and explain design-based research characteristics, outline the relevance of design-based research in the creation of TELEs, suggest principles for applying design-based research with TELEs, and address potential challenges in using this approach. This inaugural special issue of Studies in Technology Enhanced Learning focuses on ‘theory,’ a controversial subject. While theory has been criticized for being vague or alienating at times, it is safe to conclude that theory has never been as profoundly rooted in Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) science as it has in many other fields of scholarship.

Editorial

This Inaugural Special Issue of IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters (MWCL) includes 51 papers from the 2021 IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) International Microwave Symposium (IMS), Atlanta, USA, GA, June 7–10, 2021.

Scientific procedures and rationales for systematic literature reviews (SPAR‐4‐SLR)

AbstractMany guiding articles on literature reviews exist, but few have delivered an authoritative protocol that researchers can rely upon with clarity and confidence. To commemorate the inaugural annual special issue on systematic literature reviews in the International Journal of Consumer Studies, the editors have pooled their expertize and experience of authoring, editing, and reviewing literature reviews to develop a rigorous review protocol—that is, the Scientific Procedures and Rationales for Systematic Literature Reviews (SPAR‐4‐SLR) protocol—that researchers can rely upon to guide and justify decisions in systematic literature reviews. Using an interrogative approach, the editors begin with a discussion of the “what,” “why,” “when,” “where,” “who,” and “how” of systematic literature reviews. The editors conclude with systematic literature review exemplars in the inaugural special issue.

Debating the status of ‘theory’ in technology enhanced learning research: Introduction to the Special Inaugural Issue

This Inaugural Special Issue of Studies in Technology Enhanced Learning has a particular focus on ‘theory’—a contentious matter. Occasionally disparaged as obscure, or alienating, it seems fair to say that theory has never been so deeply embedded in Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) research as it has become in many other areas of scholarship. One reason is that TEL is often conceived as a ‘practical’ field, with ‘theory’ negatively counterposed against other priorities: methodological innovation, ‘evidence’, ‘best practice’, or, more recently, imperatives towards being ‘data driven’. Furthermore, the use of theory can often be a stumbling block for many novice researchers: even those inclined towards ambition in their use of theory can struggle in getting to grips with the attendant vocabularies, or when actually using particular theories in their own research. Many may come to wonder whether doing so is really worth the effort. The impetus for the present issue is a contention that ‘theory’ really matters for TEL. That contention is widely shared by members of the Centre for Technology Enhanced Learning , a research centre at Lancaster University, UK, which, while part of the Department of Educational Research, has members drawn from a variety of disciplines. Indeed, the initial idea for the issue grew out of a longstanding sequence of discussions within the Centre—which the two present authors, at the time of writing, jointly direct—which have expressed a desire to emphasise the importance of ‘theory’ to others. One earlier idea, for example, had been for the Centre to write a “report” on theory in TEL research. The current Special Issue was taken up, instead, as we came to realise that the idea of collectively writing about ‘theory’ might dovetail with the idea of launching an open-access journal, and that a Special Issue might allow for a more multi-vocal consideration of the subject matter.

Intelligent Marine Robotics Modelling, Simulation and Applications

Creating this inaugural Special Issue on Intelligent Marine Robotics Modelling, Simulation, and Applications is important due to the rapid technological advancement and the aim to reduce human involvement via artificial intelligence [...]

Welcome to the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory (JSAIT)

I would like to warmly welcome our readers to this inaugural special issue of JSAIT, the Information Theory Society’s first new journal since the IRE Transactions on Information Theory launched in 1953. The society’s desire to expand its technical scope, incubate new research directions, catalyze connections with other disciplines, and highlight new and emerging applications formed the impetus for the new journal. To achieve these goals, JSAIT publishes special issues focusing on the intersections of information theory with fields such as machine learning, statistics, biology, finance, computer science, and physics. There will also be special issues for emerging topics of broad interest that are firmly within Information Theory. Each special issue will have at least one tutorial aimed to benefit people in our field and to forge connections with people in other fields that information theory has impacted or can impact.

Migrants, Migration Policies, and International Business Research: Current Trends and New Directions

Migrant and migration policy (MMP) issues have often influenced important international business (IB) research questions, but the last 20 years have seen the emergence of new or “renewed” MMP issues tied to changes in migrant demographics, wealth, skills, home-country provenance, host-country attitudes, and international governance. Articles in the inaugural special issue of the Journal of International Business Policy address those issues, connect them to classic IB research questions, and then develop theory and evidence to inform current IB scholarly debates and guide IB executives, investors, and the public policy-makers overseeing those business activities. Our introductory article provides an overview of new and renewed MMP issues addressed in the special issue. It defines foundational MMP concepts and trends, compares classic IB and current MMP research questions, summarizes the eight articles included in the special issue, and offers suggestions for advancing research in both fields.

Migrants, migration policies, and international business research: Current trends and new directions

Migrant and migration policy (MMP) issues have often influenced important international business (IB) research questions, but the last 20 years have seen the emergence of new or “renewed” MMP issues tied to changes in migrant demographics, wealth, skills, home-country provenance, host-country attitudes, and international governance. Articles in the inaugural special issue of the Journal of International Business Policy address those issues, connect them to classic IB research questions, and then develop theory and evidence to inform current IB scholarly debates and guide IB executives, investors, and the public policy-makers overseeing those business activities. Our introductory article provides an overview of new and renewed MMP issues addressed in the special issue. It defines foundational MMP concepts and trends, compares classic IB and current MMP research questions, summarizes the eight articles included in the special issue, and offers suggestions for advancing research in both fields.

Inaugural issue perspectives on Information and Learning Sciences as an integral scholarly nexus

PurposeMany of today’s information and technology systems and environments facilitate inquiry, learning, consciousness-raising and knowledge-building. Such platforms include e-learning systems which have learning, education and/or training as explicit goals or objectives. They also include search engines, social media platforms, video-sharing platforms, and knowledge sharing environments deployed for work, leisure, inquiry, and personal and professional productivity. The new journal, Information and Learning Sciences, aims to advance our understanding of human inquiry, learning and knowledge-building across such information, e-learning, and socio-technical system contexts.Design/methodology/approachThis article introduces the journal at its launch under new editorship in January, 2019. The article, authored by the journal co-editors and all associate editors, explores the lineage of scholarly undertakings that have contributed to the journal's new scope and mission, which includes past and ongoing scholarship in the following arenas: Digital Youth, Constructionism, Mutually Constitutive Ties in Information and Learning Sciences, and Searching-as-Learning.FindingsThe article offers examples of ways in which the two fields stand to enrich each other towards a greater holistic advancement of scholarship. The article also summarizes the inaugural special issue contents from the following contributors: Caroline Haythornthwaite; Krista Glazewski and Cindy Hmelo-Silver; Stephanie Teasley; Gary Marchionini; Caroline R. Pitt; Adam Bell, Rose Strickman and Katie Davis; Denise Agosto; Nicole Cooke; and Victor Lee.Originality/valueThe article, this special issue, and the journal in full, are among the first formal and ongoing publication outlets to deliberately draw together and facilitate cross-disciplinary scholarship at this integral nexus. We enthusiastically and warmly invite continued engagement along these lines in the journal’s pages, and also welcome related, and wholly contrary points of view, and points of departure that may build upon or debate some of the themes we raise in the introduction and special issue contents.

Introduction to JALT’s inaugural special issue

I am very pleased to see this inaugural special issue of JALT being published. May it be the first of many to come! It is a very worthy first special issue that originated in EDU2019, an inspiring, international conference that took place in Athens, Greece, in May this year, and that was organised by the distinguished guest-editors of this issue, Dr Margarita Kefalaki (President of the Communication Institute of Greece) and Dr Fotini Diamantidaki (its Vice-President of Research and Academic Affairs).

Special Issue: Selected Papers From IDETC 2018 (Parts I and II)

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.

Editors’ Introduction to the Mixed Methods Manifesto Inaugural Special Issue

Editors’ Introduction to the Mixed Methods Manifesto Inaugural Special Issue

Editorial for the Inaugural Special Issue on the Developing Trends of Power Electronics: Part 2

Editorial for the Inaugural Special Issue on the Developing Trends of Power Electronics: Part 2

Editorial for the Inaugural Special Issue on the Developing Trends of Power Electronics: Part 1

Editorial for the Inaugural Special Issue on the Developing Trends of Power Electronics: Part 1

Guest Editorial

This is the inaugural Special Issue covering the Loughborough Antennas & Propagation Conference (LAPC), an international conference that has been held every year since 2005 at Loughborough University in the United Kingdom. The Special Issue focuses on the 2015 Loughborough Antennas & Propagation Conference held on 2-3 November 2015 at Burleigh Court Conference Centre within Loughborough University. The conference program for 2015 included 12 distinguished invited speakers who delivered talks on the four main themes of the conference: Reconfigurable Antennas, Biomedical Applications (including wearable), Space and Industrial Applications, and Smart Materials for EM. A total of 174 submissions from 41 different countries were reviewed by a dedicated panel of 74 reviewers, and 153 papers were selected to be included in the conference proceedings. In keeping with the single-track format of the conference, all of the regular papers were presented in open poster sessions. Based on the reviewer scores, a selection of the best papers that were presented at the conference were invited by the Chairs to submit extended versions of their papers to be included in this Special Issue. After extensive peer review, the following 12 papers were accepted for publication, several of which received prizes in the IET Best Student Paper and the Best Non-Student Paper categories at the conference. P. Callaghan, R. Huelin and M.H. Sagor, “An Investigation into use of Double Layer Grid Structures for Building FSS” I. Issa, K.L. Ford, M. Rao and J. Wild, “The Enhancement of Radio Frequency Magnetic Field for a 1.5 Tesla Magnetic Resonance System Using a High Impedance Surface” S.S. Bukhari, W.G. Whittow, J.C. Vardaxoglou and S. Maci, “Dipole-slot-dipole Metasurfaces” K. Yang, X. Bao, P. McEvoy and M.J. Ammann, “A Back-to-Back Beam Switching Microstrip Patch Antenna” S. Zhang, A. Paraskevopoulos, C. Luxey, J. Pinto and W. Whittow, “Broadband Embroidered Spiral Antenna for Off-body Communications” S.S. Zhekov, A. Tatomirescu, E. Foroozanfard and G.F. Pedersen, “Experimental Investigation on the Effect of User's Hand Proximity on a Compact Ultrawideband MIMO Antenna Array” S. Zhang, R.K. Arya, S. Pandey, Y. Vardaxoglou, W. Whittow and R. Mittra, “3D-Printed Flat Lenses for Microwave Applications” W. Wei, K. Mahdjoubi, C. Brousseau and O. Emile, “Horn Antennas for Generating Radio Waves Bearing Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM) by Using Dielectric Lenses” S. Ulaganathan, S. Koziel, A. Bekasiewicz, I. Couckuyt, E. Laermans and T. Dhaene, “Data-Driven Model Based Design And Analysis Of Antenna Structures” F. Sheikh, Fawad, N. Zarifeh and T. Kaiser, “Terahertz Band: Channel Modelling for Short-Range Wireless Communications in the Spectral Windows” C. Gennarelli, F. D'Agostino, F. Ferrara, R. Guerriero and M. Migliozzi, “Optimal Sampling Interpolation over a Plane from Transient Bi-Polar Near-Field Data” F. D'Agostino, F. Ferrara, C. Gennarelli, R. Guerriero and M. Migliozzi, “Two Efficient Procedures to Correct the Positioning Errors in the Plane-Polar Scanning” We believe that the selected papers provide a representative sample of the latest developments in antennas and propagation. They combine technical insights from both industry and academia, something which is characteristic of the overall work presented at the conference. We sincerely hope that you enjoy reading these latest developments. We would like to thank the authors for their excellent contributions and to thank all the reviewers for the time and effort that they dedicated to improve the quality of the papers. We would also like to thank the Editorial Board of IET Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation for their assistance and guidance in the preparation of this Special Issue, especially the Editor-in-Chief Dr. Stavros Iezekiel and the IET Editorial Office. Finally, we gratefully acknowledge the support of The IET for the sponsorship of the IET Best Student Paper prize at LAPC.