Inaugural Special Issue Research Articles

Introducing the Special Issue: Mixed Verbs and Linguistic Creativity in Bi/Multilingual Communities

In introducing this inaugural Special Issue for the open access journal Languages, it is important to understand the concept of linguistic creativity and how this relates to code-switching (henceforth CS)1, a common practice in bi/multilingual communities.[...]

Editorial Special Issue on Optical MEMS and Nanophotonics

The aim of PHOTONICS TECHNOLOGY LETTERS (PTL) is ultimately to serve the photonics community. As such, it is with great delight I would like to introduce the second Special Issue of PTL, in which we address the area of optical MEMS and nanophotonics, in response to a demand from the community. As with the inaugural Special Issue which appeared in November 2012, this Special Issue has been linked to an IEEE Photonics Society conference, this time the International Conference on Optical MEMS and Nanophotonics. The timescales for this Special Issue have been demanding and with this in mind, I would like to thank those who made rapid publication possible, namely the guest editors, authors, and anonymous reviewers for ensuring prompt reviewing, and Sylvia Flores and Eileen McGuinness for ensuring prompt production of the final manuscripts. I hope you will find this Special Issue of interest and hence, without further ado, I would like to hand over to the guest editors for the Special Issue on Optical MEMS and Nanophotonics and thank you for your continued readership.

The 2015 Young Innovators of Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering

The 2015 Young Innovators of Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering

Introduction for the special issue on “Tissue Barriers in Inflammation”

This issue of Tissue Barriers contains the inaugural special issue devoted to recent advances in barrier function of endothelial and epithelial cells. We used this opportunity to invite experts in vascular endothelial cell biology and epithelial cell biology to comment on critical questions and problems in permeability of organ and tissue barriers, and to provide insight into common areas in these fields, namely how these cells maintain homeostasis and response to injury and infection. To complement these reviews, this issue also contains four research articles that explore specific questions related respiratory and intestinal epithelial cell function.

The Young Innovators of Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering.

The Young Innovators of Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering.

Challenges for Education in a Connected World: Digital Learning, Data Rich Environments, and Computer-Based Assessment—Introduction to the Inaugural Special Issue of Technology, Knowledge and Learning

The new scope of Technology, Knowledge and Learning emphasizes the increased interest on adaptive and personalized digital learning environments. Educational researchers are faced with new research challenges in the beginning of the twenty-first century, especially focusing on digital learning, game-based learning, automated assessment, and learning analytics. In order to provide a source of reference for future submissions to Technology, Knowledge and Learning, the following sections highlight the key themes of the journal.

Editorial for the Inaugural Special Issue on the Future of Power Electronics: Part 3

The five invited papers in Part 3 of this special issue focus on the future of power electronics.

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

The three papers in Part 2 of this special issue focus on the future of power electronics.

Editorial for the inaugural special issue on the future of power electronics: Part 1

With this inaugural editorial, we welcome our readers to the brand-new publication - IEEE nal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics (IEEE JESTPE). It is jointly sponsored by the IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS) and the IEEE Industry Applications Society (IAS). By mutual agreement, the JESTPE is currently administered by PELS. It is only fitting for JESTPE to celebrate PELS 25th anniversary by publishing the very first Special Issue focusing on the future of power electronics. This serves two purposes: to cover the emerging nature of the technology from a relatively longterm view and to celebrate the 25th anniversary. We have invited a group of experts to write special surveys or review papers. Because of the review cycle and the need to fulfill our commitment to publish in a timely and regular fashion, this inaugural Special Issue is organized into two parts: Part 1 and Part 2. Part 1 is in this issue and Part 2 will appear in June. The article of Part 1 are briefly summarized.

Scholarship Of Teaching & Learning (SoTL)

Scholarship Of Teaching & Learning (SoTL) This issue marks two academic publication milestones. First—on a more localized scale, it is the inaugural special issue of the JTRH. This is a stellar accomplishment for a journal that has just begun its second year of publication. Second—from a more universal perspective, it is the first known special issue within the discipline of hospitality/tourism studies to provide a focus on the topic of SoTL research. The managing editor’s office was intrigued to hear from five editors representing prestigious institutions in the U.S. and Australia that volunteered to serve on this publication upon the first inkling that we planned to produce it.

Introduction to the OFC/NFOEC 2012 Special Issue

This year the editors of the Journal of Optical Communications and Networking (JOCN) launched a new initiative to create a special issue featuring the best optical communication systems and networks papers from the Optical Fiber Communication Conference/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC). We are excited to introduce this inaugural special issue of invitation-only extended papers based on material presented at OFC/NFOEC 2012. The top contributed papers from six technical committees, including NFOEC “Optical Network Applications and Services,” “Network Technologies and Applications,” and “FTTx Technologies, Deployment and Applications” and OFC “Core Network,” “Access Network,” and “Optical Networking, Technologies, and Applications for Datacom and Computercom,” were invited to submit extended papers to the special issue. Nearly all the invited authors submitted papers and JOCN Associate Editors performed expedited review and processing of the papers. The JOCN OFC/NFOEC 2012 Special Issue includes 20 papers. Given the tremendous success of this inaugural special issue, JOCN expects to continue this series for upcoming OFC conferences.

Introduction to the special issue on the secondary analysis of the National Latino Asian American Study (NLAAS) dataset.

It is my pleasure to introduce the first special issue for the Asian American Journal of Psychology. We instituted the Annual Review of Asian American Psychology, which is published in the December issue of every year, to provide a critical review of the literature pertaining to Asian American psychology in the previous year. Two such reviews have been published (December 2010 and December 2011). It is a logical next step to begin publishing special issues that cover a thematic topic in the field within the journal. This inaugural special issue will cover studies consisting of secondary analysis of the National Latino Asian American Study (NLAAS) Dataset (2012). It is an “internal” special issue edited by me. Additional special issues are in preparation and these will be “external” special issues guest edited by others and covering a range of topic including health disparities, parenting, leadership, and prevention. Individuals interested in proposing a special issue are encouraged to contact me directly. For many decades, there was a dearth of community-based epidemiological studies of mental health problems among Asian Americans. Over three decades ago, Sue and Morishima (1982) lamented the lack of epidemiological data on Asian American mental health and pointed out the disadvantages of “treated-prevalence rates” of disorders that we were limited to at that time. The field was restricted to clinical case studies and treated prevalence studies (i.e., clinic and hospital visit data) to gauge the nature and extent of mental health problems within the Asian American communities. From 1980 –1985, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) funded the Epidemiological Catchment Area (ECA) program, which oversampled African Americans in this multisite study (Robbins and Regier, 1991). However, it was not until 2002 when the NIMH funded the National Latino Asian American Study, which was a pioneering step in correcting that situation. The National Latino and Asian American Study (NLAAS) is “a nationally representative community household survey that estimates the prevalence of mental disorders and rates of mental health service utilization by Latinos and Asian Americans in the United States” with data been collected between May 2002 and November 2003. The NLAAS dataset (2012) also contains variables that allow for the comparison of “social position, environmental context, and psychosocial factors with the prevalence of psychiatric disorders and utilization rates of mental health services” (http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/ icpsrweb/CPES/index.jsp). A call for papers for a special issue of the Asian American Journal of Psychology that will be devoted to empirical studies based on the NLAAS dataset was issued in June 2010. The purpose of this special issue is to highlight and showcase the empirical research that has been generated by the release of the NLAAS for secondary analysis and to promote more research using that dataset. This special issue includes empirical articles that are based on analysis of the Asian American data within the NLAAS dataset. Studies using comparative data from other datasets within the Collaborative Psychiatric Epidemiology Surveys (CPES) with those from the NLAAS dataset were also permitted. We received numerous submissions that underwent the usual peer review process, and 9 articles were finally accepted. Because we normally publish only 5–7 articles per issue in the journal, we decided to divide this special issue into two parts. Part 1 is published in this issue (March 2012) and will focus mainly on psychopathology and mental health studies from the NLAAS. Part 2 will include studies of education, discrimination, adjustment, and distress and will appear in the June 2012 issue. We Asian American Journal of Psychology © 2012 American Psychological Association 2012, Vol. 3, No. 1, 1–2 1948-1985/12/$12.00 DOI: 10.1037/a0027685

Evidenced-Based Review of Clinical Studies on Direct Pulp Capping

The delivery of vital pulp therapy is a field replete with controversies regarding clinical outcomes, risk factors (eg, primary vs permanent teeth), and optimal treatments. This is an ideal topic for summary analyses of the evidence-based literature that focus on study quality, advantages, and limitations. In this year's inaugural special issue on evidence-based endodontics, we provide an analysis of two recent clinical trials on direct pulp capping in primary teeth.

Editorial Introduction: The Inaugural Special Topics Issue On Resurfacing Tragedy

Editorial Introduction: The Inaugural Special Topics Issue On Resurfacing Tragedy

PPARs and Bone Metabolism

Welcome to the inaugural special issue of PPAR Research: PPARs and Bone Metabolism. In addition to the key roles PPARs play in numerous processes including glucose and fat metabolism, inflammation, cancer, and central nervous system maintenance, a new role for PPAR-γ has recently emerged: the maintenance of bone homeostasis during aging and disease. In this premier issue we have assembled what is close to a comprehensive overview of the role of PPAR-γ in the control of bone maintenance. This takes into account PPAR-γ's role in mesenchymal stem cell lineage allocation, possible cross-talk with relevant nuclear receptors, examination of PPAR-γ gene polymorphisms and bone mineral density in humans, a role of PPAR-γ in bone loss due to skeletal disuse, evidence that human bone is vulnerable to antidiabetic therapies with PPAR-γ agonists, the thiazolidinediones, and evidence that the antiosteoblastic activity of PPAR-γ can be separated from its proadipocytic and antidiabetic activities by using selective modulators. We also present a novel hypothesis that PPAR-γ acts as a regulator of chondrocyte development and cartilage homeostasis. We realize that we have not covered all aspects of PPARs involvement in the control of bone maintenance; however, this introduction should serve as a competent first attempt to present these new aspects of bone biology to the broader audience of our readers. Beata Lecka-Czernik