International Advisory Board Research Articles

Editorial

This Issue sees the inauguration of The British Journal of Criminology’s new subtitle: An International Review of Crime and Society. There are two main reasons for the addition of a subtitle. First, The Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, the Editors and the Editorial Board are agreed that, although it is desirable to retain the main title of a Journal which has gone from strength to strength during its long history, nowadays the Journal’s title should also reflect the increasingly international nature of its contents. Secondly, we thought that while we are adding a subtitle which will emphasise the Journal’s internationalism, we should also take the opportunity to remind potential contributors that the Journal welcomes submissions from a variety of perspectives focusing on crime and society; and especially articles written from sociological, historical, philosophical, geographical, psychological, jurisprudential, cultural, political or policy standpoints. The interests of the extensive Editorial and International Advisory Boards are catholic, neither narrowly ideological nor limited to rigid conceptions of what criminology either should be, or is currently, about. The two main criteria according to which articles submitted for publication will continue to be assessed are: the degree to which the article contributes new knowledge to an understanding of crime and society; the overall quality of the argument and its presentation.

Reimund Kvideland (1935–2006)

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes Reimund Kvideland was a member of the International Advisory Board of Folklore since 2002. (Editor)

Life in the Universe: from the Miller Experiment to the Search for Life on Other Worlds

Life in the Universe: from the Miller Experiment to the Search for Life on Other Worlds

Change of Venue: Taking Environmental Mutagen Research to the Developing World

The health of a nation could be said to depend upon the public health expertise of its scientists. In the United States and other developed areas of the world, it can be fairly simple to gain access to a variety of useful public health resources. But populations living in less-developed areas of the world often lack such knowledge and public health access. In 1987, two young scientists, William Au of the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) and Wagida Anwar of Ain Shams University in Cairo, Egypt, decided to seek ways to raise the level of access to information and technical expertise regarding environmental health disparities in less-developed regions. With a main goal of encouraging collaborations for growth of scientific knowledge and expertise as well as clinical applications in underserved areas, they focused on organizing an international conference highlighting the latest research and information on environmental mutagens. The fruit of that labor, the International Conference on Environmental Mutagens in Human Populations (ICEMHP) series, has become a boon to the scientific community in developing nations. The next conference, sponsored in part by the NIEHS, is scheduled for May 2007 in Antalya, Turkey. NIEHS scientist Mike Waters, chairman of the ICEMHP International Advisory Board, says the institute has been a key participant in the conference series since its inception, noting that institute scientists have helped with organizing activities, and that NIEHS leaders have contributed personal and financial support. He also points out that the proceedings of the first two conferences were published in the October 1993 and May 1996 issues of EHP Supplements. According to Waters, the mission of the NIEHS lends itself to sponsorship of the ICEMHP series. “[The NIEHS] fosters national as well as international efforts to reduce the burden of environmentally associated disease,” he explains. “This series of conferences certainly has the same objective. It represents an effective means of communicating and extending the NIEHS mission and its research findings to the developing world.” Other past and current sponsors for the conference series include the U.S. CDC, Novartis Pharmaceutical Company, the U.S. Environmental Mutagen Society, the European Environmental Mutagen Society, the International Association of Environmental Mutagen Societies, the Turkish Society of Toxicology, Research Corporation, and the UTMB Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health and Sealy Center for Environmental Health and Medicine.

Microbiology Research and Education: Essential for the Future

Marc Struelens is Professor of Medical Microbiology at the Faculty of Medicine of the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Director of the Department of Microbiology, Erasme Hospital, and Head of the Infectious Diseases Epidemiology Unit, ULB School of Public Health, in Brussels, Belgium. Professor Struelens's research focuses on the molecular epidemiology and control of nosocomial infections, and antimicrobial resistance. He has authored over 170 peer-reviewed articles and 20 book chapters. He has served as editor for ten international scientific journals. He is a member of several national and international advisory boards, European Union (EU)-supported research and public health networks, and has served as consultant to the WHO and EU. Professor Struelens is the Past-President of the European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases. He has chaired the European Study Group on Epidemiological Markers, and the Belgian Hospital Infection Control Society. He has been awarded the Prize of the Belgian Society for Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology.

Introducing the International Advisory Board

Introducing the International Advisory Board

The XII International Symposium on Cholinergic Mechanisms

Beginning with the very first International Symposium on Cholinergic Mechanisms (ISCM) held in 1970 in Skokloster (Stockholm), Sweden, as an initiative headed by the late Edith Heilbronn, the ISCMs became a semi-official gathering of investigators of the cholinergic system from all over the world. Having a scientific meeting fully dedicated to the many facets of the cholinergic system seems a sensible idea and indeed, many of those who joined the first ISCM 36 years ago have kept themselves involved in organizing and providing leadership in subsequent editions, as they still do today, mostly as members of the International Advisory Boards. Following the Swedish initiative, ISCMs have been held every three years in countries including Switzerland, the United States, Italy, Great Britain, Canada, Germany, and France. The decision of hosting the XII ISCM in Alicante, Spain was taken at the XI ISCM by the International Advisory Board after considering the proposal presented by Jose M.Gonzalez-Ros, who planned to implicate in the meeting’s program most of the Spanish scientists working in cholinergic areas. As a result, an Organizing Committee was formed which included Gonzalez-Ros as the Chairman plus A. Ferrer-Montiel, G. FernandezBallester, J. A. Encinar and M. Criado (all from the Universidad Miguel Hernandez), A. Morales (Universidad de Alicante), C. Vidal (Universidad de Murcia), and C. Solsona (Universidad de Barcelona). The Organizing Committee was helped in many Journal of Molecular Neuroscience Copyright © 2006 Humana Press Inc. All rights of any nature whatsoever are reserved. ISSN0895-8696/06/30:1–2/$30.00 JMN (Online)ISSN 1559-1166 DOI 10.1385/JMN/30:1-2:1

Plasma Processes and Polymers: Off to a Great Start!

Plasma Processes and Polymers: Off to a Great Start!

Macromolecular Journals and the People behind Them

Macromolecular Journals and the People behind Them

All Good Things Come in Threes…︁

All Good Things Come in Threes…︁

New Members of the Editorial Board and the International Advisory Board

New Members of the Editorial Board and the International Advisory Board

Who Is Going to Read all This?

Who Is Going to Read all This?

Think Macro!

Think Macro!

Think Macro!

Think Macro!

International Advisory Board

International Advisory Board

Think Macro!

Think Macro!

Paper of the Year 2004

After an eclectic range of nominations (panel) by The Lancet's international advisory board and anguished debate by the journal's editors, we are pleased to report that our Paper of the Year 2004 was won by Craig Whittington and colleagues for their systematic review of selective serotonin-reuptake inhibitors in childhood depression.1 This study commanded strong support among the journal's editors. It was not only the paper of the year. It was part of the story of the year as well—a story of hidden data, misleading guidance to physicians, severe reputational threat to one pharmaceutical company (GlaxoSmithKline), a New York lawsuit settled out of court for US$2·5 million, and mounting pressure for an international publicly accessible register of randomised clinical trials.

Editorial

This concluding number of the first volume of The Radio Journal features, as promised, two major new articles from notable figures who have been most influential in our international community of radio scholars for many years: Peter Lewis, our Associate Editor; and Manuel Chaparro Escudero, of the University of Malaga and our International Advisory Board.

China's leading Internet guru Charles Zhang, chairman of SOHU.com Inc., on how the Internet has changed the world's most populous nation

The article presents an introduction, foreword, and speech from Charles Zhang, chairman of SOHU.com Inc. to the Academy of Management Executives on August 8, 2004. Zhang discusses the need for cross cultural understanding and mutual respect for cultural difference, SOHU.com's role in the development of the Internet in China, and the emergence of China as a global economic power. Dr. Charles Chao Yang Zhang is the founder of SOHU.com Inc. He has served in the positions of chairman of the board, president, and chief executive officer of the NASDAQ-listed company since its founding in 1996. His Chinese name, “Chao Yang,” means “sunrise.” SOHU.com Inc. is the first Chinese-language search engine in the world and a leading internet portal in China. At the end of 2002, China had overtaken Japan to become the second most wired nation in the world, after the United States. At present, there are over 100 million Internet users in China. This represents approximately ten per cent of that country's population. SOHU ...

Interview with John Gage

Mr. John Gage is the Chief Researcher and Director of the Science Office, for Sun Microsystems. He was one of the founders of Sun, in 1982, when a group of students and professors from Stanford and UC Berkeley joined to create open systems in hardware and software. In 1995, John created NetDay, a volunteer project to bring the resources of world high-technology companies to all schools and libraries to connect them to the Internet. Since then over 500,000 volunteers have wired over 50,000 schools and libraries in the United States. John has served on the Boards of Trustees of the United States National Library of Medicine, FermiLabs, the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, NetDay, Schools OnLine, United States National Research Council, the Internet Society (ISOC) and other scientific and educational groups. He serves on the Markle Foundation Task Force on National Security, the Board of Advisors of the United States Institute of Peace, the National Academy of Sciences, and the International Advisory Board of the Malaysian Multimedia Corridor. More information can be found at http://www.johngage.com/ and http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/media/bios/bios-gage.html.