Special Issue Of European Journal Research Articles

In Memory of Klaus Hafner

This Guest Editorial and Special Issue of European Journal of Organic Chemistry are dedicated to the memory of Klaus Hafner (1927–2021), who played an import role to establish this journal and who served as Senior Editor of the predecessor journal Liebigs Annalen der Chemie. As one of the outstanding chemists of the second half of the 20th century, he was a pioneer of the chemistry of nonbenzoid π-systems and their metal complexes.

The forced swim test: Giving up on behavioral despair (Commentary on Molendijk & de Kloet, 2021).

The forced swim test: Giving up on behavioral despair (Commentary on Molendijk & de Kloet, 2021).

Connecting research and professionalism in teacher education

ABSTRACT The three main themes of this Special Issue of European Journal of Teacher Education are brought together and considered in the light of what has been said in the articles included. These themes of teacher education, professionalism and research are all dynamic in the way they have been developing over time and also demonstrate considerable geographical diversity in their manifestations. This paper considers the extent to which these temporal and spatial differences indicate a series of tensions, difficulties and paradoxes as the processes of globalisation continue to influence educational policies and practices around the world. The extent to which the outcomes represent increasing convergence or divergence is discussed and the paper concludes by suggesting a number of key questions that may be asked within a particular context in order to make an assessment of the state of health of the teaching profession within that setting.

Special Issue of European Journal of Tourism Research “Smart Tourism Destinations: Advancing Theory and Practice”

Special Issue of European Journal of Tourism Research “Smart Tourism Destinations: Advancing Theory and Practice”

Sustainability, corporate social responsibility and HRD

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a prologue to the issue of sustainability, corporate social responsibility (CSR) and human resource development (HRD). Although issues of sustainability and CSR have become an important topic of research, there are few studies on this topic in the field of HRD. To address this gap, we edited a special issue of European Journal of Training and Development that explicitly focuses attention on sustainability and CSR issues in HRD. Design/methodology/approach – The paper provides an overview of the conceptualisation of sustainability and CSR and their relevance for the concept of sustainable HRD. We then outline the contributions of the authors of the six papers that make up the special issue. Findings – There are issues related to the conceptualisation and measurement of sustainability, CSR and sustainable HRD. The role that HRD plays in contributing to sustainability and CSR in organisations is not well understood. Originality/value – The paper introduces the special issue on sustainability, CSR and HRD. It shows that this is an under-researched area. However, we propose that a focus on sustainability and CSR will serve to advance the field of HRD and contribute to enhancing practices within organisations.

Foreword “Wild Plant Pathosystems”

This Special Issue of European Journal of Plant Pathology contains selected Keynote Papers presented at the 1st International Conference “Wild Plant Pathosystems”, held in July 2–5, 2013 at Olomouc (Czech Republic), a meeting that focussed on a wide range of theoretical and methodological topics related to wild plant pathosystems: ecological and genetic views of coevolution, phylogenetics and speciation; general plantpathogen interactions; ecological genomics of hostpathogen interactions; the development of a common conceptual framework for antagonistic interactions; interactions between pathogens and plant community structure; epidemiological and evolutionary dynamics across the agro-ecological interface; trends in emerging and invasive pathogens; wild crop progenitors and sources of resistance; and plant breeding applications. This broad area is a vibrant and fast developing area of plant biology and pathology which has been mostly neglected in various botanical, ecological and plant pathology meetings. The 14 papers in this volume cover this wide range of topics and have been arranged according to the main subject matter, i.e. from the theoretical background to the practical applications in resistance breeding and disease control. As such this volume represents the first comprehensive treatment of this topic in a plant pathology-focused scientific journal. From this conference will be also published a Special Issue of Plant Protection Science (published by Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences), in which are summarized nine short oral contributions or posters from this conference. The full Programme and Proceedings (with Abstracts are already available (Lebeda, A., Burdon, J.J. (Ed.): Wild Plant Pathosystems. Czech Society for Plant Pathology and Palacký University, Olomouc (Czech Republic), 2013, 128 pp. (ISBN 97880-903545-1-7)). We hope that this Special Issue of EJPP will be of use to students, academics and researchers in plant pathology, taxonomy, plant biology and ecology, plant resistance breeding and disease control, as well as to others involved in the agricultural and horticultural advisory services and industry. Eur J Plant Pathol (2014) 138:415 DOI 10.1007/s10658-013-0308-2

The past, present and future of higher education research: between scholarship and policymaking

This special issue of European Journal of Higher Education (EJHE) commemorates the 25th anniversary of the establishment and functioning of the Consortium of Higher Education Researchers (CHER). Si...

Development and plasticity of thalamocortical systems

Development and plasticity of thalamocortical systems

Student representation in Western Europe: introduction to the special issue

This article introduces the special issue of European Journal of Higher Education dedicated to the cross-national comparison of student representation in Western Europe. Student representative organisations, whose primary aim is to represent and defend the interests of the collective student body, are core participants in European higher education (HE) governance. Yet, these organisations are strikingly absent in scholarly literature. This special issue is guided by the question of how students as a collective body are organised, and how their interests are aggregated, articulated and intermediated into the national policy processes. The article develops the conceptual framework guiding the investigation of national student associations and systems of student representation and interest intermediation; and it introduces the five empirically-driven articles on student representation in Norway, the United Kingdom, Germany, France and Italy compared, and Spain.

Characteristic Ratio Assignment: An Application to a Benchmark Problem

In this paper, we propose a control design method that directly deals with transient behavior of a step response of a given linear time-invariant system, based on the assignment of characteristic ratios. The proposed technique is applied to control the active suspension system that was provided as a benchmark problem for the special issue of European Journal of Control in April, 2002. In this problem, the design objective is to find a linear discrete-time controller which meets several constraints imposed on two sensitivity functions and the magnitude of control input. Experimental results show that the controller designed meets all the given requirements. The results suggest that time domain step response can often successfully, albeit indirectly, meet frequency domain design specifications.