Special Issue Of Journal Research Articles

Opening the Black Box: Editorial to the “Culture and Leadership in Slavic Nations” Special Issue in the Cross-Cultural Research Journal

This Special Issue is an installment of the series of studies carried out by the Centre for Cross Cultural Comparisons ([ https://crossculturalcentre.homestead.com/ ]( https://crossculturalcentre.homestead.com/ )), an international voluntary association of researchers, students and practitioners interested in the global study of culture and leadership. This Consortium investigates the relationships among preferred leader behavior dimensions and societal cultural values of employed businesspeople across the globe, with the intent of improving managerial leadership practice in businesses.

Special issue of the asian journal of business ethics on global survey of business ethics (GSBE) reports 2022–2024 from Asia, Australia and Russia – Indonesia

Special issue of the asian journal of business ethics on global survey of business ethics (GSBE) reports 2022–2024 from Asia, Australia and Russia – Indonesia

Introduction to Special Issue of Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology on Leisure and Older Adults in Asia.

This article introduces the special issue "Leisure and older adults in Asia." Although the study of older adults' participation in leisure has gained traction over the last decade, there is need to consider in greater depth the central role that leisure activities may play in the construction of identities and lifestyles in later life. The collection of articles in this special issue contributes to the emerging literature on the intersection of leisure and aging by presenting diverse contexts and methodologies to build a comprehensive understanding of leisure participation among older adults in China, India, Sri Lanka, Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia, and Singapore. They reveal a common thread highlighting the close relationship between leisure participation and various quantitative and qualitative markers of well-being and quality of life in old age, such as health, social participation, and sense of self. The papers also highlight the importance of leisure as a socio-cultural resource through which older adults can negotiate their experiences in later life. Through the different case studies and discussion, the special issue contributes to critical Asian perspective regarding the place of leisure within discourses of 'productive'/'successful'/'active' aging.

Reading with love: Developing therapeutic imagination through purposeful engagement with qualitative research

ABSTRACT This Special Issue of the European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling on Qualitative Research and Mental Health comprises a collection of papers that show how qualitative inquiry can be used to explore aspects of social experience that are relevant to counselling, psychotherapy and mental health, alongside other pieces that addresses methodological issues associated with this type of research. The present paper discusses these articles in relation to the question of how counsellors and psychotherapists can make use of routinely reading published research reports to support and enhance their work with clients. In particular, reading strategies are described that promote the development of therapeutic imagination.

Editorial on the Special Issue of the World Wide Web journal with selected papers from the 22nd International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE)

Editorial on the Special Issue of the World Wide Web journal with selected papers from the 22nd International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE)

Introduction

This special issue of SiSAL Journal is dedicated to exploring the current landscape of self-access and self-directed language learning in Europe. In this collection of articles, we look at various aspects of language learner support across the continent, highlighting innovative practices and emerging trends.

Exploring unemployment insurance for the self-employed and platform workers: How to navigate difficult waters? A comparative, conceptual and European perspective

This special issue of the European Journal of Social Security explores the complexities of extending unemployment insurance to the self-employed and platform workers in the EU Member States and the steps taken at EU level to enforce the protection offered at national level. Traditionally, social security systems have been designed for standard employment relationships, leaving a typical workers and the self-employed inadequately protected. The European Pillar of Social Rights (EPSR), adopted in 2017, and the subsequent 2019 Recommendation on access to social protection have marked a shift towards more inclusive social security frameworks. However, significant gaps in coverage remain, in particular with regard to unemployment protection for the self-employed and platform workers. The special issue is divided into three parts: national perspectives, comparative studies and EU-level discussions.

Safeguarding scientific integrity: A case study in examining manipulation in the peer review process

ABSTRACT This case study analyzes the expertise, potential conflicts of interest, and objectivity of editors, authors, and peer reviewers involved in a 2022 special journal issue on fertility, pregnancy, and mental health. Data were collected on qualifications, organizational affiliations, and relationships among six papers’ authors, three guest editors, and twelve peer reviewers. Two articles were found to have undisclosed conflicts of interest between authors, an editor, and multiple peer reviewers affiliated with anti-abortion advocacy and lobbying groups, indicating compromised objectivity. This lack of transparency undermines the peer review process and enables biased research and disinformation proliferation.Our study is limited by a few factors including: difficulty collecting peer reviewer data, potentially missing affiliations, and a small sample without comparisons. While this is a case study of one special issue, we do have suggestions for increasing integrity.

A brief history of solid inclusion piezobarometry

Abstract. Solid inclusion piezobarometry is the determination of the entrapment conditions of solid inclusions in a host by measurement and interpretation of the residual pressure of the inclusion. The development over the past two centuries of the concepts, analytical tools and measurement techniques of inclusion piezobarometry is reviewed, and potential future developments are outlined for the special issue of the European Journal of Mineralogy devoted to the study of mineral and melt inclusions.

Reflections on ecological social theory marking 50 years of E. F. Schumacher’s Small is Beautiful

While not primarily a social theorist in the classical sense, E. F. Schumacher’s interdisciplinary thought helped galvanise ecological social theory and the ecological movement more broadly. In this article, we introduce a special issue of the European Journal of Social Theory dedicated to engaging with E. F. Schumacher’s Small is Beautiful on its 50th anniversary. We provide both an overview of his life and work before locating Small is Beautiful within both its contemporary context and within today’s social theoretical literature. As we show, Schumacher was a fierce critic of capitalist modernity and its ‘gigantist’ tendencies. As we discuss below, he advocated a metaphysical turn in economics, the implementation of intermediate technology and a reorientation of social practices in line with a more ecologically attuned political economy.

Feminism and Entrepreneurship in Prestigious Management Journals: A Critical Analysis

This study explores the intersection of feminism and entrepreneurship within prominent management studies, emphasizing the vital role women entrepreneurs play in economic growth. Despite feminism's societal impact, a significant gap exists in leading management studies, potentially reinforcing a male-centric perspective. To investigate this gap, we conducted a systematic literature review focusing on the top 50 journals in "Business Management and Accounting" and "Strategy and Management." Our review, utilizing the SPAR-4-SLR method, revealed only 11 documents on feminism and entrepreneurship, highlighting limited coverage in top academic journals. We propose addressing this gap through special journal issues and global data collection efforts to advance gender equality in entrepreneurship.

Aim of Special 60th Anniversary Issue of the Japanese Journal of Ergonomics

Aim of Special 60th Anniversary Issue of the Japanese Journal of Ergonomics

Promoting access to, and success in postgraduate education in South Africa: A synthesis of emerging issues

This article evinces that policies and plans at the national level in South Africa recognise the importance of postgraduate education within the broader national education and training system, and that they place particular emphasis on promoting access to, and success in postgraduate education as one of the priorities on the country’s development agenda. It identifies and discusses ten issues that have a bearing on the national policies, plans, programmes and initiatives aimed at promoting access to, and success in postgraduate education. These issues emerge from the analysis, triangulation, and interpretation of sets of information and data obtained from multiple projects focusing on postgraduate education, that the Council on Higher Education has implemented since 2018. They are therefore referred to as “emerging issues”. They include the relatively small size of the postgraduate component of higher education, the pyramidal structure of the distribution of students across the different levels of postgraduate education, and the offsetting of the increase in the numbers of graduates produced at all levels of postgraduate education, by a corresponding increase in the numbers of students taking longer to complete their studies than the periods stipulated by the institutions, and by relatively high dropout rates. Other issues are about transformation, student funding, inadequate supervisory capacity, under-preparedness of students, and lack of adequate support services for postgraduate students. The article sets the scene for, and context of the other articles contained in this special issue of the South African Journal of Higher Education, and prepares the readers to understand and appreciate the contents of those articles.

Celebrating Donald R. Farrar's Contribution to Botrychium Research: Introduction to an American Fern Journal Special Issue

Celebrating Donald R. Farrar's Contribution to Botrychium Research: Introduction to an American Fern Journal Special Issue

Promoting Methodological Creativity and Innovations: Editorial Learning from a Poetic Self-Study Journal Special Issue

ABSTRACT We are teacher educators and methodological innovators who have been practicing and facilitating co-creativity (collaborative creativity) for ourselves and for others through poetic self-study. This article examines our professional learning as editors of a journal special issue on poetic self-study scholarship. Our study was built on the conceptual foundation of polyvocal poetic play using the self-study virtual bricolage method and the layering of co-creative data and data analysis. The multidimensional data set and analysis comprised solicited feedback poems from the special issue contributors, our individual found poems developed from the contributors’ poems, a tapestry poem, and our dialogue from a recorded, transcribed online video meeting. In considering the professional impetus and impact of our work as editors, we asked, ‘What difference did editing a special issue make to our understanding of promoting methodological creativity and innovations through poetic self-study? How did poetic feedback from the contributors inform our understanding?’ We discovered four central features of our learning through several data generation and analysis phases: plurality, methodological and epistemological inventiveness, academic – personal intersections, and relational scaffolding. This set of features contributes to the body of knowledge on supporting methodological creativity and innovations in self-study and qualitative research. Editors, reviewers, and authors may find our study’s explanations, examples, and findings useful in their efforts to promote transformative and innovative research.

The Legacy of Loet Leydesdorff to the Triple Helix as a Theory of Innovation

Abstract This paper is an in memoriam tribute to the distinguished scholar Loet Leydesdorff written by some of his academic collaborators, including the editors of the Triple Helix journal and representatives of the Triple Helix Association. The paper revisits Loet Leydesdorff’s seminal contributions and legacy in innovation studies, particularly his work on the Triple Helix model and the measurement of Triple Helix synergies. Additionally, we highlight that Loet was not only a prolific author and outstanding scholar but also a humble person who played a crucial role in the community formed around Triple Helix ideas. The paper also serves as the editorial for the special issue of Triple Helix journal, titled “Legacy of Leydesdorff and the Triple Helix”.

OTHER COMPREHENSIVE INCOME IN THE INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL REPORTING STANDARDS: A LITERATURE REVIEW

Research Purposes. This research aims to examine studies regarding investor and contractual profits from Other Comprehensive Income (OCI), as well as its components can provide more evidence regarding whether there are characteristics that differentiate between OCI. Research Methods. This research is research using literature review.The process of reviewing selected articles focuses on understanding the problem, context, complexity and subjectivity of researchers in studying and interpreting OCI’s conceptions and OCI components (and AOCI) and their various relevance that are beneficial to investors in IFRS. Google search, www.semanticcholar.org and onlinelibrary.wiley.com were used to find journal special issues. Research Results and Findings. OCI information and OCI components in the IFRS standard income statement are little use to investors, especially for assessing risk in making investment decisions. Investors should be careful not to overly consider OCI information and OCI components (and AOCI) when making investment decision, including debt contracts.

Effective orientifolds from broken supersymmetry

We recently proposed a class of type IIB vacua that yield, at low energies, four–dimensional Minkowski spaces with broken supersymmetry and a constant string coupling. They are compactifications with an internal five-torus bearing a five–form flux Φ and warp factors depending on a single coordinate. The breaking of supersymmetry occurs when the internal space includes a finite interval. A probe-brane analysis revealed a gravitational repulsion and a charge attraction of equal magnitude from the left end of the interval, together with a singularity at the other end. Here we complete the analysis revealing the presence, at one end, of an effective of negative tension and positive five–form charge. We also determine the values of these quantities, showing that , and characterize the singularity present at the other end of the interval, which hosts an opposite charge. Finally, we discuss various forms of the gravity action in the presence of a boundary and identify a self–adjoint form for its fluctuations. Invited contribution to the special issue of Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical on ‘Fields, Gravity, Strings and Beyond: In Memory of Stanley Deser’

The Translational Work of Interoperability: Digital Health and Data Enabling Integrated Care Special Interest Group Workshop

Introduction: Members of the Digital Health and Data Enabling Integrated Care Special Interest Group came together at ICIC22 to discuss priority issues. One critical international struggle is the challenge of interoperability to support information and data sharing and communication as cornerstones of integrated health and social care systems. 
 Aims and Objectives: The emphasis of SIG work in 2023-2024 will be to deeply engage with the critical challenge of interoperability. From an integrated care perspective what is required is understanding the translational work needed to make the sharing of information and data useful and meaningful to those who need it. In this meeting, delegates will work together to unpack the translation problem of interoperability in terms of translating information between stakeholders (e.g. between patients, families and their care teams), between disciplines (e.g. between different clinicians and providers), and between sectors (e.g. between health and social care sectors), with the aim to share current work and identify knowledge and practice gaps that we can address as a SIG for the next year. 
 Audience: All existing and newly interested members of the SIG are welcome to join for this discussion. Our membership consists of patients and family caregivers, researchers, frontline providers, managers, system leaders and decision-makers, policy makers, informaticians, and industry partners. 
 Structure and engagement: This session will use the hour largely to engage with delegates to meet session objectives. To set up the discussion we will begin with a short introduction from SIG leads (C. Steele Gray, L. Lewis, I. Meyer) followed by SIG member (J. Piera-Jiménez) to present the case example of Catalonia’s Digital Health Strategy and their efforts towards improved interoperability that addresses limitations of current information systems, reduces loss of meaning in information exchange, and advances standardization of care processes. Delegates will next break into small groups (5-6 per table with one facilitator), to discuss what translation needs would be required to implement an interoperable system (like Catalonia’s), and how those needs could be met (e.g. consensus group discussions, technological solutions like Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing). Facilitators will use a live Google Jamboard to record ideas shared by the individual groups. 
 Structure: 1) Introduction (10 minutes); 2) Catalonia Example (10 minutes); 3) Table Discussions (25 minutes); 4) Identification of current work and gaps (15 minutes)
 Summarizing take home messages: In the final 15 minutes of the session the full group will reconvene to review the live Google Jamboards and engage in priority setting of translation needs. Delegates will be asked to identify where they may already be working on identified needs, and where current gaps might exist. This exercise will allow us to bring together sub-groups to tackle translation problems who would then engage in webinars and/or discussion groups between ICIC23 and ICIC24 with the aim to generate a white paper, report, or journal special issue that would bring together current and new knowledge generated by SIG members of the translational work of interoperability.

Editorial: Michael Turvey: The Most Influential Scholar in Motor Behavior in the Last 50 Years

It is difficult to estimate the impact that Michael Turvey (February 14th, 1941 – August 12th, 2023) had on the field of motor behavior. His research and thoughts influenced uncountable scholars over the last 50 years, and his kindness and dedication were examples to many. Through the reflections of esteemed colleagues and former students gathered in this Special Issue of the Brazilian Journal of Motor Behavior, we gain insights into the profound influence of Michael Turvey on motor behavior and beyond.