Special Issue Of Journal Research Articles

Traditional wellness therapy

This submission for the special issue of qualitative social work journal describes how the authors have implemented a Indigenous therapy model in Indigenous communities. The approach centers Indigenous worldviews with a focus on ceremony, trauma, and spirituality.

Situated Readings

As we write this, the 10 November 2024 release date of the highly anticipated second half of the fifth, and final, season of Taylor Sheridan’s epic neo-Western drama, Yellowstone, lies on the horizon. Within the space of eight years, Sheridan’s series, initially a niche standalone drama picked up by the Paramount Network, has expanded into a large, shared story universe. The contributions to this issue have coalesced around several focus areas which can loosely be categorised as: branding; gender and race; space and place; and situated readings of the series. This special issue of Journal of Literary Studies is, to our knowledge, the first focused publication to critically consider Yellowstone, and it successfully establishes a first critical discussion about the transcultural exchanges that can be found in popular cultural texts such as this that manage to go well beyond their intended boundaries.

Critical Race Mixed Methodology (CRMM) as a transformative method: The benefits and challenges

Critical Race Mixed Methodology (CRMM) is a transformative mixed methods approach that combines CRT within a mixed methods design. In this article, we reflect upon our experience using and publishing a CRMM explanatory mixed methods study in a higher education journal's special issue focused on mixed methods research. We discuss the benefits of using CRMM as a transformative method. Then, we share the challenges of using CRMM. We also provide recommendations for engaging in CRMM research within psychology.

The integrative biology of the heart: mechanisms enabling cardiac plasticity.

Cardiac phenotypic plasticity, the remodelling of heart structure and function, is a response to any sustained (or repeated) stimulus or stressor that results in a change in heart performance. Cardiac plasticity can be either adaptive (beneficial) or maladaptive (pathological), depending on the nature and intensity of the stimulus. Here, we draw on articles published in this Special Issue of Journal of Experimental Biology, and from the broader comparative physiology literature, to highlight the core components that enable cardiac plasticity, including structural remodelling, excitation-contraction coupling remodelling and metabolic rewiring. We discuss when and how these changes occur, with a focus on the underlying molecular mechanisms, from the regulation of gene transcription by epigenetic processes to post-translational modifications of cardiac proteins. Looking to the future, we anticipate that the growing use of -omics technologies in integration with traditional comparative physiology approaches will allow researchers to continue to uncover the vast scope for plasticity in cardiac function across animals.

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

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

Editorial for two-dimensional materials-based heterostructures for next-generation nanodevices.

Heterostructures, such as van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures, provide a versatile platform for engineering the physical properties of two-dimensional (2D) layered materials, spanning electronics, mechanics, optics, as well as electron-phonon couplings. Furthermore, vdW heterostructures, which are composed of metal/semiconductor or semiconductor/semiconductor combinations, not only maintain the unique properties of their individual constituents but also exhibit tunable physical and chemical properties that can be externally adjusted through strain, heat, and electric fields. These externally tunable properties offer significant advances in the fields of solid-state devices and renewable energy applications. Additionally, 2D material-based heterostructures, such as those composed of 0D clusters or quantum dots, as well as 1D nanotubes/wires in combination with 2D materials, also show immense potential for advancing next-generation nanodevices. The vast design space of vdW heterostructures enables their versatile applications spanning numerous fields, such as light-emitting diodes, field-effect transistors, photocatalysis, solar cells, photodetectors, and so on.
In the Special Issue of Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, entitled "Two-dimensional Materials-based Heterostructures for Next-generation Nanodevices", we have gathered a comprehensive collection of 14 articles, presenting the latest achievements in the fields of designing novel 2D materials and 2D heterostructures. Below, we have briefly condensed the essential research findings from these studies.&#xD.

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

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.

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”.