Special Issue Of Journal Research Articles

Success and Failure in Software Engineering: A Followup Systematic Literature Review

Success and failure in software engineering are still among the least understood phenomena in the discipline. In a recent special journal issue on the topic, Mantyla et al. started discussing these topics from different angles; the authors focused their contributions on offering a general overview of both topics without deeper detail. Recognising the importance and impact of the topic, we have executed a followup, more in-depth systematic literature review with additional analyses beyond what was previously provided. These new analyses offer: (a) a grounded-theory of success and failure factors, harvesting over 500+ factors from the literature; (b) 14 manually-validated clusters of factors that provide relevant areas for success- and failure-specific measurement and risk-analysis; (c) a quality model composed of previously unmeasured organizational structure quantities which are germane to software product, process, and community quality. We show that the topics of success and failure deserve further study as well as further automated tool support, e.g., monitoring tools and metrics able to track the factors and patterns emerging from our study. This paper provides managers with risks as well as a more fine-grained analysis of the parameters that can be appraised to anticipate the risks.

Advances in tourism behavior & retailing introduction to a special issue in Journal of Global Scholars of Marketing Science (JGSMS)

ABSTRACT This introduction reviews current issues in tourist behaviors and retailing. The article furthers the retailing shopping framework and its application to consumer behavior in general and tourism and retailing in particular. A summary of each of the six articles that follow appears. The article extends a note of appreciation to the members of the special editorial board for this issue.

Political and Intellectual Lineages of Southern African Anti-Fascism

ABSTRACT The article is the introduction to a special issue of the South African Historical Journal on anti-fascism. It starts by explaining the contemporary relevance of the subject. It then places Southern Africa within the contemporary historiographical debates on anti-fascism. The article provides a broad overview of the history of the anti-fascist political ideas and practice within the region. It examines in detail both the impact of ‘historical’ anti-fascism in the era of Mussolini, Hitler and Franco, and how notions of anti-fascism subsequently impacted on the national liberation movements and in the post-colonial era.

Editorial: Good governance and regulation for humanity and no one is left behind in a turbulent situation

This is a great honor and pleasure for me to write this Editorial note as per the invitation of the editorial team of the Journal of Governance and Regulation. This issue (volume 11, issue 4, special issue) of the aforesaid journal, consisted of 18 insightful articles which are very much pertinent in the diversified areas of the current turbulent situation of the world.

Senior Learning JAYA With Powell’s Method and Incremental Population Strategy

JAYA algorithm is one a recently developed meta-heuristic algorithm that does not require algorithm-specific parameters. It is an algorithm based on the fact that the solutions always go towards the best when searching. This paper proposes a JAYA variant (JAYA-SIP) with three improvements to the Original JAYA algorithm. It has incorporated the senior learning strategy, the incremental population strategy, and Powell’s local search method into JAYA. The improvements were tested with IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC) benchmark set for 30 and 50 dimensions, and the benchmark functions set from a special issue of the Soft Computing journal (SOCO) for 500 and 1000 dimensions. In addition to benchmark sets, the performance of JAYA-SIP was evaluated with nine CEC 2011 real-world test functions. The results of the proposed algorithm are compared with JAYA variants and some meta-heuristic algorithms. According to the results of the experiment and the analysis, the proposed improvements increased the performance of the JAYA algorithm. JAYA-SIP achieved better results than the other algorithms it was compared with.

J.UCS special issue on Challenges for Smart Environments – Human-Centered Computing, Data Science, and Ambient Intelligence. Smart Human-Centered Computing (volume 2)

Based on a successful funded collaboration between the American University of Armenia, the University of Duisburg-Essen and the University of Chile, in previous years a network was built, and in September 2020 a group of researchers gathered (although virtually) for the 2nd CODASSCA workshop on “Collaborative Technologies and Data Science in Smart City Applications”. This event has attracted 25 paper submissions which deal with the problems and challenges mentioned above. The studies are in specialized areas and disclose novel solutions and approaches based on existing theories suitably applied. The authors of the best papers published in the conference proceedings on Collaborative Technologies and Data Science in Artificial Intelligence Applications by Logos edition Berlin were invited to submit significantly extended and improved versions of their contributions to be considered for a journal special issue of J.UCS. There was also a J.UCS open call so that any author could submit papers on the highlighted subject. For this volume, we selected those devoted mainly to human-computer interaction problematics, which were rigorously reviewed in three rounds and 6 papers nominated to be published.

REFEREES: SPECIAL ISSUE: STATISTICS EDUCATION RESEARCH FROM A LATIN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVE

ARBITRO: EDIÇÃO ESPECIAL DA REVISTA DE PESQUISA EM EDUCAÇÃO ESTATÍSTICA (SERJ) Acknowledgment: We are grateful to the people who acted as referees for the Special Issue of the Statistics Education Research Journal.

Recent Books and Journals Articles in Public Opinion, Survey Methods, Survey Statistics, Big Data, Data Science, and User Experience Research. 2020 Update

Welcome to the 13th edition of this column on recent books and journal articles in the field of public opinion, survey methods, survey statistics, Big Data, data science and user experience research. After a hiatus due to the pandemic which affected my productivity, I am publishing this 2020 update. Special issues of journals have a space in this article because, in my view, they are like edited books. I also added review papers from the journal series of Annual Reviews because these papers are seminal state of the art writeups, a mini book, if you wish on a specific subject.

Recent Books and Journals Articles in Public Opinion, Survey Methods, Survey Statistics, Big Data, Data Science, and User Experience Research. 2019 Update

Welcome to the 12th edition of this column on recent books and journal articles in the field of public opinion, survey methods, survey statistics, Big Data, data science and user experience research. After a hiatus due to the pandemic which affected my productivity, I am publishing this 2019 update, and shortly, I will publish the 2020 update. Special issues of journals have a space in this article because, in my view, they are like edited books. I also added review papers from the journal series of Annual Reviews because these papers are seminal state of the art writeups, a mini book, if you wish on a specific subject.

Accounting, performance and accountability challenges in hybrid organisations: a value creation perspective

PurposeDrawing upon theoretical insights on value creation perspectives, the authors aim to advance the understanding of performance and accountability in different hybrid organisations.Design/methodology/approachThe authors conceptualise common theoretical origins of hybrid organisations and how they create and enact value, by reflecting on the Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal (AAAJ) special issue articles. Furthermore, the authors propose an agenda for future research into accounting, performance and accountability for hybrid organisations.FindingsHybrid organisations can be conceptualised through their approaches to value creation (mixing, compromising and legitimising). This article provides a more detailed understanding of accounting, performance and accountability changes in hybrid organisations.Practical implicationsThis contribution also has relevant practical implications for actors, such as politicians, managers, professionals, auditors, controllers and accountants, encased in various hybrid organisations, policy contexts and multi-faceted interfaces between public, private and civil society.Originality/valueHybridity lenses reveal novel connections between different types of hybrid organisations and how they create and enact multiple values.

Preface to the CLEI Electronic Journal Special Issue on Digital Healthcare


 
 
 This special issue of the CLEI Electronic Journal (CLEIej) is dedicated to Digital Healthcare. It contains two accepted papers presenting research related to the COVID-19 pandemic in Latin America.
 
 

Activism and Dissent under State Socialism: Coalitions and Campaigns in the 1970s and 1980s

This article introduces a special Labour History Review issue on the subject of Challenges to State Socialism in Central and Eastern Europe: Activists, Movements and Alliances in the 1970s and 1980s. Our piece highlights different stimuli for dissent and opposition in the Eastern bloc, drawing attention to three strands that helped to inform political activism. First, it discusses the way in which various forms of dissident Marxism informed critiques of ‘actually existing socialism’ and helped activists to envision alternative ways of organizing society and state. Second, it emphasizes intersections between different actors and motivations, including links between the labour movement and forms of activism that have sometimes been categorized as ‘new social movements’. Third, it notes the relevance of transnational inspirations and alliances, with a particular consideration of those that cut across the two power blocs. As a whole, the essay establishes the broader context for the case studies of activism and dissent that feature in this special journal issue.

Intense laser matter interaction in atoms, finite systems and condensed media: recent experiments and theoretical advances

This special issue of the European Journal of Physics: Special Topics entitled “Intense Laser Matter Interaction in Atoms, Finite Systems and Condensed Media” published a set of 21 articles aiming to put in perspective this burgeoning area of science, application and technology. The invention of chirped pulse amplification by Strickland and Mourou, which led to their Nobel prizes in 2018, has ushered in a new era in photon–matter interaction where coherent intense light pulses in the optical and infrared domains play a central role. This development has not only called in creative experimental methods, but has demanded new theoretical approaches working in the non-perturbative and highly nonlinear regimes of light–matter interaction. Both for fundamental physics as well as key applications these have played an essential role. Key pillars of this subject, captured in this collection, are laser-induced nanometer-scale plasmas ignited in unsupported nanoparticles, laser-based particle acceleration taking advantage of unprecedented field gradients, the generation of high-order harmonics opening up attosecond science and ultrafast X-ray spectroscopy, and the generation of terahertz pulses for time-domain spectroscopy of new materials.

Editorial introduction to J.UCS special issue Challenges for Smart Environments – Human-Centered Computing, Data Science, and Ambient Intelligence I

Editorial introduction to J.UCS special issue Challenges for Smart Environments – Human-Centered Computing, Data Science, and Ambient Intelligence I

Digital food culture, power and everyday life

Food and digital culture are mutually implicated in contemporary processes of knowledge production and power contestation around the world. Our introduction and the papers in this special issue of the European Journal of Cultural Studies seek to draw out the distinctions, parallels and overlaps across food and the digital to offer critical insights into digital food culture’s capacities, paradoxes and impacts on everyday life. We ask a series of questions fundamentally focused on issues of power that signal a critical concern for the (re)production and circulation of inequality within the food and digital nexus. For us and the authors here, Cultural Studies is particularly fertile ground from which to analyse digital food culture precisely because of the discipline’s commitment to critiquing power and inequality and its subsequent capacity to illuminate everyday digital food politics and their social, cultural and ethical impacts. This article presents and highlights key questions—and introduces related concepts and theoretical debates—that drive this research agenda. In addition, we address the ways the issue’s papers connect to digital food culture and power after COVID-19. We conclude with a summary of the articles in the issue and their contributions to digital food culture research and cultural studies more broadly.

Biophysical Reviews' "Meet the Councilor"-a profile of Anastasia A. Anashkina.

As one of the twelve Councilors of the International Union of Pure and Applied Biophysics elected in summer 2021, I have been asked to provide this short biographical sketch for the journal readers. I am a new member of the IUPAB Council. I hold a specialist degree in Applied Physics and Mathematics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and PhD in Biophysics from Moscow State University. I have spent my entire professional career at Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, where I am currently a senior researcher. I am Associate Professor at the Digital Health Institute of the I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University since 2018, and have trained undergraduate students in structural biology, biophysics, and bioinformatics. In addition, I serve as the Guest Editor of special journal issues of International Journal of Molecular Sciences and Frontiers in Genetics BMC genomics. Now I joined Biophysical Reviews Editorial Board as IUPAB Councilor. I am a Secretary of National Committee of Russian Biophysicists, and have helped to organize scientific conferences and workshops, such as the VI Congress of Russian Biophysicists.

Glycoconjugate journal special issue on: the glycobiology of Parkinson's disease.

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder that affects over 10 million aging people worldwide. This condition is characterized by the degeneration of dopaminergic neurons in the pars compacta region of the substantia nigra (SNpc) and by aggregation of proteins, commonly α-synuclein (SNCA). The formation of Lewy bodies that encapsulate aggregated proteins in lipid vesicles is a hallmark of PD. Glycosylation of proteins and neuroinflammation are involved in the pathogenesis. SNCA has many posttranslational modifications and interacts with components of membranes that affect aggregation. The large membrane lipid dolichol accumulates in the brain upon age and has a significant effect on membrane structure. The replacement of dopamine and dopaminergic neurons are at the forefront of therapeutic development. This review examines the role of membrane lipids, glycolipids, glycoproteins and dopamine in the aggregation of SNCA and development of PD. We discuss the SNCA-dopamine-neuromelanin-dolichol axis and the role of membranes in neuronal stem cells that could be a regenerative therapy for PD patients.

Guest Editorial Introduction to the Special Issue on the 2021 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC)

The International Technical Program Committee (ITPC) of the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) selects outstanding articles from the papers presented at the conference and invites the authors to submit a manuscript to the special issue of IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC). The manuscripts offer extended materials such as in-depth circuit descriptions, more experimental results, and benchmarking data. The manuscripts subsequently undergo a rigorous review process. This November issue contains the selected papers from the Imagers, MEMS, and Displays (IMMD) and the Technology Directions (TD) subcommittees. Papers from Analog, Data Converters, Power Management, RF, and Wireless subcommittees are included in the December issue. Finally, the January issue will contain papers from Digital Architectures and Systems, Digital Circuits, Machine Learning, Memory, and Wireline subcommittees.

Introduction to the updated Australasian consensus guidelines for the management of invasive fungal disease and use of antifungal agents in the haematology/oncology setting, 2021.

This article introduces the fourth update of the Australian and New Zealand consensus guidelines for the management of invasive fungal disease and use of antifungal agents in the haematology/oncology setting. These guidelines are comprised of nine articles as presented in this special issue of the Internal Medicine Journal. This introductory chapter outlines the rationale for the current update and the steps taken to ensure implementability in local settings. Given that 7 years have passed since the previous iteration of these guidelines, pertinent contextual changes that impacted guideline content and recommendations are discussed, including the evolution of invasive fungal disease (IFD) definitions. We also outline our approach to guideline development, evidence grading, review and feedback. Highlights of the 2021 update are presented, including expanded scope to provide more detailed coverage of common and emerging fungi such as Aspergillus and Candida species, and emerging fungi, and a greater focus on the principles of antifungal stewardship. We also introduce an entirely new chapter dedicated to helping healthcare workers convey important concepts related to IFD, infection prevention and antifungal therapy, to patients.

Theorizing Diversity in Management Studies: New Perspectives and Future Directions

AbstractIn this introductory article for the special issue of Journal of Management Studies, entitled ‘Diversity perspective in management: Towards more complex conceptualizations of diversity in management studies’, we highlight thematic research avenues that emerged out of the set of studies accepted for publication. Recognizing that even a set of articles as diverse as those in this special issue cannot realistically represent all new research directions in a field, we identify developing areas in diversity research and call out additional avenues for research. We hope our commentary inspires scholars to unveil new understandings of how diversity affects our organizational and work lives and can contribute to making the world a better place.