scholarly journals Special Issue “New Frontiers in Parameterized Complexity and Algorithms”: Foreward by the Guest Editors

Algorithms ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 236
Author(s):  
Neeldhara Misra ◽  
Frances Rosamond ◽  
Meirav Zehavi
Keyword(s):  
Parameterized Complexity ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
Research Challenges ◽  
New Directions ◽  
New Research

This Special Issue contains eleven articles—surveys and research papers—that represent fresh and ambitious new directions in the area of Parameterized Complexity. They provide ground-breaking research at the frontiers of knowledge, and they contribute to bridging the gap between theory and practice. The scope and impact of the field continues to increase. Promising avenues and new research challenges are highlighted in this Special Issue.

Making children’s ‘agency’ visible: Towards the localisation of a concept in theory and practice

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 200-211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Edmonds
Keyword(s):  
Social Development ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Cultural Assumptions ◽  
Analytic Tool ◽  
Cultural Systems ◽  
Children’S Agency ◽  
Development Policies ◽  
Cultural Terms ◽  
New Directions ◽  
New Research

The concept of ‘agency’ is regularly put forward as an analytic tool to help understand, evaluate and act upon places around the world, through social development policies and programmes ostensibly designed to support or increase children’s agency. This article reflects on empirical research into children’s agency spanning a range of international contexts over two decades and offers new insights through critical engagement with a growing body of work on the ‘localisation’ of social development and humanitarian responses in international settings. It suggests that the largely normative ways in which the concept of agency is invoked as an analytic tool for understanding human experience universally effectively renders children’s agency invisible to us. This is because it is more a description of a particular discourse than something which actually helps us to understand and make visible children’s socio-culturally grounded ‘agentic practice’ from place to place. This article argues for new directions in research and practice to localise agency that are critical to the central commitments of interpretive social science. These new directions include (a) a new research agenda which can go beyond children’s ‘own perspectives’ to the discovery, description and analysis of agency in socio-cultural terms, to ensure it can function as an analytic tool for learning about socio-cultural phenomena which help animate local concepts of agency; and (b) the development of agency-related policies and programmes that are grounded in such locally situated concepts of agency developed through understanding local socio-cultural systems rather than externally derived socio-cultural assumptions about childhood and children’s agency.

scholarly journals Agricultural cooperatives in netchains

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Iliopoulos ◽  
M.L. Cook ◽  
F. Chaddad
Keyword(s):  
Policy Implications ◽  
Agricultural Cooperatives ◽  
Scholarly Work ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
Research Themes ◽  
Multi Stakeholder ◽  
New Research ◽  
Empirical Approaches

This special issue of the Journal on Chain and Network Science on ‘Agricultural cooperatives in netchains’ includes new research on three research themes: (1) explanation of why are cooperatives particularly important in certain food netchains; (2) willingness of farmers to invest in their cooperative’s netchain; and (3) the role of ambidexterity in the emergence of multi-stakeholder cooperatives. The issue is organized into six papers; one editorial and five research papers. The findings reported in this issue inform scholarly work on agricultural cooperatives through multiple theoretical lenses and empirical approaches. They also have important managerial and public policy implications.

Histories of sexology today: Reimagining the boundaries of scientia sexualis

2020 ◽  
pp. 095269512092717
Author(s):  
Kirsten Leng ◽  
Katie Sutton
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Human Subjects ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Us ◽  
New Directions ◽  
Cold War Era ◽  
East And West ◽  
New Research ◽  
Geographical Locations

The historiography of sexology is young. It is also expanding at a remarkable pace, both in terms of the volume of publications and, more notably, in terms of its geographical, disciplinary, and intersectional reach. This special issue takes stock of these new directions, while offering new research contributions that expand our understanding of the interdisciplinary and transnational formation of this field from the late 19th through to the mid 20th century. The five articles that make up this special issue stage historiographical interventions by challenging the tendency within sexological history to focus on the medical, the homosexual, the human, and the Western European at the expense of other disciplines, diagnoses, non-human subjects, and geographical locations. A particular strength of these contributions is their focus on mapping conversations among and between sexologists on both sides of the Atlantic in the early to mid 20th century – particularly in Germany, Britain, and the US – and between East and West in the early Cold War era.

scholarly journals Vitamin D and Human Health

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michal A. Zmijewski
Keyword(s):  
Vitamin D ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Skeletal System ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
The Past ◽  
Overwhelming Evidence ◽  
New Directions ◽  
Insight Into

Vitamin D is currently one of the hottest topics in research and clinics, as well as in everyday life. Over the past decades, scientists gathered overwhelming evidence indicating that the observed global vitamin D deficiency not only has a negative impact on human skeletal system, but also facilitates development and progression of multiple disease of civilization, including cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, autoimmune disease, and cancer. This Special Issue, entitled “Vitamin D and Human Health”, summarizes recent advances in our understanding of pleiotropic activity of vitamin D in the form of eight comprehensive reviews. Furthermore, eight research papers provide new insight into vitamin D research and highlight new directions.

scholarly journals Themes Across New Directions in Community Engagement

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (19) ◽  
pp. 3724
Author(s):  
Shannon M. Cruz
Keyword(s):  
Community Engagement ◽  
Environmental Protection Agency ◽  
Environmental Communication ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Environmental Research ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Superfund Sites ◽  
Environmental Health Sciences ◽  
New Directions ◽  
New Research

The articles in this special issue on New Directions in Environmental Communication in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health present new research and perspectives on engaging communities impacted by Superfund sites—the hazardous waste sites that have been identified by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as needing cleanup. In particular, these articles focus on the community engagement cores (CECs) that work with affected communities as part the Superfund Research Program at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS). The purpose of this closing article is to highlight important themes evident across the eight articles in the special issue. When considered together, the findings reveal important lessons learned about community engagement and environmental communication, but also reveal that much more remains to be known. Recommendations are made for how these teams can continue to practice, reflect on, and research community engagement in ways that build toward a better understanding and implementation of best practices.

Editorial: Special Issue on Serving and Managing Users in a Heterogeneous B3G Wireless World—Requirements, New Research Challenges, Emerging Solutions

2007 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Panagiotis Demestichas ◽  
Angeliki Alexiou ◽  
Joseph Marcos Katz ◽  
Djamal-Eddine Meddour ◽  
Knud Erik Skouby
Keyword(s):  
Special Issue ◽  
Research Challenges ◽  
Editorial Special Issue ◽  
New Research

scholarly journals Navigating the Terrain of Entrepreneurship Education in Neoliberal Societies

2020 ◽  
pp. 251512742093544
Author(s):  
Karin Berglund ◽  
Ulla Hytti ◽  
Karen Verduijn
Keyword(s):  
Entrepreneurship Education ◽  
Identity Work ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
New Directions ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Research And Education ◽  
New Research ◽  
The Right ◽  
Entrepreneurial Society ◽  
Ethical Perspectives

This article offers reflections based on the special issue on unsettling entrepreneurship education (EEP 3(3)) in which contributions have resisted the tendency to see students as consumers with the ‘right’ to take part in entrepreneurship education (EE) so as to effectively shape their enterprising selves. Here we resume our editorial discussions of what unsettling entrepreneurship education could mean for us – as entrepreneurship researchers and as teachers – and seek to mark out new directions both for research and education by reflecting upon ethical perspectives, identity work, and how EE can be seen to create an affective and emotional workspace. These aspects not only invite us to ask new research questions, but may also challenge our position as teachers in EE and invite us to reflect upon our view of students. To frame the need of continuous reflection, when navigating the terrain of EE in neoliberal society, we both take off and arrive in the current Covid-19 pandemic and suggest that this crisis can teach us something as valuable as ‘standing still’, which helps us all to reconsider what kind of entrepreneurial society that we build together with our students in entrepreneurship education.

Touchy-Feely History: The ‘Stuff’ of American Culture

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-18
Author(s):  
Lauren Rebecca Sklaroff
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Race And Ethnicity ◽  
The Body ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Historical Significance ◽  
Research Perspectives ◽  
Economic Trends ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
New Research

This state of the field essay examines recent trends in American Cultural History, focusing on music, race and ethnicity, material culture, and the body. Expanding on key themes in articles featured in the special issue of Cultural History, the essay draws linkages to other important literatures. The essay argues for more a more serious consideration of the products within popular culture, less as a reflection of social or economic trends, rather for their own historical significance. While the essay examines some classic texts, more emphasis is on work published within the last decade. Here, interdisciplinary methods are stressed, as are new research perspectives developing by non-western historians.

Journal of Technical and Natural Sciences 4(13), 2019/ OEAPS Inc.(Open European Academy of Public Sciences); Chief Editor Vitaly Yakovlev- Berlin, Germany. 26.05.2019: OEAPS Inc., 2019. - 74 P. ISBN: 9781075497858

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