scholarly journals Autofluorescence Spectroscopy and Imaging II: A Special Issue Aimed to Promote Optically Based Studies on Biological Substrates

Photochem ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Anna C. Croce
Keyword(s):  
Special Issue ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Autofluorescence Spectroscopy ◽  
Biological Substrates

The Journal Molecules, in particular the Photochemistry Section, and the younger Journal Photochem are active in promoting the advances and practical applications based on the interaction of light with the various biological substrates from both animal and vegetal systems [...]

Comments on the special issue

2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-212
Author(s):  
Paul McGhee
Keyword(s):  
Physical Health ◽  
Training Program ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Sense Of Humor ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
The Brain

Abstract This article includes comments on each contributing author’s article in this special issue of Humor. The articles represent an assessment of McGhee’s research, work on practical applications or influence in the following areas: 1) the development of children’s humor, 2) construction and validation of the Sense of Humor Scale (SHS), 3) usefulness of specific subscales of the SHS, including “playfulness” and “laughing at yourself,” 4) development and evaluation of the 7 Humor Habits Program—a training program for learning to use humor to cope with stress, 5) humor’s impact on physical health and emotional well being, 6) impact on the field of nursing, and 7) humor and the brain. McGhee provides here his response to each contributed article.

scholarly journals Autofluorescence spectroscopy and imaging: a tool for biomedical research and diagnosis

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.C. Croce ◽  
G. Bottiroli
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Community ◽  
Data Interpretation ◽  
Near Ir ◽  
Endogenous Fluorophores ◽  
Biological Substrate ◽  
Autofluorescence Spectroscopy ◽  
Uv Visible ◽  
Biological Substrates ◽  
Relationship Of

Native fluorescence, or autofluorescence (AF), consists in the emission of light in the UV-visible, near-IR spectral range when biological substrates are excited with light at suitable wavelength. This is a well-known phenomenon, and the strict relationship of many endogenous fluorophores with morphofunctional properties of the living systems, influencing their AF emission features, offers an extremely powerful resource for directly monitoring the biological substrate condition. Starting from the last century, the technological progresses in microscopy and spectrofluorometry were convoying attention of the scientific community to this phenomenon. In the future, the interest in the autofluorescence will certainly continue. Current instrumentation and analytical procedures will likely be overcome by the unceasing progress in new devices for AF detection and data interpretation, while a progress is expected in the search and characterization of endogenous fluorophores and their roles as intrinsic biomarkers.

scholarly journals Towards developing multimodal literacies in the ESP classroom: methodological insights and practical applications

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Belinda Crawford Camiciottoli ◽  
Inmaculada Fortanet-Gómez
Keyword(s):  
English For Specific Purposes ◽  
Knowledge Dissemination ◽  
Multimodal Approach ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Multimodal Literacy ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Innovative Research ◽  
Research Perspectives ◽  
Literacy Research

Abstract In this article, we provide an introduction to this special issue of Multimodal Communication entitled “Multimodal approaches in ESP: Innovative research and practice”. The Special Issue showcases innovative research presented at the 2019 International Conference on Knowledge Dissemination and Multimodal Literacy: Research Perspectives on ESP in a Digital Age. After briefly discussing the multimodal approach in language teaching and specifically in English for Specific Purposes (ESP) and its key role in developing multimodal competence, each of the five featured contributions is previewed. The contributions offer theoretically grounded and research-informed applications of the multimodal approach in the ESP classroom.

scholarly journals Applied Sciences Special Issue: Ultrasonic Guided Waves

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (18) ◽  
pp. 3869 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clifford J. Lissenden
Keyword(s):  
Applied Sciences ◽  
Scientific Inquiry ◽  
Guided Waves ◽  
Ultrasonic Guided Waves ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Material State ◽  
Characterization Of Materials ◽  
Nondestructive Characterization

The propagation of ultrasonic guided waves in solids is an important area of scientific inquiry due primarily to their practical applications for the nondestructive characterization of materials, such as nondestructive inspection, quality assurance testing, structural health monitoring, and for achieving material state awareness [...]

scholarly journals Special Issue: New Horizon of Plasmonics and Metamaterials

Materials ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 1756
Author(s):  
Shinpei Ogawa ◽  
Masafumi Kimata
Keyword(s):  
Electromagnetic Waves ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
New Horizons ◽  
Fundamental Knowledge ◽  
Recent Advances ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Remarkable Progress

Plasmonics and metamaterials are growing fields that consistently produce new technologies for controlling electromagnetic waves. Many important advances in both fundamental knowledge and practical applications have been achieved in conjunction with a wide range of materials, structures and wavelengths, from the ultraviolet to the microwave regions of the spectrum. In addition to this remarkable progress across many different fields, much of this research shares many of the same underlying principles, and so significant synergy is expected. This Special Issue introduces the recent advances in plasmonics and metamaterials and discusses various applications, while addressing a wide range of topics in order to explore the new horizons emerging for such research.

scholarly journals Advances of Italian Machine Design

Machines ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ceccarelli ◽  
Carbone
Keyword(s):  
Machine Design ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
International Collaborations ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Italian Community

This Special Issue is aimed to promote and circulate recent developments and achievements in the field of Mechanism and Machine Science coming from the Italian community with international collaborations and ranging from theoretical contributions to experimental and practical applications [...]

Special Issue on “What can We do for Developing Search and Rescue Robot?”

2014 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 435-435
Author(s):  
Koichi Osuka
Keyword(s):  
Research And Development ◽  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Disaster Response ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Response System ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Response Systems ◽  
Rescue Robots

As a disaster-prone country, Japan has endured many earthquake disasters. The latest cases include the 1995 Great Hanshin-Awaji earthquake disaster, the 2004 Niigata Chuetsu earthquake, and the 2011 Great East Japan earthquake. Since the 1995 Great Hanshin-Awaji earthquake in particular, many robot researchers have started undertaking the research and development of rescue robots. Their practical applications have a long way to go, so to continue ongoing robot research and development, we should also be aware that comparatively few researchers and engineers are actually engaged in such research and development. Great earthquakes (or tsunami) are both rare and unpredictable, which makes it very difficult to establish research policies for rescue robots intended for specialized use in disaster response. We should also realize that Japan is almost constantly hit by one or another every year – e.g., the typhoons that hit Japan directly every year and themselves triggering other disasters caused by landslides or avalanches due to heavy rainfall. The Japanese populace is so accustomed to such happenings but, nevertheless, few actions have been taken unlike those against large-scale earthquakes. It is often said that an effective disaster response system can only be developed after we have experienced many actual disasters. It then occurs to us that we must first construct disaster response systems – rescue robots, etc. – directly targeting daily natural disasters. Any large-scale disaster response system can be built on such constant efforts. On the other hand, any disaster response system against daily natural disasters could only be developed by locally domiciled researchers and engineers. This makes us feel that it is possible to increase the number of personnel who become involved in disaster response research and development. Based on the above context, this special issue provides a wide range of articles on region-specific disasters and disaster response actions, focusing on their localities and specialties. We sincerely hope that this special issue will help in promoting research and development on rescue robots and putting them to practical use.

scholarly journals Pattern, process, inference and prediction in extinction biology

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 20160828 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barry W. Brook ◽  
John Alroy
Keyword(s):  
Natural Science ◽  
Evolutionary History ◽  
Extinction Risk ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Effective Protection ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Patterns And Processes

Extinction is a key feature of the evolutionary history of life, and assessments of extinction risk are essential for the effective protection of biodiversity. The goal in assembling this special issue of Biology Letters was to highlight problems and questions at the research frontier of extinction biology, with an emphasis on recent developments in the methodology of inferring the patterns and processes of extinction from a background of often noisy and sparse data. In selecting topics, we sought to illustrate how extinction is not simply a self-evident phenomenon, but the subject of a dynamic and quantitatively rigorous field of natural science, with practical applications to conservation.

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