Editorial: Courses of Nature

EDITORIAL. “Horses for courses”

One can organize the myriad techniques for managing sagittal synostosis-induced scaphocephaly in a 2 × 2 table according to dynamic and static techniques on one axis and compressive and decompressive procedures on the other, and perhaps even include a third axis for open extensile versus minimal access exposures. The idea of using a dynamic, minimal access decompressive technique is very appeal...

Editorial: The Social Nature of Emotions

Emotions are a defining aspect of the human condition. They pervade our social and professional lives, influence our thinking and behavior, and profoundly shape our relationships and social interactions. Traditionally, emotions have been conceptualized and studied primarily as individual phenomena, with research focusing on cognitive and expressive components and on physiological and neurologic...

Editorial: Food, Nature, and Health: Dueling Epistemologies

Over the past two decades, the importance of addressing the complexity of the food system in ways that draw on new approaches to knowledge generation and new research paradigms has attracted significant attention (1, 2). This research topic explores the nexus of public health, food systems, food behavior, and food ways, focusing on belief systems, values, assumptions, and relationships to the f...

Editorial: The Global Nature of Health Information Management and Systems.

Editorial: Investigating Human Nature and Communication through Robots

The aim of this research topic was to gather findings and hypothesis on how robotic devices have changed, or may change, ways of communication between people. In the last two decades, people acquired new means for communication; cellphones, e-mail, chat, SNS, and so on. With such communication media, along with the progress in information technologies and devices such as World Wide Web (WWW) an...