Editorial to the special section on intergenerational relations

Special Section Guest Editorial

In recent years there has been a strong trend to enhance traditional research techniques in neuroscience with opticalbased techniques. The trend is evident on every level of neuroscience research, spatially spanning submicron to centimeters and temporally spanning submillisecond to seconds. Optical techniques are attractive because they enable researchers to study brain function from the smalle...

Special Section Editorial Preface

This special section of the International Journal of E-Business Research contains a selection of the best papers published in the E-Commerce Technologies track (ECT) of the 20th Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2005) held in Santa Fe, New Mexico on March 17, 2005. The ECT track has been held as part of SAC since 2003. The last years have seen an exponential growth and dramatic changes in the...

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Guest Editorial Special Section on Microgrids

M ICROGRIDS, in particular, and smart grids, in general, are new emerging power distribution infrastructures with prominent potentials among them are realization of demand response and efficient energy consumption, integration of distributed energy resources (DERs), and high-reliability electricity delivery. DERs encompass combined heat and power, small wind turbine, photovoltaic sets, heat or ...

Guest Editorial: Special Section on Sensors

Date of publication: 9 December 2013 T he activist group Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering (CASPIAN) was founded in 1999 by Katherine Albrecht. The very same year Kevin Ashton, co-founder and executive director of the then Auto-ID Center at M.I.T., made a presentation to Proctor & Gamble with a title that included the phrase “Internet of Things.” According to Ashton, ...