Editor’s Choice: Perspectives in Mammalogy

From the Editors: Perspectives on turnaround time.

Retina Surgery Global Perspectives Section Editors

C urrently there is no established standard of care for central retinal vein occlusion (CRVO). The conditions that are targeted by current treatments are neovascularization and macular edema. Panretinal photocoagulation (PRP) is accepted as an established treatment for neovascularization, but a consensus has not yet been reached on the indications for and timing of the procedure. Recent large-s...

From the Editors Publishing in Amj—part 1: Topic Choice

At the moment of this writing, there are 64 submissions in the hands of AMJ reviewers, who have been asked to critically evaluate the merits of those submissions relative to the mission and goals of the Journal. Although those reviewers will read their assigned manuscripts carefully and thoughtfully, their recommendations to the action editor will depend, in part, on a choice made years earlier...

Editors’ introduction Functional and corpus perspectives in contrastive discourse analysis

This special issue of Linguistics and the Human Sciences offers a collection of original contributions to the study of languages in contrast from discourse, corpus, and functional perspectives. The papers were presented at the Sixth International Conference on Contrastive Linguistics, held in Berlin 29 September–3 October 2010, in the context of two panels: ‘Discourse analysis and contrastive l...

Mammalogy Lecture 5 -- Disparity in Diversity between Marsupials and Placentals