Editors' Introduction: Perspectives on Cosmopolitanism

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...

From the Editors: Perspectives on turnaround time.

Guest Editors’ Introduction Special Issue: International Perspectives on Inquiry and Technology

Introduction Preparing young people to successfully use science during the course of their lives requires more than just providing them with a body of factual knowledge. We must also help them develop strategies for continuously acquiring new knowledge and relevant skills in response to the ever changing issues and choices that will confront them. This view of learning holds that students shoul...

Tutorials on Computer Systems Series Editors' Introduction

Healthcare [Guest editors' introduction]

W e’re moving closer to realizing pervasive computing devices that can monitor our health status, both individually and as a community. Imagine what doctors could do with ECG data collected on a more regular basis, as people carry on their daily activities. The ability to monitor day-to-day heart data would profoundly affect how the medical community tracks our individual health status. Likewis...