Guest editorial—Simulation for training

Guest Editorial: Rethinking research training.

Guest Editorial: Reflections on Medical Physics Training

The process of tightening qualifications to sit for ABR certification exams in subspecialties of medical physics is reaching the end of its arc. Predictably, this has sparked renewed hue and cry from individuals who would prefer to be offered lucrative careers without being held to those higher standards, as evidenced by a recent discussion thread on the electronic networking site LinkedIn. I o...

Guest Editor\'s Note

Although Occupational Therapy in Iran is relatively a new profession, it has been well progressed, providing various services for people with all kinds of disabilities. As such, in the last decades, OT has been recognized as the major demand in all governmental, private and NGO sectors. Due to this demand, occupational therapy training programs have been increased from three into ten, expecting...

GUEST EDITORS’ INTRODUCTION Training Nonhuman Primates Using Positive Reinforcement Techniques

Training nonhuman primates to cooperate with routine scientific, husbandry, and veterinary procedures is recommended as good practice by many legislative and professional guidelines (Home Office, 1989; International Primatological Society, 1989). Despite this, the scientific literature on this topic is sparse and disparate, and training is not used as widely as it might be. This may be due to t...

Guest Editorial: Nanophotonics for Communications

The communication industry has been the major driving force behind the extraordinary progress made in photonics that contributed to an age of information explosion over the past two decades. In the recent past, scientific breakthroughs have brought tremendous momentum to this field of research and we have observed an outbreak of interest in nanoscale materials and devices with revolutionary app...