Introduction to Special Issue of Relationship Research in Scandinavia

Introduction to the Special Issue: E-Government in Scandinavia

Introduction to Special Issue

Although recent frameworks for test validation have emphasized utilization as a key component (e.g. Bachman & Palmer, 2010; Chapelle, 2012; Kane, 1992), what happens in the sometimes messy contexts where assessments are carried out is often not documented. This is perhaps because test developers are more focused on defining and operationalizing test constructs than on issues of implementation. ...

Introduction to special issue: ethical dilemmas in social network research

Toward the beginning of the article that leads off this special issue, Rebecca Goolsby recalls a short but intensive burst of messages on the SOCNET listserve1 concerning the ethics of military funding of social-networks research. One of the postings, from Marya Doerfel, a young faculty member at Rutgers, particularly struck me.2 An excerpt follows (reprinted here with the permission of the mes...

Preface: Introduction to Special Issue

Demands for flexibility, greater variety of products, and advanced production processes complicate the logistics and planning of manufacturing systems; this also increases the number of alternatives that should be formalized in a model. The evaluation of all the possible alternatives of the planning problem is often considered an NP-hard combinatorial problem. Practical problems often contain n...

Introduction to the special issue: perspectives on research libraries

Purpose – The aim of this article is to introduce the special issue of Journal of Documentation focusing on perspectives on research libraries. Design/methodology/approach – The paper outlines the theme of the issue and its underlying problems. Findings – The traditional services of research libraries may diffuse to other kinds of institutions. There is, however, a need for information speciali...