Introduction to the Special Issue on Partnered Operations and International Law

Family psychology and family law: introduction to the special issue.

As part of a multilevel systemic approach, the authors appearing in this journal suggest implications for social policy and legislation extrapolated from the individual, family, legal, and larger sociocultural systems discussed. The field of family psychology can play a significant leadership role in advocating policies and legislation relevant to the emerging family types and legal dilemmas ba...

Introduction to special issue: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES (Behavioral Sciences and the Law)

Developing countries and international organizations: Introduction to the special issue

We describe four megatrends since the end of the Cold War that relate to developing countries: a greater share of the global economy; more accessible technologies, particularly in communication; breakthroughs in global cooperation in tackling basic human needs; and the evolution of a complex set of problems in spite of the progress. We then examine potential political economy channels that migh...

Introduction to the Special Issue on Binding

In many ways visual processing acts as a prism, splitting visual information from the retinal image into separately processed visual features such as colours, shapes, sizes, or orientations. Binding refers to the set of cognitive and neural mechanisms that re-integrate these features to create a holistic representation of the objects in the visual field. The binding problem in vision refers to ...

Introduction to the Special Issue on Summarization

As the amount of online information increases, systems that can automatically summarize one or more documents become increasingly desirable. Recent research has investigated types of summaries, methods to create them, and methods to evaluate them. Several evaluation competitions (in the style of NIST’s TREC1) have helped determine baseline performance levels and provide a limited set of trainin...