Introductory editorial thematic issue: Mediterranean karst hydrogeology

Karst Hydrogeology and Geomorphology

Editorial 7 . 3 : Introduction to the thematic issue

This thematic issue of Language Policy focuses on language education policy in the United States through an examination of how current education reforms are being put into practice in California, Texas, and Florida—the states with the largest numbers of English language learners (ELLs). The source of these recent reforms and the topic for this thematic issue is No Child Left Behind (NCLB), whic...

Editorial Letter for Thematic Issue on Shoulder Pathology

The high impact of common shoulder problems in the patient’s quality of life is already well established. Furthermore, a PubMed search with the keyword “shoulder” provides over 60,000 articles, reflecting the scientific interest on this area. The importance of this “Thematic Issue on Shoulder Pathology” is that it generated the idea of calling both residents, fellows and expert orthopaedic surg...

Guest editorial : Thematic issue on ‘ Adaptive Soft Computing

Personalized Transductive Learning (PTL) builds a unique local model for classification of each test sample and therefore is practically neighborhood dependant, i.e. a specific model is built in a subspace spanned by a set of samples adjacent to the test sample. While existing PTL methods usually define the neighborhood by a predefined (dis)similarity measure, in this paper we introduce a new c...

Introductory Editorial

The Open Journal of Information Systems is a new open-access journal covering all aspects of information systems. In this introductory issue, we present two articles. In the first article, Kessler et al. present new techniques to achieve better anonymity in time series. In the second article, Iivari introduces a new model from which we can derive recommendations to improve the use of social net...