SPECIAL FEATURE SECTION: NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN PROCESS RESEARCH

Special Section: Recent Trends in Diabetes Research

Preface to Special Section on Student Research in Informatics and Information Technologies

We are pleased to present a collection of papers on various topics within the area of Informatics and Information Technologies (IIT). The whole collection has been authored by students. We approached selected authors of papers originally presented at the annual IIT Student Research Conference, IIT.SRC 2011 which was organized by the Slovak University of Technology and attended by its students s...

Editorial: Special Section on Social Web Technologies in E-Learning

Welcome to the last 2011 issue of the IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies. As you can see, this issue includes a special section devoted to using social web technologies in e-learning. Unlike other special sections, which were scheduled in advance and managed by guest editors, this section was not planned. Yet, with the overall popularity of social web technologies and the increased inte...

SPECIAL SECTION: THE ASSIMILATION MODEL Assimilation and the process of outcome: Introduction to a special section

The four articles in this special section explored the relation of assimilation to psychotherapy outcome conventionally construed as change in symptom intensity and distress. One study used a contrasting groups design (Detert, Llewelyn, Hardy, Barkham, & Stiles, 2006), and the other three used intensive analyses of single cases, including two good-outcome cases, Karen (Stiles et al., 2006) and ...

Special Section on Next Generation Broadband Access Technologies

Existing broadband access systems include ADSL over metallic wires, optical media converters, B-PON, GE-PON, and G-PON systems. Recent innovations such as the higher speed systems of 10G-PON, 10GEPON, and WDM-PON are receiving a lot of attention, and low cost and mass production technologies for high speed wide bandwidth systems should be developed. New optical access network architecture also ...