Special Issue: Grinding Technology—Commemorating the Scientific Contributions by Professor Stephen Malkin

Special Issue in Honor of Professor Nick Hadjiliadis' Retirement

We are more than happy to see the completion of this special issue. The idea for this issue came from the recognition that bioinorganic chemistry research in Greece has been tremendously developed over the last three decades or so. The obvious reason is that this period has seen significant changes to the Greek chemistry community. New Laws permitted independent research by all the members of t...

Special issue in honor of Professor Bjørn Gjevik

The papers of this special issue discuss smalland meso-scale processes in the ocean and their modeling. They were presented at, or in conjunction to, a symposium, entitled, ‘Topics in geophysical fluid dynamics and renewable energy in the offshore environment’, in celebration of the Norwegian hydrodynamicist and geophysicist, Professor Bjørn Gjevik, on the occasion of his 70th birthday. More th...

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Special Issue: Ribosome-Inactivating Proteins-Commemorative Issue in Honor of Professor Fiorenzo Stirpe.

The family of ribosome-inactivating proteins (RIPs) groups all enzymes (EC.3.2.2.22) with a so-called RIP domain which comprises N-glycosidase activity and enables these proteins to catalytically inactivate ribosomes.[...].

Stephen Hawking's Community-Bound Voice A Functional Investigation of Self-Mentions in Stephen Hawking's Scientific Prose

Thanks to the development of the concept of metadiscourse, it is now widely acknowledged that academic/scientific writing is not only concerned with communicating purely propositional meanings: what is communicated through academic/scientific communication is seen to be intertwined with the negotiation of social and interpersonal meanings. While a large number of so called metadiscoursal resour...