Special Issue on trade and health: Introduction

Introduction to Special Issue on Globalisation, Culture and Mental Health

Introduction to special issue on burnout and health.

Abstract In recent years, the issue of occupational stress and burnout have received increasing research attention. Given the amount of time people spend on work-related activities and the central importance of work to one's sense of identity and self-worth, it is not surprising that occupational stress is regarded as a central area of study. Although burnout is linked to the extensive litera...

Introduction: special issue on cathodoluminescence.

Cathodoluminescence ~CL! microanalysis provides high-sensitivity spectra and high-resolution images associated with impurity and structural defects at the nanoscale and from luminescent materials including minerals, semiconductor, and dielectric/insulating materials. Cathodoluminescence is the non-incandescent emission of light ~photons! emitted from materials excited by an electron beam. CL ph...

Introduction to the Special Issue on Cloud for Health

It is a pleasure to present this special issue covering subjects related to applying cloud computing to bioinformatics, biomedicine, and health, including solutions to area problems and architectural adaptation of cloud systems to fit those problems. The special issue includes papers selected from the workshops C4Bio 2014 and CCGrid-Health 2014 that, after further extension and additional revie...

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. ...