Spheres of sanctuary: introduction to special issue

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. ...

Preface: Introduction to Special Issue

Demands for flexibility, greater variety of products, and advanced production processes complicate the logistics and planning of manufacturing systems; this also increases the number of alternatives that should be formalized in a model. The evaluation of all the possible alternatives of the planning problem is often considered an NP-hard combinatorial problem. Practical problems often contain n...

Introduction to BJS special issue.

The articles in this issue were all commissioned in the immediate aftermath of the UK’s Brexit referendum result in June 2016 and the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States in November 2016 to present a rapid sociological response to the challenges and questions posed by these tumultuous events. Ostensibly these are two very different kinds of political events. The Brexit re...

Jonas and Cesario Introduction to Special Issue Introduction to the Special Issue: Situated Social Cognition

119 © 2013 Guilford Publications, Inc. Correspondence concerning this paper should be addressed to either Kai Jonas, Department of Social Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Weesperplein 4, 1018XA Amsterdam, The Netherlands, E-mail: [email protected]; or Joseph Cesario, Psychology Department, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA, E-mail: [email protected]. JONAS AND CESARIO INTR...

Special issue introduction.