Innovative materials for energy play an important role in major fields of science and technology, including life and environmental sciences and many interdisciplinary fields. This focus issue contains several reviews and primary research articles devoted to materials for energy conversion (photovoltaic, lighting, solid oxide fuel cells, etc.) and energy harvesting applications. This focus issue...

Interpolation theory is a necessary and crucial tools for many applied engineering sciences. In this paper, we propose a new kind of 2-period interpolation of functions with period 2 at the nodes x k = x k;n = k=n; (k = 0; 1; ; 2n ? 1). We nd out the necessary and suucient conditions for regularity of this new interpolation problem. Moreover, a closed form expression for the interpolation polyn...

With this contribution we would like to remember Chandra M. R. Kintala who passed away in November 2009. We will give short overviews of his CV and his contributions to the field of theoretical and applied computer science and, given the opportunity, will attempt to present the current state of limited nondeterminism and limited resources for machines. Finally, we will briefly touch on some res...

The purposes of the present study were two-fold: first, to evaluate whether reflection journal writing was effective in promoting self-reflection and learning, and whether students become better at self-reflection if they engage continuously in reflection journal writing. To that end, the reflection journals of 690 first-year applied science students at a local polytechnic were studied by means...

Landscape visualization is a useful tool in understanding forest dynamics and in assessing various management practices. However, the application of this technology remains very challenging. We propose criteria for landscape visualization so that users can judge the quality of the visualization. We also identify the challenges in developing visualizations and discuss the limitations and advanta...

the literature has already been a basic component in teaching foreign / second languages curriculum in comparing with other materials, therefore, this forces instructors to use literature for two purposes: first, teaching literature for literature and second , use of literature as a linguistic resource in order to improving language skill of learners, and this is important issue in applied ling...

The editor’s notes in our Journal have been so far a site for the clarification of the Journal’s policy and the task still continues. With an inclination towards solving our real world problems in language teaching (and literary studies, which I will discuss in the next issue of the Journal), we would like to take that the introduction of the concept of “life-world” to Social Sciences can be a ...