METATEM is a simple programming language based on the direct execution of temporal logic statements. It was introduced through a number of papers [35,2,3] culminating in a book collecting together work on the basic temporal language [5]. However, since that time, there has been a programme of research, carried out over a number of years, extending, adapting and applying the basic approach. In p...

This, the November issue, completes the second volume of the Journal of Synchrotron Radiation (JSR). It is timely then to look back over the year and share some of our thoughts with you on the progress of the journal. We set out to establish JSR as the focus of the whole of the synchrotron radiation community and to accept only highquality papers covering sources, instrumentation, methods and a...