Environmental context This special issue is a tribute to Graeme Batley’s career and his many contributions the field of environmental chemistry.

Article history: Received 29 April 2016 Received in revised form 14 January 2017 Accepted 6 February 2017 Available online 31 March 2017 Communicated by L. Smajlovic Tribute to Pulse Victims MSC: 11R39 11F70 11F80

Discusses the relation between cybernetics and architecture and pays tribute to Gordon Pask’s role and influence. Indicates Pask’s contribution to an increasingly environmentally responsive architectural theory that may lead to a more humane and ecologically conscious environment.

This edition of IJPP celebrates ten years of steady publication of Iranian Journal of Plant Physiology. The story of IJPP is that of a journey that started from a local forum where the researchers and scholars mainly from the Islamic Azad University could share findings of their studies, gradually developing into an international peer-reviewed jour...

This Special Issue, focused on the study of different “Mechanisms Adaptation Trees and Shrubs to Dry Hot Environments”, would be a humble tribute A [...]

The statements here presented represent a tribute to David Sassoli and the European values defended by in his discours on Future of Europe included.

This essay evaluates the context and persistence of extractive colonial policies in Peru on contemporary development indicators and political attitudes. Using the 1571 Toledan Reforms—which implemented a system of draft labor and regularized tribute collection—as a point of departure, I build a unique dataset of annual tribute records for 160 districts in the Cuzco, Huamanga, Huancavelica, and ...

As a child growing up in New Haven, CT and Palo Alto, CA, Chi-Bin Chien was so academically gifted that he skipped straight from the third to the eighth grade and, at the unbelievable age of 12, entered Johns Hopkins University as a Physics major. He was accepted to do graduate work in Physics at Caltech at the age of 15 but was considered too young to enter the program, so he took a fellowship...

Richard A. (Dick) Askey1 was born June 4, 1933 in St. Louis, Missouri. He received his PhD at Princeton University in 1961 under the direction of Salomon Bochner. After instructorships at Washington University and the University of Chicago he joined the faculty of the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1963, where he became full professor in 1968. Since 2003 he is Professor Emeritus at that sam...

The American Dental Hygienists' Association (ADHA) central office staff is made up of highly competent individuals who work together for the benefit of our profession. Sometimes it seems as though people take positions with ADHA and stay only long enough to gain experience and build a reputation before moving on to better paying positions somewhere else. This can't be prevented and is an expect...