Contemplative Practices and Hypnosis: Emerging Perspectives and Future Directions

E-commerce Entrepreneurship: Emerging Practices, Key Challenges and Future Directions

Introduction The rise of the World Wide Web and electronic commerce has created one of the most challenging environments for entrepreneurship in recent history. Market needs and the technology required to meet those needs can change even while the product or service is still being developed (Iansiti and MacCormak, 1997). This framework demands that founders of organizations strive for "relentle...

Youth resistance training: past practices, new perspectives, and future directions.

Since the publication of the seminal review on youth resistance training by Kraemer and colleagues in 1989, a compelling body of evidence has found that resistance training can be a safe, effective, and worthwhile method of conditioning for children and adolescents. New perspectives for promoting resistance exercise as part of a long-term approach to youth physical development highlight the imp...

Granular Computing: Practices, Theories, and Future Directions

Regenerative nanomedicine: current perspectives and future directions

Nanotechnology has considerably accelerated the growth of regenerative medicine in recent years. Application of nanotechnology in regenerative medicine has revolutionized the designing of grafts and scaffolds which has resulted in new grafts/scaffold systems having significantly enhanced cellular and tissue regenerative properties. Since the cell-cell and cell-matrix interaction in biological s...

“Vaccine Diplomacy”: Historical Perspectives and Future Directions

1 Sabin Vaccine Institute and Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, Departments of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology and Microbiology, National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, 2 Departments of Medical Humanities and Biology, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, United States of America, 3 James A. Baker III Inst...