Editorial: A Golden Age for Strontium Isotope Research? Current Advances in Paleoecological and Archaeological Research

Editorial: the golden age of consumer research

Twentieth century retail innovator John Wanamaker lamented that ‘‘Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don’t know which half.’’ This all changed radically in the opening years of the twenty first century when search giant Google applied Garfield’s [1] bibliometric tools to advertising. Google takes cues from keywords input to its core search engine, and translates t...

Editorial: Advances in Ascochyta Research

Guest Editorial: Advances in Web Services Research

Research on Web Services and Services Computing began shortly after the start of the new millennium and with the first major research conference on the subject, the International Conference on Web Services, starting in 2003. Due to the new and practical utility of Web service technology, many researchers began to work in this field. New ideas, applications and related technologies continue to i...

Editorial: Advances in Parasitic Weed Research

Over 4,000 plant species parasitize other plants to obtain water and nutrients. A few of these species have become weedy posing a tremendous threat to agriculture. The most damaging to annual crops are the root parasitic weeds, particularly broomrapes (Orobanche and Phelipanche spp.) and witchweeds (Striga spp.), which are extended over large agricultural areas in Europe, Africa and Asia. A pro...

Golden age of family medicine research.

T his month marks the 20th anniversary of the Section of Researchers (SOR) of the College of Family Physicians of Canada and an opportunity for real celebration. During these 20 years the family medicine research enterprise in Canada has grown enormously and arguably is now coming of age. Before the 1990s family medicine research was mainly a cottage industry, with a handful of professional res...