Editorial: Marine Pollution - Emerging Issues and Challenges

Susceptibility of Sardinella lemuru to emerging marine microplastic pollution

Marine microplastics are emerging pollutants that impact across levels of marine food chain at a global scale. Its presence was determined on Sardinella lemuru, a commercial pelagic fish that are harvested generally in the Northern Mindanao, consumed locally, and exported worldwide as bottled or canned sardine products.  The stomach contents of 600 sardines were examined visually under...

EDITORIAL : Emerging Zoonoses : Tackling the Challenges

The grand challenges in marine pollution research

INTRODUCTION Given the importance of oceans to humankind and the increasing pressure they are under, it is timely to identify and prioritize oceanic health issues that are covered in their ill-defined state by “marine pollution” (MP). MP increasingly leads to disturbances of the oceanic environment and its biota and adversely affects environmental and human health. Pollutants may have various b...

Editorial Challenges

  Editorial Challenges abound as to the journals in Persian, which here I will refer to some of them. However, many of these challenges are concerned with all journals. The main problem which most articles suffer is neglecting the three elements of articles' necessity, purpose and benefit by their writers. Sometimes, one, two or all three of these elements are neglected, or little attention ...

Sandwich Generation Issues and Challenges

Today, with the increase in the elderly population and life expectancy, the need to use care services for this significant part of the population is increasing. Beliefs, cultures, and social norms among different ethnicities and races are vital in the extent and nature of care. Two types of care exist, informal and formal. According to statistics by the Secretariat of the National Council on Ag...