Editorial: Understanding Selfies

Editorial: Understanding Selfies

From Camera to Deathbed: Understanding Dangerous Selfies on Social Media

Selfie culture has emerged as a ubiquitous instrument for selfportrayal in recent years. To portray themselves differently and attractive to others, individuals may risk their life by clicking selfies in dangerous situations. Consequently, selfies have claimed 137 lives around the world since March 2014 until December 2016. In this work, we perform a comprehensive analysis of the reported selfi...

Editorial: Understanding and Measuring Recovery

In 2003, 25 years after Rosalynn Carter chaired the first Presidential Commission on Mental Health, she testified before the New FreedomCommission onMental Health, chaired by Michael Hogan. When asked what the greatest advance had been in the intervening years, she said it was adopting the belief that people with serious mental illness could recover. As heterogeneous as people with schizophreni...

Guest Editorial: Medical Image Understanding and Analysis

The Medical Image Understanding and Analysis (MIUA) conference series which began in Oxford in 1997 has become the main UK meeting for discussion and dissemination of research progress in image analysis applied to medicine and the biological sciences. In July 2008 we had the pleasure of hosting the 12th MIUA at the University of Dundee. The conference programme included fifty-one full papers fr...

Understanding Adaptive Capacity in Forest Governance: Editorial

INTRODUCTION AND THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK: UNDERSTANDING ADAPTIVE CAPACITY The term adaptive capacity has often been used to indicate the role that various factors may play in determining the extent to which adaptation to climate change different actions to deal with the consequences of climate change is possible. While the focus on adaptive capacity has been pronounced within climate change liter...