Introduction to the Special Issue: Nanomaterials— Toxicology and medical applications

Introduction to the special issue: sleep in pediatric medical populations.

Children and adolescents with acute and chronic medical conditions such as asthma, juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, and sickle cell disease (SCD) are reported to have more frequent and severe problems with sleep than their healthy peers (Passarelli et al., 2006; Yuksel et al., 2007). Multiple factors, including both acute and chronic pain (Palermo, 2000), underlying disease processes, concurrent ...

Introduction to Special Issue

Although recent frameworks for test validation have emphasized utilization as a key component (e.g. Bachman & Palmer, 2010; Chapelle, 2012; Kane, 1992), what happens in the sometimes messy contexts where assessments are carried out is often not documented. This is perhaps because test developers are more focused on defining and operationalizing test constructs than on issues of implementation. ...

Introduction to the Special Issue: Mobile Commerce Applications

With the rapid proliferation of mobile devices, including mobile phones, PDAs, and handheld computers, mobile commerce is widely considered to be a driving force for next-generation e-commerce. Many attempted m-commerce applications have failed to meet expectations, however, with the notable exceptions of I-Mode in Japan and the explosive growth of Short Messaging Service in China. It is import...

Introduction to the Special Issue on Shared Control: Applications

Jonas and Cesario Introduction to Special Issue Introduction to the Special Issue: Situated Social Cognition

119 © 2013 Guilford Publications, Inc. Correspondence concerning this paper should be addressed to either Kai Jonas, Department of Social Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Weesperplein 4, 1018XA Amsterdam, The Netherlands, E-mail: [email protected]; or Joseph Cesario, Psychology Department, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA, E-mail: [email protected]. JONAS AND CESARIO INTR...