Special issue on challenges in emerging environmental contaminants CEEC19

Special issue on thermodynamics and kinetics of emerging contaminants in the environment.

Special Issue on Environmental Data Mining

Data Mining is the discipline for non trivial identifying of valid, novel, potentially useful, ultimately understandable patterns in data [3] and provides the opportunity to extract relevant decisional knowledge from data bases in any application field. In particular it can contribute to a better understanding of Environmental Sciences. Environmental Sciences is a wide research field with a num...

Environmental pediatrics: an emerging issue.

OBJECTIVE To review the most relevant articles regarding environmental pediatrics, its potential effects on health, and especially its advances in prevention. SOURCES A literature search was conducted using MEDLINE/PubMed and SciELO databases. Articles from 1990 to 2010 were reviewed, in addition to book chapters related to environmental pediatrics. SUMMARY OF THE FINDINGS There is a signif...

Special issue on emerging trends in soft computing: memetic algorithms

In the last few decades, evolutionary algorithms (EAs) have gradually established a strong foothold as powerful search methods in many complex disciplines ranging from arts & design, business & finance to science & engineering. Although well established as credible and powerful search tools, researchers in this area are now facing new challenges of increasing computational needs in today’s appl...

Special issue on IT innovation in emerging economies

Introduction Information and communication technology (ICT) innovation research has concerned itself with researching industrialized high-income regions of the world, with specific reference to large organizations and their innovative abilities. Emerging economies/developing countries have not been considered as a hot bed of innovation. Researchers have preferred to focus on economic and instit...