Strategic change, special conference edition

Prologue to the WISA 2008 Conference Special Edition

The Water Institute of Southern Africa (WISA) held its first conference in 1989 in Cape Town. The most recent and 10th Biennial WISA Conference was held in May 2008 at Sun City, South Africa. The WISA 2008 conference theme, ‘Confluence of the Water Industry’ set the scene for a wide range of presentations with regards to the South African water industry and research in related fields. In keepin...

Special Edition: Editorial

It is surprising that over 60 years have elapsed since the first use of influenza vaccines, yet with the advances in biotechnology that have occurred in the interim, the majority of the influenza vaccines that we use today are still non-living viral antigens produced in a relatively uncontrolled substrate, the embryonated chicken egg. It is also surprising that the impact of seasonal influenza ...

MJM Special Abstract Edition

Investigation of positional and orientational contributions to visual shape integration in amblyopic patients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .93 Richard Dallala, Robert Hess, Behzad Mansouri, Yi-Zhong Wang Nrf2 and Cul3 are potential biomarkers for the evaluation of chemoresistant breast cancer . . . . ...

Special 45th Anniversary Edition

Special Issue for 13th International Industrial Engineering Conference (IIEC 2017)

     This special issue is a collection of refereed articles selected from the 13th International Industrial Engineering Conference (IIEC 2017). The initial selection was made by Dr. Hamed Fazlollahtabar who also wrote the following description. The accepted articles were reviewed going through the usual reviewing process of IJOR. Nezam Mahdavi-Amiri Editor-in-Chief &nbs...