This special edition of the Biomedical Journal focuses on experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis, and includes three reviews showing how this model has greatly facilitated our understanding of the pathophysiology of multiple sclerosis. We also highlight a small single center study which suggests that the use of calcium bone substitutes during core decompression surgery may do more harm than ...

The advantages that Internet as a new technology offers to business and individuals can’t be fully exploited without taking under consideration a number of social issues that related with its use. Its global nature makes Internet policy making a challenging task, creating new responsibilities for policy makers world-wide. Apart from the technical (e.g. security, network availability, speed) and...

In this preface to the Journal of Physics A, Special Edition on Random Matrix Theory, we give a review of the main historical developments of random matrix theory. A short summary of the papers that appear in this special edition is also given.

For over 30 years, researchers have studied the social-emotional side of learning disabilities (LD). This article highlights the science-based research on three domains of social skills of children with LD: characteristics, interventions, and the impact of policy. The article concludes with concerns regarding the translation of research on social-emotional factors into practice and the likeliho...

Journal of Health Disparities Research and Practice, Volume 9, Special Edition 1, Summer 2016 The Pursuit of Young Researchers: NIDDK STEP-UP http://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/jhdrp/ Journal of Health Disparities Research and Practice Volume 9, Special Edition 1, Summer 2016, pp. 87-89 © 2011 Center for Health Disparities Research School of Community Health Sciences University of Nevada, Las V...

Welcome to this special edition of Autonomous Robots (AURO) that features some of the papers from the tenth Robotics: Science & Systems (RSS) conference. The conference was held in June 2014 at the University of California, Berkeley. The papers were carefully selected for this edition out of the conference papers that had already gone through a highly competitive selection process. We hope that...

This book takes you on a journey through key changes and development of mental health policy and practice in the UK. By combining case studies, reflections and analysis followed by exercises and examples of further reading, the evolution of contemporary mental health services is described. As a reader you become acquainted with the rationale behind the path of the current policy and implication...

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today, the tourism industry is of a special significance; during the past 50 years , this industry has turned into one of the major actors in the field of international trade as well as providing significant resources for income in most of the developed and developing countries. any country defines an appropriate policy in order to attract foreign tourists. policy making in the field of tourism...