The primary goals of this Special Issue are to encourage readers to become more familiar with the range of mind-body therapies and to explore their application in the pediatric clinical setting. The Special Issue includes a deliberate mix of case studies and practical clinical guidance, with the dual goals of piquing curiosity and providing resources for clinicians interested in pursuing furthe...

Lynn Margulis in the 1960s elegantly proposed a shared phylogenetic history between bacteria and mitochondria; this relationship has since become a cornerstone of modern cellular biology. Yet, an interesting facet of the interaction between the microbiome and mitochondria has been mostly ignored, that of the systems biology relationship that underpins host health and longevity. The mitochondria...

goal words (e.g., ‘‘equality,’’ ‘‘thin’’) significantly predicted their success at pursuing those goals, and sometimes did so above and beyond participants’ explicit (i.e., intentional, conscious) ratings of the desirability of the goals (Ferguson, 2007). Together, these findings suggest that successful goal pursuit (e.g. refusing a fattening snack), may at times depend on people’s ‘‘snap’’ eva...

Internationalization of higher education includes recruiting international students, collaborating on joint programs, pursuing accreditation, becoming world-class universities, developing quality assurance systems, and establishing an educational hub. Foreign campuses are one the most common models internationalization. The purpose this article is to study evaluate experience United Arab Emirat...