The journal Human Biology was founded 75 years ago by Raymond Pearl, an eminent biologist and Professor of Biometry and Vital Statistics at Johns Hopkins University. In celebration of the 75th anniversary of the founding of this journal, I was asked by the editorial board to prepare a brief history of Human Biology. In the 1989 special issue titled ‘‘Foundations of Anthropological Genetics,’’ G...

and Technology (ARIST) and the first under my editorship. Readers who are new to ARIST and interested in its purpose and evolution may wish to visit the Web site hosted on the homepage of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST), the parent organization (http://www.asis. org/Publications/ARIST/index.html). For the last twentyfive years ARIST has been expertly edited b...

This article was accepted under the editorship of David A. F. Haaga. This paper is drawn from a doctoral dissertation by the first author, entitled “Parenting and Family Support in Primary Care Settings,” which was supervised by the second author. Special thanks go to Dr. Jan Nicholson, School of Public Health, Queensland University of Technology, who as associate supervisor provided invaluable...

in his brilliant editorship of Population and Development Review, Paul demeny encouraged both types of research on demographic change. this essay is in the spirit of the first type of study. rather than dealing with the entire population, however, it restricts its attention to ages above 65, where population changes reflect, amplify, and reshape the broad patterns associated with the demographi...

Epilepsy Action is the owner of Seizure, the European Journal of Epilepsy. It recently decided that now was the time to reinvigorate the journal. As part of this decision the charity decided not to renew the appointment of the current editors, Professor Paul Boon and Professor Albert Aldenkamp, when their second four-year term expires in February 2012. The two editors were advised of this decis...

After the change of editorship in March 2004, new goals were defined and it is custom to evaluate the results after a year of publishing. Seizure aims to develop as an international journal with a scope of Europe and beyond, with a clinical orientation, fast publication speed and increasing impact. In 2005 the impact factor is increased to an ''all-time high 1.5'', publication speed increased (...