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PSEP aims to be the principal international journal for publication of high quality, original papers in the branches of engineering concerned with the safety of industrial processes and the protection of the environment.Papers showing how research results can be used in process engineering design, and accounts of experimental or theoretical research work bringing new perspectives to established principles, highlighting unsolved problems or indicating directions for future research, are particularly welcome. Contributions that deal with new developments in safety or environmental aspects of plant or processes and that can be given quantitative expression are encouraged. The journal is especially interested in papers that extend the boundaries of traditional engineering.Core topic areas:Safety• Technical Safety and Loss Prevention• Hazardous Areas• Fire and Gas detection• Firewater systems• Safety critical systems• Safety Integrity Levels (SIL)• Reliability• Layer of Protection (LOPA) and Bowtie Analysis• Emergency response• HAZard IDentification (HAZID) (and Inherent Safety) workshop.• HAZard and OPerability (HAZOP) Study (and SIL) workshop.Modelling• Liquid release• Gaseous release• 2-phase release• heavy gas dispersion• Computational Fluid Dynamics• Accident investigation and modelling.Chemical Safety and Occupational Health• Chemical toxicity and exposure• Toxic release and consequence modelling• Process plant health issues.Pipelines, Storage and Security• Security and terrorism• Pipeline leak detection/measurement and corrosion assessment.Fire and Explosion• Fires and combustion• Explosions (including dust explosions)• Fire and blast protection and survivability• Fire fighting• Runaway reactions• Consequence modelling• Oil and gas production safety.Human Factors in Design and Management• Process safety /environmental performance measurement including leading and lagging indicators• Human and organizational factors in safety cases• Characterisation and quantification of human performance in hazard identification and risk analysis• Human performance optimisation by design• SIMOPS (simultaneous operations)• Situational Awareness• Communications and risk control systems• Management systems and processes• Resilience Engineering, normal accidents, high reliability organisations• Ageing assets• Technical Assurance• Integrity Management • Training.Inherent Safety and Inherently Safer Design• Design and development of new processes • Design and development of new equipment • Methodologies for ranking inherent safety • Retrofitting inherently safer solutions: upgrading existing plant for improved safety• Examples of IS Design.Nuclear Safety• Waste disposal • Design for decommissioning • Passively safe reactor designs • Nuclear reactor protective system reliability and risk monitoring.Reaction Hazards• Chemical thermal stability • Thermal reaction hazards • Influence of impurities on reaction hazards • Development of reactivity hazard index ranking tool • Runaway reactions (detection and mitigation) • Compatibility/reactivity of chemicals involved in a chemical process.Risk and Risk Management• Major Accident Hazards• Quantified risk assessment • Uncertainty in quantified risk assessment • Risk-based design, ALARP and cost-benefit analysis• Risk-based decision-making • Safety cases• Integrated risk management.Environment• Energy and Alternative Energy Sources• Renewable and non-renewable energy sources and storage• Chemical and biochemical conversion of fossil fuels, biomass and waste• Life-cycle assessment • Energy infrastructure • Capture and storage of carbon dioxide • Nuclear energy • Energy and sustainable development • Process integration and intensification of energy processes.Sustainable Economy• Policy development and the industrial response• Sustainability concepts and assessment: social, environmental and economic criteria; decision processes; stakeholder identification and engagement; metrics• Environmental taxes, permits and emission trading• Energy futures• Renewable resources• Low carbon technologies.Environmental and Resource Management Systems• Environmental, social and economic performance of processes and products• Life cycle assessment and management• Material flow accounting• Industrial ecology and symbiosis• Labelling: embodied carbon; virtual water; ecolabelling; etc.• Renewable energy and sustainable energy systems.Clean Technology• Process and product design• Novel reactions, catalysts, solvents, etc.• Process intensification• Minimisation and avoidance of process waste and emissions• Emission treatment: scrubbing, venting, flaring, etc.Resource Management• Recovery, recycling and closed-loop use of materials and products• Waste management: systems and processes for energy and material recovery and waste treatment; disposal• Landfill and waste repository design, operation and management• Land remediation and recovery.Water• Industrial, pure and ultrapure water production• Municipal and industrial effluent treatment• Potable water treatment• Sludge processing, energy recovery and disposal• Mitigation of water environment, pollution incidents.

Additive Manufacturing is the peer-reviewed journal that provides academia and world-leading industry with high quality research papers and reviews in additive manufacturing. The journal aims to acknowledge the innovative nature of additive manufacturing and its broad applications to outline the current and future developments in the field.

Additive manufacturing technologies are positioned to provide a disruptive transformation in how products are designed and manufactured. From this, there was a need to create a fast-publication journal which provides a unique publication outlet for engineers, materials scientists and practitioners in academia and virtually any industry as these technologies are incorporated in new product and medical implant design and manufacturing.

The journal covers a wide scope, comprising new technologies, processes, methods, materials, systems, and applications in the field of additive manufacturing. Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:

Design and Modeling
• Multiple material components and devices Heterogeneous Design
• Heterogeneous Design
• Modeling from concept to manufacture to implementation to disposal - the entire product life cycle

Additive manufacturing processes and process enhancements
• Advancements in additive manufacturing processes
• Multi-technology (hybrid) systems
• Enhanced closed-loop control of additive manufacturing systems

Multiple and novel materials
• Characterization and performance - mechanical, electrical, chemical, biological, opticals
• New material formulations and composite materials
• Processing of materials in additive manufacturing and for use in additive manufacturing

Special applications with multi-functionality
• Medical additive manufacturing and bio-printing
• Optimized configurations such as topology optimization
• Additive manufacturing for space and in-space additive manufacturing
• Improved energy utilization in and using additive manufacturing
• Nano-additive manufacturing
• Electromechanical and robotic systems
• 3D electronics, electromagnetics, and metamaterials
• Other novel applications of additive manufacturing

Serving the breadth of the general and applied linguistics communities; Ampersand offers a highly–visible, open access home for authors. An international, peer–reviewed journal; Ampersand welcomes submissions originating in applied and historical linguistics, phonetics, phonology, pragmatics, semantics, sociolinguistics and syntax. Ampersand offers an alternative outlet for work which might not be considered, or is classed as 'out of scope' elsewhere and prioritizes fast peer review and publication to the benefit of authors and readers.

Ampersand caters to a comprehensive audience, ranging from language researchers, linguists, teachers, educationalists, practitioners and those with a general interest in language and linguistics. The journal aims to encourage the free exchange of information between researchers by being a forum for the constructive discussion and debate of issues in both theoretical and applied research. The journal welcomes all types of paper from traditional 'full' research articles, short communications, opinion pieces, book reviews, case studies, literature reviews and applications. Ampersand also offers the opportunity to publish special issues or sections to reflect current interest and research in topical or developing areas. The journal fully supports authors wanting to present their research in an innovative fashion through the use of modern multimedia in the award–winning 'article of the future' format on ScienceDirect®.

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Applied Mobilities publishes theoretically informed, applied research and practice-orientated perspectives in mobilities. It focuses on the planning, design, technologies and social and cultural applications of mobilities. Through an emphasis on social theory and planning practice it also seeks to develop a greater understanding of the transition of mobility systems towards sustainable practices and the consequences of diverse mobilities on societies. 

It publishes original research articles, practice based commentaries and reviews.

Articles
Applied Mobilities publishes articles of international scope that meets one or more of the following areas of publication:
- Interdisciplinary research in planning, design, technology and culture relating to mobilities.
- Theory driven applied research emphasizing the social, cultural, economic and environmental aspects of mobilities.
- Development of the interdisciplinarity of mobilities research by bridging social science, art and practice.  

Commentaries
This section of Applied Mobilities invites practitioners and/or scholars to develop to introduce and reflect upon new themes and debates that are relevant to mobilities thinking, research and practice. Such innovative perspectives aim to increase the impact of research on the re-thinking of mobilities and help to develop political and societal strategies to understand the social, ecological and economic consequences of diverse mobilities on societies.

Commentaries are published under the following:
Impacts
Case studies or interviews which reflect on the impact that mobilities research has had on practice, planning or policy.

Interventions
Case studies or interviews which reflect upon current practical intervention(s) in mobilities.

Futures
Case studies or interviews which imagine future alternative scenarios based upon research and/or practice in mobilities.

Reviews
Applied Mobilities publishes thematic book reviews on key topics in the field.  The selection of books for review is intended to reflect their potential impact on further research within the overall scope of the journal.

Peer Review Statement
All submissions will be subject to double-blind peer review by up to three referees.

Asian Englishes seeks to publish the best papers dealing with various issues involved in the diffusion of English and its diversification in Asia and the Pacific. It aims to promote better understanding of the nature of English and the role which it plays in the linguistic repertoire of those who live and work in Asia, both intra- and internationally, and in spoken and written form. The journal particularly highlights such themes as:

1. Varieties of English in Asia – Including their divergence & convergence
   (phonetics, phonology, prosody, vocabulary, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, discourse, rhetoric)
2. Theories and methods of promoting effective teaching of English and testing of English proficiency
3. English as a language of international and intercultural communication in Asia
4. English-language journalism, literature, and other media
5. Social roles and functions of English in Asian countries
6. Multicultural English and mutual intelligibility
7. Language policy and language planning
8. Impact of English on other Asian languages
9. English-knowing bi- and multilingualism
10. English-medium education
11. Relevance of new paradigms, such as English as a Lingua Franca, to Asian contexts.
12. The depth of penetration, use in various domains, and future direction of English in (the development of) Asian Societies.

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Criteria for publication in Chemical Physics are novelty, quality and general interest in experimental and theoretical chemical physics and physical chemistry. Articles are welcome that deal with problems of electronic and structural dynamics, reaction mechanisms, fundamental aspects of catalysis, solar energy conversion and chemical reactions in general, involving atoms, molecules, proteins, clusters, surfaces, interfaces and bulk matter. Reports on new methodologies and comprehensive assessments of existing ones, as well as applications to new types of problems are especially welcome. Experimental papers are expected to be brought into relation with theory, and theoretical papers should be connected to present or future experiments. Manuscripts that apply standard methods to specific physical-chemical problems and/or to specific systems are appropriate if they report novel results for an important problem of high interest and/or if they provide significant new insights.Manuscripts describing routine use or minor extensions or modifications of established and/or published experimental and theoretical methodologies are not appropriate for the journal. In addition, manuscripts describing analytical procedures that use established spectroscopic techniques, such as for sample characterization, will not be accepted for publication, even if they appear new or improved with respect to procedures previously used.In addition to regular research papers, Chemical Physics publishes invited perspectives articles (called ChemPhys Perspectives) and Special Thematic Issues. Each Chemical Physics Special Issue provides a snapshot of the leading edge in current research of a particular field in chemical physics, and contains invited articles by specialists in that field. The objective is to create a collection of articles representative of the newest findings in a field and equivalent to that covered at a topical conference.

Digital Journalism provides a critical forum for scholarly discussion, analysis and responses to the wide ranging implications of digital technologies, along with economic, political and cultural developments, for the practice and study of journalism. Radical shifts in journalism are changing every aspect of the production, content and reception of news; and at a dramatic pace which has transformed ‘new media’ into ‘legacy media’ in barely a decade. These crucial changes challenge traditional assumptions in journalism practice, scholarship and education, make definitional boundaries fluid and require reassessment of even the most fundamental questions such as "What is journalism?" and "Who is a journalist?"

Digital Journalism is edited by Bob Franklin, Professor of Journalism Studies at Cardiff University, UK. The editorial board includes internationally distinguished journalists and scholars of journalism studies. Watch a video of Bob talking about Digital Journalism here.

Digital Journalism pursues a significant and exciting editorial agenda including:

• Digital media and the future of journalism;
• Social media as sources and drivers of news;
• The changing ‘places’ and ‘spaces’ of news production and consumption in the context of digital media;
• News on the move and mobile telephony;
• The personalisation of news;
• Business models for funding digital journalism in the digital economy;
• Developments in data journalism and data visualisation;
• New research methods to analyse and explore digital journalism;
• Hyperlocalism and new understandings of community journalism;
• Changing relationships between journalists, sources and audiences;
• Citizen and participatory journalism;
• Machine written news and the automation of journalism;
• The history and evolution of online journalism;
• Changing journalism ethics in a digital setting;
• New challenges and directions for journalism education and training;
• Digital journalism, protest and democracy;
• Journalists’ changing role perceptions;
• Wikileaks and novel forms of investigative journalism.

All articles in Digital Journalism have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymised refereeing by two anonymous referees. Instructions for Authors can be found here. 

 
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Digital Signal Processing: a Review Journal is one of the oldest and most established journals in the field of signal processing yet it aims to be the most innovative one. The journal invites top quality research articles at the frontiers of research in all aspects of signal processing. Our objective is to provide a platform for the publication of groundbreaking research in signal processing with both academic and industrial appeal.The journal has a special emphasis on statistical signal processing methodology such as Bayesian signal processing, and encourages articles on emerging areas in signal processing which do not find space in other journals of the field. These include:environmental signal processing,stochastic modelling of biological and chemical processes,seismic signal processing,financial time series analysis,stochastic calculus,geophysical signal processing,systems biology,chemioinformatics,signal processing for human-computer interaction and intelligent user interfaces,signal processing for audio, visual and performance arts,signal processing for disaster management and prevention,signal processing for renewable energy,game theory and group theory for signal processing,information theory articles with a signal processing perspective.Papers in the classical application areas of signal processing such as telecommunications, speech and image processing are welcome only if they contain novel research. Purely application oriented articles in these areas should be submitted to the relevant dedicated journals. Similarly, authors who would like to submit on areas of neural networks or fuzzy sets are invited to submit their work to the appropriate journals.Digital Signal Processing: a Review Journal also aims to publish at least one high quality review article in every issue and to provide focus issues with special emphasis on emerging topics. Discussion articles in which several leading researchers discuss the future of a specific research area are also welcome.

International Studies in Sociology of Education is a high quality and forward-thinking international peer-reviewed journal. Founded in 1990, the journal has become a leading journal of the discipline internationally.

The Journal aims to: 

• Publish original papers of international significance which present creative, rigorous research and critical perspectives in the sociology of education.
• Lead critical, innovative and reflexive thinking, acting as a catalyst for future research, policy and practice in the field.
• Highlight new and emerging debates on educational issues of sociological interest, as well as moving longstanding debates forward.
• Make connections across local, regional and international contexts in the study of sociology of education.
• Foreground marginalised social and political issues, non-dominant theoretical resources, and cross-cultural debate in the international field of sociology of education.
• Encourage participation and critical engagement from scholars from around the world and at all stages of career development.

The Scope of the Journal

International Studies in Sociology of Education is published in English four times annually and has a global reach. The journal addresses historical as well as contemporary sociological debates in education significant to an international audience.

The journal welcomes inter-disciplinary work where sociological theory and perspectives have a substantial role. Empirical and non-empirical manuscripts are both welcome. The scope of the journal extends to formal and informal education and the role of education in the life course. Authors are encouraged to locate their work in relation to previous issues of ISSE as well as the wider field of sociology of education.

Special Issues

The Editors welcome enquiries about prospective special issues as well as commissioning special issues on an occasional basis. Please consult the journal's Special Issues page for further details.

Peer Review Policy

All research articles in this journal undergo rigorous peer review based on initial editor screening and refereeing by at least two anonymous referees.

Journal for Cultural Research is an international journal, based in Lancaster University's Institute for Cultural Research. It is interested in essays concerned with the conjuncture between culture and the many domains and practices in relation to which it is usually defined, including, for example, media, politics, technology, economics, society, art and the sacred.Culture is no longer, if it ever was, singular. It denotes a shifting multiplicity of signifying practices and value systems that provide a potentially infinite resource of academic critique, investigation and ethnographic or market research into cultural difference, cultural autonomy, cultural emancipation and the cultural aspects of power. As such, culture has itself become, in many areas, a primary instrument of government and thus the desire not to be governed is impelled to think culture differently from the accepted forms of cultural identity and recognition. In the academy, research has become a defining feature of the cultural just as the cultural has become indistinguishable from questions concerning the governable.The journal publishes original essays by established and emerging writers around the globe who are developing the future of cultural theory and research in the 21st century. We encourage writing that explores every aspect of cultural experience, experiences that occur in the correlation between fields of knowledge, types of normativity, and forms of subjectivity in different domains and locations around the world.Peer Review Policy:All review papers in this journal have undergone editorial screening and peer review. DisclaimerTaylor & Francis makes every effort to ensure the accuracy of all the information (the 8220;Content8221;) contained in its publications. However, Taylor & Francis and its agents and licensors make no representations or warranties whatsoever as to the accuracy, completeness or suitability for any purpose of the Content and disclaim all such representations and warranties whether express or implied to the maximum extent permitted by law. Any views expressed in this publication are the views of the authors and are not the views of Taylor & Francis.

The Journal of Coastal Conservation is a scientific journal for the dissemination of both theoretical and applied research on integrated and sustainable management of the terrestrial, coastal and marine environmental interface. A thorough understanding of both the physical and the human sciences is important to the study of the spatial patterns and processes observed in terrestrial, coastal and marine systems set in the context of past, present and future social and economic developments. This includes multidisciplinary and integrated knowledge and understanding of: physical geography, coastal geomorphology, sediment dynamics, hydrodynamics, soil science, hydrology, plant and animal ecology, vegetation science, biogeography, landscape ecology, recreation and tourism studies, urban and human ecology, coastal engineering and spatial planning, coastal zone management, and marine resource management. Environmental applications that make use of spatial information technology (IT) to collect, analyse, interpret, visualise, and communicate the results of scientific research are also encouraged. This includes the use of remote sensing, Geographical Information Systems (GIS), environmental databases, Global Positioning Systems (GPS) and mobile technologies, cartography and digital mapping, geovisualisation, modelling and simulation, and the Internet. Applications that focus on the use of physical coastal modelling involving the detailing of the design, construction, instrumentation and results of model tests are also encouraged, including the theory, measurement, analysis and modelling of: Waves - generation, theories, prediction: Structures - types, interactions and structural responses: Measurement Techniques - pressures, velocities, and forces: Erosion/Scour – assessment and control: Scale Effects – control and techniques: and Natural Hazards Assessment. Research that promotes the role of education and, training to integrated and sustainable management of the terrestrial, coastal and marine conservation and management is also considered important to the coastal practitioner and manager. International contributions to the journal are encouraged. Thematic volumes and output from conference proceedings are also welcome.

The Journal of Spanish Language Teaching is a new peer-reviewed journal that provides an international forum for innovative research, methods, materials and theories on the teaching and learning of Spanish as a foreign language. The Journal's main purpose is to create a dialogue between researchers and practitioners worldwide in order to enrich a discipline that is experiencing tremendous growth. The Journal invites contributions from researchers working on topics related to the teaching and learning of the Spanish language at any educational level and in any setting.

The Journal will publish original research papers as well as book reviews. Periodically, it will also consider monographic issues and critical surveys of recent research related to a specific sub-discipline or geographical area. A thorough peer review process will be applied to both commissioned and unsolicited articles. The Journal of Spanish Language Teaching will constitute an essential journal of reference in the field. There is currently no other academic publication dedicated solely to the teaching and learning of Spanish, which exists in both print and electronic formats, and is global in its reach. Targeted at both academics and practitioners, the Journal aims to have a major impact on the discipline.

Some of the areas especially relevant to the Journal's objectives are:

Press Release - More Than Emissions Data Required to Plan Neighborhoods with Clean Air Free articles - click here to view a list of the latest free articles available from JAPA For more than 70 years, the quarterly Journal of the American Planning Association (JAPA) has published research, commentaries, and book reviews useful to practicing planners, policymakers, scholars, students, and citizens of urban, suburban, and rural areas. JAPA publishes only peer-reviewed, original research and analysis. It aspires to bring insight to planning the future, to air a variety of perspectives, to publish the highest quality work, and to engage readers. JAPA is interested in manuscripts that examine historical or contemporary planning experience, broadly defined, in domestic or global contexts, and that do at least one of the following: * contribute to the theoretical and conceptual foundation of planning; * improve the link between planning and successful policy implementation; * advance the methods used in planning practice and planning research; * explain empirical relationships important to planning; * interpret noteworthy physical, economic, and social phenomena that have spatial dimensions; or * analyze significant consequences of planning approaches, processes, and contexts. To view this website in an alternative format please visit www.tandf.co.uk/journals/rjpa For information concerning Taylor & Francis' Developing World Initiatives please click here www.informaworld.com/developingworld Disclaimer The American Planning Association and Taylor & Francis make every effort to ensure the accuracy of all the information (the 'Content') contained in its publications. However, the Association and Taylor & Francis and its agents and licensors make no representations or warranties whatsoever as to the accuracy, completeness or suitability for any purpose of the Content and disclaim all such representations and warranties whether express or implied to the maximum extent permitted by law. Any views expressed in this publication are the views of the authors and are not necessarily the views of the Editor, the Association or Taylor & Francis.

Pedagogy, Culture & Society is a fully-refereed international journal that seeks to provide an international forum for pedagogy discussion and debate. The identity of the journal is built on the belief that pedagogy debate has the following features: Pedagogy debate is not restricted by geographical boundaries: its participants are the international educational community and its proceedings appeal to a worldwide audience. Pedagogy debate is open and democratic: it is not the preserve of teachers, politicians, academics or administrators but requires open discussion. Pedagogy debate is eclectic and interdisciplinary: it draws on a wide range of different intellectual and practical traditions to clarify core problems and sustain deliberation. Pedagogy debate is concerned with the past, present and future: it involves thinking reflectively and critically about pedagogy policy and practice with the aid of organising concepts such as culture, politics and ideology. Pedagogy debate is culturally diverse: it involves communication between participants whose thinking is shaped by different cultural conditions ranging from the 8216;post-colonial' condition of many African and Asian countries to the 8216;post-centralised' condition of Eastern Europe and the 8216;post-modern' condition of Western liberal democracies.Peer Review Policy:All research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer-review, based on initial editor screening and anonymised refereeing by at least two anonymous referees.Disclaimer for Scientific, Technical and Social Science publications:Taylor & Francis and Pedagogy, Culture and Society make every effort to ensure the accuracy of all the information (the 8220;Content8221;) contained in its publications. However, Taylor & Francis and Pedagogy, Culture and Society and its agents and licensors make no representations or warranties whatsoever as to the accuracy, completeness or suitability for any purpose of the Content and disclaim all such representations and warranties whether express or implied to the maximum extent permitted by law. Any views expressed in this publication are the views of the authors and are not the views of Taylor & Francis and Pedagogy, Culture and Society.

Philosophical Papers is an international, generalist journal of philosophy edited in South Africa. Original Articles Articles appearing in the March and July issues are original, high-quality, and stand-alone, and are written for the general professional philosopher. The editor welcomes submissions in any area of philosophy. Special Issues The November issue of each year is a dedicated, topic-based issue, guest-edited and comprised of both invited and submitted papers. Calls for papers for upcoming special issues can be found here. The editor welcomes ideas for future special issues. Recent special issues have included: 2009: 'Rape and its Meaning/s' (Editor: Louise du Toit) 2008: 'Thick and Thin Concepts in Epistemology' (Editors: Jeremy Wanderer and Ben Kotzee) 2007: 'The Concept of Disease' (Editors: Rachel Cooper & Christopher Megone) 2006: 'Politics and the Imagination' (Editor: Paul Voice) 2005: 'Meaning in Life' (Editor: Thad Metz) 2004: 'Immoral Beliefs' (Editors: Ward E. Jones and Tom Martin) 2003: 'Narrative understanding' (Editor: Matthew Kieran) 2002: 'Ethics in the Light of Wittgenstein' (Editor: Andrew Gleeson) 2001: 'African Philosophy and the Analytic Tradition' (Editor: Richard Bell) Re-Readings Philosophical Papers is the only philosophical journal with a regular re-readings feature, in which authors write on an older article, book, or book chapter that they deem to deserve renewed attention. Re-Readings are usually of 4000-7000 words in length. The editor welcomes submissions of re-readings. Book Reviews Philosophical Papers publishes reviews of books that are of special relevance to African or South African philosophy or philosophers. Authors interested in reviewing books for the journal should approach the editor in the first instance. Peer Review Policy All submitted articles undergo a process of peer review. This is based on initial editor screening and refereeing by (usually) two referees.

Progress in Solid State Chemistry presents a chemical view of the solid state by providing up-to-date critical reviews written by acknowledged authorities in the field. It also publishes surveys of research progress and specialized articles devoted to summarizing particular recent developments. The aim is to address the need brought about by the literature on the chemistry of the solid state being widely dispersed, making it difficult to obtain a broad and unified assessment of the present state of knowledge. Special emphasis is given to relating physical properties and structural chemistry. Whereas structural chemistry at one time was concerned mostly with perfect solids, most activity focused upon understanding of solid properties focuses on imperfections. Entities such as vacancies, dislocations, and positive holes, which have no independent existence outside the solid itself, are of prime importance in modern solid state chemistry.The reviews published in Progress in Solid State Chemistry emphasize critical evaluation of the field, along with indications of current problems and future directions. Papers are not intended to be bibliographic in nature but rather to inform a broad range of readers in an inherently multidisciplinary field by providing expert treatises oriented both towards specialists in different areas of the solid state and towards nonspecialists. The authorship is international, and the subject matter will be of interest to chemists, materials scientists, physicists, metallurgists, crystallographers, ceramists, and engineers interested in the solid state.Benefits to authorsWe also provide many author benefits, such as free PDFs, a liberal copyright policy, special discounts on Elsevier publications and much more. Please click here for more information on our author services.Please see our Guide for Authors for information on article submission. If you require any further information or help, please visit our support pages: http://support.elsevier.com

The Scandinavian Journal of Pain, the scientific journal of the researcher-network Scandinavian Association for the Study of Pain (www.SASP.org), is a comprehensive forum for original research from international researchers, on all aspects of pain including the nature of pain, pain mechanisms, and pain management. In order to bring pain-researchers and pain-clinicians up-to-date on important issues, the journal also encourages submissions of topical reviews.Scandinavian Journal of Pain provides a broad and stimulating approach to new pain-related research by also commissioning editorial comments published together with all accepted papers. The editorial comment highlights the significance of the research in the paper and often provides a concise review of the topic of the paper. This puts the papers into context of the present climate of pain research.Scandinavian Journal of Pain is primarily an online journal, and it also publishes a condensed print version for its subscribers. This paper-version prints the editorial comments, the extended abstracts, and the Highlights of the online-published papers. This provides the essence of the research and its importance in the care or future care of patients.The editorial comments and the Editor's choice paper in each issue are currently available as Free for View on ScienceDirect and www.scandinavianjournalpain.com. All articles published in the Scandinavian Journal of Pain are indexed in Scopus/Science Direct and EMBASE.Scandinavian Journal of Pain publishes these categories of articles: Basic and clinical research; systemic and topical reviews; hypothesis-generating case-reports and observational studies; letter to the Editor. The abstracts of presentations at scientific meetings of SASP are also published online. For current contents, and for papers in press, see www.scandinavianjournalpain.com.The Scandinavian countries have a long and distinguished tradition of excellent scientific and medical contributions to pain research, and the Scandinavian Journal of Pain is a consequence of this tradition.For more information to authors on how to write and submit a manuscript, seewww.scandinavianjournalpain.com/authorinfo

Schizophrenia Bulletin seeks to review recent developments and empirically based hypotheses regarding the etiology and treatment of schizophrenia. We view the field as broad and deep, and will publish new knowledge ranging from the molecular basis to social and cultural factors. We will give new emphasis to translational reports which simultaneously highlight basic neurobiological mechanisms and clinical manifestations. Much of the Bulletin content will be invited reviews and manuscripts organized as a theme by special guest editors. Also, the Bulletin will carry unsolicited manuscripts of high quality that report original data related to theme issues or where the Bulletin can provide a special venue for a major study.The editorial policy of the Schizophrenia Bulletin generally follows the Uniform Requirements guidelines articulated by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (http://www.icmje.org). The journal is published bi-monthly serving readership and contributors from the USA and internationally. Each issue of the Bulletin will be based on a major review and/or one or more themes comprised of 2-5 Reviews Articles covering clinical and basic scientific aspects of the theme area of the issue. Topics for future issues will be announced ahead of time and Original Reports related to the themes will be accepted for review. Some theme issues will be based on workshops and meeting symposia.We consider the Bulletin to be an ideal venue for special reports such as treatment guidelines or the presentation of translational science. The Bulletin will publish the proceedings and abstracts of the International Congress on Schizophrenia Research. The Bulletin will publish first person accounts, At Issue articles expressing opposing views on controversial scientific issues, succinct discourses on clinical and basic neuroscience concepts, and brief essays on the role of specific environmental and genetic factors in schizophrenia. The Schizophrenia Bulletin will continue the tradition of the front cover display of art from artists with mental illness.

However, given the wide availability of industrial simulators (Atlas, MEDICI etc), device simulation papers should be coupled with experiment or novel analytical approaches. Also, materials growth and characterization papers should be relevant to a current or future device technology.

Types of contributions
Original research papers, letters (intended for high impact and high quality short papers)and invited review papers (please contact the editors prior to submission). SSE does not publish Notes and Brief communications.

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