Ensuring the quality of higher education

About the issue

The topics of this special issue include, but are not limited to:

• The concept, criteria and indicators of quality in higher education
• Monitoring the quality of higher education
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Important dates

Submission Deadline: September 30, 2013
Notification of Acceptance: October 31, 2013
Final Version Due: November 30 2013
Special Issue Publishing Date: December 2013

Recent developments in the areas of mathematics

About the issue

The topics of this special issue include, but are not limited to:

• Tnumber theory
• algebraic geometry
• differential geometry
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Important dates

Submission Deadline: October 31, 2013
Notification of Acceptance: December 31, 2013
Final Version Due: January 31 2014
Special Issue Publishing Date: February 2014

Role of Exercise in Prevention of Obesity in Children

About the issue

The topics of this special issue include, but are not limited to:

• Role of Endurance Exercise in Prevention of Obesity in Children.
• Nutrition and Physical Activity in Prevention of Obesity in Children.
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Important dates

Submission Deadline: January 31, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: April 30, 2014
Final Version Due: May 31 2014
Special Issue Publishing Date: June 30, 2014

Quorum sensing: the cell-cell communication language in Bacteria

About the issue

The topics of this special issue include, but are not limited to:

• Quorum sensing
• Biofilm formation
• Quorum quenching
• Bacterial pathogenesis
• ...[FIND OUT MORE]

Important dates

Submission Deadline: 2014-03-01
Notification of Acceptance: 2014-06-01
Final Version Due: 2014-08-01
Special Issue Publishing Date: 2014-10-01

Simulation of Non-Linear dynamics and Complexity

About the issue

The topics of this special issue include, but are not limited to:

• Numerical Methodologies
• Experimental, computational and theoretical aspects of bifurcations, chaos and complexity.
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Important dates

Submission Deadline: January 17, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: April 2014
Final Version Due: May 2014
Special Issue Publishing Date: June, 2014

Knowledge Extraction and Visualization

About the issue

The topics of this special issue include, but are not limited to:

• Natural language processing
• Natural language understanding
• ...[FIND OUT MORE]

Important dates

Submission Deadline: February 01, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: March 01, 2014
Final Version Due: May 01, 2014
Special Issue Publishing Date: August 01, 2014

Bioremediation : Applied & Environmental Microbiology

About the issue

The topics of this special issue include, but are not limited to:

• Environmental microbiology

• Applied Microbiology
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Important dates

Submission Deadline: December 31, 2013
Notification of Acceptance: January 15, 2014
Final Version Due: January 25, 2014
Special Issue Publishing Date: January 31, 2014

Heavy Metals and Public Health

About the issue

The topics of this special issue include, but are not limited to:

• Effects of heavy metals on plant seeds

• Strategies to overcome heavy metal stress by plants

• Heavy metals and food sources

Important dates

Submission Deadline: June 01, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: August 01, 2014
Final Version Due: September 01, 2014
Special Issue Publishing Date: October 01, 2014

LOGIC AND ITS APPLICATIONS

About the issue

The topics of this special issue include, but are not limited to:

• CLASSIC LOGIC

• MODAL LOGIC

• PARACONSISTENT LOGIC

• MANY VALUED LOGIC

• SYMBOLIC LOGIC

• FUZZY LOGIC

• LOGIC AND INFORMATIC

• LOGIC AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

• LOGICAND LAW

• LOGIC AND POLICY

• THE TEACHING OF LOGIC

Important dates

Submission Deadline: June 01, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: August 15, 2015
Final Version Due: October 01, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: December, 2015

Fixed Point Theory and Applications

About the issue

The topics of this special issue include, but are not limited to:

• Fixed Point Theory.

• Extension of Banach Fixed Point Theory.

• Applications of Fixed Points in Variational inequalities.

• Applications of Fixed points in Operations Research.

• Computational fixed points and applications.

Important dates

Submission Deadline: July 31, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: October 31, 2014
Final Version Due: November 30, 2014
Special Issue Publishing Date: December 31, 2014

Ensuring the Quality of Higher Education

About the issue

The topics of this special issue include, but are not limited to:

• The concept, criteria and indicators of quality in higher education

• Monitoring the quality of higher education

• Improving the educational process: content, methods, forms, and training tools

• Management of higher education

• Comparative studies

Important dates

Submission Deadline: September 30, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: October 31, 2014
Final Version Due: November 30, 2014
Special Issue Publishing Date: December 31, 2014

Coordinated control of multiple autonomous vehicles

Cooperative control of multiple vehicles, autonomous vehicles, like ground vehicles, spacecrafts, underwater unmanned vehicles, wireless sensor network, et al.
Finite-time formation control algorithms, distributed coordinated control, consensus algorithms, and so on.

Important dates

Submission Deadline: September 30, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: October 30, 2014
Final Version Due: November 20, 2014
Special Issue Publishing Date: December 20, 2014

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

About the issue

The topics of this special issue include, but are not limited to:

• Analysis of contaminants

• Contaminant pathways, transport and deposition

• Atmospheric science, Air quality and Noise assessment

• Soil, sediment and aquatic science

• Ecotoxicological significance of contaminants in environment

• Environmental epidemiological and Human health

• Environmental & occupational health

• Environmental data interpretation, Biostatistics, Modelling and software.

Important dates

Submission Deadline: October 31, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: November 15, 2014
Final Version Due: November 30, 2014
Special Issue Publishing Date: December 7, 2014

Parallel computing and Protection Information

About the issue

The topics of this special issue include, but are not limited to:

• Protection Information in transport systems

• Protection information in the Government

• Security information in Education systems

• Parallel computing: methods and tasks

Important dates

Submission Deadline: May 25, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: May 28, 2014
Final Version Due: May 30, 2014
Special Issue Publishing Date: June 5, 2014

Recent Developments and Applications in Modeling, Simulation and Optimization

About the issue

The topics of this special issue include, but are not limited to:

• Population based models

• Multiscale hierarchical modeling

• Complex systems modeling and simulation

• Medical and biomedical systems and surgical modeling

• Bimolecular simulation and metamodeling techniques

• Climatic, reservoirs design and vehicle routine problems

• Engineering systems and telecommunication network

• Nanofluid and nanotechnology

• Quantitative models, financial models and simulation Modeling, simulation, theory and practice in:

• Multi–objective optimization

• Portfolio optimization

• Combinatorial optimization and neural computing

• Genetic algorithm

• Linear and nonlinear programming and applications in the industry and other human endeavors.

• Education and Practice on Modeling, simulation and optimization would be considered too.

Important dates

Submission Deadline: October 5, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: November 5, 2014
Final Version Due: December 5, 2014
Special Issue Publishing Date: December 20, 2014

Plasma cell disorders

About the issue

The topics of this special issue include, but are not limited to:

Important dates

Submission Deadline: July 15, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: August 15, 2014
Final Version Due: September 15, 2014
Special Issue Publishing Date: October 15, 2014

Medicine and Oral surgery

About the issue

The topics of this special issue include, but are not limited to:

• Oral Pathology

• Oral surgery

• Oral radiology

• Oral cancer

Important dates

Submission Deadline: August 31, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: September 30, 2014
Final Version Due: October 31, 2014
Special Issue Publishing Date: November 30, 2014

Current trend in Diagnosis & Management of Oral & Maxillofacial Diseases

About the issue

The topics of this special issue include, but are not limited to:

• Oral researchExodontia

• Dentoalveolar Surgery

• Maxillofacial Trauma

• Dental Implants

• Odontogenic infections

• Jaw cysts & tumors

• Maxillofacial Pathologies

Important dates

Submission Deadline: August-September, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: November-December, 2014
Final Version Due: January, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: January-February, 2015

Towards New Cosmology from Quantum Gravity & Particle Physics

About the issue

The topics of this special issue include, but are not limited to:

• Quantum Gravity

• High Energy Physics

• Standard Model

• Cosmology

Important dates

Submission Deadline: June 1, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: June 1, 2014
Final Version Due: June 1, 2014
Special Issue Publishing Date: June 10, 2014

Clinical Bacteriology

About the issue

The topics of this special issue include, but are not limited to:

• Clinical bacteriology

Important dates

Submission Deadline: December 25, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: January 30, 2015
Final Version Due: February 25, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: March 20, 2015

Hematologic Malignancies

About the issue

The topics of this special issue include, but are not limited to:

• Leukemia

• Lymphoma

• Myeloma

Important dates

Submission Deadline: December 25, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: January 30, 2015
Final Version Due: February 25, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: March 20, 2015

The Acquisition of Skills and Social Values Through Sport and Physical Activity

About the issue

The topics of this special issue include, but are not limited to:

• The values in the practice of physical and sporting activities.

• The adqusición social skills through sports.

• The formation of character through sports.

• Health and physical activity.

• Sport and physical activity and body image.

• Physical activity habits of young people.

Important dates

Submission Deadline: September 30, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: October 30, 2014
Final Version Due: November 30, 2014
Special Issue Publishing Date: December 30, 2014

Human Capital and its Influence on Organisational Performance

About the issue

This special issue is dedicated to a set of best papers in the field of Human Capital. Full papers will be subject to a strict review procedure for final selection to this special issue based on the following criteria:

1. Quality and originality in theory and methodology in research on Human Capital and its influence on Organisational performance;

2. Relevance to Human Capital research area, such as
   a. Knowledge Management;
   b. Intellectual Capital models and methods in Human Capital development;
   c. Innovation;
   d. Organisational Performance.

3. Application orientated research which exhibits originality in Human Capital theory, such as
   a. The role and the importance of the Human Capital for the Organisation’s performance particularly in business, education, health, safety, engineering, and finance.

4. Extended papers must contain at least 40% new material (qualitative) relative to the conference paper.

Important dates

Submission Deadline: July 15, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: September 15, 2015
Final Version Due: October 15, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: November 15, 2015

Application of Computational Intelligence in Education Systems

About the issue

The topics of this special issue include, but are not limited to:

Important dates

Submission Deadline: December 31, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: January 31, 2015
Final Version Due: February, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: March, 2015

Spectrum Journal of Dental Sciences

About the issue

The topics of this special issue include, but are not limited to:

• Periodontics

• Dental Microbiology

• Orthodontics

• Dental implants

Important dates

Submission Deadline: June 16, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: July 5, 2014
Final Version Due: July 19, 2014
Special Issue Publishing Date: July 31, 2014

Smart Materials

About the issue

The topics of this special issue include, but are not limited to:

• Active Materials

• Shape Memory Alloys

• Sensors and Actuators

• Smart Composites

• Piezoelectric and Ferro electric Materials

• Amorphous Semiconducting Materials

• Electro and Magneto Rheological fluids

• Energy Harvesting Materials

• Nano Materials

• Magnetic Quantum Dots

• Quantum Monte Carlo Simulation

• Novel Material

Important dates

Submission Deadline: September 15, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: October 15, 2014
Final Version Due: November 15, 2014
Special Issue Publishing Date: November 30, 2014

Pediatric and Preventive Dentistry

About the issue

The topics of this special issue include, but are not limited to:

• Periodontics

• Dental Microbiology

• Orthodontics

• Dental implants

Important dates

Submission Deadline: June 30, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: July 20, 2014
Final Version Due: July 31, 2014
Special Issue Publishing Date: August 18, 2014

Business Education – Pedagogical practices

About the issue

The topics of this special issue include the following practices and methodologies but are not limited to:

• Design thinking,

• Conceptual maps,

• Project based learning,

• Innovation,

• Project management,

• Competency-based education.

Important dates

Submission Deadline: September 30, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: November 30, 2014
Final Version Due: December 31, 2014
Special Issue Publishing Date: January 31, 2015

Advances in Mathematical Sciences

About the issue

The topics of this special issue include, but are not limited to:

• Applied Mathematics

• Mathematical Physics

• Operator Theory

• Partial Differential Equations

• Applications

Important dates

Submission Deadline: July 31, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: October 31, 2014
Final Version Due: November 30, 2014
Special Issue Publishing Date: December 31, 2014

Anesthesia and Analgesia

About the issue

The topics of this special issue include, but are not limited to:

• Regional anesthesia techniques

• Spinal, epidural and peripheral nevre blocks

• Local anesthetics and adjuvants for pain control

• Catheter–based nerve blocks for pain control

• Ultrasound-guided nevre blocks

• Patient-controlled analgesia

• Regional anesthesia and neuroendocrine stress responses

• Comparison of general and regional anesthesia for pain control

Important dates

Submission Deadline: October 27, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: November 28, 2014
Final Version Due: December 15, 2014
Special Issue Publishing Date: December 29, 2014

Global perspectives on educational leadership in the Middle East and North Africa

About the issue

The topics of this special issue include, but are not limited to:

• 1. Leadership practices and student outcomes

• 2. Globalization, school management, and instructional leadership

• 3. Shared leadership and empowerment

• 4. Effective methods for supporting, assessing, evaluating and developing teacher quality

• 5. Results-based management (RBM) and educational quality

• 6. Inquiry-based professional development

• 7. Peer- and mentor-based communities of practice

Important dates

Submission Deadline: December 01, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: January 01, 2015
Final Version Due: February 28, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: March, 2015

Pharmaceutical residues in environmental samples

About the issue

The topics of this special issue include, but are not limited to:

• Chromatographic Methods

• Measure of the uncertainty in the chromatographic methods

• Monitoring of Pharmaceutical residues

• Environmental risk assessment of the pharmaceutical compounds

• Review of the pharmaceutical residues in food samples

• New methods of extraction for determination of phamaceutical compounds

Important dates

Submission Deadline: November, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: December, 2014
Final Version Due: January, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: February, 2015

Growth and Development in Children and Adolescent: Relation to Sports & Physical Activity

About the issue

The topics of this special issue include, but are not limited to:

• 1. Impact of Growth and Development on Sports & Physical Activity.

• 2. Assessment of Growth and Development in Children and Adolescent.

• 3. Role of Anthropometry in assessment of Growth and Development in Children and Adolescent.

• 4. Genetic basis of Growth and Development in Children and Adolescent.

• 5. Nutritional basis of Growth and Development in Children and Adolescent.

• 6. Hormonal basis of Growth and Development in Children and Adolescent.

• 7. Physiological basis of Growth and Development in Children and Adolescent.

• 8. Psychological and social basis of Growth and Development in Children and Adolescent.

Important dates

Submission Deadline: August 31, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: September 15, 2014
Final Version Due: September 30, 2014
Special Issue Publishing Date: September, 2014

Biosciences, Agriculture and Integrated Crop Protection (BAICP)

About the issue

The topics of this special issue include, but are not limited to:

• Phytopathology

• Integrated pest management

• Pesticides and the environment

• Sustainable plant disease control, Integrated crop protection

• Plant diseases

• Plant extracts for biological control of pests and diseases

• Natural enemies of plant pests

• Spatio-temporal distribution of pests, pest enemies and diseases

• plant regeneration techniques

• Biochemical studies

• medicinal plants, agriculture and food safety, etc

Important dates

Submission Deadline: November 30, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: December 31, 2014
Final Version Due: January 31, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: February 25, 2015

To behavioral approach of corporate governance

About the issue

The topics of this special issue include, but are not limited to:

• Behavioral corporate governance

• Behavioral corporate investment

• Behavioral financing decision

• Behavioral corporate governance

• Managerial psychology

• Managerial optimism and firms’ technical efficiency

• Managerial overconfidence and R&D spending

• Managerial psychology and earning management

• Managerial psychological biases and corporate disclosure

• Managerial psychological biases and environmental disclosure

Important dates

Submission Deadline: December 1, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: March 1, 2015
Final Version Due: June 1, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: June 30, 2015

Microbes for human welfare (or will be discussed with other editors soon)

About the issue

The topics of this special issue include, but are not limited to:

• Waste to energy

• Biomass to energy

• Microbial Biofuel production

• Biodiesel production

• enzyme production

• Bio plastics (Poly hydroxyl Alkanoates) production

• Microbial Fuel Cells

• Bioelectrochemical system

• Wastewater treatment

Important dates

Submission Deadline: September 15, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: November 15, 2015
Final Version Due: November 30, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: December 31, 2015

Recent Trends in Geological Researches

About the issue

The topics of this special issue include, but are not limited to:

• Ore geology

• Env. Geology

• hydrogeology

• disaster management

Important dates

Submission Deadline: June 30, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: July 14, 2014
Final Version Due: July 21, 2014
Special Issue Publishing Date: July 30, 2014

Medical Genetics and Epigenomics

About the issue

The topics of this special issue include, but are not limited to:

• Genetics and epigenetics aspects of all diseases

• Methods and protocols development on high-throughput sequencing, whole genome analysis, bioinformatics and/or computational biology, in silico and biostatistical analyses.

Important dates

Submission Deadline: December 30, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: March 30, 2015
Final Version Due: April 30, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: May 30, 2015

English Language, British and American Studies

About the issue

The topics of this special issue include, but are not limited to:

American Literature, Eighteenth Century Literature, Literary Theory, Medieval Literature, Renaissance Literature, Romanticism, Seventeenth Century Literature, Shakespearean Literature, Victorian Literature, Twentieth Century and Contemporary Literature, Comparative Literature, etc. The field of Linguistics will include Applied Linguistics, Language Teaching, Computational Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Historical Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, Language Acquisition, Sociolinguistics, Bilingualism, Language and Gender, Language Variation and Change, Speech Science, Perception, Theoretical Linguistics, Morphology, Phonology, Phonetics, Pragmatics, Semantics and Syntax.

Important dates

Submission Deadline: December 30, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: January 15, 2015
Final Version Due: January 30, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: February 01, 2015

Environmental Microbiology and Its Social Implications

About the issue

The topics of this special issue include, but are not limited to:

• Environmental Science

• Environmental Microbiology

• Environmental Ethics

• Environmental effects on Social Psychology

• Ecology

• Ecology and Social Sciences

• Energy and Environment

• Hydrology

• Aquatic Microbiology

• Marine Microbiology

• Climatology as related to Microbiology

• Soil Science

Important dates

Submission Deadline: November 15, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: December 15, 2014
Final Version Due: January 15, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: February 01, 2015

Processed foods: chemistry, technology and safety

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• new technologies for quality, damage and disease assessment and prediction; grading and classification techniques; postharvest treatments, value-addition, and traceability

• chemical and physical properties of technologically processed foods and agricultural products

• sensors, sensing technology and process control

• impact and challenges of new technologies

• innovations and the widespread acceptance of new technologies

• development and verification/validation of processing technologies to serve as food safety interventions
  
  

• effectiveness and efficacy of technologies and treatment combinations in extending shelf life, ensuring safety and maintaining the quality of food products.
  
  

• technologies that are particularly promising for the food processor’s use in the quest for enhanced food quality.

Important dates

Submission Deadline: November 15, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: January 15, 2015
Final Version Due: March 15, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: March 30, 2015

Cold-Formed Steel shear wall (CFS)

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

Study about Cold Form Lateral load resistance systems in high rise buildings (CFS) and its behavior with different sheathing panel like OSB, Fiber cement, Betopan and steel under different kind of loading

Important dates

Submission Deadline: December 31, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: March 30, 2015
Final Version Due: April 30, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: May 30, 2015

Nonmetallic Waste Processing

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• Waste and Environment

• Using waste in industry

• Waste and Energy

• Waste and Economy

• Glass waste recycling

• Polymer waste recycling

• Paper waste recycling

• Building materials waste recycling

• Pollution by waste

Important dates

Submission Deadline: August 30, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: September 14, 2014
Final Version Due: October 30, 2014
Special Issue Publishing Date: November 30, 2014

metal–organic frameworks and future needs

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• Synthesis and characterization of MOFs

• Applications of MOFs

Important dates

Submission Deadline: May 15, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: June 15, 2015
Final Version Due: July 15, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: July 31, 2015

Renewable and Clean Energy Systems

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• Wind Energy

• Solar Energy

• Hybrid Renewable Energy

• Optimization and Management of Renewable Energy

• Economic and Environments aspects of Renewable Energy

• Renewable Systems Plans and Successful Experiences of it in Energy

Important dates

Submission Deadline: November 9-10, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: November 31, 2014
Final Version Due: December 25, 2014
Special Issue Publishing Date: December 31, 2014

Fluid Flow and Thermo-Mechanics Engineering

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• fluid flow

• Single phase flows

• Multiphase flows

• Micro-/nanoflows

• Non-Newtonian flows

• fluid mechanics

• Turbulence

• Multiscale simulations

• Compressible flows

• combustion

• turbomachinery

• convective heat transfer

Important dates

Submission Deadline: December, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: January, 2015
Final Version Due: February, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: March, 2015

Geography of Innovation and Economic Clusters: Evidence from Russia

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• Case study on clustering in Russia (overview and in-depth analysis of regional clusters and innovation networks in the regions of Russia);

• Use of economic and statistical methods of analysis in cluster research (analysis of efficiency and drawbacks, SWOT analysis in relation to certain economic sectors and regional economies, factor analysis, etc.);

• Process and mechanism of formation of clusters in Russia (it is proposed to pay special attention to the stage of emergence of a cluster; the cluster initiative and proto-cluster);

• Regional cluster policies (an overview of the role of governmental authorities in establishing favorable economic conditions for the cluster formation);

• Impact and effects of clustering on the regional economy;

• Inter-cluster cooperation (inter-regional and international cluster cooperation; cluster alliances and cluster networks);

• Development of clusters in high-tech and traditional sectors of economy;

• Comparative analysis of organized and organic clusters in Russia;

• Geography of regional clusters in Russia;

• Institutional collaboration within innovative cluster network (university-business-government-non-profit organizations).

Important dates

Submission Deadline: July 31, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: August 15, 2014
Final Version Due: August 25, 2014
Special Issue Publishing Date: September 30, 2014

Breaking the skin barrier: Current advancement in drug delivery via skin

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• Pre-formulations studies of transdermal formulations

• Novel formulations intended for skin delivery

• Permeation enhancement strategies

• Microneedle mediated skin delivery

• In-vitro and In-vivo correlations in skin delivery

• Mathematical modelling of skin permeability

• New Innovations in topical and transdermal drug delivery

• Clinical aspects of topical and transdermal drug delivery

Important dates

Submission Deadline: September 30, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: October 31, 2014
Final Version Due: November 15, 2014
Special Issue Publishing Date: December 15, 2014

Fuzzy sets theory

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• Fuzzy Sets and Systems

• Fuzzy Mathematics and Systems with Applications

• Fuzzy Engineering

• Fuzzy Information

• Artificial Intelligence

• Fuzzy Operation Research and Management

• Fuzzy Logic

• Soft Computing

Important dates

Submission Deadline: September, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: December, 2014
Final Version Due: January, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: June, 2015

Optimizing Patient Care through Effective Pharmacy Practice Models

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• Rational drug use

• Prescribing Practices

• Health Related Quality of Life

• Drug Management

• Healthcare Models

• Community pharmacies

• Pharmacoeconoims studies

Important dates

Submission Deadline: October 01, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: October 31, 2014
Final Version Due: November 15, 2014
Special Issue Publishing Date: December 15, 2014

Teacher Education: Issues and Challenges

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

Teacher Education: Role, Problems and Remedies, Teacher Education at Cross Roads, Today’s Teacher Education-Tomorrow’s Nation, Indicators of Quality in Teacher Education, Teacher Education in 21st Century, Policy Dilemma in Teacher Education, E-Learning and Teacher Education, ICT and Teacher Education, Distance Education and Teacher Education, Code of Professional Ethics for Teacher Educator, Professional Ethics of Teacher Education for Sustainable Future, Constructivist in Teacher Education, Curricula and Courses in Teacher Education, Academic Staff Development and Teacher Education, Examination Reforms in Teacher Education, Research in Teacher Education, Job satisfaction, Total Quality Management in Teacher Education, Professional Upgradation and Teacher Education, Quality Control in Teacher Education, Faculty Improvement Programme for Teacher Education, Performance Appraisal of teachers, Current Trends in Teacher Education, Innovative Practices and Teacher Education, Technology Integrated Teacher Education, Theory and Practice of Teacher Education, Quality Assurance and Teacher Education, RTE and Teacher Education, Teacher Education and Values, Peace Education and Teacher Education. Human Rights Education and Teacher Education; Life skills and Teacher Education, Inclusive education and Teacher Education, Liberalization, Privatization, Globalization, Problems and Prospects of Teacher Education, Knowledge Based Society & Teacher Education, Professionalism and Teacher Education.

Important dates

Submission Deadline: October 01, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: November 30, 2014
Final Version Due: December 30, 2014
Special Issue Publishing Date: January, 2015

Remediation Technologies for Clean and Green Environment

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• Bioremediation

• Composting Technology

• Dye decolourization

• Environmental Toxicology

• Environmental Education

• Environmental Engineering and Biotechnology

• Health Safety and Environment

• Pollution

• Toxicology

• Waste Management and Treatment

Important dates

Submission Deadline: October 30, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: November 30, 2014
Final Version Due: December 15, 2014
Special Issue Publishing Date: December 30, 2014

Advanced Materials

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• Optimum Design

• Stress analysis

• Mechanics of materials

• Functionally Graded Materials

• Application of advanced materials for Biomechanics& Biomaterials

Important dates

Submission Deadline: November 01, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: July 01, 2015
Final Version Due: May 01, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: August 01, 2015

Research in the Teaching of biological and medical sciences higher education

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• teaching biochemistry,

• teaching in immunology;

• teaching in parasitology;

• teaching in microbiology;

• teaching in pathology; pharmacology;

• teaching in molecular biology;

• teaching in cell biology

Important dates

Submission Deadline: October 31, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: December, 2014
Final Version Due: January, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: February, 2015

Recent Trends in Microbial Research

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• Agricultural Microbiology

• Bioinoculant Technology

• Environmental Microbiology

• Fermentation Technology

• Food Microbiology

• Industrial Microbiology

• Marine Microbiology

• Medical and Clinical Microbiology

• Microbial Biotechnology

• Microbial Ecology

• Molecular Microbiology

• Pharmaceutical Microbiology

Important dates

Submission Deadline: October 20, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: November 20, 2014
Final Version Due: December 10, 2014
Special Issue Publishing Date: December 25, 2014

Conservation Agriculture for Sustainable Intensification

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• Conservational Agriculture (CA) among smallholder farming communities

• CA in mitigating climate change effects

• CA in conserving biodiversity

• CA in conserving natural resources like soil and water

• CA in improving the resources use efficiency of agricultural systems

• CA under crop-livestock-fisheries production system

Important dates

Submission Deadline: October 25, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: November 05, 2014
Final Version Due: November 30, 2014
Special Issue Publishing Date: December, 2015

Sustainable food waste management: current status and future perspectives

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• anaerobic digestion

• composting

• biomethane

• nutrients

• carbon storage

• food waste

• social issues

• climate change

Important dates

Submission Deadline: February, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: May, 2015
Final Version Due: August, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: October, 2015

Food Preservation and Safety Management

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• Bakery product spoilage and preservation

• Chemical Preservatives and Biopreservatives

• Fish spoilage and preservation

• Food Fermentation

• Food Preservation Techniques

• Food Production

• Food poisoning and Food Intoxification

• Food Safety Management and Operations

• Fruits and Vegrtables spoilage

• Herbal Foods

• Mycotoxins

• Personal Hygiene

• Poultry spoilage and preservation

• Single Cell Protein (SCP)

Important dates

Submission Deadline: November 15, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: December 01, 2014
Final Version Due: December 30, 2014
Special Issue Publishing Date: January 30, 2015

Current Issues on Spinal Surgery

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• Spinal surgery, including:

• Neuromuscular scoliosis;

• Idiopathic scoliosis;

• Trauma – advances in care and current development of strategies for preventing spinal cord injuries;

• Rehabilitation in spinal diseases;

• Biomechanical studies on spinal surgery;

• Current development on prosthesis and implants;

• Current techniques and further developments in spinal surgery;

• Preventing complications in spinal surgery;

• Exoskeletons: State of the art.

Important dates

Submission Deadline: December 31, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: January 31, 2015
Final Version Due: March 15, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: April 01, 2015

Small Molecule Inhibitors for Epigenetic Modulation

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• Histone Deacetylases

• Histone Acetyltransferases

• DNA Methyltransferase

• Histone Methylation.

• Histone Demethylase

• Histone Methyltransferase

Important dates

Submission Deadline: December, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: February, 2015
Final Version Due: March, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: April, 2015

Life Sciences in Space

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• Space Medicine

• Space Physiology

• Space Biomechanics

• Space Pharmacology

• Tele-medicine in Space

• Extraterrestrial Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation

Important dates

Submission Deadline: January 15, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: March 01, 2015
Final Version Due: April 01, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: June 01, 2015

Educational psychology studies

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• Educational psychology

• Factors in the teaching and learning of students with learning disabilities

• Learning disorder in students

• The teacher's role in creating a positive environment for learning

• Evaluations of curriculum students are smart and silly.

• The evaluation of student achievement.

Important dates

Submission Deadline: August 30, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: September 15, 2014
Final Version Due: September 30, 2014
Special Issue Publishing Date: October 30, 2014

Integrated Approaches for Sustainable Agriculture

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• Agronomy

• Agricultural Chemistry

• Agricultural Economics

• Agricultural Engineering

• Agricultural Marketing

• Agricultural Microbiology

• Animal Science

• Crop Science

• Dairy Science

• Entomology

• Forestry

• Horticulture

• Pesticide Science

• Seed Science

• Soil Science

• Stored Products Research

Important dates

Submission Deadline: October 30, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: November 30, 2014
Final Version Due: December 15, 2014
Special Issue Publishing Date: December 30, 2014

Infectious Diseases and Alternative Medicines

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• Applied Biochemistry

• Clinical Pharmacy

• Drug Delivery

• Food/Drug Interaction

• Herbal Medicine Research

• Marine algae

• Natural Product Chemistry

• Novel Drug Delivery System

• Pharmaceutical Chemistry

• Pharmaceutical Microbiology

• Phytochemistry

Important dates

Submission Deadline: November 30, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: December 30, 2014
Final Version Due: January 15, 2014
Special Issue Publishing Date: January 30, 2015

Numerical Analysis for Singularly Perturbed Differential Equations and Its Applications

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• Singularly Perturbed Problems,

• Adaptively Generated Meshes,

• Fitted Mesh/Operator Methods,

• Shishkin Mesh,

• Bakhvalov Mesh,

• Moving Mesh Methods,

• Parametric Equations,

• Applications of Singularly

• Perturbed Problems in Applied Mathematics and Engineering

Important dates

Submission Deadline: December 30, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: March 31, 2015
Final Version Due: April 30, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: May 31, 2015

Towards a defined role of neoadjuvant chemotherapy in locally advanced cancer cervix

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• Cancer Cervix, neoadjuvant chemotherapy

• Brain Tumours: temozolmide, reirradiation in recurrent brain gliomas

• Breast cancer: Beyond Taxenes

• Urinary bladder cancer: neoadjuvant chemotherapy

• Treatment related side effects, especially for long term survivors

• Cancer correlation with obesity, and vitamin D deficiency

• Molecular biology of cancer cells on recurrent, whether they are different from that at primary diagnosis

Important dates

Submission Deadline: November 01, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: December 01, 2014
Final Version Due: January 01, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: February 01, 2015

Sensor Systems

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• Wireless Sensor Networks

• Wireless Sensor Systems

• Biology Sensory Systems

• Innovative VLSI Design for Sensors

• RFID Systems

• Ad-hoc Networks

• Reversible Circuit Design

• Grid Systems

• Cloud Systems

Important dates

Submission Deadline: November 30, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: December 31, 2014
Final Version Due: January 31, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: February 25, 2015

Phanerozoic Anoxic Events in North Africa and related Mass-Extinctions

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• Petroleum Geology

• Biostratigraphy

• Structural Geology

• Sedimentology

• Chemostratigraphy

• Geochemistry

• Cyclostratigraphy

• Geochronology

• Mineralogy (related to black shale accumulation)

Important dates

Submission Deadline: October 10, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: October 17, 2014
Final Version Due: November 20, 2014
Special Issue Publishing Date: December 25, 2014

American Journal of Energy Fuel Cell Research

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• Fuel cell

• PEM (Proton Exchange Membrane) electrolyzes/fuel cells

• Electrolyzes/fuel cells in multiscale modelling/simulation study

Important dates

Submission Deadline: February 01, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: March 01, 2015
Final Version Due: April 01, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: May 01, 2015

Rural Development and Disaster Risk Reduction

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• Productive infrastructure,

• Tourism,

• Institutional strengthening

• Risk identification and mitigation,

• Disaster preparedness,

• Risk financing, and economic,

• Legal,

• Institutional and policy frameworks

Important dates

Submission Deadline: September 26, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: October 26, 2014
Final Version Due: April 26, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: May 26, 2015

Recent Trends in Chemical Sciences and Technology

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

Transport phenomena, Reaction engineering, Process simulation and modeling, Bio chemical engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Biotechnology, Chemical Process Modeling, Chemical Process Safety, Chemical Technology, Chemical Reaction Engineering, Electrochemistry Environmental Engineering, Fluid Dynamics, Food Technology, Materials Science, Food technology ,Green engineering, Thermodynamics Novel techniques for water treatment Environmental engineering, Nanotechnology, Pulp and Paper, Separation Processes, Petroleum Engineering, Membrane separation, Thermodynamics Safety management and other related topics.

Important dates

Submission Deadline: September, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: October, 2014
Final Version Due: November, 2014
Special Issue Publishing Date: December, 2014

Analytical Chemistry as an Interdisciplinary Science

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• Separation methods in analytical chemistry

• Techniques and Instrumentation in Analytical Chemistry

• Monitoring of environmental carcinogens, pesticides and Pharmaceutical residues

Important dates

Submission Deadline: September 30, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: October 30, 2014
Final Version Due: November 30, 2014
Special Issue Publishing Date: December 30, 2014

Applied Microbiology

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• Bacteriology

• Virology

• Mycovirus

• Microbial biotechnology

Important dates

Submission Deadline: August 05, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: August 25, 2014
Final Version Due: September 15, 2014
Special Issue Publishing Date: September 30, 2014

Numerical simulation of nano- and micro-scale heat transfer

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• 1. Development and verification of numerical methods for nano- and microscale heat transfer, such as quantum mechanics, molecular dynamics, dissipative dynamics, direct simulation Monte Carlo, and lattice Boltzmann method, etc.

• 2. Computer realization and algorithm optimization of the numerical methods for nano- and microscale heat transfer.

• 3. Physical characterization and mechanism interpretation of the nano- and microscale heat transfer by numerical simulation.

• 4. Multi-scale coupling of different methods.

• 5. High performance computing of nano- and microscale heat transfer.

Important dates

Submission Deadline: December 31, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: February 28, 2015
Final Version Due: April 30, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: May 31, 2015

Soil and water pollution in SIN (Sites of National Interest)

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• Soil, and water pollutants

• Biomonitoring and adverse human health effects

• Environmental epidemiology

• Environmental toxicology

• Fate and behavior of anthropogenic pollutants in soils and water

• Environmental risk management, and public health

• Water and soil monitoring

• Remediation of contaminated sites

• Geochemical maps realization

• Novel physico-chemical techniques of soil and water protection and remediation

• Advances in chemical and biological techniques for environmental monitoring and predicting, as well as new techniques, systems and methods for pollutant analysis

Important dates

Submission Deadline: January, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: February, 2015
Final Version Due: June, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: September, 2015

Technology of Building Materials (Cement, mortar, Concrete, Bricks, gypsum, lime......)

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• All types of cements, mortars and concretes.

• Gypsum, lime and all types of building bricks.

• Ceramics, bioceramics and advanced ceramics.

• Refractories and Refractory cements.

• Biomaterials and nanotechnology.

• All types of Polymers

• Nanomaterials and nanotechnology

• Engineering and materials Sciences

• Environmental and Applied Sciences

Important dates

Submission Deadline: July 31, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: August 31, 2014
Final Version Due: September 30, 2014
Special Issue Publishing Date: October 15, 2014

Cognition In Experimental Animal Psychology

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• Learning and memory in animal models

• Lesions, Brain surgery and cognition in animal models

• Drugs and cognition in animal models

• Cognitive maps

• Social cognition

• New laboratory methods for assessing cognition in animals

• Selective attention in animal learning

• Animal communication

• Perceptual discrimination in animals

• Discrimination and reversal learning in animals

• Retrieval of memory in animals

• Episodic memory in animals

• Representation in animal memory

• Associative memory in animal models

• Avoidance, punishment, and Fear in animals

• Complex learning in animal models

• Contextual cues and memory retrieval in animals

• Visual memory capacity in animals

Important dates

Submission Deadline: December 15, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: January 15, 2015
Final Version Due: January 30, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: February 10, 2015

Philosophy of education: contemporary perspectives

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• Philosophy of Education

• Distance Education

• Educational Technology

• Educational Foundations

• History Education

• Language Education

• Mathematics Education

• Reading Education

• Science Education

• Educational Psychology

• Educational Measurement and Evaluation

• Elementary Education

• Secondary Education

• Higher Education

• Academic Advising and Counseling

• Education Policy and Leadership

• Social Studies Education

• Teacher Education

• Cross-disciplinary areas of Education

Important dates

Submission Deadline: November 14, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: November 29, 2014
Final Version Due: December 12, 2014
Special Issue Publishing Date: January, 2015

The Molecular Mechanisms of Regulatory T Cell Immunosuppression

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• CD4+ T cells

• Regulatory T (Treg) cells

• Gene regulation

• Costimulatory Molecules

• Signal transduction

Important dates

Submission Deadline: September, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: October, 2014
Final Version Due: November, 2014
Special Issue Publishing Date: December, 2014

Teaching Healthcare Techniques By ELearning Technologies Targeting Rural Population

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

Categories:
• Research paper
• Technical paper
• Conceptual paper
• Case study
• Literature review

Core Topics :
1. Peer-to-peer teaching medical techniques to rural populations
2. Clinicians eLearning and midwifery
3. Clinicians teaching first-aid techniques using eLearning in developing or rural areas
4. ELearning and medical education (increasing competency based knowledge and continuing education among doctors, nurses) to help underserved populations
5. ELearning and allied health professions (increasing competency based knowledge and continuing education amongst allied health professionals) to help underserved populations
6. Policy issues and eLearning healthcare problems and opportunities in rural areas
7. Technology issues and expanding eLearning and eTraining for healthcare professionals
8. Other

Important dates

Submission Deadline: November 30, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: January 01, 2015
Final Version Due: April 28, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: May 30, 2015

Systemic lupus erythematosus – clinical aspects and new insights in treatment

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• Specific clinical aspects of systemic lupus erythematosus

• Biologic therapy in systemic lupus erythematosus

• Plasma exchange in systemic lupus erythematosus

• Pregnancy in systemic lupus erythematosus

Important dates

Submission Deadline: March, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: April, 2015
Final Version Due: May, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: June, 2015

Advanced technologies for wastewater treatment

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• Use of Advanced oxidation processes and nanotechnologies for water treatment

• Semiconductor photocatalysis

• Nanomaterial use for water purification

• Solar energy utilization for wastewater treatment

• Biological treatment of wastewaters

• Advanced treatment of water by adsorption

• Wastewater characterization for treatment

• Biological treatment of wastewaters

• Reuse of wastewaters

• Disinfection and disinfection by-products

Important dates

Submission Deadline: September 30, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: November 30, 2014
Final Version Due: December 15, 2014
Special Issue Publishing Date: December, 2014

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ORAL BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• Dental Microbiology

• Biochemistry

• Biophysics

• Genetics

• Immunology & other disciplines of dentistry.

Important dates

Submission Deadline: July 31, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: August 08, 2014
Final Version Due: August 15, 2014
Special Issue Publishing Date: August 22, 2014

Viral infection prevention and treatment by natural means

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• 1. Prevention and treatment of viral infection

• 2. Effect of blood alkanization on viral infection

Important dates

Submission Deadline: December 31, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: January 31, 2016
Final Version Due: February, 2016
Special Issue Publishing Date: March, 2016

Advancements in Agriculture in the Tropics

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• Crop science and agronomy

• Agro-biotechnology

• Soil and water management

• Plant health

• Agricultural Microbiology

• Livestock development

• Climate change

• Climate Smart Agriculture

• Pharmaceutical and medicinal properties of natural / indigenous herbs

• Alternative livestock feed

• Veterinary Public Health and Preventative Medicine

Important dates

Submission Deadline: September 30, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: October 30, 2014
Final Version Due: November 21, 2014
Special Issue Publishing Date: December 10, 2014

The Psychological and Physiological Aspects of Writer’s Block

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• ESL/EFL/ELT

• Psychology

• Vocabulary

• Applied Linguistics

Important dates

Submission Deadline: October 30, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: November 16, 2014
Final Version Due: December 05, 2014
Special Issue Publishing Date: December, 2014

Periodontal medicine - a new branch in Periodontology

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• 1. Oral diseases

• 2. Periodontal disease

• 3. Cardiovascular diseases

• 4. Neurology (stoke, cerebral insult)

• 5. Respiratory diseases

• 6. Endocrinology (Diabetes mellitus, hypo and hyperthyroidism)

• 7. Gynecology (preterm birth and low weight infants)

• 8. Rheumatology (Rheumatoid Arthritis, Osteoporosis)

• 9. Oral cancers

Important dates

Submission Deadline: August 01 - September 30, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: November 30, 2014
Final Version Due: December 20, 2014
Special Issue Publishing Date: January - February, 2015

Review and Future Scope of Computational Modeling, Simulation and Optimization Techniques in Engineering Science and Industrial Technology

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• Linear and nonlinear Programming

• Integer Programming

• Goal Programming

• Quadratic Programming and Related Topics

• Model Analysis

• Multi-objective Optimization

• Network Optimization

• Inventory Control

• Queueing control

• Non-differentiable Optimization

• Non-differentiable Optimization

• Operations Research

• Optimal design and Control

• Parallel Optimization Algorithms

• Artificial Intelligence

• Fractional Programming

• General Constrained Optimization

• Stochastic Optimization

• Systems for Optimization

• Reliability Engineering

• Simulation and optimization models in emerging areas of Engineering & Technology

Important dates

Submission Deadline: February 25, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: March 25, 2015
Final Version Due: April 25, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: May 30, 2015

Environmental management of major project in Africa

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• Management of social insertion of major project.

• The understanding of mechanisms of surveillance and environmental monitoring in context of major project.

• Analysis of making Environmental Impact Assessment.

Important dates

Submission Deadline: November 01, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: November 30, 2014
Final Version Due: December 15, 2014
Special Issue Publishing Date: December 24, 2014

Recent Trend and Development scenario for Modeling of Physical Sciences

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• Mathematical models

• Boimathematical modeling

• CFD , Biomechanical system

• Simulation

• Arterial model

Important dates

Submission Deadline: August 01, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: August 20, 2014
Final Version Due: September, 2014
Special Issue Publishing Date: September 20, 2014

Computer, Brain and Consciousness

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• Quantum computation in the brain

• Possibility to achieve nano-brain architecture and brain-like computers

• Possibility of hyper computational system

• Superluminal motion and the speed of spooky action at distance

• The origin of consciousness from the standpoint of quantum physics and the role of quantum vacuum

• Coherence between living systems via ZPF field and quantum vacuum dynamics

• Other related topics.

Important dates

Submission Deadline: January 30, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: March 30, 2015
Final Version Due: April 30, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: May 30, 2015

Application and Future Scope of Fundamental Mathematical and Computational Sciences in Engineering & Technology

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• • Probability Theory and Statistics

• • Statistical Inference

• • Population Studies

• • Statistical Survey and Sampling Techniques

• • Pure and Applied Mathematics

• • Mathematical Physics

• • Differential Geometry

• • Mathematical and Statistical Methods

• • Modeling and Simulation Techniques

• • Optimization Techniques

• • Linear and nonlinear Programming

• • Integer Programming

• • Goal Programming

• • Quadratic Programming and Related Topics

• • Multi-objective Optimization

• • Network Optimization

• • Inventory Control

• • Supply Chain Management

• • Queueing control

• • Non-differentiable Optimization

• • Operations Research

• • Optimal design and Control

• • Parallel Optimization Algorithms

• • Artificial Intelligence

• • Fractional Programming

• • General Constrained Optimization

• • Stochastic Optimization

• • Systems for Optimization

• • Reliability Analysis

• • Fuzzy Logic

• • Basic and Advanced Computing

• • Computer Science & Engineering

Important dates

Submission Deadline: November 10, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: November 30, 2014
Final Version Due: December 15, 2014
Special Issue Publishing Date: December 30, 2014

Efficient Algorithms for Computing Solutions of Linear systems with Applications

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• Direct Methods for Linear Systems.

• Iterative Methods for Linear Systems.

• Preconditioning Models for Linear Systems.

• Parallel computations for Linear Systems.

• Block computations for Linear Systems.

• Fuzzy Linear Systems.

• Solution of Saddle Point Problems.

• Solution of Least Squares Problems.

• Solution of system of Algebraic Equations.

• Solution of Gene Rank Problems.

• Applications of linear Systems in integral Equations.

• Applications of linear Systems in Deferential Equations (ODE, PDE, DAE, PDAE, etc).

Important dates

Submission Deadline: February, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: May, 2015
Final Version Due: June, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: July, 2015

Eradication of Diseases of Mind and Foundation of Era of Truth & Peace (Satya-Yuga)

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• Spirit

• Devotion

• Spiritual wisdom

• Gnosis

• Modern Yoga

• Mental disorder

• Metempsychosis

Important dates

Submission Deadline: September 15, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: November 15, 2014
Final Version Due: November 30, 2014
Special Issue Publishing Date: December 31, 2014

Maternal Health

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• Maternal and perinatal health

• Adolescent pregnancy

• Skilled birth attendants

• Midwifery

• Integrated Management of Pregnancy and Childbirth

• Strengthening health system for maternal health care services

Important dates

Submission Deadline: March 30, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: April 15, 2015
Final Version Due: May 15, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: May 30, 2015

Recent Trends in Instrumentation, Control and Automation

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• Recent works in Instrumentation, Control and Automation for:

• • Agriculture

• • Biomedical Engineering

• • Building Automation

• • Condition Monitoring

• • Critical Structures Health Monitoring

• • DCS, SCADA and PLC

• • Remote Sensing and Monitoring

• • Industrial Process Control

• • Signal Processing

• • Solar Energy and Smart Grid

• • Space Research

• • Smart and Intelligent Transduction

• • VLSI and FPGA

• • Wireless Sensor Networks

Important dates

Submission Deadline: October 31, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: December 15, 2014
Final Version Due: February 14, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: March 15, 2015

Pleiotropic effects of statins

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• Evaluating the effect of statins in different autoimmune diseases

• Evaluating the effect of statins in different inflammatory disorders

• Evaluating anti tumor activity of statins

• Comparing the pleiotropic effects among different statins

Important dates

Submission Deadline: February 01, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: March 01, 2015
Final Version Due: April 01, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: May, 2015

Theory, Methods, and Applications of Fractional Calculus in Engineering and Other Sciences

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• Mathematical analysis of fractional calculus operators,

• Optimization techniques and their applications

• Fractional integral inequalities and their q-analogues

• Various inequalities involving the fractional integral and differential operators and so on

• Mathematical analysis of fractional theoretical models

• New methods for solving fractional differential equations

• Applications of fractional operators, including fractional models

• Controllability of fractional systems of differential equations or numerical methods applied to the solutions of fractional differential equations applications in physics, mechanics, and so forth

• Iteration methods for solving partial and ordinary fractional equations

• Numerical functional analysis and applications

• Local and nonlocal boundary value problems for fractional partial differential equations

• Stochastic partial fractional differential equations and applications

• Computational methods in fractional partial differential equations

• Mathematical and computer modeling

• Applications of fractional calculus to real world problems

Important dates

Submission Deadline: February 28, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: May 30, 2015
Final Version Due: July 03, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: July, 2015

Intelligent Materials for Solar Cells

About the issue

This Special Issue covers a large scope of research in material advances energy technologies, and solicits contributions in, but not limited to:

• Materials - advanced characterization techniques High-strength;

• Materials for power electronics;
  
  • Wide band gap semiconductors
  • (SiC, ZnO, diamond, ...)
  • Hard and soft magnetic materials

• Photovoltaic materials and processes;

• Materials - modeling and theoretical aspects;

• Light-induced charge carrier dynamics at nanostructured interfaces;

• Materials for renewable energy storage and conversion;

• Materials for renewable and sustainable fuel production;

• Materials for energy saving;

• Quantum dot intermediate band solar cells;

• Nanocomposites in solar cells

Important dates

Submission Deadline: January 31, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: February 20, 2015
Final Version Due: March 07, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: April 01, 2015

Emerging Trends in Production Research: Concepts and Cases

About the issue

This special volume of the JBMS on the theme “Emerging Trends in Production Research: Concepts and Cases” aims to present the recent advances in emerging trends in production research with analytical concepts and applications to solve the real life problems to the broader operations management and production research community.

Specific topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• • Production Planning, Management and Control.

• • Design and Optimization of Manufacturing and Service Systems.

• • Analytical Approaches to Maximize Returns on Investment.

• • Planning for Bridging the Widening gap between Demand and Supply.

• • Integrated Productivity and Quality Models and their Analysis.

• • Pricing Mechanisms, Cost Analysis and Performance Measurement for Supply Chain Management.

• • Integrated Logistics and Transportation Models.

• • Designing Inventory Models.

• • Suppliers Selection Strategies.

• • Designing Cost cum Time Effective Distribution Channels.

• • Product Dynamics and Demand Forecasting.

• • Vehicle Routing and Scheduling

Important dates

Submission Deadline: August 20, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: August 25, 2014
Final Version Due: August 30, 2014
Special Issue Publishing Date: September 01, 2014

Learner Centered Approach: Preparedness Factor in Student Achievement

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• Learner centered approach in content preparedness.

• Learner centered approach in skill management.

• Teacher-student interaction in learner centered approach.

• Technology integration in learner centered approach.

• Environment as an antidote in learner preparedness.

• Subject preparedness to sustainable learner centered approach.

• Learner characteristics and learner preparedness.

• Models of Learner Centered Approach.

• Research reports on learner preparedness and achievement.

• Systems Approach in learner centered approach.

Important dates

Submission Deadline: October 30, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: November 15, 2014
Final Version Due: November 30, 2014
Special Issue Publishing Date: December 30, 2014

Representational consistency of mathematical models, molecules, fields

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

Index theory, Shape theory, Optical illusions, Visual perception, breast cancer & female reproduction, bisphenol A, blood oxygen level dependence, functional magnetic resonance, Alzheimer disease, image recovery & reconstruction, rheology and biology

Important dates

Submission Deadline: September 18, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: September 30, 2014
Final Version Due: October 16, 2014
Special Issue Publishing Date: November 07, 2014

Different ways of applied psychology nowadays, in Brazil

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• clinical psychology;

• clinical cases reports;

• hospital psychology;

• different theories inside psychology;

• Institutional psychology

• Psychossomatics

Important dates

Submission Deadline: September 10, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: September 20, 2014
Final Version Due: October 10, 2014
Special Issue Publishing Date: October 20, 2014

Maxillofacial Rehabilitation

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• Cleft Lip and Palate

• Maxillofacial Oncosurgery

• Maxillofacial Prosthodontics

• Auricular, Ocular and Nasal defects

• Intraoral rehabilitation

• Esthetic Treatment of Maxillofacial region

Important dates

Submission Deadline: November 30, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: January 15, 2015
Final Version Due: February 15, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: March 31, 2015

Labor Market: the actual problems of theory and practice

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• 1. Labor Market Theory

• 2. Labor Market Institutions

• 3. Labor Market Governance

• 4. Labor Migration

• 5. Employment and Unemployment

• 6. Labor Market Gender Issues

• 7. Labor Motivation and Labor Promotion

• 8. Labor Productivity and Efficacy

• 9. Labor Market Discrimination

• 10. Labor Market and equality problem

• 11. Job Security

• 12. Job flexibility and satisfaction

• 13. Education and wage

• 14. Etc.

Important dates

Submission Deadline: December 25, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: February 25, 2015
Final Version Due: April 15, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: May, 2015

Analysis of Varies Educational Technologies in Undergraduate Programmes

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• 1. Innovation in teaching and learning techniques

• 2. Critically explore their role as a teacher. Deliver effective, theory-based instruction in large group, small group and clinical settings.

• 3. Discuss the role of the undergraduate and specialty curricula in teaching

• 4. Recognize, plan, deliver and evaluate teaching opportunities

• 5. Understand what is meant by “good” assessment; design a self-assessment/peer assessment exercise. Effectively use assessment tools to reflect student progress and to promote student learning.

Important dates

Submission Deadline: October, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: November, 2014
Final Version Due: December, 2014
Special Issue Publishing Date: January, 2015

Energy Infrastructure in Emerging Markets

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• • Energy Policy Initiatives

• • Regulatory Measures for Energy Conservation

• • Role of Energy Infrastructure in the development of emerging markets

• • Energy Financing

• • Energy Audit

• • Renewable Energy Potential in Emerging Markets

• • Energy Prices, Inflation and Growth Issues

Important dates

Submission Deadline: October 30, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: November 15, 2014
Final Version Due: November 30, 2014
Special Issue Publishing Date: December 15, 2014

Chronic/persistent bacterial infection: bacteria, virulence and host-pathogen interaction

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• 1. Quorum sensing and virulence

• 2. Antibiotic tolerance

• 3. Persister formation

• 4. Biofilm development

• 5. Bacterial adaptation and metabolism

• 6. Host-pathogen interaction

• 7. Interactions and persistence in the environment and plants

• 8. Host susceptibility

• 9. Anti-infective therapy

Important dates

Submission Deadline: March 31, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: June, 2015
Final Version Due: August 31, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: October 30, 2015

Contemporary Issues and Trends in General and Special Education: Nationally and Internationally

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

Special Education, Technology, Reviews of literature on a trend or Issue (ie Bilingual Education, Inclusion, Medication, Testing, Parents, etc.) relevant to curriculum of preschool elementary, secondary, and adult learners.

Important dates

Submission Deadline: October 30, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: December 31, 2014
Final Version Due: January 30, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: March/April, 2015

Recent Development of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• Analytical Method of Assays and degradation

• Liquid Chromatography, Spectrophotometric, Electrochemical Methods, Capillary Electrophoresis, Gas Chromatography, etc..

• Analysis and Validation Methods

Important dates

Submission Deadline: June 15, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: July 15, 2015
Final Version Due: August 30, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: October 01, 2015

Recent Trends in Special Partial Differential Equations: classical and non-classical mixed-composite type equations

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• • Problems involving operators and mixed type operators with local and nonlocal boundary conditions

• • Numerical functional analysis and applications

• • Functional Differential Equations of special types

• • Mathematical and computer modeling

• • Equations of gas and hydrodynamics, aerodynamics

• • Local and nonlocal boundary value problems for partial differential equations

• • Mixed Hyperbolic -Elliptic Keldish type and Parabolic equations with changing type direction

• • Local and Nonlocal Boundary Value Problems for Parabolic ,Elliptic and Hyperbolic Partial Differential Equations Degenerating type

• • Local and Nonlocal Boundary Value problems for Linear and Nonlinear Equation mixed and composite type

• • Stochastic partial differential equations and applications

• • Well-Posed and Ill-posed Boundary Value Problems for Non-classical Partial Differential Equations

Important dates

Submission Deadline: December 25, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: January 15, 2015
Final Version Due: February 01, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: February 20, 2015

Time, Space and Matter: open questions and new perspectives

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• Novel models of space and time

• Alternative formulations of Theory of Relativity

• Open question in relativistic physics

• Arrow of time

• Measure of time and clocks synchronization

• Physical and Psychological time

• Origin of matter: open questions and new proposals

• The origin of space, time and matter in “standard” and novel cosmological models

• Time and space in quantum mechanics

• Cosmology from the standpoint of superluminal matter particles

Important dates

Submission Deadline: March 31, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: May 31, 2015
Final Version Due: August 01, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: September 01, 2015

Holistic approach in education research; Qualitative and quantitative paradigms

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• • Research design

• • Holistic approach (qualitative methodology)

• • Challenges of quantitative methodology

• • Ethical challenges of education research

• • Development of research instruments

• • New perspective of education research

• • The role of statistics in education research

• • Action research

Important dates

Submission Deadline: June 15, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: July 15, 2015
Final Version Due: October 15, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: December, 2015

Ongoing Research on Economic and social theory on sustainability

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• • Case study on the current economic theories on sustainability issues, their benefits, limitations and new proposals

• • Management of across-generation stocks: economic and financial stocks, human stocks, environmental stocks, social stocks

• • Use of economic and statistical methods of analysis in panel data research (Econometric Methodology: Sequential Panel Selection Method and Panel KSS test, Testing for multiple structural breaks, analysis in relation to certain economic sectors and regional economies, factor analysis, etc.)

• • Time-series and cross-section studies, testing stationarity on individual time series

• • Panel data models to construct and test more complicated behavioral models

• • Impact and effects of panel data on the country or regional economy

• • Modern approaches to measuring wellbeing

• • Mathematical Models for Wellbeing, Domestic Output and Current Account sustainability

• • Method discussing the use of Pesaran's panel unit root test for testing the current account sustainability and Kapetanios's method, the standard augmented Dickey–Fuller (ADF) regressions, Nonlinear panel test and Serial Correlated Errors

• • Results presenting the tabulated outcomes and critical values and the tests investigated by Monte Carlo experiments/simulations.

Important dates

Submission Deadline: January 31, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: February 15, 2015
Final Version Due: March 25, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: April 30, 2015

Antibiotic Resistance & Drug development

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• 1. antibiotic resistance

• 2. mechanism of resistance

• 3. transmission/ transfer of antibiotic resistance

• 3. virulence

• 4. emergence of antibiotic resistance

• 5. mutation

• 6. plasmids

• 7. horizontal gene transfer

• 8. transposons

• 9. integrons

• 10. evolution

• 11. drug development

Important dates

Submission Deadline: April 30, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: July, 2015
Final Version Due: September 30, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: October 30, 2015

Endothelium Role in Pancreas Organogenesis and Regeneration

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• Endothelial cells at the pancreatic niche.

• Endocrine Pancreas development (current concepts).

• Exocrine Pancreas development (current concepts).

• Transcription Factors involved in endocrine and exocrine pancreas development.

• Endothelial Signaling during pancreas organogenesis.

• Endothelial Signaling for pancreatic maturation-Islet Vasculature.

• Endothelial signaling for pancreas regeneration.

• Endothelium and artificial pancreas.

Important dates

Submission Deadline: December 10, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: January 30, 2015
Final Version Due: February 20, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: March 30, 2015

Challenge and Trends in Food Processing

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• New technologies in food processing

• Chemical and physical properties in foods

• Analyses in foods

• Food chemistry

• Food microbiology

• Food engineering

• Food packaging

Important dates

Submission Deadline: March, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: June, 2015
Final Version Due: September, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: November, 2015

Emerging Technologies for Learning

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• E-Learning

• M-Learning

• Social Computing

• Information Society

• Learning Multimedia Tools

• Instructional Technologies

• Online and Blened Learning

• Cloud Computing for Learning

• Knowledge Management System

• Web 2.0 and Digital Teaching Tools

• Advanced Applications in Education

• Smart / Adaptive Learning Class Room

• Technology Infrastructure for Learning

• Social Networking Sites as Learning Tool

• Ubiquitous Technology Enhanced Learning

• Management Information System for Education

• Information Technology and Teacher Education

• Technology Facilitated Testing and Assessment

• Emerging Tools and Technology for Digital Contents

• Information Communication Technology and Education

• Artificial Intelligence in Education/ Intellignt Tutoring System

• Innovation in Software and Hardware Technology for Education

Important dates

Submission Deadline: November 30, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: December 20, 2014
Final Version Due: January 15, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: February 01, 2015

Emerging Role of Disease Biomarker

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• Clinical application of Infectious disease biomarkers

• Genomic and proteomic technologies in Infectious disease biomarker discovery

• Genomic biomarkers in health and disease

• Potential biomarkers in infectious diseases and cancer therapeutics

Important dates

Submission Deadline: December 31, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: February 29, 2016
Final Version Due: March, 2016
Special Issue Publishing Date: April, 2016

Modern Education and Security Information

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• Modern Education in Europe.

• QS Ranking Universities in the world

• Security Information.

• Protection Information.

• Parallel computing for solving transport tasks.

Important dates

Submission Deadline: September 01, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: September 05, 2014
Final Version Due: September 05, 2014
Special Issue Publishing Date: September 08, 2014

Removal of pharmaceutical active compounds (PhACs) from water and wastewater

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• 1. Prevalence of antimicrobial resistance among pathogenic bacteria in non-clinical environment.

• 2. Technologies for removal of PhACs from water and wastewater by microbial process (biodegradations) and nanotechnology.

Important dates

Submission Deadline: September 30, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: October 30, 2014
Final Version Due: November 30, 2014
Special Issue Publishing Date: December, 2014

Microbial Bioremediation in Polar Environment

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• Bioremedition Techniques

• Bioaugmentation and Biostimulation Treatment

• Biotechnology

• Molecular Biology

• Molecular Ecology

• Hydrocarbonoclastic Bacteria (HCB)

• Oil degrading bacteria

• Oil Spill in Polar Environment

• Psicrophyles and Extremophyles

Important dates

Submission Deadline: April 01, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: April 30, 2015
Final Version Due: May 30, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: July 01, 2015

Numerical and Analytical Modeling in the Engineering Applications

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• Heat transfer modeling.

• Fluid flow modeling.

• Chemical process modeling.

• Electrical circuit modeling.

• Industrial modeling.

• Stress modeling.

• All other engineering modeling can be considered.

Important dates

Submission Deadline: January 01, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: January 15, 2015
Final Version Due: January 30, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: March, 2015

Advance in Cloud Computing

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• Gene expression data analysis

• CRM and ERP

• Virtualization in cloud computing

• Cloud Implementation

• Cloud Services

• SaaS,PaaS,IaaS,StaaS

• Concept of Map Reduce

• Big Data Analytics

• Hadoop

• Data Mining

• Data sharing through network

• NAS,SAN

• Networking in Cloud

Important dates

Submission Deadline: February 16, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: March 15, 2015
Final Version Due: April 15, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: May 15, 2015

Ebola virus: a global threat

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• What is Ebola virus?

• Epidemiology

• Global response to Ebola outbreaks

• Current strategies to diagnosis, treatment, prevention and control

Important dates

Submission Deadline: November 20, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: December 10, 2014
Final Version Due: December 30, 2014
Special Issue Publishing Date: January, 2015

Aquaculture & Zoology Vision in 21^st century

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

Zoology - Applied genetics & biotechnology , Pathology & Microbiology , Changing Climate and protection of biodiversity , Developmental biology , Integrated & sustainable approach towards species diversification. Animal physiology , Cell biology , Taxonomy and its modern approaches . Environmental Management .

Aquaculture - Fish breeding, Hatchery Management, Fish Genetics biotechnology & other diverse fields of Aquaculture

Important dates

Submission Deadline: July, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: August, 2015
Final Version Due: October, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: December, 2015

Mitochondria in complex disorders and cancer

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• Mitochondrial DNA mutations associated disorders and diseases

• Mitochondria and its role in Cancer

• Mitochondria in infertility

• Mitochondrial talk with nucleus

• Mitochondria as a potential therapeutic targets

Important dates

Submission Deadline: March, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: May, 2015
Final Version Due: July, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: August, 2015

Regional studies

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• Theoretical contributions in line with the spatial economics, location modeling, and empirical research over inter-industry analysis;

• The aspects of demography and migration;

• Transportation analysis;

• Urban and rural development, including land use and resource management;

• Environmental and ecological analysis;

• Regional development policy analysis, industrial and innovative development of the regions;

• Articles on geographical information systems, spatial data analysis.

Important dates

Submission Deadline: October 20, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: November 10, 2014
Final Version Due: November 24, 2014
Special Issue Publishing Date: December 01, 2014

Journal of Dental Health Research and Review

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

General Dentistry and other allied fields of Dentistry

Important dates

Submission Deadline: October 15, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: October 22, 2014
Final Version Due: October 24, 2014
Special Issue Publishing Date: October 26, 2014

Open Education and Collaborative Learning

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• Blended Learning

• E-learning

• Massive Open Online Courses

• Interactive Learning Environments

• Network-Based Learning Environments

• Collaborative Learning

• Didactic/Pedagogical Issues and Teaching/Learning Strategies

Important dates

Submission Deadline: January 31, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: March 31, 2015
Final Version Due: March 31, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: July 31, 2015

Applicability of Soft Computing in NP Hard Problems

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• NP Hard Problems

• NP Complete Problems

• Cellular Automata

• Diploid Genetic Algorithms

• Genetic Algorithms

• ACO

• Neural Networks

• Fuzzy Logic

• Travelling Salesman Problem

• Subset Sum problem

• Knapsack problem

• Vertex Cover problem

• Maximum Clique Problem

• SAT3 Problem

Important dates

Submission Deadline: January 08, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: February 18, 2015
Final Version Due: February 26, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: March, 2015

Sustainable Urban Planning in the 21st century

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• Metropolitan Urban Planning

• Future Cities-The Challenge Of Sustainability

• The New Sustainable Approaches In Urban Planning

• Social Planning with Sustainable Principles

• New Sustainable Urban projects

Important dates

Submission Deadline: November 30, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: December 31, 2014
Final Version Due: February 28, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: March 31, 2015

Exploring Translational Research: Applications of Molecular Biology and Computational Investigations in Drug Discovery and Repositioning for Neglected Diseases.

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• • Pharmaceutical, Medicinal Chemistry and Phytochemistry

• • Drug Delivery systems

• • Chemoinformatics

• • Molecular Biology investigations

• • Vaccine development

• • Virus: Dengue/Severe dengue

• • Protozoa: Chagas disease, trypanosomiasis, leishmaniases

• • Helminth: Lymphatic filariasis, schistosomiasis, soil-transmitted helminthiases

• • Bacteria: Buruli ulcer, Leprosy (Hansen's disease)

• • Other bacterial, viral, fungal and parasitic diseases of unmet medical needs

• • Collecting, storing and analyzing the chemical data in drug discovery

• • Analysis of strategies regarding drug discovery and repositioning approved by the US FDA

• • Key patent-related problems in drug discovery and repositioning

• • Application of GWAS studies in drug discovery

• • Bioinformatics and high-throughput screening platforms for studying new drugs and potential repositioning candidates

Important dates

Submission Deadline: January 10, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: February 20, 2015
Final Version Due: March 30, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: April 30, 2015

Innovative Biomedical Systems for Diagnostic & Clinical Purposes

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• Nanomaterials& Nanotechnology

• Drug Delivery Systems

• Tissue Engineering & Artificial Organs

• Biomaterials in Clinical Practices

Important dates

Submission Deadline: December 29, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: February 01, 2015
Final Version Due: February 28, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: March 20, 2015

Developments on Theoretical Physics and Applied Mathematics

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• Dynamical Systems;

• Chaos Theory;

• Quantum Mechanics;

• Classical and Quantum Field Theory;

• Gravity and Cosmology;

• Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime.

Important dates

Submission Deadline: January 16, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: February 27, 2015
Final Version Due: March 13, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: March 31, 2015

Computer Applications and Business Management techniques for Optmizations of Resources in Underdeveloped Countries for their Dvelopment

About the issue

The Topics of the special Issue are as given below:

• 1) Management of Natural Resources in Underdeveloped Countries.

• 2) Problems of Underdeveloped Countries.

• 3) Optimization of Human Resourses in Underdeveloped Countries.

• 4) Use of Computers for various applications areas in underdeveloped Countries.

Important dates

Submission Deadline: January 31, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: February 05, 2015
Final Version Due: February 14, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: March 20, 2015

Green methods and green catalysts in the synthesis of heterocyclic and drug compounds

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• Synthesis of Heterocyclic chemistry compounds by using green methods and green catalysts, nanocatalysts.

• Synthesis of medicinal chemistry (drug) compounds by using green methods and green catalysts, nanocatalysts.

Important dates

Submission Deadline: November 30, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: December 15, 2014
Final Version Due: February 01, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: March 01, 2015

The new paradigm in wound management

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• 1. Wound dry management

• 2. Foul smell wound care

• 3. Frequency of wound dressing replacement

• 4. Chronic wound management

• 5. Diabetic wound management

• 6. Wound in Chronic venous insufficiency

• 7. Wound in malignancy

Important dates

Submission Deadline: June 30, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: July 15, 2015
Final Version Due: July 30, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: August 31, 2015

The Glory of Database, Data Warehouse and Data Mining

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• • Database

• • SQL

• • Unstructured data

• • Very Large Database

• • WWW and Database

• • XML and Database

• • Data Mining

• • Text Mining

• • Web Mining

• • Knowledge Discovery

• • Knowledge Extraction

• • Knowledge Mining

• • Knowledge Analysis

• • NLP (Natural Language Processing)

• • Data Analysis

• • Machine Learning

• • Information Retrieval

• • Data Warehouse

• • ETL (Extraction Transformation and Loading)

• • Business Intelligence

• • DSS (Decision Support System)

• • EIS (Executive Information System)

• • Expert System

• • Big Data

• • Mobile application with Data Mining technology

• • Mobile application with Data Warehouse technology

Important dates

Submission Deadline: January 21, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: February 21, 2015
Final Version Due: March 21, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: April 21, 2015

Developing Hands-On Problem Solving Abilities and Inquiry-Based Science Education from Science and Technology Contests

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• Science education and science technology contests

• Science inquiry learning

• Critical thinking

• Self-directed learning

• Social cognitive learning

• Implicit science learning

• Assessing science learning effect from STC

Important dates

Submission Deadline: April 30, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: June 30, 2015
Final Version Due: September 30, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: November 30, 2015

Bioinformatics and computational genomics

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• Bioinformatics

• computational biology

• biostatistics

• data mining

• machine learning

• analysis of high dimensional data

• sequence data analysis, microarray data anaylsis

Important dates

Submission Deadline: December 31, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: January 31, 2016
Final Version Due: February 28, 2016
Special Issue Publishing Date: March 31, 2016

Metallic Nanoparticles

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in this issue include:

• Techniques and methods for synthesis of metallic nanoparticles

• Process development for scale-up of metallic nanopowders

• Advanced characterization techniques

• Functionalization of metallic nanoparticles

• Applications of metallic nanoparticles

Important dates

Submission Deadline: December 01, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: June 01, 2015
Final Version Due: July 01, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: August 01, 2015

Transparency and ethics in public sector management

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• Causes and consequences of corruption

• Budget transparency

• Values, actions and behaviours of politicians

• E-government

• Public engagement in public policies

• Monitoring public sector management

• Government relationships and public accountability

• Budgetary oversight

• Societal accountability

Important dates

Submission Deadline: February 28, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: March 30, 2015
Final Version Due: July 03, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: July 30, 2015

Design and alignment of lower limb orthoses and prostheses according to the physiological behavior and body weight

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• Measurement of physical and physiological activity in adults and in children

• Measuring the amount of the applied load is static and locomotion

• Validation and reliance

• New methods to transfer data from different tissues in locomotion, simultaneously

• Lower limb biomechanics in symptomatic and in asymptomatic population

• Methods and apparatus to enhance the accuracy of design and alignment of lower limb orthosis / prosthesis

Important dates

Submission Deadline: March 01, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: May 01, 2015
Final Version Due: July 01, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: August 01, 2015

Big data- Models, Management, Protection & Integrity

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• 1. Foundational Models, Algorithms, Programming Techniques for Big Data Processing

• 2. Scientific Applications of Big Data

• 3. Database management system for Big data

• 4. Big Data Analytics and Metrics, Representation Formats for Multimedia Big Data.

• 5. Big Data Persistence and Preservation,

• 6. Scalable Computing of Big Data

• 7. Big Data Quality and Provenance Control, Management Issues of Social Network enabled Big Data.

• 8. Models and Languages for Big Data Protection.

• 9. Privacy Preserving Big Data Analytics Big Data Encryption

• 10. Anomaly Detection in Very Large Scale Systems

• 11. Collaborative Threat Detection using Big Data Analytics.

• 12. Big Data in Enterprise Management Models and Practices

• 13. Experiences with Big Data Project Deployments

• 14. Big Data in Business Performance Management

• 15. Big Data Open Platforms

• 16. Data Intensive HPC

• 17. Big Data in Mobile and Pervasive Computing

• 18. Big data and the internet of things

• 19. Software and tools for big data management

• 20. Big data visualization, simulation and performance evaluation

Important dates

Submission Deadline: November 30, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: December 30, 2014
Final Version Due: January 20, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: February 20, 2015

Maternal and Child Health

About the issue

The Sub head topics could be:

Maternal Health:

• Communicable & non communicable diseases

• Pregnancy related issues

• Reproductive tract infections and Sexually transmitted diseases

Child Health:

• Neonatal problems

• Growth & development

• Nutrition related

• Adolescence and health aspect of children in special setting

Important dates

Submission Deadline: January 31, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: March 31, 2015
Final Version Due: April 30, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: June, 2015

Recent advances on the synthesis and applications of optical materials

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• New optical materials, new synthesis techniques, new phenomena

• Rare earth oxides and rare earth doped ceramics

• Hybrid optical materials

• Low-dimensional systems, quantum dots, single-particle spectroscopy

• Characterization techniques of optical materials

• Luminescence mechanisms and energy transfers

• Theory and modeling of optical processes

• Optical sensors

• Medical imaging and bioimaging

• Optical materials in photovoltaics and biophotonics

Important dates

Submission Deadline: February 21, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: March 22, 2015
Final Version Due: May 12, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: June, 2015

Libraries without Walls in Changing Scenario

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• • Concept, need, and importance of libraries without walls in changing scenario in view of users, their experience and approaches to the evaluation of new services, impact with the assessment of usability and accessibility.

• • The use and benefit of libraries without walls to the distance learners in their education, research and extension education work with a special model or system.

• • The role of librarians, information scientists, professionals, managers to keep abreast of the latest developments in this vital area, service delivery and managing change in a complexity rich environment.

• • The library and information center's role within new models of scholarly publishing, including experience of developing services based on institutional or other repositories, Mobile Technology and its Application in Library Services and the responsibility of the libraries for digitations.

• • The new kinds of services, especially those that open up new paradigms of library in changing scenario of libraries without walls.

Important dates

Submission Deadline: January 20, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: February 20, 2015
Final Version Due: March 15, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: April 15, 2015

Advances In Data Mining And Knowledge Discovery

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• Theory and Foundational Issues

• Data Mining Methods

• Algorithms for Data Mining

• Knowledge Discovery Process

• Application Issues

Important dates

Submission Deadline: March 15, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: April 15, 2015
Final Version Due: May 01, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: May 25, 2015

Big Data Analytics in Intelligent Systems

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• Critical Infrastructure Data Analytics

• Cyber Security and trust

• Big Data Analysis

• Real time sensor analysis

• Machine Learning

• Intrusion Detection

• Control System

• Wireless Networks

• Data fusion

• Visualization of big data with applications to intelligent systems

• Networking and Communication Architectures

Important dates

Submission Deadline: May 31, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: July 31, 2015
Final Version Due: August 31, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: September 30, 2015

Internal Combustion Engines

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• Alternative fuels.

• Simulation of Combustion processes.

• Multi dimensional combustion models.

• Methanol, Ethanol, LPG, hydrogen and natural gas fuels.

• Biodiesel and vegetable oils fuels.

Important dates

Submission Deadline: January, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: February, 2015
Final Version Due: March, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: April, 2015

Freshwater algae under extreme conditions

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• 1) characteristics of diversity, ecological and floristic-taxonomical peculiarities of freshwater algae;

• 2) phenotype variability under extreme conditions freshwater algae;

• 3) physiological and biochemical response of freshwater algae to climate change and pollution;

• 4) freshwater algae as bioidicators of extreme conditions.

Important dates

Submission Deadline: January 15, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: March 01, 2015
Final Version Due: May 01, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: June, 2015

Recent Trends in Environmental Biotechnology and Bioenergy

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• Bioremediation and Biosorption

• Green technologies

• Environmental pollution monitoring

• Industrial pollution- control technologies

• Municipal /Solid waste Management

• Environmental modeling

• Biofuels, Waste to Energy, Alternative energy

Important dates

Submission Deadline: December 31, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: January 20, 2015
Final Version Due: February 02, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: May 25, 2015

Advanced Nanoparticle Research

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• • Material Chemistry

• • Nanoscience

• • Complexometric study

• • Sensor

• • Instrumentation

• • Nanoparticle synthesis and Application

Important dates

Submission Deadline: March, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: April, 2015
Final Version Due: June, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: July, 2015

Ethical Issues and Controversies in Medicine

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• • Initiating and terminating medical treatment issues.

• • End of life care issues.

• • Genetic and prenatal testing issues.

• • Birth control and Abortion issues.

• • Harvesting embryonic stem cells to treat diseases issues.

• • Organ donation and transplantation issues.

• • Patient's personal health information and maintenance of confidentiality by doctors'.

• • Patient rights, responsibilities.

• • Consent.

• • Malpractice.

• • Standard of patient care in today's world.

• • Euthanasia issues.

• • Exercise of ethical responsibility in patient care.

• • Ethical dilemmas in health service delivery.

• • The conduct of research involving human participants.

Important dates

Submission Deadline: March 15, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: May 15, 2015
Final Version Due: June 15, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: July 15, 2015

Big data analytics in Smart Buildings

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include

(1) Big data in building design:

• • Lighting/daylighting system design

• • Building energy and lighting simulation

• • Building retrofit

(2) Big data in building control:

• • Smart lighting control

• • Smart HVAC control

• • Envelop control

(3) Big data in building management:

• • Project bidding

• • Risk management

• • Project delivery system

Important dates

Submission Deadline: May 31, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: June 30, 2015
Final Version Due: July 31, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: September 01, 2015

Prevention of infectious disease

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• Biomedical Sciences in prevention of Infectious Disease (ID) - basic science

• Comparison of ID prevention practices and policy between countries of different socio-economic background: US Vs India-clinical/medical/hospital

• Role of a pharmacist in prevention of ID- Pharmacy

• Public health planning and infrastructure: Community wide approach to prevention of ID-public health

Important dates

Submission Deadline: January 31, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: February 28, 2015
Final Version Due: March 20, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: April, 2015

Journal of advanced multidisciplinary dental research

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• Oral Medicine

• Oral Pathology

• Orthodontics

• Prosthodontics

• Pedodontics

• Periodontics

• Community dentistry

• Geriatric dentistry

• Oral Surgery and Restorative dentistry

Important dates

Submission Deadline: November 30, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: December 07, 2014
Final Version Due: December 10, 2014
Special Issue Publishing Date: December 15, 2014

Journal of Advance Researches of Ring Theory

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• 1. Ring theory, both commutative and non-commutative.

• 2. Structure of finite groups and algebraic groups.

• 3. Representation of finite groups.

• 4. Combinatorics, Galois theory.

• 5. Quantum group.

• 6. Combinatorial group theory.

• 7. Semigroup theory.

Important dates

Submission Deadline: April 05, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: April 20, 2015
Final Version Due: May, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: June 01, 2015

Multidisciplinary aprroach to gender equality in authorships of women in tehnical, chemical and sociological Sciences

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• Marginalisation of female works in different subfields or disciplines such as Sociological, Natural, Technical Sciences

• Emphasizing the positive example of involving the women on the basis of gender equal perspective

• Marking the place where the changes are necessary in relation to female and male scientific contributions

• Naming the focal points and reasons for involvmant for supporting the stronger involvmant of women in Science

• Positive force of female authorships in Sciences

• Why do we need female scientists? Legal side and streotypes on authorships of women.

Important dates

Submission Deadline: December 15, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: February 15, 2015
Final Version Due: April 15, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: July 15, 2015

Educational interventions and barriers in their implementation

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• Integrated curriculum vs. traditional curriculum

• Clinical teaching is it time to change

• Equipping physicians with teaching skills

• What do we want to change curriculum or students

• Future doctors what they would be like

• Teachers are barriers in implementation of curriculum

• New trends in medical education

Important dates

Submission Deadline: January 30, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: February, 2015
Final Version Due: March, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: April, 2015

Transportation infrastructure and foreign direct investment—cases from emerging markets with special focus on Latin America

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• Role of transportation infrastructure and macroeconomic variables on the attractiveness of foreign direct investment in developing countries with special focus on Latin America.

• Explore what are the key determinants of foreign direct investments and who are the key FDI decision makers.

• Identify what are the key determinants of public and private investment in transportation infrastructure.

• Document how foreign direct investors evaluate the efficiency of transportation infrastructure systems in each country.

• Assess how much investment in public capital stocks (i.e. airports, highways and the like) increases output.

• Document mechanisms for carrying out self-financing infrastructure projects outside of existing budget caps.

• Use of economic and statistical methods of analysis in panel data research.

Important dates

Submission Deadline: December 28, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: January 31, 2016
Final Version Due: February 28, 2016
Special Issue Publishing Date: March 31, 2016

Multivariate Techniques and Forecasting Techniques with Data Interpretations in Business Models: Applications and Cases

About the issue

Specific topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• • Simple Tabulation and Testing of Dependence through Cross Tabulation

• • Cases on Chi Square Test of Goodness of Fit

• • Applications and Interpretations on ANOVA (One Way/ CRD, Two Way/ RBD, LSD)

• • Managerial Decision in Association and Causation between the Variables through Correlation

• • Estimation and Prediction through Regression and Curve Fitting

• • Logistic Regression Analysis for Classification and Prediction

• • Data Reduction through Factor Analysis

• • Discriminant Analysis for Classification and Prediction

• • Designing of Product through Conjoint Analysis

• • Positioning in Target Market through Multi-Dimensional Scaling

• • Market Segmentation by Cluster Analysis

• • Structural Equation Modeling for Complex Models

• • Applications of One Sample or Two Samples Parametric Test like: t Test, F Test, Z Test, Chi Square Test of Variance

• • Cases on Distribution Free Non-Parametric Tests: Runs Test, Sign Test, Mann Whitney U Test, Kolmogorov-Smirnov Test, Wilcoxon Test, Kruskal-Wallis Test, Spearman’s Rank Test, Chi- Square Test, Cochran Test, McNemar Test, Median Test

• • Forecasting Analysis in Business models: Trend Analysis, Seasonal Variation, Exponential Smoothing, Delphi Technique

Important dates

Submission Deadline: November 30, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: December 10, 2014
Final Version Due: December 15, 2014
Special Issue Publishing Date: December 25, 2014

Special issue on Cryptography & Network Security

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• Computational Number Theory

• Cryptanalytic Attacks, Cryptographic Protocols

• Digital Rights Management, Identity Theft & Phishing In Networks

• Intrusion Detection & Prevention

• Key Management & Quantum Cryptography, Key Management In Networks

• Mobile, Ad Hoc & Sensor Network Security

• Naming & Addressing Vulnerabilities

• Network Security Applications

• Public Key & Conventional Algorithms & Their Implementations

• Public Key Infrastructure, Advance Encryption Standard, Data Encryption Standard

• Secure System Architectures, Security Policy, Security Protocols Digital Rights Management

• Security Threats: DDOS, MIM, Session Hijacking

• Trust Establishment, User Privacy, Location Privacy

Important dates

Submission Deadline: February 25, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: February 28, 2015
Final Version Due: March 10, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: March 15, 2015

Magnetic field effect on nanofluid hydrothermal behavior

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• Naonofluid Flow and heat transfer

• Effect of magnetic field on Flow and heat transfer

• Ferrofluid flow and heat transfer

• Heat transfer modeling.

• Fluid flow modeling.

Important dates

Submission Deadline: January 30, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: February 28, 2015
Final Version Due: March 15, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: March 30, 2015

Sustainable Maize production for Small holders

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• • Maize production status in Nepal and south Asia

• • Characterization of maize production system

• • Problems, issues and challenges of maize production for small holders

• • Maize livestock interaction

• • Agronomic management focus for small holders

• • Conservation agriculture practices for maize production

• • Management of biotic and abiotic stress for maize production with special focus to small holders

• • Postharvest management and reduce the post-harvest loss

Important dates

Submission Deadline: May 15, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: June 25, 2015
Final Version Due: July 25, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: August, 2015

Educational Technology, Communication and Learning

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• Educational Technology

• Educational Communication

• Distance Education

• Computer Supported Collaborative Learning

• Online Learning

• New Media

• Social Presence in Online Learning

• Social Networks and Learning

• Online Collaboration

• Online Communities

• Distributed Learners

• Computer Mediated Communication

• Social Media and Electronic Communication

• Social Networking Sites as Communication and Learning Tools

• Communication and Learning Styles

• Communication Patterns

Important dates

Submission Deadline: July 10, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: July 20, 2015
Final Version Due: September 10, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: September 30, 2015

Journal of Oral Biological Research and Review

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• General Dentistry and other allied fields of Dentistry

Important dates

Submission Deadline: January 08, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: January 15, 2015
Final Version Due: January 20, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: January 25, 2015

Nocturnal Enuresis: What Is to Be Done?

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• a) Considerations about the pathogenesis

• b) New considerations about the physiopathology

• c) The safety and the efficacy of the treatments

Important dates

Submission Deadline: March 31, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: March 31, 2015
Final Version Due: April 30, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: May 31, 2015

Advancement in Fiber Composite

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• Natural fiber composite- design development, structural studies, performance evaluation, and comparison with synthetic/polymer fiber composite, glass fiber composite etc.,

• Carbon fiber composite- recent development, application, and studies describing the effectiveness of carbon fiber composite utilization,

• Effects of resin system selection on the performance properties of fiber composite

• Fiber composite utilization in aerospace, automotive, building, civil construction,

• Processing/ finishing of fiber composite,

• Evaluation of fiber composite etc.

Important dates

Submission Deadline: June, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: July, 2015
Final Version Due: August 15, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: August 31, 2015

Recent Advances in Natural Antimicrobials For Food Preservation

About the issue

Specific topics of interest include but are not limited to:

1. Natural antimicrobials of plant origin

• Plant extracts

• Spice

• Herbs

• Essential oils

• Phenolic compounds

• Organic acids

2. Animal derived antimicrobials

• Lysozyme

• Lactoperoxidase

• Lactolipids

• Lactoferrin

• Lactoglobulins

• Immunoglobulin Y

3. GRAS microbial metabolites

• Organic acids

• Bacteriocins

• Bacteriocin like peptides

• Diacetyl

• Hydrogen peroxide

4. Natural antimicrobials in hurdle technology

Important dates

Submission Deadline: June 01, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: October 01, 2015
Final Version Due: December 01, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: December 15, 2015

Potential of Nano-Cellulose for Health-Care-Systems

About the issue

Potential topics include, but not limited to the following areas:

• 1. Extraction and characterization of nano-cellulose

• 2. Surface modification or functionalization of nano-cellulose

• 3. Processing methods of nano-cellulose

• 4. Nano-cellulose for drug-delivery applications

• 5. Nano-cellulose for bone tissue engineering

• 6. Nano-cellulose for skin tissue engineering

• 7. Nano-cellulose for cardiovascular tissue engineering

• 8. Nano-cellulose for cartilage tissue engineering

• 9. Nano-cellulose for neural tissue engineering

• 10. Nano-cellulose for DNA-labelling

• 11. Nano-cellulose for bio-sensing

Important dates

Submission Deadline: August 15, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: October 15, 2015
Final Version Due: November 10, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: December 30, 2015

Global Economic Development: the role of entrepreneurship, management, economics and technological advancement

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• 1. Entrepreneurship and poverty alleviation

• 2. Financial management and organizational performance

• 3. The role of developed economies in the least developed countries quest for economic progress

• 4. Economic integration and global economy

• 5. Non-governmental organizations and economic development of underdeveloped states

• 6. Politics and economic development in Africa and South-East Asia

• 7. SMEs contribution to economic development and associated challenges

• 8. Management and organizational success in developing countries

• 9. Technological advancement management and global economy

Important dates

Submission Deadline: February 15, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: March 02, 2015
Final Version Due: March 20, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: March 01, 2015

Evidence in Dentistry

About the issue

Potential topics include, but not limited to the following areas:

• All the areas of dentistry covering Orthodontics, Pedodontics, Conservative Dentistry, Periodontics, Oral Surgery, Oral Diagnosis, Prosthodontics, Oral Health, Motivation

Important dates

Submission Deadline: June 06, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: July 10, 2015
Final Version Due: August 15, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: August 30, 2015

Application of Palladium catalyzed cross-coupling reactions in Medicinal Chemistry

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• 1. Heck Reaction

• 2. Suzuki Reaction

• 3. Sonogashira Reaction

• 4. Negishi Reaction

• 5. Buchwald-Hartwig Amination Reaction

• 6. Stille Reaction

Important dates

Submission Deadline: April 20, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: May 20, 2015
Final Version Due: June 20, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: July, 2015

Advances in gynecology and obstetrics

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• • Fetal Doppler

• • HIV in Pregnant Women

• • Placental Function Tests

• • Maternal-Fetal Relations

• • Pregnant Women

• • Case reports in gynecology and obstetrics

Important dates

Submission Deadline: March 15, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: April 15, 2015
Final Version Due: April 30, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: May 20, 2015

Advanced Materials

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• Inorganic materials

• Organic materials

• Display technologies

• Nanomaterials

• Crystal growth

• Corrosion control

Important dates

Submission Deadline: August 12, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: September, 2015
Final Version Due: October, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: November, 2015

Behçet's syndrome: epidemiological data, disease manifestations, and recent advances in treatment

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• 1. Behçet's Syndrome epidemiology

• 2. Different disease manifestations (mucocutaneous, ocular, cardiovascular, neurological…)

• 3. The disease management, the treatment advances

• 4. The disease outcomes

Important dates

Submission Deadline: July 01, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: July 20, 2015
Final Version Due: August 01, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: Septmber, 2015

Advances in Breast Cancer

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• Markers

• Epidemiology

• Genetics

• Drugs

• Cancer therapy

• Cancer Care

• Case reports

• Surgery

• Radiology

• Pathology

• Imaging

• Psychosocial

• Quality of Life

• Risk factors

Important dates

Submission Deadline: April 15, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: May 30, 2015
Final Version Due: June 15, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: June 30, 2015

Language practices, professional reference and professional skills

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• • Language practice in the Work environment

• • Focus on the relationship between use of language and the development of language skills

• • Verbal interactions between social players in working environments

Important dates

Submission Deadline: February 21, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: March 14, 2015
Final Version Due: March 28, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: April 22, 2015

Lifelong Education

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• • Life long Education

• • Life long learning

• • Pedagogy of life long education

• • Forms of life long Education

• • Life long education , issues and challenges

Important dates

Submission Deadline: March 31, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: April 15, 2015
Final Version Due: April 30, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: May 31, 2015

Nanomaterials and their Applications

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• • Synthesis of nanomaterials

• • Sensors

• • Photocatalysis

• • Batteries

• • Biomedical applications

• • Catalysis

Important dates

Submission Deadline: August 05, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: August 20, 2015
Final Version Due: August 30, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: September 10, 2015

Recent Advances in Controlled Drug Delivery Systems

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• • Development of novel strategies for control drug delivery systems

• • Formulation characterization, manufacturing and translation

• • Theory and Kinetics of Drug release

• • Process development, optimization and scale-up

Important dates

Submission Deadline: August 30, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: September 30, 2015
Final Version Due: October 30, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: November, 2015

Schooling and the new ways of social reproduction: perspectives on policy research

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• • Crisis, austerity and education

• • The RVCC and Education for All

• • University pedagogy versus teacher training

• • Exclusion and the ways of their school production

• • Empirical research on comparative education

• • Social reproduction and vocational education

• • Labor market and education, an adversarial relationship

Important dates

Submission Deadline: July 15, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: August 15, 2015
Final Version Due: October 31, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: December, 2015

Chemical Sensors

About the issue

Core issues of the special are listed in general and will not be restricted only to them. Instead all relevant topics will be covered.

• 1. Materials for sensor applications (transducers /host components etc.)

• 2. Bio sensors

• 3. Actuators

• 4. Sensing mechanisms

• 5. Sensing devices (Electrochemical/adsorption based/ optical and optoelectronic)

• 6. Environmental applications

Important dates

Submission Deadline: August 01, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: August 25, 2015
Final Version Due: September 15, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: November, 2015

Special issue on Multimedia Processing over Mobile Cloud

About the issue

Potential topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• • Enhanced QoE/QoS for mobile video with cloud support

• • Mobile video content delivery in the cloud

• • Video search on mobile devices with cloud support

• • Distributed caching for mobile cloud video

• • Mobile video processing in the cloud

• • Media cloud resource management for video applications

• • Metadata management for mobile video applications

• • Mobile video analytics in the cloud

• • Context-aware mobile video over the cloud (e.g., location, user, etc)

• • Video adaptation for mobile cloud

• • Location-based mobile video services

• • User-centric video adaptation in the cloud

• • Interactive video rendering for mobile devices

• • Service-oriented video management

• • Cloud-based mobile video system and applications

• • Security and privacy for mobile cloud video

• • Mobile video networking in the cloud

• • Mobility management for cloud video

• • Mobile cloud video over future Internet (e.g., SDN, NDN)

• • Synthesis between mobile video and social networking with cloud support

• • Cost optimization (e.g., energy, monetary cost, etc) in mobile cloud video

• • Video/image editing/authoring on mobile devices with cloud support

• • Security of Multimedia over mobile Cloud

Important dates

Submission Deadline: August 25, 2016
Notification of Acceptance: September 15, 2016
Final Version Due: September 30, 2016
Special Issue Publishing Date: October 05, 2016

Electric, power and kinetic properties of electromagnetic fields and waves and their use for the creation of new technologies and devices.

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• • Electromagnetic Wave Theory;

• • Electric and magnetic fields in material media;

• • Properties of the magnetic fields and their use;

• • RF and Microwave technology;

• • RF and Microwave Circuit Design.

Important dates

Submission Deadline: April 10, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: April 30, 2015
Final Version Due: July 05, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: July 30, 2015

Health Promotion and Disease Prevention: Africa Viewpoint

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• 1. Healthcare associated infections: protecting patients/clients and saving lives

• 2. HIV/AIDS

• 3. Ebola Virus Disease

• 4. Youths problems such as teen pregnancy, substance use/abuse

• 5. Immunization

• 6. Hypertension

• 7. Maternal and child health

• 8. Mental health issues

• 9. Parasitic diseases

• 10. Injuries, violence against children and women

• 11. Disease detection and emergency preparedness and response

• 12. Diabetes and obesity

• 13. Access to healthcare

• 14. Clinical aspects related to health and patient care.

Important dates

Submission Deadline: April 30, 2016
Notification of Acceptance: May 15, 2016
Final Version Due: May 31, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: June 15, 2016

Information Modeling and Sensing Technologies in Construction (IMSTC)

About the issue

Main topics include:

• • Information Technology (IT) Applications in Construction

• • Building Information Modelling (BIM)

• • Remote Sensing and Integrated Smart Systems Technologies

• • Robotics and Hardware Automation

Sub-topics are:
Computing and planning tools, Augmented and Virtual Reality, Automation and Robotics, Building Information Modeling (BIM), BIM Integration with Automation and Robotics, Web-based BIM, Computing and Conceptual Design, Field Robotics, Fleet Management and Dispatching, Machine Control Systems, Management Systems, Real-Time Systems, Safety Improvement Systems, Semantic Methods and Systems, Site Control Systems, Supervisory Control, Telerobotics, Unmanned Measurement and Production, Advanced Surveying and Positioning, Geographic Information Systems and Spatial Databases, Laser Scanners, Instrumentation and Sensors, Positioning Methods and Systems, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), Networking and Communications, 5G Network Project Information Management, RFID, Ultra-Wide Broadband.

Important dates

Submission Deadline: August 15, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: September 15, 2015
Final Version Due: November 15, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: December 10, 2015

Psycholinguistic and Cognitive Perspectives on L2 Acquisition

Creating Sustainable Functional Education: Rethinking the Curriculum and Instructional Implementation

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• • English as a Second Language (ESL)

• • English language education

• • Applied linguistic

• • Multilingualism

Important dates

Submission Deadline: July 15, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: July 31, 2015
Final Version Due: August 15, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: August, 2015

Advances in Non-Hodgkin Lymphomas

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• • Markers

• • Epidemiology

• • Genetics

• • Drugs

• • Cancer therapy

• • Cancer Care

• • Case reports

• • Surgery

• • Radiology

• • Pathology

• • Imaging

• • Psychosocial

• • Quality of life

• • Risk factors

Important dates

Submission Deadline: August 30, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: September 15, 2015
Final Version Due: September 30, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: October 20, 2015

Femtosecond x-ray diffraction studies for matter in extreme conditions of high pressure and high temperature

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• • Simultaneous time-resolved in situ x-ray diffraction

• • Rietvield refinement technique for refining the crystal structure of a compound including cell parameters, atomic positions and Debye-Waller factors etc.

• • High pressure phase transitions or polymorphisms, and the implications for meteorite impact events and material science

• • Planetary physics and geoscience, shock metamorphism for minerals.

Important dates

Submission Deadline: February 01, 2016
Notification of Acceptance: April 01, 2016
Final Version Due: May 01, 2016
Special Issue Publishing Date: September 01, 2016

Cloud Security, Data Engineering

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• 1. Cloud Computing Architectures and Cloud Solution Design Patterns

• 2. Infrastructure, Platform, Application, Business, Social, and Mobile Clouds

• 3. Storage, Data, and Analytics Clouds

• 4. Self-service Cloud Portal, Dashboard, and Analytics

• 5. Security, Privacy, and Compliance Management for Public, Private, and Hybrid Clouds

• 6. Cloud Quality Management and Service Level Agreement (SLA)

• 7. Cloud Configuration, Performance, and Capacity Management

• 8. Cloud Workload Profiling and Deployment Control

• 9. Cloud Software Patch and License Management

• 10. Cloud Migration

• 11. Cloud Composition, Federation, Bridging, and Bursting

• 12. Cloud Resource Virtualization and Composition

• 13. Cloud Provisioning Orchestration

• 14. High Performance Cloud Computing

• 15. Cloud Programming Models and Paradigms

• 16. Autonomic Business Process and Workflow Management in Clouds

• 17. Green Cloud Computing

• 18. Innovative Cloud DevOps, Cloud Applications and Experiences

• 19. Economic, Business and ROI Models for Cloud Computing

• 20. Cloud Computing Consulting

Important dates

Submission Deadline: July 20, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: August 10, 2015
Final Version Due: September 20, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: September 30, 2015

Health Scenario 2015; Millennium Development Goals

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• Communicable Diseases

• Non communicable Diseases

• Maternal Health and Child Health related

• Growth, Development & Nutrition related

• Adolescence and health aspect of children in special setting

• Geriatric Problems

• Psychological or Psychiatric Problems

• Other Health Related Topics and Issues : General, Managerial, Emergency, Health Care Delivery System

Important dates

Submission Deadline: September 30, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: October 15, 2015
Final Version Due: October 28, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: November 01, 2015

Ensuring the quality of higher education – 3

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• 1. The concept, criteria and indicators of quality in higher education

• 2. Monitoring the quality of higher education

• 3. Improving the educational process: content, methods, forms, and training tools

• 4. Management of higher education

• 5. Comparative studies

Important dates

Submission Deadline: September 30, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: October 31, 2015
Final Version Due: November 30, 2015
Special Issue Publishing Date: December 31, 2015

Colorectal Cancer: Symptoms, Diagnosis and Treatment

About the issue

The scope of topics covered in the this issue include:

• Risk factors

• Case Report

• Genetics

• Chemotherapy

• Radiotherapy

• Epidemiology

• Surgery

• Radiology

• Pathology

• Imaging

• Psychosocial

• Quality of Life

Important dates

Submission Deadline: January 20, 2016
Notification of Acceptance: January 30, 2016
Final Version Due: February 10, 2016
Special Issue Publishing Date: February 15, 2016

Higher Education in Global Scenario : Emerging Issues, Challenges and New Directions

About the issue

The topics to be covered by this special issue include, but are not limited to:

• 1. Higher Education in the 21st century.

• 2. Development of Higher Education in India and other countries.

• 3. Growth, Challenges and Opportunities in Higher Education.

• 4. Changing Context of Higher Education in the Global Scenario.

• 5. Higher Education in India and other countries: Its Position and Claims.

• 6. Problems and Prospects of Higher Education in the World.

• 7. Present Status and Future Perspectives of Higher Education.

• 8. Social Dimensions of Higher Education.

• 9. Social Mobility and Access to Higher Education.

• 10. Social Media in Higher Education.

• 11. Comparative studies in Higher education.

• 12. Higher Education among Minorities.

• 13. Socio-economically Backward Communities and Higher Education.

• 14. Various Issues in Higher Education: Liberalization, Privatization and Globalization (LPG).

• 15. Towards Reforming Higher Education, Changing role of Teachers in Higher Education.

• 16. Higher Education and International Co-operation.

• 17. Skill Development and Higher Education.

• 18. Higher Education and Moral Values.

• 19. Role of Open and Distance Education in Higher Education.

• 20. Online learning and Higher Education.

• 21. MOOC in Higher Education.

• 22. Internationalization and Innovation in Higher Education.

• 23. Innovations in Higher Education System- ICT, E-Learning, Mobile Learning.

• 24. Virtual Higher Education.

• 25. Higher Education for Sustainable Development.

• 26. Quality Management, Quality Assurance and Quality Control in Higher Education.

• 27. The concept, criteria and indicators of quality in Higher Education.

• 28. Excellence in ICT Enhanced Higher Education.

• 29. Higher Education and Autonomy.

• 30. Improving the educational process: content, methods, forms, and training tools in Higher education.

• 31. Management of Higher Education.

• 32. TQM in Higher education.

• 33. Human Resource Management in Higher Education.

• 34. Leadership in Higher Education.

• 35. Higher Education policies in Developing Countries.

• 36. Equal opportunity in Higher Education.

• 37. Life-Long Learning and Higher Education.

• 38. Research in Higher Education.

• 39. Role of Higher Education in Human Rights.

• 40. Various Organizations of Higher Education.

• 41. Marketization of Higher Education in World.

• 42. Restructuring Higher Education in various countries.

• 43. Students’ Participation in Quality enhancement of Higher Education.

• 44. Employment and Career Development of College / University students.

• 45. Educational Technology for Higher Education.

• 46. Right to Education and Revitalizing Higher Education.

• 47. The National Higher Education Mission (RUSA): Issues, Challenges and Suggestions.

• 48. Issues of Policy Planning, Management & Governance of Higher Education.

• 49. E-Governance in Higher education.

• 50. New directions and Innovations in Higher Education.

• 51. Higher Education: Culture and Society.

• 52. Any other topics related to Higher Education.

Important dates

Submission Deadline: May 15, 2016
Notification of Acceptance: May 31, 2016
Final Version Due: June 15, 2016
Special Issue Publishing Date: Last week of July, 2016

The Wireless Systems and Their Security

About the issue

The topics to be covered by this special issue include, but are not limited to:

• Wireless communication systems

• Wireless web networks

• Wireless power transfer systems

• Cryptography within the mobile technologies

• Mobile communication technologies

• The mathematical modeling regarding this topic

Important dates

Submission Deadline: July 01, 2016
Notification of Acceptance: August 01, 2016
Final Version Due: September 01, 2016
Special Issue Publishing Date: October 01, 2016

International Journal of Business Infrastructure in Developing Economies

About the issue

The topics to be covered by this special issue include, but are not limited to:

• 1. Sustainability and the green and lean management Infrastructure

• 2. Diversity management in a global environment Infrastructure

• 3. Business Process Management and Web Services Infrastructure

• 4. Common risk factors Infrastructure in commodities

• 5. Sustainability and Management Infrastructure

• 6. Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainable Design Infrastructure

• 7. Sustainable Design and Business Strategy Infrastructure

• 8. Sustainability and Accounting Infrastructure

• 9. Sustainability and Finance and Economic Infrastructure

• 10. Sustainability and Social Media Infrastructure

• 11. Sustainability and Online Community Infrastructure

• 12. Sustainability, Green IT and Internet Infrastructure

• 13. Innovation of Green Technologies Infrastructure

• 14. Sustainability and Green Campus Infrastructure

• 15. Education Infrastructure for Sustainability

• 16. Sustainability and Curriculum Infrastructure frameworks

• 17. Sustainability and Future Generation Infrastructure

• 18. Sustainability and e-Society Infrastructure

• 19. Tourism Infrastructure

• 20. Urban – Non Urban Economic and Social Infrastructure

• 21. Sustainable Service Industry Infrastructure (Industries like: Banking; Hospitality; Education; Transportation etc.)

Important dates

Submission Deadline: August 15, 2016
Notification of Acceptance: October 15, 2016
Final Version Due: October 20, 2016
Special Issue Publishing Date: November 01, 2016

Managerial Decision-Making Strategy using Statistical Techniques in Business Research Models: Concepts and Cases

About the issue

This special volume of the JBMS on the theme “Managerial Decision-Making Strategy using Statistical Techniques in Business Research Models: Concepts and Cases” aims to present the recent advances in statistical techniques with framing inference, data interpretation and managerial decision to solve the real life problems to the broader in different business research models in addition to concepts, applications and cases of management research community. It encourages exchange, cooperation and collaboration among business, industry and Government. This special issue encompasses and bridges the following fifteen broad statistical techniques through theories, concepts, applications, and case studies.

The topics to be covered by this special issue include, but are not limited to:

• Simple Tabulation and Testing of Dependence through Cross Tabulation

• Cases on Chi Square Test of Goodness of Fit

• Applications and Interpretations on ANOVA (One Way/ CRD, Two Way/ RBD, LSD)

• Managerial Decision in Association and Causation between the Variables through Correlation

• Estimation and Prediction through Regression and Curve Fitting

• Logistic Regression Analysis for Classification and Prediction

• Data Reduction through Factor Analysis

• Discriminate Analysis for Classification and Prediction

• Designing of Product through Conjoint Analysis

• Positioning in Target Market through Multi-Dimensional Scaling

• Market Segmentation by Cluster Analysis

• Structural Equation Modeling for Complex Models

• Applications of One Sample or Two Samples Parametric Test like: t Test, F Test, Z Test, Chi Square Test of Variance, etc.

• Cases on Distribution Free Non-Parametric Tests: Runs Test, Sign Test, Mann Whitney U Test, Kolmogorov-Smirnov Test, Wilcoxon Test, Kruskal-Wallis Test, Spearman’s Rank Test, Chi- Square Test, Cochran Test, McNemar Test, Median Test, etc.

Important dates

Submission Deadline: January 31, 2017
Notification of Acceptance: February 28, 2017
Final Version Due: March 15, 2017
Special Issue Publishing Date: March 30, 2017

Synthesis and characterization of nanomaterials

About the issue

The topics to be covered by this special issue include, but are not limited to:

• Synthesis of nanomaterials (sol gel, hydrothermal, mechanical alloying, ..)

• Characterization of nanomaterials (XRD, SEM, AFM, VSM, PL,…)

• magnetic properties of nanomaterials

• Optical properties of nanomaterials

• Applications of nanomaterials (magnetism, optoelectronics, solar cells, medicine, ..)

Important dates

Submission Deadline: June 30, 2017
Notification of Acceptance: August 15, 2017
Final Version Due: September 15, 2017
Special Issue Publishing Date: December, 2017

Anti-crisis and post-crisis policy processes - Challenges of economic science

About the issue

The topics to be covered by this special issue include, but are not limited to:

• International Economics

• European Union

Important dates

Submission Deadline: June 10, 2018
Notification of Acceptance: June 30, 2018
Final Version Due: July 30, 2018
Special Issue Publishing Date: September 01, 2018

Toxicology, Ecotoxicology and pathology

About the issue

The topics to be covered by this special issue include, but are not limited to:

• Toxicological effects of xenobiotics

• Relation between Ecosystem status and the human pathology

• Drugs and their negative effects on physiology

• natural substances as antidotes

• Medicinal plants and their application in antitoxic effects.

Important dates

Submission Deadline: May, 2017
Notification of Acceptance: June, 2017
Final Version Due: July, 2017
Special Issue Publishing Date: July, 2017

Strategic Management, Sustainable Tourism, Eco-tourism, Human Resources Management; Co-management; Tourist Behavior, Customer behavior, Organization Behavior

About the issue

The topics to be covered by this special issue include, but are not limited to:

• sustainable coastal-tourism

• coastal-development

• coastal-ecotourism

• cultural-ecotourism

• coastal impact

• green hotel

• green marketing

• image analysis

• beneficial image

• co-management

Important dates

Submission Deadline: February 25, 2018
Notification of Acceptance: March 20, 2018
Final Version Due: April 10, 2018
Special Issue Publishing Date: April 25, 2018

Hybrid Perovskite materials

About the issue

The topics to be covered by this special issue include, but are not limited to:

• Inorganic-organic thin film fabrication techniques.

• Inorganic-organic hybrid Perovskite materials for optoelectronics applications.

• Organic perovskite materials for optoelectronics applications.

Important dates

Submission Deadline: April 30, 2017
Notification of Acceptance: May 10, 2017
Final Version Due: May 30, 2017
Special Issue Publishing Date: July 01, 2017

Potential pharmacological intervention in hepatocellular carcinoma

About the issue

The topics to be covered by this special issue include, but are not limited to:

• Molecular targets In HCC

• Immunotherapy for HCC

• Drug resistance in HCC

• Pharmacogenomics studies in HCC

Important dates

Submission Deadline: June 27, 2017
Notification of Acceptance: July 30, 2017
Final Version Due: August 20, 2017
Special Issue Publishing Date: September, 2017

Recent Trends in Foreign Language Training: Theory and Practice

About the issue

The topics to be covered by this special issue include, but are not limited to:

• Foreign Language Education (FLE) in the 21st century.

• Changing Context of FLE in the Global Scenario.

• ICT, e-learning, distance learning, MOOCs in FLE.

• Language for Special Purposes (LSP) Teaching and Learning.

• Recent Trends of Professional Foreign Language Training.

• Innovations in FLE.

• Designing Virtual Foreign Language Environment.

• The New Concept of FLE.

• Foreign Language Instructors Development.

• Improving FLE process: contents, methods, forms, and training tools.

Important dates

Submission Deadline: January 15, 2018
Notification of Acceptance: January 30, 2018
Final Version Due: February 20, 2018
Special Issue Publishing Date: March 10, 2018

Application of Advanced Control Techniques in Wind Turbines

About the issue

The topics to be covered by this special issue include, but are not limited to:

• Robust technique of control

• Artificial intelligence control

• Synchronous generator

• Double feed induction generator

• Asynchrone generator

Important dates

Submission Deadline: September 15, 2017
Notification of Acceptance: November 01, 2017
Final Version Due: November 20, 2017
Special Issue Publishing Date: December 10, 2017

The link between Politics, Philosophy and Life. An investigation into the paradox of biopolitical government

About the issue

The topics to be covered by this special issue include, but are not limited to:

• Politics and life, an investigation.

• The capture of human life by contemporary politics

• The administration of life through biopolitics

• The inhibition of human life by law and a proposal for a new way of life

Important dates

Submission Deadline: June 30, 2017
Notification of Acceptance: July 10, 2017
Final Version Due: August 31, 2017
Special Issue Publishing Date: September 05, 2017

Analytical Chemistry

About the issue

The topics to be covered by this special issue include, but are not limited to:

• Pharmaceutical chemistry

• Analytical chemistry

• Medicinal chemistry

• Pharmacognosy

• Phytomedicine

• Regulatory Affairs

• Instrumental Analysis

Important dates

Submission Deadline: April 30, 2017
Notification of Acceptance: May 10, 2017
Final Version Due: May 20, 2017
Special Issue Publishing Date: May 31, 2017

Sustainable Food Supply with Functional and Essential Nutrients

About the issue

The topics to be covered by this special issue include, but are not limited to:

• Sustainable water supply

• Sustainable food supply

• Sustainable environment

• Environment and food interactions

• Environment pollution, Global warming, climate change, and sustainable food supply and nutrition

• Famine and starvation, food manufacturing

• Remedies for preventing of famine and starvation

• Balanced-disturbing of food

• Protecting agriculture area and soil

• Veterinary product and essential elements in nutrition

• Food safety

• Bioactive compounds

• Essential elements of foods

• Balanced and sufficient diet

• Sustainable food and baby and child and ageing people nutrition

• Next generation and food productions for sustainable life

• water safety

• Protecting of water sources with agriculture including animal production

• Clean environment, food and health

• Evaluation of Food waste and by products

Important dates

Submission Deadline: September 30, 2017
Notification of Acceptance: October 30, 2017
Final Version Due: November 30, 2017
Special Issue Publishing Date: December 30, 2017

Fractional Calculus and Its Applications

Important dates

Submission Deadline: April 30, 2017
Notification of Acceptance: June 20, 2017
Final Version Due: August 30, 2017
Special Issue Publishing Date: September 15, 2017

Innovation in Medical Education for the Future

About the issue

The topics to be covered by this special issue include, but are not limited to:

• Recent innovation in medical education to meet the needs of the society and defining the society needs.

• Fundamental new changes to the structure and contents of medical education.

• Integration of basic knowledge and clinical experiences and skills .

• Development a habit of improvement ,quality and excellency in medical education.

• New teaching strategies for delivering the curriculum that can produce competent graduates who can efficiently serve the vast and rapidly changing needs of the community.

• The best way to utilize the rapidly evolving technology and its swift integration in the teaching and learning processes.

• Indicators of quality in medical education.

Important dates

Submission Deadline: June 30, 2017
Notification of Acceptance: July 31, 2017
Final Version Due: October 01, 2017
Special Issue Publishing Date: October 15, 2017

Interface Engineering for Device Technology

About the issue

The topics to be covered by this special issue include, but are not limited to:

• Coatings and nanocoatings improving wear, mechanical or corrosion properties in different environments.

• Coatings with improved adhesion to the substrate.

• Surface engineering for biocompatibility

• Surface engineering for tissue production.

• Coatings for catalysis and photocatalysis.

• Composites with barrier properties

Important dates

Submission Deadline: July 30, 2017
Notification of Acceptance: July 30, 2017
Final Version Due: August 30, 2017
Special Issue Publishing Date: October 01, 2017

Healing Power of Herbal Remedy on Health

About the issue

The topics to be covered by this special issue include, but are not limited to:

• Effect of Herbal medicine on diseases of digestive system

• Herbal remedy for metabolic and joint disease

• Herbs and diseases of Urinary system

• Herbal treatment on diseases of respiratory system

Important dates

Submission Deadline: July 30, 2017
Notification of Acceptance: July 30, 2017
Final Version Due: August 30, 2017
Special Issue Publishing Date: October 01, 2017

The Internet of Things: Concept, Application and Security

About the issue

The topics to be covered by this special issue include, but are not limited to:

• IoT concept in general

• Skills we need in coping with an IoT

• Socio-economical impacts of an IoT

• Applications of the IoT systems

• Some security concerns of an IoT

• Cybersecurity and the IoT

• IoT analytics

• Technological perspectives of an IoT

• Best practices in dealing with an IoT

• IoT ecosystem as a place of never ending challenges

Important dates

Submission Deadline: August 01, 2017
Notification of Acceptance: August 15, 2017
Final Version Due: September 01, 2017
Special Issue Publishing Date: September 15, 2017

Geology and Environmental Engineering

About the issue

The topics to be covered by this special issue include, but are not limited to:

• Groundwater Hydrology

• Environmental Engineering

• Engineering Geology

• Wastewater Engineering etc.

Important dates

Submission Deadline: May 15, 2017
Notification of Acceptance: May 31, 2017
Final Version Due: June 30, 2017
Special Issue Publishing Date: July 15, 2017

Subjects, policies, curriculum and learning in a post-critical approach: some Brazilian studies on education

About the issue

The topics to be covered by this special issue include, but are not limited to:

• 'Subjects' of education in a plural meanings

• Post-critical approach on education

• Educational policies and the effect of discourses on subjects in institutions

• Curriculum, the organization of knowledge and their images

• Learning experiences as a 'line of scape'

Important dates

Submission Deadline: May 31, 2017
Notification of Acceptance: June 30, 2017
Final Version Due: July 15, 2017
Special Issue Publishing Date: July 31, 2017

Recent Advances in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Research

About the issue

The topics to be covered by this special issue include, but are not limited to:

• Nanoscience

• Nanodevices: Nanosensors and Nano-CMOS based devices, Nano single photon detection devices

• Nanowires, nanorods, nanobelts and quantum dots

• Nanoelectronics and Nanophotonics

• Nanomaterials: Novel, Organic and Inorganic

• Nanomaterials Synthesis, characterization

• Semiconductor Nanostructures

• Nanocomposites

• Characterization at the nanoscale

• Nanoparticles

• Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Applications

Important dates

Submission Deadline: September 01, 2017
Notification of Acceptance: November 01, 2017
Final Version Due: December 01, 2017
Special Issue Publishing Date: January, 2018

Longevity Risk and Insurance

About the issue

The topics to be covered by this special issue include, but are not limited to:

• Longevity risk assessment

• Mortality modelling

• Financing mechanisms for pensions and social insurance

• Sustainability of pension systems in the face of ageing population

• Long-term care insurance and disability insurance systems

• Impact of population ageing on life and health insurance markets

• Innovations in pension insurance products

• Impact of global ageing on occupational schemes

• Housing equity in financing post-retirement consumption

Important dates

Submission Deadline: January 20, 2018
Notification of Acceptance: January 31, 2018
Final Version Due: March 01, 2018
Special Issue Publishing Date: March 15, 2018

Synthetic Chemistry with Main Group Elements

About the issue

The topics to be covered by this special issue include, but are not limited to:

• Asymmetric Organic Synthesis with Main Group Organometallic Catalysis

Important dates

Submission Deadline: January 31, 2018
Notification of Acceptance: February 27, 2018
Final Version Due: March 31, 2018
Special Issue Publishing Date: May 01, 2018

LUPUS

About the issue

The topics to be covered by this special issue include, but are not limited to:

• Systemic Lupus Erythematosus epidemiology

• Different disease manifestations (mucocutaneous, renal, cardiovascular, neurological…)

• The disease management, the treatment advances

• The disease outcomes

Important dates

Submission Deadline: August 30, 2017
Notification of Acceptance: September 15, 2017
Final Version Due: September 15, 2017
Special Issue Publishing Date: October, 2017

Biosensors

Topics of Interest

The Special Issue will include: Experimental and theoretical studies on biosensors, polymer-based liquid crystal as well as liquid crystal-based biosensors, bioelectronics and biopolymers.

Important dates

Submission Deadline: April 23, 2017
Notification of Acceptance: May 29, 2017
Final Version Due: June 18, 2017
Special Issue Publishing Date: September 17, 2017

Lasers and Their Applications

About the issue

The topics to be covered by this special issue include, but are not limited to:

• Lasers in medicine

• Lasers in Spectroscopy

• Lasers in Defense

• Laser based instrumentation

• Laser materials, devices and components

Important dates

Submission Deadline: April 10, 2017
Notification of Acceptance: May 20, 2017
Final Version Due: May 31, 2017
Special Issue Publishing Date: June 10, 2017

New Researches Renewable Energy

About the issue

The topics to be covered by this special issue include, but are not limited to:

• Wind energy

• Solar energy

• Thermal storage and others

Important dates

Submission Deadline: September 01, 2017
Notification of Acceptance: October 15, 2017
Final Version Due: November 15, 2017
Special Issue Publishing Date: December 15, 2017

Crystalline Cellulose: The Magic Industrial Material.

About the issue

The topics to be covered by this special issue include, but are not limited to:

• Types of cellulose.

• Cellulose production.

• Crystalline cellulose definition: micro- and nano-scaled products.

• Synthesis of microcrystalline cellulose.

• Synthesis of nanocrystalline cellulose.

• Quantitative and qualitative improvements in micro- and nanocrystalline cellulose production.

• Utilization of microcrystalline cellulose in pharmaceutical and food industries.

• Utilization of nanocrystalline cellulose in composite materials.

• Utilization of nanocrystalline cellulose in liquid crystal display

The articles titles to be published in this special issue:

• Hierarchical structure of cellulose in plant cell (Review article).

• A molecular machine for construction of microcrystalline cellulose

• Synonyms standardization of crystalline cellulosic products (Review article).

• Utilization of cellulose nanocrystals in liquid crystal display (Review article).

• Effect of species and cellulosic origin on crystallinity index, crystallite size and lattice spacing of cellulose I (Research article).

• Cellulose nanocrystals: Synthesis from pruning wastes and characterization (Research article).

• Synthesis of microcrystalline cellulose from agricultural wastes (Research article).

• Recycled writing paper for microcrystalline cellulose synthesis (Research article).

• Suitability of different lignocellulosic resources for cellulose production (Research article).

• A novel delignification method for cellulose production from agricultural wastes (Research article).

Important dates

Submission Deadline: May 31, 2017
Notification of Acceptance: June 10, 2017
Final Version Due: June 20, 2017
Special Issue Publishing Date: June, 2017

Solidification of Aluminum Alloys

About the issue

The topics to be covered by this special issue include, but are not limited to:

• Phase formation and solidification path analysis,

• Microstructure evolution,

• Grain refinement, micro or macro-segregation,

• Solidification cracking or tearing,

• Shrinkage/gas porosity formation,

• Effect of impurities/trace elements,

• Mechanical behavior and properties in the mushy state,

• Aspects of casting processes including: shaped casting, direct chill casting, continuous casting, semi-solid processing, advanced in casting technologies

Important dates

Submission Deadline: June 30, 2017
Notification of Acceptance: July 10, 2017
Final Version Due: July 30, 2017
Special Issue Publishing Date: September 01, 2017

Overtraining – That syndrome can affect everyone!

About the issue

The topics to be covered by this special issue include, but are not limited to:

• Overtraining

• Over-Reaching

• High Performance

• Physical Training

• Nutritional Aspects

• Psychological Aspects

• Training Methodology

Important dates

Submission Deadline: July 31, 2017
Notification of Acceptance: August 31, 2017
Final Version Due: November 30, 2017
Special Issue Publishing Date: January, 2018