Inderscience journals to publish expanded papers from International Conference on Information Technology for Organisations Development

Extended versions of papers presented at the 2nd International Conference on Information Technology for Organisations Development (30 March - 1 April 2016, Fez, Morocco) will be published by the following journals:

• Int. J. of Computational Science and Engineering
• Int. J. of Embedded Systems

Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Sustainable Society

The following sample articles from the International Journal of Sustainable Society are now available here for free:

• Research note: low awareness of lead law
• Tomorrow or the natural order of things: a study for a possible gentrification of the 'villas operárias' in Lisbon
• Hydropower development in Myanmar and its implications on regional energy cooperation
• Roles and systems of day centres: elderly-case study of a moderately mountainous area in Japan
• Making climate policy efficient: implementing a model for environmental policy efficiency

Special issue published: "Sport for Development and Peace: Theory Building and Programme Development"

International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing 16(1/2) 2015

• C.L.R. James and a place for history in theorising 'sport for development and peace'
• Sport for development and peace: a systems theory perspective on promoting sustainable change
• Towards sustainable programme design? An examination of CSR initiatives within a Zambian SfD NGO
• Sport for development and peace: a program evaluation of a sport diplomacy initiative

Additional papers

• Competitive balance and spectator attendance: the case of the Korean Professional Baseball League
• Gender differences on the effect of CSR engagement on team attitude and loyalty: a case study of a professional soccer club in Korea
• Personal branding: a perspective from the professional athlete-level-of-analysis 

Biodiesel from vegetable oil in a caustic flash

Biodiesel represents a potentially cleaner and more sustainable fuel than those derived from crude oil. Now, scientists have developed a high-speed conversion that turns waste cooking oil into fuel using ultrasound and caustic soda. Details are reported in the International Journal of Oil, Gas and Coal Technology.

Ehsan Khosravi, Ahmad Shariati and Mohammad Reza Khosravi Nikou of the Gas Engineering Department, at the Petroleum University of Technology, in Ahwaz, Iran, explain how economic and environmental concerns regarding petroleum-based fuels has led to increased demand for alternatives. Biodiesel is already used widely in many countries, particularly in public transport. Biomass from plant waste or crops grown specifically for conversion into fuels are two sources, but recycling waste cooking oil, whether vegetable oils or animal fats, offers a potentially sustainable feedstock.

The team has now demonstrated that biodiesel can be quickly produced from waste cooking oil by direct ultrasonic irradiation with caustic soda, sodium hydroxide NaOH or potassium hydroxide (KOH) as the chemical catalysts for the process known as a transesterification reaction. The researchers point out that adding methanol to the waste oil prior to conversion can boost the efficiency to 99 percent conversion. Moreover, the methanol additive reduces reaction time to just ten seconds. Complete conversion is possible with just 0.75% sodium hydroxide or 1.25% potassium hydroxide if the pellets are ground and blended complete with the waste oil and methanol raw materials.

Khosravi, E., Shariati, A. and Khosravi Nikou, M.R. (2016) ‘Instant biodiesel production from waste cooking oil under industrial ultrasonic irradiation’, Int. J. Oil, Gas and Coal Technology, Vol. 11, No. 3, pp.308–317.

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Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Economic Policy in Emerging Economies

The following sample articles from the International Journal of Economic Policy in Emerging Economies are now available here for free:

• Dynamic impact of financial development on economic growth: heterogeneous panel data analysis of island economies
• Do budget deficits crowd out private investment? An analysis of the South African economy
• Macroeconomic dynamics in four selected new member states of the EU
• Does economic, financial and institutional development matter for renewable energy consumption? Evidence from emerging economies
• Did Nigeria and Angola manage their oil windfalls well between 1970 and 2000: what lessons can be learned for new oil producers?

Special issue published: "Advances in Management and Technology in a Global World"

International Journal of Management Practice 9(1) 2016

Extended versions of papers presented at the International Conference on Advances in Management and Technology in a Global World (ICAMT-2015).

• Understanding Indian retail investors' stock investment behaviour: an empirical study
• Functionality of turnover intention and management strategies for sales force: an empirical investigation
• A study of capital structure dynamics on the value of Indian firms using panel threshold regression model
• New paradigm of digital marketing in emerging markets: from social media to social customer relationship management
• Entrepreneurial attitude orientation and employability: mediating role of entrepreneurial personality
• A study of factors for private label brands' success in food, grocery and apparels

Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing

The following sample articles from the International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing are now available here for free:

• Capitalising on CSR-based partnerships in sports branding and sports sponsorship
• Motives of sport spectators in China: a case study of the Chinese Super League
• Developing a framework to identify and systematise sources of inefficiencies in sports sponsorship from a sponsee perspective
• Understanding consumers of Asian female sports: a case study of the Women's Korean Basketball League
• Preserving sport and recreation facilities through the 'rehabilitation' of building codes

Free sample articles newly available from Journal for Global Business Advancement

The following sample articles from the Journal for Global Business Advancement are now available here for free:

• The interdependence between Lebanese higher academic institutions' goals and its faculty members' commitment
• The effects of human resource practices on firm performance in Thailand's manufacturing industry
• Ensuring customer satisfaction through service quality and image management in the hospitality industry: a conceptual perspective
• Integration of competency model to human resource systems: its impact on organisation performance and human resource function
• In search of success factors for a sustainable macro entrepreneurship and enterprise education policy: evidence from the European Union
• Modelling the influence of perceived ethics and corporate reputation on performance of leather industry in Nigeria

Inderscience journals to publish expanded papers from IEEE International Conference on Cloud and Autonomic Computing

Extended versions of papers presented at the 2016 IEEE International Conference on Cloud and Autonomic Computing (12-16 September 2016, Augsburg, Germany) will be published by the following journals:

• Int. J. of Computational Science and Engineering
• Int. J. of Embedded Systems
• Int. J. of High Performance Computing and Networking

Special issue published: "Advances in Wireless Sensor Networks and their Applications"

International Journal of Information and Communication Technology 8(2/3) 2016

• A novel method for blind signal separation of single-channel and time-frequency overlapped multi-component signal
• Dynamic event classification for intrusion and false alarm detection in vehicular ad hoc networks
• A new dynamic service span-based energy comparison LEACH for achieving expected WSNs lifetime
• An ultra low power MICS band receiver for implantable wireless body area networks
• Performance analysis of routing protocols in mobile wireless sensor network
• Tree-based modelling of redundancy and paths in wireless sensor networks
• EAMRP: energy aware multipath routing protocol for wireless sensor networks
• Traffic-based energy efficient MAC protocol for wireless sensor networks
• Energy balancing zone-based cluster head approach to avoid energy hole problem in wireless sensor network

Additional papers

• Design and implementation for the elevator public service platform base on internet of things
• Location tracking system to improve the performance of video information service based on M2M network

Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Management Practice

The following sample articles from the International Journal of Management Practice are now available here for free:

• Critical antecedents to service recovery performance: some evidences and implications for service industry
• Cause-related marketing: uncovering the myth
• The use of capital budgeting techniques: an outlook from Italy
• Revising inventory management policies for spare parts: a case study
• The use of personal appearance cues to infer sales rep character

Special issue published: "Shaping Innovation Systems to Address the Challenges of the 21st Century"

International Journal of Business Innovation and Research 10(2/3) 2016

• Investigating the effects of managerial and technological innovations on operational performance and customer satisfaction of manufacturing companies
• Exploring time lag effects of open innovation practices on performance during economic turmoil
• Knowledge sources and innovative performance: evidence from Nigerian manufacturing firms
• The role of market expansion, environmental turbulence and cost-saving strategies on cooperation on innovation in Russia
• Small country strategies in complementing national innovation systems
• Accounting for innovation paradoxes? A new typology for third wave economy
• Leveraging communities of practice in university-industry collaboration: a case study on Arctic research
• Commercialisation challenges of European collaborative innovation projects addressing silver markets
• Living Labs as open innovation systems for knowledge exchange: solutions for sustainable innovation development
• Sustainable supply chain management as a practice of green innovation - from literature review to conceptualisation
• Systemic innovation in complex business portfolios - a case study
• Leadership supporting practice-based innovation processes in organisational constellations
• Organising to enable innovation
• What is the social innovation system? A state-of-the-art review

Consumers care about carbon

How much do consumers care about the carbon footprint of the products they buy? Would they care more if the goods were labeled with emissions data? Does it matter at which stage in the lifecycle of a product the carbon is emitted? Research published in the International Journal of Environmental Policy and Decision Making offers a way to find out.

Christopher Groening of the College of Business Administration, at Kent State University, in Ohio and colleagues Jeffrey Inman of the University of Pittsburgh and William Ross of the University of Connecticut, have developed and tested a framework based on the consumer’s accountability for the carbon emitted. Study participants view a carbon footprint label akin to labels that have appeared on some existing products. The label displays the carbon dioxide emissions associated with their production, transportation, usage and disposal, thus giving an indication to the buyer the likely impact on climate change of buying a particular product.

In the first group of studies, the research team established that carbon emissions and a carbon emissions label would indeed play a role in consumer product decisions, although not as great a role as price. In a second set of studies, the team found that emissions associated with usage were most important to consumers followed by the transportation and disposal stages. The carbon footprint of the manufacturing process was considered less important to consumers than the other stages in the product’s lifecycle because it is more distal from the consumer’s control. That is, the participants felt they were less accountable for carbon emitted during manufacture as opposed to the usage stage. Consumers value recycling a product, but the researchers found that, overall, the consumers would prefer manufacturers to offset carbon emissions rather than having to address the problem directly themselves.

Consumers are increasingly concerned with climate change issues, government legislation is being put in place and already carbon labeling is appearing on some products. “We find that participants not only take the carbon label into account when making product decisions, but they want detailed information on the label,” the researchers explain. They suggest that companies should prepare for how carbon emissions labels might affect future consumer choice.


Groening, C., Inman, J.J. and Ross Jr., W.T. (2015) ‘The role of carbon emissions in consumer purchase decisions’, Int. J. Environmental Policy and Decision Making, Vol. 1, No. 4, pp.261–296.

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Free sample articles newly available from Interdisciplinary Environmental Review

The following sample articles from the Interdisciplinary Environmental Review are now available here for free:

• Environmental valuation in Greece: a review and analysis of contingent valuation studies
• Agricultural inputs, outputs, and population density at the country-level in Latin America: decadal changes augur challenges for sustained food production and forest conservation
• Knowledge transfer between parties of asymmetric knowledge and information: the case of the Bristol Bay sustainable energy programme
• A review of urban sustainability criteria under global warming stress
• Caught in an inconvenient nation-branding promise: the problematic '100% pure New Zealand'

Inderscience journals to publish expanded papers from International Conference on Information and Communication Systems 2016

Extended versions of papers presented at the International Conference on Information and Communication Systems (5-7 April 2016, Irbid, Jordan) will be published by the following journals:

• Int. J. of Computational Science and Engineering
• Int. J. of Embedded Systems
• Int. J. of High Performance Computing and Networking

Special issue published: "The Role of Good Governance in Promoting Sustainable Development in Emerging Economies"

Journal for Global Business Advancement 9(1) 2016

• Dynamic model of the technology spillover from foreign direct investment and productivity growth: a case from Thailand
• Investigating interpersonal trust determinants in Western companies' subsidiaries: empirical evidence
• Managerial overconfidence and leverage decision. The moderating effect of human governance in Malaysia
• Did the corporate governance reform have effect on creative accounting practices in emerging economies? The case of Indonesian listed companies
• Currency substitution and financial crisis: lesson from a southeast emerging market
• Leadership style, decentralisation and managerial performance: Does the management accounting system mediate the relationship?

Additional paper

• A review on the state of methodological trends in international marketing literature

Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Environmental Technology and Management

The following sample articles from the International Journal of Environmental Technology and Management are now available here for free:

• Removal of copper ion in aqueous solution by activated carbon from sewage sludge
• Seasonal effects of major primary pollutants in Ali Sabah Al-Salem residential area in Kuwait
• Impact of conventional N-fertiliser application in various soil types on ground water pollution in the Gaza Strip
• Multilevel contact oxidation treatment of brewery wastewater using spiral biological carriers and their nitrogen removal mechanism
• Effect of air flow rate and residence time on biodrying of cassava peel waste
• Effects of chlorpyrifos insecticide, on cholinesterase activity and its depuration in the crab Barytelphusa guerini

New Editor for International Journal of Nuclear Governance, Economy and Ecology

Prof. Tetsuo Sawada from the Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan has been appointed to take over editorship of the International Journal of Nuclear Governance, Economy and Ecology.

Call for papers: "Data Analysis for Enabling Technological and Computational Enhancement in Design and Optimisation in Various Engineering Domains"

For a special issue of the International Journal of Computational Systems Engineering.

Computational engineering is the pioneering solution to complex engineering problems. The development and application of computational models and simulations, often coupled with high-performance computing, can solve complex physical problems arising in engineering analysis and design (computational engineering), as well as natural phenomena.

 

In many fields, computer simulation is integral and therefore essential to business and research. Computer simulation provides the capability to enter fields that are either inaccessible to traditional experimentation or where carrying out traditional empirical einquiries are prohibitively expensive.

 

The main objective of this special issue is to present the latest design and optimisation techniques and their variants for better and improved computational power in coming years. We therefore encourage researchers to submit original works which will enlighten other researchers and provide the world with new and improved methodologies based on some of the areas mentioned below, although not limited to these areas, since "research and thoughts can never be bounded".

 

Suitable topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Architecture specification, design methodologies and frameworks
• Computational aspect in requirements elicitation, definition, analysis and management
• Internet of Thing and its computational design issues
• Human systems integration and automated systems for increased productivity
• Computational systems engineering methods and optimisation methods
• Multi-method systems modelling and analysis with model composability
• System engineering, analytics and visualisation
• Nature-inspired algorithms and their computational design principles
• Bio-inspired and bio-medicine optimisation techniques for effective computational design and frameworks
• Application aspects of enhanced design in various engineering domain such as air traffic control, communication and sensors, healthcare, security and terrorism deterrence, etc.
• Database principles for improvement in computational methodology for modelling, designing, querying and managing large databases
• Power of 4G/5G technology for improved data communication technologies

 

Important Dates

Submission of manuscripts: 30 June, 2016

Notification to authors: 31 August, 2016

Final versions due: 30 September, 2016

Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Biotechnology

The following sample articles from the International Journal of Biotechnology are now available here for free:

• R&D and knowledge dynamics in university-industry relationships in biotech and pharmaceuticals: an agent-based model
• Systems of innovation and the adoption of biotechnologies: the case of Mexico
• Understanding the Turkish biotechnology system through the functions of an innovation system
• Bionetworks vs. nanonetworks: a comparison of diffusion rates of emerging technologies
• The disappearance of dedicated biotechnology firms in Canada
• International strategic alliances of small biotechnology firms: a second-best option?
• Impact of collaboration and funding on the propensity to patent of Canadian biotechnology firms 1999-2005
• Biotechnology: a case of delayed international convergence?

Special issue published: "Recent Advances in Additive Manufacturing/3D Printing Technologies: Part 2"

International Journal of Rapid Manufacturing 5(3/4) 2015

• Advances in nanocomposite materials for additive manufacturing
• Analysis of part quality produced by a fused deposition modelling machine: a pragmatic study
• Electroless metallisation of ABS plastic: a comparative study
• Studying the effect of chemical treatment and fused deposition modelling process parameters on surface roughness to make acrylonitrile butadiene styrene patterns for investment casting process
• Design issues and orientations in additive manufacturing
• Study of infill print design on production cost-time of 3D printed ABS parts
• Characterisation of electron beam melting process on Ti6Al4V in order to guide finishing operation
• Environmental performance modelling for additive manufacturing processes
• Laser in situ synthesis of gradient aluminides in metal matrix composite during DMD process

Call for papers: "Advances in Cyber Security and Privacy of Big Data in Mobile and Cloud Computing"

For a special issue of the International Journal of Big Data Intelligence.

Cyber security and privacy is an essential need for the modern society in which information technology and services pervade every aspect of our lives. However, it is difficult to achieve, as technology is changing at rapid speed and our systems are becoming ever more complex. Moreover, cyberspace is considered as fifth the battlefield after land, air, water and space.

The aim of this special issue is to provide a premier international platform for a wide range of parties including scholars, researchers, academicians and industry professionals to discuss and present the most recent security and privacy challenges and developments in big data in mobile and cloud computing from the perspective of providing security awareness and its best practices for the real world.

This issue is open to novel and high-quality research contributions in the field of information security and privacy. We anticipate that this special issue will open new avenues for further research and technology improvements in this important area.

Suitable topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Security and privacy of big data in mobile devices
• Security and privacy of big data in mobile cloud computing
• Security and privacy big data management in cloud computing
• Mobile cloud computing intrusion detection systems
• Security of pricing and billing for mobile cloud computing services
• Security of big data in mobile, peer-to-peer and pervasive services in clouds
• Security and privacy of big data in smartphone devices
• Security and privacy of big data in social applications and networks
• Security of big data in mobile commerce and mobile internet of things
• Security of operating system and middleware support for mobile computing
• Security and privacy of big data in sensor networks
• Security and privacy of big data in social applications and networks
• Web service security
• Big data and the internet of things
• Big data and social networking concepts and applications
• Emerging technologies in big data and social networking
• Big data management
• Security, privacy and legal issues specific to big data
• Emerging technologies in big data and social networking

Important Dates

Manuscript submission deadline: 31 January, 2017

Free sample article newly available from International Journal of Business Environment

A new sample article, "Multimarket contact and strategic entry decisions", has been added to the sample articles freely available from the International Journal of Business Environment:

• Multimarket contact and strategic entry decisions
• Country risk, multimarket contacts and MNEs' competitive action
• Coopetition within and between value networks - a typology and a modelling framework
• Coopetition typology revisited - a behavioural approach
• The development of dynamic capabilities through organisational and managerial processes
• Dynamic capabilities: implications for marketing strategy formulation and implementation
• Brand communities: influencing organisations' identities and their perception of the business environment
• Organisational identity and the business environment: the strategic connection

Special issue published: "Toxicogenomics: the Emergence of a New Research and Regulatory Paradigm"

International Journal of Biotechnology 14(1) 2015

• Intersection of toxicogenomics and high throughput screening in the Tox21 program: an NIEHS perspective
• Developing toxicogenomics as a research tool by applying benchmark dose-response modelling to inform chemical mode of action and tumorigenic potency
• The development of a database for metabolomics - looking back on ten years of experience
• Expert opinion survey of genomics research and development initiatives at Health Canada

Free sample articles newly available from Journal of Design Research

The following sample articles from the Journal of Design Research are now available here for free:

• Immersive moodboards, a comparative study of industrial design inspiration material
• How do generic cognitive strategies affect proceeding in freshmen's engineering design? Results of a pilot study in engineering design education
• Revealing clinicians' experiences towards healthcare software usability using human-centred design approach
• Four dimensions of product designs
• Product-service system design concept development based on product and service integration

Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms

The following sample articles from the International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms are now available here for free:

• A conscious model for autonomous robotics: statistical evaluation
• Impact of distance on the hotspot temperature in thermal image for condition monitoring of UPS switchbox
• Analysis of emotion recognition from facial expressions using spatial and transform domain methods
• Flowchart-based programming environments for improving comprehension and problem-solving skill of novice programmers: a survey
• An English to Urdu translation model based on CBR, ANN and translation rules

Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Granular Computing, Rough Sets and Intelligent Systems

The following sample articles from the International Journal of Granular Computing, Rough Sets and Intelligent Systems are now available here for free:

• ℓ-valued automata and associated ℓ-valued topologies
• Effective web personalisation based on rough biclustering
• RCBM: a rough content-based image quality assessment metric
• Selective sampling-based training schemes for core vector machines
• Multi topological approximations of rough set theory

Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Knowledge-Based Development

The following sample articles from the International Journal of Knowledge-Based Development are now available here for free:

• Stakeholder e-involvement and participatory tourism planning: analysis of an Italian case study
• The creative city matrix: a framework for urban knowledge ecosystems
• The innovation ecosystem as booster for the innovative entrepreneurship in the smart specialisation strategy
• Innovating urban policymaking and planning mechanisms to deliver knowledge-based agendas: a methodological approach
• Creative industries and knowledge economy development in Rome: the example of Pietralata District
• Smart growth, smart specialisations strategies and impact of the technological districts: the moderating effect of business, geographical and institutional factors

Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Technology Management

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• Production network positions, innovation orientation and environmental dynamics: an empirical analysis of Chinese firms
• Radical innovation, market orientation, and risk-taking in Chinese new ventures: an exploratory study
• Managing large-scale science and technology projects at the edge of knowledge: the Manhattan Project as a learning organisation
• A new measurement of intellectual capital and its impact on innovation performance in an open innovation paradigm

Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Signal and Imaging Systems Engineering

The following sample articles from the International Journal of Signal and Imaging Systems Engineering are now available here for free:

• Three-stage hybrid system for speech signal enhancement
• A novel steganography technique by mapping words with LSB array
• Design and optimisation of a zeroth order resonant antenna along with experimental verification for wireless applications
• An extensive research on robust digital image watermarking techniques: a review
• Prediction of game performance in Australian football using heart rate variability measures
• Beat detection algorithm for ECG and arterial blood pressure waveforms using empirical mode decomposition: a unified approach
• A variant approach for human forensic identification using dental radiographs with skeleton and contour
• Tamper detection of electrocardiographic signal using watermarked bio-hash code in wireless cardiology
• Decision tree classifiers for mass classification
• Different approaches of analysing EEG signals for seizure detection
• Robust mass classification-based local binary pattern variance and shape descriptors
• Automatic classification of slow-wave sleep and REM-sleep stages using somnographic ECG signal: some preliminary results for obese and no-obese patients
• Paradoxical sleep stages detection using somnographic EOG signal for obese and no-obese patients

Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking

The following sample articles from the International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking are now available here for free:

• Developing an integrated supply chain system for small businesses consortium in Australia: a service-oriented PHOENIX solution 
• Optimal and stable supply chain services system: integrating management services with robust optimisation modelling 
• Socially aware mobile application integrations in heterogeneous environments 
• Multi-agent-based smart cargo tracking system 
• A rule-based service framework for supply chain management 
• Opportunities and challenges for mobile crowdsourcing - conceptualisation of a platform architecture 
• An integrated communications platform incorporating SMS and e-mail to support mobile applications

Inderscience is media partner for 2nd Annual Telematics Insurance North America

Inderscience is a media partner for 2nd Annual Telematics Insurance North America 2016 (27-28 April 2016, Chicago, USA).

The journal involved is the International Journal of Automotive Technology and Management.

More information on this event is available here.

Call for papers: "The Global Governance of Corporate Social Responsibility"

For a special issue of the International Journal of Business Governance and Ethics.

At the core of corporate social responsibility (CSR) lie the commitments by corporations to conduct themselves ethically and to ensure sustainable economic progression. However, with the rise of globalisation, the composition of CSR within organisations is being shaped by multiple actors. The implication of this is the increasing transfer of governance responsibilities from governments to global multiple actors such as multinational corporations (MNCs), international-developmental organisations and global non-governmental organisations (NGOs). Thus the globalisation of businesses has had fundamental implications for the governance of CSR.

CSR governance – the framework for steering corporations to behave ethically in areas such as human rights, labour standards, environmental practices, anti-corruption activities, responsible investment, stakeholder engagement and responsible supply change management (Albareda, 2013) – has been investigated in academia from the perspective of self-regulation (or self-governance) (Gond et al., 2011; Moon and Vogel, 2008), relational governance (Midttun, 2005; Maessen et al., 2007) and new governance (Moon, 2002). To this effect, scholars have reviewed the contributions of actors such as governments (e.g. Fox et al., 2002); CSOs (e.g. Scholte, 2004) and global institutions (e.g. Baccaro & Mele, 2011) towards CSR strategy formulation, governance and implementation. Findings from this body of work significantly support the involvement of multiple actors within the broader global CSR governance discourse.

What is not quite clear, however, is the multi-faceted nature of ‘governance’ within CSR governance itself. For example, how do multiple-actors (i.e. corporations, governments, international NGOs, etc.) formulate, validate and implement voluntary CSR programmes? Or how does the interplay between actors generate platforms to create voluntary CSR programmes? In order to examine this aspect we posit several broad discussion points, aimed at providing more insights into our understanding of the internal governance dynamics of CSR governance, thereby advancing the conceptualisation of CSR as an institutionally embedded process, consisting of negotiated arrangements across global actors.

Through the contributions to this special issue, we ultimately aim to expand the boundaries of the emerging debate on CSR global governance.

References:

Albareda, L. (2013) 'CSR governance innovation: standard competition-collaboration dynamic', Corporate Governance, Vol. 13, No. 5, pp. 551-568. Baccaro, L., and Mele, V. (2011) 'For lack of anything better? International organizations and global corporate codes', Public Administration, Vol. 89, No. 2, pp 451-470.

Fox, T., Ward, H., and Howard, B. (2002) 'Public sector roles in strengthening corporate social responsibility: A baseline study', Washington, DC: World Bank.

Gond, J.P., Kang, N. and Moon, J. (2011) 'The government of self-regulation: on the comparative dynamics of corporate social responsibility', Economy and Society, Vol. 40 No. 4 pp. 640-671. Maessen, R., Van Seters, P. and Van Rijckevorsel, E., (2007) 'Circles of stakeholders: towards a relational theory of Corporate Social Responsibility', International Journal of Business Governance and Ethics, Vol. 3 No. 1, pp.77-94.

Midttun, A. (2005) 'Realigning business, government and civil society', Corporate Governance, Vol. 5 No.3 pp. 159-174.

Moon, J. (2002) 'The Social Responsibility of Business and New Governance', Government and Opposition, Vol. 37, 385-408.

Moon, J. and Vogel, D. (2008) 'Corporate social responsibility, government and civil society', In: Crane, A., MC Williams, D., Matten, D., Moon, J. & Siegel, D. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of corporate social responsibility. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Scholte, J. A. (2004) 'Civil society and democratically accountable global governance', Government and Opposition, Vol. 39 No. 2. pp. 211-233.

Suitable topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• How does CSR governance work?
• What are the different modes of CSR governance? And what are the implications of governance modes to businesses CSR practices?
• What role do internal governance systems of organisations such as boards of directors and CSR committees play in the articulation of businesses' CSR programmes?
• How do government actors transfer governance policies to global CSR governance programmes?
• What contributions do global/local actors bring to businesses' global CSR programmes?

Important Dates

Full papers submission (online): 27 February, 2017

Special issue published: "Computational Intelligence in Information Systems"

International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms 8(1) 2016

Includes extended versions of papers presented at the Fourth INNS Symposia Series on Computational Intelligence in Information Systems (INNS-CIIS 2014).

• Facial shape-from-shading using features detection method
• Knowledge-based differential evolution approach to quantisation table generation for the JPEG baseline algorithm
• Weighted value assessment of linear fractional programming for possibilistic multi-objective problem 
• Handling batch effects on cross-platform classification of microarray data
• Efficient similarity measure for comparing tree structures
• Band selection by mutual information for hyper-spectral image classification 

Additional paper

• Similar names in academic literature as a tools to deceive researchers

Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Agricultural Resources, Governance and Ecology

The following sample articles from the International Journal of Agricultural Resources, Governance and Ecology are now available here for free:

• Does future implementation increase public support of a soil conservation tax?
• Reliance of Suku Anak Dalam to Harapan Rainforest, Indonesia: foodstuff collection preference
• A life cycle assessment of annual, N fertilised perennial and non-N fertilised perennial pastures, South-Western Australia
• Minmax multi-period resources allocation problem with weighted substitutable resources
• Registration of land for the common agricultural policy management: potentials for evaluation of environmental policy integration
• Melanomacrophage proliferation in the spleen of Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus L.) as biomarker of insecticides loading from the waters of Laguna de Bay, Municipality of Bay, Laguna, Philippines
• Analysis of utilisation of analytical tools for climate change impacts on agriculture in Kenya

How private is your browser’s privacy mode?

A forensic analysis of the so-called “private” browsing modes of the most popular web browsers, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Opera, reveals that the Microsoft product tested in this research leaves traces on the user system that could betray browsing details; the other browsers maintain much better privacy, according to a report published in the International Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics.
Cassandra Flowers, a Specialised Systems Support and Development Manager at the Babraham Research Campus, in Cambridge, and colleagues Ali Mansour and Haider Al-Khateeb of the Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Bedfordshire, Luton, England, explain how private or “incognito” modes in web browsers prevent a barrier to forensic investigation of a user’s web browsing habits. All the popular web browsers offer such a mode that automatically deletes the browser cache, cookies, downloaded files list, and browser history when the user exits the program. However, whether or not all data is deleted beyond forensic recovery is a moot point.

Now, the team has demonstrated that forensic analysis can still retrieve traces of data from an “InPrivate” browser session for one of the most commonly used applications, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. ” We analyse volatile memory and demonstrate how physical memory by means of dump files, hibernate and page files are the key areas where evidence from all browsers will still be recoverable despite their mode or location they run from,” the team reports.

During an InPrivate browser session using Internet Explorer version 11 the program added .dat files to the Recovery directory as it would during a normal session, which allows recovery after a computer or software crash. It also heavily utilised the Low\Content.IE5\ directory to cache files during InPrivate browsing, the team explains. They add that existing .log files in the WebCache folder were removed and new logs created in the same directory for the current session, the browser also used the “CryptnetUrlCache\Content\” directory to store certificates. On closing the browser some cleanup was carried out but not all log files were deleted until a new instance of the browser was opened.

By contrast, Firefox and Opera undertook very little hard drive activity during private browsing, most of the constant hard drive activity in Chrome was down to plugin actions. All the browsers left some file modifications that might be extracted through detailed analysis of the computer hard drive or USB stick. However in “portable” private mode none of these browsers left artefacts and all files were cleaned from the USB stick from which the browser was being run. Even in this mode it was possible to retrieve cached Internet Explorer files that closing the InPrivate session that left behind.

“Web browser claims that browsing history will not be recoverable in private modes may prevent an average computer user from finding evidence, but using forensic techniques plenty of evidence was recoverable which may prove to be crucial to a forensic investigation,” the team reports, which suggests the unwary criminal might be caught through this evidential trail. Conversely, third parties spying on an everyday user could retrieve information about that user even from private modes. In addition, the team adds that, “It is also crucial for internet users to learn that browsers security does not make them anonymous when their network is monitored by an internet service provider or a network administrator at the workplace.”


Flowers, C., Mansour, A. and Al-Khateeb, H.M. (2016) ‘Web browser artefacts in private and portable modes: a forensic investigation’, Int. J. Electronic Security and Digital Forensics, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp.99–117.

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Special issue published: "Competitiveness Assessment and Enhancement in Virtual Organisations"

International Journal of Technology Management 70(1) 2016

• An evaluation and enhancement approach of the carbon footprints-based environmentally sustainable service competitiveness for coffee shops
• Improving the global competitiveness of retailers using a cultural analysis of in-store digital innovations
• The diffusion pattern of non-cash payments: evidence from China
• Measuring the change in knowledge sharing efficiency of virtual communities of practice: a case study

Additional paper

• Strategic technological innovation for sustainable development

Weighing up carbon capture technology

Carbon capture and storage could be used to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and thus ameliorate their impact on climate change. The focus of this technology is on the large-scale reduction of carbon emissions from fossil-fuelled power plants. Research published in the International Journal of Decision Support Systems investigates the pros and cons, assesses the risks associated with carbon capture and provides a new framework for assessing the necessary technology.

John Michael Humphries Choptiany formerly of Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia and now at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Rome, Italy, together with colleagues at Dalhousie, Alberta Innovates – Technology Futures (AITF), and G BACH Enterprises Incorporated, explain how they have adopted information from the environmental, social, economic and engineering fields to create their assessment framework, which incorporates utility curves, criterion weights, thresholds, decision trees, Monte Carlo simulation, critical events and sensitivity analysis.

“Climate change is one of the most serious threats facing humankind,” the team reports, “Carbon capture and storage (CCS) includes a suite of technologies and processes with the goal of mitigating climate change by capturing and storing anthropogenic carbon dioxide from various emitters, including fossil-fuelled power plants, in geological reservoirs.” The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has recognized that CCS should be one component of our response to carbon emissions and climate change, but there are many different approaches that could be taken, all with various risks.

The team obtained inputs from carbon capture experts that allowed them to use their framework to test drive three approaches to carbon capture in a flexible manner. Their case study provided validation for the framework and showed that it might also be used to assess the benefits of other climate change amelioration technologies.


Choptiany, J.M.H., Pelot, R., Brydie, J. and Gunter, W. (2015) ‘An MCDA risk assessment framework for carbon capture and storage’, Int. J. Decision Support Systems, Vol. 1, No. 4, pp.349–390.

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First issue: International Journal of Masonry Research and Innovation (free sample issue available)

The International Journal of Masonry Research and Innovation proposes and fosters discussion on the mechanics of masonry structures, with emphasis on a variety of topics including theoretical investigations, numerical approaches and technical applications in new works, repair practice and built heritage preservation. This perspective acknowledges the complexity of the masonry research sector, bridging between theory and application, with a readership spanning across from academia to industry.

There is a free download of the papers from this first issue.

Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Transitions and Innovation Systems

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• Crisis management approaches and philanthropic motives: a multiple theory-driven view of research opportunities 
• Governance of energy system transition: theoretical framework and empirical analysis in Europe 
• Entrepreneurial firms and cluster competitiveness: institutions and public policy determinants 
• A categorical data analysis on relationships between culture, creativity and business stage: the case of Vietnam

Inderscience is media partner for 14th World LNG Series: Americas Summit & Exhibition

Inderscience is a media partner for 14th World LNG Series: Americas Summit & Exhibition (7-10 June 2016, Houston, USA).

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• Int. J. of Knowledge Management Studies
• Int. J. of Learning and Intellectual Capital

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Special issue published: "Cloud-Based Service Computing"

International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking 9(1/2) 2016

• Study on extension negative selection algorithm
• Petri nets-based method to model and analyse the self-healing web service composition
• Cocktail: a service-oriented cloud storage architecture for enhancing service quality
• OCReM: OpenStack-based cloud datacentre resource monitoring and management scheme
• Fast circulant block Jacket transform based on the Pauli matrices
• A new method of QoS prediction based on probabilistic latent feature analysis and cloud similarity
• Cloud platform scheduling strategy based on virtual machine resource behaviour analysis
• A dynamic cloud service selection strategy using adaptive learning agents
• Transformation from business process models to BPEL with overlapped patterns involved
• Artefact-centric business process configuration
• MT4WS: an automated metamorphic testing system for web services
• Two-stage dynamic optimisation of service processes with temporal constraints
• The study of multi-instance purchase decision-making for minimising customers' cost under fluctuating cloud demands
• Probabilistic-based workload forecasting and service redeployment for multi-tenant services
• A Bayesian approach to performance modelling for multi-tenant applications using Gaussian models
• Transferring auxiliary knowledge to enhance heterogeneous web service clustering

Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Bio-Inspired Computation

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• A self-organising cooperative hunting by robotic swarm based on particle swarm optimisation localisation
• Cavitary nodule segmentation in computed tomography images based on self-generating neural networks and particle swarm optimisation
• Swarm intelligence approaches for cover scheduling problem in wireless sensor networks
• Analysis of randomisation methods in swarm intelligence
• New progresses in swarm intelligence-based computation
• Evolutionary multi-objective optimisation: a survey

Inderscience is media partner for 11th Annual ADMET Conference

Inderscience is a media partner for 11th Annual ADMET Conference (13-14 June 2016, London, UK).

The journals involved are:

• Int. J. of Bioinformatics Research and Applications
• Int. J. of Biotechnology
• Int. J. of Computational Biology and Drug Design
• Int. J. of Medical Engineering and Informatics

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Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Heavy Vehicle Systems

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• Nonlinear analysis and uncertainty optimisation of mining dump truck's ROPS based on TPS-HDMR
• A new method for optimum selection of two-stage turbocharger for heavy duty diesel engine
• Numerical and experimental characterisation of the dynamic behaviour of a passenger aircraft seat during a takeoff condition
• Robustness analysis of a steering-based control strategy for improved lateral performance of a truck-dolly-semitrailer

Research Picks Extra – February 2016

Better breast ultrasound
Medical ultrasound scanning of breast tissue can reveal cysts and other unwanted masses in the breast. And, the technique is becoming more prominent in diagnostics. However, ultrasound image suffer from noise which lowers the quality of scan images. Researchers in India have identified the optimal approach to reducing “speckles” in ultrasound images that could improve diagnostics and reduce false positives. The approach they have found avoids the over-smoothening and loss of edges and sharp detail that affects most noise-reduction techniques. The selected technique, a frequency domain filtering technique that uses a wavelet filter with first level decomposition and eliminated HH band [Wav(HH/1)] was optimal for speckle noise reduction in 37 sample breast ultrasound images. The technique was corroborated by expert examination of the images and thus suggests this filtering technique might be useful as part of a semi-automated mass screening of ultrasound images.

Singh, B.K., Verma, K. and Thoke, A.S. (2016) ‘Investigations on edge preservation and smoothening of frequency domain filters for speckle removal in breast ultrasound images’, Int. J. Biomedical Engineering and Technology, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp.97–115.


Hybrid textbooks
The electronic or digital era has ushered in many alternatives to printed books. However, it is unlikely to replace them entirely any time soon. Instead, researchers in Japan suggest, in the contemporary learning environment where tablet computers and other mobile devices are common, there may emerge a hybrid system. One such system might be the paper-top interface (PTI) note-taking system developed by the team. The PTI is a fusion of digital textbooks and traditional learning tools. The PTI system projects a digital textbook onto a paper notebook using a pico projector and enables students to annotate the textbook using a pencil and an eraser, the team reports. The approach compares well with traditional note-taking, the team has found, moreover, the new interactions it offers seems to increase learning motivation and effectiveness.

Mitsuhara, H. and Shishibori, M. (2015) ‘Hybrid textbook: fusion of digital textbooks and traditional learning tools’, Int. J. Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications, Vol. 14, Nos. 3/4, pp.237–255.


Wiring up Africa’s wireless sensors
Wireless sensor networks (WSN) are becoming ubiquitous across industry and academia, allowing unobtrusive, low-power, remote access to data from a range of environments and phenomena across the globe, such as weather, pollution, water levels and much more. However, in certain parts of the world, particularly the developing world, there is in urgent need to connect WSNs more effectively to their remote controllers and monitoring stations. Researchers from South Africa have developed a cost-effective gateway based on an ARM9 microprocessor to link a WSN to the internet through the cell phone network or an Ethernet connection. The technology runs on a bespoke application written in Visual C# executed by Windows Embedded CE. Preliminary trials show that, “The gateway may be configured remotely and provides the WSN with persistent data storage and frequent data uploads to a file server via the internet.”

de Villiers, G., van der Byl, A. and Wilkinson, R.H. (2016) ‘Developing a WSN internet gateway for an African context’, Int. J. Sensor Networks, Vol. 20, No. 1, pp.1–8.


Southern traders
The dynamism of emerging economies and many developing countries in recent years has sparked a shift in economic power from west to east and north to south, report economists from India. Indeed, the “rise of the South” has become a stimulus for expanding South-South economic links, most notably in trade, but also in foreign direct investment (FDI), aid and remittances. Increasing trade between India and Africa is one such example. In 1990, trade amounted to the equivalent of about US$1billion. By 2014 that figure was almost US$30 billion. “India’s engagement is likely to contribute to economic growth in Africa. It gives African countries access to new capital for investment, cheap imports, new export markets and contributes to price increases on raw materials exported by African countries,” the researchers conclude.

Vadra, R. (2016) ‘Creeping tiger: India’s presence in Africa’, African J. Economic and Sustainable Development, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp.55–65.


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Inderscience is media partner for 7th Annual International Port Security

Inderscience is a media partner for 7th Annual International Port Security (1-2 June 2016, London, UK).

The journals involved are:

• Int. J. of Emergency Management
• Int. J. of Intelligent Defence Support Systems
• Int. J. of Internet of Things and Cyber-Assurance
• Int. J. of Migration and Border Studies
• Int. J. of Multimedia Intelligence and Security
• Int. J. of Ocean Systems Management

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Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Aerodynamics

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• About the POD application for separating acoustic and turbulent fluctuations from wall pressure synthesised field
• Experimental correlations between aerodynamics, wall-pressure fluctuations, and noise transmission through a window downstream of a step in a flow
• A glimpse on passive control using porous media for incompressible aerodynamics
• Analytical models for the boundary condition of a control by pulsed jets
• Aerodynamic characterisation of a square back bluff body flow
• Characterisation of the flow past real road vehicles with blunt afterbodies
• Aerodynamics in train cross wind studies
• A new approximation for a general shear inviscid flow past a circle

Inderscience is media partner for Pain Therapeutics 2016

Inderscience is a media partner for Pain Therapeutics (23-24 May 2016, London, UK).

The journals involved are:

• Int. J. of Biomedical Engineering and Technology
• Int. J. of Behavioural and Healthcare Research
• Int. J. of Bioinformatics Research and Applications
• Int. J. of Work Organisation and Emotion

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Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Sustainable Strategic Management

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• Defining a sustainable overbooking approach in the hospitality industry
• Strategic framework for sustainable project portfolio selection and evaluation
• Growth and sustainability through test optional admission policies
• An exploratory study of psychological tendencies related to texting while driving
• The evolving role of general managers in today's global organisations
• Antecedents of proactive and responsive market orientation

Inderscience is media partner for Alzhiemers 2016

Inderscience is a media partner for Alzhiemers (10-11 May 2016, London, UK).

The journals involved are:

• Int. J. of Biomedical Engineering and Technology
• Int. J. of Behavioural and Healthcare Research
• Int. J. of Bioinformatics Research and Applications
• Int. J. of Work Organisation and Emotion

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Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Mining and Mineral Engineering

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• A brief analysis of the circumstances of the current coal industry and its trends in China
• Review of battery safety for emergency communication and tracking systems for underground mining operations
• Jet grouting: using artificial neural networks to predict soilcrete column diameter - part II
• Jet grouting: mathematical model to predict soilcrete column diameter - part I
• Electrochemical modification of montmorillonitic content and its interplanar spacing in soft rock
• Focal mechanism solutions for roof collapse in deep mine
• A novel vertical magnesium reduction furnace by inner-multiple-electrical heating
• Optimisation of technological transport in quarries using application software

Inderscience is media partner for Lyophilisation 2016

Inderscience is a media partner for Lyophilisation USA (27-28 April 2016, New Jersey, USA).

The journals involved are:

• Int. J. of Biomedical Engineering and Technology
• Int. J. of Healthcare Technology and Management
• Int. J. of Materials and Product Technology

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Call for papers: "Swarm and Evolutionary Computational Approaches: Recent Advances in Networking and Internet of Things (IoT)"

For a special issue of the International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations.

Presently, swarm and evolutionary computational approaches are being increasingly applied to a variety of problems by academicians, researchers and practitioners in the ever-evolving field of data communication. These approaches range from genetic algorithms, neural networks and fuzzy logic to the modern trends of ant colony optimisation, artificial bee colony and cuckoo search algorithms.

This special issue aims to provide an intellectual forum for researchers in academia and scientists and engineers from diverse working environments to present their latest research findings and share their views on future challenges and opportunities in these areas of application.

It also intends to explore novel theoretical/practical developments in the field of networking and Internet of Things (IoT), including problems in integrating network technologies, routing issues, ensuring security, quality of service (QoS), reliability and so on. Moreover, the issue also hopes to address challenges associated with modelling and performance issues of communication networks for IoT.

Specifically, this special issue will focus on contributions towards developments in the field of networking and IoT based on swarm and evolutionary approaches. Presented approaches should be validated through real practical applications.

Suitable topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Evolutionary computation algorithms and architectures for networks
• Computational intelligence-based modelling and simulation for wireless sensor networks (WSN)
• Swarm intelligence techniques and its solutions for WSN
• Neural computation and ensemble learning
• Artificial immune systems and their solutions for networks
• Theories of evolutionary algorithms
• Statistical learning theory and learning classifier systems for wireless networks
• Advanced genetic programming and neural network approaches for wireless network services
• Fuzzy logic approaches for WSN
• Hybrid computational approaches for wireless networks
• Bio-inspired optimisation algorithms for wireless communication and networking
• Nature-inspired computing for mobile ad hoc networks
• Search-based network engineering
• Knowledge discovery and data mining models for IoT
• Internet of intelligent things: bringing artificial intelligence into things and communication networks

Important Dates

Submission of manuscripts: 1 September, 2016
Review notification to authors: 15 November, 2016
Submission of revised papers: 1 January, 2017
Notification of final review results: 1 March, 2017

Inderscience is media partner for Harnessing Fintech Innovation in Retail Banking 2016

Inderscience is a media partner for Harnessing Fintech Innovation in Retail Banking (8-9 June 2016, London, UK).

The journal involved is the Int. J. of Financial Innovation in Banking.

Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Monetary Economics and Finance

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• Post-privatisation ownership structure and firm performance: what is the matter?
• Do macroeconomic factors matter for stock returns? Evidence from the European automotive industry
• The impact of extreme values on the assessment of financial assets
• Does inflation targeting decrease the primary budget deficit in emerging markets? An empirical evidence
• Information flow between derivatives and spot market; the reason of studies results divergence
• Does news on the euro area impact the sovereign yield spreads?

Special issue published: "Socio-Economic Sustainability, Regional Development and Spatial Planning"

International Journal of Sustainable Agricultural Management and Informatics 1(3) 2015

• The green path to sustainable development: perspectives from India-EU partnerships 
• A theoretical approach of technical efficiency and stochastic frontier analysis in logistic services and industrial performance
• Spatial planning deficiencies in Greece during the 1980s: what went wrong and why?
• Education and sustainable economic growth - a theoretical approach of measuring efficiency in education
• Unemployed: training and development, employability and social support
• Evaluating agriculture productivity growth in the EU-28: a spatial econometric analysis
• Causality patterns of the tourism industry in France

Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Dynamical Systems and Differential Equations

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• Existence and uniqueness of positive solutions for a class of n-th-order BVPs on timescales
• The exp(−Φ(ξ))-expansion method for finding travelling wave solutions of Vakhnenko-Parkes equation
• A general delta-nabla calculus of variations on time scales with application to economics
• Lie symmetry analysis of time-fractional generalised Korteweg-de Vries equations
• Global existence and energy decay of solutions to a viscoelastic wave equation with a delay term in the non-linear internal feedback

Inderscience is media partner for Digital Transformation in Insurance 2016

Inderscience is a media partner for Digital Transformation in Insurance (25-26 May 2016, London, UK).

The journal involved is the Int. J. of Financial Services Management.

Special issue published: "Advanced Models, Theories and Technologies in Computational Intelligence and Security"

International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering 12(1) 2016

Extended versions of papers presented at the International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Security (CIS).

• Achieving cooperation with many prisoners in the NIPD
• Factors important for good visualisation of time series
• A fast evolutionary algorithm with searching preference
• An improved uniform design-based genetic algorithm for multi-objective bilevel convex programming

Additional papers

• Flexible group key management and secure data transmission in mobile device communications using elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman cryptographic system
• Efficient parallelised search engine based on virtual cluster
• An empirical study of service quality: web service business transformation 
• Studies on inter-component communication latency based on variation number of components and packet size in SDR-SCA waveform application
• A scalable framework for the global offline community land model ensemble simulation 
• Dynamic response forecasting and optimising paths of energy efficiency

Inderscience is media partner for Clinical Trial Logistics 2016

Inderscience is a media partner for Clinical Trial Logistics (18-19 May 2016, London, UK).

The journals involved are:

• Int. J. of Biomedical Engineering and Technology
• Int. J. of Biotechnology
• Int. J. of Computational Biology and Drug Design
• Int. J. of Environment and Health
• Int. J. of Healthcare Technology and Management
• Int. J. of Immunological Studies

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Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering

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• Neuro-fuzzy-based hybrid controller for stable temperature of liquid in heat exchanger
• Cooperative fuzzy games on augmenting systems
• Robust road lanes and traffic signs recognition for driver assistance system
• Analysis of availability and reliability of k-out-of-n: F model with fuzzy rates
• A multiprocessor-on-a-programmable-chip reconfigurable system for matrix operations with power-grid case studies
• A study on disk index design for large scale de-duplication storage systems
• Collaborative filtering recommendation based on conditional probability and weight adjusting
• Vector mutable smart bee algorithm for engineering optimisation
• Optimum integration weight for decision fusion audio-visual speech recognition
• Flowfield dependent variation method for one-dimensional stationary and moving boundary problems
• Management of virtual machine images in heterogeneous clouds
• Web services with goal-oriented architecture design and practice
• Adaptive user interface for universal remote controller
• Designing software architecture with service components using design structure matrix
• Ensuring sustainability of web services dependent processes
• Towards quicker discovery and selection of web services considering required degree of match through indexing and decomposition of non-functional constraints
• A utility-based approach for customised cloud service selection
• A dataflow optimisation mechanism for service-oriented cloud workflow
• A semantic framework to support resource discovery in future cloud markets

Special issue published: "Nanoparticles, Nanomaterials and Nanoprocessing"

International Journal of Nanotechnology 13(1/2/3) 2016

Extended versions of papers presented at the Fourth Russian-Mexican Workshop “Nanoparticles, Nanomaterials and Nanoprocessing”.

• Size-controlled synthesis of Ni and Co metal nanoparticles by the modified polyol method
• Development of polyol method for the synthesis of concentrated colloids of PVP-stabilised Ru nanoparticles
• Creating nanoporosity in Na, Ca and Mg exchanged erionite zeolite
• Recent advances on modelling of structures of multi-component mixtures using a sphere packing approach
• Electronic properties of 1H-MoS2 clusters grown on graphene oxide
• Time-resolved Z-scan investigation of photoheating effect in aqueous suspensions of gold nanorods
• Third-order nonlinear response in cubic concave gold nanoparticles
• Mobile nanostructures (cybotactic groups) as a basis of generalised phenomenological model of aqueous electrolyte solutions
• Iron exchanged natural mordenite: UV-Vis diffuse reflectance and Mössbauer spectroscopy characterisation
• Nuclear magnetic resonance in magnetic nano-materials as an effective technique to test and/or to certificate local magnetic properties
• A comparative analysis of the protonated and copper exchanged mordenites with SiO2/Al2O3 molar ratio equal to 10
• Photocatalytic activity and luminescent properties of Y, Eu, Tb, Sm and Er-doped ZrO2 nanoparticles obtained by hydrothermal method
• Photocatalytic activity of layered niobates ANdNb2O7 (A = H, Li, Na, Rb, Cs)
• Au20Pd1@SiO2 nanoreactors highly effective in CO oxidation
• Methanol dehydrogenation over Cu/SiO2 catalysts
• Silver nanoparticles supported on foam ceramics for catalytic CO oxidation
• CO oxidation over gold nanoparticles on Mg(OH)2 and MgO subjected to different redox treatments
• Silver nanoparticles composition for treatment of distemper in dogs
• The mediant method for fast mass/concentration detection in nanotechnologies

Inderscience is media partner for ADC Summit 2016

Inderscience is a media partner for ADC Summit (23-24 May 2016, London, UK).

The journals involved are:

• Int. J. of Biomedical Engineering and Technology
• Int. J. of Biotechnology
• Int. J. of Environment and Health
• Int. J. of Healthcare Technology and Management

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Free sample articles newly available from Afro-Asian Journal of Finance and Accounting

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• Does accounting conservatism measure what it is required to measure? An empirical study of construct validity perspective
• Assessing the efficiency of Malaysian banks: a data envelopment analysis approach
• Do rated firms outperform non-rated peers in the Gulf Co-operation Council region?
• Price and volume effects associated with scheduled changes in constituents of index: study of NIFTY index in India
• Equity capital and bank profitability: evidence from the United Arab Emirates

Call for papers: "Green Production and Management"

For a special issue of the International Journal of Manufacturing Technology and Management.

With the aim of providing a channel of communication between academics, researchers and managers to disseminate knowledge of how to manage in a green environment, the subjects explored in this special issue will assume a particular emphasis on modern organisations.

 

Terms such as sustainability, recycling, re-use, low cost, waste reduction high productivity – not only from an environmental perspective but also from an organisational perspective – are only some among many others with which organisations and researchers are concerned, and which require a break from traditional management paradigms. Indeed, current organisations need to be managed through different models wherein innovation and change are keywords as they drive the organisation to success.

 

At this level, green management appears as a new way to manage, consider and understand organisations, making them more strategic and competitive in the markets in which they operate in present and look to operate in the future.

 

Taking into account these concerns, this special issue aims to contribute to the exchange of experiences and thoughts about the state of research in the green management area, as well as the future direction of this field of research. It also aims to provide support to academics and researchers, along with those working in the engineering and management fields who need to deal with practices, policies and strategies related to green production and management work issues.

 

The issue will ultimately be of use to academics, researchers, human resources managers, managers, engineers and other professionals in areas related to green production and management, and requests that contributors identify the theoretical and practical implications of their work, in order to contribute to a better understanding of the subject.

 

Suitable topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Green production and management
• Traditional management versus green management
• Green production
• Green management
• HRM politics and practices in green organisations
• Green business management
• Organisational friendly processes management
• Green management and productivity
• Communication and participation processes in a green environment
• Social responsibility in green organisations
• Developing global green leadership skills
• Green production and productivity
• Innovation and change in a green organisational environment
• Entrepreneurship
• Green production and management in a sustainable environment
• Green team management
• Innovation and green production and management
• Green manufacturing processes

 

Important Dates

Submission of manuscripts: 31 December, 2016

Inderscience is media partner for Global MilSatCom 2016

Inderscience is a media partner for Global MilSatCom (8-10 November 2016, London, UK).

The journals involved are:

• Int. J. of Intelligent Defence Support Systems
• Int. J. of Mobile Communications
• Int. J. of Systems, Control and Communications
• Int. J. of Satellite Communications Policy and Management

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Special issue published: "Technology-Transformed Learning: Reflections and Future Research Agendas"

International Journal of Mobile Learning and Organisation 9(4) 2015

• Exploring self-directed learning and the role of virtual badges in a mobile social learning platform
• The effects of 5E learning strategies by image-based augmented reality of mobile learning for elementary students
• Understanding users' perceived needs and concerns toward mobile application integration in primary science education in Korea
• Leveraging autonomous pedagogical space for technology-transformed learning: a Singapore's perspective to sustaining educational reform within, across and beyond schools
• The research on China's policies and practice of lifelong learning in u-learning environment

Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Nanotechnology

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• Pump couplers in a cascaded structure
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• Cogwheels for generation of surface plasmon polariton vortex
• Comparison of two methods for the synthesis of SiO2/SiC nanoparticles
• Effect of annealing on optical properties and surface structure of ZnO:V thin films
• Effective bandgap calculation of photonic crystals with sector scatterers
• Fabrication method for inductive mesh film on spherical substrates
• Surface plasmon-enhanced UV emission of ZnO nanorods using Ag nanoparticles
• Simulation and measurement of stiffness for dual beam laser trap using residual gravity method
• Study on the excitation and propagation characteristics of THz-wave surface plasmon polaritons on the surface of semiconductor
• Design of MEMS-based micro-filter integrating grating and tunable Fabry-Perot cavity
• Miniature tunable Alvarez lens driven by piezo actuator
• In situ synthesis of graphene/zinc oxide composite by thermal decomposition of zinc acetate
• Mid-infrared ZnGeP2 optical parametric oscillator pumped by Tm:YAlO3 laser
• Comparative characterisations of structural and optical properties of zinc oxide modified by carbon nanotubes and graphene
• Quadruple-wavelength THz modulator based on compound lattice PC with direct-coupled and side-coupled structure
• Highly efficient ultra-thin crystalline silicon solar cell with plasmonic cavities
• Optical and electrical properties of FeSi2 films prepared by DC magnetron co-sputtering
• Study on geometry of silicon PIN radiation detector for breakdown voltage improvement
• LED induced fluorescence detector integrated in microfluidic cell chip

Inderscience is media partner for 9th China Leasing Summit

Inderscience is a media partner for the 9th China Leasing Summit 2016 (14-17 June 2016, Beijing, China).

The journals involved are:

• Int. J. of Automotive Technology and Management
• Int. J. of Heavy Vehicle Systems
• Int. J. of Vehicle Autonomous Systems

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Special issue published: "Harmonisation within Atmospheric Dispersion Modelling for Regulatory Purposes: Part I"

International Journal of Environment and Pollution 57(3/4) 2015

Extended versions of papers presented at the International Conference on Harmonisation within Atmospheric Dispersion Modelling for Regulatory Purposes (HARMO 16).

• Ozone forecasting using an online updating Gaussian-process model
• The uncertainty in modelled air concentrations of NOx due to choice of emission inventory
• Air quality impact of intelligent transportation system actions used in a decision support system for adaptive traffic management
• Performance comparison of CMAQ and CAMx for one-year PM2.5 simulation in Japan
• Numerical study of the air quality in the city of Sofia - some preliminary results
• Statistical evaluation of elemental composition data of PM10 air particulate in Sofia
• Numerical study of the atmospheric composition climate of Bulgaria - validation of the computer simulation results
• The application of an aerofoil array to enhance the dispersion of an extended surface-based pollution source
• The role of ammonia on particulate matter pollution over Portugal
• Air pollution dispersion models validation dataset from complex terrain in Šoštanj
• Plume-in-grid model for the evaluation of particulate matter contribution of industrial point and volume sources: application to refinery sources in the Paris region
• Surface and upper-air WRF-CALMET simulations assessment over a coastal and complex terrain area
• Evaluation of the CHIMERE model estimating wet deposition in Spain
• Evaluating the performance of WRF-CMAQ air quality modelling system in Bulgaria by means of the DELTA tool
• Impact of NOx emissions on air quality simulations with the Bulgarian WRF-CMAQ modelling system