The researchers from the Oxford University discovered that the adoption of a plant-based diet can decrease the individual carbon footprint by 73% and that global warming will be unstoppable without this dietary change.
They evaluated numerous environmental impacts of around 38,000 farms generating 40 agricultural goods worldwide.
Call for a Special issue on “Real behavior in sustainable tourism. A methodological shift” in the journal ⋘Journal of Sustainable Tourism⋙ by 31st October 2022 (Abstract) and 30th April 2023 (Manuscript).
This special issue focuses on topics such as: longitudinal fieldworks on sustainable behavior’s evolution; secondary data on tourist visiting, booking, purchasing, and sharing behavior; quasi-experiments with behavioral outcomes; traditional and visual ethnographies that investigate unsustainable or sustainable consumer behavior in tourism; etc.
Link: 🔗https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/real-behavior-sustainable-tourism/?_gl=1*1bnmwtw*_ga*MTY3MTA2MzcxMi4xNjUwNTUxMTU0*_ga_0HYE8YG0M6*MTY1MTc3ODQxNy43LjAuMTY1MTc3ODQxNy4w🔗
Call for a Special issue on “Mathematical Analysis and Modelling for Infectious Diseases” in the journal ⋘Arab Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences⋙ by 13th February 2023.
This special issue focuses on topics such as: theoretical, experimental, and computational results on disease models; classical compartmental models; chaos and dynamical study for Epidemiology; diffusion models; optimal control of disease dynamics; tumor and cancer modeling; etc.
Link: 🔗https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/mathematical-analysis-modelling-infectious-diseases/?_gl=1*18nyh5g*_ga*MTY3MTA2MzcxMi4xNjUwNTUxMTU0*_ga_0HYE8YG0M6*MTY1MTY5NDcyMi42LjAuMTY1MTY5NDcyMi4w🔗
Call for a Special issue on “Clinical populations acquiring languages other than English” in the journal ⋘Language Acquisition⋙ by 1st August 2022 (Abstract) and 31st December 2022 (Manuscript).
This special issue focuses on language development in children with language/communication disorders who are acquiring a language or languages other than English.
Link: 🔗https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/clinical-populations-acquiring-languages/?_gl=1*z7ozp0*_ga*MTY3MTA2MzcxMi4xNjUwNTUxMTU0*_ga_0HYE8YG0M6*MTY1MTY5NDcyMi42LjAuMTY1MTY5NDcyMi4w🔗
This large-scale study investigated the connections between pet guardianship, loneliness, and wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic.
From the 1,199 participants, ~75% of cat owners and ~85% of dog owners believed their pets had a moderately or extremely positive effect, while fewer cat owners (~20%) and dog owners (~10%) believed their pet had no effect or a slightly positive effect. Fish owners were more evenly split across these categories.
These results demonstrated that many people have emotional and psychological benefits from their relationship with their pet, leading to a greater bond and improved mental well-being and loneliness.
Companion animals were reported to attribute to facilitated interpersonal connections, meaningful social support, and purpose and perspective.
The grant money can be used for exploration and appraisal activities such as: seismic and airborne surveying and interpretation, drilling, downhole geophysical logging, site pad preparation, water bore drilling, geochemical assay, hydraulic fracturing, well testing, and data evaluation.
Call for a Special Issue on “Artificial Intelligence in Wearable Sensors for Brain-Computer Interface Applications” in the journal ⋘Sensor Review⋙ by 15th August 2022.
This special issue focuses on topics such as: artificial intelligence for EEG/ECG sensors and brain interfacing; AI techniques for real-time wearable sensor data analytics; tools and algorithms for disease prediction and sensing; machine learning in optimizing privacy and security of wearable sensors; advances in brain-computer wearable sensors; etc.
Link: 🔗https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/calls-for-papers/call-abstracts-artificial-intelligence-wearable-sensors-brain-computer-interface🔗
Call for a Special issue on “Digitization and innovation of the food and beverage industry in the post-pandemic era: challenges, drivers and opportunities” in the journal ⋘British Food Journal⋙ by 1st November 2022.
This special issue focuses on topics such as: challenges, opportunities, and drivers of digital strategies for beverage and food companies; open innovation processes and strategies to foster the growth of food and beverage companies; re-shaping beverage and food business models after the pandemic; digitalization of business activities; etc.
Link: 🔗https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/calls-for-papers/digitization-and-innovation-food-and-beverage-industry-post-pandemic-era🔗
Call for a Special issue on “The role of big Earth data in public health” in the journal ⋘Big Earth Data⋙ by 31st December 2023.
This special issue focuses on the challenges and opportunities regarding the use of big Earth data implementation in public health practice and research (e.g. relationships between COVID-19 and public and environmental health).
Link: 🔗https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/big-earth-data-role/?_gl=1*sazx8l*_ga*MTY3MTA2MzcxMi4xNjUwNTUxMTU0*_ga_0HYE8YG0M6*MTY1MTUxNTAzMS41LjAuMTY1MTUxNTAzMS4w🔗
Call for a Special issue on “Forests themed issue for Biodiversity – a Journal of Life on Earth” in the journal ⋘Biodiversity⋙ by 1st July 2022.
This special issue focuses on topics such as: the role of forests in climate change mitigation and keeping ecosystem services; the forest’s healing, calming, spiritual, and nurturing effects; forest’s biodiversity; and the cultural importance of forest preservation, conservation, and cultivation by local communities and indigenous people.
Link: 🔗https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/biodiversity-forests-journal/?_gl=1*sazx8l*_ga*MTY3MTA2MzcxMi4xNjUwNTUxMTU0*_ga_0HYE8YG0M6*MTY1MTUxNTAzMS41LjAuMTY1MTUxNTAzMS4w🔗
This new study investigated if apes have similar learning capacities as humans by teaching bonobos, chimpanzees, and orangutans how to operate a food dispenser device.
The results demonstrate that apes have some bias to ascribe relevance to communication that could be a teaching precursor, so apes show a preference to learn from communication similarly to children.
This review shows a recent understanding of how language interacts with the core cognitive capacities of the human infant, and if this connection exists in great apes.
Human infants have developed connections between core cognitive capacities and language much before they start speaking, as even three-month-old infants have rich development series for unfolding the cognition-language connection.
On the other hand, no strong evidence is found for supporting that great apes form reference, pass down communicative devices through cultural transfer, or transmit information declaratively as humans do.
This study aimed to investigate if 2-3.5 years old children could spontaneously invent behaviors for using tools that are needed to solve naturally occurring problems, which wild great apes are faced with.
The study also examined if the spontaneous invention of those behaviors would be more challenging for children in a similar manner as are for wild great apes.
The results show that the spontaneous tool-use abilities are very similar between wild great apes and children, which indicates that we are not born with specific physical cognition abilities.
Call for a Special issue on “Critical Approaches to Climate Justice, Technology, and Technical Communication” in the journal ⋘Technical Communication Quarterly⋙ by 15th May 2022 (Abstract) and 31st August 2022 (Manuscript).
This special issue focuses on the work of technical communicators working on climate justice initiatives worldwide (e.g. climate policy, technology, green anarchism and deep ecology, critical animal studies and technical communication, community engagement, activism, grassroots efforts, negotiating cultural views of women, etc.).
Link: 🔗https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/technical-communication-quarterly/?_gl=1*m11ks2*_ga*MTY3MTA2MzcxMi4xNjUwNTUxMTU0*_ga_0HYE8YG0M6*MTY1MTI1ODI4Mi40LjAuMTY1MTI1ODI4Mi4w🔗
Call for a Special Issue on “Recent Progress in Additive Manufacturing” in the journal ⋘Science and Technology of Welding and Joining⋙ by 31st December 2022.
This special issue focuses on innovative technological or scientific aspects of 3D printing processes and additive production for ceramics, metallic materials, polymers, and composites.
Link: 🔗https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/recent-progress-additive-manufacturing/?_gl=1*gl74p9*_ga*MTY3MTA2MzcxMi4xNjUwNTUxMTU0*_ga_0HYE8YG0M6*MTY1MTI1ODI4Mi40LjAuMTY1MTI1ODI4Mi4w🔗
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