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Call for papers for Clinical Medicine: Reproductive Health from Dr Zeev Blumenfeld

Description: Dear colleagues and friends, I cordially invite you to submit your next manuscript to Clinical Medicine: Reproductive Health, an open access journal dedicated to reproduction and women's health. The fascinating area of reproduction and infertility has gone extraordinary progress in the last three decades, enabling to almost every couple to achieve the desired goal of procreation. The areas of gametogenesis, stem cells, fertility preservation despite gonadotoxic chemo- and radiotherapy, are only a few of the fascinating world of reproductive medicine. We, the editorial board, and I will do our best to provide for a fast and fair evaluation. The open ...

Keywords: health, medicine

Clinical Medicine: Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Disorders

Description: It is my pleasure to invite you to submit your recent work for publication in Clinical Medicine: Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Disorders—a new peer reviewed open access journal published by Libertas Academica. The global aging of the population and the increasing prevalence of arthritis and other age related disorders has raised the need to develop a better understanding of the underlying mechanisms as well as a better diffusion of the scientific information not only to health professionals but also to the general population. As an open access journal, Clinical Medicine: Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Disorders provide you the unique opportunity to share ...

Keywords: health, biology, medicine

Clinical Medicine: Case Reports

Description: Dear colleagues, It is my pleasure to invite you to submit a paper to Clinical Medicine: Case Reports, an electronic open access peer reviewed journal. Case reports are not only of academic interest across a wide readership but are also of immediate relevance to practicing clinicians. The majority of doctors across the world practise medicine, and without doubt most have at some time come across “memorable patients” from whom they (and possibly their colleagues as well) have learnt. Many yearn to share their experience; Clinical Medicine: Case Reports now offers the ideal vehicle. Reading case reports commonly triggers a variety ...

Keywords: cognitive science, health, knowledge discovery, medicine

Clinical Medicine: Gastroenterology

Description: Are you trying to decide where to send your next original research manuscript or review article? Does your area of interest cover digestive health? Are you looking for expert peer-review in an extremely timely manner, and rapid publication? If so, I invite you to submit your next article to Clinical Medicine: Gastroenterology. Our aim is to provide timely information in gastroenterology, hepatology and nutrition that is readily accessible. We offer a rapid and in-depth peer review by international experts in the field. Our editorial staff is friendly, helpful and very knowledgeable. Once accepted your paper will be published immediately. How ...

Keywords: health, medicine, life science

Open Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery

Description: On behalf of the Editorial Board and publisher it is my pleasure to invite you to contribute your work to the Open Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery published by Libertas Academica. This open access journal facilitates rapid publication with immediate world wide exposure. Your manuscript is thus available to peers as well as students, patients and all other interested individuals. Although the title indicates that this is a surgical journal our Editorial Board includes leaders in cardiology and cardiovascular medicine which has attracted manuscripts in these areas as well as those related to surgery. Thus, submitted articles are quickly reviewed by ...

Keywords: health, medicine

Clinical Medicine: Oncology

Description: On behalf of the Editorial Board and publisher it is my pleasure to cordially invite you to contribute your work to the Clinical Medicine: Oncology (CMO) published by Libertas Academica. The journal covers a broad area in the field of oncology. This open access journal facilitates rapid publication with immediate world wide exposure. With outstanding Managing Editor and staff, as well as a well-developed web-based interface, publication in CMO is straightforward. All submissions are peer reviewed and processed in a timely manner. Attempting to accelerate an efficient peer review of manuscripts and decision making processes, we strive to make a ...

Keywords: health, medicine

Integrative Medicine Insights

Description: You are invited to share your research findings, clinical techniques, and clinical cases that will enlighten your colleagues about integrative medicine. Because integrative medicine is inclusive, the range of topics possible for this journal is wide and expands across many fields of clinical application and study. I invite papers with rigorous research methods that can be easily replicated and withstand critical scrutiny just as much as I welcome papers that shed insight on techniques and applications that beg for future research. For example, if your travels in the world led you to discover a culture with a unique manner of ...

Keywords: health, medicine

IJODE Special Issue on Organisational Design and Engineering in Healthcare

Description: The worldwide trend in healthcare has been to look to healthcare information technology (HCIT) for solutions to prominent challenges such as process improvement, patient satisfaction, cost reduction and labour market shortages. Yet recent reviews of the electronic health record (EHR) literature show that all is not well especially with respect to the alignment of organizational design and the engineered artifact. Niazkhani et al (2009, p. 546) concluded "When put in practice, the formal, predefined, stepwise, and role-based models of workflow underlying CPOE systems may show a fragile compatibility with the contingent, pragmatic, and co-constructive nature of workflow.” Two of the ...

Keywords: healthcare, organizational design, information systems, design science

Call for book chapter: Serious Games for Healthcare- Applications and Implications

Description: CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS Proposal Submission Deadline: May 15th, 2011 Serious Games for Healthcare: Applications and Implications A book edited by Dr. Sylvester Arnab and Dr. Ian Dunwell Serious Games Institute, Coventry University, UK Dr. Kurt Debattista International Digital Lab, University of Warwick, UK To be published by IGI Global: http://www.igi-global.com/authorseditors/authoreditorresources/callforbookchapters/callforchapterdetails.aspx?callforcontentid=74a4f4cf-ccd0-4bb4-83f4-948fecec03c8 Introduction With advances in technologies and revolutions in patient, trainee, and public expectations, the global healthcare sector is increasingly turning to serious games to solve problems. Developed using computer game technologies more often associated with entertainment, serious games provide a platform for combining high-fidelity graphics and sound with engaging ...

Keywords: healthcare, games, serious games, innovation in health

Biomarkers in Cancer

Description: On behalf of the Editorial Board, it is a pleasure to invite you to submit a manuscript for publication in Biomarkers in Cancer. We would like to receive articles which describe biomarkers which have been validated by genetic and molecular biology methods. We are particularly interested in biomarkers which can aid our understanding of the etiology, improve the classification, support in the assessment, improve the prevention of, and particularly the targeted treatment of any form of cancer. We invite contributions from a variety of scientific disciplines. We publish original empirical research, reviews, and commentaries. We provide an efficient, constructive peer ...

Keywords: health, molecular biology, biology

Journal of Environmental Technology and Engineering

Description: JETE aims to provide an international forum for academics, industry leaders, and policy makers to investigate and exchange novel ideas and disseminate knowledge and information covering the broad range of natural systems and industrial activities and fields including, but not limited to, environmental science and engineering, resources management and engineering, processing, earth sciences, economics, engineering, information technologies, management, medicine, and the arts. In addition, it aims to establish an effective channel of communication between policy makers, government agencies, academic and research institutions and persons concerned with the complex set and behaviour of natural systems and operations. It also aims to ...

Keywords: health, oil, agriculture

IEEE Communications Magazine - Special Issue on Communications in Ubiquitous Healthcare: Wireless Sensors, Networked Devices, Protocols and Solutions

Description: Call for Papers IEEE Communications Magazine Special Issue on "Communications in Ubiquitous Healthcare: Wireless Sensors, Networked Devices, Protocols and Solutions" Many countries continue to face the major challenge of economically supporting their welfare systems, particularly medical/health benefits. Without the introduction of alternative solutions to reduce the cost of conventional systems such as hospitalization and specialized institutions, the system will most likely collapse. For a long time, information and communications technologies (ICT) have been recognized as part of the solution to create new cost-effective solutions to reduce the cost of healthcare. For example, the Ubiquitous (U) Health Smart Home, a home ...

Keywords: ubiquitous computing, ehealth

International Journal of Medical Informatics - Special Issue on Designing for Healthy Living

Description: ===================== CALL FOR PAPERS ==================================== Special Issue on Designing for Healthy Living International Journal of Medical Informatics (Elsevier) Submission deadline: January 29, 2011 ========================================================================== SYNOPSIS Chronic conditions (such as heart disease, stroke) have become the chief causes of death globally. The World Health Organization predicts that by 2030, three-quarters of all deaths in the world will be due to such chronic non-communicable diseases. Over 70 per cent of cardiovascular disease deaths and around 50 per cent of all chronic disease deaths are attributable to a small number of risk factors, which include: unhealthy diet, physical inactivity, tobacco use and high ...

Keywords: ubiquitous computing, computer-human interaction, healthy living, ambient assisted living

Journal of Pervasive and Mobile Computing - Special Issue on Pervasive Health

Description: Call for Papers Journal of Pervasive and Mobile Computing Special Issue on Pervasive Healthcare Pervasive Healthcare is currently one of the hottest research topics in the area of pervasive and mobile computing focusing on the integration and cooperation of two fundamental disciplines (Information and Communication Technologies and Medical Sciences) that have a great impact on the current society. One of the main purposes of this research field consists in the design and development of information systems able to support medical professionals both improving patients’ Quality of Life and reducing medical errors and hospitalization costs. Continuous remote monitoring of patient’s physiological ...

Keywords: ehealth, telemedicine, mobile computing, pervasive health

Human Parasitic Diseases

Description: Dear colleagues, This is a call for papers for Human Parasitic Diseases – a recently-established, peer-reviewed open access journal published by Libertas Academica. This important and exciting new has already attracted manuscripts of very high scientific quality. This is because Human Parasitic Diseases offers, and continues to offer, rigorous, fair and prompt standards of peer review. My policy as Editor-in-Chief is that anyone can contribute, and not only those in major institutions. Open access means that all articles are freely available to all, worldwide, and at no cost to the reader. All articles published in Human Parasitic Diseases become available ...

Keywords: health, biology

Journal of Biomedical Informatics - Special Issue on Community-Driven Curation of Ontologies and Knowledge Bases in HealthCare and L

Description: CALL FOR PAPERS Journal of Biomedical Informatics (Elsevier) - http://www.elsevier.com/locate/yjbin Special Issue on Community-Driven Curation of Ontologies and Knowledge Bases in HealthCare and Life Sciences =================================================== Important Dates =================================================== * Submission deadline: October 1st, 2011 * Notification: December 2011 * Final Version due: January 2011 * Publication: Early 2012 =================================================== Submission Guidelines =================================================== * Manuscript preparation - Instructions for Authors: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/622857/authorinstructions * Manuscript submission: http://ees.elsevier.com/jbi/ =================================================== Aims and objectives =================================================== We are inviting submissions for a special issue of the Journal of Biomedical Informatics devoted to the topic of community-driven curation of ontologies and knowledge bases in Health Care and ...

Keywords: healthcare, collaborative, semantics

JAISE Thematic Issue: “Home based health and wellness measurement and monitoring”

Description: JOURNAL OF AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE AND SMART ENVIRONMENTS (JAISE) Thematic Issue: “Home based health and wellness measurement and monitoring” Traditional healthcare environments are extremely complex and challenging to manage, as they are required to cope with an assortment of patient conditions under various circumstances with a number of resource constraints. Pervasive healthcare technologies seek to respond to a variety of these pressures by successfully integrating them within existing health care environments. This Thematic Issue will focus on the deployment of technology at home which can have a positive impact on the health of our population. This publication will aim at reporting ...

Keywords: health monitoring, ambient assisted living

ACM TIST Special Issue on Intelligent Systems for Health Informatics

Description: The field of health informatics has revolutionized the face of health care in the past decade. Informatics based solutions have not only changed the way in which information is collected and stored but also played a crucial role in the management and delivery of healthcare. Intelligent and automated data processing has never been more important than it is today. In recent years, intelligent systems have emerged as a promising tool for solving problems in various healthcare related domains. With the advent of various swift data acquisition systems and recent developments in the health care information technology, huge amounts of data ...

Keywords: healthcare, intelligent systems

The Architecture of the psychiatric milieu

Description: The editorial team of Facilities are pleased to announce a call for papers for a special issue dedicated to an exploration of evidence based approaches to establish the most appropriate architecture for the psychiatric milieu. Facilities for psychiatric care have a tradition of standardization in design and treatment dating back to the moral treatment paradigm of the 1850s. As normative approaches to psychiatric care have changed, so too do the facilities used to house, treat and manage patients. The shift to evidence-based design (EBD) in hospital architecture means that the psychiatric milieu must follow suit. The search for evidence to ...

Keywords: healthcare, psychology, architecture, psychiatric

Journal of Environmental Sustainability

Description: OPEN CALL FOR PAPERS – February 15 – June 15, 2012 Journal of Environmental Sustainability Special Issue on the Roles and Responsibilities of the Professions for Environmental Sustainability and Social Responsibility The aim of the Journal of Environmental Sustainability is to advance understanding of environmental sustainability in order to serve as a bridge between academic and practitioner communities and guide policy and management practice to achieve environmental sustainability. The breadth of environmental sustainability is so broad as to provide a role for all professionals. Special Objectives of this Issue The focus of this issue is to investigate how professionals in ...

Keywords: environmental management, facility management, occupational health and safety, sustainability