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The Revista Brasileira de Plantas Medicinais (RBPM) was launched in October 1998 (v.1, n.1) as a biannual publication until 2003, and was published three times a year in 2004 and 2005. From 2006, it became a quarterly journal, publishing until August/2010 (v.12, n.3, 2010) 582 scientific papers, the majority of which are scientific articles, some reviews and a few preliminary notes. Since 2008, the Journal is also available at CAPES journals (www.periodicos.capes.gov.br) and at the portal of Summaries of Brazilian Journals, in the Multidisciplinary field (http://www.sumarios.org/ revista.asp?idrevista=271&idarea=9).The Revista Brasileira de Plantas Medicinais covers the great areas of multidisciplinary study on medicinal plants, including Plant Anatomy and Morphology; Bioassays; Biotechnology; Genetic Resource Conservation; Ecophysiology; Ethnobotany; Ethnopharmacology; Pharmacognosis; Pharmacology; Plant Physiology; Phytochemistry; Plant Science; Phytotherapy, Food Technology and use of medicinal plants in Veterinary Medicine.Its abbreviated title is Rev. bras. plantas med., which should be used in bibliographies, footnotes and bibliographical references and strips.

Es una magnífica revista para acceder a los mejores artículos de investigación en la especialidad y los casos clínicos de mayor interés. Además, es la Publicación Oficial de la Sociedad, y está incluida en prestigiosos índices de referencia en medicina.6 NÚMEROS AL AÑO + 1 EXTRAORDINARIO CONGRESOPara más información, consulte http://www.elsevier.es/rot

The Journal MVZ Cordoba is the official organ of the diffusion of the faculty of veterinary medicine and zootechny of university of Córdoba, Montería, Colombia. Is a biannual publication and circulates in the international environment. The journal publishes (sections) original articles of investigation, technical articles, literature reviews, topics revisions, brief communications, inform of cases and, others that to opinion of the Editorial Committee are from general interest. The topics that the Journal MVZ Cordoba Publishes is related with the veterinary medicine and zootechny, aquaculture, biology, biotechnology, biomedical basic sciences and others topics of interest in the agricultural sciences. The Journal MVZ Cordoba is directed to professionals of the veterinary medicine, zootechny, human and animal public health, aquaculture, biology, biomedical basic sciences and biotechnology. Journal accepts papers in either Spanish or English.The Objectives of Journal MVZ Cordoba is to spread out the scientific and technological knowledge of the agricultural and animal sciences, biomedical basic sciences, aquiculture, biotechnology and biology. The journal is printed effective with volume 1, issue 1, 1994.

Rhetoric Society Quarterly, the official journal of the Rhetoric Society of America, features original articles on all areas of rhetorical studies including theory, history, criticism, and pedagogy. The journal addresses an interdisciplinary audience of scholars and students of rhetorics who work in communication studies, English studies, philosophy, politics and other allied fields.Submissions:Rhetoric Society Quarterly is published five times a year. Article-length manuscripts on all areas of rhetorical studies including theory, history, criticism, and pedagogy are invited. Contributions should exhibit high standards for professional scolarship, and should offer new knowledge or advance the discussion on significant issues in the field of rhetoric in ways that address the work and common interests of rhetoricians who reside in a variety of disciplines.Special AnnouncementKneupper Award for 2010Rhetoric Society Quarterly is pleased to announce that the Kneupper Award for the best article in the 2010 volume of the journal is awarded to: Susan Romano, 8220;'Grand Convergence' in the Mexican Colonial Mundane: The Matter of Introductories8221; in 40:1, pages 71-93. Three members of the Editorial Board served as the award committee: David Fleming, Jean Goodwin, and Patricia Roberts-Miller (chair). Members of the committee found this essay to be 8220;extraordinary,8221; 8220;potentially transformative,8221; and 8220;startling,8221; noting that it 8220;identifies a question central to rhetorical studies8221; and serves as 8220;a model of what great rhetorical scholarship can be8212;specific and abstract, drawing canonical theorists together with noncanonical texts, and pushing the field in a genuinely new direction.8221; This award is given each year in memory of Charles Kneupper, 19498211;1989, who initiated and organized the earliest biennial RSA conferences at the University of Texas at Arlington, where he taught. Charles was an active member of RSA and mentor to many graduate students in rhetoric.This announcement will also appear in the spring issue of RSQ (41:2).Carolyn R. MillerRSQ Editor Peer Review Policy: All articles in this journal have undergone editorial screening and anonymous peer review.Publication office: Taylor & Francis, Inc., 325 Chestnut Street, Suite 800, Philadelphia, PA 19106.

This bimonthly journal publishes thematic issues featuring translations of some of the most important political science articles by authors working in the Soviet successor states. Selections are drawn from both print and electronic sources, as well as from previously unpublished work. The materials selected include both articles examining the politics of the region and theoretical works of interest to the field as a whole. Each issue includes a substantive introduction to the theme by the chief editor or a guest editor who is an expert on the issue's theme.The complete digital archives of Russian Politics & Law beginning with Volume 1 (1962) are available free of charge to current institutional subscribers for the life of the paid subscription.Volumes 1-38 (1962-2000) are also included in the Russian & East European digital archive collection available for one-time purchase to non-subscribers."Articles cover domestic and foreign policy, legislative development, law enforcement, intra- and intergovernmental relations, and political party development. ... Recommended as an important purchase for special, academic, and research libraries. -Magazines for Libraries"Even in the dark(ish) day of US-Soviet relations in the early 1980s, ... [the journal] made available important source material demonstrating that, however dull the political surface, scholarship continued to plough its various furrows, and turned up a wealth of material that must have had a subversive effect over the longer term. -Irish Slavonic Studies.

Russian Studies in Literature publishes high-quality, annotated translations of Russian literary criticism and scholarship on contemporary works and popular cultural topics as well as the classics. Selections are drawn from the leading literary periodicals including Literaturnaia gazeta (Literary Gazette), Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie (New Literary Review), Oktiabr (October), Voprosy literatury (Problems of Literature), and Znamia (Banner). An editorial introduction to every issue provides context and insight that will be helpful for English-language readers.The complete digital archives of Russian Studies in Literature beginning with Volume 1 (1964) are available free of charge to current institutional subscribers for the life of the paid subscription.Volumes 1-37 (1964-2000) are also included in the Russian & East European digital archive collection available for one-time purchase to non-subscribers."The issues are lively and interesting, and the selections are beautifully translated. All in all, the journal is a great resource for anyone who wants to follow how Russian culture is evolving. -Jeffrey Brooks, Johns Hopkins University"The selection of items for translation makes for an exciting and enlightening reading, providing insight into the current literary scene in Russia. This journal is highly recommended for academic and research libraries with programs and clientele interested in Russian and comparative literature." -Magazines for Libraries.

Russian Studies in Philosophy publishes thematic issues featuring selected scholarly papers from conferences and joint research projects as well as from the leading Russian-language journals in philosophy. Thematic coverage ranges over significant theoretical topics as well as topics in the history of philosophy, both European and Russian, including issues focused on institutions, schools, and figures such as Bakhtin, Fedorov, Ilyenkov, Leontev, Losev, Mamardashvili, Rozanov, Solovev, and Zinovev.The complete digital archives of Russian Studies in Philosophy beginning with Volume 1 (1962) are available free of charge to current institutional subscribers for the life of the paid subscription.Volumes 1-39 (1962-2000) are also included in the Russian & East European Studies digital archive collection available for one-time purchase to non-subscribers."Scholarly, thoughtful, and well-documented articles. ... This is a valuable and very important journal, recommended for academic and research libraries." -Magazines for Libraries.

The Scandinavian Journal of Management (SJM) provides an international forum for innovative and carefully crafted research on different aspects of management. We promote dialogue and new thinking around theory and practice, based on conceptual creativity, reasoned reflexivity and contextual awareness. We have a passion for empirical inquiry.We promote constructive dialogue among researchers as well as between researchers and practitioners. We encourage new approaches to the study of management and we aim to foster new thinking around management theory and practice.We publish original empirical and theoretical material, which contributes to understanding management in private and public organizations. Full-length articles (up to 8.000 words) and book reviews form the core of the journal, but focused discussion-type texts (around 3.000-5.000 words), empirically or theoretically oriented, can also be considered for publication.The Scandinavian Journal of Management is open to different research approaches in terms of methodology and epistemology. We are open to different fields of management application, but narrow technical discussions relevant only to specific sub-fields will not be given priority.All submissions and review processes for the journal are now carried out electronically through EES (http://ees.elsevier.com/sjm/). Reliability has always been our guideline, and EES enables us to further speed up submission and review processes and to offer authors an opportunity to make use of reasonable lead times in getting their work reviewed and published.What is Scandinavian about the Scandinavian Journal of Management?The Scandinavian Journal of Management was founded in 1985, and it has become a truly international journal where scholars from all over the world publish their work. The name of the journal signifies:1. Openness: Empirical inquiries driven by curiosity over the exotic nature of mundane organizational life predominate, often in the form of case studies using qualitative research methods. The journal remains open, however, also to more classical approaches in the field of management, but it is the task of the proponents of such approaches to prove their worth, rather than vice versa. Openness is also manifest in the broad thematic profile of the journal.2. Creativity: Openness relates to interdisciplinary innovation and novel ways of conceptualizing management-related phenomena. We encourage creative refashioning of existing conceptions of management, and the introduction of new meanings and nuances into well-known concepts and ideas.3. Reflexivity: Creativity needs to be based on serious consideration of the foundations of the research endeavor, and the epistemological and methodological underpinnings of the theoretical claims made through empirical inquiry. In brief, the role and impact of the researcher/s in research needs to be addressed and thought out.The Editorial Team of the Scandinavian Journal of Management seeks to embody these principles in running the journal. Being Scandinavian and Nordic is a state of mind. Our talent pool and audience is the whole wide world all those interested in innovative management research.Our Editorial Team consists of Editor Alexander Styhre and Associate Editors Christine Coupland, Martin Fougère, Monica Lindgren, Inger Johanne Pettersen, Per Skålén and Morten Thanning Vendelo. Within our Team, we maintain a decentralized editorial system where the associate editors will be assigned responsibility for individual manuscripts, which fall in their particular areas of expertise. Our Book Review Editors Tommy Jensen and Sara Louise Muhr run a section, which features reviews on recent books by well-known scholars, but also on more avantgarde or marginal works and on books published in languages other than English. We want to provide our readers with reviews on interesting books that other major journals are unlikely to cover.Beyond a constant regular inflow of quality manuscripts, special issues provide in many ways the extra spice for scientific journals. They have been a prominent feature of the Scandinavian Journal of Management, too. Our Editorial Team will maintain the policy of the journal in encouraging top class special issues on timely and relevant themesOn behalf of our Editorial Team, I would like to invite you to consider the Scandinavian Journal of Management as a potential outlet for your work, as a relevant journal to do reviews for, or just to enjoy a good read.

Science of Computer Programming is dedicated to the distribution of research results in the areas of software systems development, use and maintenance, including the software aspects of hardware design.The journal has a wide scope ranging from the many facets of methodological foundations to the details of technical issues andthe aspects of industrial practice.The subjects of interest to SCP cover the entire spectrum of methods for the entire life cycle of software systems, including• Requirements, specification, design, validation, verification, coding, testing, maintenance, metrics and renovation of software;• Design, implementation and evaluation of programming languages;• Programming environments, development tools, visualisation and animation;• Management of the development process;• Human factors in software.• Software aspects of operating systems, system administration and network management.Special emphasis is given to recent trends in software development, such as software architecture, component-based software development and web-based software engineering. SCP is divided into four tracks. These are: (1) Concepts and methodology, (2) Formal techniques, (3) Experimental software technology, (4) Descriptive software technology.1) The conceptual track is open for methodological, philosophical and sociological studies on all aspects of computer software production and usage, including ethics.2) The formal track emphasizes the development and the pragmatic application of formal and semiformal techniques. Submissions which the editors consider mainly mathematical or theoretical in nature, with the preliminary consent of the authors, will formally be forwarded to the sister journal TCS.3) The experimental track is open for expositions on implementations of and experiments with novel programming languages, systems and methods. It must be emphasized that papers describing new software tools of relevance to SCP are welcome under the strict condition that the source code of the tools is open.4) The descriptive track deals with observational studies of current software development practices, reporting on new languages,systems and methods, including survey reports on the various themes.Special Issues:Science of Computer Programming welcomes Special Issues within its Scope either resulting from conferences or workshops or from dedicated editorial efforts.

Scientia Horticulturae is an international journal publishing research related to horticultural crops. Articles in the journal deal with open or protected production of vegetables, fruits, edible fungi and ornamentals under temperate, subtropical and tropical conditions. Papers in related areas (biochemistry, micropropagation, soil science, plant breeding, plant physiology, phytopathology, etc.) are considered, if they contain information of direct significance to horticulture. Papers on the technical aspects of horticulture (engineering, crop processing, storage, transport etc.) are accepted for publication only if they relate directly to the living product. In the case of plantation crops, those yielding a product that may be used fresh (e.g. tropical vegetables, citrus, bananas, and other fruits) will be considered, while those papers describing the processing of the product (e.g. rubber, tobacco, and quinine) will not. The scope of the journal includes all horticultural crops but does not include speciality crops such as, medicinal crops or forestry crops, such as bamboo. Basic molecular studies without any direct application in horticulture will not be considered for this journal.Types of paper: 1. Original full papers (regular papers)2. Review articles (should cover a part of the subject of active current interest) 3. Short Communications - 3.1 Report of preliminary results of important research (pilot investigation: e.g. no duplications or with other restrictions) - 3.2 Newly developed methodology or modification of existing methodology, possibly description of first test. - 3.3 Results of the application of an earlier published research methodology on other crops or under different conditions (fact finding or recipes) that are nevertheless of interest to an international readership. Should include new scientific insight.4. Book Reviews (included in the journal on a range of relevant books which are not more than 2 years old).Original papers should report the results of original research and should be of international and not only regional interest. The material should not have been previously published elsewhere, except in a preliminary form. Reviews should cover a part of the subject active current interest. They may be submitted or invited.Short Communications should be as completely documented, both by reference to the literature and description of the experimental procedures employed, as a regular paper. They should not occupy more than 4 printed pages (about 8 manuscript pages, including figures, etc.).For consultation or suggestions please contact the Editors-in-Chief.

Sculpture Journal provides an international forum for writers and scholars in the field of post-classical sculpture and public commemorative monuments in the Western tradition. Sculpture Journal offers a keen critical overview and a sound historical base, and is Britain's foremost scholarly journal devoted to sculpture in all its aspects. Periods covered extend to public and private commissions for present-day sculptors. While being academic and traditional, the journal encourages contributions of fresh research from new names in the field.Contributions should be original and should not have been previously published in any form, including all forms of electronic publication. Contributors are required to assign copyright to Liverpool University Press, and not to publish accepted articles or book reviews on web pages before they appear in Sculpture Journal.Beginning with Volume 17 (1), 2008, the journal is indexed and abstracted in:Arts and Humanities Citation IndexCurrent Contents/Arts & Humanities.

Work on self and identity has a special place in the study of human nature, as self-concerns are arguably at the center of individuals' striving for well-being and for making sense of one's life. Life goals develop and are influenced by one's view of what one is like, the way one would ideally like to be (or would like to avoid being), as well as one's perceptions of what is feasible. Furthermore, conceptions of self and the world affect how one's progress towards these goals is monitored, evaluated, redirected, re-evaluated, and pursued again. Thus, the 8220;self8221; as a construct has far-reaching implications for behavior, self-esteem, motivation, experience of emotions and the world more broadly, and hence for interpersonal relationships, society, and culture.Self and Identity is devoted to the study of these social and psychological processes of the self, including both its agentic aspects, as well as the perceived and construed aspects as reflected in its mental representations. The Journal aims to bring together work on self and identity undertaken by researchers across different subdisciplines within psychology (e.g., social, personality, clinical, development, cognitive), as well as across other social and behavioral disciplines (e.g., sociology, family studies, anthropology, neuroscience). Special emphasis is placed on theories and research that are generative in opening new terrain for future investigation. A second continual motivating goal of the journal, will be work that offers integration at the level of basic processes. The Journal publishes empirical articles of all lengths, and occasional theoretical pieces.Peer Review IntegrityAll published research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and refereeing by independent expert referees.Special IssuesIssues devoted to a particular topic are occasionally published in this journal. These special issues are sent free to subscribers in that year, and are available to purchase separately as books for non-subscribers. Click on the titles below for more information and to order.Two Sides to Every Self-Process: The Pros and ConsGuest Editors: Virginia S. Y. Kwan and Lowell Gaertner Volume 8, Issues 2,3 (2009) ISBN 978-1-84872-703-8The Implicit SelfGuest editors: Laurie A. Rudman and Steven J. SpencerVolume 6, Issues 2,3 (2007) ISBN 978-1-84169-826-7 Related LinksBrowse books in Gender Identity, Personality, Prejudice and Self and Social Identity.View forthcoming conferences in: Social Psychology.Disclaimer Taylor & Francis makes every effort to ensure the accuracy of all the information (the "Content") contained in its publications. However, Taylor & Francis and its agents and licensors make no representations or warranties whatsoever as to the accuracy, completeness or suitability for any purpose of the Content and disclaim all such representations and warranties whether expressed or implied to the maximum extent permitted by law. Any views expressed in this publication are the views of the authors and are not the views of Taylor & Francis.

Seminars in Nephrology is a timely source for the publication of new concepts and research findings relevant to the clinical practice of nephrology. Each issue is an organized compendium of practical information that serves as a lasting reference for nephrologists, internists and physicians in training.Benefits to authorsWe also provide many author benefits, such as free PDFs, a liberal copyright policy, special discounts on Elsevier publications and much more. Please click here for more information on our author services.If you require any further information or help, please visit our support pages: http://support.elsevier.com2011 Topics, Volume 31, Issues 1-6JanuaryPregnancy and the KidneyS. Ananth Karumanchi and Marshall LindheimerMarchEndothelium and the KidneyPhilip MarsdenMay Peritoneal DialysisJoanne BargmanJulyImaging Techniques in Nephrology Bruce MolitorisSeptemberUric Acid and the KidneyRichard JohnsonNovemberGlomerulonephritisRichard J. Glassock

Seminars in Nuclear Medicine is a timely source for new concepts and techniques in nuclear medicine. The clinically oriented articles provide a reference for those involved in the performance and interpretation of nuclear medicine procedures. The contributing authors represent many of the recognized authorities from around the world.2012 Topics, Volume 42, Issues 1-6:JanuaryPlanar Imaging in the Age of SPECTMarchFunctional Studies of the Gastrointestinal TractMayTheranosticsJulyLow-Sensitivity FDG-PET StudiesSeptemberRadiation Oncology and Nuclear MedicineNovemberBrain Imaging UpdateBenefits to authorsWe also provide many author benefits, such as free PDFs, a liberal copyright policy, special discounts on Elsevier publications and much more. Please click here for more information on our author services.Please see our Guide for Authors for information on article submission. If you require any further information or help, please visit our support pages: http://support.elsevier.com