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Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Women, Gender, and Families of Color: Race, Gender, and Disability

Abstracts Due: 6/1/13

Manuscripts Due: 10/20/2013

Despite discourse on gender/sexuality and race/ethnicity or gender and disability, there are few studies about the intersections of race, gender and disability from a critical perspective. This issue will focus on articles that analyze these intersections from different disciplinary perspectives. Categories include interrogations into the lives of people of color and white subjects from a critical whiteness perspective; gender as it encompasses interrogations of femininity, masculinity, transgender, or intersex subjectivity and any form of sexual expression and identity and their intersection; and disability to encompass impairment and the socio-cultural aspects that accompany it.

Topics include but not limited to:

Family caregiving or parenting at the intersections of gender/race/disability

Lived experiences of disabled women/people of color

Representations of disability in families of color in films and literature

News and media representations of race, disability and gender/sexuality

Historical analysis that highlights these intersections (e.g., eugenics)

Policy, activism and interventions that empower disabled people of color

Articles connecting disability studies, queer theory and women's studies to critical race theory and critical whiteness studies

Analysis of policies related to education, employment, immigration and incarceration that centers on the intersections of race, gender and ability.

Contact: Guest-Editors Sandy Magana, maganas@uic.edu; Liat Ben Moshe, lbenmosh@uic.edu, University of Wisconsin.

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Academic Psychiatry: Psychiatric Education and Neuroscience

Over the past few decades, psychiatric research has increasingly converged on the importance of neuroscience for understanding psychopathology, the mechanisms of current treatments, and avenues for novel therapeutics. Despite these large scientific advances, education of psychiatrists in neuroscience has lagged significantly. This lag may be attributable to numerous factors, the result of which is a psychiatric workforce presently unprepared for understanding these innovations, interfacing with patients over them, and integrating neuroscientific advances into their clinical care.

Insights into and attempts to bridge the science-to-training gap, however, have already begun taking shape. These efforts have started on a small scale, but may very importantly inform broader efforts by the field to bring psychiatric practice closer into the fold of neuroscience. At the same time, there are concerns among clinicians that an exclusive focus on neuroscience may diminish the historically humanistic nature of psychiatry. To this aim, Academic Psychiatry is creating a special issue of articles that explore the nature of the gap, reasons why the training is lagging behind the science, and avenues for bridging this gap in creative ways, while being mindful to retain the many existing virtues of clinical psychiatry.

In keeping with the overall mission of Academic Psychiatry, papers ideally will be evidence-based, drawing upon data and outcome measures, and/or involving multiple sites. Comprehensive reviews and case studies are also welcome. All submissions will be peer reviewed in keeping with the journal's policy. Submissions are due by July 1, 2013.

Submissions should be uploaded to ScholarOne Manuscripts (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/appi-ap). Please indicate in the cover letter that the submission is for this special issue. For more information, please visit our Web site at ap.psychiatryonline.org. Please direct questions on the submission process to Ms. Ann Tennier, Senior Editorial Associate, at 262-346-1461 or acadpsych@gmail.com.

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Psychology of Popular Media Culture: Video Games and Children

February 1, 2014: submission deadline

The degree to which video games do or do not impact children, both positively and negatively, continues to be a topic of discussion and controversy in the scholarly community and general public. The ensuing debates have made clear the divergent opinions within the scholarly community regarding the potential impact of violent video games on children's behavior.

At times, these debates have become acrimonious, arguably because these debates are not merely academic, but entwined with both phenomena related to societal violence and "culture war" debates about what media content is moral. The tenor of such debates, both within the scholarly community and general public can, at times, stifle efforts by scholars with differing perspectives to find common ground and understand their divergent views and data.

This special issue is viewed as an opportunity to provide a public forum for scholars on all sides of these debates to discuss new data and new directions in video game science.

Thus, papers addressing the influences of video games on children are invited. It is expected that a range of differing views and data will be included in the final special issue.

These are some guidelines for papers that will be particularly competitive for inclusion in the special issue:

Empirical papers will be given priority over review or theoretical papers. Review/theoretical papers that advance understanding beyond past "video games are good/bad" debates may be competitive, however.

All papers should consider influences on children or teenagers. College student samples will not be given priority.

To avoid publication bias issues, papers finding statistically significant effects as well as those finding null results will be given equal weight. In all cases, careful consideration of the interpretation of effect sizes should be given greater emphasis than a binary statistical significance decision.

Papers examining both positive and negative outcomes are welcome. Papers need not be on aggression/violence or mental health, but could also consider cognition, problem solving, stress, etc.

Papers should be no more than 30 pages in length, total, including references.

By exchanging views and data across debates in this field it is hoped that the special issue will provide a new start for collegial discussion of these issues as the field moves forward.

Manuscripts can be submitted through the Journal's Manuscript Submission Portal. Please note in your cover letter that you are submitting for this special issue and send in attention to Christopher J. Ferguson.

Questions about the special issue can be addressed to the guest editor Christopher J. Ferguson.

First submission papers will be accepted through February 1, 2014.

2013 Journal of the Dermatology Nurses' Association Writing Awards

Write, be published, and you could win an award!

Awards will be offered in 3 categories:

• Best clinical article

• Best research article

• Most viewed article at JDNAonline.com

Use our online submission process to submit your article.  http://www.editorialmanager.com/jdna/

All manuscripts published in JDNA in 2013 will be eligible for consideration.There will be one $250 prize for each category, to be awarded at the 2014 annual DNA conference.

If you have any questions, please contact Angela L. Borger, DNP, FNP, DNC, at alborger@aol.com. 

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience: Mechanisms of Motivation-Cognition Interactions

Editor-in-Chief: Deanna Barch

Special Guest Editor: Todd Braver

In the last decade, investigations of motivation have been revitalized by progress in social, affective, and cognitive psychology, as well as by progress in systems and computational neuroscience, that begin to elaborate the mechanisms by which motivation influences higher-level learning and information processing. Exciting investigations of motivational effects have now been carried out in a number of domains including attention, working memory, episodic memory, executive control, decision-making, and implicit goal formation. Importantly, this recent work has provided new theoretical frameworks, methodologies and analytical tools for characterizing the nature of motivation-cognition interactions. These range from experimental paradigms that provide more precise behavioral and cognitive assays, to neuroimaging methods enabling identification of neural activity dynamics in both localized regions and large-scale brain networks, to computational approaches that provide formalisms for understanding reinforcement learning and decision-making. Additionally, new work has addressed questions of how developmental, aging, and clinical populations are impacted by changes in the nature of motivation-cognition interactions.

This special issue of Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience will bring together a comprehensive set of articles identifying and addressing the mechanisms by which motivation interacts with cognitive and affective function. Consistent with the journal mission, submissions should provide a neuroscience-based perspective, with a particularly high priority placed on work that integrates across psychological and neurobiological levels of analysis.

Submissions may target any issues related to motivation-cognition interactions, including those that may overlap with topics within affective function, reward processing, or reinforcement learning. However, for these latter topics, it will be important to make clear how invoking the construct of motivation provides added theoretical and/or experimental leverage to the question of interest. We particularly encourage submissions that include a lifespan or aging perspective. Both original empirical articles and review/opinion pieces are welcomed.

One-page proposals are due July 1, 2013, and full manuscripts will be due October 1, 2013, with the goal of publishing the Special Issue in March of 2014. Please send the one-page proposal to Deanna Barch at dbarch@wustl.edu.

Call for Submissions: 2013 Condon Prize for Best Student Essay in Psychological Anthropology

The SPA is now accepting submissions to the 2013 Condon Prize for Best Student Essay in Psychological Anthropology

The Society for Psychological Anthropology solicits entries for the 2013 Richard G. Condon Prize for the best student essay in psychological anthropology.

Please encourage students to submit papers for this competition.

The winner will be awarded $500 and one year’s free membership in the Society for Psychological Anthropology.

The winning essay will be published in Ethos after working with the Editor to revise and prepare the final manuscript.

The prize is named for the late Richard G. Condon, whose work included the study of adolescence, family, and change among the Canadian Inuit.

Psychological anthropology is defined broadly to include interrelationships among psychological, social and cultural phenomena.

Essays will be judged on their relevance to psychological anthropology, theoretical and methodological strengths, and organization and clarity.

The winner will be recognized at the 2013 SPA Business Meeting in Chicago.

Papers submitted for consideration must follow these guidelines:

1. No evidence of the author's identity may be provided in any way through the text or by reference in the paper.

2. The author's name, address, email, student affiliation, and the title of the paper must be provided in an email message to which the paper is attached, and the paper should only be identified by title – and not by author's name – in the attachment.

3. Authors must be students at the time of submitting the paper, but they need not be members of the Society for Psychological Anthropology.

4. Papers must not exceed 9000 words inclusive of references.

5. Papers must follow the American Anthropological Association style guide, available at: http://www.aaanet.org/publications/guidelines.cfm.

6. Papers must be submitted and received by August 15, 2013. Entries should be emailed as MS Word attachments to Harold Odden, SPA Secretary-Treasurer, at Oddenh@ipfw.edu.

Please direct any questions to Merav Shohet, Condon committee chair, at mshohetg@gmail.com.

Merav Shohet, Ph.D.
merav@post.harvard.edu
617.520.4891
 

Call for Papers: Sex and Gender Differences in Cardiovascular Physiology - Back to Basics

Guest Editor Dr. Virginia Miller and the Editors of AJP-Heart and Circulatory Physiology extend an invitation to submit original research articles related to sex and gender differences in cardiovascular physiology. Although sex and gender differences in cardiovascular disease morbidity and mortality are recognized in clinical medicine, physiological mechanisms behind these differences have been ignored in basic research. We welcome work from genetic and molecular science to integrative animal and human physiology exploring sex differences in mitochondrial function, energetics, cellular ion regulation, secretory and mechanical processes of endothelial, smooth muscle, myocardium and autonomic and neuronal regulation. Many sex distinctions occur at specific times in the life cycle such as puberty or pregnancy, thus we encourage submissions which address interaction with development and aging. All manuscripts accepted from this Call for Papers will be included in a unique online article collection to further highlight this important topic. The article collection will also include specially commissioned Review articles.

All manuscripts should be submitted online here: http://ajpheart.msubmit.net/cgi-bin/main.plex

During the online submission process, under the "Keywords & Special Sections" tab, please use the "Category" drop-down menu and select “Sex and Gender Differences in Cardiovascular Physiology- Back to Basics."

Manuscripts will undergo normal peer review as they are received. Accepted manuscripts will be published online as they are accepted. Articles published from this Call for Papers will be highlighted with a special “Call for Papers” banner on the article PDF, as well as included in the Sex and Gender Differences in Cardiovascular Physiology- Back to Basics online article collection at time of publication.

Manuscripts can be submitted anytime but must be submitted by September 30, 2013 to be eligible for inclusion in this Call for Papers. If you have any questions please contact Kara Hansell Keehan, Executive Editor, via email at khkeehan@verizon.net.

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Clinical Practice in Pediatric Psychology: Evidence-Based Interventions in Pediatric Psychology

October 15, 2013: submission deadline

With the advent of Clinical Practice in Pediatric Psychology (CPPP), an official journal of APA Division 54, the editors (Jennifer Shroff Pendley and Doug Tynan) are planning a special issue reviewing state-of-the-art evidence-based interventions in key areas of pediatric psychology practice, with Bryan Carter serving as the guest editor.

To make this even more valuable to our subscribers and division members, a tandem issue containing invited systematic reviews on this topic will be published at the same time in the Journal of Pediatric Psychology (JPP), with Tonya Palermo serving as special issue guest editor.

For the CPPP special issue, we are soliciting submissions pertaining to practice issues, training models, novel program development, or quality improvement pertaining to the following 12 topical areas of pediatric psychology intervention:

Needle pain

Injury prevention

Health promotion

Chronic pain

Encopresis

Neurocognitive interventions

Obesity

Adherence to treatment regimens

Parent and family-based interventions

Sleep interventions

Feeding problems

Grief/bereavement interventions

Whereas the JPP special issue will include systematic reviews and meta-analyses of intervention approaches, the CPPP special issue will complement the JPP articles with reviews of applied clinical activities and models of practice that incorporate evidence-based interventions in real world settings with diverse clinical populations.

Submitted manuscripts should illustrate the breadth, richness, and wide array of pediatric psychology activities that attempt to incorporate the expanding empirical literature into day-to-day treatment activities for these pediatric conditions.

These companion special issues of JPP and CPPP are intended to provide an update and expansion of the series on empirically supported treatments that were published in 1999 in JPP. If you have a strong interest in being a contributor to this special issue of CPPP, please contact Bryan Carter.

CPPP Guest Editor: Bryan Carter, PhD

Submission Deadline: October 15, 2013

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the Journal of Family Nursing: Illness Beliefs Model

Editor: Janice M. Bell, RN, PhD
University of Calgary, Canada

Invitation to Submit Manuscripts for a Special Issue of Journal of Family Nursing

The Journal of Family Nursing (JFN) is inviting manuscripts for a special issue addressing the “Illness Beliefs Model”. The Illness Beliefs Model (Wright & Bell, 2009; Wright, Watson, & Bell, 1996) highlights the connections between beliefs, illness, and suffering. This compassionate approach to working with families with serious illness invites health professionals to a relationship practice to understand how illness beliefs can either enhance or soften suffering. The illness beliefs of both health practitioners and family members can influence the healing experience. The Illness Beliefs Model is being used to guide clinical practice, research, and education in a variety of cultural contexts.

For this special issue, Guest Editor, Dr. Lorraine M. Wright and Journal of Family Nursing Editor, Dr. Janice M. Bell are seeking descriptions of practice and/or knowledge translation, research reports, and theoretical manuscripts that critique and/or extend understanding of this model developed for advanced practice in Family Systems Nursing. Work directed to all populations of families in all cultural contexts are welcome.

For consideration for inclusion in this special issue, manuscripts must be submitted by September 1, 2013 through the usual JFN electronic submission process:

http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com:80/jfn. Indicate on the cover page of the manuscript that it is being submitted for the special issue. All manuscripts will be peer reviewed.

Individuals who are interested in submitting a manuscript are encouraged to contact either Dr. Wright (lmwright@ucalgary.ca) or Dr. Bell (jmbell@ucalgary.ca) to discuss further in advance of
submission.

Call for Chapters: Cloud Computing Applications for Quality Health Care Delivery

Editors

Dr. Anastasius Moumtzoglou (“P. & A. Kyriakou” Children’s Hospital, President of the Hellenic Society for Quality & Safety in Healthcare, Greece);

Dr. Anastasia Kastania (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece)

Proposals Submission Deadline: May 30, 2013

Full Chapters Due: August 30, 2013

Submission Date: November 30, 2013

For release in the Advances in Medical Technologies and Clinical Practice (AMTCP) Book Series

The Internet, having its roots in telephony applications in the early 1990s, is often referred to as “The Cloud.” By the turn of the millennium, the Internet was referred to as broadband, and the term “in the cloud” was highly desired. Telephone utilities were investing in “The Cloud” for switching and routing the appropriate connections for phone calls, faxes, live feeds, and signals. Then, around the middle of the decade, Computational Cloud Services, called “Cloud Computing,” was firmly in the vocabulary as a way to describe what the user was doing: accessing computing services in the cloud.

At the beginning of the decade, companies began building their websites in such a way that users could utilize their services exclusively through the use of a browser. Shortly, through the use of more powerful technologies, “in the cloud” applications became commonplace. By the middle of the decade, most leading corporations with a strong Web presence had reasonable and reliable operation of their services exclusively “in the cloud.”

The “Cloud” represents a fundamental change in the use of IT services, which involves a shift from owning and managing the IT system to accessing IT systems as a service. The term Cloud Services, a distinct terminology from outsourced IT hosting, comes from the fact that the Internet has often been depicted as a “Cloud.” Cloud Services have been defined as the services that meet the following criteria:

Consumers neither own the hardware on which data processing and storage happens, nor the software that performs the data processing.
Consumers have the ability to access and use the service at any time over the Internet.
As a result, the definition of Cloud Services is twofold. The first part pertains to the ownership of the actual hardware and software that is used to perform data storage and data processing, while the second part refers to the client’s ability to access the service remotely when it needs to use it.

On the other hand, as definitions evolved, Cloud Computing denoted the influence of cloud, and implied the user experience moving away from personal computers to a “cloud” of computers. In this context, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) defined Cloud Computing as “a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction”. This cloud model is composed of five essential characteristics, three service models, and four deployment models. Essential characteristics, according to NIST, include on-demand self-service, broad network access, resource pooling, rapid elasticity, and measured service. Service Models include Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), while deployment models include the Private cloud, the Community cloud, the Public cloud, and the Hybrid cloud.

Moreover, the research firm IDC described Cloud Computing as “an emerging IT development, deployment and distribution model, enabling real-time delivery of products, services and solutions over the Internet.” It also defined Cloud Services as “Consumer and Business products, services and solutions that are delivered and consumed in real-time over the Internet.” Finally, analyst firm Gartner defined Cloud Computing as “a model of computing in which scalable and flexible IT-enabled capabilities are delivered as a service to external customers using Internet technologies.”

As far as healthcare is concerned, the trend appears to be irreversible. Software applications and information once in the realm of a local computer or a local server are now in the sphere of the public Internet. Private health information once confined to local networks is migrating onto the Internet. Patients voluntarily grant access to their health records, while the collection and management of this data is entirely legal. Microsoft and Google are two notable examples of companies following the accelerating likelihood of placing, once restricted and private health records, “in the cloud.” Their initiatives hold the attention timing and force convergence of events if we consider the “Transforming Healthcare Through IT” and “Enabling Healthcare Reform Using Information Technology” initiatives.

Objective of the Book

The book will provide an overview of cloud technologies that might affect quality in healthcare. The proposed book intends to provide a compendium of terms, definitions, and explanations of concepts, processes, and acronyms. Additionally, it will present chapters (each chapter consisting of 7,000-10,000 words) authored by leading experts, offering an in-depth description of key terms and concepts related to the demystification of healthcare quality in the Cloud.

Target Audience

The prospective audience includes undergraduate and extended degree programs students, graduate students of health care quality and health services management, executive education and continuing education, health care managers and health professionals.

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

Healthcare Cloud computing and Web Services

Definition, features and types of cloud services in healthcare

Adoption of cloud services and quality in healthcare

Benefits and drawbacks of cloud services in healthcare

Cloud technologies and quality in healthcare

Cloud-based systems for healthcare information technology and quality in healthcare

Cloud Perspective for HIPAA and HITECH

Interoperability

Privacy in Healthcare Cloud Computing

High Performance Computing in the Healthcare Cloud

Information Assurance and Security in Cloud Computing

Characteristics of Cloud-based Healthcare Organisations Cloud-based EMRs and quality in healthcare

Cloud-based medical practice management applications and quality in healthcare

Cloud-based patient portals and quality in healthcare

Cloud-based ePrescription systems and quality in healthcare

Cloud-based Laboratory solutions and quality in healthcare

Mobile Cloud Computing and quality in healthcare

Mobile Multimedia-Cloud Computing

Cloud healthcare simulation

Autonomic Clouds in Healthcare

Submission Procedure

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before May 30, 2013, a 2-3 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by June 15, 2013 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by August 30, 2013. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project.

Publisher

This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the “Information Science Reference” (formerly Idea Group Reference), “Medical Information Science Reference” and “IGI Publishing” imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2014.

Important Dates:

May 30, 2013: Proposal Submission Deadline

June 15, 2013: Notification of Acceptance

August 30, 2013: Full Chapter Submission

October 30, 2013: Review Results Returned

November 30, 2013: Final Chapter Submission

February 15, 2014: Final deadline

Editorial Advisory Board

Vahe A. Kazandjian, Johns Hopkins University, USA

Dimitris Koutsouris, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

Athina Lazakidou, University of Peloponnese, Greece

Ales Bourek, Masaryk University, Czech Republic

Kathleen Abrahamson, Purdue University, USA

George Bohoris, University of Piraeus, Greece

Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document):

Dr. Anastasius Moumtzoglou
“P. & A. Kyriakou” Children’s Hospital
Thivon & Levadias, 11527 Athens, Greece
Tel.: +302132009822 • GSM: +306974558870
E-mail: anas1@hol.gr

Dr. Anastasia Kastania
Athens University of Economis and Business
Patission 76 Str, 10434 Athens, Greece
Tel: +30-210-8203158, Fax: +30-210-8203157, GSM: +306944546208
E-mail: ank@aueb.gr